What are some good tips or lines for dieting?

Question

I need to give a friend inspiratrion to keep her on her diet. I could use some good snappy lines or a really good tip... Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

Here are some thoughts on the subject from my 360 Blog of September 10. Don't have any fancy "slogans."


Don't target more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

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.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

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

Your friend does not need a diet. Diets don't work, what your friend needs is eating modification. You must modify what you eat, and step it up with some exercise. When someone is on a diet, they may lose weight and as soon as the dieting stops, the weight comes back. If you change your lifestyle and eating habits, it becomes a way of life. Make sure you tell her that skipping meals is the worse way to lose weight. Start off by making small gradual changes. And eventually it will become a way of life. I haven't had and refined sugar in 3 months and I have lost 55 lbs, not because of the sugar alone, but because I had to chang my lifestyle all together. Good luck, and remember, "no put downs",

Answer 3

Find something that fits your lifestyle - that you can live with. No point trying something you cannot sustain.

Try and understand what is wrong with your balance today - track how much you consume (honestly) per day over a week and also how much you exercise. Identify what needs to change - plenty of sources around to tell you how many calories for your age/size.

set realistic goals / Track progress / review/revise goals

Change things in moderation i.e.
cut out / reduce high calory food such as take-aways, cakes, biscuits, snacks

Try to eat earlier in the day

Increase fruit & vegetable input

Don't give up!

Answer 4

Fast weight loss diet

Fast weight loss dietOne of the health conditions that are now being referred to as epidemics is weight loss. It is important that each and every one of us must be aware about his/her body weight as there are number of health related risks that only weight with weight loss. If you think that you are one of those overweight people, it is best for you look into possible fast weight loss diets.

There are some basic principles for fast weight loss diets. So here I am going to tell you some basic principles which you must keep in mind while looking for fast weight loss diets.


* Number of people thinks that solution to weight loss problem can be summed up in a single term which is known as "calories in and calories out." It means that in order to lose weight, you must burn off more calories than you take in. But doing this is not always easy. This is why you have to look for a diet that should go about achieving the proper "calories in and calories out" ratio.

Fast weight loss diet principles
* You must look for a diet that makes good nutritional sense for you. A fast weight loss diet that promises a 10-pound loss in a weekend may sound great, but if this means you only have to consume fruit juices for three days, you should know better. Losing weight is not about losing nutrients at the same time. Your body needs nutrients, and without these or lack of these can greatly affect your health.

* A good fast weight loss diet should encourage exercise at the same time. If they tell you that the diet does not require exercise, you have to consider other options because the diet's goal is not good health. A combination of proper diet and exercise is one of the most effective ways to reduce that weight fast.


Today number of fast diet plans is available in the market. And many of them will not work for you. So it is very necessary for you to choose the best diet program for you. I think the basic principles which I have mentioned here will surely help you to find the best diet plan for you that match your weight loss requirements.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

"You look so good"

"I'm so happy for both of us... you're looking good and I get to go shopping with you for some new clothes!"

"Have you been doing something different?"

"Damn! You've only been doing this for how long?"

Answer 7

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Answer 8

say she is getting fat...dun be scared to tell her...then tell her not to eat after 7 and do not miss or skip meals, make sure ur meals are colorful

Answer 9

YOU CAN DO THIS.....remmember youlll be looking like me once ur finished with ur diet...lol ♥

WE ALL BELIEVE IN YOU

Answer 10

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