Your goal is fairly realistic. Here are some suggestions from my 360 Blog of September 10.
Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week (you are just over this, but close enough to be possible with care). 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.
Aloha
2006-09-30 18:13:33
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answered by Anonymous
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Here is what you need to do, if you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off. Eat 6 small meals a day about every 4 hours. Here what that will do for you, your metabolism will increase (i.e. Loose weight) and you will have more engry. If you go on a diet and eat less, your metabolism will slow down and store to fat. That is why diets dont work. Only the size of your fist, carbs (examples:baked potato, pasta, oatmeal, beans, corn, melon, apples, fat free yogurt, whole wheat breads)in one and protien (examples:chicken breast, swordfish, shrimp, turkey breast) in the other. You can also eat vegetables and salads with any meal, they dont have none or little fat). 30min cardo exercise every day. Any of these(examples: walking, jogging, swimming,running, biking, ect), Monday cardo, tues upper body (arms: curls, tricep extensions,pull ups, front press)(abdominals: leg pull crunch, leg raises), (chest: bench press, butterfly, pullover)(shoulders: front press, arm pullover, cross county skier machine)(back:seated row, lat pull downs, back extension)(YOU DONT HAVE TO DO IN ONE DAY, mix it up) wed cardo, thurs lower body (legs: leg pull,leg press, squats, lounges) fri cardo, sat upper. Sunday eat anything you want and dont exercising, you do this on sunday so your body doesnt go into starvation mode. YOU NEED TO TAKE SUNDAY OFF. If you stilck with this you will have a great body. also drink aleast 8oz of water daily! Stay away from Mcdonals, Wendys, ect because there is nothing good for you on the menu's even the salads are bad (beaon bits, cheeze, dressing, ect) Good Luck :)
2006-10-01 01:58:58
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answered by tampabayfriends 5
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Lose weight with negative calorie foods
The foods, which utilize more calories to digest than the calorie foods in fact have, are known as negative calorie foods. It is harder for the body to consume calories from these negative calorie foods. I mean to say that our body has to work hard in order to take out calories from these foods. With this kind of food very small amount of calorie actually turn in to fat, as there is very small amount of calorie available.
You will get the maximum benefit of negative calorie foods when you take them alone without any junk food. There are large number of fruits and vegetables, which are having negative calorie results. Some of these foods are Raspberry, papaya, strawberry, zucchini, Carrot, Beets, and Asparagus.
Here is the complete listing of Negative calorie foods
Fruits
* Apple
* Cantaloupe
* Honeydew
* Grapefruit
* Blueberries
* Mango
* Papaya
* Peach
* Lemon/Lime
* Orange
* Pineapple
* Raspberry
* Strawberry
* Tomato
* Tangerine
* Turnip
* Watermelon
Vegetables
* Asparagus
* Beet Root
* Broccoli
* Cabbage
* Carrot
* Cauliflower
* Celery
* Chicory
* Hot Chili
* Cucumber
* Garden cress
* Garlic
* Green Beans
* Lettuce
* Onion
* Radish
* Spinach
* Turnip
* Zucchini
So you should go for negative calorie foods in order to lose weight in your daily routine.
2006-10-01 09:03:23
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answered by Fat G 5
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The Best Exercises To Lose Weight
http://weightloss-tips-guide.blogspot.com/2006/09/best-exercises-to-lose-weight.html
Helpful Tips to lose weight
http://weightloss-tips-guide.blogspot.com/2006/09/helpful-tips-to-lose-weight.html
2006-10-01 02:00:32
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answered by Ion R 2
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Eliminate white flour and white sugar from your diet. You already know I am sure about Carbs. I have lost over 100 pounds in the last 8 months. Lots and lots of water too.
2006-10-01 00:30:13
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answered by slanteyedkat 4
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Exercise no matter how you feel everyday,do the treadmill at 3.2 and 6% incline,drink a lot of water,cut out all fast food and red meat,eat chicken,fish,veggies and fruit,snack on rice cakes and ready cut veggies!
2006-10-01 00:25:43
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answered by happy1here♥ 5
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no sodas no salty snakes and no junk food also drink water only
and exercise u might gain muscle like if u tone your body but just keep in mind u can tell after 2 months for the weight b/c of water weight and your body adjusting
2006-10-01 00:31:50
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answered by sarah 3
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try to do the GI diet.. Glycemic index diet. and work out on a regular basis...you can drop weight fast and feel better doing it at the same time
2006-10-01 00:28:03
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answered by back2skewl 5
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www.sparkpeople.com I've already lost 9lbs in 2 weeks following there program. And its free to sign up.
2006-10-01 13:58:31
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answered by beachgirl111982 2
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thats preety tough try to work out every follow the food pyramid and dont eat junk.
2006-10-01 00:30:14
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answered by Zach 1
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