I want to lose weight?

Question

Is it ok to only eat 1000 calories a day and burn 500 or should i go no lower than 1200 a day?

Also what foods should i avoid?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here are some thoughts from my 360 Blog of September 10. The ideas are aggressive but realistic. 1000 calories a day is probably too restrictive and not the best approach.

Don't target losing 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 work 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

ok you should aviod foods like burgers,fried,or sugary!
if u want a sandwitch get a GRILLED not fried,turkey or chicken
brest. Switch to diet soda, but i would mostly prefer tea or water.
Also insted of 3 big meals a day eat at least 5 small ones.
exercise at least 3 times a week for about an hour or more.
If you cant do that long then work your way up. Such as 20minutes 2times a week, then go up to 30min 2times a week, and just keep going up til you get to an hour or more for 3 times a week.
For breakfast you should eat:
a bowl of Kashi, Special K,or Rasin Brand.
Use skim milk or 1% {its best}
then drink orange juice or milk.

Snack: protine bar or two

Lunch
salad with low fat dressing
watch out for fat in dressing!
turkey or chicken brest [grilled}

Snack: a bag of chips not Lays!
get Sun chips

Dinner: a nice little meal of Bread Company,or Lions Choice
their beef sandwitches are not bad for you

Snack: Apple, banana, of low fat yogurt

I really hope i helped and wish you lose all the weight you want to
Plz pick me 4 best answer ( ;

Answer 3

You Got To Eat Heathly Foods Dont Eat Greasy Food. Try To Stay Away From Candy,And Chips.Drink Lots Of Water. 8 Glasses A Day. Juice Is Good To Drink. Dont Drink Pop. =You Should Nerver Drink Pop.

Answer 4

if you can stick to that you should lose weight. If you are only eating 1000 calories a day, you wont want to waste those on "empty calories" you are gonna need the correct ratio of fats, carbs, and protein. Probably cut out the fats in my opinion, and if you are exercising you should burn off the carbs, so try to have a more protein rich diet.

Answer 5

The key to healthy weight loss is eating a healthy balanced diet and exercising. You are burning more than 500 calories a day. You need to burn more than you take in. If you lose weight fast, you will gain it back fast. Crash diets do not work and ae not healthy. Drink plenty of water also.

Answer 6

You should go no lower than 1200. You don't have to avoid any foods, just learn portion size, check the packages. Also look at Weight Watchers. They allow you to eat what you love but help you learn what is the appropriate portions.

I have had very good success with Weight Watchers.

Answer 7

Try to count by calories is hard. Try to cut down on oily & fried food. Make your everyday meals as soupy as you can with more vegies. You may see the different in your weight in just a week time.

Answer 8

1000 cals should be good but why don't you take 1500 cals and exercise instead, like running , and the food you should avoid is like fried food and fast food.and sweet and cake and cookie.

Answer 9

it really depends on your body type and everyhting. you have to exercise. dont cut too much food , and start you day off with food, and take calcium pills. one a day i read in womens world that they speed up your metabolism. i did a whole wheat diet and started working out and lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks.

Answer 10

Avoid fried things and things made with cream. Avoid things with trans fats. Avoid (or severely decrease) your favorite desserts and "finger food".