Hi I m going to tell you something that really helped me. I m 5 4 and used to weigh 176 pounds and just 4 short months later i weighed149 pounds and still decreasing :-).My little secret : Go to a book shop and buy yourself the book called I Can Make you Thin by Paul McKenna it includes a CD. ( i went to one of his ceminars and this guy is amamzing.)Its not a long book you could probably finish it in a day or two. He basically explains to you how you can eat WHATEVER you want (chips chocolate burgers and of course healthy stuff too) but still loose the weight you want. and all this by just changing the way and how fast you eat. I started with this and also went to the gym 5 days a week for about 1 hour each day and within 4 months i lost 27 pounds. Of course everyone is different but believe me if you really follow what the book says you can do it too. :-)...I m almost at my goal weight now just have like 6 pounds to go and i m there. And i thank my mom everyday for giving me that book. Oh and one more thing: with this way of eating i never gained the weight back even when i fell off the wagon and started munching on a lot of food. so this is a good way to loose weight healthily and keep it off in the futureI know how hard it is too loose weight so i m wishing you the very best of luck!!!
It is unhealthy to lose more then 5 to 8 lbs your first week and unhealthy to lose more then 2 to 3 lbs a week.You can starve your body of nutrients and do more harm then good.To tone the areas your looking to tone you need to work your upper body with weights every other day say Monday, Wen, and Friday, work your lower body on Sunday, and do cardio on Tuesday.Other then surgery methods you will not lose stomach fat without a life style change
one way to lose weight is to consume more protein than carbs and fats, and if you do consume fats, consume more unsaturated fats. Lost distance running will help out some. if you do eat carbs, make you eat a carb snack 2 to 3 hours before you workout because if you don t, you re body will consume muscles instead of fat. I hope this will help out some.
Run in the morning before breakfast. Have some water so you don t dehydrate but eat nothing. Your body will burn fat up to 300% more efficiently than after food or in the middle of the day. Hills are most ideal for running. I would also recommend weights and other exercises later in the day, crossfit.com is an awesome place to start.
Fastest is not best, you want weight loss that is sustainable.A lot of the answers you will see here will tell you to take some sort of supplement, even thought you specifically ask them not to. Don t take diet pills. They are unnatural and dangerous. It is not the lack of pills that got you heavy; that is not the fix you need. It was (most likely) improper diet and lifestyle that got you the extra weight. That is the fix you need.The best way to lose weight is through the principles of balance and moderation. You need to eat good food and eat enough of it.Shoot to lose 1-3 pounds per week. No more. Don t go hungry, just keep yourself filled with good, natural foods.Don t worry about calories. Caloric science is flawed for several reasons. 1) it assumes 100% absorption, but we all absorb and excrete different amounts; 2) It assumes all calories are processed the same, but calories from natural sources are burned more slowly and evenly than from refined sources; 3) It assumes that the amount of energy released by combustion (burning) in a lab is the same amount of energy released when the food is broken down enzymatically in the gut; 4) It assumes that the same exercise done by different people will burn the same amount of exercise, but different exercises will be harder or easier for different people; 5) Correlation does not prove causation. People who are heavier eat more calories: did the calories make them heavy, or did being heavy make them need more calories? Maybe they are both symptoms of a deeper problem. 6) people in China consume 25-40% more calories; even the sedentary office workers have more calories and less obesity than we.Asian cultures have long ago figured out how we should be eating, Ever since we have looked to science to tell us how to eat we have seen more obesity and diet-related disease. If we eat like the Asians, we will look like the Asians. This doesn t mean you have to eat Asian food, just adhere to the principles that are common to the different cultures and cuisines.You should eat mostly vegetables, mostly cooked (cold and raw foods slow your metabolism because they need to be cooked in your stomach) and a wide variety, mostly fresh and in-season and local, simple grains (more rice, less bread), some fruit, a little meat, no dairy (it s for infants and grows tissue), and no artificial foods.Avoid artificial foods, including sugar substitutes. Don t worry about calories, fat, protein, carbs, nor any one component of food.There are several books that explain this strategy of eating. The Asian Diet: simple secrets for eating right, losing weight, and being well by Bussell explains the diet and its rationale. The Asian Diet: get slim and stay slim the Asian way by Tran has recipes that adhere to the principles. The China Study by Campbell has the science behind the recommendation.Get some exercise every day, but not too much and not always the same exercise. Start slow and work your way up. Calisthenics are great, as is Tai Chi. Walking and swimming are also great. All other exercises should be in a wide rotation.Follow the principles of balance and moderation and you ll be fine. Most diets in America are not balanced nor moderate.Source(s):http://www.theasiandiet.comhttp://www.thechinastudy.com
