My question is im in need of help looseing weight what is the best way that i can loose the weight?

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

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Answer 3

The best way to lose weight for good, is to first take a hard long look at what you're doing to keep the weight on. Then start making changes slow & steady.
Go for walks, park farther away from entrances in parking lots, choose NOT to have that evening snack. Don't eat out. Introduce more fruits & veggies into your
diet. Drink lots of water. Slowly cut back on carbs & sugar. Try sparkling mineral water instead of soda...
Before you know it, you'll have made a lifestyle change for the better, & the weight will slowly start to drop.
ONE MORE THING: Don't judge your progress by a scale!
When your clothes start fitting looser, when you have more energy to burn, THEN you know you're making progress!

Answer 4

Ok, make a goal of something that you can reach to make your life change.

Say one pound per week for 3 weeks....start slow and you will gain the momentum to continue.

So start by drinking more fluids like non-fat milk, water and more water......stop drinking juice as it has lots of calories and little fiber, and stop soda completely!
Have a good breakfast....oat cereal w/little sugar like cheerie O's, or oatmeal if you like it, wiith non-fat milk and don't skip breakfast...very important
Increase vegetables and fruit
yogurt
....skip fried food - unless you cook it at home with that spray oil and cook it healthy,
if you eat soup - make sure it's healthy - very low sodium - salt increases weight and retains weight
...only eat breatd2 x per week and make sure it's low carb which means low calories,
and allow yourself at least one meal a week that you totally enjoy
if you need candy, try dark chocolate with low sugar, or sugarless candy.

Take it easy and just think if you lose a pound per week, 4 pounds a month and 12 pounds by Christmas time.

If you try these life changing tips to eating, and do a little more walking than what you do now, you may lose that 12 pounds without feeling deprived! Now that's a change to just the word diet.

Answer 5

You might think about trying this book called "The Movie Star Diet" by Steve Simmons. It helped me lose thirty pounds in 2 1/2 months when I didn't think anything would work. My goal to begin with was only 20 lbs! It has a really easy plan to follow and an excellent workout as well.

Answer 6

Diets are okay and everything, but they can decrease your metabolism, causing your body to conserve fat. What you really need is some long, slow aerobic exercise. Go for at least 12-15 minutes or more per day, and don't stop doing this once you get rid of the weight you want to get rid of.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

It's a lifestyle change. Eat more protein, veggies and some fruit. Cut the Carbs-pasta and bread. Drink more water and talk brisk 20 minute walks at least 4 times a week.

Answer 9

You need to cut back on your calories and exercise. I lost thirty pound this way with the help of a nutritionist. It's not as hard as you think. You can make some very small changes and have big results.

Answer 10

eat good fat ,unsaturated fat like cod liver oil,flaxseed oil...,but don`t heat them,those fat will make u healthier,for good saturate fat r coconut and MCT is a pretty good choice for cooking.don`t over take them just 2-4 tablespoon perday don`t eat any kind of refined oil or food(like refind sugar ) no hydrogenated fats,or rancid fats those r THRASH those r what make u fat!!!!!,and u can buy some lecithin,and eat most vegetable raw,and have some fiber rich food,do some exersice at the same time(like walk for 30 mins in the morning before breakfast or do that 1 -2 hrs after dinner),I bet u will have a pretty good result,and with those those stuff u can`t be fat at all :)
---Sharity

Answer 11

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