What should I do to get thin again?

Question

I need to lose weight. I am 23 and my husband loves food, so I cook a lot. I don’t know how, but he doesn’t gain weight. Since I got married, it seems that I’ve started to eat more. My friends say it may be an eating disorder. What should I do to get thin again?

Answer 1

You need to calculate how many calories you should eat to reach your target weight – I assume you set a target weight, or if not you should. The goal is to eat less calories than your body burns until you reach your target weight. I use the calorie calculator at projectweightloss.com. It’s free, and has a bunch of features, including a menu planner. You can cook something for your husband and something else for you, or make sure that whatever you cook doesn’t have more calories per serving than you should eat.

Answer 2

This is not all that uncommon....men and women are not created equally when it comes to our metabolic rates and the like. You two could be eating the exact same thing and he never gains an ounce, but you are putting on weight as if it's going out of style....classic case.
My suggestions would be the following:
a- Whatever food you are fixing and however you are fixing it, stop. Apparently, it is not working for you. If you find yourself frying a lot or fixing a lot of meat and carb-filled foods (lilke steak and potatoes) that might be the root of the problem. Try eating more lean meats like fish, chicken and turkey. Make sure you bake it, grill it, broil or boil it instead of pan searing or frying. Lighten up on starchy foods such as potatoes and pasta. Replace those with a tossed salad and add some brown rice to a meal. (no white rice....it's not good for us).
b- Begin an exercise routine. The best way to counteract weight gain is to sweat and burn it off by exercising. Do some cardio work 3x per week for at least 1/2 hour and do some weight training in between that. Muscle burns fat, so the more toned you are, the quicker the fat (not the pounds, mind you!) will melt away. You might not see a huge change on the scale, as muscle weighs more than fat, but remember to concentrate on the way your clothes fit. You're losing inches.
c- Snack often and snack healthily. A way to ensure that you don't eat too much of your husband's faves at dinner is to snak throughout the day. Eat baby carrots, a handful of nuts (walnuts, almonds), raisins, apples, celery, etc. Just make sure that it's healthy. It will help you feel more full; come dinner time, you probably won't eat hardly anything. Drinking a good amount of water during the day also helps with this. Cut back on the soda - full of empty calories and horrible sugars that destroy teeth.

I hope this helps. Good luck! :-)

Answer 3

Are you a lady I take it? At 15, you don't have any inspiration what your frame has in retailer for you. You would develop a different 6 inches, after which a hundred sixty five could be RAIL THIN, otherwise you would have a few hormonal imbalances from early life and that is inflicting you to attain weight and you'll be able to drop it as quickly as you are 18-19. In any case, my satisfactory wager is that your nutrition is horrible. If you devour what I ate while I was once 15, then your nutrition is atrocious. Cook foods at house, do not order pizza, do not devour speedy meals, NEVER drink steady (non-nutrition) sodas, and do not devour dull luggage of chips/goodies/mini desserts/cookies/anything from the institution lunch room. Don't devour fried meals, do not devour white breads, pastas and potatoes, convey your lunch to institution and devour a few lean protein (turkey, hen, tuna, ect). If you simply De-Tox your self from all the CRAP you've got been consuming, you'll be able to often lose a pound per week for so long as you hold doing it. You do not want nutrition tablets in any respect, and you do not ought to starve your self. Eat approximately 1800 energy an afternoon and make certain that 1500 of them are totally blank (no sugar, no dangerous fat, ect). Oh, incidentally, I do not relatively recognise what "scene/emo" way, however I'm guessing it way you do not play exercises. PLAY A SPORT. Do SOMETHING lively everyday, even though it is simply jogging for five miles. These are the simplest and satisfactory years of your existence. Don't waste them by way of being a lazy slob who does not play any exercises and takes nutrition tablets to stick at a hundred sixty five.

Answer 4

When I got married I weighed 115. Over the course of four years, I slowly gained about 35 pounds. I'm no longer married and that was ten years ago, but thinking back I realize where I went wrong. I began focusing on what he wanted and liked to eat, and my eating habits slowly began to change. Before marriage, I hardly ate meat, pastas, and pizza and there I was chowing em' down regularly.

Now I've learned (I've been living with my boyfriend four years) that whatever plannning and effort it takes, I will stick to my eating habits while enjoying cooking together and eating together. My boyfriend likes fried fish, steak, brownies, and creamy sauces. I on the other hand avoid those things. Many times I'll cook two different meals, but it's all worth it!

I have since gone back to my old way of eating, and now I'm back to 124 so far. Before marriage, I walked about three miles a day also. Another big factor was that the week of my marriage, I was a nervous wreck so my Dr. put me on Prozac. Back then it was touted to cause weight loss. Now I now better! Good luck and stay focused on what works for YOU.

Answer 5

I don't think you have an eating disorder, I think it's a curse of getting married! lol. I noticed I started to do the same thing, I think it's a subconscious thing that if they can eat it, then we can too!
Only fill your plate up half as much as your husband, if you really truly are still hungry you can get seconds, but no more then half the amount that you first took. If you eat slowly your body will start to tell you when it's getting full and you know to stop. It's not a competition! He's bigger so of course he can eat more...it's not fair, but it's life.
Also see if you can get him to go for a walk w/ you after dinner, it's gooding bonding time and exercise :-)
Good luck!!!!

Answer 6

Go to the gym, jog, walk, take the stairs instead of the elevator. For more information go to weightwatchers.com. Good luck!

Answer 7

work out and stop eating so much food. also watch what you eat cook healthy if he doesn't like it he can make it himself.