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.
Aloha
2006-11-03 09:21:37
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answered by Anonymous
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No the one factor that works is wise consuming and a few endeavor....... I attempted each vitamin beneath the solar the entire tablet's shakes u identify i've performed it I observed the one kilos i misplaced had been from my pocket... the exceptional method I observed now could be to difference your consuming behavior and check out get a few endeavor I misplaced three st in a yr slowly and feature stored it off my weight remains to be taking place a few weeks however I appear to be staying on the equal weight and i'm glad with it... what i performed used to be purchase a weight watchers recipie booklet and addapted one of the crucial recipies so I didnt even need to pay weekly subs I began strolling to the malls alternatively of using and so forth
2016-09-01 06:31:09
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answered by durfee 4
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They will all KILL you. It is called exercise and proper diet. Sad but true. Now if you develop a pill that is safe and effective for weight loss, hello trillionaire, you will make Bill Gates look like some homeless child in africa hoping Madonna will come by and "adopt" aka buy him.
2006-11-02 19:35:36
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answered by Jeremy M 2
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there isn't even one. all have high doses of caffeine which will increase heart rate and blood pressure. lose weight naturally without jeopardizing your health. there are many diet pills that have caused major health problems and a few companies are being sued for various health issues. just watch your television and advertisement that a law firm is helping people that have been healthy before taking diet pills now have multiple health problems and these lawyers are helping to get the people involved money for their problems.
2006-11-02 19:39:05
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answered by Anonymous
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Exercise in the morning to speed up weight loss
2015-12-22 05:13:19
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answered by Kara 3
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A good workout routine and Weight Loss/Hoodia sample! These two will help you lose weight a lot faster. If want to learn more about this diet solution, you may also browse this site http://www.upkb.com/weightloss.php for more tips and product info.
2006-11-02 22:35:51
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answered by ada W 1
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Tenuate. It's a prescription drug. A friend lost 60 lbs in 3 months. Nothing is going to kill you if you follow the doctor's dosis.
The person who answered you after me (isabella), its spam/advertising. But if you want, you can try Hoodia Gordini. I've heard that it works.
2006-11-02 20:24:20
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answered by c00kies 5
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add fasted cardio before breakfast
2017-03-16 12:19:42
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answered by ? 3
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think ahead to how youll eat and exercise on the weekends its easy to get too relaxed on saturdays and sundays but healthy living is a 7 day a week endeavor
2016-03-15 20:45:46
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answered by ? 3
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Use 3 bite rule have three small bites and put fork down each time
2016-03-16 21:27:37
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answered by Lynda 3
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get familiar with quinoa a wonderful grain thats easy to cook and goes great with sauteed vegetables or mushrooms
2016-05-13 23:25:50
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answered by ? 3
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