What do I do if I want to lose weight?
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Eat less and exercise more.
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The experts say to lose weight slowly, or else it will find you again.  Make a lifestyle change, more exercise, better eating habits, smaller portions, etc.
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1. Start with a positive attitude.\n2. Research and access your body to see if you really need to lose weight or just tone up.\n3. Have a realistic goal. Aim for 1-2 lbs. per week.\n4. Set up a basic diet of fruits, veggies, lean meats and a little dairy. Drink lots of water. Decide on how many calorires you need in a day and try to stay within the max....but at least eat 1200 to 1400 a day.\n5 Set up an exercise program...walking is good. Do this daily or every other day.\n6. Add in some weight bearing exercises to help tone up your muscles.\n7. Only weigh yourself once a week or once a month. Don't get caught up in the numbers... \n8. Don't give up.\n\nBottom line: you have to burn more calories than you take in.
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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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If you want to lose weight, you have to do more than eat the right foods...you have to exercise daily.  Eating right will only stop you from gaining weight.  Losing requires a little more effort on your part.  Good luck.  Don't give in to temptation.
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To loose weight: eat a balanced diet, eat less, and exercise more.
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Why do you need to lose weight? Are you morbidly obese? Slightly obese? (meaning at least 30 lbs overweight. This is calculated using your height and weight measurements) If not, I'm going to tell you not to try losing any weight. At all. Don't go on any diets. Don't eat diet foods. Don't skip meals. Don't take diet pills.\n\nThese things will make you fat. They will make any problem you had ten times worse. DO NOT TRY THEM.\n\nWhat I will reccomend is to stop drinking sodas, sugary drinks, and most juice. Drink WATER. It is the only thing you should be drinking on a daily basis.\n\nMaintain a healthy level of excercise each week. No more than forty minutes a day if you are doing it every day. Too much excercise with not enough time allowing your body to recouperate is a recipie for disaster.\n\nGet enough sleep. Your body needs rest to repair muscles and keep itself in good shape. Losing out on sleep slows your metablosim and tricks your body into thinking it needs food.\n\nFollow these general directions and you will be reasonably healthy. As I am not a licensed doctor, I cannot give you any more informationt than this. Good luck.
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Try increasing your mileage in your runs.  Running is a great way to lose weight.  Start off by increasing 1/4 of a mile every 2 weeks.
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Be 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 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.  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 to 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!
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try going to the gym and using the treadmill... its best for losing weight...
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WHAT 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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A good way to lose weight is to track your intake of calories.\n\nEveryone burns up a certain amount a day, the more activity that you do, the greater amount of calories your body burns up. \n\nSo, by knowing your calorie intake( I try to limit mine to 500 for breakfast, and lunch, about 250 snack, and 700 for dinner.) try to keep total calories about 1,500 and you should lose weight.\n\nOther ideas:\n\nDrink lots of water\nIf you do eat something like binge eating, so what; start again.\nKeep active\nRemember you did not gain weight overnight, and you won't lose weight overnight.\n\nYou will get there...good luck.\n\nIf you can afford it...weight watchers would be good. Because you will have support.
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Losing weight is very simple.  You burn off more than you take in.  To that end, you have to watch what you eat and be aware of the nutritional value of pretty much everything you eat.  Also, you have to know what activities burn what amount of calories to help you lose weight...everything from just walking around to a good, hard workout.  Example: if you watch what you eat and eat healthy things but don't see yourself losing weight, you probably aren't exercising enough, or perhaps not doing the right kinds of exercising.  Again, you have to burn off more than you take in.
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By eating well and doing lots of exercise. Simple. Mostly a good variety of fruit, veg,  occasional fish and meat.\n\nTo lose weight, your calorie intake must be lower than your calorie expenditure. If you eat less than you consume you won't lose weight indefinitely because every pound of body weight adds to your calorie expenditure: as your weight decreases, so will the energy demand on your system. Eventually, you will find an equilibrium that fits your dietary intake.\n\nIf you are doing low indurance exercise (e.g. jogging), you will lose fat and muscle until your weight matches your intake, BUT!!! if you finish a low indurance session with some higher indurance exercise (weights around 50 reps) you will encourage your muscles to hang onto their fibres and the fat will disappear quicker. This is how you get "in shape" and get a nice cut physique.\n\nIf you are new to exercise, be aware of "the training curve"... If you are not exercising regularly, your muscles will accummulate fuel (glycogen). When you start to exercise regularly, after initial aches and pains called the IDOMS, you will find a spurt in your fitness. You'll feel pretty good! But...\n\nAs you continue to run down your fuel reserves, your body is not accustomed to putting these back as quick as you are burning them. After your initial spurt there may come a point when you feel drained and you can't face your exercise sessions because your just too pooped...\n\nThis is the time to train to improve your fitness: train your body to replenish the muscle fuel you are burning! This is a key hurdle to getting fit. It's really hard and it can take time but once you are through it you'll feel great!\n\nMental preperation is key because getting in shape requires a lifestyle change and people are generally comfortable in their lifestyle, even if they're not happy with it. Be under no illusions: lifestyle changes are difficult! \n\nMake a list of all the stuff you don't like about your lifestyle now and stick it on the door of your fridge. To remind you of why you are doing what you are doing. \n\nPrepare yourself for the times when you will feel like avoiding your sessions (due to training curve and all other kinds of excuses): write a note to [your future self] to be read when [your future self] is thinking of avoiding a session that explains to [your future self] why you would please like [your future self] to stop being a big wuss and get [your future self's] backside out of the door and onto the freaking bike!
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The key to losing weight is eating a balanced meal. You have to try and eat the three main meals-breakfast, lunch and dinner. That fruit that your eating should be your snack in the morning. Also, are you exercising, because that is another factor.
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start by walking first off..don't worry about eating healthy, that will come in due time.  increase your walking weekly and about week 3-4 start changing your eating habits.  \n\nThe secret to losing weight/ staying in shape is to be persistant.  if you miss a day, don't worry about it, just keep moving!\n\nGood luck
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Eat a BALANCED diet (don't starve yourself, and know that it's alright to occasionally indulge) and excercise regularily (make it fun, go for a walk, take the stairs instead of escalators) are the best ways to lose weight.