what are calories? how do i loose them? does my "own diet" below help me loose calories?
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1 calorie is the amount of energy it takes to heat one litre of water by one degrees celsius.  But it is useful for measuring the energy in food.  Women can have 2000 cals a day and men 2500 to maintain their weight.  So women can wat (7*2000) 14000 cals a week.  1lb of fat stores the equivalent of 3000 cals, so by decreasing your intake of cals by 3000 a week you would lose 1lb a week.  Any diet that decreases the amount of calories you eat will make you lose weight.  But healthy goods are naturally low in calories and are more nutritious.  So eating healthy food (not white breads) will make it easier for you to lose weight and stay healthy.  If you are going on a diet for a long time take a multivitamin. Exercise can be simple, take the stairs, get off the bus a stop earlier than you have to etc... But the author of the GI diet correctly says its much easier to lose weight by dieting than exercising.  To lose 1lb exercising a week you would need to briskly walk for 9 hours a week!
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Hey Dale Im in the same predicament I am 260 and Im only 5'8 so I need to loose about 120 pounds.  Now tomorrow I am going to begin with my diet which includes counting calories under 1200 a day but you just need to make sure you eat three healthy meals a day and dont waste them with stupid stuff like sweets or eating fast food. I dont know how much exercise you get a week but try to get some walking, jogging and if possible about 15 minutes of aerobics every other day.  Its good that you quit the soda now make sure drinking lots of water....Good luck maybe we can motivate each other Richtorres_2000 IM
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You must check the calorie content on them.  I love Slade dressing as well but I use low cal types.  Keep in mind the following when trying to lose weight:\n\nDiets and changing your eating to healthy food choices can work but because we know so little about ourselves and our relationship with food, it makes it difficult to win the battle. A lot of us have problems with dieting because we have a problem called "emotional eating" we eat to comfort ourselves during difficult, stressful, sad, etc times in our lives.\n\nYou may experience all those emotions during dieting as we continuously get on the scale hoping to see a big difference in numbers after dieting only for a day or two. Also what is stressful when dieting is that we try to lose a large number of weight in such a short period of time which in most cases is unreasonable. \n\nThis all brings about stress, discomfort and sadness. When we feel this way, we turn to our best friend for help and support which for many of us is food. The diet is now broken and we feel that we can't stick to diets. We then try fad diet after fad diet hoping to lose the original 20 pounds and now we may have as much as 30 pounds to lose because we continue to put on weight as we continue to break these fad diets by binging before starting our next diet. \n\nPlease learn about your relationship with food before your next diet so that you may achieve your goals. To help a little, keep in mind the following:\n\nYou already know how to lose weight. You know that if you eat less and exercise more eventually you’ll see the pounds come off. What’s getting in your way? Why do you usually regain the weight you lost? The answer to all these questions is the same “Emotional Eating.” Simply defined, emotional eating means you eat to satisfy emotional hunger; it means you use food for comfort or as a way to cope with life; and it means you eat for reasons other than what your body needs. Whenever you reach for a boredom-breaking snack despite your commitment, or whenever you eat to quell anxiety, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you binge after a fight, or double up on portions because your day turned sour, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you feel that sharp craving for your favorite food, that’s emotional eating. When we eat during these times while on a diet, we believe the diet doesn’t work or that we lack self control and then look for the quickest way to lose weight (fasting/diet pills, ect) after eating all we can since we already messed the diet day up. Read the information below but remember that emotional eating plays a big part in why we don’t continue dieting and why we regain lost weight and why we binge today and start a new diet tomorrow. Best of Luck.\n\nP.S. After learning about my relationship with food, I was able to drop my weight from 263 pounds down to 151 pounds which is a 112 pound weight lost.
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If you email me, I will gladly give you a diet based on Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem. You can do it yourself at home. You won't need to measure anything or count calories. It is all already proportioned. It involves all food groups and is based on 1250 calories. Very healthy.  I have shared it with many askers on yahoo answers.
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People often overestimate calories they burn during exercise and underestimate the number of calories they take in.  If you are really serious about losing weight,  I think the most important thing you need to do is know exactly how many calories you are taking in and how many you are burning.  If you take in less, you are guaranteed to lose fat stores.  You body fat percentage is a better indicator of your health then your weight…since muscle weighs more than fat.  My advice is to start using www.fitday.com  Track everything you eat, down to the spoonful of sugar that you put in your coffee or that peppermint you popped in your mouth.  In addition to being able to track what you eat, you can also record your exercise.  When you enter exercise the website will adjust your total calories that you can have for the day. I guarantee you, look at what the website says your total calories should be and then take in 500 less and you WILL lose fat.\n\nAnother point is try not to restrict your calories by more than about 600 to 700 below what you can have for the day.  Severe calories restrictions are unhealthy!  Lose the weight somewhat slowly and in the meantime learn how to eat to maintain your body weight (once you are where you want to be).  \n\nDo not go on any diet where you are eating less than 1000 calories per day. Even if you only weigh 100 pounds you should still be eating at least 1000. Your body will not get the nutrition it needs to stay healthy.  Not to mention you will lose a lot of muscle in the process ..which you don't want to do.\n\nAlso, when determining how many calories you burn during exercise, do not go by what the gym equipment is telling you, it is often inflated. Just enter your activity in fitday or you can use this website  http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/jumpsite/calculat.htm
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go to ediets.com\nthere is a nutritional tracker on there for free. it works wonders. it calculates calorites, fat, protein, etc.  there is also alot of information you can read there too. if you want to lose weight, you should burn as much as you eat. remember that you burn calories just doing simple things. try vacuming the house!
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its not so much about the calories, its if your eating right. make sure your eating lots of vegetables and fruits and stay away from fatty foods. also exercising would help a lot as well. i dont believe in dieting, i believe in eating right and exercising and it works too. id say either to go the gym or run a couple times a week. do some sit ups a couple times a week and maybe lift? but most importantly eat right!
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You are probably looking for a better answer, but the simplest and best way to lose weight is to keep track every single thing that crosses your lips each and every day.\nI've been tracking calories since mid-June, and have lost 25 #.  I'm not one to "diet", and I love to eat, but I got to the end of my rope and was miserable with myself.  Some useful tools are the calorie diary/tracker, and the Calorie King books that give nutritional information on nearly every restaurant, and all food types.  We eat out more than most, and I've done it through out this entire weight loss.\nPut your mind to it, as my Grandma used to say, and good luck to you!
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I started this today. It is challenging, but I feel great!\n\n\nHere is another site. It's free! Track your calories every day.\nGood luck!!
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A calorie is a calorie. You can diet by counting them or by counting carbs. Try to stick to one serving at a meal. Try to avoid fatty foods. Eat one carb per meal. Watch serving size. Avoid deserts. Drink lots of water. Exercise.
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www.fitday.com\nIt's a free resource.\nIf you journal all of your food and excercise it will help you stay accountable to yourself and stay committed to losing weight.\nAt the site, there is a place to input all the foods you eat through out the day, it calculates the calories and all of the nutrition for you.\nThere is also an excercise journal that will calculate exactly how many calories you burn doing excercise, housework, etc...\nCheck it out!\nIt's helped me alot!
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What I recommend is getting all the nutrients and food your body needs, while getting it in the least amount of calories.  I found a super-food shake, which has everything your body needs and is a complete meal replacement. The great thing is, is that it's only 240 calories.  It's an awesome way I've been losing weight, while not starving my body.  It'd be great for you. Send me an email if you want  more information. Good luck.
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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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There is no quick if you want healthy.  if you loose more than 2-3 lbs a week you are loosing unhealthy weight.  Usually just water, or muscle.  The only way to loose weight is to use more than you eat.  Yep, that means you gotta exercise.  Even if its walking instead of driving to the corner store, it adds up.  Try to stick with a balanced diet.  It's kinda hard trying to loose weight, but I'd recomend sticking with carbs.  Less fat and health risks.  That adkins thing, I'm iffy on.  Plus carbs help you feel full better than protein.  If you got a sweet tooth, try fruit.  It's sweet enough to curb a lot of cravings and low in calories.  A web search will get you a nutrition guide to the best fruits to eat.  Most are less than 100 calories so you can eat a lot.  And watch what you drink.  Sodas and juices have a lot of calories.  If you can cut that out, you might be able to make the calorie deficit you need.  That's all it takes for me.  Water gets boring fast, but there is a lot of 10 cal. mixes at the grocery store to give you flavor with out adding the other 160 calories.  Good luck.
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go to sparkpeople.com \nit has food guidelines, plus weight loss tracker, you can even enter all the foods you eat and it will count the calories. Also some excercise tips and will give you a tailored exercise plan. All free too...good luck
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well you have to do a little more than watching the calories... 'cause i know i sometimes sit on the couch and just watch them come in the form of doritos without thinking twice!\n\nbut anyways, your body's weight is limited by laws of science, so in fact, calories in vs calories out is the main factor as to your weight fluctuations (other than water retention).\n\nso, what does this mean? well... you have two sides of the equation you can manipulate to make your calories in be less than your calories out (which would in turn make you lose weight).  First, you can decrease calories in.  Second, you can increase calories out.\n\nbut before you start cutting back on a diet and thinking you'll lose weight, remember this: if you take in less calories than you exert, guess what kind of weight your body will likely lose first?  the answer is: muscle weight!  your body likes to go this order in choosing what to burn as extra energy: carbs, proteins, then fats.  your body can go through the carbs rather quickly, and then hit the proteins. now it will hit a little bit of fat simultaneously as well, but you will proportionately lose quite a bit of muscle as opposed to fat. \n\nnow here's the dilemma... the more muscle you have, the more fat you burn during activities!  so by losing muscle weight by reducing calories in, you then start reducing calories out as well... it's a sick cycle.  so then, how the heck do you lose fat?\n\nwell, simple answer is... you have to exercise--weight training and other anaerobic exercise is crucial for this purpose--in order to maintain muscle mass!  \n\nso hopefully the term "diet and exercise" will begin to make a bit more sense than just two dull words jammed together.
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Answer is something like 800-1200 kcal, but that`s not the point, if you wanna stay or get slim.\n\nHave you ever heard a montignac diet? It`s about avoiding food stuff that contain colhydrates more than 35 %\n\nYou`ll loose weight even if you eat normal amounts, as long as they dont contain things like potatoes, wheat, bread, rice, corn, sugar etc.\n\nYou see, it`s not about calories, it` sabout body insuline and eating only the kind of food that wont make it more.\n\nthose are for example: cheeses, yoghurts, real meat, fruits, vedgetables, and even dark chocolate and vanilla ice cream is ok...\n\ngoogle it and find out what it`s really about...