I need to loss about 30 lbs mostly in my stomach. I don't want to take pills. Any suggestions?
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If weight loss is what you're looking for then here's what you need. The best combination for weight loss is calorie restriction, resistance training, and aerobic work. Let's start with calorie restriction. Over the years I have had personal training clients as well as athletes come to me wondering why they are not losing weight. They tell me they eat right, exercise right, say their prayers, eat their vitamins, etc., and they just can't seem to lose weight. Well, most of the time, once I really get to know them, I find that nutrition is the culprit. You need to know what you're eating. Most of the people I'm talking about all thought they did. \n\nHow do you change this? Well, it may sound tough, but it's not that bad. You need to keep track of what you eat for 2 days over the week, and 1 day over the weekend. Next, go to you're local book store. You can find charts, books, and computer programs that will help you analyze the foods you ate. Another suggestion would be to take your dietary recall to a nutritionist or exercise physiologist at your local college and let them find it for you. \n\nThese recalls will tell you how many calories you're getting plus where they are coming from. For example, are they coming from protein, carbohydrate, or fat. It will help you see where you stand nutritionally. \n\nNext, you need to get on a good strength program. When a person is losing weight, the weight comes from fat, as well as muscle. That's kind of an unfortunate thing because muscle is an important thing when keeping metabolism high. There is enough research out there to safely say that when going through a phase of high intensity aerobic work and calorie restriction, strength training decreases muscle wasting. So, in short, strength-train. It's important. I wouldn't strength-train for anymore that 20 to 30 minutes. You can get what you need in a short period of time. \n\nAfter the strength training, it's time to get on the bike, treadmill, stepper, track, whatever. Keep your workouts to 30 minutes and up in order to burn the calories. Train between 3 to 5 times per week. Keep your heart rate at 60 to 90% of heart rate max. \n\nDon't look at losing weight as some mysterious monster that you can't get the reins on. Look at it as nothing more than stored energy. That's what fat is?stored energy. If you had a tank full of energy and it kept filling up higher and higher, what would you do to keep your tank from growing too large from the excess energy? Well, burn some of the energy off. That's what you need to do to lose weight. Keep the "energy in" lower than the "energy out" and abracadabra, you're losing weight. \n\nNote: You need to change your routine every 2-3 weeks in order to get the best results. \n\nMonday \n\n\nLeg Press 2x12 \nChest Press 2x12 \nLat pull down 2x12 \nShoulder Press 2x12 \nDB Curl 2x12 \nTricep kickback 2x12 \nAerobic Work  30 or more minutes. \n\n Click Here For A Printable Log Of Monday! \n\nTuesday \n\n\nAerobic work 30 or more minutes of aerobic exercise.\nWednesday \n\n\nSame as Monday.\nThursday \n\n\nSame as Monday, or take a day of rest.\nFriday \n\n\nSame as Monday.
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So starting from today you have about 2 months give or take a day or two. And losing 30 pounds of "fat" is possible. \n\nHowever when it comes to losing weight its a matter of dedication and discipline. \nYou have to go on a "healthy and controlled diet that suits you.\n       \nNo sugar foods ex. candy, icecream, soda, etc (though it is      good for you mentally to have one cheat day where you eat something you like)\n\nMake sure your metabolism gets higher\n       \nStart an doing cardio (start off slow and ease your way into it)\nStart lifting weights \n\nI really wouldn't recommend taking diet pills, you don't know what kinds of effects they might have on you. So the alternative is to drink stuff like green tea or coffee which has plenty of caffeine. In addition to drinking caffiene, make sure you drink at least a gallon of water a day.\n\ngo to this site for more facts http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/women.htm\nas well as this very comprehensive forum\nhttp://forum.bodybuilding.com/forumdisplay.php?s=b13953acc4298e23046aa3ac5f1b2cba&f=16\n\nAnd depending on how much extra fat you have you can lose up to 3-4 pounds a week safely.
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eat less. exercise more.\n\nwhat is so dam* hard about that?? DON'T waste your money on pills and powders and all the other unbelievable stuff out there. Simply eat less and exercise more. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE not to lose weight if you are burning more calories than you are taking in!
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Running and crunches are great for getting your stomach back.\nBe your own trainer and nutritionist, the basic rules to losing weight are no soda, no fast food, lots of chicken, fish, fresh (not canned that’s bad) fruits and vegies, whole wheat stuff, yogurt. Not so many cakes and donuts and cookies. Basic common sense for eating, you just need to enforce it. Get all the bad stuff out of the house right away, just toss it or give it away while your still motivated. No alcohol if that applies. Some juice but make sure its all natural, because the ones that aren't are loaded with sugar and a leading cause in diabetes in children and adults. Lots of water, 3-4 liters a day, not all at once, but spread it out. Its really easy to down a liter or two while your watching tv or on the computer. Also drink some after you eat the bigger meals of the day, it helps your body pick out the nutrients in food when your food is more spread apart.  You also need to stay away from any sports drinks unless you’ve just had a long workout and then you need to limit yourself.  Most atheletes mix Gatorade with water because its two  complex for your body to get all the nutrients out of.  It needs to be diluted.  These rules may be hard to adapt to at first so start with cutting out the things you know you can live without.  Then work from there.  Remember these are  perfect eating habits, it can take you a while to work into it.  If you know you can’t live without your one treat a day, don’t fight it by trying to eat something else, just eat it and make sure that’s the only one you cheat on a day.  Otherwise you’ll get depressed and quit.  Another important point is getting the right amount of sleep every night.  You need 8-9 hours of sleep each night for your body to function correctly.  This is an important factor of losing weight.  Set up a routine for yourself and go to bed at about the same time each night.  \nAs for exercise, lots of cardio. Find something you like. If you have never exercised much before, start with walking 30 minutes a day at a brisk pace. Move on to different terrains that include hills and increase the time spent. After a week or two, try jogging the route. No matter what find an activity you enjoy. Walking to jogging is just an example, try hiking, rollerblading, biking. Once you get into a regular routine, if your not happy with the level of difficulty, try signing up with a gym. Spinning, pilates or kickboxing classes are great. It will also introduce you to working with weights. Talk to a trainer for instruction before using any weights. A cheap investment is a balance ball, it works you stomach while your just sitting on it, like at your computer and its great for posture. There are hundreds of exercises you can use it for for your entire body. I can give you some ideas if you want, just email me. Also for more info on the benefits of water go to www.watercure.com Good Luck! Honestly if you need anything else don't hesitate to IM me, krista_girl86 even if you don't pick me as best answer, i'd be happy to help
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Don't use diet pills. They won't work permanently. There are countless reports on the averse effects of them. Once you take them, you'd have to be stuck with them. When you stop, the weight you lose comes back to haunt you. \n\nThe sensible solution is to practice a healthy diet and engage in active exercises. No pain, no gain is the key to a better you.
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I would suggest the Medifast Diet from take Shape fro Life. It is healthy and really easy to do. I lost 25 lbs. from it so far. It teaches you to eat 5-6 meals a day every 2-3 hours and you will lose weight quickly and healthy. I hope this helps.
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I would recommend Herbalife. I lost 35 pounds in two months. If you are serious then go to the website below and get the sample pack. You will get literature on how the program works and you will get some samples of the best products they they offer. I wish you the best.
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your best bet is becoming a vegan, you can easily lose 30 lbs in 2 months. don't eat anything with animal products at all, and avoid bread, potatoes and processed foods. it will be good for you and the environment and the animals, and you can eat as much as you want. being that vegetables don't have many calories. \nalso, you will feel better emotionally and morally, you will feel lighter and your digestive system will work better.
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You might think about trying this book called "The Movie Star Diet" by Steve Simmons. It helped me lose thirty pounds in 2 1/2 months when I didn't think anything would work. My goal to begin with was only 20 lbs! It has a really easy plan to follow and an excellent workout as well.
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The following healthy living recommendations will help you if your trying to lose weight, have aspirations of building lean muscle mass, are attempting to get a wash board stomach, or just want to feel better:\n\n*1) Burn more calories then your consuming everyday and measure your results using the following formula: Calories Consumed minus Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) minus Physical Activity. Get a fitness calculator that you can put on your cell phone and computer. This will allow you to easily  calculate this formula, log your daily calorie consumption, and log your physical activities.\n\n*2) Eat natural and organic foods found on earth versus something created by a corporation to make money. Eat meals in small portions throughout the day and take a good multi-vitamin supplement. \n\nAvoid “High Glycemic Load Carbs” (sugar, pastries, desserts, refined starches such as breads, pasta, refined grains like white rice; high starch vegetables such as white potatoes) and drink lots of water. \n\nDo not try fad diets or diet pills. Here is an excellent food pyramid that anyone can follow: http://www.rayandterry.com/html/images/PyramidLRG.gif?osCsid=26a424be471d1337e7c2f105d5c64d9d\n\n*3) Exercise on most days by doing cardiovascular training and/or resistance training activities. \n\nRead a book or find a certified trainer to make sure your doing all resistance training exercises correctly. A great book to buy that teaches you the resistance training basics is “Weight Training For Dummies”. A superb magazine to buy with excellent resistance training routines that will not get you bored is "Muscle and Fitness". Signup for the free newsletter.\n\nA good book to buy that teaches you the cardiovascular training basics is “Fitness For Dummies”. \n\n*4) Get plenty of sleep. Sleep experts say most adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep each night for optimum performance, health, and safety. \n\n*5) Educate yourself continually on health issues. A good free publication is  “Dietary Guidelines For Americans 2005”. A superb book to read is “You The Owner’s Manual”. An excellent periodic publication is the “Nutrition Action Health Letter”.\n\n*6) Make a life long commitment to good health. A great test you can take to measure your biological age is at http://realage.com Look at other areas where you can improve your health. For example, make improvements on the quality of the air you breath. Review outdoor air quality forecasts where you live and get an indoor air purifier. Email me if you want a good air purifier recommendation and if you have other questions.\n\n *Click on all the source links below to get the full benefit of the recommendations. The answers presented to your health questions are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Diet pills are good, if you really need them for your health. I was at an unhealthy weight, went into Congestive Heart Failure, and my doctor told me to "lose the weight or I was gonna die." He suggested a stomach bypass surgery, but I wouldn't do it. Instead, He gave me Adipex. I have lost a lot, and don't take it anymore....still losing weight. The main thing is...Don't go back to your old habits after you go off the diet pills, or you will gain it back faster than you took it off. You need to maintain what you have accomplished even when you're not taking the pills anymore. Keep active, and yes, sometimes you can have something you've been craving without gaining it back. Good luck!
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I don't suggest pills, unless they're drug free. There is such a thing; it's called dexatrim natural and is fueled with green tea. Studies have shown that those who take diet pills (with the exception of drug free pills) are 75% more likely to gain all the weight back once they stop using the pill than those who lose the weight with healthy diets and exercise. So I'd suggest dropping the pill idea.
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Here is a simple answer, based on life experience.\nThere are no magic solutions !!!\nIf you want to reduce your weight without any pills, suffering, chemicals and so on, just reduce the amount of food you eat and get some basic exercise.\nInstead of watching TV, Go out, take a walk.\nEat Cereal instead of doritos and drink plenty of water.\nDon't skip breakfast, but do skip these cookies you have with your coffee.\nIt may take 3 months and not 3 days, but if you keep it, you are guaranteed to keep the weight off and not to gain it back in two weeks.
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Do more / eat less.\nHere are some tips:\nhttp://www.insuremylife.org/weightloss.html
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Over the counter diet pills, pills sold on TV and through the internet which have the disclaimer "these claims have not been evaluated by the FDA" are all bogus.\nThere are PRESCRIPTION weight loss pills, taken under strict doctor's supervision, that do work.  I lost 58 lbs in 4 months on Phentermine a few years ago.  But I stopped working out and starting eating more again so I gained it back.  I'm back on the pills and this time I'm not going to backslide.\nIt's true that to lose weight you need to burn more than you take in.  Prescription diet pills help supress your appetite (you take in less) and give you energy to exercise (so you burn more).  They are a TOOL.  They aren't a miracle. \nAny ad for a pill or machine which promises fast and easy permanent weight loss is LYING to you.
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The only real way to lose a significant amount of weight and keep it off is to increase your exercise and cut down on your food intake. Your goal of two pounds a week is a sensible and achievable one. The first thing you have to do is decide that it is what you really want to do. i.e. more important than snacking or lying on the couch. You need to change your life i.e. get up from the computer. It really is not that hard once you make up your mind to do it. It also helps if you can do it with a freind or partner for encouragement. It worked for me. Lost about 60 lbs two years ago. Went to the gym about 3 days a week for 2 hours per time. Walked a lot. Decided to eat smaller amounts but more often and slightly reduced my overall intake. Did not snack unless I was really really hungry. I have gained back a bit of the wieght I lost as I am no longer going to the gym but I seem to have leveled off no with an overall loss of 35 lbs. Good luck. John
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A couple of common questions here amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?"  These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.\n\nDon't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful. \n\nThere is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below. \n\nThe most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode. \n\nAnother overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.\n\nTo lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.\n\nFor diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet. \n\nFat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.\n\nThere is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.\n\nIf you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.\n\n\nAloha