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what is best diet to lose weight fast?

7 Responses to “what is best diet to lose weight fast?”

1. happyjello said :
   August 22nd, 2010 at 9:55 am

   I have started this Diet (lifestyle change) in the middle of November at 140lbs, and now at 117lbs

   A DIET IS WHAT YOU EAT….there for we are all on a diet….
   THINK LIFESTYLE CHANGE

   You got the change the way you think and feel about food

   TRY THIS, and stick to it.

   The first 3-4 weeks are the hardest until your body adjusts to the change.
   Results will be in about the same time

   Fruits and Veggies

   Eat more plants and keep away from stuff that was made in plants.

   Don’t eat anything that comes in a can, box or package….
   …..THEY HAVE ADDITIVES IN THEM THAT MAKE YOU ADDICTED TO THE FOOD…..
   If man made it, don’t eat it

   NO white BREAD or SUGAR

   NO FRIED FOOD…

   Stay away from FAST FOOD

   NO POP, SODA or FIZZY DRINKS

   Walk your dog, or walk a friends dog

   Don’t think of it as a diet, but think of it as a lifestyle change

   I have lost 20.5 pounds in 2 months, drink lots of water. I usually eat a meal of what ever I want once a week….controlled portion….this really works………

   Write down every thing you eat

   take a multivitamin at night
2. fordieuk said :
   August 22nd, 2010 at 10:45 am

   try exercise
3. pixie surfer said :
   August 22nd, 2010 at 11:04 am

   my mum went on something called the cambridge diet and lost 2 stone six weeks but it will cost you thirty five pounds every time you go to the clubs and also sometimes the weight doesn’t stay off when you finish the diet
4. Kellen B said :
   August 22nd, 2010 at 11:52 am

   Actually, you don’t have to diet in fact in order to lose weight, the only diet which clearly worked for me is green tea, it can be seen in the resource box underneath, they have a handful of free trials remaining, it has been featured in Fox News and CNN. I worked off 30 pounds, it clearly does produce results!
5. Emz said :
   August 22nd, 2010 at 12:03 pm

   that would depend whether you just want to lose the weight or if you want to keep it off.

   if you want to keep it off make sure you are eating three healthy meals every day.
   for example a typical day:
   breakfast special K and a banana
   lunch a brown bread n butter or marg ham sandwich
   dinner pasta with tomato sauce

   keep the portions reasonable and avoid snacking. if you are eating meals healthily you shouldnt need to. if you ahve to eat eat an apple or banana.

   drinking loads of water is a great way to make skin healthy and lose weight fast!

   make sure you do about half an hour minimum of exercise each day. go for a jog or to the swimming baths.

   dieting isn’t what you should be trying to do if you want to lose weight you need to change how your’e living not what you’re eatin

   in future try to say how tall you are and how much you currently weigh and your age it makes it easier
6. mike h said :
   August 22nd, 2010 at 12:28 pm

   Forget about losing weight per se. Just adopt a healthy lifestyle.Eat a good healthy diet and excercise a lot!!! The more excercise you do the better!

   For a healthy diet, you need to be eating small to medium meals regularly. 4 or even 5 times a day. Each meal (apart from breakfast which should preferably be fibre rich), should contain a balanced ammount of carbohydrates for energy, (from potatoes, rice and pasta, etc) protien (from fish, chicken, occassional red meat is fine, soya is good too) and plenty of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants (simple fresh fruit and veg). Eat like this and make sure you are well hydrated (fruit juice is as good as water, any fluid counts, but some fluids have negative effects too, such as alcohol or caffiene rich drinks.)

   Now for the science bit: Protien is essential for repairing muscle and keeping the muscle you do have healthy (this includes your heart, lungs, brain etc). You naturally lose the ammount of protien you have throughout the day (through urine etc) so this needs to be replenished regularly on a daily basis.

   Carbohydrates are essential for energy. You won’t be able to function without it. It also regulates body fat and glucose etc.

   Vitamins and minerals are obviously essential for a variety of reasons. For normal growth and development, for the healthy maintenance of the cells, tissues, and organs that make up our bodies, and also to let us efficiently use chemical energy provided by food.

   You can have a wide range of healthy meals with this, from Thai, Chinese, Italian, British, Indian, etc. Just make sure each meal contains balanced ammounts of these three. On the bright side too, fresh veg and rice and pasta is a lot cheaper than crappy junk food!

   This doesn’t mean you cant have chocolate or pizza/takeaway/etc, just save them as very occassional treats.

   The big secret to keeping a healthy weight and staying healthy is EXCERCISE, particularly cardio excercise.

   Cardio exercise includes any form of excercise such as running/jogging/swimming/cycling etc that gets your heart rate pumping and you sweating and out of breath. It will not only burn calories and reduce your body fat levels, therefore making you ‘slimmer’ by having less fat on you, but will also improve your resting heart rate and lung function, making you healthier.

   I cannot understate the importance of cardio excercise. It is this which will basically burn the body fat off you.

   But you have to remember that once you have shed a bit of fat you have to have a nice toned body underneath the fat to show off.

   Strength training will help you strengthen and tone your muscles. This is done with the use of weights or by free training.

   There are essentially (without getting overly complicated) two types of strength excercises based on different types of muscle fibres depending on wether you want to build size, bulk and power, or just ‘tone’ up the lean muscles an get more muscle endurance.

   Heavy weights with short reps/sets will build your fast twitch muscle fibres and build size, power and strength. Imagine big guys at the gym lifting heavy weights.

   But if you use light to medium weights with lots of reps/sets you will excercise your slow twitch muscle fibres, you wont build size, but you will tone up your body and train muscle endurance. This will obviously make you ‘look’ healthier and more toned, but will also increase your metabolism (as your muscles demand more energy) so you will burn calories faster. These muscles are also excercised a lot with cardio workouts (i.e your leg muscles when running).

   Your arms for example, will need bicep curls and tricep dips using weights and reps of your choice (heavy – low reps, light – lots of reps) and also shoulder excercises such as holding the weights at your waist and lifting them perpendicular to your side or in front of you, etc etc.

   Your stomach will need excercises that cover the entire torso. Leg raises for your lower ab wall, crunches, sit ups and planks for your upper and all over ab wall, oblique twists for your sides and superman stretches for your lower back for example.

   These are just basic examples, there are literally hundreds of excercises, but it is impossible to show you on a site like this, get a trainer at your gym to show you some but remember the basic rules of muscles and weights.

   As far as excercise goes, you should aim to strike a balance between cardio training and strength training, this way you will build good strong and toned muscle, but also keep your body fat levels down and increase your heart and lung performance, making you much fitter and healthier.
7. Dr Frank said :
   August 22nd, 2010 at 1:11 pm

   Do you see the box near the top of the page?
   The one labelled ‘Search for questions: ‘?
   Well type in ‘lose weight’.
   You will find over 15,000 preexisting questions.
   Try the misspellings ‘loose weight’ and there are another 5,500.
   In all there are over 50,000 Health section questions requesting solutions to being or thinking you might be overweight.
   On average these each yield 6 answers, that is over 300,000 answers.

   I can usefully summarise these answers in 4 words:

   EAT LESS DO MORE. Are you desperate enough to try this