What are the best means in losing weight?

Answer 1

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you exercise them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 2

Well I've tried tons of diets in the past 4 years but up until 2 years ago nothing seemed to work. It all depends on ones body for a certain weight loss plan. I'd recommend the South Beach Diet, as I've seen many peoples success off it. Just don't do the Atkins diet for it is extremely unhealthy and will leave you with little energy. And theres 2 different way of going about a diet, "losing weight" and "losing fat". So many people today are worried about losing weight when they should be worried about losing fat. The whole key is to keep your fat intake under 30g/day while carbs and protein should be your main intake. Carbs arent a bad thing, fat is.

Answer 3

To lose weight, a person has to reduce the calorie intake by some amount by modifying their diet. A diet without sufficient nutrients will only increase the appetite of the person trying to lose weight. Since most people combine a diet with an exercise plan, additional nutrients are required for the growth of muscles required to increase the metabolic rate required for long term weight loss. More information available at http://tinyurl.com/jax5h

Answer 4

The best way, i.e. safest, healthiest is simply to increase your output and decrease your input. 2 pounds per week is the maximum, any more than this is unhealthy and you risk losing muscle mass which is what you DON'T want. You want FAT loss, not muscle loss. Look for looking leaner, trimmer, fitting your clothes better rather than just a smaller reading on the weigh-scale.

Answer 5

the eastest way to lose weight is to maintain a good diet do 20min. of morning excise daily.I garenty u that u will lose some amount of your weight

Answer 6

i lost 45 pounds my walking an hour on the treadmill every morning, cutting out fast food and desserts and soda, and eating a weight watchers frozen entree for lunch every day

Answer 7

push aways, as in you push yourself away from the table after one decent sized serving, and you push away all those deserts and snacks and stuff you dont need.

Answer 8

lots of physical activity and eat healthy. everything in moderation

Answer 9

i guess it's the obvious, eat less and excercise