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Posted: 5/29/2009 10:34:56 PM | Quit eating meat, or animal products. You can get all your required protein, vitamins, and nutrients from fruit, nuts, beans, and vegetables. You don't see any obese vegetarians for good reason.
Not only will you be losing weight, but you will also be much healthier. Eating meat is linked to obesity, heart disease, colon cancer, breast cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, and other ailments. Studies have shown that vegetarians live on average 10 years longer than meat eaters. Plus you will be doing something good for the environment, and not supporting the suffering inherent with factory farming. | |
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Posted: 6/1/2009 6:59:04 AM | | DIET DIET DIET.... and cardio. along with some proper weightlifting and you will be very happy with your results. some simple rules to clean up your diet... try for 5 or so small meals a day, only whole wheat foods, nothing fried or breaded. no fat snacks out of the pantry, gotta stay away from those sugars. replace your fat snacks with things like a cup of low fat yogurt, oatmeal, protein shake, or just snack on some vegetables like carrots. try a high protein/low carb diet but make sure your getting the right fats that you need. and you dont need a gym to get a workout. try to get in 30-45 min cardio 3-4 times a week, more if u want. start out walkin at a faster pace then normal, or run. i do cardio in the AM on an empty stomach, fat gets targeted more directly. also can do situps, pushups, pullups, and other core strenghthening workouts using nothing more than your body. | |
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Posted: 6/2/2009 10:10:14 PM | I'm currently 10-15 lbs from my goal and here's what I do:
1.Change something about your workout every 3-4 weeks so you don't plateau.
2. On all cardio machines, do various programs such as fat burn, weight loss, or interval training so you make your heart rate go up and down throughout your workout...again you're tricking your body.
3. Buy a weighted vest!!!! Wear it while you are at the gym and even going for a walk. It helps burn excess fat while exercising and tricks your body into thinking it's heavier therefore you have to work harder. I exercise between 4-5 times a week. I might use it religiously for 3 weeks then I won't wear it for 3 weeks. When I take it off and use the same machines/programs, I actually go faster because I tricked my body into thinking it weighs less. Firefighters and Marines often use weighted vests in their workouts...it builds strength.
Google it online...you can place many in the washing machine (remove the weights first). The one I have now is 12 lbs. I'm soon going to buy a 40 lb vest but will remove 20 lbs and take several months to work my way up to 40 lbs to build endurance.
You can do it...believe in yourself. What has made me productive in this area is visualizing my goal and telling myself I'm worth it...what better way to invest in yourself?!
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Posted: 6/3/2009 7:54:00 AM | I like the weighted vest idea since I do a lot of body weight exercises...pushups and pullups...I still think the best plan is to have a 1-2 month plan to add incremental changes...I went for an hour of moderate cardio (working my up to it) most days and some diet changes and pushups....once you lose some weight and get some comments, it keeps you motivated and just keep making changes....
I agree with the comment about making changes every so often....I probably went too long in the middle before making changes (adding more strength training and interval training to my cardio)...
I have been able to average 1.5 pounds lost per week....I also think you have to have a long-term plan to keep it off....That probably includes an assessment at the start to figure out why you got heavy (emotional overeating, food addiction, eating when bored, ignorant about food choices, health problems, etc.)... | |
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Posted: 6/3/2009 10:52:59 AM | ™Something else you need to address is "what is your relationship with food?". Believe it or not, we all have one. Do you:
Overeat when you're bored, lonely, depressed, nervous/stressed, when you are with your friends/family...do you come from an ethnic background where it's normal to frequently gather with large servings of food?
You have to be honest with yourself. I realized I tend to overeat when I'm bored or stressed in a work situation...hello sugar and carbs!
The first step in solving this issue was to realize if reached for that large bag of chips or the supersized portion of that guilty fast food pleasure, the issue that caused me to do this would still exist. I substituted these things with other activities.
Also, make a list of the foods that you feel you have little self control and think of ways to make a healthy alternative to curb that craving. So if I'm craving a burger and french fries, I will eat a veggie burger on a wheat roll and baked sweet potato fries. If I'm craving ice cream, I softly freeze 2 dannon sugar free fat free yogurts (any flavor), place it in a bowl, slice a few strawberries and top it with sugar free coolwhip...it's still a good 50% less calories/fat than ice cream!
Make sure you season your food, but stay away or go light on the salt!
Always keep your favorite fruits and veggies in your kitchen. I eat 4 servings each of fruits AND veggies a day. I also buy well seasoned vegetarian versions of guilty pleasures...I do also eat lean meats/fish but WELL seasoned.
Someone I know who is into weight lifting told me to eat low fat cottage cheese. I like the kind with pineapple. It's high protein/low carb/low fat, and keeps you full. For breakfast every morning, I have a serving of fruit with 1/2 cup to a full cup of the cottage cheese. I feel full and completely satisfied and have the stamina for a good workout an hour later, I've even decreased my body fat since starting this ritual. Actually, I've read online there's something about cottage cheese that makes it expand in your stomach before you completely digest it!
I take a multivitamin, CLA, chromium and apple cider vinegar tablets daily.
I am actually 10 lbs thinner now than in my posted photo. My goal is to lose another 10 lbs.
Since approx 60% of my daily foods are low calorie, I can stick to 1400-1700 calories a day and feel totally full/satisfied. I allow myself 3 "fattening meals" a month. I might go to my fave Italian restaurant and enjoy a couple of espresso martinis and great pasta dish!
If you exercise AND eat well, the weight will come off...while not everyone is meant to be a size zero (not my goal), not everyone is meant to be 40/60/80 lbs overweight either! | |
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Posted: 6/4/2009 8:56:02 AM | I agree with what's been said so far.. I went from 220 -> 155 in about 4 years. I had to completely change my diet. That was the biggest factor. That means no fast food, (almost) no cookies/cake, no crackers, no deep-fried stuff, no greasy food. For carbs, you should be eating mostly vegetables and fruit. Protein, I would eat only lean meats like chicken. You do need to consume some fats, but I would advise you to get your fat requirements from things like nuts and avocado (unsaturated fats).
On top of this, you should do a lot of cardio. I think doing Marching Band + Band Camp helped me lose like 15 pounds (constant marching / walking in the sun) alone. I started doing light runs after that and played a lot of basketball and tennis. Endurance sports are your friend when you're trying to lose weight.
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Posted: 6/7/2009 12:37:51 AM | | Sir, you and I have a lot in common. Losing weight involves exercise; a lot of exercise and probabably a personal trainer. Furthermore, it will require a very distastful modification to your diet. I too, have struggled with weight gain my entire life but, these days I am making substantial progress. I will tell you this, it IS possible to be slim and not be hungry all the time. It will take some getting used to and you won't be able to scarf french fries or cheeseburgers or ice cream; yet you will not truely be hungry. It is a tradeoff, and whether or not it's worth it to you will depend on your motivation for losing weight in the first place. Perhaps it would help you to know that all those beautiful Hollywood actors and actresses have the money to wine and dine themselves suptuously every day of their lives, but they cannot. A simple coca cola to Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is a huge indulgence. I am afraid that is the reality that we all face. Good Luck and don't give up! | |
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Posted: 6/7/2009 4:39:58 PM | Join the South Beach mailing list on yahoo groups.. Stick on phase 1 for 2 weeks and then only add one food from phase 2. Monitor this for a week if you continue to lose than add another food from phase 2. They will offer you loads of support and help.
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Posted: 6/7/2009 9:48:55 PM | Simple.
eat 5-6 times a day, every 3 hours.... YES, EAT MORE TO LOSE WEIGHT.
eat small meals that includes protein, veggies, and healthy fat. count the calories you are eating. i would not go above 2000 cals.
Protein: tuna, fish, lean beef, chicken, turkey, low fat cottege cheese
Veggies: any kind, preferably greens.
Healthy fats: Almonds, walnuts, avocado, olive oil, hemp oil, vegetable oil, canola oil, peanut butter, almond butter.
-drink alot of COLD water
-cut off fast food and any sugary drinks you are eating.
- do cardio everyday, run around the block or tredmill
-join a gym and workout
-eat a carb meal + healthy fat, DO NOT INCLUDE PROTEIN every 18th meal before bed. Oats or bread or pasta or rice or rice cake, baked sweet potato.
Reason for that is to keep your metabolism high, and keep your thyroid working.
Source: I was a personal trainer for 2 years, any help me, msg me, i'll be glad to help. | |
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Posted: 6/10/2009 9:44:58 PM |
what???
6 meals a day
every 18th meal we include a complex carb meal with some healthy fat, and exclude protein sources in that meal to eliminate the insulin spike. | |
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Posted: 6/11/2009 4:46:21 PM | | Six weeks ago, I decided that for health reasons, and because I wanted to look my best, so at 49 years old, about 50 pounds heavier than I was 3 years ago, I just started pushing the plate away from the table, stopped eating fries and hamburgers, cut way back on the sugar content, and started walking. This is not a diet, but a complete change in the way I live my life. In 6 weeks, I have lost 31 pounds, feel great, and no longer have to button my pants and pull them up. I rank this as one of the most rewarding and fulfilling decisions I have ever made. You get to a point where you either choose to live or die. | |
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Posted: 6/11/2009 4:51:08 PM | | Also, I work for a major soft drink company, and have for 21 years, and I no longer drink any product we produce and sell and working out a 60 day notice. when a company makes a decision to put out a 12oz serving with a sugar content high enough to kill, and markets it as an energy drink or a healthier alternative, they are no better than the cigarette industry. | |
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Posted: 6/13/2009 8:36:40 PM | Okay so it sounds cliche but anyway, apart from regular workout sessions (cardio + weight training), the simple rule of nutrition is:
"If man made it, don't eat it", and "if it tastes good, spit it out."
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Posted: 6/13/2009 9:27:53 PM | 1. Plan and prepare your food for the next day every evening so that it is ready to eat every 3 hrs in small portioned containers. PROTEIN, Complex Carbs and healthy oils (walnuts, olive oil - help you stay "full")PLUS drink ONE gallon of clean water EVERY DAY A MUST.
2. Eat only living foods, no sugar, white flour or processed foods with preservatives - your body will reshape itself doing ONLY THIS...you will get a waist and lose belly fat!! ( inflamation/pain in joints went away!)
3. Sweat out the toxins by doing 30 min of cardio every day...get your heart rate up
4. Do a juice fast once a week...get a juicer and USE IT juicing veggies and fruits
5. Visualize and believe/behave yourself to be 10 pounds thinner and see/feel your body changing and getting healthier...we really ARE what we eat. Living foods=Living body | |
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Posted: 6/15/2009 8:28:32 PM | IM 6'0" BACK ON OCT 5 2007 I WAS 318 LBS 52 JACKET 46-48 WAIST.
NOW I AM 239 LBS 44-46 JACKET N 36-38 WAIST N COUNTING WRITING A BOOK WHEN I REACH GOAL WGHT OF 203 HS FOOTBALL WGHT.
IF U SERIOUS EMAIL ME @ NES.ZAPATA@GMAIL.COM N I WILL SEND U LINK N MORE INFO
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Posted: 6/16/2009 7:45:05 AM | It's easy, I lost 4 stone in 2 months, 4 years ago, and have kept it off.
Exercise to the limit of your ability (ie, to exhaustion), every day whilst avoiding junk food. I would suggest either indoor rowers, cross trainers or possibly cycling. Running is best when you've got some weight off! Set targets to motivate yourself, either distance or time targets.
Simple, I could do it again tomorrow. | |
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Posted: 6/16/2009 2:38:11 PM |
You don't see any obese vegetarians for good reason.
Sure you do, there are plenty of them posting in these forums espousing the vegetarian lifestyle. My Ex is vegetarian now and she has become quite overweight as well.
You can be a vegetarian and still eat crap. Potato chips, corn chips, pretzels etc. are all vegetarian and they are far from good for you. Add some yummy french onion dip and they are even worse for you.White bread, white rice, mashed potatoes and gravy.......again, all vegetarian and not so good for you. Candy Bars, chocolate cake, brownies, Twinkies are all vegetarian........And they will greatly impact your weight and health. It is entirely possible to be a vegetarian and still eat like crap. Be careful promoting something as a panacea without adding the necessary caveats.
Studies have shown that vegetarians live on average 10 years longer than meat eaters.
Do you have proof of this? Links? Scientific, peer reviewed evidence? What are the criteria used to measure this?
Plus you will be doing something good for the environment, and not supporting the suffering inherent with factory farming
You do realize that vegetable come from farms, right? And you do recognize the environmental impact of modern farming methods. Fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides etc. that are applied to the ground and the plants have environmental consequences. Runoff of these products get into ground water and contribute to weed over growth in ponds, lakes and rivers and impacts the aquatic environment. Plowing and tilling soil results in erosion. Modern, aggressive, high yield farming has depleted the soil of naturally occurring nutrients. As a result the nutritional value of today's vegetables is vastly less than they were even 20 years ago. Increasing vegetable farming would result in increased environmental impact.
PLUS drink ONE gallon of clean water EVERY DAY A MUST.
This is a fallacy that gets bantered about way too much. There was a recent study that even refuted the 8 glasses a day theory that has been in vogue for ever. For most people, in most circumstances, a gallon of water would be too much. You run the risk of throwing your electrolytes out of balance as well as the sodium your body needs to function.
Eat only living foods, no sugar, white flour or processed foods
What exactly are living foods? You do realize that sugar and white flour comes from living plants, right?
Sweat out the toxins by doing 30 min of cardio every day
Cardio is good for many things but ridding your body of toxins is not one of them. This is no more effective for ridding your body of toxins than those pads you stick to the bottoms of your feet over night. Your body has remarkable processes that serve to filter toxins out of your body. Cardio is great for your over all health and well being, but it is not a tool to remove toxins.
Do a juice fast once a week...get a juicer and USE IT juicing veggies and fruits
And what exactly are the benefits of this? Adding natural juices to your diet is not a bad idea. Fasting I am not a proponent of. Maybe I don't have the right information, but I don't see the benefit.
Visualize and believe/behave yourself to be 10 pounds thinner and see/feel your body changing and getting healthier
Pure psycho babble.......There is no short cut. Eat a clean diet, exercise your body hard and changes will come. If you want to visualize something see yourself eating better or running farther or lifting more. That is the visualization that works.
The best advice is to do your research, work hard and look at this as a lifestyle change. Take advice from those that live their advice and whose appearance backs it up. I would not train with a fat, out of shape trainer.............. I'm just saying. | |
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Posted: 6/16/2009 2:58:55 PM |
Run a lot. Ignore everything else. The only way to lose weight is to run
Really? You can run all you want, but if you don't eat right your running will be far less effective or ineffective.
There is a reason that most overweight people are overweight. Bad diet is the primary reason. You have to change the diet in order to lose weight and keep it off. Simple as that.
Now quit giving out bad advice. | |
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Posted: 6/16/2009 3:17:20 PM |
Run a lot. Ignore everything else. The only way to lose weight is to run
This may have worked for Forest Gump but for everyone else it is what you eat not what you do.
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