Diet Help!! I dont know whats is best?

Question

I need to know what is the best diet, right now im just eating healthy a little bit from each food group but sometimes i am not as careful as i would like to be. I go tot the gym, i run about 2 miles and i do crunches but i sont see any results. Does anyone know a way to lose wieght and keep it off in a healthy manner?

Answer 1

find calorie/fitness calculator on the net, enter your stats, take 300-400 calories off that number and that's how much you need to lose weight.
5-8servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water a day
5-6 small meals instead of 3 big ones (breakfast is the most important - make sure to get complex carbs like whole wheat bread, oatmeal, fruit etc)
4-6 times a week cardio for 30-50min, light weight training, many reps
no junk food, no sodas, no alcohol, no white flour (cakes, cookies, white bread, pasta etc.), nothing high in sugar (ice cream)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You should really look at the serving sizes on the side of the food boxes/containers. A lot of people get together and decide what's enough to SATISFY average humans. Don't eat until you get full because you are stretching your stomach out little by little and the next time you eat you'll need more food to fill you up.
I've been a vegetarian for almost a year using serving sizes and everything and I dropped down to 110lbs. If you're working out but not losing weight you're probably building muscle and muscle is a lot heavier than fat.
Oprah Winfrey doesn't eat "food" after 8 pm. I've heard that that helps A LOT!!!

Answer 4

It sounds like you're doing everything correctly already, except for the "sometimes, not as careful as you should be".
To break dieting down to it's simplest form...your body burns a number of calories everyday, that number is based on a lot of factors like; age, sex, activity level, body make-up and other things. If you eat and/or drink less calories than your body burns, you'll loose weight. That's because after the body has used up all the food and liquid that you've put into it, it'll start using stored-up fat to fuel itself.
So the key to loosing weight is to eat healthy, vitamin rich foods so that your body isn't starved of anything essential and exercise more so that your body will burn more calories.

Answer 5

Besides reading labels check out the souch beach diet book it will show you what type of foods are high on the glycemic scale basically it teaches you what burns fat the fastest. jenny craig is pretty much the same idea but way to expensive. This book helped me get a basic idea of good food verses not so good.

Answer 6

There is a diet that's called the 50-25-25 diet. It works pretty good for me. and u can about a pound a week. In this diet 50% of your daily calories go to carbohydrates, 25% to proteins, and 25% to fats. One way to estimate your daily calories for maintaining your current weight (not losing weight) is to take your present weight and multiply by 15. That total number covers your metabolic needs for the day and factors in a little bit of light activity. Subtract 500 calories from that number and thats your starting point for daily calories for weight loss. This is a chart for how many calories you should eat per day from each group.

daily calories-carbohydrate calories-protein calories-fat calor.
1,200-600-300-300
1,400-700-350-350
1,600-800-400-400
1,800-900-450-450
2,000-1,000-500-500
2,200-1,100-550-550
2,400-1,200-600-600

I hope you understand the chart. its pretty hard to type it on yahoo answers. oh yea and dont forget this:
ALL CARBOHYDRATES AND PROTEINS CONTAIN 4 CALORIES PER GRAM AND ALL FATS CONTAIN 9 CALORIES PER GRAM.

Your main carbohydrate sources should be fruits and vegetables. They each have 10-100 calories per serving. These are some examples:
FRUITS
(about 60 calories per serving)
*apple, orange, pear, nectarine (tennis-ball size)
*banana: 1 small (5")
*peach, plum: 1 medium (fist size)
*grapefruit: 1/2 whole fruit
*berries, green or red grapes, melon: 1 cup
*canned fruits (in its own juice): 1/2 cup
LOW STARCH VEGETABLES
(about 25 calories per serving)
*raw vegetables: 1 cup
*cupped vegetables (including broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, eggplant, green beans, leeks, onions): 1/2 cup
*100% tomato or vegetable juice: 1/3 cup

You main source for proteins should be meant, eggs, and fish. Remeber that the fattier the protein is , the smaller the serving should be. This is a list of what you should eat from proteins hte most:
VERY LEAN
(about 35 calories per serving)
*chicken, or turkey breast, skinless: 1 ounce
*fish fillet (all whitefish): 1 ounce
*canned water-packed tuna: 1 ounce
*egg whites: 2 large
*egg substitute:1/4 cup

You best choice fats should be these:
FULL-CALORIE FATS
(about 50 calories per serving)
*vegetable oils (canola,olive): 1 teaspoon
*avacado (medium): 1/8
*almonds, cashews, filberts: 6
*Peanuts: 10
*Pistachios: 12
*olives, green or black: 8 medium
*peanut butter (creamy or crunchy): 1 teaspoon

Well, in order to lose weight a basic concept of weight loss is not to go too many hours without eating because you can become overhungry, with your brain signaling starvation mode and stimulating your appetite even farther. Also, another good tip is if you want to binge, then a book recommends that you gargle minty mouthwash and wait 15 minutes. Your urge to eat should go away.

Hope I helped, and good luck on losing weight and being healthy :)

Answer 7

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