Its winter and Iv'e put on a few pounds and I'm lazy as hell, Please help!!!?

Question

Its winter here in my home town, its cold and well Iv'e gained a few pounds and I seriously need to lose the extra blabber, but no expercise because after work I am lazy as hell, please help me get my *** off and start working out or exercising........

Answer 1

Let's start by clarifying a couple of things:
1. weight is not the best indicator of your health (because muscle weighs more than fat, two people of the same height can weigh the same and be drastically different in terms of health).
2. Body fat percentage is a true indicator.
3. Fat is burned by reducing overall caloric value.
4. If you burn more than you consume, you will lose fat (lower body fat percentage)
5. If you exercise and strength train, you can burn more calories and replace fat with muscle which will allow you to burn calories even when you rest.
6. You cannot "spot reduce", that is losing fat on particular parts of the body. This is because is fat is gained and lost across the body as a whole. It's up to your metabolism to determine where it comes of fastest. Cardiovascular exercise is key to losing fat across the body.

If you are trying to lower your body fat percentage there are literally hundreds of ideas out there. In my opinion, the best way, which has been proven time and time again, is a two part method: Eat right and exercise. First, exercise is a no-brainer. You have to burn more calories than you take in for exercise to be considered exercise. How you do it is worth another answer all to itself. So, that brings us to the Eating Right part. If you understand how your body works, you've got a head start on the world. Food is fuel for the body. Once you've accepted that concept as more important than the idea that food is entertainment, then the rest will be relatively easy. If you are American, and I assume you are, the Nutrition Facts label that you find on all foods bought in the U.S. are the next thing you need to understand. Go grab something from your kitchen (i.e. jar of peanut butter or a bag of chips...anything with a nutrition label). OK, yeah you need vitamins and minerals and all that. But focus on these three items: FAT, PROTEIN, and CARBOHYDRATES.
Let's take these one at a time:

FAT is basically divided into good fats and bad fats. The body needs good fats (mono- and poly-unsaturateds). You'll find these in stuff like olives and avocados where the bad fat is minimal if not nonexistent. The bad fats are your saturated and trans fats that you'll find in meats and oils. If you are trying to lose weight, keep these to an absolute minimum. My suggestion (based on a 1500-2000 calorie diet) is to limit yourself to no more than 15g of saturated fat per day. This is hard to do if you're used to eating fast food. It's also hard to do if you drink whole milk, eat cheese (even the 2% variety), and eat fried foods. All of these are high in bad fats. The good news is that you can substitute your diet to eat the very things you like to eat but with better ingredients. If you eat cheese, buy fat free. If you drink milk, buy skim. Slowly take yourself down from whole milk or 2% to 1% before going skim/fat free if the transition is too radical to do all at once. If you eat a lot of ground beef, use the extra lean variety (96% fat free/4% fat), or substitute lean ground turkey instead. Do whatever you have to do to get the bad fat grams down to less than 15 per day.

PROTEIN: The building block of nutrition (aside from your vitamins and minerals) is protein. You need it strengthen your muscles and it will be essential with your exercise routine. Without protein, you can't build muscle tone or lean body mass. And guess what? Just having lean body mass (muscles) allows your body to burn more calories even when you are sleeping. Therefore, you are able to lose weight (bad weight, that is) just by sleeping. But, you have to exercise!! Don't forget that. You can find foods that are high in protein but also high in saturated fat, so be careful. Stick to poultry (chicken, turkey), fish (tuna is a great source), and beans. Don't fry your meats because if you do, you just added a bunch of bad fat to your otherwise healthy protein filled meal. Instead, grill, broil, or bake. You can do this! Don't forget to exercise to exponentially reap the rewards of consuming protein.

CARBS. In my opinion, the no-carb diet is crap, because you need carbs for energy, especially because you are exercising! That's right, you can't forget you are supposed to be exercising. The trick is choosing the good carbs. You'll see on your nutrition label Total Carbohydrates and Sugars. Sugars should be kept to a minimum and should be avoided within hours of going to sleep. The calories associated with them get stored (for energy) but are not easily burned when it comes time to burn them. Therefore, it's harder to lose the weight associated with them. That's why it's not good to eat lots of candy, cookies, and ice cream that have a lot of sugar. The other kinds of carbs (complex carbohydrates) are essential. You can get these from grains and potatoes. Good stuff!!

Now that you have a brief understanding of these three nutrition components, time to get to it. Not as easy as it sounds? That's because, you're human. If you treat your body right (and I mean very right, by limiting your saturated and trans fats, limiting your sugar carbs, and eating plenty of protein), then you deserve a day when you can eat whatever you want. The body has cravings and you should be able to fulfill these cravings IF you can stand to wait until the end of the week. I call this one day of decadence your cheat day. After 12 weeks of exercising and eating right in this manner, you'll get to the point where you don't even crave the bad stuff anymore.

For more on this method, I encourage you to check out www.bodyforlife.com. The principals I wrote about are spelled out in greater detail there. Consult your doctor before drastically changing any diet or exercise routine. Good luck!

Answer 2

Try adding hay. You can't feed too much of it, and it helps keep them warm better than grain. Make sure he also has adequate shelter if he's outside and/or a blanket if he doesn't have good protection against the weather. You can also add oil to his feed for added fat. I've never used a weight gaining supplement (Zip has the opposite problem--he gained so much weight last winter I was starting to think he had hippopotamus in his bloodlines somewhere) so I can't speak for any of those. To me, he doesn't look all that skinny as much as he just doesn't have a whole lot of muscle tone in the places where it's noticeable. He's fairly prominent over his withers, back, and hip, which is where muscle should go (and in fat horses, those areas are flat or bulging as well). Some of that could be lack of proper conditioning. That means that when you ride, you really need to work on riding him in a proper outline and making him use his body, not just letting him walk/trot/canter/gallop with his head in the clouds and his hind end following wherever his front goes. Some of it could also just be his body type. My half-Arabian never had a lot of muscle tone over his topline, even when he was in show-shape and/or when he was fat in the pasture (like he is now). Nothing I did ever really changed that. When he was in full time dressage work, he looked good, but he always had a harder time maintaining the topline conditioning, even though he wasn't "skinny." A lot of Arabians are simply lean because they're lighter boned horses. They aren't bred to be bulky and big like a Quarter Horse or other stock breed. You might never get Tango to be as big or "fat" as any other horse, and that doesn't mean he's unhealthy. From the photo, his haircoat looks pretty good, and he appears to be healthy--just a small horse. I don't think "malnourished" or "starving" when I look at him. Fat does not always equal healthy. Also, your last two statements are a little, ah, off. You say that you've "never used supplements before," but now, all of a sudden, "Tango needs them"? What makes you think he needs them now but didn't need them when you bought him? I'm not denying that supplements can be great or that one might be helpful for him, but remember that not every horse really needs them. You also don't want to mask a problem with them. What is it about his hooves that make you think they need supplements? If you're concerned, ask your farrier. Maybe it's another issue, not one that needs supplements. And if a supplement would help, your farrier would be the best person to recommend one that would help his feet, not someone on Y!A who has never seen your horse's feet in person.

Answer 3

Find a picture of a person whose figure you would like to have and pin it up someplace only you will see; so people won't tease you about it. Get some hand weights, turn on the music and force yourself to lift weights until you are tired. Each new day you will be able to lift a little longer. When the weights become too easy and the process is taking too much time, choose heavier weights. You will lose weight very quickly. But, you do need to eat properly for good health. When you are hungry snack on healthy foods like nuts and raisins. They are filling and will give you a lot of energy.

Answer 4

Sign up for a gym, and drive there right after working (assuming you work away from home). Since you probably won't want the money going to the gym to go to waste, and since you're already there, you're more likely to just go exercise.

Answer 5

here is an idea........I just bought a mini trampoline at ***** Sporting Goods, it costs around $30.00 you can put it right in front of your tv and just bounce on it, you won't bounce very high.....it is fun and easy, and you can watch tv while you are doing it. and it gives you a great workout, your legs will be burning, and it is fun.........if you can build yourself up to a half hour a day you will be superman.......

Answer 6

Try joining this community below...its still pretty new, so not a lot of people interacting yet. But eventually it'll get there. You can put your experiences on a blog there.

http://www.bodyrave.com

Answer 7

It's very very easy, mate.
You either choose to exercise and eat well, or you choose to stay fat.

Answer 8

Exercise man.There is no other way and nobody else can help you in this.As they say you have to 'just do it'.

Answer 9

It seems that everybody wants to lose weight. But when most people say they want to lose weight, what they really mean is they want to lose weight without altering their current lifestyle. They want to lose weight without changing the foods that they eat, or without getting up off the couch, turning off the television, and engaging in regular physical exercise. Not surprisingly, there is a huge market that offers shortcuts to weight loss through cosmetic surgery, diet pills, nutritional supplements, and various diets -- such as the Atkins Diet.
There's a growing group of people who leap from one weight loss fad to another, in search of the one thing that's going to finally help them lose weight without having to alter the foods they eat. People don't want to give up their soft drinks; they don't want to give up pizza, and ice cream, and fast food. And they sure don't have time to go out and exercise on a regular basis. So the shortcuts market is absolutely astounding -- $9.4 billion was spent last year on cosmetic surgery alone, and hundreds of millions more were spent on weight loss pills, fat burning nutritional supplements, and low-carb foods. It's a tremendous market, and the public seems to be more than willing to keep spending money on these items, even though the real answers are to be found in something entirely different.
The reality of weight loss is that there are no shortcuts! You can have cosmetic surgery to remove fat from your thighs, or the back of your arms, but if you continue eating the way you've been eating, your body will just deposit the fat somewhere else on your body -- usually in a place that looks even stranger than when it was on your hips. Even if the cosmetic surgery works out for you, it doesn't alter your blood chemistry, your cardiovascular health, or your level of physical fitness. Meaning that you are just as unhealthy after the surgery as you were before, even though you may physically show less body fat. Something similar is true with foods as well. Many people continue to eat a diet high in refined carbohydrates, added sugars, and obesity-promoting ingredients, such as high-fructose corn syrup. Then in an attempt to lose weight, they will take a couple of weight loss pills each day, and hope that those pills will some how counteract the entire day of eating unhealthy, obesity-promoting foods. It just doesn't work this way.
If you really want to lose weight, you've got to do two things. First you have to avoid foods that promote obesity and weight-gain. These are the foods that are consumed by the vast majority of Americans, and are the ones that are the most popular in grocery stores and restaurants. Any food that's processed or manufactured is very likely to promote obesity, or some other chronic disease. Foods made with refined white flour or refined sugar, for example, will undoubtedly alter your blood sugar levels and tell your body to start storing fat. Foods high in saturated animal fats, such as red meat, or foods that are high in hydrogenated oils, like margarine or shortening, will also pack on the body fat, and harm your cardio-vascular health at the same time. Achieving a healthy body weight absolutely requires taking these foods out of your diet for the rest of your life. You can have either soft drinks and processed foods, or a healthy body weight -- but not both. In fact, much of the foods available today in the national food supply are simply incompatible with a healthy body weight, no matter how much surgery you undergo, and no matter how many weight loss supplements you attempt to take.
The other part of the equation here is physical exercise. The human body simply won't shed excess body fat without engaging in regular physical exercise. Physical exercise gives you a much higher metabolism; it helps you burn calories, even while you're sitting or sleeping. It also increases your lean body mass -- especially when you engage in strength training -- and that results in even more calories being burned when you are at rest. Physical exercise, in fact, modifies your body chemistry in a way that helps your body better use refined foods such as breads or pasta. When you eat those foods without engaging in physical exercise, you're automatically going to add weight. But when you have an extremely fit body that engages in regular exercise, such as jogging, swimming, walking, or biking, you can get away with eating a few processed foods. But still you have to limit your intake of processed foods if you want to maintain a healthy body weight.
In my own case, I engage in rather vigorous physical exercise several times per week, typically putting in 10 hours of exercise each week. And even then, I don't allow myself to eat any breads or pasta or refined carbohydrates of any kind. I don't consume breakfast cereals; I don't drink fruit-drinks or consume soft drinks. And what I've found is that if I eat a piece of bread or have a sandwich, then those refined carbohydrates alter my blood sugar in a way that makes me extremely hungry three or four hours later. If I had eaten a high protein meal, or a meal high in healthy fats and fibers, I wouldn't be hungry so quickly. So it is these processed foods that are in fact causing the obesity in the first place. And consuming diet pills or weight loss supplements simply isn't the answer to long-term weight loss. The answer is to look at your lifestyle, examine what you're doing wrong that needs to be corrected, and then have the courage to make the changes that will bring you into a healthy body weight and keep you there for life.

Answer 10

sorry not way out...u gotta get up n move :) run. jump or whatever dance if u want but u gotta move