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Maybe the following tips can help you.
1) Eat six small meals a day. Stoking your body with food every three to four hours can rev your metabolism to the max.
2) Run 10 100-yard sprints and burn up to 500 calories.
3) Wait 20 minutes before going for seconds.
4) Throw on a hoodie before working out. When your muscles are warm, you actually burn more calories.
5) Use a smaller dinner plate—it’ll limit how much you can pile on.
6) Use a blue dinner plate. Studies show the color has an appetite- suppressing effect (as opposed to red and yellow plates).
7) Sub in nonfat Greek yogurt for mayo and sour cream—you’ll save 700 cals and 100 cals per half cup, respectively.
8) Eat peanuts from their shells. You’ll nosh on 50% fewer nuts in a sitting just trying to peel before eating.
9) Chew on sugar-free mint gum after a meal. Mint flavors send signals to your brain that it’s time to stop eating.
10) Snack on pistachios instead of pretzels.
11) Take up power yoga. You can burn up to 344 calories a class.
12) Train fasted once a week. This helps the body to keep adrenaline high and blood sugar low.
13)Try some supplements such as resveratrol or celastrol to help you while doing enough exercise.
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a less strenuous way!
Buy a really nice dress that is just undersize and you have the motivation to do the excersise and dieting to shrink your self into a fit, then buy another one smaller again............ 2 months 30lbs gone another 30lbs would be good but hope to do even more. Its so easy to get nice dresses for even us tall girls in decent sizes, now if you could shrink feet i would be happier........ although I just bought a nice pair of wedges in UK size 10!
What's been working for me
My wife has recently been diagnosed as being diabetic. We went to classes on how to manage diabetes. We've both been using what they call "the plate method." Using a 9" plate, half of the plate should be veggies. The other have should be divided between protein and carbs. The protein should be about the size of a deck of cards and the carbs should be roughly 1/2 cup. Eat the veggies first and stop when the plate is empty or you get full which ever comes first. I say that because I've found myself not wanting to finish my meal.
We've been doing this since February. It took about a month for it to begin working on me, but since then, I've lost about 1/2 a pound a week. Nothing spectacular, but it's coming of steadily and my waist is getting smaller.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
I have Type 2, too
The plate method is great :-)
My huge problem is...
"if it is on the plate it should be eaten" otherwise known as "clean plate policy" that was drilled into me for so many years. :-( Every time it is a struggle to leave something on the plate... My first big achievement is that I broke a trend of gaining 2 pounds per year for the last 3 years and kept my weight more or less constant. And it is still under 230 lb.
Increase metabolism
What most people don't realize is that you can actually maintain or even lose weight by eating. With higher metabolism, you sweat more, burn fat more and every action you do increases the rate at which your body warms itself up which also makes you sweat even more. You probably know some people who can't get fat no matter how much they eat, can't get drunk even if they drink 5 times more than you, can't get cold even if they wear less than you and can eat everything you've been avoiding. Those people have very high metabolism.
It doesn't mean they eat balanced food. It simply means their bodies burn fat much faster, which causes their bodies to perform all those seemingly magical stuff. Of course, you can't simply boost your metabolism in just 2-3 weeks, this is a lifestyle. If you can eat metabolism inducing food for like 4-5 years, you will be able to eat everything you want without having to avoid creamy foods or count your calories every time.
I always had to hold my laugh everytime I saw women counting calories.
This webpage lists the foodstuffs that can boost your metabolism
http://bembu.com/metabolism-boosting-foods
As for me, I'm among one of these people who can't get fat, can't feel cold, can't get drunk and very rarely get sick. Now, this is not genetic, my mother is chubby and my sisters have to make very conscious effort to stay in shape. What works for me is the almost daily consumption of beef/chicken curry, garden salads and coffee. In my case, I love these three things, ever since I was a child. So it wasn't a problem at all.
Some dietician will say you shouldn't eat curry, because apart from the curry powder, the coconut has high calories. I always wanted to shout, "Girl, forget the calories. Just enjoy your meals. As long as you eat metabolism inducing foods and you exercise, after a year you can eat anything and still not get fat."
The first rule of dieting is to know what you put into your body
The first rule to dieting is to know what you put in your body.
Here in U.S., companies load virtually all packaged food with sugar. From canned food, to hot dogs. If it is packaged food, it is poison. This is why the U.S. has so many people that are overweight and diabetic.
It is hard to maintain a sane weight, and blood sugar, when companies fatten up the population at every turn.
Eat only food that is prepared from fresh products that are not put their processed. Fresh produce, direct slices of meat. Those types of food. And if you know where the produce and meat directly came from, in your area, all the better.
Along this line, farmers markets and local butchers, are you best friends, in this situation.
At this point, given how upside down the markets and prices are. If you look, you can actually find some good restaurants. Not fast food, nor greasy spoons. That serve healthy food at the same price as store bought packaged garbage.
Once you figure out what is going into you body. Then, it is simply figuring out the proper proportions of food you eat, and what exercise you are good at.
LOG IT !
One of the main reasons many of us eat is that we really don't release what we put in our mouths ( sounds like some of our stories , doesn't it ! )
The nutritionist my cardiologist sent me to suggested I get the app " Lose It " for my phone. By tracking what we eat, it helps us notice patterns.
The app is free ( they do have a paid version, but the free one is good enough ), and can be found at: http://www.loseit.com/
This works for me
I use MyFitnessPal, a similar program that also tracks exercise with a step counter. I find that to lose weight, I need regular exercise as well as counting calories. This program makes both jobs easier. Actually thinking about what I am eating helps me lose weight.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Weight loss realities
The most important thing to remember in any weight-loss/fitness plan is that unless you become a compulsive marathoner or olympic swimmer, you must eat LESS.
Manipulating your base metabolism, using staggered meals, moderately exercising, rebalancing carbs vs proteins vs quinoa, eating the big meals early in the day - all the schemes - none matters unless you cut the calories.
In essence: if you eat enough to be overweight, you realistically CAN'T exercise or 'metabolism-boost' away the calories that you consume - unless you cut down on the calories at the same time.
A single chocolate bar has more calories than you can walk off in an hour. (Remember, walking burns energy, but even *sleeping* burns energy - it's the difference between resting and exercising that you have to calculate.) Here's a simple exercise vs calories-burned calculator. Compare it to the calorie count printed on foods in your kitchen:
http://exercise.about.com/cs/fitnesstools/l/blcalorieburn.htm
loosing weight the truth
What works for other people may not work for you.
There are some people who have a very high metobolic rate ONLY when moving, exercising, working, otherwise it drops to next to nothing while at rest. This signals the body to store fat for those times when you do move. Yes you can follow other diet plans and they work for a bit but it will always come back.
Find something that your body accepts and you lose weight without feeling tired, worn out, hungry, or just need those snack foods.
DO NOT EAT multiple times a day! That is a VERY bad idea! It trains your body to need food multiple times a day so that when you do go "off the diet" you still eat at those times just not as healthy and you gain more weight.
The best way I found to 'lose weight' is to learn when my body is storing or burning fat. When I'm cold my body is trying to store energy and is the ideal time to exercise. When I'm warm while doing nothing my body is trying to burn up calories (ie i ate too much and should not eat as much or change foods)
What I am saying is don't change when you eat. Change the foods you eat instead till you get your balance then feel for clues and work with them. You lose weight properly. Losing weight properly is a bit at a time. Massive weight loss will always come back with massive weight gain. 5 pounds a month is about max.