How to loose weight?

Question

I dont eat alot, I walk on my tredmill one hour each day, and I only have 1 coke a day the rest water, and I am still 6 pounds over my sugested weight for my age and height, and no matter what I do I cant seam to get my bellie to be anything but flab after having 2 kids, I need some suggestions please!

Answer 1

First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.


On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount 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

First of all, you should not have coke. There is lots of sugar and it is a carbon-hydrate drink, it prevent you from loosing weight.
Drink green tea or black tea should be your choice for now, they help to decrease fat in you.
The secret to flat your belly is to practice Pilate's breathing method. Within a week, you see much better bally and figure. Just take one or two Pilate's less. The only thing you need to learn is the breathing method. And do it whenever and where-ever possible.
Good luck to your success in loosing weight.

Answer 3

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If you do the diet right you will loose up to 7 pounds in 1-week!!!

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Good Luck!!!

Answer 4

a million. It's as functional as this, in case you burn off extra that you just devour then you're going to shed some pounds so that you have got to both devour much less or do extra however the pleasant means is to do each. two. You have got to do a mixture of aerobic - jogging, strolling, swimming, biking and so on and force coaching like crunches and weights. three. To shed some pounds and maintain it off you have got to devour healthily and recreation for the leisure of your lifestyles that's why this can be a well notion to uncover a vitamin and recreation events that's clever, you experience and do not attempt to lose it too swiftly.

Answer 5

You want loose weight? Where do you want it? Arms? Midsection?

Oh. ... oh oh ... you want to LOSE weight (one O) ... diet and exercise.

This is one of those that spell check will never catch, since loose is a word. Pays to learn how to use the language.

Answer 6

Make small, gradual changes and over time, they will have an
extremely powerful effect on you.
Check out http://www.ObesityKills.iConfessional.com . The guy there is an ex-Marine, like myself, and he's putting together a program for himself in his blog that will get him back into shape. It will work for pretty much anyone and he's doing it all publically.

He's not selling anything, just sharing what he's doing as he does
it. He's hoping for encouragement and motivation from his readers.

Hope that helps.

Answer 7

6 lbs aint really alot of extra weight. But you could step up your exercises a little. Instead of walking ease yourself into jogging, a little bit of light weights wouldnt hurt either. But remember eat you need to eat to keep your metabolism going. It's ok to eat alot, of the right foods but make sure to keep active as well.

Answer 8

You can also lose one pound a week



The majority of fitness professionals advise slow weight loss as the safest and most helpful approach. A sensible weight-loss program allows you to lose weight slowly -- about one-half to one pound per week. Slow weight loss promotes long-term loss of body fat, not just water weight that can be rapidly regained.

Most people need around 15 calories per pound to maintain their weight. A person of 150 pound would not eat food that contains calories more than 2250 per day in order to maintain his/her weight.

In order to burn one pound, a person need to burn 3500 calories more than they are used. For example, dropping calories by 300 per day and increasing daily movement to burn off an extra 200 calories should result in a weight loss of one pound a week.

Answer 9

It's simple math: burn more calories than you are taking in.
-Start eating less fat and sugar and start drinking more water (I would cut that one coke out since it has an amazing amount of sugar).
-If possible, eat 5-6 smaller meals instead of 3 larger ones (this will raise your metabolism).
-Start walking on your tredmill before breakfast (consistently increase the speed and distance every week).
-Start drinking green tea every day (recent scientific research shows that green tea has potent fat burning properties).
-Do crunches and stomach vacuums (google it if you don't know) every other day.
-Be consistent! It takes a lot of self-control, but it is worth it. Good luck!

Answer 10

One coke a day can add 15 pounds of weight a year. That is why I no longer drink any kind of pop.

Answer 11

eat veggies and no meat what-so-ever! Eat 6 times a day. Don't allow yourself to starve because you'll never lose weight that way.