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Originally Posted by Wilfred  Very simple: Become a vegetarian ;-) |
Sometimes, it's not that simple. There are quite a few overweight vegetarians. The diet can consist of all the sugar, soda, white flour, and refried beans that you can handle. There is some validity to the suggestion as evidenced by Steve, but doing something like changing your whole diet can often times not be so simple. Then again, it might be very simple. One of the added benefits of vegetarianism is that if you order the vegetarian dish at any restaurant, it's almost always cheaper, and it's usually just healthier in general because they assume you're a health nut.
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Tell us more about yourself.
How much do you weigh?
Male or female?
What's your current diet like?
What foods do you find yourself craving? Men usually crave meats and women usually crave sweets but often times it's reversed. I used to find myself craving sweets when I was a vegetarian and then later meat when I wasn't.
What's your current plan?
How old are you?
A little extra detail will help us fine tune our suggestions.
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The best tips that I know of after experimenting a lot are:
1. Stop drinking Soda (diet or otherwise)
2. Stop drinking Milk or at least drink Organic milk. Still, just stop drinking it.
3. Don't eat anything WHITE. White sugar, white flour, etc.
4. CHANGE YOUR INNER SELF. Identify yourself as a thinner person that's losing the extra weight that just kinda showed up. Not as a fat person that's working really hard to pretend to join the skinny club. Don't fight your sub-consciouses. It's smarter than you. One of the best books on the subject is Psycho-Cybernetics. Crazy title. Lovely book.
5. Make working out as fun as possible. The number 1 reason you'll stop working out is that it'll suck. Then you go again and it sucks. And again and it sucks. Finally your sub-consciouses figures it out and suddenly you have all these things to do like clean up your house or watch the last 15 minutes or tv or go help a friend move....
6. Work on your emotions. Most people eat to bury emotions. But instead of eating, if you just work on your emotions and deal with them and accept them, then suddenly you're not craving everything all the time. I suggest Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now" and EFT Tapping (tapping.com and emofree.com).
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Okay, you want a real tip?
Go to Bikram Yoga. It's like 100 degree sauna and you do yoga for 90 minutes, 3x a week. I used to eat a double cheeseburger after almost every workout and I lost 20lbs of fat and got down to 150lbs and 10%bf in 2.5 months. I ate fairly sensibly otherwise. Still, I gained it all back and then some because I didn't have my inner self down. (point #4 above).
It doesn't put muscle on you so you're very likely to gain weight if you stop. It's better to do it the traditional way of lifting weights and doing cardio, but if you want to drop weight, bikram yoga works like gang busters.