How can I make myself lose weight?

Answer 1

You have to genuinely want it. Of course you want it, but you have to want it more than you want to sit around, eat yummy food, etc. And you need to want it so much that your general "I want to lose weight" feeling can outweigh the immediate "boy that ice cream looks good" feeling.

Weight loss takes time and commitment, and the best way to build that is to take a serious first step: see a health professional about it. You will learn how overweight you really are, and she can help with good healthy ideas to how to lose weight. Even more importantly, you will have demonstrated to yourself that you are serious, which is good motivation. If the most serious thing you've done is read some weight-loss tips in Cosmo...you're probably not going to get very far.

One of the things your doctor will probably tell you is that getting fit is a great way to lose weight, and will benefit your life in so many other ways.

So...change your eating lifestyle. Eat smaller meals more often and never skip breakfast. Eat better foods. That means, replace your simple carbs (white bread, white rice, french fries) with complex carbs (whole grain anything, etc.). Replace your bad fats with good fats (nuts, olive oil, canola oil, etc). Try and get some good lean protein in your diet.

Start exercising more. You don't have to do hours and hours of cardio, but you should work out with intensity. Try interval training. Put on a t-shirt and shorts and good running shoes and go outside and walk for 5-minutes. Then run like hell for 30-60 seconds. Then walk for a minute or two. Just before your breathing gets all the way back to normal, run like hell again. Repeat about 10 times and then walk home and feel good about yourself.

Add some resistance training too, especially stuff that works large muscle groups. You know how, when you work out hard, you're sore? That's your body repairing torn muscle fibers. It takes protein to do that, so a lot of the protein you eat while you're sore is going to muscle building and isn't going to get converted to fat or even burned for energy. So if you can get as much of your body as possible nice and sore (ramp up your workouts slowly...you don't want to injure yourself or make yourself *so* sore that you can't work out again for a week), then your whole body will be consuming calories to build muscle, and not to store as fat.

While it's doing that, it's also building the muscles up, making you stronger and faster and increasing the proportion of muscle to fat, which is great because muscle burns more calories than fat, so you'll be burning more calories even while your sitting around.

Good luck! Remember, get serious!

Answer 2

Do you overeat or have bad eating habits?

Many people overeat because they are bored, depressed or just a bit too inactive. You need to think about your lifestyle, take responsibility for taking care of yourself, and consciously break whatever cycle your stuck in.

Diet and exercise are always the easy answers but making it stick requires making a change in your life that you can commit to. Also, I don't think you can ever be successful unless you feel good about yourself. Perhaps you can get involved with something that makes you feel good about yourself and gradually replace the comfort you receive from food with something more fulfilling.

Oh and the exercise thing... you don't need to run marathons to lose weight. Little things can help a lot. Start taking the stairs instead of the escalator, go for 45 minute walks every day. I live in New York city, people have to walk everywhere here and as a result are in pretty fair shape overall. You'd be amazed

Answer 3

There are two things you can do:

1) Take in fewer calories
2) Burn more calories

It doesn't mean you have to starve yourself and workout nonstop. Just watch what you eat, try to get no more than 2,000 calories a day and try to burn 200-400 more than you do normally by walking or jogging for 1/2 an hour or more.

Answer 4

Eat better foods ( like eat a grilled chicken breast instead of KFC) and work out more. Little things make a big difference like not looking for the spot right near the door when you go shopping park far away and make your self walk.

Answer 5

Eat less sugar. Especially soft drinks. They have empty calories. They provide no nutrition and don't fill you up. So they are just extra calories you don't need.
The best thing to do is exercise. The better shape you are in the more fat you burn, even at rest.

Answer 6

Consume less calories that you burn. In essence create a calorie deficiency. if you're going to eat massive quantities then be prepared to work out like a maniac. THe key is to burn more calories than you eat everyday. Good Luck!

Answer 7

Eat less, exercise more.

Either cut out 500 calories a day from your diet, or burn an extra 500 calories a day through exercise. If you do it every day, you'll loose a pound a week. :-)

Answer 8

Exercise, eat healthy, eat smaller portions. Tada!

Answer 9

drink water or drink ddiet drinks and when u eat dont eat that much just eat like m a lil plat of somthing and dont eat chocolate and if u have to have it then eat three musktears they r good and not as much fat as other chocolate or eat zero its good to and walk

Answer 10

Go to the gym... And I say this because I bet you were thinking about eatting less and/or taking pills weren't you??