whats the best way to lose weight?

Answer 1

On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common question amounts to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

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

Well, believe it or not, the old "diet and exercise" trick has worked very well for me. I am 52 pounds down today, which makes up 23% of my original body weight.

I try to only take in about 1,000 to 1,200 calories per day. Using protein shakes as one or two meal replacements a day coupled with a good multi vitamin helps me do this.

I try to exercise every day, although it doesn’t always happen. I usually do a quick weight workout on my lunch break. Then after work, I go back to the gym and do something like Kick Boxing, Spin Class, Body Sculpting or whatever they have going on.

I have been doing this for about five months now, with awesome results. Hope this helps you! /cheers

Answer 3

The 10 keys to do away with extra weight one million- Breakfast: The breakfast is the principal factor for any approach geared toward weight reduction, do on no account suppose approximately now not consuming breakfast because it offers you the vigour you wish to have to your day. As for the consuming conduct regularly don't forget that consuming speedily does now not deliver the frame the time it demands to paintings accurately, however while you devour slowly, you experience consuming extra and devour much less and think complete quicker. two-Pre-making plans: Know while you desire to devour and what you desire to devour, Put a plan within the first week or day and persist with it for this reason warding off quick meals wealthy in energy and non-valuable. three-Eat generally: Should regularly comprise your approach 3 fundamental foods and a pair of meal snacks which all practically each and every three hours, has located a Swedish research carried out in 2010 and incorporated greater than three,000 persons that folks who prepare their possess meals among 3 foods, no less than in at present’s index was once the burden they've not up to others as good as the quantity of fiber ate up extra fats and no more. When you devour in a special timings you preserve a steady paintings your frame does now not think hungry first-class. four-Repeat your self: Always attempt to devour the identical high-quality meals at every meal, that is what makes you devour much less and saturation quicker. Repeat the identical, as good because the high-quality of consuming for the duration of the day so doing, support your frame to lose energy quicker.

Answer 4

It's all goog balance of diet and exercise. Try to cut out the empty calories like soda pop or juices with high calorie content. Try to increase the fiber in you diet as it makes you feel full for a longer period of time. Also eating smaller (healthy) meals or snacks more often helps because it keeps your metabolism going and prevents you from being hungry. As far as exercise, start light and increase your activity. You may see your doctor to get you on the right track. Building muscle helps too because it burns more calories than fat does.

Answer 5

Stop counting you re not going to be lose weight overnight Just concentrate on diet and exercise

Answer 6

stay busy. do something that makes you happy. ride a bike. go for a walk.
read a book. find something to keep your mind occupied and do not
obsess about your weight. Eat lighter meals but do not cut out anything
that you really love. Just eat less of it. Good luck, be happy.

Answer 7

Eat early in the day to lose moew weight

Answer 8

1-Good drugs (lol)
2-Exercise regiment
3-Eat healthy foods
4-Drink lots of water

I'm not serious about the drugs, I've watched too many people go from the top to rock bottom. I really didn't mean that, just thought it'd be funny! lol

Answer 9

Eat less calories, and burn more calories through exercise. Make sure you are eating the right, balanced foods. Step away from the ice cream and Debbie Cakes.......Eat more vegetables and fruit. Eat only lean meats, like fish or chicken. You can eat lean beef but eat smaller portions of it.

Answer 10

Go to the gym and work out. Or go swimming.

Swimming is supposed to be the best sport to do to loose weight.

Answer 11

opt for self checkout wait in line for 7 minutes ring yourself up for another 10 bag your own grub and load up the car