What is an easy way to lose weight if your sorta overweight?
Ok I currently weight around 199lbs and I’d like to lose weight,I go to curves three days a week and I eat healthy. But I’m not losing any weight! Am I doing something wrong?
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The best way to lose weight is to continue eating healthy and focus on things like walking, running, cardio work and turning the weight that you do have into a firm sheet of muscle. SELF magazine always has great tips for the newest ways to lose weight. Oh, and another thing, cut out all caffeinated products like soda, coffee, tea and things of the like. One glass of red wine a day is healthy for your heart and drinking about 8-10 16 oz. glasses of water a day will help you slim down quick!
If you want to lose weight, you need to two things: eat less and exercise more. Weight gain happens when you create a calorie surplus (eat more than you burn). Your body takes the excess calories and converts them to fat which get stored around your stomach, arms and thighs. The longer you remain in a calorie surplus, the more weight you’ll gain. To lose that weight, you need to do the opposite. You need to create a calorie deficit (start eating less than you burn).
Your first step is to figure out how many calories you burn on a daily basis. Use a calorie calculator – http://calorieneedscalculator.com The number you get from this tool is what your body burns on a daily basis. To lose weight, simply eat less. It sounds a lot easier than it is but making small changes helps you adjust to a new lifestyle. Don’t think of this as a diet, think of it as a new life. Instead of eating foods high in sugars, white flour and saturated fat, go with fruits, vegetables, whole wheats, fish, lean meats, nuts and beans. In addition to eating less, you also need to exercise more. Start off at 1-2 times per week and work your way up to 3-5 times per week.
Don’t make all of these changes at once or you won’t be able to properly adjust to them. Generally, eating healthier foods will decrease your calorie intake. Compare a doughnut to an apple and you’ll see that healthy foods are lower in calories. You can find some more information at the Beginner’s Guide to Dieting – http://straightdiet.com
Erin,
thank you for writing and posting this article!
- It is very informative. I found it via a link on a site that shares your view, perhaps you know of it (Pretty Thin dot com).
I live in Scandinavia where the problem is almost the opposite to what it is on the international web. The reason lies in (I believe) issues the people in this country (where I currently live) have as a nation. – I have written an article on this special situation which is one of silence (in the media and elsewhere) and of banning of websites. I have left a link to “my” website in case you would be interested in taking a look … otherwise there might be others who could benefit.
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Dane,
perhaps I shouldn't address you as this is not my website. But, as you say, the article and the comments are somewhat old, so I'll take a chance and say a few words anyway…
You state that wannabes are responsible for a lot of negativity.
- I have to disagree: Those who generate the negativity are responsible for the negativity, no one else!
There's a lot of ignorance and lack of knowledge out there, but we can't hold others responsible for how we react toward them. What we can do is to try and provide a different attitude and more resources of information.
If I am correct in assuming you might be Danish (? ^^) you should be aware of how hurtful silence can be, and it doesn't protect you from the negativity of others. – In my eyes wannabes are hurting too, but they have nowhere to go (that they know of).
I see you presume that Erin would be repulsed by your looks if she met you … and that is Only because you weigh a lot! This, in my understanding, stems from negativity AND silence in your surroundings. You really don't know how others might feel about you, but you have read and heard more than enough to have cause to assume they might react as you feel they would.
You say that wannabes “…wouldn't envy genuine anorexics if society didn't parade skeletal super models … to glamorize it”.
I see what you mean, but I would be careful about seeing things too much in shades of only black and white. It's one of the mistakes that lead to incapacity to accept one's own “flaws” as well as those of others, it's a vicious circle.
That said, I can understand why you feel tempted by the thought of not wanting to eat, or to not being able to doing so when you do want … it seems to be an easy way to lose weight, and then the troubles would be over, because: “Anything to not be this way anymore”.
The problem is, of course, that there is no easy way – not even for those who became anorexic. That's not easier than doing it the right way. What makes the “right way” seem even harder than it needs to be, is … guess: Lack of information, support, and the result of the negativity from our surroundings, which makes us feel we should be able to do better and be free from problems all on our own, and which silences us along with those who might be supportive if they knew better.
– The story about Karen shows the mechanism quite well; we always think it's just us who didn't do enough or who weren't strong enough.
I'd urge you to visit the website I mention above (in parenthesis; it's a forum that also has a lot of male members, members who are overweight and members who have Binge ED – like you do – and thousands of other people. There's a lot of interaction between and across groups. It's all up to the members, there's no pro or con anything. It's up to the members. ^^).
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To everybody:
Good Luck on your Roads in Life!…
Very well said! I totally agree that losing weight to become healthier is best and likely more sustainable. Losing weight for someone else might mean gaining it back if that someone else were gone. I am fortunate enough to have married a man that loved me when I was fat and now that I've lost weight to become healthier, he reaps those rewards as well.
OK…so whey is the new cure for AIDS. I’m not “booksmart”, I have common sense which apparently you are lacking if you believe whey is the solution to losing weight.