Want to Lose weight fast

[rainykatie]

if you are pre-diabetic i would stay far far away from the chemicals in medifast! i would take the money that you would have spent on their plan and put it towards a nutritionist, or reward yourself with a massage when you lose weight.

i loosly follow the swank diet and i have lost weight, even though i am not overweight. i eat tons of fruits and veggies and cut out dairy fats.

best of luck to you!

psget your husband to eat healthy too and it will be easier on you

[Bandito]

I can sympathize with you in that my wife has PCOS. We tried for quite a while to have a baby and didn't think it was ever going to happen. On the fourth or fifth round of chlomid, a miracle happened and now my baby girl is about to turn one year old.

I would just like to encourage you to just be positive and check into the medication, if you haven't already...as for the weight loss, I can only give you my experience with what works for me. I am on a diet plan called Shakeology.

I replace one meal per day with a nutritious shake. I keep the rest around 350 calories. I eat breakfast, then a snack two to three hours later. Lunch two to three hours after that, one more snack and then dinner is finished at least three hours before I go to bed. I started P90X on the same day.

That was 7/2. I was 244 lbs when I started, and now, I am down to 228 lbs. It was hard at first but, it gets easier. Do your research, find what you feel comfortable with and stick to it. If you give it all you have, you'll get the results.

[Nabbosa]

As someone who has always been a little overweight (10-15 pounds), I got tired of it last year, too. I went to websites likes those for the National Institutes for Health and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention - very reliable sites, just like when I look for information on M.S.

What did I do? I exercised every day that I could - riding my bike along the Chicago Lakeshore every evening that was cool enough. The first day, I could only make 6 miles (not very far on a bicycle). By the end of the summer, I rode 25 one day. The key for me was to find exercise that I liked and would do. And on the days I didn't feel like it - but was fully capable of doing it ... the days I felt lazy, but the MS wasn't preventing me - I asked myself if I'd prefer to suck it up and exercise, or get fat again.

I also looked up reasonable calorie counts for weight reduction. I'll tell you that according to what I saw on reputable sites like the ones I mentioned above, 1000 calories per day is not enough. You risk having your body hold on to the weight, because it thinks you're starving due to famine and you won't lose the fat. Plus, you'll feel grumpy and have cravings.

The biggest thing I did was measure food portions, and eat whole foods (unprocessed stuff - and fresh stuff). So if I felt like a cookie or piece of cake, I ate fresh fruit. And I counted 1/2-cup servings of everything I ate. If I felt like a snack when watching TV at night, I looked at my food diary - the list of everything I'd eaten, how many servings, and a tally of calories and some nutrients I was concerned about (like vitamin D and calcium). Not enough vegetable servings? Then get out 1/2 cup of raw or steamed broccoli. Not hungry for broccoli, or raw carrots? Then maybe I was bored, and not hungry....or tempted to eat from seeing ads for food on TV.

It's been almost a year, and I've pretty much kept off the 35 pounds I lost. Every day for the rest of my life, I will have to keep up these habits to keep off excess weight. Every so often, I allow myself a decadent treat - but since I've cut them out, they are often too sweet or too rich for me. When you change your eating habits, you change your cravings, and your perceptions of taste.

Is it worth it? The reward of wearing dress sizes 3 sizes smaller than ever before in my life is worth much more than that extra cookie. Seriously. Every time I am tempted by a cupcake in a bakery window, I think of the size 4 dress hanging in my closet.

It's a matter of developing the habits - making your choices, just like you choose how to spend your money. Nothing wrong with a closet full of expensive shoes, but some people prefer to allocate their money for a college fund, or a dream car. I think of the calories I eat that way, too - what do I _need_ for fuel, and then how do I want to "spend" other calories. Then it doesn't come down to will power, but making long-term choices. I don't beat myself up for not having "enough will power" - I just make my choices, like every other choice during the day.

And, if I just can't resist that chocolate cake, well, I make sure I balance out the calorie counts the next few days. It's about the long-term goal, ultimately.

Hope that inspires you. I never thought I could do it, but it's awfully nice to be realizing that I might be a thin a person after all.

Good luck!

[Special Kay]

Nabbosa's advice is very good. I have a few things to add:

I lost about 45 pounds 18 years ago, kept it off for 10 years and then lost 8 more.

The biggest change was that I changed my mind. I realized (through therapy) that there was part of me that preferred eating/being heavy and that that part always spoke louder than the part of me that was willing to be disciplined or deprive myself. Most days, I simply preferred to eat than to not eat. For me, unravelling that was the most important part of finally, after many years, losing weight.

When I lost that last 8 pounds, it was very hard, my body fought me every day, and I had to get used to being hungry and not view it as an emergency when I was hungry. It's natural to get hungry between meals. Meditation helped with this.

Also, learn to love exercise -- find some form of activity you enjoy doing for its own sake, with or without the weight loss aspect. While eating less is the best way to lose weight, exercise is the best way to keep weight off.

Good luck to you! And slow and steady, as others have said, is the key.

[harveysmith27]

Weight losing not an easy task. It's time consuming task.
Over weight such a big issue in these days. You can reduce your weight by dieting and exercise.
Do exercise on daily basis and eat less but healthy.

[ffjosh]

Dont do it!

You need to find you body maintence. Google boday maintence calc.

Mine is around 2,800 Cals
You want to eat the same amount of grams of protein that you weigh (normally people use muscle weight)
I do about a 40/20 split between the rest of the cals for carbs/fat

Protein = 4 Cals
Carb = 4 cals
Fats = 9 cals

What I do
I try to eat around 2,000 - 2300 Cals.
I weight 190lbs
About 170 lbs of muscle
I eat

180 grams of protien = 720 Cals
Leaves me 1280 Cals left
175g carbs = 700 cals
65 G fat = 580

Now im not always right on. Sometimes I eat a little more, sometimes a little less.

Always leave your self some room for a treat. About every other day I have a bowl of ice cream, a cookie, a couple peices of pizza ect. Should see the faces on the ladys at work who are starving them selves to lose weight while Im consistent with 3 lbs a week eating some things I love.

I lose about 7-10 lbs the first week.

After that im consitent with 2-3 lbs a week.

Its not safe losing anymore then that a week.

I also suggest walking a lot and lifting weights. Even if your just lifting small amounts it will keep you from looking skinny fat and looking toned.

[abbyyoung]

Important is that you receive a well balanced diet and that you use smaller meals but maybe 5-6 servings per day.
You are aware of the fact that speeding up your metabolism is key to burning fat and losing weight permanently. You are only missing now a list of metabolism boosting foods. Voila!

Almond

Blueberries

Cold water – Your body needs extra energy to heat it up to body temperature.

Dairy (low-fat)

Eggs

Fish (especially salmon)

Greek yogurt

Hot chili peppers

Ice-cream (It works in the same way as having cold water)

Jalapenos

Karrots

Lean protein

Meat (lean)

Naps (ok, it is not food but it helps reduce stress and stress hormones in your body)

Oatmeal

Pistachios

Q10 coenzyme

Rice (brown)

Salmon

Turkey

Unsweetened soy milk

Vegetables

Whey Protein

Yogurt (Greek Yogurt)

Zinc


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[Bella Pink]

While losing weight you should be very ambitious, have a goal in mind which you want to achieve on any price. Remember one thing losing weight is not a easy thing you should mentally and physically prepared for this. First of change your eating habits if you are having thing which have a very high fat so leave them right now, make a strict food chart in which you have add some fresh fruits and vegetables it helps you to workout with great potential, try to do morning walk.