I used to be more physically active and need to shed 25 pounds to help with my high blood pressure. I'm an ovo-lacto vegetarian. Suggestions?
2007-03-04 03:44:53 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
There isn't any miracle cure other than to burn more calories than you consume! I've dropped almost 100 pounds over the last several years by making minor adjustments to my diet. Don't be in a hurry, just figure out what 100 calories you can remove from your daily diet and over time you'll lose weight. You can also add an extra hundred calories worth of physical activity to do the same thing or do both for faster results. It sounds ridiculous that that minor a change works but when you do the math it adds up, since that's a yearly difference of 365,000 calories! Do both and you get a yearly change of 730,000 calories!!
Does it mean that you'll suddenly be slim and trim? NO, but it does mean that you'll not get into a yo-yo cycle of rapidly dropping lots of weight only to regain more weight than you started with!
2007-03-04 04:32:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Lots of fresh fruit and veggies. Cut the eggs and most dairy (unless it is skim). Walk a lot. Dance! Swim! Find an activity that is fun and you will be more inclined to do it regularly! I have lost over 100 pounds since I became a vegetarian and started dancing daily. I just put on a good CD and dance around my living room or where ever. I also walk as much as possible. I still eat dairy (no eggs) but in very limited quantity and mostly skim variety. Find someone who will encourage you to follow what you are doing (maybe a dance partner?) Not fad, just fun! You will see the pounds drop without even realizing that you are working for it!
2007-03-04 10:07:27 · answer #2 · answered by Heather H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best thing you can do for high blood pressure is give up the dairy. Check with Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine and Mc Dougall Wellness Center for more data. Links provided below.
If you can't give up the dairy, then at least make sure what you're eating and drinking is organic. All the steroids in commercial eggs, milk and cheese cause one to be very pudgey. A chubby friend of mine went overseas for a month. She at a lot of junk food over there yet came back thinner without having lost any actual weight. They don't use steroids in there meat and dairy like we do. So she lost all that steroid pudge. Now she's bloated all up again.
Do you use a lot of prepackaged processed fake veggie meats? If so, give those up. They are handy for the transition and useful for outtings. But not easy to digest and loaded in chemicals. Our bodies tend to shuttle them off to fat pockets rather than attempt to make heads or tails of them.
Our bodies are simple machines with two modes. Feast or famine. If you begin by cutting calories, your metabolism will shut down and begin to store everything you eat. That is famine mode. You can jack up your metabolism (feast mode) by eating 6 or 8 small meals a day rather than one or two large ones and snacks.
What ever you do - do NOT do anything that will cause rapid weight loss. It will boomerang. The yo-yo effect that Green Ghost mentions. If you take three months to drop 5 pounds, you will have a better chance to keep it off. Go slowly. You have to "reprogram" your body to the lighter weight.
Don't just sit any more. If you don't have the time for going out to exercise, then get one of those ball thingies. Even if you just sit on it and bounce a little (remember the hippity hop?) you will be burning calories. Just sitting on it with strengthen your core. Do NOT get a ring to stablize it. If you do, you're not working.
Green tea is a natural fat burner. Buy a good green tea. Not Starbucks. It's garbage. Teavana is good. Even Celestial Seasonings is ok. Cut out all the soda and juice. All the sugary things that cause your body to lose the ability to know when it is full - which leads to over eating. Drink a LOT of green tea. This constant fluid flush means that you will need to supplement your potassium and B vitamins, since they are water soluable. VegLife makes good supplements for veg-heads.
Don't waste your time on green tea pills. Drink the actual tea.
2007-03-04 05:45:17 · answer #3 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
wash your car instead of taking it through the car wash
2017-04-01 16:56:44 · answer #4 · answered by Regina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
order the smallest portion of everything
2016-07-05 03:16:55 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you should just eat very fresh fruits and vegetables. Limit your sodium and fat intake. And increase your cardio workout along with walking too. Thats the best thing i can think of.
2007-03-04 07:40:15 · answer #6 · answered by In love 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before going to store to buy food items firts list them
2015-12-18 03:20:16 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well good for you! Make sure you eat all of the food groups, bit more of an em[hasise on fruits and veggies and mayeb protein when your exercising but less carbs. Nice meals include veggie sushi, bean chili, pasta, tofu stirfry, or bean loaf http://www.veganlunchbox.com/loaf_studio.html
here some website ideas :
http://food.pinkhairedgirl.com/
http://www.vegetarian-diet.info/
http://demented-pixie.com/vegetarian_blog/
2007-03-04 04:51:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
find the right diet for your individual body because there are many ways are there to lose weight just find what works for you
2016-04-26 09:58:41 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"No fads"? Good for you.
Eat less food, and exercise more. Really, that works, and there isn't anything else.
2007-03-04 04:30:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋