Atkins diet combined with additional exercise. If you can eat a low carb lifestyle (read the entire book and don't stay in the first phase more than a month or two) AND add at least 3 cardio sessions of 30 minutes or more a week, AND 2-4 weight training sessions a week, you will lose both FAT and weight faster than doing any one of those things alone.
If you can step up the cardio to 5 days a week of an hour or so, in addition to the diet and weight training, it will come off faster without risking your health.
If you don't lift weights, a large percentage of the weight you lose will be muscle. Since muscle burns more calories 24/7 than fat does, losing muscle is a bad thing because it slows your metabolism which both slows your weight loss AND causes you to regain it faster. A lot of people don't realize that.
Plus strength training will tone your entire body making you get smaller and tighter faster. Once you develop the habit, you'll love what it does for your body.
Good luck.
2006-09-22 01:34:02
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answered by Lori A 6
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just be mindful of what you are doing. You already know the answer is eating right and exercise so some quick and easy hints:
Eat three meals a day, but
- keep them to one portion, don't have the second helping
- don't snack inbetween meals
- skip the junk, fried foods, etc.
- NEVER eat after 8pm
Exercise.
- Make the commitment to exercise at least three times a week for at least half an hour (It's easier to keep this if you do it with a friend). Do whatever you like, even just walking, but at a good pace so you break a sweat
- fit in extra exercise where you can
--walk to the store instead of taking the car, or park at the far end of the parking lot, things like that
Good luck
2006-09-22 01:53:28
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answered by Charlie Kalech 3
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Try different types of cardio exercises and find one that you enjoy doing. I like to use machines where i can either read or watch tv while i do them, i think it makes it go faster. Write down what you eat for a few days and see if you have a "trouble" spot during the day where you snack more than usual, mine is at night. You can try to count calories but i find it becomes a pain. Try to eat more good protein in your diet such as chicken and fish and less fatty red meat. The South Beach Diet has a helpful book called "Good Eats Good Carbs Guide". The book lists all different types of food by categories and tells you if they are good to eat or if you should limit them. Also don't forget about weight training it will define you muscles and make you toned. Don't worry about getting bulky muscles, women don't naturally have high levels of testerone needed for the bulky look. It might not come as fast as you want it, it usually doesn't but if you do start working out you will start feeling great!!
2006-09-22 01:52:43
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answered by jazzy 1
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easy come easy go !!! lose weight gradually with diet and exercise and you'll be able to keep it off. all those quick diets make you crave food more and too much of exercise shuts off your body functions. Keep small and reachable goals, change your exercise routine so that your body does not get used to the same routine and falls into a comfortable zone. eat lots of varieties of healthy food [fruits, veg. etc] and treat yourself ocassionally to your favourite foods too. that way you will not feel deprived and depressed.
2006-09-22 01:37:50
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answered by cancycrab 2
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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.
Aloha
2006-09-22 04:40:28
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answered by Anonymous
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I just heard about a guy who drinks 8 ounces of water before his meal 8 ounces during the meal and 8 ounces at the end of the meal he has lost 70 lbs I think
He says it works
2006-09-22 01:33:24
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answered by Anonymous
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What is a 'quick and easy' ? ?
I think if there really was a sure fire way to do this a whole lot
of people would.
good luck in your search.
2006-09-22 01:32:17
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answered by Anonymous
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swap half of the avocado in a 1 2 cup of guacamole for zucchini
2016-03-29 01:48:25
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answered by ? 3
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starve youself will give a quickie and easiest way to losing weight ,the sideffects could have deficiency of vitamins and minerals and lethary ...it could be dangerous in the long run
2006-09-22 01:48:33
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answered by Anonymous
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Participate in sex atleast 3 times in a week
2015-12-12 21:09:49
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answered by Tena 3
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