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How can I lose weight quickly and healthy?

7 Responses to “How can I lose weight quickly and healthy?”

1. [email protected] said :
   October 14th, 2010 at 7:23 pm

   Hiya.

   Unfortunately the 2 posts that you have received are SPAM and you should ignore them.

   For an answer to all your question I recommend visiting http://www.nowloss.com it’s a really good site that has videos, tips and lists of food to avoid, food that helps with fat burning and loads more.

   Hope this helps, good luck! xx
2. Amateras said :
   October 14th, 2010 at 8:18 pm

   Hi !

   I have answered this question so many times that I now just copy and paste my story !
   If you want to loose fat, I suggest eating a well balanced diet.
   Grilled or baked lean meats, fruits, fiber, vegetables, water and un – salted nuts.
   Exercise 5 days of the week, alternating with cardio and strength training. Do not cross out anything from your ” diet”, save the 2 days that you do not work out for being able to eat junk foods. You will not over indulge, after 2 weeks of eating a well balanced diet, on the 2 off days you have, you will not want as much junk food.

   I lost 105 pounds in 1 year by eating this this way.
3. some_thrills_kill said :
   October 14th, 2010 at 8:34 pm

   a lot of fruits and vegetables

   pasta
   bread
   pastries
   cookies donugts
   ice cream
   stuff like that

   and idk like 3 times a week an hr a day?

   water and tea but mostly water

   and i think 5 to 7 small meals
4. Krissy said :
   October 14th, 2010 at 8:52 pm

   Avoid:
   -Saturated fats (red meat, butter, whole fat cheeses, most dairy products)
   -Trans fats (margarine, cakes, fried foods)
   -High Sodium foods (look at the site in source for these…theres an abundance)

   Eat:
   -Fruits and Veggies (5-9 servings per day)
   -Whole grains
   -Low fat and non fat dairy products
   -Nuts and seeds
   -Low fat protein

   Health officials reccomend exercising 30 minutes per day but 60 minutes is better. For weight loss you should do cardio which includes running and swimming

   Drink lots of water to lose weight and cut back or eliminate soda/sugary drinks

   Have small meals with a lot of variety.

   Its undetermined how much weight you will lose…try it out but give it time
5. mansionghost said :
   October 14th, 2010 at 9:32 pm

   try the lil Jack workout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKCGe2Ezris
6. jezebel in hell said :
   October 14th, 2010 at 10:18 pm

   Don’t target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into “starvation mode” and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

   There is no site specific way of losing fat… the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn’t true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

   The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the “moderate” fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

   Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs… almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

   To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, “swimming calories” you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

   For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

   Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet… that isn’t overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

   There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about “How to get a six-pack?” The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat… abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the “core is active” which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

   If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.
7. Lara S said :
   October 14th, 2010 at 10:46 pm

   Hello The best way to lose weight is exercise, diet and determination. I started with some small exercises just by walking to the shops and drank more water. They make a huge difference. If you want a quick boost get some of that Acai Berry stuff that everyones uses now. Worked really well for me in the start to get rid of 20lbs. I used the free stuff at http://linkbee.com/ITRR because most of my friends are on it. Good luck.