From: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/misc-fitness/part1/ Don't be so concerned about how much you weigh. Instead be concerned about how much of that weight is FAT. You want the weight loss to be caused by losing FAT, not muscle or water. To lose weight you need to burn more calories than you take in. To do it efficiently and to make sure it stays off the following three steps should be taken and should become part of your every day life. - Start an aerobic program. The activity should be something that you like doing, and look forward to doing. The activity doesn't need to be an aerobics class. Instead it could be walking, biking, inline/ice skating, dancing, etc. Anything that will elevate your HR and keep it around your Training Zone for at least 12 minutes. Remember the longer the better. - Modify what you eat. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, chicken, rice, potatoes, etc. Read the labels. 1g FAT = 9 calories (to make the math a little easier round that up to 10 calories) 1g protein or carbohydrates = 4 calories. Don't be fooled by "95% FAT free"! Look carefully at how many calories come from FAT. i.e. if something has 120 calories, which is pretty low, but it has 9 g FAT and 5 g protein and 5 g carbohydrates, almost 70% of that product is FAT. Try to eliminate the FAT that you eat. There is FAT in virtually everything so shooting for a 0% FAT diet will probably put you in the 10%-20%, just because not everything is FAT free, and you do need some FAT in your diet. Simply switching the obvious foods will make a big difference, such as, skim instead of whole milk, chicken instead of hamburger, bagels instead of croissants, etc. Also eating small meals more frequently during the day will raise your metabolism and keep you from getting that "I'M STARVING" feeling. - Resistance Training: To build muscle that will, in turn, help burn calories throughout the day. A simple weight program where you slowly add weight and perform basic exercises every other day, such as, Squats, Bench Press, Pull-downs, and Military Presses are enough for most people. General hints on Weight Loss: * Don't go on starvation diets. This will slow down your metabolism and may actually make you FATter. * Don't take products such as SlimFast. Drinking SlimFast may work in the beginning, but you need to modify your eating habits for a lifetime. * Don't buy anything that looks like a gimmick. The Thighmaster, Fat burning pills, some portable thing-a-ma-jig. Spend the money on good food and save it for your new clothes you'll need in a couple of months. * Get your BF% calculated and check it every other month. * Forget about the scale and buy a full length mirror. Standing in front of it nude will tell you much more than the scale will. "A picture is worth a thousand words" * Whatever you do HAVE FUN! If you start on some horrible (grapefruit) diet, a month later you're going to hate it and, more than likely, end up putting on more FAT.

I found the best way to lose weight without counting calories is to just CUT BACK on what you currently eat. You can still have Mcdonalds and lose weight, i am living proof. Instead of buying a double cheeseburger value meal, try the kids meal single cheeseburger and tell them to give you water instead of the coke. I also cut out all the sugary drinks, coke iced tea and drank nothing but water. And of course you have to add some exercise :) I did cardio for 30 mins 5 x a week till i really started putting the lbs aside, then once i started to plateau, i exchanged 2 days of cardio with 2 days of weight resistance exerices, This really kicked my metabolism's butt into high gear!!! Soon I found I had to cut down on my exercise because even though i was eating like a hog (which i think only made my metab. go higher) i could not maintain my weight, i kept losing! After a year of quiting exercise period and returning to old eating habbits I only gained 10 lbs back of the 45 i lost, and honestly i needed those 10 lbs back, i started to look like a twig:) Losing weight isn't hard once you understand the proper way to do it.

As well as a healthy balanced diet, and a cardio program, add a weightlifting program to your exercise plan. Building muscle helps burn fat and you will more effectively get fit and lost fat by adding weightlifting to your regime.

Pick any weight loss program and diet plan and you'll find it at your local bookstore Take a trip to your local bookstore and examine the weight control section. You will find just about anything that you are looking for. Want a diet where meat eating predominates? It’s there. You don’t care for meat and want a vegetarian diet? It’s there. Like to drink alcoholic beverages? There is a drinking man’s diet. Don’t care for water? There is a reduced liquid diet. Enjoy water? There is a water diet. You will find a fruit diet, a juice diet, a soup diet, a peanut butter diet, a cheese diet, an egg diet, a rice diet, a bread diet, a high-protein diet, a low-protein diet, a high-carbohydrate diet, a low-carbohydrate diet, a low-cholesterol diet, a high-cholesterol diet, a fat-free diet and a fat diet, a low-salt diet and a high-salt diet, a yogurt diet, a low-fiber diet and a high-fiber diet, and if you were to accept the breatharian philosophy, a food-free air diet. Medical authorities, doctors and nutritionists, wrote most of these diet books. Many of the weight loss programs contradict one another. Who are we to believe? What are we to believe? One fellow even wrote a diet book titled, “Are You Confused.” Let‘s analyze an overweight individual. Except in rare cases, an excessive intake of food results in the body storing the calories it does not use for kinetic energy (energy in motion) as potential energy (energy awaiting use) in the form of body fat, resulting in an overweight condition. In other words, people who are overweight eat too much. The World’s Greatest Diet in Two Words The solution is simple, and obvious. No magic about it and everyone knows the answer. It can be stated in two words: eat less. How easy. How difficult! Learn to interpret this feeling of hunger as energy. Then use the energy. You will soon find that you have more energy than before you learned to interpret the energy message as a feeling of hunger. In the beginning of this chapter you read that there was no magic to reducing your weight; all you had to do was to eat less. That’s the greatest diet in the world. An even better diet can be summed up in four words. “Eat less, exercise more.” That is really all there is to it. How easy! How Difficult! The reason why most weight loss programs fail is that they never address the cause of why people started to overeat in the first place. That is why most weight loss programs are a temporary solution. For a while, people follow yet another miracle weight loss program but sooner or later they revert back and the process starts all over again. With self mind control you will first learn to identify why you overeat in the first place and then use that knowledge to change your mental programming to eat less. The success is yours to keep for the rest of your life guaranteed. I am a big believer that training the power of your mind is a key success factor to living a richer and more fullfilling life. One of the benefits of this is to learn to control your bad habits and gain control of your weight. Silva Mind Control has offers a method that has been very effective for me. To learn more feel free to visit http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com They even offer a completely free mini course that they are giving away as a public service. Hope this is helpful.

The best way to lose weight is to get a bike for your home. This way you can be lazy and lose weight while watching tv. You dont have to stand up and do exercises like tae bo videos.All you have to do is get on the bike and move your legs and you will lose a ton of weight. You can do it everyday when you watch tv. Just for like 15-20 minutes. After a while you wont even know your on the bike because you would have done it so much, but you'll STILL be losing weight. You can eat anything you want. Drink anything you want. The bike will burn it all. You will also have more energy for the next day when you ride your personal home bike because it builds your stamina. its just like running or walking your burning the same or even more calories. All in the comfort and privacy of your home. This is one of the easiest ways to lose weight.

AndreinLA's magical weight loss program! I can tell you because for the last 2 months I have been consistently and gently losing weight while feeling more vital and comfortable. My magic formula has 3 simple rules: 1. I wait till I get hungry before I start eating. 2. I eat with enjoyment (yes, it helps to get hungry first), at normal speed (vs stuffing my face as I used to) and stop when I feel almost full. Leaving stuff on my plate is OK. Being an European I can testify that serving sizes in the US are 1.5-2x larger than what is normal in Europe. No TV, no reading, just me and my food. This changed my relationship to what I put in my body. 3. I eat food I really enjoy and crave, but in small quantity. I make sure I satisfy my craving for a certain taste without eating a whole portion of it. A date. 2-3 olives. A forkful of smoked salmon. The Chinese say a person must experience all 5 tastes with a meal to be satisfied. I say listen to your body and satisfy its cravings for quality, as close as you can, without falling into the trap of quantity. Also, I am phasing out refined sugars, replacing it with honey/maple syrup for tea, dates for sweets. I don't consume fast food/soda (since I saw Supersize me!), but satisfy the occasional craving for a quality hamburget or hot dog. I am happier and more connected to what I eat, spend less for food and enjoy it more. No torture, no agony. So here it is, free of charge -- AndreinLA's magical weight loss program! Enjoy.

Count your carbs. Don't eat or drink more than 35 carbs per day. You'll lose 3-7 lbs. per week. (Make sure to take a multi-vitamin while dieting).

Eat less, move more. Call it the ELMM diet.

Diet and exercise it's that simple.Weight loss is not an extreme Science that so many people make it out to be just diet and exercise.Cut down the number of calories you eat by eating less or eating more healthy calories and aim for at least 90 minutes of exercise a week at an absolute minimum. If you are extremely overweight like me 100 lbs or more cut out 500 calories a day by cutting out a meal or eating lots of fruits and vegatables in place of carbohydrates,fats and so on and make sure you exercise.Know that you are in it for the long haul cause if you don't you could regain the weight.If you lose the weight don't go back to your old habits try to change your eating lifestyle forever.

One of the best ways to lose weight is the Dr. Atkins low-carb diet. I lost 35 pounds. Exercise such as running is also good.

30 minutes I meant to say Gabe yonan

I seem to have developed a pretty good weight loss lifestyle without really meaning to. The two boyfriends I've had that moved in with me (and therefore adapted to my diet) lost weight on it (one lost three stone in under six months), all the flatmates I've had who've let me control the kitchen (!) think it works well, and I've never had a problem with weight myself. Its not some weird faddy diet plan its just based around the common sense food principles I grew up with. It includes plenty of really nice foods so shouldn't be too hard- I eat like this because I like it, not because I'm trying to stay slim- give it a try for a few months and see what happens. Unless you have a medical problem, it should work. (BTW, I'm vegetarian, but as long as you eat "real" meat and not fatty procesed or deep fried stuff, I see no reason why you can't add in a little meat or fish- grill it, rather than fry it) FOODS TO NEVER EAT: Supermarket "Ready Meals" White bread White pasta Fast food (Mcdonalds, Burger King etc) Processed frozen, canned or chilled food such as burgers or potato cakes (learn to make your own!)Frozen or canned veg in "pure" form (such as peas) is OK. Jelly sweets Anything with non-natural or chemically derived ingredients. ( good guidelines: if you can't pronounce it, don't eat it, if you don't know what it is, don't eat it, if you wouldn't pick it up off the floor, don't eat it!) fizzy soft drinks Deep fried foods Shop bought cakes lager or beer sugar (or anything coated in sugar) salt FOODS TO ONLY EAT OCCASIONALLY (once a week max) Full fat dairy produce chocolate home made cakes caffeinated drinks "Natural" crisps (e.g. kettle chips) homemade baked potato wedges takeaways such as pizza or Chinese anything with alcohol in (OK, so sometimes I drink more than this, but generally alcohol is a bad plan if you want to lose weight!) THINGS TO EAT LOTS OF: Pulses Beans Fresh fruit and veg (lots of different types) nuts and seeds Brown rice Quinoa Porridge Chamomile tea water I tend to base most of my diet around stir fries, homemade soups and casseroles. I take in salads to work for lunch and have either muesli or porridge made with rice milk for breakfast. Try to make sure you get a good balance of carbs, protein and vitamins in each meal (so a 1 grain food or potatoes, 1 lot of meat, fish, nuts or pulses, and lots of veggies to complete the meal) Other guidelines: -Don't keep junk food in the house. Chuck it out and it won't tempt you. If you have kids you'll be doing them a favour. Instead keep tasty healthy snacks like strawberries and grapes. -Carry bags of unsalted nuts and boxes of raisins around in your bag or pockets in case you get hungry on the run - If you don't have time to cook in the week, prepare meals in advance (on a Sunday night maybe) and freeze them- effectively creating your own ready meals, but without the crap in the supermarket versions. There is never ever any valid excuse for eating a McDonalds. If you're fat and unhealthy and you eat in fast food joints, then frankly you kind of deserve it. You can increase the effect with exercise. You don't have to go to the gym (unless you're insane. Why would anyone want to go to the gym?) just encorporate some excercis einto your life in general- walk or cycle to work instead of driving, do a bit of yoga before breakfast in the morning, stop by the swimming pool on the way home from work - whatever takes your fancy. There's no magic formula to losing weight- just use a bit of common sense. Chips= bad, fruit and veg= good. How hard can it be?

use more energy than you consume

Don't change your diet just exercise more,changing your diet could make you way too skinny

To start, do not eat after 6pm.

Cut out the "white death", which includes most sugar and white bread/pasta. Completely eliminate hydrogenated oils and high-fructose corn syrup from your diet. Eat whole foods instead of processed foods. Take a healthy cooking class if you're unsure how to cook with unprocessed foods. Eat a filling breakfast that includes plenty of protein and fiber EVERY morning. Eat healthy snacks two or three times per day. Eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch most days; you won't be as tempted to overindulge if you eat similar things every day at particular meals. Follow something similar to the Mediterranean food pyramid. Un-learn portion distortion. Get help from a nutritionist. Seek help from mental health professionals if you eat emotionally. Find exercises that you enjoy, and gradually add them to your regimine. MAKE time to exercise, even if you have to split it up to several small sessions a day! A physical trainer can help you find time in your days and can tell you how hard and how long you should exercise, and can help you plan your exercises.

drink lots of warm water coz warm water dissolve and cleanse the internal system of a body.. and ofc sum exercise :p

Exercise. No matter what diet you go on, you must include a routine of exercise if you wish to keep the weight off. Yes, you much of course, watch what you eat. The first thing to drop is soda, which is simply sweetened corn syrup. If you can not drop the soda, at least switch to diet soda. Drink water instead of the sugary drinks.

Soda was the number one thing to drop like Perryman said. What I do is completely stop all junk/snack foods... No cookies, no donuts, no potato chips, etc. Most of what I cook is fresh(not out of a box or bag) and that has helped me drop about 20 pounds! Well..not just diet alone...also have to walk/jog/run, do some excersises on the floor while watching tv or something.

Exercise and moderation were the keys for me. I didn't give up the things I loved I just ate less of them.

eat less and exercise more

Eat less calories than you burn.

Here is a great secret I learned several years ago: If you want to lose 8 pounds of useless weight that you never use, cut off your own head.

Discipline and determination. Don't deprive yourself. The easiest diet to do is to eat everything you like but all in MODERATION. Eat only if you're hungry. Before you eat drink lots of lots of water. Chew your food slowly, take your time and chewing it even if you are really hungry. Trust me you will lose your appetite.

Don't eat but once a day. It worked wonders for me.

Ruduce the amout and frequency of your meal times. If you want to get fit then the best way is to go swimming! Swim a KM a day and you will be fit in no time!

I have lost weight in the past by upping my fruit & vegetable intake to at least 5 servings per day and increasing the duration of time in exercise. Aerobics has always worked for me.

1. Eat balaced protein, fat, carbohydrates 2. Eat natural, raw, organic 3. Eat frequently throughout the day (a meal the size of your fist) 4. Stay as physically busy as possible throughout the day. Get your heart rate up once a day and hold it there for 30 - 60 minutes. don't diet - it will only mess you up worse. What you have to do is make a life change to be healthier. One trick is to eat less than 120 carbohydrates a day, if you have more than that your body will store them, and turn into fat.

Eat right every day. Exercise everyday. Drink plenty of water.

Eat less and exercise.

Exercise more and eat less :-)

Eat less. Exercise more. That's it. Avoid gimmicks.

Eat less and move more. Eliminate animal fat, including dairy.

Excercise and cups of tea after meals! I hear it helps the metabolism.

Eat less fatty foods, Drink a lot of water and exercise more.

Eat less. Excercise more. Is it beginning to sound like there is a pattern here? This is the best, most certain and effective way to lose weight.

Die? Sorry, bad joke - exercise and eating healthy, less fatty foods sugars etc. But mainly exercise I would think. Swimming is bloody good :)

eat right (less calories), exercise more, no alcohol and proper spelling.

Diet and Exercise.

I've tried a lot of diets and failed. Then I finally tried Weight Watchers and lost 80 lbs. My doctor also told me it's the healthiest diet because it's not really a "diet" so much as a healthier eating lifestyle...cutting down on your fat and you portion sizes. It works!

Eat less. Move more! Works like a charm.

Eat right and exercise. Of course, few people actually eat right, and many people don't exercise, or don't enough, anyway.

Untie them. Loose, loosen = untie, unbind Lose = misplace, diminish Combine a reduction in calories with an increase in activity for the best weight loss results, in consultation with your doctor. Good luck!

Do plenty of exercise.

Eat right amounts and the right ingredients and lots of exercise

I had major success on a diet called The Sacred Heart Memorial Diet. It has an extremely healthy diet (otherwise I wouldn't tell you about it) and you lose weight VERY quickly. You can Google it.

People dont believe that weight loss is easy but it really is: First, I cant stress this enough. Control your portions!! You can eat anything you want ANYTHING!! I swear! As long as you dont have more than one serving size. 2nd, exersise 3-4 times a week. I prefer cardio/dancing for 25 minutes 4x a week. Easy and FUN too! No need to go to a gym but they help also if you tend to need to be around ppl. 3rd, give up soda! Juice is OK in moderation, again serving size. Best to go with water most of the time! 4th, DONT starve yourself. Your body goes into a certain "shock" when it doesnt have the food it needs to function. So the next time you eat "normally" your body thinks "ok, we need to store this all as fat because we dont know when the next meal is coming". ' 5th, get proper sleep each night and take a multivitamin every day too! I lose 10-20 lbs a month just eating right and exersising this way. Its so cliche... but thats because it actually WORKS! lol Answer originally posted http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/110225 I thought you could benefit from my answer to this question, and there might be some more answers on there that would help you also. :) Good luck!

I took off 35 pounds about 5 years ago and kept it off going from 38 to 34 in pants and in shirts from xlarge to large and large to medium (depending on the shirt). All I did was increase exercise and change the food that I was eating. I didn't decrease the food, I changed it. The magazine diets in the grocery store my take it off but you can't live like that. Don't give them alot of credibility. Raman soups are nothing but flavored salt-read the label. Have you noticed that the magazines with the weird diets in them are always at the checkout after you already have a cart full of stuff? Fruits and vegitables as fresh as possible. Grill as much of your meat and chicken as you can. Minimal fried stuff. Electric indoor grills are available. Reduce carbohydrates buy whole wheat breads, avoid the white stuff. Brown rice, If you like to bake use whole wheat flour. Notice: Nobody is taking my popcorn! Try to use sugar free. If you must drink soda water try diet soda. I haven't had a regulation Coca Cola,Pepsi or Dr Pepper in a looooong time. We use Splenda. It cooks well. We use real live butter! I try to avoid manufactured foods, stuff like pot pies and TV dinners The manufactured Lasagna etc. You want nutrition not a bunch of fillers. That stuff is OK occationally, but you don't want it an a regular basis. Try to cook at home using fresh. Exercise. I found a course approximately 1 mile long (measuring it with the car odometer) I can't run because of a bad knee so I walked. 120 steps per minute,military cadence, inhaleing foursteps and exhaleing four steps, inhaleing foursteps exhaleing four steps. Suppliment this with anything else you feel up to. No strolling, you're wasting your time. Get a bicycle, real, not indoor. You'll have to ride it about five miles for the same effect. Eat big in the morning, so so at lunch,light after noon snack, and a light supper. Try and get some kind of exercise after eating try not to eat before you go to bed. This is what worked for me and it may not work for you at all, so find out what works for you. Make your plan,confer w/ your doctor. Remember this is a life style change and there are other things in your life that may need to change also. If I can do this "ANYBODY" can do it.

Limit your carbs and up your exercise. I went from 246 pounds to 152 pounds and feel much more healthy and youthful at 50 than I did at 25. Hope this helps.

Depression...

Eat healthy i guess... i dont need to lose weight. i need to gain weight, im skinny as hell.

The reason people are fat these days is because there are not enough vitamins in our food. Taking vitamin pills doesn't cut it because your body can't absorb artificial vitamins well. You need natural vitamins. To get enough vitamins we end up eating more calories than we need. Taking a vitamin packed green food like Enerfood will make you lose loads of weight. You just stop feeling so hungry. Check out this link. http://www.enerhealthbotanicals.com/Enerfood-Super-Green-Energy-Drink-p/ef.htm

Exercise your arm muscles. Have the strength to push yourself away from the table. Eat slowly. Give your body a chance to tell you when you're actually full. Pay attention to the 'full' signal and don't keep eating, just because it's there. Forget the lesson your parents taught you. It really isn't necessary or even 'good' to 'finish your plate'. Drink fluids while you eat to help fill the void and fill up faster. Exercise, or at least stay active. Watch your fat and calorie intake. Just because a snack says it's only 100 calories doesn't mean that it's NOT 50% FAT. Don't succumb to the 'munchie' call. Don't snack! If you're not hungry, don't eat. If you must eat, eat something that you have to work for, such as sunflower seeds in the shell. If you must have something sweet, eat a piece of fruit or try a bowl of cereal as a treat. I highly recommend Cocoa Puffs or Cap'n Crunch. :) Limit your sugar intake. Switch to diet soft drinks. Better yet, drink water. If water doesn't satisfy, get some of the sugar free mixes for your water to flavor it. Get enough good fiber in your diet to both fill you up and keep you regular.

The best way to lose weight is go on a hunger strike. Drink all the water you can, it fills you up. Then excercise. Or if this doesn't work try his website, 18in4.net

Hack off a limb.

Lower your caloric intake (maintaing a balanced diet) AND Increase your caloric output (exercise, physical labor)

For me it has been to not eat between meals. Not a single bite and to eat my meals close to the same time every day and never later than 6:30.

reduce your food intake and what you do eat, must be healthy.

Burn more calories than you take in.

For me it has been counting calories and exercising to burn more calories than the ones i ate.

Raw food dieting and regular exercise.

I tried and failed a lot of times trying to lose weight. I finally had success when I joined Weight Watchers. I got to my goal and have kept it off.

I lost a lot of weight be following a strict diet and walking as fast as possible for 4 miles a day. My diet was just: orange juice and vitamins for breakfast, fruit like an apple, pear or fruit salad for morning snack, salad or wrap for lunch and yogurt, crackers/cheese or a bagel/schmear for afternoon snack, and fish or lean chicken for supper with tons of veggies like broccoli and carrots, for night snack I would have popcorn or dried pineapple. I eliminated soda and other sweets. I ate smaller portions and less rich heavy foods. Plus I watched how much condiments I was using. On weekends I usually fixed a turkey and cheese omlette for breakfast. and sweet potatoes to have with supper. I went from 150 to 117.

Diet AND exercise ... even a LITTLE bit of exercise is effective but diet is about 80% of it. Have to just suck it up and eat no fat/sugar for a while ... including alchohol, that's almost all sugar :-)

I lost 5 stone (70lb) doing slimfast and walking miles each day.

eating a good diet, and also exercising. Usually, people who want to lose weight will do one but not the other!:)

burn more calories than you consume

One good way is to eat a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts and then nothing else until you reach your goal weight.

Take in less calories and burn more.

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Don't eat any potatoe's, pasta, bread etc. My doctor wanted me to lose 30 lbs. I am 5'11" and weighed 220 lbs. I always was 190 lbs. most of my adult life and felt very good at that weight. My doctor recommended this diet for me. When I became ill with a rare nerve disease I gained weight. Stick with this for 6 days a week and on the 7th day, eat whatever you want to. Eat all the meat and veggies that you desire during the week. It worked Great for me, took about 3-4 months before I was down to 190, feel good now, except for my medical problems. Give it a try, it was the only diet that I could stick with, without feeling hungry all the time. Good Luck..

exercise your personal discipline and move about

Exercise eat reasonably. Eat Moderate portions mostly fruits, vegetables, a small amount of saturated fat. Eat very few complex carbohydrates. The complex carbs should be whole grain.

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