dieting gets you traped?

Question

i was thinking that surely once you start dieting then your stuck to it for the rest of your life unless you want to put the weight on again?

Answer 1

Don't think of it as a diet rather a healthy eating plan for life. Initially to lose weight you need to increase intensity but after your desired weight is achieved you can go into maintenance mode. It has worked for me and all my friends here is the plan we all follow and live happily by, good luck.

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. Stop making some major mistakes wake up earlier and get active earlier your metabolism is sluggish and needs to be woken up this is half your problem.

Here are the golden rules:
Initially cut down to 1200 calories.
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

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 & 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 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 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

Y--e--s,although ''trapped'' is not quite an encouraging way to put it!
lt's basically a lifestyle adjustment--''THINK THIN''- and pretty soon you can't ''think fat ''anymore!
Sometimes you can lose so much weight from stress and overwork,fatigue or illness that you have to work on putting on a couple of extra pounds to regain your ideal weight.
Then you can pig out to your heart's content...but strangely,it won't feel as good as you thought it would--all life's pleasures are like that.

Answer 3

Yes, that is pretty much correct. You have to just change your whole eating and exercise lifestyle, not fall back into bad habits that made you heavy to begin with.