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weight watchers, starving yourself, or u have any other ones??

2007-06-07 11:41:45 · 4 answers · asked by Ryleigh 2 in Health Diet & Fitness

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None. I tried every diet and none of them work because you can not stay on them for the rest of your life. And when you stop you will gain it all back plus some.

I got sick of being overweight and took a look at what I was eating and how much. Then when I stopped lying about it and I looked again.

I was taking in more than I was burning. So I got serious about changing that and then got serious again. That was 4 years ago. I lost 40 lbs and kept it off by changing my life. When you get serious ask the right question.

2007-06-07 11:44:37 · answer #1 · answered by elurle 6 · 1 0

Starving yourself can't really be categorized as a diet..

All diets work in the same way. If they restrict calories to a point where you are burning more than you eat, you will lose weight. If the diet does this than it will work, if not you will fail. Whether or not a diet is healthy is separate from whether or not it will work. If you severely restrict calories to under 1200 per day, you will lose weight but going this route is very unhealthy so be careful when reading about these diets. Also beware of diets that limit you to one food. Even if you are taking in a good amount of calories, you won't be able to get all the vitamins, nutrients, fat, carbohydrates or protein from just one type of food.

Beginners Guide to Dieting - http://straighthealth.com/pages/guides/begdieting.html

2007-06-07 18:46:09 · answer #2 · answered by straighthealth17 5 · 0 0

to get permanent results you have to make permanent changes in your lifestlyle - choose diet you can follow every day of your life.
find daily calorie intake 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.
eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours - it optimizes your metabolism)
5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water
have complex carbs for breakfast - they give you energy
have protein (lean meat, legumes etc) for dinner - repairs muscle
cardio exercise 4-6 times a week for 30-50min (ideally 45min because the first 20-30min body burns carbs and only then starts burning fat), light weight training (more muscle=faster metabolism)
dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, pasta etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried, oily.
ofcourse you can spoil yourself once in a while with a little treat:)

2007-06-08 03:13:21 · answer #3 · answered by Natalie 7 · 0 0

Weight Watchers works. Don't starve yourself....that will slow your metabolism and it is unhealthy.

2007-06-07 18:45:41 · answer #4 · answered by moon 5 · 0 0

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