i am overweight, I believe from my birthcontrol pills, how do i lose the weight and how do i become motivated?
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Cut out all carbs for a few weeks. No bread, potatoes, corn, rice, cereal, pasta, fruit, tomatoes, beans (except green beans) and peas. Lots of meat and green vegs. Drink 8 glasses of water a day. Walk every day. Get a friend to diet and exercise with you
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First you need to talk to your doctor. That is your best way to figure out the best way to lose weight. If you are looking to shed so many pounds you might ask to talk with a nutrionist. They can help you plan your course of action and will be very helpful on the support end. They help people like you all the time, thats their job and they enjoy doing it. \n\nRemember being over weight is unhealthy and your putting yourself at risk for lots of diseases and future complications. But to lose that much safely you need to have medical help. Your family doctor is the first step, he/she can direct you best from there.\n\nRemember you need to exercise at least 45 minutes to have effective weight loss. you should attempt 30 minutes of cardio where you bring your breathing rate up. Here you will need your doctor to approve just how high of a heart rate you can go safely. normally 75-85% of your max heart rate is what will get the pounds off. But you want to be safe and not over tax your heart. The doctor might recomend 50% which is just as good if you keep eating healthy and are dedicated. This way while you do cardio you will have a target heart rate to stay in to get the most out of the exercise.\n\nAlso know that every pound is 3500 caleries. You need to burn that many a week less then what you consume to lose any weight. Thats buring 3500 caleries less then what you consume to lose one pound! Think about it...\nMake sure you get nutrion and take in a healthy amount of caleries. \n\nI suggest keeping a journal. Attach a picture of someone who is your goal size. At the end of each night write in how many caleries you had or what you have eaten. Also when you exercise mark how long you did and how many caleries you burned.  you can get a book that will tell you how many caleries you burn at your current weight doing certain exercises. If you weigh more your body is carring that extra weight in the exercise, helping you burn more then someone who weighs less then you. Thats a positive thing... it makes losing those first pounds easier! You can also get a computer program that will tell you how many caleries you consumed.  \n\nWhen you look at lables on the food pick ones that are low in saturated or trans fat. Mono and poly are good fats and are ok to have in your food. Also get foods that have less sugar. Sugar is a simple energy source and gets stored as lipids and fat. Stay away from the sweats. It's hard I know but now a days you can buy things with out sugar. ( I dont endorse sugar substatutes though)\nDrink water instead of pop and natural juice if your going to drink juice. Also stay away from alcohol because it has caleries too.\n\nMost importantly talk to your doctor. I am not a doctor and in no way an expert on this matter.\n\n\nalso lots of people will respond with fad diets. Do not follow them. Make your diet personalized and realize cutting out all carbs is dangerious. Every food you eat is an energy source and the only energy source your brain uses is carbs. Don't deprive your brain.... When you eat carbs though you need to make sure they are whole grain and complex. These don't store as fat so easily and are easier for you to burn. If you like white bread Wonder makes a good whole grain wheat bread. Some wheat breads aren't whole grain and are just as bad as white bread then.\n\n\nIt sadens me to see people recomending pills for you. The main thing to realize with herbal medicine is that they do not need to be FDA approved. You are buying things that have not undergone  long term studies and do not have any regulations on what can be put in them what so ever. They could literally put anything they wanted into the pill and it would be with in the law. DON'T try them. If they do work the weight won't stay off and then you'll be oobles of disapointed. Also they aren't safe. Not one of them is retulated...
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if you want to lose weight, do it the right way!\n\nGet yourself a proper diet, go out and find a gym or sports activity you can join, and make it a part of your routine life.. just like coffee breaks and watching TV. This way youll avoid many side effects, plus the personal satsifaction of achieving a personal goal through hard work which I think you will cherish more.\n\nExcercise dont have to be tough, and diets dont have to be extreme.. just look it up and do it the right way.. find out what suits you best and start immediately, theres no better time!
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you cant controll them\nthe only thing you can do is to make the decision to change\nand every time you get that urge ´visualise you at your goal weight that will help you resist.
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There is a program called ShapeWorks its found on www.differentu.com and the products are all natural. There are some diet pills in the program but the best part is you personalize your own program to fit your needs. They have Nutritional shake mixes, protein bars/drinks, other snacks and things of that nature to help you lose weight. They also have a number of herbal teas that promote weight loss. I know they work because I take them and in my first week I lost 8 lbs and in one month I lost 20 lbs and thats without exercise!!! NO JOKE. So check it out and see what you think. God bless you and I wish you the best in your decision.
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Its better that u dont take pills u loose ur weight, better start doin some simple work like brisk walk for 3-4 kms a day and a good diet will help loose wt and willl make u active.  \n write to me for further quiries itsme_shaggy@yahoo.co.in
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notice a lot of people say no to diet pills on your answers. But yet they haven't hit upon a key point. Diet pills are not yet regulated by the FDA. What does this mean? It means that drug company's that make diet pills can put what ever they want into it and they don't have to do extensive testing to ensure that the product is sound and does not have a pluthera of side effects. What this should mean to you is that they are unsafe. While diet pills sound like they might help you really the only way to lose the weight is to work to get it off. The only way you can lose weight is by carefuly watching your Cal intake and how much exercise you preform. For every 3,500 cal take in you have added one pound. That is a fact. So how do you lose that? You make sure that your energy used ( by things like biking, running... all other forms of cardio work...... meaning getting your heart rate up so you can't sing but can talk for 20-30 minutes) exceeds the energy taken in. This is counted in a standered unit of cal.\n\nso let us say you take in 2,000 cal for one week and expend (from normal activities) 150 then you have an excess of 1850. Now the following week you also eat 2,000 cal and you only use 150 then you have another 1850 cal and this excess adds up to 3700. You have now gained one pound. \n\nI suggest cardio because this helps exercise your heart and when you are over weight your heart has to work harder to pump the blood through out all the tissues. \n\nMy best advice for losing weight and staying focuse? Put up a picture of your healthy target area... find a picture of a star that you look up to and wish you had her body weight. Put it in a place you look at every day and this could hlep motivate you to tone down some. \n\nThough you must keep in mind I am not a doctor and your best weight loss source should be your own physician because they can tell you what is a healthy target for your self. I personally only look at my body fat % and not at the actual weight I am. This can be a large motivator to eat healthy.\nLook at the Food guid pyrimid. Again I am not a doctor and can not recommend or prescribe a plan of treatment.
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You need to be dedicated to an entire lifestyle change. You need to cut out all soda, which by the way having one can a day will cause 15lbs in a year. You need to limit sweets to before 4 pm eat dinner no later than 6 pm. You need to have a healthy breakfast and make sure you are drinking at least eight glasses of water. Most importantly you need to start excercising at least 30min a day. Try taking a speedy walk with your man! Don't take diet pills, they will do more harm than good. But, you need to be dedicated and consistant. Good luck and I am sure that you will soon be addicted to a healthy thinner lifestyle!!
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Go with a proven product.\n\nCheck with your doctor before starting any weight loss program.\n\nAnyone who attempts to lose weight by reducing calorie consumption experiences feelings of hunger and fatigue. Hoodia diet pills attempt to reduce those feelings, making it easier to stick to a low calorie diet and therefore lose weight. As with any weight loss plan, only people who are in good health should use hoodia diet pills and they should be used in conjunction with appropriate diet and exercise. Because thirst is suppressed as well as appetite, it is important to remember to drink plenty of water. Most experts recommend eight 8 ounce glasses per day to maintain proper hydration. Other than thirst suppression, there are no known side effects associated with hoodia diet pills and they are probably a much better choice than diet pills containing stimulants.\n\nI tried Hoodia and......\nHoodia has worked for me...and with no side effects. \n\nFor all you doubters, here is the prior feedback for another Answers user who followed my advice:\n\nAsker's Rating: *****\nvery good comment i lost 2 lbs in a week\ni think i can almost get in my leather dress, i can hit the town in no time \n\n\n**** VERY IMPORTANT NOT TO GET RIPPED OFF --- \n\n#1. Be sure you are buying pure Hoodia...look for the import certificate on the website. No matter the price, if they do not display this, you really do NOT know what you are getting!\n\n#2. Be sure it is 100% Hoodia & not mixed w/other herbs, etc.!!\n\n#3. Keep in mind it stops your hunger pangs…you MUST remember to break your habit to always eat at certain times.\n\n#4. Drink a full 8oz. glass of water with it!\n\nHoodia (HOOD-ee-uh) gordonii - A genus of 10 to 20 species from southwestern Africa. \nHoodia gordonii is the stoneage wonder plant found throughout the dry arid regions of the South western African continent now on the verge of making history in the fight against obesity. It is a genus belonging to the Asclepiadaceae family which consists of approximately 20 species. Used to stop hunger, quench thirst, and provide energy among other things since prehistoric times, Hoodia gordonii was first discovered by the San tribesmen and women to get through the most difficult of times. \n\nYou can read a good article about how it works at:\n\nhttp://www.hoodia-diets.info/hoodia-diet-capsules.htm\nhttp://www.hoodia-diets.info/hoodia-gordonii-diet-use.htm\nhttp://www.hoodia-diets.info\nhttp://hoodia-research.blogspot.com
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The best way to get motivated is to believe that you are already a beautiful and wonderful person.  When you stress out about what you should be doing and how you should look, it drains your energy to the point where you can't even leave the house.  When you know you are a great person you feel like taking better care of yourself.  Trust me.  For years I thought I was worthless and wore baggy clothes and no makeup.  Lately I have decided to take good care of myself, and in turn I don't binge or stress like I used to.  It's weird that forgetting about losing weight makes you lose it easier.  It's all about distracting your brain.  Good luck!
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It might, and I stress might, work in the short run, but pill, never work in the long run.  Stick with diet and exercise and that weight loss will be sustainable, not to mention you'll feel better.  Also, the safety of those pills cant be determined to YEARS later.  Some over a decade.  Most of them are not regulated by the FDA.  I would stay away from them in general because you dont know what kind of bad things you can be doing to your body.
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Motivation is a hard thing. I've lost right at 150 lbs. & I'll try to explain the thought processes that led up to the weight loss, hoping to help you in the process :)\n\nFor me, part of it was a result of marrying my husband. He could care what I looked like but for some silly reason, I suddenly developed a sense of vanity...don't know why. Maybe because I am older than him, I don't know. Anyway, here's the real meat of it.\n\nTo tell the complete & honest truth, I was getting dressed one day & having one of those days where you don't feel comfortable in your own skin; nothing wanted to sit correctly on my body, I was in a bad mood to begin with &, well, I was just having a case of "bad nasties". I went through the entire day in this state & ended up walking by a store...Victoria's Secret, to be exact. My husband, the saint who managed to put up with me that day, commented on something in the window. He mentioned that he liked the item & wondered if he might find a place on the internet that made it in my size. It didn't make me feel bad, per se, because he accepts my size as a fact of life & has never been mean about it. But it just hit me oddly. I looked at the outfit &, though I knew that we could probably find it online somewhere, the idea of how I might look in it really bothered me.\n\nThat's what did it...that's what started the whole process. By the time we got home that night, my thoughts had worked around to the fact that I was tired of always being tired, tired of always feeling bad, tired of always not fitting into the clothes that I'd like to wear. I was tired of being fat, plain & simple. Even so, there was no easy way to take care of it &, having been overweight all my life, I knew that a simple diet wasn't going to cut it for me. So, here's how I handled it...\n\nWhen I eat, I eat ANYTHING I want...I'm not kidding. True, I try to keep mindful of what I'm eating but I also don't beat myself up about it. If I want a banana split, I darned well have a banana split. When I looked at what I ate, when & how I ate it, I realized that I ate in cycles during the month &, though I love sweets, my natural inclination was not to have them very often. The big problem for me was breads.\n\nAnyway, I just kept mindful of HOW MUCH I ate, not so much what I ate. I trained myself to realize when I was full & to make myself stop eating. As for this trick, you must always remember that it takes about twenty minutes for your stomach to signal your brain that it is full. So, I'd eat slowly, chew my food twice as long as I used to &, sure enough, I felt full rather quickly. Once I had that under control & truly listened to my body, I was constantly giving away nearly half of my food every meal.\n\nIt has taken me a number of years to lose the weight & the last 50 pounds has brought along a new re-evaluation of how small my stomach has gotten - we've wasted quite a bit of food over the past few months in that little quest - but I've gotten to the point now that I can go to Victoria's Secret & at least try on a few things :) I'm not into what I really want to wear but, hey, you take the successes where you can.\n\nAs I started to lose weight, the main thing that kept me going was how well I felt as well as clothes. I realized that, while I am not your regular clothes horse, I like the little game of moving from one size to another. I was in tears the first day & was able to purchase clothes off of the rack &, recently, when I was able to buy panties off of the racks instead of in the packages...OMG, I thought my husband was going to go insane. It took me over four hours to try on undergarments until I was satisfied with the look & fit! But you know what? I feel better about my body than I ever have & I thoroughly enjoy the look my husband gets on his face when he sees me! That's motivation, I can promise you...\n\nMy suggestion after all
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Listen, truthfully none of those pills make you lose miracle amounts of weight.  The only real, true way to do it is diet and exercise.
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There is no diet pill that will magically make you lose weight. No diet pills work, just do good old fashioned cutting calories and exercise.
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Unfortunately, you're not going to be able to take a pill and lose 30 pounds overnight.\n\nIn fact, almost every "fat burning" supplement out there isn't reviewed by the FDA, so there's very little chance you're taking anything effective.\n\nI'm sure there are vitamin concentrations that can help you lose weight, but there are so many fake medecines claiming to work, it's not worth the risk.\n\nWith the hardcore diet and exercise, you'll lose plenty of weight. However, remember to keep up the cardiovascular and aerobic sections of exercising, to keep your metabolism high. If you only diet and do weight lifting, your body will naturally adjust to use just enough calories and carbohydrates, instead of using all of them and moving on to fat.\n\nCheers, and good luck!\n\nCR
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i have never taken any diet pills or helpers..\nfrom what i know the pills do help take the weight off but once you stop taking them the weight shows up again with a little bonus pounds. \n\nall i can say the best way to loose the weight and keep it off is by hard work! a combination of eating right and exercising atleast 3 to 4 times a week will do the trick and you will most definately see results if you stick with the program and dont give up!! and its important to loose the weight but also to tone your body with work outs. \n\njust remember stay away from fast food, soft drinks, and breads... those will be a road block for your succes. also dont try the starving your self by eating 2 times a day. it is much better to eat small quantities through out the day than to eat two times a day because your body is starving and there for it will maintain it all.\n\nGood Luck, i know you can do it!!
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I had a teacher in high school that was a big lady. Anyways she had been trying to conceive for a long time with no luck. Well in a last ditch effort she lost about 20 pounds and she finally got pregnant and ended up having a healthy ten pound baby!!\nIt is just common sense that if you are overweight and thus unhealthily, your body is not going to function as well as it might if you were at a healthier weight. This doesn't mean that you should weigh 120 pounds though ! Check you BMI and start from there. This will give you a real good idea about how much weight you need to loose in order to be considered "normal" and healthy.\nIn order to loose weight I would recommend finding a type of exercise that you actually enjoy so that you can stick to it. Also instead of a diet try to make it more of a lifestyle change. I mean if you want to have a child in the near future don't you want them to grow up happy and healthy?!?  Now would be a really good time to start on a more healthy life style for life not just to loose weight for a particular purpose.\nGood luck !!