What's your weight loss tip?

[antoanette]

I lost 25 pounds in four months. It was an exciting experience.
I thought it might be great if we share with each other our weight loss/ healthy living/ get fit tips.

My best tip is : Be surrounded by people that motivate you. If you can't find them in the offline world go online. Joining a healthy living community helps you meet like minded people and share experience. Places like this forums are a perfect motivator.

So whats you best weight loss tip?

[beautyscientist]

Eat plenty of raw fruit and veg. Drink soup.

[Happiness]

Originally Posted by antoanette

I lost 25 pounds in four months. It was an exciting experience.
I thought it my be great if we share with each other our weight loss/ healthy living/ get fit tips.

My best tip is : Be surrounded by people that motivate you. If you can't find them in the offline world go online. Joining a healthy living community helps you meet like minded people and share experience. Places like this forums are a perfect motivator.

So whats you best weight loss tip?

Healthy eating (eliminating pasta/rice bread)+ smaller portions and exercizing at the gym (5/6 days a week). I've started my diet last week and lost 7lbs. I lost a few inches around my belly too! what keeps me going is a very supportive husband who eats the same vegetable+meat dish as me than while doing cardio/weight training...telling myself to stay focus...disciplined and visualizing a smaller fitter figure! I do a lot of visualization during my training though...so it helps...I still have about 25lbs to loose though.

[frenchguy]

Eat less and walk more.
Simple way.

[JimT]

These are all awesome tips so far!

I have lost 35 pounds in 6-8 months, and plan on losing 20-25 pounds more by the end of this year, maybe sooner.

70-80% of it is what you eat. Cereal, even healthy cereal, as the foundation of your breakfast is all wrong. Use healthy high fiber muti-grain cereals as only a side dish to a breakfast meal that involves mostly lean protein. Most people's biggest meal of the day is their dinner, when it really should be their breakfast. Your breakfast needs to include lean protien, complex carbs, and fiber. Satiating yourself with everything you need at breakfast time is key to maintaining energy, controlling cravings, preventing starving/hunger pain, and keeps you on tract to eat healthy small meals throughout the day. Also, drink water from the time you get up until about 6-7pm at night.

I recently learned a weight training/cardio program that boosts and keeps your resting metabolism high. Now if I have a couple to few weeks off during the holidays and slack on my eating, I won't gain anymore than a pound instead of 5-10lb.
It's called hypertrophy weight training, and I swear by it! You won't bulk as long as you're eating healthy.

Also, for fat burn, steady pace cardio is best. High intense cardio will deplete muscle tissue, which in turn has a long term negative effect on fat loss, because muscle burns fat. Once in a while, it's okay to mix it up with a high intensity cardio session here and there, which I recommend spinning class for that.

[JimT]

Originally Posted by frenchguy

Eat less and walk more.
Simple way.

True, but also take into consideration obese and overweight people...they have to focus on healthier eating choices and habits first before they should focus on eating less. When obese and overweight people try to eat less, it almost always backfires and can be very psychologically stressful for them.

[Explinfin]

My weight loss tip is to take organic broken cell wall chlorella every day ! I have been taking chlorella at full recommended dosage for about 3 months now and I have lost about 20 pounds with no effort! I wasn't even trying to lose weight, nor did I know that chlorella would do such things...

[Happiness]

Originally Posted by JimT

These are all awesome tips so far!

I have lost 35 pounds in 6-8 months, and plan on losing 20-25 pounds more by the end of this year, maybe sooner.

70-80% of it is what you eat. Cereal, even healthy cereal, as the foundation of your breakfast is all wrong. Use healthy high fiber muti-grain cereals as only a side dish to a breakfast meal that involves mostly lean protein. Most people's biggest meal of the day is their dinner, when it really should be their breakfast. Your breakfast needs to include lean protien, complex carbs, and fiber. Satiating yourself with everything you need at breakfast time is key to maintaining energy, controlling cravings, preventing starving/hunger pain, and keeps you on tract to eat healthy small meals throughout the day. Also, drink water from the time you get up until about 6-7pm at night.

I recently learned a weight training/cardio program that boosts and keeps your resting metabolism high. Now if I have a couple to few weeks off during the holidays and slack on my eating, I won't gain anymore than a pound instead of 5-10lb.
It's called hypertrophy weight training, and I swear by it! You won't bulk as long as you're eating healthy.

Also, for fat burn, steady pace cardio is best. High intense cardio will deplete muscle tissue, which in turn has a long term negative effect on fat loss, because muscle burns fat. Once in a while, it's okay to mix it up with a high intensity cardio session here and there, which I recommend spinning class for that.

Breakfast! one of my biggest problem...I like to drink coffee (add splenda) one cup of coffee at 8am will keep me full until at least 10:15am...then, I will eat a small bowl of cereal (no milk added) Muslix or Special K...drink water in between..then at 12:15pm, I will have a 1 1/2 glass of vegetable juice...slowly drink it..It fills me up...then around 2:30pm, I will have 1 1/2 of smootie juice (all natural-no sugar added)...it will keep me full until 4:30pm when I get home..then I will have a vegatable/salade meal with meat...while making sure that I do have my 8 glass of water for the day...then around 7:30pm I head to the gym....

it's working for me...but now, that u've mention the breakfast thing...I am not sure if it's better for me to have my "heavy" meal in the morning or evening...

[ginkgo]

My tip is to cut down on salt intake. What happens if you put a carrot in water for a day? Nothing! What happens if you put the carrot in salt water for a day? It shrinks to less than half its size. The salt sucks the water out. Salt is like a water magnet. Simple science says that if you burn more calories than you burn then you should continue to lose weight.

But some get to a point where this does not work. If you are retaining a great deal of water from too much salt in your body the exerise and eating less will not effect this. You could actually starve to death and still be fat due to water retention. Note that fat has many meanings. A fat lip means that it is swollen. A fat bank account does not happen from deposting fat into your account.

You must have read about people who have tried everything and nothing works. Well they overlooked this one thing. It is the only thing that will work for this-- less salt. Note that if you are on any drugs (medications), it may be one that it does the same thing as salt. In that case nothing will work except getting off that drug. Jerry Lewis cannot since they tell him he will die without it. So for him there is nothing that he can ever do so he will not be fat.

Also most people really do not know what they are talking about. They just like repeating something they heard from someone else that does not know what they are talking about.

[Happiness]

Originally Posted by ginkgo

My tip is to cut down on salt intake. What happens if you put a carrot in water for a day? Nothing! What happens if you put the carrot in salt water for a day? It shrinks to less than half its size. The salt sucks the water out. Salt is like a water magnet. Simple science says that if you burn more calories than you burn then you should continue to lose weight.

But some get to a point where this does not work. If you are retaining a great deal of water from too much salt in your body the exerise and eating less will not effect this. You could actually starve to death and still be fat due to water retention. Note that fat has many meanings. A fat lip means that it is swollen. A fat bank account does not happen from deposting fat into your account.

You must have read about people who have tried everything and nothing works. Well they overlooked this one thing. It is the only thing that will work for this-- less salt. Note that if you are on any drugs (medications), it may be one that it does the same thing as salt. In that case nothing will work except getting off that drug. Jerry Lewis cannot since they tell him he will die without it. So for him there is nothing that he can ever do so he will not be fat.

Also most people really do not know what they are talking about. They just like repeating something they heard from someone else that does not know what they are talking about.

thank you! it does make sense! but how do you "spice" up a vegatable meal?? or salad? how would u cut down salt?

[Angelique]

Best thing for me was to create a system that would minimize my focus on food. I chose a few meals that I could eat over and over again without getting tired of it. Put my meals and exercise on autopilot.
Was able to shave off 35 lbs in about 5 months. That's the most I've ever lost in a healthy way.

[Nameless One]

Go through all of one's possessions, throw out ones that do not contribute to well being and peace of mind. Organize the rest so that everything which is used often is easily accessible and everything which is used rarely is found easily.

[openeyes]

chew each bite at least 30 times.

[ginkgo]

Originally Posted by Happiness

thank you! it does make sense! but how do you "spice" up a vegatable meal?? or salad? how would u cut down salt?

With spices! Trader Joes has 21 Seasoning Salute. There are strong healthy spices like garlic, ginger and hot pepper. Indians are experts at using spices in food like curry. They use salt since it makes you eat too much and they are out to sell lots of food. Sushi has the wasabe. There is even horse radish mustard.

[antoanette]

Originally Posted by openeyes

chew each bite at least 30 times.

That's a great tip.

Most of us can’t find the time to slow down and chew our food. Something so simple yet so important. If we chew properly our food , we will enjoy better health and better food experience.

[MediocreDeity]

In my personal experience, if you are trying to lose a lot of weight and not just 10 pounds or so, the best thing you can do is to find out what is causing your weight problem. Most overweight people know A LOT about how to lose weight. I know enough to write books on the subject without a lot of effort.

Yet.. knowing it isn't going to do a tiny bit of good if you don't find the underlying cause of your weight gain.

Even if you succeed in dropping the weight, it's insanely difficult to maintain if you don't address the chaos on the inside first. (Take it from someone who lost the same 80 pounds multiple times before figuring this out...)

[ayurgram]

Eat special diet that helps to reduce weight. Never eat more food that exceeds your daily calories needs. That actually helps to maintain body weight. Weight reduction program, little excersises, balanced diet will help to reduce weight. Never go for fast weight loss program.

[antoanette]

Originally Posted by ayurgram

Eat special diet that helps to reduce weight. Never eat more food that exceeds your daily calories needs. That actually helps to maintain body weight. Weight reduction program, little excersises, balanced diet will help to reduce weight. Never go for fast weight loss program.

What do you think is a healthy weight loss per week?

I would personally recommend that you don't to lose more than 1 kg or around 2 pounds per week ( of course depending on your current weight). A slow weight loss is the safest and most effective way to reaching your weight goal.

[SomeRandomGuy]

My experience is that the first step with losing weight is to want to lose the weight for the right reasons. I've tried losing weight before for various reasons, with varying degrees of success. Every time, I gained the weight back.

This past summer I decided that I wanted to be healthy, which meant losing weight. My way of looking at weight loss is completely different now, because losing the weight isn't the goal, it is simply part of the journey to being healthier. I have lost 45 pounds in 8 months. It has been surprisingly easy.

As far as my tips for losing the weight, like others have said, it is simply eat less and exercise more. I know that the idea of consuming less calories than you burn seems too simple, but it has worked great for me. I find that when presented with multiple options, the simplest approach is often the best.

[antoanette]

Originally Posted by SomeRandomGuy

My experience is that the first step with losing weight is to want to lose the weight for the right reasons. I've tried losing weight before for various reasons, with varying degrees of success. Every time, I gained the weight back.

This past summer I decided that I wanted to be healthy, which meant losing weight. My way of looking at weight loss is completely different now, because losing the weight isn't the goal, it is simply part of the journey to being healthier. I have lost 45 pounds in 8 months. It has been surprisingly easy.

As far as my tips for losing the weight, like others have said, it is simply eat less and exercise more. I know that the idea of consuming less calories than you burn seems too simple, but it has worked great for me. I find that when presented with multiple options, the simplest approach is often the best.

Exactly !!! Changing the way you think is the first step- If your only goal is to lose weight and weight loss will follow.