im about 250 lbs and 5 foot 7, trying to lose weight, get healthy, need tips on exercising, dieting etc.?

Question

never really exercised before, need low impact exercises. i don't eat veggies, except for corn or potatoes, and no fruits. don't like fish and im lactose intolerant. any diet ideas would be helpful cause the stuff like jenny craig and weight watchers doesn't work for me. most of the workouts i can do will have to be in and around my home. i have two small kids. i have 3 richard simmons tapes and am starting them.

Answer 1

find calorie/fitness calculator on the net, enter all your stats and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to maintain, take off 300-400cal off that number and thats how much you need to lose.
dont try to lose more than 1-2lbs a week - its not healthy to lose more.
eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours)
5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water
have complex carbs for breakfast - they give you energy
have lean meat (protein) for dinner - repairs muscle
cardio exercise 4-6 times a week for 30-50min, light weight training
dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, past etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried - no junk food.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The first and easiest way to lose weight is quit drinking soda, replace with water and a V-8 Splash every now and then, this will also make up (to some degree) for your lack of fruits and veggies. If you have to fry anything use a good olive oil but not a lot of it. Try substituting chicken and ground turkey for red meat and ground beef. Eat Eggbeaters (or generic brand) instead of eggs and of course avoid fast food, if at all possible. Best of luck.

Answer 4

Step 1: Find out what your basal metabolic rate is. Goto http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/basal/basal.html
This is the amount of calories you need to eat to maintain your current weight.

Step 2: Do you exercise? Do you exercise right? Exercising right means that you monitor your heart rate and make sure that you reach your target heart rate and maintain it for the longest period of time while exercising. You have two targets a fat burn zone and an cardiovascular zone. The fat burn is usually 60% of your maximum an d is easier to achieve and maintain and if your goal is weight loss this is where you want to be. Just walking/excising is a good start but if you want to get the most out of your work out find out what your target range is. If you don't belong to a gym then I recommend the
Polar Fitness F11 Heart Monitor Watch.

Step 3: You need to decrease your caloric intake or increase the amount of calories your body uses in a day by 500 calories a day for a week to lose 1 pound. So you can decrease that basal number you got in step 1 by 500 calories and exercise very little(yes you still need to exercise). Or you can decrease it by 250 and exercise off 250 calories or any other combination. Remember that your basal number is the amount of calories you body needs to live. If your number were 2400 then your body burn 100 calories per hour. So if you walk for half an hour and burn 300, 50 of that is your basal.

Step 4: Count your calories, it's not hard and you'll find out that you eat a lot of the same things on a daily basis so you won't have to research everything over and over again. Balance what you eat(equal parts carbs and protien whenever possible) . One of the best websites out there is one from the FDA. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/
This database has almost every food on the planet counted and weighed. (Hint: they do a lot of their weights based on 100grams. If you put 0.28 in the serving size this equals 1 ounce). Get a reliable food scale, preferably digital. Weigh everything that you put in your mouth that is not prepackaged. You need to know what you’re eating and how much you’re eating. The number one mistake is "eating healthy". Everyone thinks because it's "healthy" the portion isn't that important. A handful of peanuts is "healthy" and has nearly 250 calories! Eat enough calories and it won’t matter how "healthy" it is your going to gain weight.

Step 5: Adjustments and Variety. If you are doing your best and losing weight but your starving, increase the amount of calories your giving yourself by 100-200 calories a day. Losing weight and starving are not good bedfellows. If you starve eventually you will crack and lose the battle. The more types of exercises you do the more weight you will lose. You will work more muscles and keep your body guessing.

Step 6(optional): If you belong to a gym or have some free weights at home. Use them! Muscle takes up less space in your body than fat (pound for pound). A pound of fat sits
around and does nothing all day, while a pound of muscle, even at rest burns calories(increasing your basal metabolic rate).

Step 7: Sleep, Never underestimate the power of a goodnight sleep. Will power can crumble in a second if your going through your day tired. You end up with a diminished sense of self control and tend to “give in” to temptation.

Step 8: Find a distraction. Read a book, Ride a bike, Play a game. Whatever takes your mind off of food, do it. You will need something that you can turn to in a moment of weakness. Something that will distract you for a half an hour so that your will can reassert itself and help you to make a rational decision.


Good luck!!!

Answer 5

Richard Simmons is a great motivator; you will probably love his tapes. If you have a staircase in your home, I recommend running up and down it for 30 minutes. Get some 5 pound weights and do LOTS of repetitions with them. You need cardio; it is really really important for weight loss, and great for your heart. Try taking a walk or jogging every day for 30 minutes.

You really need to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into your diet. I always HATED veggies until I found stir-fry! I always buy Contessa Stir fry ( you can get it in the freezer veggie section of your grocery store). It has lots of veggies mixed with chicken and a tasty stir-fry sauce! SOOOO good! Try to eat 5 pieces of fruit per day, in place of fatty meals or snacks.

Answer 6

You really have to be more open to healthy foods. The only veggies you're eating are barely vegetables, and actually act more like starches in the body.

Is it because they don't taste good to you? I grew up with a mom who boiled vegetables or just heated plain veggies out of the can. Now I eat all kinds of vegetables, whether it's roasted asparagus with olive oil and garlic, or broccoli rabe with peppers, or a big plate of spinach.

If you refuse to change your diet to include fruits and vegetables, you will have a much harder time losing weight and will suffer plenty of nutritional deficits. I promise, they really can taste good!

Answer 7

Forget the Richard Simmons, unless you just like to dance. The best program I have found for a diet is a program on provida.com It is specified to your body type and unlike most diets, it doesn't feel like a diet. You can eat chili, shish kabobs, potatoes, beef stew, sherbet, turkey burgers, meatloaf, jambalaya, stuffed peppers, hash browns, egg whites, and so much more. The low impact exercises you do 2x per week and they send you all the information on how to do them in just 18 minutes a day. It is specified to your body by using blueprints of your body and areas you want to work on. Let me know how it works for you.

Answer 8

chug 12 8 ounce glasses of ice water a day it has the same effect on your metabolism as green tea

Answer 9

45 minute jog at a 10 minute mile pace

Answer 10

cool down with 20 minutes of white water rafting in the nearby tongariro river