What is the most safe & effective way to slim down, & yet free?

Answer 1

If you want to do this it is for life so you need to totally change your way of eating and exercising. This is not a diet rather than a healthy eating plan for life. So no more talking diet cause it means time limit.

Here are the golden rules:
Initially cut down to 1200 calories women & 1500 men
Exercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved.
Don't eat carbs after 4pm, never eat carbs within 2 hours of exercise or within 1 hour of exercise.
Drink 3 litres of water per day. You can have a green tea at the end of the day.
Limit your fruit in take to 2 pieces per day.
Never eat dinner after 6pm.
Adopt of low GI eating plan this is sustainable for life!
Make low fat dairy choices
All food choices need to be low fat
Don't make food a big deal and don't socialise using food

Follow this menu plan as a suggestion:
Breakfast 7am - 1 cup hot water w lemon
20 minutes later have a bowel of oats w water (no honey) OR
fruit salad w low GI soy yogurt
Snack 10am - pear or apple (both low GI)
Lunch 12.30pm - multigrain sandwich w 50g tuna/lean meat & salad (no butter)
Snack 3pm - low GI yogurt OR skim berry smoothie (no honey or banana) plenty of ice, 1/2 cup skim milk & 1/4 cup yogurt
Dinner 5.30pm - 120g-150g grilled lean meat/fish/prawns/tofu patties (not fried) w spinach salad & mixed vegies (no whites, carbs) OR 3 egg white/soy omlette with ham, cheese and tomato
Snack - 1 scoop of low cal low fat ice cream (if hungry)

Exercise is must be intense. Refer to www.bodybuilding.com for your weights routine. Never do weights two consecutive days have a cardio day in between.

Cardio needs to include running, go hard up stair wells and cycling. You get the most benefits from exercise when your body is totally fatigued and this is when you see changes.

To maintain you can increase calories to 1500 women & 1800 men and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1200 cal and 6 sessions again.

Good luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.

Answer 2

I am 57 yeras old. 2 months ago I had an angioplasty and was 35 pounds overweight. I started walking 2 days after the operation. Started with a 20 minute BRISK walk, and now am up to an hour a day BRISK walk. This is free. Oh by the way I have lost 16 pounds in the 2 months. Good luck

Answer 3

Burn more calories everyday. It sounds simple but it works. Most people do not know how to calculate this. The basic formula is Calories Consumed minus Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) minus Physical Activity.

Click here for a good example of what to eat:
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The current issue of "Muscle and Fitness" magazine has some excellent workout routines that won't get you bored.

Remember, diet and exercise is best for lasting weight loss.

Answer 4

Exercise by walking, running, biking, hiking, jump jacks, sit ups, push ups, stairs...

These also happen to be the safest methods too.

SAFE & FREE, yet few do 'em.

Answer 5

Exercise and eating well. No puking or stuff.
-Brandon Everett Spurgeon

Answer 6

Don't eat so much...it won't be free but you'll cut down on the cost ??!!

Answer 7

eat salads n top eating other crap
DONT eat outside!
do excersize - dont have to go to the gym - go swimming or dance or workout at home...

Answer 8

Take lot of tensions and drink more and more water.

Answer 9

Eat less, exercise more.

Answer 10

go natural