Whats the best way to lose weight fast and keep it off?

Question

Im not too keen on running!

Answer 1

swimming 2-3 times a week to start, porridge for breakfast.. try to drink pure green tea as this is a fat burner.. also to start your day drink a glass of grapefruit juice,,, water of course will be your best friend you need to drink at least 2 litres a day though..try to minimse the amount of bread and potatoes you eat.. eat 2 kiwis mid morning and an apple mid afternoon to keep your sugars balanced.. eat brown rice and wholemeal pasta and try swapping white bread for wholemeal pitta...increase the amount of protein like oily fish and chicken also turkey... fresh is best ok.. if its a supplement you want to give your metabolism a kick start try taking guarana and green tea capsules before brekky and lunch....happy dieting p.s..if you cant swim then learn its the best thing in the world i only learnt 6 mths ago and i am so glad i did as it exercises all my body and is excellent for abs and hips

Answer 2

Portion Control is your answer. No matter what diet you try, if your portions are too large, you'll gain weight.

One of the key points to losing weight safely and effectively is learning the importance of serving sizes and portion control during your meals.

Sensible food portions are essential to weight loss and maintaining weight loss. You may end up shocked to find out how portion control alone can result in a significant weight loss!
Many people think that one portion of food is equivalent to one serving, but this is rarely the case.

Servings are defined by measurements such as ounces or cups. While a portion is the amount of food that you choose to eat and it is usually greater than one serving size? Understanding the difference will help you learn how to eat the right amount of food which will result in weight loss.

Visual Portion Control
The first step to understanding portion control is to understand serving sizes.

Many people are resistant to dieting and quickly become overwhelmed when they hear terms like portion control as the thought of measuring everything you eat just seems like a pain. Below there are some examples of visual portion controls to help make portion control easier for you.

A medium orange or apple is equivalent to the size of a tennis ball.
A bagel is equivalent to the size of a computer mouse.
A cup of fruit is equivalent to the size of a baseball.
A teaspoon of peanut butter is equivalent to the tip of your thumb.


Relating portion control with visual objects will help you to use portion control properly without having to carry a food scale or set of measuring cups around with you at all times.

Food-Label Servings

Most food labels often list serving sizes on the container. However, it is important to realize they are not recommendations of how much food to eat but simply the amount of food on which the products nutritional analysis is based.

This information helps to compare nutritional value between products.
Food-label servings are the amount of a particular food that people usually eat and they are listed using standard household measurements.
Check the label to determine if the amount of food you normally eat is similar to that of the listed serving size. Servings per container are usually included as well so that you can calculate the calories in nutrients within the entire package of food.

Right-Size Portions Tips
Try to avoid eating seconds.
When dining out, always take half your meal home with you.
Split a meal with your friend or spouse.
Don’t finish your entire plate.
Read food labels to help you determine the proper serving sizes.

Once you learn to eat food in the correct portion size, you'll natually lose the weight and keep the weight off.

To tone up your body, why not try Pilates? There is no jumping, running or dancing involved. The stretches are easy to learn and you can do a few now and a few later. Unlike cardio exercises you can break up your exercise routines, so it fits better into your schedule.

Drink more water---I can't stress this enough. Water not only flushes out toxins but this is how a good portion of the fat will leave your body. If you don't drink enough water the fat will stay!

Answer 3

The whole idea of loosing weight fast is generally accomplished with the assistance of herbal and protein supplements. The way to use supplements to assist in weight loss is the same way you would use a crutch with a broken leg.

Being obese is worse than having a broken leg. It's no big deal to use supplements or protein shakes while you are losing weight.

When you get within a few pounds of your target weight, you will want to slowly "wean" yourself off of the supplements. By that time, you will have created new eating habits and like me, your stomach may be smaller.

I have lost 32 pounds since July 15 by using Stack Body Tune Up. It comes with a protein ice cream drink, citrus boosters, and herbal supplements.

If I can be of further assistance, let me know.

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Answer 4

Atkins and South Beach both sounds good, but when at the end of the question where you said keep it off that sounds sad, think of you being on the atkins and south beach diet for life.

I really would recommend you a lifestlye change and start hitting the weight room, because every ounce of muscle you add on, It help you burn fats even on stagnation basis.

once you have added your muscle, i would recommend you to hit the pool (since you hate running) or do rollerblading etc..etc.. anything that will keep your heart pumping at a good rate of 140 - 160 bpm. that way you will be in the aerobic state and you shall keep it off ( your weight i mean) for good !

glad to help ya. cheers!

Answer 5

Not to do it too fast and make it a lifestyle change, not a quick fix "diet". Definitely don't starve yourself, it will backfire by making your body think you are really starving and hoard all the calories you put in. Walk, running is bad for your joints anyway. Go for a brisk walk every day for an hour and you will see results.

Answer 6

Forget diets - eat sensibly and excercise in moderation. The weight will come off slowly but steady and stay off providing you dont go back to eating lots of the wrong food. Any fad diet will shift weight quick but as soon as you resume to proper food it goes back and on and some more usually.

Answer 7

Successful weight loss requires a three-pronged approach: changing behavior patterns, making dietary adjustments, and increasing physical activity. Culled from medical research, the following guidelines incorporate strategies employed by people who have lost weight and kept it off. Use them to construct a weight loss program on your own or as an adjunct to medical or surgical treatments.

Answer 8

Work as a hot carrier on building sites or scaffold builder. i ve lost 6 st in 9 months, drop from a 44 inch to a 34 inch waist and 2 years later still gone. small adjustment in the diet and bob s your uncle.

Answer 9

I am a herbalife distributor and i help people to lose weight by going on a healthy meal replacement plan which is soy protien based. If you would like i can send you more information on it. you will lose about 2-3lbs a week. This is a healthy weight loss.
Good luck if you decide not to join me.

Answer 10

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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