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how do you lose weight quickly and easily without hurting your body?

12 Responses to “how do you lose weight quickly and easily without hurting your body?”

1. bmac said :
   November 18th, 2010 at 7:11 am

   There’s no way you can have both…..really quick weight loss WILL hurt your body. Eat right and exercise, exercise, exercise.
2. tampico135s said :
   November 18th, 2010 at 7:29 am

   first of all, you need to set realistic goals… exercise to flatten tummy and eating smaller meals. South Beach diet (first two weeks).
3. sononobird said :
   November 18th, 2010 at 8:21 am

   try to each only two times or one time a day if u can
   dont eat till ur stomach be full of food
   be active and move all the time

   1. Fried foods are garbage. Potato chips, French fries and onion rings are pregnant with saturated fat and calories, yet they contain zero healthy or muscle-promoting nutrients. If you’re on a fat-loss plan, simply eliminate fried foods. That alone will allow you to shed lard quickly

   2. Drink a glass of skim milk as soon as you wake up. Some quick protein before you even step into the shower will energize you and end those morning cravings for Egg McMuffins and pastry.

   3. Do 2 minutes of pushups every morning. It’s tough to exercise as soon as you roll out of bed, but you can burn off 21 calories a day–2 1/2 pounds in a year.

   4. Toss a quart of water in your briefcase. Water helps you burn calories–96 calories just by carrying a bottle while you walk for 20 minutes. Serve it over ice in your office and your body will burn 31 calories warming it to 98.6. Then there’s the aerobic effect of all those bathroom runs.

   5. Want to look better naked? Try drinking half as much alcohol. Alcohol contains calories. You may drink like a fish, but booze isn’t water. Even a light beer has more than 100 calories. Booze makes you store fat. Your body sees alcohol as a poison, and tries desperately to get rid of it. Your liver stops processing all other calories until it has dealt with the alcohol. So anything else you eat during the time you’re drinking is more likely to end up as fat. Alcohol also lowers testosterone. With more abdominal fat, testosterone drops.

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4. ;) said :
   November 18th, 2010 at 9:10 am

   Remove sugar and caffiene from your diet and drink lots of water.
   To get rid of tummy in a hurry do Pilates!
5. (*)STARDUST(*) said :
   November 18th, 2010 at 10:08 am

   there is no ultra quick way unless you are having surgery…PAINFULL.
   A really healthy diet and regular excersise.
   do stomach crunches every day too
6. yoko o said :
   November 18th, 2010 at 10:54 am

   You cannot lose weight quickly without hurting your body. It didn’t appear quickly, and will not go away quickly.
7. Healthy Q said :
   November 18th, 2010 at 11:13 am

   You might think about trying The Movie Star Diet. I lost 50 pounds with it after only five months, and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve tried a lot of different diets (Atkins, South Beach, and Weight Watchers, etc.) and none of them worked anywhere near as well as this one. It’s definitely worth a shot if you really want to see a difference in a short time.
8. achung23 said :
   November 18th, 2010 at 11:24 am

   I would second the South Beach diet. A very healthy and sound way to “shock” your body onto a path of a better lifestyle. Sure, you may lose weight on the Atkins or similar crash diet…but your body will suffer in the long run.
9. hope4all77 said :
   November 18th, 2010 at 12:04 pm

   Try that new Red exercise seat eqipment that’s been advertised on TV for your abs, that should work.
10. joecseko said :
    November 18th, 2010 at 12:40 pm

    There is no specific exercise for ANY area of the body.Exercising a specific muscle group does not cause fat metabolism there.
    http://www.exrx.net/weighttraining/myths…
    You must maintain a healthy lower calorie diet.Eat less carbohydrates and more whole foods and protein.Protein is helpful because it’s the highest thermic food.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/thermic_eff…
    Going for a walk in the evening can be helpful but weight training is one of the best exercises you can do to lose weight.
    http://preventdisease.com/news/articles/…
    One of the ways this works is by stimulating new muscle growth thus metabolizing more calories even at rest(about 50 cal per pound of muscle).
    The fact of the matter is you MUST just stick with it.Following some of the guidelines here will help.
    It is also unnecessary to drink 8 8 ounce glasses of water per day.
    http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8gla…
11. enufwork said :
    November 18th, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    First, for all of the “quick and easy” weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true… it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.

    On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to “How do I lose weight,” or more specifically, “How do I lose abdominal fat?” I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get “It works!” emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)… so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

    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.

    Aloha
12. tampabayfriends said :
    November 18th, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    Here is what you need to do, if you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off. Eat 6 small meals a day about every 4 hours. Here what that will do for you, your metabolism will increase (i.e. Loose weight) and you will have more engry. If you go on a diet and eat less, your metabolism will slow down and store to fat. That is why diets dont work. Only the size of your fist, carbs (examples:baked potato, pasta, oatmeal, beans, corn, melon, apples, fat free yogurt, whole wheat breads)in one and protien (examples:chicken breast, swordfish, shrimp, turkey breast) in the other. You can also eat vegetables and salads with any meal, they dont have none or little fat). 30min cardo exercise every day. Any of these(examples: walking, jogging, swimming,running, biking, ect), Monday cardo, tues upper body (arms: curls, tricep extensions,pull ups, front press)(abdominals: leg pull crunch, leg raises), (chest: bench press, butterfly, pullover)(shoulders: front press, arm pullover, cross county skier machine)(back:seated row, lat pull downs, back extension)(YOU DONT HAVE TO DO IN ONE DAY, mix it up) wed cardo, thurs lower body (legs: leg pull,leg press, squats, lounges) fri cardo, sat upper. Sunday eat anything you want and dont exercising, you do this on sunday so your body doesnt go into starvation mode. YOU NEED TO TAKE SUNDAY OFF. If you stilck with this you will have a great body. also drink aleast 8oz of water daily! Stay away from Mcdonals, Wendys, ect because there is nothing good for you on the menu’s even the salads are bad (beaon bits, cheeze, dressing, ect) Good Luck 🙂