How to lose weight... really?

[mickwannabe]

There is no magic cure to losing weight. You have to burn more calories than you're taking in. Which means portion control, healthy food choices, and lots of physical activity. It's a lot of hard work and there aren't any short cuts if you want lasting results. Lazy people look for easy options. Driven people do what it takes no matter what. Which one are you?

LAZY PPL. Why do you think the Lat Band and gastric surgeries have become so popular? The easy way out man. Spending thousands on the Lat band but not changing your eating habits will result in a person threatening their life by possibly breaking their surgical implant, and then having to get another surgery done to remove it.

Just eat like humans are supposed to eat and go be active. Go for a walk, play raquetball, lift weights, have sex (cardio!)

 

[tenchikoi]

LAZY PPL. Why do you think the Lat Band and gastric surgeries have become so popular? The easy way out man. Spending thousands on the Lat band but not changing your eating habits will result in a person threatening their life by possibly breaking their surgical implant, and then having to get another surgery done to remove it.

Just eat like humans are supposed to eat and go be active. Go for a walk, play raquetball, lift weights, have sex (cardio!)

Yes, lots of sex. Totally agree with this.

 

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[hotjavagirly]

I've had some success with a plan called the rice diet
there isn't really a local weight watchers here but i think if there were i might try that

i think we need to stop calling them diets
and just call it what it is
changing the habits that caused the issue
eat less and more healthy
and get off the tushie and move about more

 

[Mackayboy]

I took a totally different approach to weight loss. I changed how I perceived myself. I was fat/obese..183cm & 140-150 kg.
I caught a bus from Perth WA to Melbourne, Vic. This takes 2 days and as you can imagine at that size there wasn't a lot of leg room. It occured to me that if I wanted to make it into my 40's then I had better do something about my waist.
I got home and promptly began identifying myself as a "thin person". "Thin people" exercise a lot, they make veggie gardens, go for walks and generally do everything but sit in front of the TV/PC. They also don't eat a lot of junk food.
I gave up the fish & chips, the pizza and Brie & Camembert cheeses. My cholesterol fell on average a point every month for the next 2 years from 7.5 to 4.6. My weight bottomed out at 110kg. My blood pressure also dropped dramatically. It took 2 years.
These days I'm 107, up from 105kg. But I walk 10-15 km a week, engage in vigorous sex with my new wife at least 3 times a week (but on average do the normal sex on average 3 times a day) and have just given up beer for wine. Beer is bad for your waist as the sugars in it are all bad. Wine has more alcohol, but less carbs. I eat lots of leafy greens and rarely if ever drink coffee. Spiced Indian Chai is better for you because pepper, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, cardamon and the other spices are all natural healing remedies. I also meditate for about 40 minutes a day.
My outcome is that my ex-wife is 51. I'm 44. My new wife is 20.

 

[gentelman324]

i got an idea to lose weight.
put down the fork!!!

 

[lemmesee]

Do the exact 180 degree opposite of what caused you to put the weight on....

 

[TheOne007]

I always fear my appearance is what has the negative effects on meeting people, but i'm parinoid and probably not that bad (5'9", 195 lbs).

Well I kicked into a cardio regime after the first of the year, first i went to GNC to buy something called X-12, and then take that 1 hr before exercise, and then go and do the treadmill at a fast pace (3.6 mph) and full incline starting at 30 minutes and increasing by 1 minute every other exercise. I also wear a hoodie and don't take it off (doesn't bother me) Eat right and you'll loose a lot of weight, i was 220 before i started if anyone is curious!

 

[PilotAbilene]

Ok... here goes.

The best way to lose weight fast and keep it off is hiking. Hike every day if you can, carrying at the very, very least 20 pounds on your back, with as many hills as you can take. The more weight and the more hills, the more calories you burn. Couple that with a high-protein, low carb diet of six small meals a day and body fat will melt away. Running is good too, but it has to be done on a regular basis, and for a long time. 45 minutes is usually good, it'll burn off the calories you took in the day before, and anything over that will start burning fat. When you're done, your metabolism will be running faster, so you'll continue to burn fat for a few hours afterward. Eating small meals throughout the day is another way to keep your metabolism high. Just stay away from carbs, especially simple ones.

However, bear in mind that your body doesn't consider itself fat. Your body has what it considers it's natural state. Like, your body says "ok, healthy for me is having a 30% BMI," while your brain looks in the mirror and says "what the fuck, man? Why am I so fat?" So, you might be doing everything right, your body just thinks that it doesn't have as much stored energy as it should, so it's trying to stockpile. It takes around five years (give or take, it all depends on the individual) for your body to readjust itself to a new body type. Once you lose the weight, you have to keep working for a few years in order to keep the fat off. Don't get discouraged, just keep going. Toning your muscles won't truly affect your BMI, but it will make you look slimmer, especially if your abdominal muscles are well developed. I recommend bicycle crunches and Chinese sit-ups.

Just keep working it, you'll start to see results before you know it!

 

[incubus_rock]

I am pretty young and have never ever wanted to loose weight, quite the opposite actually. The subjects i do at college however have educated and shown me how people really should go about loosing weight.
I think people should be comfortable in who they are and what they look like, s the song goes "insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade," There is nothing wrong with wanting to improve yourself though.

I think to diet as such will have little result, obviously what you eat does effect your weight but starving yourself is just the opposite extremity. What is much better is to regulate when you eat, eg set meals and try and cut down on snacking. Eating large meals say 3-5 a day at set times will help your metabolism to be better able to regulate and deal with what you eat.

Also exercise. It doesn't have to be massive gym membership costs. If you exercise 30 minutes before eating the nutrition will go straight into work rebuilding and replenishing the bodies supplies, rather than adding to the weight.
Girls who worry about putting on muscle have nothing to worry about, it is extremely hard to put muscle on for guys who are better built to put it on. Women would have to train vigorously just to see some result! Cardio work is good for loosing weight however it should be noted that to begin the process of actually loosing weight you need to have been doing the exercise for at least 20 minutes!

Weight training is good for loosing weight as the effects and benefits of the training go on even after you have stopped exercising.

I would suggest just regulating meal times and what you eat, trying to avoid taking in too much fat, maybe begin running/jogging gently for half an hour or go out of a bike.

I hope that helps some people!
And i hope i wasn't inaccurate in anything

 

[PoeticMusings53]

Girls who worry about putting on muscle have nothing to worry about, it is extremely hard to put muscle on for guys who are better built to put it on.

I dated a girl once who wanted to improve her physical condition but refused to lift weights for ~6 months. She was great looking overall, but she had a flat, flabby ass. I got her to do squats, and in 3 months she looked much, much better.

Weight training is good for loosing weight as the effects and benefits of the training go on even after you have stopped exercising.

Moderate circuit training for 10-20 reps at each station is an excellent way to lose weight. Heavy lifting, lifting for more then 45 minutes, or lifts for low reps are very, very bad for fat loss, as these types of lifts spike appetite and also increase cortisol levels.


Diet is 80-90% of weight loss. Low calorie works, if you stick to it. Atkins works, if you stick to it. South Beach works, if you stick to it. Carb cycling works (extremely well), if yous stick to it. See any patterns?

 

[Hegemone]

Reading off the first page or so, I know what you mean, hun.
I eat healthily -no junk food, no snacks. Just balanced food, leaning towards fruits and vegetables- and I go to the gym often, but I've seen nothing but weight gain. Granted, mostly muscle, but no inches are being lost either. I'd really like to lose weight, honestly, the weight I'm at now is far from heathy. 5'4" and just shy of 250lbs, apparently my thyroid is nigh but nonexistant. *Sigh*

I've heard Weight watchers is good... but money is an issue. Ah well.

 

[Shovelclaw]

I used to be obese. I recently lost 50 pounds and I'm working on cutting down on the little flab I have left. I started simply and just ran on my treadmill at a low speed and increased it over time as I got used to it. Aerobic exercise so good for short term calorie burning. After a month about that, I started lifting weights. Weight lifting is good for long term calorie burning.The logic behind that is since muscle is active tissue, the more muscle you have, the more calories you will burn off when you are at rest. Of course muscle weighs more than fat so I know that constantly watching the scale would do me no good. So I committed to my work out program, to continue to challange myself, and not look at how much I weight. Also it's important to watch your diet. I don't drink soda anymore. Even Diet. I only drink water and tea. I usually fill up on water to trick my body into thinking its full. I limit my sugar and saturated fat intake as much as I can. I try to eat food that will benifit my body nutritionally and doesn't have a ridiculous amount of calories. It's a good practice to eat foods with fiber and protien because they burn more slowly and make you feel full longer.

After about 6 months I'm 50 pounds lighter. At the moment I am not seeing much gains or loss. I'm sort of at a plateau at the moment. I'm really hoping its me losing fat and gaining muscle lol. The important thing is I'm not giving up. I feel sooo much better after losing all that weight.

 

[Cattypuss]

My weight-loss tool is my dog. I walk her three times a day, and each walk is a 40-min brisk (breathless, sweaty) walk up and down a hilly headland. I still have a lot of weight to lose but as a person with a very sluggish thyroid, exercise makes a HUGE difference compared with diet alone.

BY the way, I would recommend water drinking. It's free, it's extremely healthy, it's calorie-free, and the thing with diet fizzy drinks is that (a) they rob your body of minerals, (b) all artifcial sweetenere are bad for you in some way, and (c) it'sbee shown in clinical tests hat artificial sweeteners make you crave sugar.

I do love my rooibos tea (plain, not flavoured, and taken without milk or sugar).

Diet for me now is healthy, unprocessed and balanced, with no sugars except the ones naturally and in fruit and veg - e.g. yesterday I had: -

Breakfast: one courgette (zuchini), two huge field mushrooms and a handful of cherry tomatoes, sauteed in a teeny bit of olive oil, with two eggs added at the end to make a sort of super-filled omelette.

Lunch: home-made low-fat dhal made with red lentils, onions, spinach, lean chicken breast and spices.

Afternooon snack: a pomegranate

Dinner: some lean lamb, coated in chopped rosemary and grilled, with huge amounts of steamed cabbage, steamed baby corn, steamed aparagus.

Evening snack: some pineapple.

I have a question though..... any tips on how to minimise loose skin post-weight loss?

 

[Eilan]

I have a question though..... any tips on how to minimise loose skin post-weight loss?

I think the best things you can do to minimize loose skin are to add resistance training to your exercise program, if you haven't already, and lose weight slowly (no more than 1.5-2 lbs a week) so that you're not losing muscle as well as fat.

I was also going to recommend that you drink lots of water and make sure your diet is in check, but it looks like you've got that covered!

Good luck.

 

[Cattypuss]

Thanks Eilan. I plan to add resistance exercise in the next month or so. And my loss is likely to be a pound or so a week.

But the thing is, I am 41 years old (not far off 42 - so my skin isn't as elastic as it was 20 years ago) and I have a good 60 pounds to lose, and I've been overweight most of my life. My weight distribution is uneven (from the waist up I look kind of on the comfortable side of normal; from the hips down I am HUGE especially my bum and thighs). I can soooo visualise, for instance, a LOT Of excess skin on my bum and thighs and, while I understand that toning my thigh muscles, for instance, will help, it can't deal with the whole problem.

I had heard a rumour that body brushing during weight loss helps your skin shrink with you.... is that just a rumour?

 

[jm_kaye]

I know exactly what your talking about... I went through a divorce also... only i lost 25 pounds in like 1 month, it felt good but i knew that it was extremely unhealthy.

Lawsuits are great for that too. I think I dropped about 10 pounds in two weeks.

 

[Handley_Page]

There's no quick fix. Well, there is the Divorce Stress Diet. During my divorce, I lost 50 lbs at a time when I didn't have 50 lbs to lose. Definitely not recommended, unless you want to lose your hair, be cold all the time, and count your ribs.

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Another one is the death of your partner. I didn't eat anything more than breakfast cereal for a week (and then not a lot). I lost about 30lb in a week.
Sadly, I've put it all back. . . . . . .
What was that diet again?

 

[liposuction]

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[sigmundfreudIV]

eating

stop eating so much.

 

[LaSalsa]

Soo many negatives....for some people hard to lose weight. Did some marathon training with heavy weight lifting, lost 40 in 3 months, but...surgery and what now...gained it right back...But...found that finding a hobby, ie, here on lit...has worked wonders, I am looking at all these different people being so turned on....forget about eating, just want to keep looking, then...oh look, hours have passed time for bed.

 

[LaSalsa]

Have friend that believe throughly in body brushing...but kinda expensive to have it done one every few weeks. And she is really isn't over weight, just wants to look tighter at 45.

 

[satindesire]

Wearing compression garments also really helps get the skin back to normal during weight loss. After I had my first baby, I wore a compression suit that went from just under my breasts to mid-thigh and my skin went almost COMPLETELY back to normal after just a few months of healthy living. I lost almost 40 pounds, so there could have been some pretty crazy skin sagging in my tummy area especially.

Now that I'm pregnant again, I plan on doing the same thing. It helps you fit into your pre-pregnancy clothes a lot sooner, too, which isn't EVER a bad thing.

 

[MsGoodBody]

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[david8]

It takes a lifestyle change

To really lose weight you have to change the way you live on a daily basis.

You have to be more active in everything you do whether it is brushing teeth, laughing, cleaning, etc.

Eating healthy is good but can be very difficult. You definitely want to stay away from fast food places and try to eat only at home. Eat lots of protein and have fruit for dessert (your body will eventually get used to it).

Most importantly, you have to work out. I would suggest 3-4 days per week, at first, starting with 1-2 mile walks (preferably add a hill or bridge every now and then if you can). After a month or so, you can increase the amount of miles you walk and maybe try to jog or take part in other physical activities. Adding weight to your walk is even better (you could buy a weight vest or walk with 5lb dumbbells). Note: Working out means sweating through hard work. At no point should any workout routine be easy.

You then just have to maintain physical activity throughout the week to keep the weight off. Eating bad sometimes is ok you just have to be able to control it. I find it often helps to avoid buying bad food in the first place (this avoids having the temptation to eat a cookie or some chips when you are bored or stressed).

Good luck and don't give up!