I'm toooverweight! I am exercising 4 times a week, and just started. I lost 3 pounds my first week, but I think I need a better diet, not just execise. Can anyone help?
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first of all u are not TOO overweight!!! it may be true that u have a couple of extra pounds but u are not too fat!!\nbut still it is always nice to loose a couple of pounds to feel good about urself and be motivated!!! so here are some tips... hope they help... good luck... :o)\n\nWHAT to eat for losing weight\n\n• Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, especially NC (negative calorie) food.\n\n* Print these lists. They will be your ... "Bible", from now on !\n* Dill and parsely - include them in all your salads. Also ognion + garlic.\n* Try eat mostly fresh vegs & fruits (whenever possible, of course)\n* If you really want a book, then check this out: The Negative Calorie Diet Workbook & Cookbook - eBook (Win95/98 only). Read more about this e-book here.\n\n\n• Eat fish, chicken, beef, pork. (preferences are in this order)\n\n* If you are a vegetarian, then ignore this!\n* Avoid fat meat\n\n\n• Eat 2-3 slices of bread/day. Don't EVER exclude bread from your diet!\n\n• Snacks between meals (if needed): apples, oranges, grepfruits and other NC fruits\n\n* Don't cheat ... NO cookies, chips, candies, brownies etc! \n* EVEN if they have "low fat" indication... They might have low fat, yet they can have lots of CALORIES !!!\n\n\n• About rice, potatoes, beans, [xxx]nuts, pastry, pasta... you know!\n\n* Don't eat too much of those, at least during the first weeks of the diet. I'm not a low carb addict, but I've noticed weight gains if consuming those in large quantities, especially when associated with other foods.\n* If you like them a lot, try and eat them like one meal. A nice delicious plate of spaghetti could be your lunch (never dinner!), followed by a nice big apple. These rich starch foods are not good for dinner!\n* At dinner time, chose mainly large mixed veggies salads... with fish, lean meat or cheese (if you are not a vegetarian). \n\nif u want to lose weight the best food to it are baked potatoes with nothing on it. no salt no nothing just plain. u can eat a 10000000000 baked potatoes till ur stuff and not gain a pound. i heard that from a weight loss tape. the best drink is water or gatorade. thats a start then when you work out do some taeboo. if u want a macine. run with dumbells on a treadmill. u could do the rocky workout. but thats a new story. u could use a butterfly macine i think it works the abs\n\n1) It is not just the amount you eat, but what you eat. Lean meats and vegtables that snap are a good place to start. And by snap I mean fresh and not boiled or doused with better or whatever.\n\n2) Exercise moderatly but for about an hour every other day. Spend half of that walking or running at a good enough pace for you to feel labored. The other half of the time use weights, or exercises such as push ups or situps to get a muscle "burn". A gym is also an option, but I don't know if you have the money for or want to spend the money on it.\n\n3) Sleep well. To bed earlier and up earlier. Exercise in the morning when you wake up, not in the evening before bed. 7 hours of GOOD sleep is a must.\n\n4) Occupy yourself with a hobby that keeps your attention for a long period of time. A hobby like this keeps your mind focused and gives less of a chance for snacking from boredom.\n\nThat is a good place to start... if you see good results, keep it up and modify to fit you... if it does not, see a doctor AND a trainer \n\nKeep working out, drink water a lot, eat 5 to 6 meals a day but in small quantities, vegtables are important specially cucumber and lattice, fruits not be eaten after meals except by 2 to 3 hours, minimize the starch quantities in your meals lots of salad is important, your last meal must be before you sleep by 2 to 3 hours\nthe most important thing is you don't lose patient wait and have a strong will to be as what you want\n\nyou might have some more ideas from www.ivillage.com\n\ngood luck
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I'm tired of people condescendingly saying all you have to do is eat less and exercise. Yes, that may work for YOU, but does NOT work for everyone. I tried everything (yes, including regular exercise!) and finally had to stop taking a prescription that I knew was preventing weight loss (I always research meds before taking them). I knew my thyroid was low but it was not low enough to treat medically so I got no help there. Finally my GP gave me phentermine and I have lost 42-43 pounds in a year. It is not a magic pill. You still have to eat less and exercise, but it makes those two things effective. In the long run you do have to develop healthier habits.  And stay away from soy. It suppresses your thyroid, which controls your metabolism.
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You know, losing weight is difficult.  There are a lot of answers such as don't eat so much and exercise more.  Those are valid ways to lose weight.  The question is why are you over weight.  What I mean is, are you addicted to food?  Do you eat when you are upset?  Do you watch a lot of TV?  \n\nI suggest getting into an organized sport.  This way, you're a little more locked in to exercising.  People are depending upon you.  Try volleyball, soccer, or even karate.  If you get in to karate, make sure you spar.  You wouldn't believe the amount of calories you'd burn.\n\nYou also should see a dietician.  I say that because you are only 13.  You don't want to deprive yourself of essential nutrients that will hinder your growth.\n\nGood luck with this journey.  It is a long and difficult one.
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Hello, \nI know the diet and I'm on it it's great. give me you e-mail and ill send it to you. For 3 days in a row you must eat certain foods on the list then the rest of the week you eat a normal diet. When I started it i lost 6 lbs. in 3 days.\ngabynjess@yahoo.com
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sounds like you have a good plan going. it is good you are engaging in jogging three times a week, but the other days, i challenge you to do something active. not more jogging, but perhaps walking more (since being at school is a very sedentary activity). Just keep in mind that losing 1-2 lbs per week is a healthy weight loss goal. (if you lose more, its just water, and run the risk of becoming dehyrdated)\ngood luck!
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Hi Im on the lipotrim now and ive lost 13lbs in less than 4 weeks. It requires a lot of willpower and you will just be having shakes, mousse or soup and no food. People say its bad for you but how bad can going from obese to overweight be? Surely weighing less is better for you than struggling with a diet where you only lose a pound a week and getting bored. Ive stuck to this cos it actually works and I can see the results when I try clothes on and look in the mirror
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Hiya!  Ok over the last 6 months I lost 45lbs.  I researced the web over looking for the easy answers. But it comes back to age old news.. Nutrition and exercise.  I chose a low fat diet, much like a diabetic's diet.  Lots of fruits and vegetables, and my special touch was diet green tea made by arizona tea which has ginsing which helps promote the metabolism.  I exercised 3x a week 30 min at curves just cardio.  Believe it or not you do not have to starve, just eat healty and eat in portions, and exercise.  Eating portions I think was very important. When I started portioning my food I really realized at that point how much I had been over eating. An example.. I love spaghetti, but an acutal portion is 1 cup.  Put one cup on your plate lol and look at the difference from your normal portion.  And I thought oh god I'm still going to be hungry. Not... I added a salad, with low cal dressing and 1 slice of bread no butter only garlic.  You can balance your meal. And not be hungry.  But I also believe that more mature women need exercise and putting in that 30 min 3 x a week really works.\nI also took a daily vitamin.. Try the new oil of olay ones it is a multi package of vitamins.  And I found that these do not make me hungry.
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Thanks ZipLock... \n\nI think there's a ton of misconceptions about dieting and health... I urge everyone who is concerned about their health and fitness is to educate themselves.\n\nThat means reading.  I subscribe to about 7 different health magazines and people consistently throw me scientific articles on nutrition.\n\nI've learned a lot about health and fitness over the years and hopefully I can help a few people get over their weight /fitness issues.\n\nThanks again, Ziplock, I've read some of your stuff and found it on line with my beliefs too.
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Hey since this is for an English paper then I guess I can spill my heart out.  Being overweight makes me feel unimportant, undesirable, unattractive, unintelligent, unappreciated among other things.  I have been on only 3 or 4 diets.  But I've given up because nothing seems to work.  I hear about other diets from friends and other people. I am thinking about my weight 50% of the time.  While it is mentally painful sometimes it is physically pain also.  My friend her knees hurt because she has a lot of weight on them.  My back hurts a lot and it's hard for me to stand still in one place for a length of time.  I have to be standing against something.  The only reason I feel I can say that I only think about my weight 50% of the time is because I'm married and my husband makes me feel desirable and attractive and like I'm perfect the way I am.  So inside of my home I feel safe but outside, it's very hard.  My self-esteem probably drops- as a matter of fact I'm positive it does.  Hope I helped a little bit.
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Most people eat way too many starches and sugars (in other words carbs). There is a diet (if you want specifics just send me an e-mail) basically you are allowed 3 meals a day and one snack.  Each meal gets 2-3 carbs and snacks get 1-2 (you can figure carbs by looking on nutrition label taking what it has for caarbohydrates and dividing it by 15, for instance if its 32 thats roughly 2 servings of carbs).  Also for each meal you eat 3-5 oz of lean meat or 1 whole egg or 1 whole egg and 1 egg white or 3 egg whites.  You have unlitmited veggies. This meal plan is flexible enough that you dont necessary have to eat "diet" foods but puts portions back to where they were in the 1970s when there wasnt such a huge obesity problem.\n\nWith any diet you need to exercise. I suggest the following plan, it is not too difficult that if you are very over weight you will be uncapable of doing it (these are the times you should start at, add 5 minutes each week to the total time, until you hit around 80 min on the walk):\nDay 1: walk 40 min\nDay 2: walk 10 min, jog 5, walk 10, jog 5, walk 10, jog 5 (when you add time to these add a min to the jog a week, nothing else)\nDay 3: get 10 lb weights, do a chest press, curls and stand on a step holding the weights and do calf raises. Each should be 3 sets of 10 reps for first month then go to 12 reps and after that do 15 reps\nDay 4: rest\nDay 5: Cardio(choose 1): jog 15 min, jump rope 10, walk 50, swim 15, trampoline 15, sport 20, etc.\n\nthen repeat.  Note: if it is raining outside you can shuffle the days.  You should also do 15-20 pushups a night and 50-100 situps
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Some of us have that problem of gaining weight, and others have trouble loosing. It certianly has little to do with how much you eat, though a doc friend has told me the amount of times I eat and what times I eat. Finaly I have gained weight, my wife too.
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try running on a treadmill.  I lost so much weight I went for 1/2 everyday for a month.  After the first month I defiantly noticed a difference.  Now I only go three times a week to maintain my healthy weight.
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Do you need to lose weight?  That's the important question.  If you really are overweight this is what you should do:\n\nYou have to choose a heatlthy lifestyle.  Eat right, eat moderately.  Incorporate fruits and veggies and cut out the junk.  Exercise consistently, not just sporadically--a combination of cardio and strength-training would be best.  NEVER take diet pills, they are 100% not good for you.\n\nGood luck. :-)
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I have been on an 850 to 1000 calorie diet for 4 months now, and I've lost 50 pounds.  I spoke with the 5 Dr.'s I work with and my family doctor before I started it, and they all said that it is safe, but to take multi-vit.'s because it is very hard to get all your food groups in your meals.  Exercise can be anything from just sitting in a chair and making circles with your legs and arms, to walking.  You can start out slow, that's no problem.  Don't overdo it, but do as much as you possibly can.  When you start to lose weight, you'll see how easy it is to get up and move around, therefore you can do more exercises.  Drink at least 8 8oz. glasses of water everyday, and fill up with fiber.  It helps you feel fuller longer.  This diet DOES get easier as you get on it, because your lifestyle changes, and you just get used to it.  Trust me, you can do it!  I wish you the best of luck with this.  After the first month, it will get easier and easier.  One thing with low-cal diets is that it lowers your metabolism, but the exercise actually keeps it up, so you kind of even it out.  Sit in a chair and do lifts with weights (5 or 8 pounds), that will burn calories, and build muscle.  The more muscle you have, the more fat you burn.  Hope it works for ya!
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3 pounds a week is not too bad.  It depends on how much you weigh and how much you want to weigh.  Also daily you should be eating at least 1600 calories if you're female and about 2500 if male through at least 5 meals in the day.\n\nIf you find you are losing too much weight switch one of your cardio days out to be a weight day and that will help you build muscle.\n\nAs long as you are eating properly and enjoying your exercise you can't go wrong.  Your body won't let you get too thin through exercise, it will just demand more food if you get to that stage.  Don't overdo it and cause yourself injury though... Have at least 2 days off a week.. That means NO exercise at all, not just "light" exercise.  Your body needs time to recover.
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Listen, I am so happy now. I put on so much weight after I had my first child. It was a terribly hormonal pregnancy so the weight never shifted despite trying so hard. Then I had my second child and weighed 80 kgs I ballooned to about 94kg at the end. And yes, I got stretchmarks. \n\nAnyway, I lost all the weight cause that was the one thing I really wanted to do for myself. Having kids is challenging but going to the gym gave me 1.5 hours of sanity a day. Something for myself as I didn't have heaps of help like others do. \n\nStretchmarks are still there but they really fade over time. There is a great product called Bio Oil in Australia and it helps reduce the lines. But, they will over time nonetheless. \n\nHere is the plan I followed cause I want you to do it too: If 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. \n\nHere are the golden rules: \nInitially cut down to 1200 (women) - 1500 (men) calories. \nExercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved if you don't have the access. \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 - muligrain 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. If you have access to a gym include boxing and spin classes as well. 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 (women) - 1800 (men) and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1200 (women) - 1500 (men) cal and 6 sessions again. \n\nGood luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.