I am trying to lose weight and am having serious will power issues.?

Question

I am looking for simple ways to boost my weight loss. I heard that taking fiber tablets or using a fiber supplement in my food will help curb my appetite and help me eat less is that true? I am not looking for a miracle pill just some tips on how to avoid over eating (my biggest issue). And how do you motivate yourself to workout...I bought an eliptical machine but never use it but I cannot seem to get into the habit. HELP!

Answer 1

I feel your pain when it comes to overeating. I love food! Here are some tricks I've tried that actually work for me:
1- Whenever you eat, use a saucer. Don't put food on a regular dinner plate. Use a smaller plate (like one that's 6" in diameter). It will look like you're eating a HUGE amount and your brain will help turn off your appetite faster.
2- Load up on good food. If you like to eat a lot, use it to your advantage and eat food that is good for you like baby carrots, grapes, cucumbers, apples, etc. Unless you're a diabetic, there really is no such thing as a fresh fruit or vegetable "overload". I totally pig out on that stuff b/c I know it's good for me.
3- Exercise before your biggest meal. I go to the gym in the evenings (before dinner) and when I get home, I'm not really hungry. Exercise is a great appetite suppressant. When I do finally get hungry, all I want to eat is a small amount of something healthy. :-)

For motivation and exercise, here are a few things that worked for me:
1- Get a gym membership. I know you have an elliptical at home, but you're not using it. I have tons of exercise gadgets at home that are collecting dust. The minute I joined the gym, I was full steam ahead with exercising. I don't want my money to go to waste, so I use the gym 5 days a week!
2- Get a visual aid. Find a picture of yourself when you were skinny or you fit into a certain outfit that you can no longer wear. Tape that pic to your bathroom mirror or refrigerator so you see it constantly. That motivated me to get busy with the exercise.
3 - Get a pal. I've read many a fitness magazine that pointed out that studies show that a partner is one of the easiest ways to stick to a routine. If you can meet up with a friend to walk or jog - or even alternate "hosting" to do an exercise video at home, it can make a world of difference.

I hope that helps! I think everyone goes through this. Don't get discouraged. Take it one day at a time!!

Answer 2

I feel your pain. I am currently trying to lose weight as well and have been pretty successful thus far (50lbs in 4 months). While it is not the healthiest weight loss plan, I cut back my carbs to no more than 20 a day. It has really curbed my appetite and the extremely limited food choices (some green leafies, meat, eggs and cheese) have significantly reduced my caloric intake. I tried fiber tablets in the past and they didn't help at all.

I normally hate to workout, but I've discovered that if I workout while watching TV, it goes much faster. Try placing your eliptical in front of your television. Then only watch TV if you are on the eliptical. This has really worked for me. I have gone from exercising 0x a week to about 5x a week.

Answer 3

I lost 105 pounds in 6 months. Here is how I did it.
1. Every morning get up and walk for 45 minutes. You can start with less time, but you want to get up to 45 minutes, and it must be fast walk. You want your heart rate to go up. It must be in the morning, it kick starts your metabolism.
2. I cut out Red Meat, and fatty foods. Boneless skinnless chicken breast, baked, or grilled, rice and vegetables (steamed).
3. Eat half. Just eat half of what you normally eat. Put 1/2 on your plate, and put the rest away. Cook less. When you go to fast food, get salads only. Or grilled chicken. No fries, only diet soda. Or water.

It will work, once you get into a routine, you will get hooked on the results, and you will keep the routine. It has been over a year for me.

Also start counting your calories. Write them down. You would be amazed as to how much more aware you are of your caloric intake, if you actually write it down. We recently discovered a site that offers a great program that counts calories, as well as keeps track of everything. It allows multiple users, so everyone in the family can keep track. They offer a free 7 day trial, and so far I am very impressed with the product. Try the 7 days and see. It allows you to add the exercise that you do during the day, which increases the amount of calories you can take in. Very Cool!!
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A sight with some really cool diet calculators and interesting calorie counting calculators is here. Check it out.
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Stay motivated, and get up and walk every day. I seriously lost all my weight starting off my day on my walk.

Good LUCK!

Answer 4

Fats are nothing more than stored acid. By taking alkaline food, you prevent the intake of acid to create more fats.

Besides doing exercise, you must eat only alkaline food.

Read the book "pH miracle for weight loss". See photos of people losing weight at ease. If you want to loose weight super fast, there is an alkaline liquid diet. According the book, people are loosing 10 pounds or more within the first 8 days. Go to the website below to see which food (and even fruits) that are acidic.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

keep in mind that if you don't change your eating and exercise habits, you will never change your body. every time you take a walk or use your elliptical machine, you are making a change. every time you eat a smaller portion, you are making a change. every time you decide not to exercise, or decide to eat more than you know you should, you are holding yourself back, staying where you are now, which you obviously aren't happy with. do like the alcoholics do--take it one day at a time. decide that you're going to exercise today. decide that at this meal, you aren't going to over-eat. then stick to that. no one can do it for you. and maybe try putting your focus on making your body its healthiest, as opposed to focusing on losing weight. that has helped me to motivate myself. all of the things i have suggested are things i use to keep myself on track. your health is completely in your hands. you owe it to yourself to take better care of you. a lot of people ask how to get motivated. the only way is to start making yourself do it. if you stick with it, it will become a habit. there is no other way.

Answer 7

you just got to eat regularly. start by walking 2km per day. do this for a week . then increase this to 3 to 5km for the next week. after the end of the month, start jogging, then run with slow pace, increase running..

start swimming. join people who run everyday , this will create a routine. stick to it. you will do it. everything will be difficult for a day. do it for a week , you will achieve what you want to achieve.
remember nothing happens in a day.

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work,
patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold
of real service." - John Burroughs

"To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then
resolve to pay the price to get it." - Bunker Hunt

even if you don't do all the above.
WALK! WALK! everyday ,wherever possible . dont increase your weight . it will be more difficult if you want to reduce it 3months afterwards.

START TOMO. ALL THE BEST.

Answer 8

I know what you mean about exersing....My husband and I have more rooms than we need in our home so one of the rooms we made into a workout room with all exercise equipment....lol it turns out, even though we have it we rarely use it (fyi, he's used it more than I have in the two years we've lived here, I could count the fingers on one hand to show how many times I've used it) when we had to go out to a gym and lived in a apt we actually went and worked out more.

I've had two kids (3yr old and 1yr old and now you can see why I don't workout..I'm too tired from the workout that they give me daily..lol) luckily after each pregnancy all the extra pounds just dropped off, literally, after delivering each baby. But I've nursed them both...so I've had to eat more than I'd usually eat to make milk for them and then my problem starts after I'm finished nursing them for good. At that point in time I'm so use to eating so much, but now all those calories aren't being burned away because I'm not nursing and thus I gain weight!!!!
I've just finished nursing the 1yr old cause she turned 1 last November so until about 3wks ago I've been having a hard time with eating so much. I had been so use to just eating when ever I see food even if I wasn't hungry(you know because of the whole nursing issue ). So since I stopped nursing but was still eating like I was nursing I'd gained 30lbs since November!!!! So I've been drinking lots of water so that I feel full and when I see food I'm just so full I can't stand to put it in my mouth...but I still eat. I don't have a set schedule like breakfast, lunch and dinner because I'm so busy taking care of my little ones but I eat as soon as I can during each day (mostly when they fall asleep for naps or when they finally fall asleep at night) When I do eat though I eat either small portions (my husband loves to cook so we always have loads of cooked food which really makes eating everything in sight hard to resist!!!) for example: if there is lots of chicken, lasagna, and mashed potatoes, I will just take a small portion of each one or most of the time a medium size of just one and eat all of that.
Or another thing I do is I snack throughout the day...because I'm so busy taking care of my girls and might not get a good meal until they take a nap I snack (usually small snacking is best as to avoid over eating, of course) But if I'm snacking, I don't eat a meal...mainly because the snacks are usually unhealthy fatty stuff like Chips or Cake and so on, but if they were healthy snacks like apples and oranges and so on then I would still go ahead and eat small meals.
Remember though...drink lots of fluids too!!! In a 24 hr day each day I drink 4-6 Liters of water (I know this cause I use a 2Liter Water Jug that I keep with me throughtout the day to make sure I'm drinking alot)
So far it's working great...I just weighed myself yesterday morning and I've lost 10lbs!!!!!!!

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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