1 Dietary control and exercise. It��s true what they say - all you need to do is watch what you eat, and expend more energy than you consume. It��s really that simple. You can quit reading this list now, you now know everything you need to know and didn��t need to fork over $500 for the privilege of me telling you the secret of losing weight. You don��t need to read a 4,000 page book, you don��t have to buy a tape series, you don��t need to stay up late at night to watch infomercials to understand this basic premise. It��s 100% true.2 Change your lifestyle. If you��re calling this a ��diet,�� then you��re going to gain all the weight back (and more) within a few months of losing it. Diets do not work. Diets are temporary. When you change your dietary lifestyle, however, you��re changing your habits - and you��re putting yourself on track for long-term / continued success and weight maintenance. Don��t ever tell anybody you��re on a diet - ever. I��m speaking from experience, here - a reformed low-carber. Worked out well for a while, but ultimately failed because my entire lifestyle didn��t change (permanently).3 Join an online support group. In my case, I created my own - FatBlasters. It��s essential that you not feel alone, and reaching out to friends (new or old) is typically a smart move. I just heard about PeetTrainer, but didn��t know about it when I began down the road to weight loss. You have to know that others are out there for moral support - they know things that you couldn��t possibly know, and they��ve probably been ��in your shoes�� at some point in the past (or present). Share stories, laughter, tears, successes, and failures - share them. There are thousands of communities out there, so keep looking until you find the one that fits you.4 Take before and after photos. I know it sucks to see yourself as a chunky monkey (sorry, that��s what I called myself - if only to get myself motivated to meet my weight loss goal). However, there��s no easier way to illustrate your progress. The ��after�� photos are far more fun to capture and share, admittedly. Find yourself on Flickr! It��s good to see yourself how others see you. Do you like how you look? In many ways, Flickr helped me lose weight.5 Don��t reach for the brands you know and love immediately - or without thinking first. Consider using egg substitutes (in fact, many restaurants will let you order lower calorie foods). There are countless ��lower�� alternatives for you to try. If something different doesn��t taste good, by all means - find a better substitute, or eat less of the original. In some cases, the substitute may be worse for you than the regular version of the product. The good news is, healthier choices are silently replacing their ��normal�� counterparts - and they taste just as nice.6 Start reading labels. I know it sucks, but you have to do it - and there��s no way to avoid this tip. If you don��t know what you��re putting in your mouth, you��re flying blind. Don��t assume, either - triple-check the ingredients list and serving sizes. You must rely on yourself for this; nobody else is going to be able to lose the weight or do the math for you. It��s not that complicated a task, but it will require effort. If nothing else, just pay attention to the calorie count.7 If you like cheese, you must buy the Laughing Cow brand, and keep several of the suckers in stock at all times. The individually-wrapped wedges make for excellent snacks, and are wonderful when melted over just about anything edible. I��d be careful about straight-up American cheese, though - it��s oil, but not necessarily as good for you as (say) a slice of cheddar would be. I have yet to find something as calorie-light and filling as Laughing Cow (I don��t know how they do it).8 Tell your family. You��re not going to lose the weight alone, even if you ARE alone in losing the weight. If you��ve got a family at home, talk to them about it - initially, not incessantly. Let them know what you��re going to do, and that you want (and need) their support. If you don��t let them know, you��re running the risk of them inadvertently sabotaging your efforts. You want them to help you get to your goal(s). You want them to share in your happiness when you��ve made it past a certain mark. Who knows? Maybe some of your new habits will rub off on them and they��ll become healthier people, too?
get rid of drinking soda instead order water.get rid of fried food.bake , grill better.you need fiber too, whole wheat toast.get rid of all white stuff like white rice, doughnuts, and refine sugar, white bread.instead eat brown rice, no sugar in tea, and whole wheat w/nuts in it .eat by portion . eat smaller meals like 6 times a day or add healthy snacks like apple , watermelon, and pineapple.veggie like mushroom, broccoli, and snap peasdon t drink stuff that has high sugar intake , check labels. portion size eat on a small plate , eat slow , drink water before eating it helps to fill you up. energy drinks are loaded w/ sugar drink herbal green tea or other. You can do this . good luck.
Hey Taylor, How are you? Well depending on the type of fast food you are eating, it will depend on how much weight you lose by stopping eat it. For example - my favourite is KFC. but it is EVIL. You might think it s just a burger and chips. But in that one burger there are nearly 700 calories, in the chips are another 600 calories and in the drink there are a further 400 calories. So if you think about it, I am only allowed to digest 1500 calories a day to stay within my weight goal. In that one KFC meal I would digest an entire day s worth of food, and the odds are that I m not even feeling full after eating it, because the volume of food is actually quite small. So if you re eating unhealthy stuff like that then yes, if you stop eating it you should see a decrease. But what you need to do is get your walk on. Go walking for about an hour each day - you can break it up - go half an hour in the mornings and half an hour in the evening. It s all about burning off more calories than you eat. And avoid at all costs - alcohol. I m not sure how old you are and whether you do drink or not, but if you do - kill it. The amount of calories the average person consumes in one booze session is enough to kill all the progress you ve made in the week. take for example one regular vodka and lemonade drink - you re looking at 150 to 200 calories per one. So have a few of them on top of what you ve eaten that day, plus the hangover fix the next morning and you re going to see a huge excess in calories for your range. You want to be trying to eat around 1200 calories a day. Try and eat a good breakfast and decent lunch, but a relatively small dinner - eat mainly protein at dinner (this is meat). So have a bit of sliced chicken with some vegies instead of having a huge big cooked dinner like with several courses. If you want any more help please feel free to email me at npj15@yahoo.com - I m a personal trainer / weighloss coach and I ve been in the game for 8 years now.
