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dpaul
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Hej!

I really hate diets and hate gyms, but love different types of sports. Any suggestions and recommendations how to lose weight in this setting? I am willing to combine different foods, different eating habits, but don't want to starve :) thank you in advance!

/dpaul

Last edited on 26 Jan 2012 03:17 pm by dpaul

Veggie21
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James990
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Hello dPaul,

Sports is a great way to stay physically active. In fact, the USDA recommends at least 30 minutes of physical activity everyday. Remember, not everyone has to go inside a gym and lift heavy weights (my style) to burn calories. Instead, a woman in my town take daily walks for about 1 hour each day and she's in excellent physical condition.

Dieting is always a difficult variable because there are many possibilities and feds that will magically help you lose weight, supposedly. In reality, though, the Human body still implements survival techniques used by primitive hunters which conserves fat which make losing weight so difficult.

However, eating the "right" foods that are natural and full of nutrition, vitamins, and minerals can significantly contribute towards healthily losing weight (refer to USA food pyramid).

Things to avoid: Vegetable oils, artificial fats (Trans-fat), bad carbohydrates (white bread, rice, pasta, etc.) unhealthy meats (chicken with skin, unreduced ground beef, fried meats, etc.).

Things to consume: Green tea (naturally flavored), Olive oil, good carbohydrates (Wheat bread, rice, pasta, etc.), lemons, lean meats (Turkey burger, reduced ground beef, baked fish and chicken with no skin).

Some great brands I recommend: Kashi, Lean cuisine, Healthy choice, and South beach diet.

When going on a diet for the first few weeks, your body will feel like it's starving, but it actually isn't. One thing that can reduce or prevent the starvation feeling is consume more fiber (about 25 grams a day).

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The food pyramid: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/Fpyr/pmap.htm
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Veggie21 wrote:
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I had the same problem with diets they never work, until I learn about this meal shake that help maintain your eating habits.?�?�I know with diets once?�?�you take the weight off it come back hard then before. ?�?�I have been on the plan for a little of two weeks and lose 1/2 in my waist.?�?� you can check the product on this website called myherbalife

Diets are the wrong tool for the job. What you need is a weight loss/weight maintenance plan that causes a lifestyle change.

Everyone is on a diet. Most people are on bad diets. Diet merely refers to the food you are eating on regular basis. If you are over weight you are eating too much high calorie foods and you have an unbalanced diet.

If you want to be lean, eat the way your great grandparents did. If you want to be healthy and lean eat the way Dr Dean Ornish and Dr Nathan Pritikin recommend. Once you learn proper nutrition and you will learn it in this phrase. If it comes out of the ground or is picked from a plant or swims or walks on two legs eat it except for mammals. No human or monkey meat. :grin:

The rest involves eating the correct amount of calories for you. That one is easy too.

Here's the hard part. Doing it. Here is how you solve that part.

Make a list of the the reasons for why you cannot eat the correct food and the correct amount of calories. Give it some thought. Write down all the reason for why you can't follow a healthy eating plan. Examine those reasons and make sure they really are can't and not won'ts and don'ts.

Pick all the healthy foods that you like and make a list. You will see foods like peppers, squash, tomatoes, apples, grapes, plums, peaches, green beans, lettuce, kale, fish, poultry, corn, legumes, whole grains, skim milk, yogurt, nuts ect.. and eat only them.

Chances are you have no legitimate reasons for why you can't rid your diet of bad food and replace it with good food.

At this point would you say that we have taking the mystery out of weight loss and healthy eating?

Is there any reason you can think of that will prevent you from eating only healthy foods and eliminating junk food?

This is a start. There are hurdles but this time when one comes up you will see it before it trips you.

Stick around and you will lose weight.

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James990 wrote

Other than South Beach Diet excellent advice.

dpaul
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I went public, this should make me lose weight!

http://skinnybeaches12.tumblr.com/

foodcoach
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A healthy lifestyle needs to be a consistent and sustainable balance of a healthy balanced diet, and an exercise routine that you can both enjoy and reap the benefits from.
When looking to make decisions about your own personal fitness, weight loss, diet or general lifestyle, make sure you are well informed so you know exactly which approach is best for you.
Start with the process of cycling b/w 2-3 kms daily,If you are not interested in running.
Take your regular diet,add contents containig nutrition,proteins which is good for health.Follow this plan regularly and you can lose some weight in a healthy way.

Thanks

dpaul
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The greatest challenge is to remain consistent, especially when weekends come. Also, when you're invited to parties, birthdays, etc. How can a person resist all the temptations? :sad:

TKHamid
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Check short piece titled, "Tackling body fat... as a judo wrestler... not a heavy weight boxer." At bottom of page on:

http://www.thinkingincirclesaboutobesity.com/EXCERPTS.htm

The idea: Most of us approach weight loss as a boxing bout?��?� seeking to knock-out a tough adversary?��?�our own body. The record to-date is pretty clear: Few can successfully land that ?��?�knockout punch.?��?� Perhaps we?��d have a better shot if we approach the weight-loss ?��?�fight?��?� differently?��?� using the more efficient mindset of the Judo wrestler... how we may use Judo-like tactics to work with (not against) our body?��s built-in drives.