how can i lose weight? i have tried everything, even weight watchers. any advice?

Answer 1

Sometimes keeping a food diary can help. Sometimes we don't remember how much we have snacked on during the day. The food diary can help you see if you are snacking excessively or help you see a bad habit.

If snacking is your problem you can look into a couple of options. You can cut down on your snacking or plan for healthier snacks. Don't drastically change your diet unless you know that you can stick with it. Otherwise you just gain all of the weight back because you go back to old habits. Just change a little at a time. Try having two "healthy meals" a week. Something as simple as having grilled food, instead of something fried.

Also, to lose weight you really need to do some type of exercise. Find something that you enjoy doing. You will be more likely to stick with it. Maybe walking, swimming, yoga, dance, aerobics. Just whatever you find interesting. If you bore easily you may want to try doing more than one thing. For instance, walking with friends on Monday and Wednesday, yoga on Tuesday and Thursday. The next week try dance on Mon. and wed. and aerobics or Tues. and Thurs.. You just have to find what works for you. The most important thing is to keep it fun and interesting. Take time and try some new things!

I hope these suggestions were helpful. Good luck and just keep the faith in yourself. You can do it. You just have to decide that you are ready to.

Answer 2

Be your own trainer and nutritionist, the basic rules to losing weight are no soda, no fast food, lots of chicken, fish, fresh (not canned that’s bad) fruits and vegies, whole wheat stuff, yogurt. Not so many cakes and donuts and cookies. Basic common sense for eating, you just need to enforce it. Get all the bad stuff out of the house right away, just toss it or give it away while your still motivated. No alcohol and no smoking if that applies. Lots of water, 3-4 liters a day, not all at once, but spread it out. Its really easy to down a liter or two while your watching tv or on the computer. Also drink some after you eat the bigger meals of the day, it helps your body pick out the nutrients in food when your food is more spread apart. Don’t think that sports drinks can replace water, the only time you need to drink them right after a workout, besides that just stick with water. These rules may be hard to adapt to at first so start with cutting out the things you know you can live without. Then work from there. Remember these are perfect eating habits, it can take you a while to work into it. If you know you can’t live without your one treat a day, don’t fight it by trying to eat something else, just eat it and make sure that’s the only one you cheat on a day. Otherwise you’ll get depressed and quit. Another important point is getting the right amount of sleep every night. You need 8-9 hours of sleep each night for your body to function correctly. This is an important factor of losing weight. Set up a routine for yourself and go to bed at about the same time each night.
As for exercise, lots of cardio. Find something you like. If you have never exercised much before, start with walking 30 minutes a day at a brisk pace. Move on to different terrains that include hills and increase the time spent. After a week or two, try jogging the route. No matter what find an activity you enjoy. Walking to jogging is just an example, try hiking, rollerblading, biking. Once you get into a regular routine, if your not happy with the level of difficulty, try signing up with a gym. Spinning, pilates or kickboxing classes are great. It will also introduce you to working with weights. Talk to a trainer for instruction before using any weights. A cheap investment is a balance ball, it works you stomach while your just sitting on it, like at your computer and its great for posture. There are hundreds of exercises you can use it for for your entire body. I can give you some ideas if you want, just email me. Also for more info on the benefits of water go to www.watercure.com Good Luck! Honestly if you need anything else don't hesitate to IM me, krista_girl86 even if you don't pick me as best answer, i'd be happy to help. Also check out the website for the tv show The Biggest Loser on NBC. There are many, many helpful facts on there.

Answer 3

Krista says: "Lots of water, 3-4 liters a day, not all at once, but spread it out. Its really easy to down a liter or two while your watching tv or on the computer. Also drink some after you eat the bigger meals of the day, it helps your body pick out the nutrients in food when your food is more spread apart. "

ROTFLMAO!!
There's no proof that anyone needs that much water. NONE. Just folklore, urban myth, old wives' tale. (See references) And the belief that "it helps your body pick out the nutrients" is just plain unfounded. Your body does a fine job "picking out" nutrients with or without excess fluids.

Bottom line: Drink when you're thirsty. Period. Do not obsess over or worry about getting some arbitrary amount of water as a daily "goal". You already get most of the water your body needs from the food you consume. The rest of Krista's advice is reasonable. But she's got some crazy ideas about physiology.

READ:
http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/batman.html
http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp
http://calorielab.com/news/2006/05/28/8-glasses-of-water-a-diet-urban-legend

Answer 4

The following healthy living recommendations will help you if you’re trying to lose weight, tone up your muscles, have aspirations of building lean muscle mass, are attempting to get a wash board stomach, or just want to feel better:

*1) Burn more calories then your consuming everyday and measure your results using the following formula: Calories Consumed minus Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) minus Physical Activity. Get a fitness calculator that you can put on your cell phone and computer. This will allow you to easily calculate this formula, log your daily calorie consumption, and register your physical activities.

*2) Eat natural and organic foods found on earth versus something created by a corporation to make money. Eat meals in small portions throughout the day and take a good multi-vitamin supplement.

Avoid “High Glycemic Load Carbs” (sugar, pastries, desserts, refined starches such as breads, pasta, refined grains like white rice; high starch vegetables such as white potatoes) and drink lots of water.

Do not try fad diets or diet pills. Here is an excellent food pyramid that anyone can follow: http://www.rayandterry.com/html/images/PyramidLRG.gif?osCsid=26a424be471d1337e7c2f105d5c64d9d

*3) Exercise on most days by doing cardiovascular training and/or resistance training activities.

Read a book or find a certified trainer to make sure your doing all resistance training exercises correctly. A great book to buy that teaches you the resistance training basics is “Weight Training for Dummies”. A superb magazine to buy with excellent resistance training routines that will not get you bored is "Muscle and Fitness". Signup for the free newsletter.

A good book to buy that teaches you the cardiovascular training basics is “Fitness for Dummies”.

*4) Get plenty of sleep. Sleep experts say most adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep each night for optimum performance, health, and safety.

*5) Educate yourself continually on health issues and make a life long commitment to good health. A great free publication is “Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005”. A superb book to read is “You The Owner’s Manual”. An excellent periodic publication is the “Nutrition Action Health Letter”. A reputable test you can take to measure your biological age is at http://realage.com

Look at all areas where you can enhance your health. For example, make improvements in the quality of the air you breathe. Review outdoor air quality forecasts where you live and get an indoor air purifier. Email me if you want a good indoor air purifier recommendation and if you have other questions.

*Click on all the source links below to get the full benefit of the recommendations. The answers presented to your health questions are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Answer 5

you have to eat healthy. cut out all pop, drink more water, eat lots of vegetables--raw is the best. consume less calories than you burn and add to that some excercise. even just walking for an hour a day will do the trick. stay away from things like bread and potatoes though. also try doing some sit ups in the morning

Answer 6

Homeopathic Treatment for Excessive Fat and Weight :-
PHYTOLACCA BERRY's Mother Tincture is perhaps the safest and sure fire way of loosing excessive fat around abdomen. With Phytolacca Berry once you loose the excessive fat and weight you don't get it back because you body takes care of itself after that and keeps you from gathering up excessive fat. It is prescribed after having a baby too, to get the tummy to loose its flab and to make it flatter and tighter. And after loosing weight with this you don't get flabby it tightens up the flab and skin along with helping your body to shed the excessive accumulation of fat around the girth
The dosage is 15 to 20 drops of the tincture in half a cup of hot water thrice a day half hour before or after meals.
Avoid Chocolates, Coffee, Mints, Red Meat and Carbonated and Alcoholic drinks while taking Homeopathic Medicines. You have to take it for at least 30 to 45 days after that you start to feel the results.
To the best of my knowledge its the safest and the most sure fire way of loosing fat and weight and keeping it of for keeps. Excellent remedy for Obese people who cant seem to shed weight despite trying.
Homeopathic Remedies can be found at all Major Herbal Stores or could be bought on line, In most of the world Homeopathic remedies are quite cheap and easy to find and they do not need a prescription.
Take care and God Bless !

Answer 7

According to an on-line calculator (see link below), you would have to work out at the Gym for half and hour to burn off 240 calories (if you weighed 190lbs).

Wow! You would have to sweat and work HARD for THIRTY minutes for a measly 240 calories!!

All that sweat for a handful of sultanas or 2 cream crackers!

What this tells us is that exercise has very little to do with losing weight.

Exercise is about health, about toning, putting on weight, muscles, fitness, co-ordination and feeling good. Exercise might stimulate your metabolism depending on your body type and other factors, but then again it also increases your appetite!

The ONLY way to LOSE weight, to burn off the calories stored in your fat deposits, (adipose tisse) is to make the body eat the fat stores... and that means EATING LESS.

Your body easily eats its own fat stores... it does it all the time, especially during the night when you are asleep -- hence the halitosis/ bad breath -- a sure sign that you are in ketosis (the state of burning body fat).

It is perfectly natural. It does this when you are asleep because it needs calories and you are asleep (i.e. not eating).

If you put on weight, it is a sure sign that you are eating too much for your lifestyle.

You could change your lifestyle (do more exercise), but that is hard to keep up forever -- and when you stop things are a lot worse due to your high metabolism.

To be realistic, most people cannot keep up exercise at the Gym for the rest fo their lives -- they stop for work, to have babies or for illness. Generally if you are fat then you are probably not all that Gym-oriented, so any Gym-based fix will be short-lived.

The answer is staring you in the face. It is simple, but difficult to accept: you need to STOP EATING!

Eat nothing for 24 hours -- a fast -- detox, start shrinking your stomach, gain control over yourself in a psychological way. Millions of humans starve each day and live. It's even part of most religions. It will also starle your metabolism.

But before entering starvation mode, start eating again -- but don't eat as much. Chew your food thoroughly, eat slower, drink gallons of still water each day. Reduce your portion sizes... over time you will relearn what a portion actually is.

It is all about eating less, so do a fast one day per week and watch your fat disappear!

Don't become bulimic or anorexic, if you feel that you might be at risk of that then do the Atkins instead -- it is designed to make you lose more weight per day than you would by eating nothing. Atkins's first diet is all about eating as much fat and protein as you can and almost zero carbs. In dealing with the undigestible fats, your body burns more body stored fat than if you starved.

You could think of eating less of certain foods simply to allow you to eat more of another type -- that's a recipe for failure as you are not educating your stomach and not educating your head eaither.

You need to stop eating when you feel full. You need to eat what you want when you want -- small portions, and you need to do a weekly fast to show yourself who's boss. No calories in is a lot easier, believe me, than hours in the gym burning calories off!

Answer 8

You should try eating less carbs. I also tried everything before, lots of excersize and I still didn't lose weight. When I started eating less carbs I really saw a difference.

Answer 9

lax xand surgery, they put a band around your stomach so annd makes it to a size of an egg....its about 19000 dollars so good luck. Or Jenny craig, Its much better than weight watchers...ive tried to. Jenny craig you buy your food from them, you just eat what you get its simple good and you never get hungry. ive lost almost 30lbs in 2 and half months on it

Answer 10

I used a program called Shapeworks. It was simple to do. I lost 95 lbs in 8 months using it. Here is the website where I got it from: www.loseweightnow.com/tfward