whats the healthiest way to loose weight fast?

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

It is unhealthy to lose weight too quickly.
To be healthy follow these tips. Increase the number of fresh fruits and veggies that you eat. Drink plenty of water. Limit the amount of fatty foods (like cheese) and carbohydrates that you eat. Eat whole grains. Get plenty of exercise. Making these changes permanently will help you lose weight and keep the weight off.

Answer 3

The healthiest way is to eat just barely enough to survive (for an overweight guy, it could be 1100-1200.), and vigorous exercise (45-60 minutes per day of major exercise.) If you keep it up at that pace, you'll lose weight faster than just starving yourself; because starving yourself leads to bingeing.

Answer 4

I lost 40 pounds in 3 weeks running 5 miles a day, drinking lots of water, and eating salads.

Eat slow, and instead of eating a lot a few times a day, eat a little bit a bunch of times during the day.
It speeds up your metabolism.

Answer 5

Aside from exercising, you can take the following 3 supplements/vitamins and they will help you lose weight, speed up your metabolism and gain muscle.

ALA (Alpha Lipoic Acid)
CLA (Conjulated Linolic Acid)
Chromium Picolonate

Do research on the above, don't just take my word for it, but it definitely works. I do lots of research on things like this and everyone I know is on it because of me. On it, getting healthy and losing weight. The CLA helps burn bad fat and maintain and gain muscle while the other two boost metabolism and maintain regular blood levels. Seriously, thank me later, but do the research now.

Answer 6

First appreciate that your frame does now not desire you to shed pounds, so its has bought to be brain over frame! Learn self subject / self manipulate will cross a protracted approach to sticking with the vitamin. There's no healthful approach to shed pounds quick. Slow and consistent is the one approach to cross. But do this: Walk 10 miles an afternoon. (Break it up right into a a few walks in case you desire).

Answer 7

First thing you have to do is stay away from the candies, chocolate, french fries, hamburger, milk chocolate shake. Then after that eat salad and vegetables, then exercise like: running, jugging, lifting weights, Push and Pull Ups.

Answer 8

Hmm...
The healtiest way to lose weight is to "Eat Salads"
Secondly, if you go to the Gym, rather than focusing on weights, focus on the threadmill. That should solve your purpose.

It's can eat as much Salads you wish to.
Second option you have is - Stop eating Rice.

Answer 9

It's very basic. Burn more calories then you take in. The larger the difference, the more, and quicker, you should lose weight.

Answer 10

Excersize, my man. I also heard that eating slower makes you more satisfied, thus you will be eating less. Make sure you eat a lot of fruits, vegetables and drink lots of water. You can do it!