Can anyone tell me how I can lose weight quickly?

Question

I was a stripper I broke my leg after a show one night and I couldn't dance for a while. Sitting around the house I gained weight and I am not like I use to be. I would go places and I would run into guys I use to dance for and they would ask me. Do you have a sister? You look like someone I know, and I just act like I don't know them. I use to weigh 125 pounds and now I am 202, I'm not use to being this heavy and it's hard to lose.

Answer 1

You should target taking the weight off at about 2 lbs per week. Faster rates are impractical because your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories, and also very efficient at storing any calories you do provide. It would also make you feel awful. Here are some thoughts from my Yahoo!360 Blog September 10.

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

You have to seek professional help for this - 202 is overweight . They will prescribe calory-based Diet rouitne . They will also suggest on ur food habbits on the whole ... It helps ,my relatives - many obese pople have had this and it has worked out well

Good Luck

Answer 3

put people on speakerphone and pace your office during conference calls

Answer 4

drink 3 cups of green tea in 24 hours researchers say it can increase energy expenditure by 106 calories

Answer 5

chug 12 8 ounce glasses of ice water a day it has the same effect on your metabolism as green tea

Answer 6

45 minute jog at a 10 minute mile pace

Answer 7

soups can be both filling and comforting try making a garden or bean soup with low salt broth and store in portion sized cups for later

Answer 8

a mediterranean diet not only comes with heart benefits studies show it leads to more weight loss than low fat diets

Answer 9

never eat any snack food out of the box carton or bag it came in you re less likely to overeat if you separate snacks into appropriate fist sized servings

Answer 10

automate your eating by planning your meals ahead of time that way you re less likely to make an unhealthy last minute food choice