I am a vegeatrian, and I eat to many carbs. What is a good way to lose weight for me?
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Balanced meals.  Becareful of too much soy, there are new studies linking it with hypothyroidism (personal experience with this one) two or three servings a week is okay.  Don't worry so much about carbs, we need them, just make sure you are getting the right amounts from the 4 food groups, and exercise.
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I have tried a few things.  From experience, I tell you, going on adkins diet, and staying on 'induction' throughout, was the fastest way I ever lost weight.\n\nYou don't have  to buy the book.  Rules are simple:  No sugar, no sugar substitutes.  No coffee.  No caffeine.  Count all carbohydrates, and keep daily intake below 20 carbohydrates daily.  Drink at least 8 cups of water daily.\n\nThat having been said, atkins diet is said by some to be unhealthy.  Healthy way to lose weight is to go on raw 100% vegan (vegetarian with absolutely no animal products) diet.  On this diet you may have only water, fresh juices from raw vegetables fruit and greens, and raw vegetables, fruit, greens, nuts, and other plants and parts of plants in their raw, natural form.  No refined sugar, no sugar substitutes.  This is very healthy, and good for many ills.  Many have testified that they lost lots of weight in a short time with this diet.  Check this out:\n\nhttp://rawfoodinfo.com/pictures/beforeafters_main.html
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Eliminate all refined sugars and make sure your carbs are whole wheat, veggies and fruits.  Cut down on starches if you are trying to lose weight.  \nMake sure you get enough protein.\n\nWork your way up to running about 1 hr/day if your knees and hips can stand it.
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giving a little effort would assure you of a really safe and effective weight loss. a low-carb, low fat, high-fiber diet is the best diet. this is a sample menu, about 1200 calories the whole day. you will not spend a lot, and you will not feel hunger.\n\nbreakfast:\n1 pc toast / sliced bread\n1 pc banana or apple\n1 glass of milk\ntea or coffee with low cal sweetener (or sugar)\n\n10 am snack:\n1 banana or apple OR\n10 pcs of berries OR\n1 cup popcorn\n1 glass lemonade or juice\n\nlunch:\nopen sandwich (no bread on top) containing:\n1 slice of smoked ham (about 60 grams)\ntomatoes, lettuce, onion\n1 glass juice/lemonade/tea\n\n4pm snack:\n3 pcs of oreo cookies OR\n1 palmful peanuts OR\nany medium sized fruit\n\ndinner:\n1 100-gram cut of lean meat (if chicken, no skin)\n1 1/2 golfball size serving mashed potato or pasta\nup to 2 cups of green veggies or steamed carrots and peas\ndessert: any medium fruit OR\n1 golfball size of low fat ice cream or sorbet\n1 cup of coffee or tea\n\nyou can do variations of this sample plan. very low cost (not totally no cost of course), and low maintenance. you will not feel any hunger at any time of the day. the best thing is, these foods are definitely available in your own house, probably also the things you eat daily. and you will not deprive yourself so binging and mood swings will be avoided.\n\nthrow in some exercise while you're at it: jogging, weightlifting for muscle development, pilates for flexibility (there are websites that show some basic pilates moves), powerwalking for stamina building. even regular day to day activities help - walking to the bus station, bicycling to the supermarket, mopping the floor, you can even do some jogging in-place while watching TV. remember that a well balanced diet and regular exercise is still the best. not only will you be kept trim, you will also stay healthy.\n\nremember that there are no quick-fix diets and exercises. starving yourself and pushing yourself to extreme exhaustion would only lead to even more dangers, and a higher medical cost. the best way to achieve your goal and to get a healthier body is to incorporate a well balanced diet and enough exercise in your daily life.
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If you do these things, you should lose weight:\n\nDo not eat potatoes, bread, sugar.\nGo easy on pasta and rice if you eat those.\nEat lots of veggies. Get most of your diet from those.\nIf you eat meat, only eat lean meats. Skip the hamburger and fries and choose a salad, perhaps with chicken on it.\nExercise. It sounds like spot exercise would be good for you (like crunches, sit ups) and maybe a treadmill or stair stepper. Walking is the best exercise you could do, so walk instead of ride if you can. Riding a bike is good (if it doesn't have a motor on it). Find an exercise you really enjoy, like hiking, bike riding, tennis. The thing is, get that body moving. (Did you see the movie Matagascar? You got to move it, move it.) Dancing is a great exercise. \n\nIf you do these things, you will lose weight. Remember, if you are tempted to cheat on the routine, you are only cheating yourself. It takes a lot of self discipline, but if you completely give up the sweets and fatty foods, you will find after about 2-3 weeks that you are no longer hungry for them.\n\nJust stay away from the fad diets. At your age they can be so dangerous. If you start living a healthy life now (and it's hard because most kids your age are junk food addicts) you will be much healthier, have more energy, and I think you will be happier. Good luck.
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it depends on ur effort\ntry taboo\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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Im vegetarian too, and I eat lots of vegetables like 6 servings a day and 4 servings of fruits. Then I eat 1-1 1/4 servings of nuts. It helps you lose weight, regulate your metabolism, won't get any disease except you need to buy vitamin b12 supplements (found in meat products especially in beef and chicken breasts). Eat peanut butter good source of protein so you won't lose hair or slower skin development.
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Everyone is saying fruits and veggies, but seriously - YOU HAVE TO HAVE PROTEIN!!!! Get canned chunk chicken, or you can buy the pre-cooked, pre-sliced grilled chicken near the lunch meat in the grocery store, canned tuna.\n\nUse these to make a meal out of a salad.  Be sure to use LOW-FAT salad dressing.  Remember that losing weight isn't about carbs and calories, it's about BAD CARBS (potato chips, spaghetti) and FAT CALORIES (calories from fat).  Lessen the fat intake in your diet and you will lose weight.  Eat lean meats (chicken and fish) and LEARN TO READ THE LABELS.  Try to eat food with less than 30 calories from fat per serving.  \n\nAlso, try sprinkling any cajun spice on the meat.  Add any spice you like, just don't add Buttermilk Ranch or Blue Cheese dressing.  Try low fat Rasperry Walnut or a light vineagrette.\n\nAND EXCERCISE!!!!!!\n\nGood luck!\n\nP.S. Ask for a George Foreman Grill for Christmas.
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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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Every year Americans invest billions of dollars in weight loss diets and gimmicks, many of which yield few results. However, the lure of quick, easy weight loss is hard to resist. Despite ineffective tools, most hopeful consumers are willing to give the next weight loss fad a chance. If you're planning to start a new diet, it is important to remember the following information.\n\nFood-specific diets: Have you ever tried the cabbage diet or the fruit-only diet? These are just a couple of examples of diets that promote one "specific" food that causes weight loss. No matter how much you think you'll enjoy ice cream at every meal, inevitably you will get bored with eating the same food repeatedly. As a result, you'll eat less food than needed to maintain your weight. This type of diet will not teach you healthier eating habits or provide a balance of nutrients, and consequently is not effective for long-term weight loss.\n\nHigh-protein, low-carbohydrate diets: One of the most recent trends in dieting, these diets are based on the concept that carbohydrates are "bad" and that everyone has some degree of insulin resistance, resulting in poor carbohydrate metabolism. Many proponents of these diets suggest that including carbohydrates in your diet will cause weight gain. The reality, though, is that eating more calories (whether as carbohydrate, fats, or protein) than you burn will cause weight gain.\n\nHigh-fiber, low-calorie diets: As I've noted in many previous blog entries, fiber-rich foods play an important role in a healthy diet. They are a helpful ingredient of weight loss efforts because they provide bulk to the diet, which helps you feel fuller sooner. Be careful, though: if you plan to increase the fiber in your diet, be sure to increase your fluid intake at the same time or you may experience cramping, bloating, and constipation. High-fiber diets will help with weight loss only if you restrict calories in conjunction with addition of extra grains, fruits and vegetables.\n\nLiquid diets: Consumers face a couple of different liquid diet options. Your local grocery store and pharmacy sell over-the-counter liquid meal replacements, which can be expensive and frequently add extra calories to daily consumption if not managed carefully. On the other hand are liquid diets that require medical supervision. These diets are usually very low in calories and may result in metabolic abnormalities if dieters are not carefully monitored. Neither type of liquid diet should be used for long‑term weight loss unless monitored by a health care professional. Radically changing your caloric intake in this way will not result in long-term behavior modification and healthy eating patterns.\n\nFasting: As a way to cleanse the body or jump-start a weight-loss program, fasting has been recommended for years. However, all that fasting really does is deprive your body of nutrients and decrease your energy, leaving you feeling weak and lightheaded. If the right nutrients are not available for your cells to use as energy, your liver will convert fat stores to ketones for use as energy (ketosis). Long-term ketosis can be harmful to your health.\n \nNo fad diet or gimmick will work magic for safe and effective weight loss. The following are some suggestions for ensuring a long-term healthy eating plan and getting your weight loss efforts off to an encouraging start: \nEat a variety of foods. Remember, a balanced diet will ensure that you get all necessary nutrients. \n\nGet some physical activity every day. Calories in must be less than calories out to ensure successful weight loss. To keep "calories out" at a healthful level, make you get at least 30 minutes of physical activity every day.\n\nInclude sources of fiber in your diet. They will add bulk and give you a feeling of fullness.\n\nChoose a diet low in fats, saturated fats, and cholesterol. You do need to consume some fat for good health. Aim for no mo
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A calorie is a unit of measurement for energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 g of water by 1 °C. Everything exept like diet coke has some calories in it. However.... You want to eat vegys and fruit becase they have tons of vitamins and fiber and good stuff for you body, think about the stuff you'd replace it with. Let me outline your options reall quick so you understand how good vegys are by comparison;\n\nMeat; while nessary for you most types of meat have way to much saturated fat in it and not nearly enough of the good unsaturated fat. fish is better, and some meat is nessiary, but to much is shown to give people brain damage if they substute it for vegetables or fruit.\n\n\ncarbohidrates: theres some of these in your fruit and vegetables but what i'm talking ab out here is that white bread and cerial and stuff, now you should also have some carbs in your diet, but they don't provide the same nessiarly vitamins and minerals that fruit and vegys do.\n\nNow for ths stuff you should stay away from just because (now we all have a little of this but try not to over indulge) simple sugars, trans fats and saturated fat, So basicly, potato chips, pop corn, candy, and deep fired food. Just think is this a healthy food, is it fresh, does it have an experation date in the next two weeks. those are good guidelines to live by. Anyway hope this wasnt to long. Dont stop eating vegys and fruit. lol.
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the best way is an all raw food diet.  eat nothing but fresh vegs and fruits, nuts seeds and tublars and drink only water.  your weight will drop like a ton of bricks.  however, you wont do it for you want to lose weight without giving up the foods that are making you fat.  it doesent work that way.  you cant have your cake and eat it too.
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Eat whatever, but in smaller portions. Cut back on sugars and carbs those are loaded with calories.  Don't eat unless you are hungry.  If you snack choose veggies w/ dip, baked chips, or lite popcorn instead of candy.  Plus, throw in some exercise during the week.  If you are trying to lose weight, try to fill up on veggies w/o butter and cheese on them, or fruits.  And try to do some sort of exercise for at least 30 minutes most days of the week.
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Avoid fad diets (Atkins included!) like the plague!  Eat smaller portions and cut out fatty and sugary foods.  Eat plenty of fruit and veg and drink lots of water.  the key to losing well is EXERCISE....you need to do it, dont rely on diet changes alone...;
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If you are looking to lose weight watch white foods. Seriously it works! White bread, white rice, sugar, pasta, milk, potato, and even cheese are all examples of foods that should be eaten in extreme moderation for a dieter. They are high in carbohydrates which are stored as fats in all but the real athletic bodies, heavy, and low in essential nutrients. So it is basically empty calories. Replace these white foods with a brown version. Like wheat bread, brown rice, wheat pasta, yams, and any other healthier options I didn'tt hink of. The brown version is full of whole grains, fiber (great for dieting!) and less calories. There is a ton more I could load you down with about dieting, but I though I would keep it simple for you. Feel free to e-mail me if you want more info.
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Working at a weight loss center for years I have to say Yes!! Most vegetarians really eat too many starches and that is the culprit. Also you still need protein so you want to ensure you continue with vegetarian type proteins or you'll lose your muscle which affects our skin's elasticy too.
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The Low Carb diet is not really good for you.  If you want to loose weight you got to start by having a balanced high water content diet.  That means more vegi and fruit, a lot less refined carb and high fat food.  Your health demand that you have balanced foot intake and moderate exercises.