how to loose weight?

Question

Okay so, im a little over weight, and im not comfortable with the way i look, how can i loose weight fast?

Answer 1

nothing happens fast - fat loss is hard work and a lifestyle change - otherwise it will only be temporary
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 that's 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 is the only fat burning exercise and burns fat all over your body (running, jogging, swimming, spinning, elliptical etc) 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:)

Answer 2

Eat less, Exercise more... ( lol, a more detailed version follows):

First of all, if you want to keep it off, there is no way to lose weight "fast", unless you define fast as being no more than 1-2 lbs. per week. Secondly, you mentioned that you were a "little" over weight. Have you checked your BMI (Body Mass Index) http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/? Because you could be struggling with a few vanity pounds, and exaggerating being overweight.
However, if you are significantly overweight, and you can lose weight and still be healthy, after checking your BMI, (and perhaps consulting your doctor), one of the most effective ways to begin losing weight is to understand how it works. Depending on your height, weight, age, and gender, there is something called your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), which determines how many calories you need just for your body to function. In other words, your BMR gives you the amount of calories you would need just if you laid in bed all day. Here's a link to a BMR calculator: http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/
Now, I will assume you won't be laying in bed all day so you actually need a lot more calories than what your BMR provides, and the more active you are, the more calories you get. (When you do start cutting calories you should never go below your BMR or 1,200 calories, and if you insist, you should consult your doctor).
Now to the losing weight part. A pound equals about 3,500 calories. Therefore, if you cut 500 calories from the amount of calories you currently need to maintain your weight, you would have a deficit of 500 calories a day, or 3,500 calories a week, which would equal one pound. Now, since you wanted a "speedy" weight loss, you could lose 2 lbs. a week if you burn off 500 calories in exercise and cut back 500 calories from your food intake a day, resulting in a deficit of 7,000 calories a week, or 2lbs.
The following are links to sites that factor in as much as they can (weight, height, age, activity level) to tell you an estimate of how many calories you should get:
http://www.inch-aweigh.com/dcn.php
http://www.walking.about.com/cs/calories/l/blcalcalc.htm
http://weightloss.about.com/od/eatsmart/a/blcalintake_2.htm
http://www.radicalbehavior.com/how-many-calories-should-i-eat-a-day/
http://www.mypyramid.gov/mypyramid/index.aspx

But remember these are estimates based on averages (including the BMI calculator), and some of them vary, so I would recommend taking an average of the results you find. And also experimenting with what works best for your body. I found my results to seem just a little too high. The most precise way of knowing what to eat and how much to exercise would be to see a nutritionist, but I had to research on my own and find out what was best for me, lol.
Other tips I can give you are these:
1. Drink lots of water ( if you drink soft drinks I highly suggest slowly breaking the addiction and substituting water for colas and sweet tea....I had to do it, it was hard, but now I don't know the difference)
Just some of the benefits of water include: Drastically declining your appetite, increasing fat used for energy, and increasing your metabolic function.
2. Eat enough fiber. On average you should get around 25-30 grams of fiber a day. Although this can vary, most Americans come nowhere close to eating enough fiber. Among other things, fiber is very instrumental in allowing your body to fill full. Here's a link on the benefits of fiber and what food sources you can get an adequate amount of fiber from:
http://www.dietary-fiber.info/
3. Besides drinking a lot of water, exercising and eating right, focus on the way you look and not on the scales. You also need to work on some resistance training to build muscle. When you do this, the scales may go up, but the amount of body fat you have will go down. Also your clothes will fit better too! If you push yourself by cutting calories and overdoing the cardio, all while performing no resistance training, you will lose muscle mass which is a bad thing. You want to lose fat, not muscle, and muscle mass, even resting muscle, burns fat.
I can also advise you to be patient. I had to go through all this because I wanted to lose a ridiculous amount of weight in an unrealistic amount of time. If you don't take it slow, and slowly make changes in your life, the weight will come back, and you will be disappointed, (as I have been). The last bit of advice I can give is not to think of fitness as a goal you will one day reach, (as I used to), but as a lifestyle change that you will maintain for the rest of your life.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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