What's the best way to start losing weight and get into shape?

Answer 1

cut white flour and white sugar out of your diet and exercise. do cardio - heart rate at at least 125 for 45 min to 1 hour a day 3 to 5 days a week.

Answer 2

'm so proud of you it's a big step to help yourself. :)
I am a personal fitness trainer and enjoy helping people like you every day. :)
Here are basic recommendations that you can start with.

Food as Fuel:

Going without breakfast because you planning a big dinner is as silly as filling up your car's gas tank after you finish the trip. Eat all of the foods that are good for you; all of the grains, vegetables, fruites and lean proteins that you enjoy. Eat 6 small meals a day. Eating smaller meals more often will help to speed up your metabolism. Missing meals slow your metabolism. Also chew your food at least 30-40 times every time you take a bite. This will slow down your meal time and it easier to digest your food.

Hunger can stress the body and trigger the release of cotisol, a hormone that encourages the storage of fat in the abdomen. To keep hunger under control, split your meals and snacks into 5 or 6 minimeals.

Water - Drink TONS of water!

If you add 2-3 liters of water to you diet you will feel better - PROMISE. You will have to use the restroom often, BUT you will loose weight, inches, feel less bloated, and retain less water IF you add water to your diet. Men who are overweight should add up to galon of water a day. Sip throgh out the day for best result.

Your Body Needs Daily Exercise.

The only way to be fit is to exercise on the regular basis: daily if possible. Some benefits of daily exercise are: you don't get sick as often, you have more energy and you sleep better. Exercise doesn't have to be structured.
If it is something you enjoy doing, you'll look forward to it. Walking or riding a bike with your children to school is fun. Even though it may only be a couple of miles, it is something.
If you aren't looking forward to your next workout, do something else. Walking is probably one of the best fat burning exercises you can do - just walk more!

Have Realistic Expectations

You dont get out of shape over night so do not expect to loose weight over night neither. You can loose 10-12 pounds a month just by exercising more - without dieting! I promise you will feel better, get more fit and reach a higher level of satisfaction by starting slowly and expecting moderate weight and measurement losses.
Think within longer time frames, and a pound or two on a scale won't seam so important.

Cross-Training

Every few weeks plan a change in your routine. Note only will your mind be more challenged, your body will have to adapt and the body will benefit from the new stimuli. The body is an amazing adaptable machine. It will begin to burn less fat as an energy source for the same activity if you don't change your programe regularly.

Get 7 to 8 hours of shut-eye a night

Chronic sleep deprivation can raise cortisol levels. It can also drive down levels of the appetite-control hormone leptin, making you feel hungry.

Laugh more

Here's a tactic anyone can stick with! In a study conducted at Loma Linda University, men and women who watched a humorous video had 30% less cortisol in their blood not only while watching the tape but also up to 24 hours later.

I hope this will help. Email me if you have any questions

Answer 3

The best way is to:

1) drink 6-8 glasses of water a day starting when you first get up and ending an hour before bedtime. This helps with hydration, metabolism, cleansing the body. Have warm drinks in the winter and cool drinks in the summer. Never the opposite.

2) take a multi-vitamin every morning. Especially in the winter!

3) eat lots of fruit & veggies!

4) Don't keep sweets/pop even in your house. Get rid of it.

Now that you have what your body needs, be sure to keep a daily journal of what you eat, the calorie intake for each food and how much water you consume. You would be suprised how much we all overeat. Watch your portions, watch what you eat and even that alone will show results....

The littlest exercise like yoga (which is for ANY level and age!) and walking daily is perfect....moving up to jogging, tennis, raquetball, soccer and other fast-paced sports. Aqua aerobics is AMAZING....I lost 20 lbs. in 4 months!

Answer 4

if u hav just started to try losing weight then i would recommend that the best way would be to start walking. Walking as i have heard from almost every health conscious person is the best exercise.try to take out time for a morning jog and that will be very useful.plus also cut down ur carbs.

Answer 5

ensure to consume 3 nutrients and a pair of small snacks an afternoon, yet save it healthful with end result, vegetables, no fried ingredients or goodies. in case you will get right into a weightlifting type in college or a well-being center, you will learn ultimate technique and may be looking like a physique builder in a short quantity of time. the only element to flatten your abdomen is to drop some pounds with cardio workout of a few variety,,,,working, bicycling, boxing,wrestling, etc.....crunches will save the muscle groups tight to flatten your abdomen. Weight lifting builds plenty self-worth....supply it your involved by some months and you would be hooked! detect a bigger half and make one yet another decide for it!

Answer 6

Well, I lost every bit of weight I wanted gone from being a vegan. Even being a vegetarian helps a bit.

Getting in shape all you have to do is start working out.

Answer 7

Stop eating junk food and dont eat after supper. Sitting around in the evening causes great weight gain if you eat junk food even after you had supper. If you need a snack in the evening eat a piece of fruit. I went this way and so far have lost 22 pounds without much effort.

Answer 8

Action is motivation! Start by walking every day . Continue to expand your knowledge in a lifestyle change that includes eating habits and exercise.Follow no fads just a good lifestyle and you will accomplish both of thees objectives and more.

Answer 9

Read The Book ( You On A Diet ) . I also agree that Weight Watchers is great.

Answer 10

Well, you should change your eating habits, stop eating processed fatty food such as BK. Do you like soda? well each can has tons of sugar and sugar has tons of calories, instead of soft drinks, take water, just water! like 2 litres per day.
Eat more greens and fruits. And start walking.