I NEED TIPS ON HOW TO STICK WITH MY DIET PLAN.  I WANT A TIGHT AND FIRM BODY FOR THE SUMMER.
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dont buy anything that could throw u off and if u have any thing that would be bad for ure diet throw it out and dont make exceptions for anything
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Dont diet... change your habits.   Watch your fat intake. Eat fresh or frozen veggies, limit your portions   stay way from white bread, potatoes, and white flour.  do this for about a month and it will work... water water water.  if you dont like water add a little lemon or lime to it .. mmmmm good
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Take this from a woman that went from 300 pounds to 167 in under a year from pregnancy and classic overeating...it's hard work!\n\nPut on a tiny bikini once a week. and measure yourself. As you go down in weight and inches it will start to look better and better. The better you feel the less stress you have the easier it is to eat right and work out.\n\nAbout running... don't like it don't do it. It's not worth it if you aren't going to do it for a Legnth of time. Simply get a good friend and go for a fast walk for about 1.5 hours... yea I'm serious but the time will fly by and the pounds will melt off. It's not about the distance it's about keeping your cardio up and doing it for a good length of time. Maybe you can start running a little here and there to tone up your legs but it isn't your only option.\n\nKeep a journal of what you eat and when,  when you notice you aren't losing it as fast as you were look back on your journal and see why. Maybe you aren't being as strict as you should be. Think about your journal as though everything you eat will be seen by it and will broadcast around the world for everyone to see. It will help you not eat everything you can. Be sure to write it down though that is key! You will hit plateaus, it happens then you have to either cut back or work out more.\n\nAdd muscle training. It can be as easy as a butt workout on the treadmill or a bunch of push ups and sit ups. Be it in the weight room or on the couch work your muscles. This will burn some calories and help you tone up.\n\nEat what your body needs first! Lots of protien and steamed veggies. Stick to fresh fruit and wheat rice. Make it look pretty and you won't have to dread it quite so much. Treat yourself every once in a while to a little low cal ice cream or a mousse which is also a low cal dessert. \n\ni hope this helps a little bit. Good luck!
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Just do some pushups, and go for walks.  Eat more plant protien -- it absorbs better into the body.  So try getting chocolate soy protien bars, or putting some tofu into your stir-fry.  Also, try Silk's Chocolate Soy milk.  It's the best selling chocolate milk in America.\n\nTry excercising every other day, and make time to do it.  Excercise while you're on the phone, or get a friend to partner you and to hold you up to it.\n\nThe best way to keep a diet or excercise up is to reward yourself and be realistic.  Don't punish yourself.  You're making yourself healthier.  This should be something you enjoy.  So enjoy what you're reaping.  \nGo dancing, buy something that shows off your new body, indulge in a health snack -- like dark chocolate, or an occasional ice cream.\n\nYou need to still have some fat in your diet, and you do need to have some cholesterol, you just need the good kinds.  So don't hesitate to eat avacados every once in a while with a little salt, or gucamole, or chocolate.  Find something to reward yourself, and you'll be better at sticking to it.
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I suggest exercising patience.\n\nIf what you claim is true- you exercise and eat in a healthy fashion, then you need to understand that change doesn't happen immediately.\n\nI would also be a little more aware of voicing your concern.  It is totally understandable if you are unhappy with your appearance, but there are many people in worse shape than you describe yourself to be, so you may sound a bit shallow and insensitive to them.\n\nThe best way for any one to offer a suggestion would be for you to detail what you consider to be "eating healthy" and what sort of exercises you do.  Without this knowledge, how are we supposed to suggest anything?\n\nI will say this- crunches will tone the muscle BENEATH the fat, not get rid of it.  The only way to get rid of the fat (along with healthy diet) is to elevate your heart rate so that your body uses the excess fat for energy.\n\n15-20 minutes is considered a good warm up for those who want to stay fit but not lose fat; 30-45 minutes of cardio (at the minimum) is what it takes to start using calories.\n\nRun, jog, ride a bike, whatever for at least half an hour.\n\nYour goal is to achieve a constant pace without the need to stop or rest.  When you reach that goal, you should notice a few pounds have been shed.  If you wish to increase the loss, then pick up your pace.  It is important to note that this takes time if you do not have the stamina or endurance to maintain a consistent pace for 30 minutes.\n\nAgain, exercise patience.
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I will surely wish u goodluck. Here's ur schedule babes:\nDONT's------------------\n\n-Cut out on carbohydrates \nThis includes cutting off chapatis, rice, white bread, potatoes, brinjals, wheat, maida and all other daily breads.\n\n-Cut out all candies, ice creams, lollies, fruity ices, shakes and all that is high on sugar and tasteds sweet.\n\n-Cut out smoking, drinking(if u hav been)\n\nDO's----------------\n\n-Hav lots of green leaf vegetables viz. salad, palak, ghiya, tori, tinda etc.\n \n-Eat lots of onions and ginger and lemon \nThese will lower ur cholestrol levels and help increase our metabolism.\n\n-Try drinking 15-20 glasses of liquids-juices, water and NO shakes please!! Remember fat never burns unless ur body is hydrated.\n\n-Try jogging for 15-30 min as per ur potential. This will further enhance ur metabolism and increase stamina to resist eating!\n\n-Try exercising and lifing small weights. U can begin urself by lifing up heavy items at home. Do some yoga-YES it works!! Try brisk walking\n\n-Do some aerobics-at least 10 min daily initiall and increase upto 30 min. Start dancing fast movements on the rock hard numbers . It will burn fat and reduce cholestrol.\n\nMAIL ME IF U STILL NOT HAVE "EXTRAORDINARY EFFECT": asamagicals2005@yahoo.co.in Bye\nbest of luck \nim sure u will lose at least 10 lb within 2-3 weeks. Remember, never go on any dieting plans. These will reduce ur fluid levels and ultimately leave u starving. Thus u nd up eating even more and hence put up all the lost "weight" that u call it as. Fat loss is a slow process and u should let it occur naturally.\nTaking pills, diet shakes, fat burners, using sauna blts and all will have a ver temporary effect. Lose it, eat again and it returns. This is how it goes. But, burn it naturally, maintain it and it nevr comes back!! Goodluck
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First change what you eat! A good diet plan is the South Beach Diet. Then start to exersize! Start with little things first like walking. Then build from that. Good Luck!!\nIf you have anyother questions just ask me!!
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You've got a long life ahead of you, Lord willing, so plan for the long term.  Educate yourself about nutrition, and eat *good* food.  (Learn about organic food here, too.) Step one here is to get rid of the junk in your diet.  Step two -- which needs to come very quickly -- is to find good-quality nutrition that also tastes good.  You *have* to do this, or you won't sustain the change in your diet (this is a pressure release valve: if you don't do it, you get tired of eating things you don't like and go back to eating good-tasting junk).  Step three is to do a little judicious cheating.  This is MANDATORY; I'm really not kidding here.  Pick a day, even if it's just once a month, and on that day eat anything you want.  (This is another pressure-release valve.)  Don't worry about diet pills; you eat right and exercise and your body will do the rest for you.  And you'll feel better, too, because you won't have a bunch of chemicals floating around in your system, and you won't have to keep taking pills to keep the weight off.\n\nNow for the 'getting into shape' part.  You can't do that by changing your diet; I don't care how healthy you eat.  You've got to exercise.  If you're looking for a cheap routine, there are a number of sources online that give the details of the Five Tibetans.  You could do that once a day to start.  After a couple of weeks, bump it up to twice; after a couple more weeks, to three times.  Don't overdo it -- 3 reps each exercise is plenty to start with, and go slowly.  Don't force anything, especially anything involving your spine, or you'll hurt yourself (this is a Bad Thing, because if you're hurt, it's harder to exercise).  Pay particular attention to how each exercise works your breathing.  When you start, just move slowly through the exercise with your lungs in neutral and see what happens to your breath.  You should notice that some movements cause inhalation, and others compress your lungs and cause you to exhale.  Use that information -- breathe with the movements, not against them.  If you want better-quality instruction and have some money to spend, check out Steve Barnes' Five Minute Miracle.  If you want more variety, look into Scott Sonnon's Flow-Fit and Intu-Flow programs. (Intu-Flow will also get you started with weight training, which is a good thing for fat loss as well.)  All of these start easily enough to be accessible to just about anyone.  With any of these, set yourself a goal of learning at least one new thing a week about your body, and when you do, write it down.  This will become a journal of insights about you and how you work -- a great tool, and a great encouragement on the bad days.\n\nNow this last bit may be a little hard to hear, but pay attention because it's critical to your success.  Real change that lasts is rarely sudden. There are ways to drop lots of weight, very quickly,  but there is almost no way to drop weight quickly *and keep it off.*  Patient, steady progress will give you better results than 100% all-out effort that exhausts you after a month.  Changing overnight is like quitting smoking -- as Mark Twain said, "It's easy; I've done it hundreds of times."  But change that sticks is slower and more careful.  Take the time to find a way to really accept each little bit of change into your lifestyle.  You can't afford to ignore the 'growing pains' caused by the change.  Pay attention to the inconveniences that each change creates and do your best to eliminate them.  Pay attention to the feelings of resentment or deprivation that may crop up and find a way to alleviate them.  All of this is how you actually get the change to be a comfortable part of your normal life, and it's why lasting change takes so long.  Put in the effort; you'll be glad you did.\nThe core problem here is that human beings crave stability at every level of ou
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if you are already exercising - chnge up your routine and intensify your workouts. Try a stricter diet.
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I have this diet that always helps me, but it is very strict. If you follow it precisely you can lose up to 40 pounds in 3 months. The best thing to do would be to open up Microsoft Word on your computer and copy and paste the following diet plan:\n\n\nLow Fat Pesco-Vegetarian Diet\n\nNo more eating out, ever. Now, with school, this will be very hard, and remember that you don’t have to do this 100% strict at first, because it is almost impossible, because you will sneak and eat some things that aren’t a part of this diet at first, but it is ok. It’s ok to maybe still eat out once a week or once every 2 weeks. But the longer you are on this diet, and you are trying to stick to it, your cravings for all of the bad foods will eventually disappear, this may take a long time, though. But sometimes it may only take a month before your body is used to not eating these foods, and then it won’t be as hard. When grocery shopping, you will be shopping differently, because you will have to buy your own foods now plus the normal food you would ordinarily buy as a family. This sounds like a lot, and at first it will be until you have your stock of food that only you eat at your house. I suggest cleaning out a cabinet and making one little cabinet area just yours, so that when you go into the kitchen, you know that this cabinet is the only one you will be eating out of. This probably sounds a little crazy, but it is very time effective so that you don’t search through all the cabinets when trying to find something to eat, and so that it keeps you on track of the foods you should be eating.\nThis is a very strict diet, and you don’t want to mess your school work up with it, so don’t feel you have to rush, unless you just want to. If you don’t do the diet full-fledge, it could mess up your metabolism if you start and then stop, and start again over and over. But, if you do decide to stick with it, eventually you will get used to all of these foods, and at least you will be eating healthier and seeing a positive change. The first 2-3 weeks of this diet are the hardest, but if you stick with this diet for those first 2-3 weeks, you will be through the worst part. Then, it is okay to go out to eat and treat yourself. I suggest not eating out for the first 2-3 weeks to get your body adjusted to this diet. \n\nFirst of all, (very important) don't eat meat anymore, (except any fish, like tuna or salmon). This includes any soups that have a beef/chicken stock as the base. Most soups have chicken or beef stock as a base. So buy vegetarian vegetable soup...not just regular vegetable soup, and eat it for supper (I recommend buying Campbell's because the generic brand is bland). Other soups include Campbell’s Tomato Soup, or any brand, really, and Swanson’s Vegetarian Vegetable broth. \n\nThis also includes milk. No cow milk. Buy some Soy milk. I promise it is delicious. I use 8th continent original light soymilk. And this is 100% healthier than cow milk. This will help you out alot. Unfortunately it only comes in half gallons, and is the same price as a whole gallon. You should buy this once a week. Because a full glass in the morning with oatmeal is the best thing to get you on the right track fast.\n\nThe best oatmeal to start out with would probably be Quaker (or Great Value, the wal-mart brand is what I always buy) oatmeal packets with flavors like Strawberries and Cream, Peaches and Cream, Blueberries and Cream, etc, this all comes in one box of packets. Eat one packet each morning, I prefer using the soymilk in mine instead of water to make it taste better, and while you’re in the shower, it’s a good idea to already have your cup of milk in the freezer getting cold because it is best to drink it when its icy cold. After getting ready, I usually make my packet of oatmeal and drink my milk with it, and if it is icy on top, I take some of the icy milk and put it in my oatmeal to help it cool down, plus this makes it t
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It is all about calories in and calories out. I went through this exactly and here is the plan I followed and it worked. Good luck!\n\nIf you want to do this it is for life so you need to totally change your way of eating and exercising. This is not a diet rather than a healthy eating plan for life. So no more talking diet cause it means time limit. Stop making some major mistakes wake up earlier and get active earlier your metabolism is sluggish and needs to be woken up this is half your problem. \n\nHere are the golden rules: \nInitially cut down to 1200 calories. \nExercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved. \nDon't eat carbs after 4pm, never eat carbs within 2 hours of exercise or within 1 hour of exercise. \nDrink 3 litres of water per day. You can have a green tea at the end of the day. \nLimit your fruit in take to 2 pieces per day. \nNever eat dinner after 6pm.\nAdopt of low GI eating plan this is sustainable for life!\nMake low fat dairy choices \n\nFollow this menu plan as a suggestion: \nBreakfast 7am - 1 cup hot water w lemon\n20 minutes later have a bowel of oats w water (no honey) OR\nfruit salad w low GI soy yogurt\nSnack 10am - pear or apple (both low GI)\nLunch 12.30pm - multigrain sandwich w 50g tuna & salad (no butter)\nSnack 3pm - low GI yogurt OR skim berry smoothie (no honey or banana) plenty of ice, 1/2 cup skim milk & 1/4 cup yogurt\nDinner 5.30pm - 120g grilled lean meat/fish/prawns/tofu patties (not fried) w spinach salad & mixed vegies (no whites, carbs) OR 3 egg white/soy omlette with ham, cheese and tomato\nSnack - 1 scoop of low cal low fat ice cream (if hungry)\n\nExercise is must be intense. Refer to www.bodybuilding.com for your weights routine. Never do weights two consecutive days have a cardio day in between. \n\nCardio needs to include running, go hard up stair wells and cycling. You get the most benefits from exercise when your body is totally fatigued and this is when you see changes. \n\nTo maintain you can increase calories to 1500 and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1200 cal and 6 sessions again. \n\nGood luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.
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have you been eating more?  How long are you working out? and hour? half hour? Remember first that muscle weighs more than fat does..really...most adults should strive for 30 minutes of exercise everyday..to loose weight you'll need to increase your cardio and decrease your caloric intake..lost 22 pounds this summer...was really strict w/calories..no junk, no mid am snack, mid pm snack was steamed veggies, reminded myself that it was okay to be hungry, and worked out 5-6 days a week for a minimum of 60  minutes, more like 90 minutes a day...drank tons of water and iced tea..it worked but it was hard work...you can do this..have an epiphany to change your life and embrace good health
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To start, the rule of thumb is burning more calories than your consuming.  Replace high fat/calorie meals with vegetables and/or fruits.  For example, when you make a sandwich, use fat free mayo, low fat cheese, and a healthier brand of meat.  Snacks, use fresh vegetables or fruits.  Stay away from the additivies like dressing, mayo, anything that usually makes the meal so much better.  Be careful how you cook, breading and frying are the worst.  Trying broiling or grilling.  In your vegetable intake, you want to stick with fresh or frozen over canned because of the sodium and preservatives.  As far as a workout, walking/running is the best workout that you can do all the time.  Swimming is a great fat burner but if your like me, you can't swim everyday.  Make breakfast or lunch your biggest meal.  Dinner should be light, due to the fact that you will probably be going to bed shortly after.  However, you don't want to starve yourself, that screws your matbolism all up.  Everytime you eat a meal, your basically jump starting your metabolism.  Its actually a lot healther to eat 5 really small meals throughout the day than 3 big meals.  You really want to start working out, running, walking, sit ups, push ups, etc.  These are the basics that are really easy to do.  Biggest thing, cut back on sweets, cola's, and your dressings/sauces.  Just don't try to loose weight really fast...it will only hurt you in the long run.  You can do, it's not an overnight process, the temptaions are tough.  Eating out, watching a movie, being bored.  Good Luck ;)
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Just hang in there.  Your body probably thinks that it is "starving" and is trying to hang on to the body fat.  Just drink lots of water and keep at what your doing.  Sounds as if its working.
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Id recommend start working out, doing a little bit each day will really help.  Don't push yourself at first just get use to it and then progress.  You should do a little more research on that, situps and crunches are probably a good start... You could also try eating healthy cereal in the morning (Breakfest is important), and maybe sneak in some fruit before lunchtime.  DONT eat the cafeteria food if you can avoid it (at least from my experience).  And have mom pack a healthy lunch.  If you are close with your mom you should ask for her help... Just don't ask the question the way you do.  Remember You don't have to look like a model, just start off with simple goals (eg. 2 pounds per month), and work from there.
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The summer is coming up quick so you don’t have long.  But one to two months is all you need if you do it right.  I’m assuming you’re not huge, because in that case it probably would take some time.  But for someone who has the winter padding on, you should be fine.  You don’t have to go to the gym but for the best results definitely jog/run 3-4 times a week for 30 minutes or more.  Doing less isn’t much benefit, so make sure to run or jog at a pace you can keep up for 30 minutes.  And warm up and stretch properly, with winter inactivity it’s very important.  And as far as food goes, make sure to eat breakfast, with mostly fruits and maybe some yogurt or small piece of toast.  Avoid high carbs like bagels and muffins.  A lot of people avoid breakfast but it really is important, gets your metabolism going throughout the day.  And also eat a lot of small meals, 4-5 if possible.  The worst mistake people make is avoiding breakfast and starving themselves all day only to gorge themselves at dinner time.  Dinner should be a very small meal.  You know what types of things are bad to eat and how much to eat, just try to cut down.  Try and stick with a level you can keep up.  Hope this helps, see you at the beach!
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It sounds like you're already doing the right things.  Try varying the type of exercise you do, as you can hit exercise plateaus as well as weight loss plateaus. Make sure your exercise plan includes cardio, strength-training & flexibilty.  Strength training is SO IMPORTANT to losing weight; more muscle=more metabolism.\nYou might want to try something like slim-fast. Replace a couple of meals a day with a shake (it tastes better than it used to!).  I have 2 slim fast meals per day (Monday-Friday) with a scoop of protein powder in each and I work out 4 hours a week. I lost 12# in 3 weeks.  Check my weight-loss blog for more info. (Not selling anything! It's free info.)