Weight-loss diets are short-term solutions. The best thing you can do is: a) Eat a healthy balanced diet. b) Exercise.

I have a plan that I use that has worked very well and is built for sustained weight loss. As you have already figured out anyone can starve or pill themselves for a few weeks just to see all the weight come back again. These are some steps that have worked great for me. If you follow this you will probably lose 10-15 pounds in the next three weeks, and most importantly keep it off. Of course it will take some discipline, but you can essentially eat the same amount of food as you usually do: - Eliminate all simple starches, white rice and enriched flour from your diet. Replace these with whole wheat bread, oatmeals, sweet potatoes, brown rice, etc. Always replace french fries or chips with a side salad or cup of non cream based soup. - Replace salt and sugar crazings by eating more sauteed vegetables and fruit. - Replace all sodas with diet green tea. Green tea helps oxidize fat and boosts the metabolism. - Drink lots and lots of water throughout the day, a gallon at least. This will help keep you feeling full. - Don't eat anything past 7PM. If you do this you can eat virtually anything throughout the day and you won't gain weight. - Monday thru Friday start off every day with 40 minutes of cardio that keeps your heart rate between 90 and 110 beats per minute. Do interval days of light nautilus weight training. Mondays I do chest/tris, Wednesday's are shoulders and Fridays back/biceps. On the days inbetween focus on your abdominal muscles and always end each workout with extensive stretching. This will take only an hour out of each day. This combination will get you shredding pounds slowly but surely. Once again, it's not overnight but it absolutely WORKS!

having very small meal portions always works for me, however you may find that you feel really hungry after so to curb that hunger i use indigestion tablets i swear by this i went down from a size 16 to a size 8 in 6 months! hope it works for you

I started losing wieght, slowly, when I gave up breads, oatmeal, rye, all the high protien grains. They cause me digestive distress. I eat rice every day, with meat, fruit, and veggies that are usually not fried. Small meals, four or five a day. Rarely eat out, maybe two or three times a year. My meals are so dull and boring that I have NO desire to eat too much. I don't like exercising, it's boring. So, I garden, work on the yard, and do lots of housework for my exercise. I think I've dropped about five pounds in the last two months. Not sure, never wiegh myself, too depressing, lol.

A few years back I did Weight Watchers and it worked very well for me, I highly recommend it.

Yeah... decrease your caloric intake. Increase your exercise regimen. It's a very simple concept. Hard to pull off, but a very simple concept nonetheless.

1-A new German study found that when you drink 17 ounces of water (about two glasses) within a certain time frame, your metabolic rate shoots up by about 30 percent. Using these results, they estimate that by increasing your current water intake by 1.5 liters a day, a person would burn an extra 17,400 calories a year, resulting in about a five-pound weight loss. 2-Want to keep your favorite meals from going straight to your hips (thighs, belly)? Wash them down with water, not wine. Alcohol slows your metabolism by depressing the central nervous system. A British study found that when alcohol was added to a high-fat, high-calorie meal, less dietary fat was burned off and more was stored as body fat. 3- Break out the lemon wedges: Regular fish eaters tend to have lower levels of the hormone leptin -- good because high levels of leptin have been linked to low metabolism and obesity, says Louis Aronne, M.D., an obesity specialist at the New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. Try to consume three to four servings of a fatty fish, such as salmon, tuna or mackerel, each week. 4- Stress may contribute to abdominal fat, according to several studies, including a recent one at the University of California, San Francisco. "When you're stressed, hormones like cortisol stimulate your appetite, slow your metabolism down and encourage fat storage inside your abdomen," explains Shawn Talbott, Ph.D., director of the Nutrition Clinic at the University of Utah. So what's a frazzled girl to do? "Find an activity that reduces stress for you, whether it's listening to soothing music or taking yoga, and do it daily," advises Talbott.

1) build muscle mass by weightlifting-when you are at rest this mass still burns calories. 2) walk one hour twice a day-you could lose up to 1/2 pound. 3) drink unsweetened tea or coffee. 4) do not consume soda pop, regular sweetened or diet. 5) do not drink milk including skim 6) only drink pure juices- limited to one or two small servings a day 7) make sure you do consume high fructose corn syrup in your food or drinks 8) restrict refined carbohydrates or eliminate from diet-especially potatoes or white(or 60% whole wheat)bread-eat non starchy vegetables, eat high fibre foods, buy psyllium husks unsweetened-no sugare nor non-sugar sweeteners. 9) eat meat or fish when hungry-unlimited 10) socialize more-watch television less-volunteer for something-anything If you have any questions about any of the above, please post in comments. I will respond.

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Weight loss diets are ok for short term..however, when you begin to eat the foods you enjoy again the weight piles on..this leads to lots of people having what they refer to as yo-yo diets..the only way to lose weight and to keep it off is to eat a balanced diet, drink plenty of water and exercise on a regular basis..

eat healthy, exercise more, do it for the long-term and not the short-term. if you do it for the short-term, you will probably gain it all back

ha ha spammers delight!

Atkins diet works good for me. +5

Gummy bears and vitamins. 3 years no problems, skinny as fuggin hell!

All protein diet. Didn't lose any weight. But I had a good time.

back away from the table and exercise more! +5