Weight Loss Help

[MomNeedsVacay]

15lbs is definitely attainable in a month!

Step 1) Drink lots of water
Step 2) Do cardio 7 days a week but change up the routine... run, walk fast, hike, bike, swim, climb stairs.. do this for at least 30 min, preferably more.
Step 3) Do pushups and situps at home to help tone up

EATING
Your diet is more important than working out believe it or not.
Step 4) Eat 4-5 small meals through the day instead of 2-3 big ones. EAT a HEALTHY Breakfast, this is critical!!! Fruit, cereal, or fresh fruit smoothie.. no eggs, pancakes, bacon, mcdonalds.. none of that.

good foods to eat during the day: turkey, fish, chicken

Step 5) Eliminate all sugar if you can. I know its hard but try your best. Sugar puts excess carbs in your body and unless you're an iincredibly active person, you won't be able to burn them off.

Step 6) NO TRANS FATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with everything except the no eggs thing..... Egg whites are a fantastic source of protein

 

[Handbag Lady]

You all have such good advice. I've love to lose some weight but I work 8:30am to 7 pm.

I can't eat dinner before 8 pm or so. I do have a lunch break and I usually eat well until dinner time. By then, I'm so hungry I'll eat just about anything. I do pack lunch or have stuff here to eat so I'm not in the commissary where the heavier foods are far too tempting. Even the salad bar is scary. Way too much stuff that shouldn't be in a salad and not enough stuff to choose from. They don't even have raw carrots!

I can excercise at night and I have access to a gym. I just don't go as often as I should. Laundry usually wins and the maid hasn't shown up in 12 years.

 

[PatsMom]

I've lost 35 pounds since January. No formal diet, just eating smaller portions. And trying not to skip meals. That used to do me in - I'd skip lunch or breakfast and be so hungry by dinner time that I'd eat everything in sight!

I try to eat at least one salad a day. I limit potato, white rice, pasta and bread. Dieting has always been hard for me because I will eat almost no vegetables or fruit. So the stuff you are left with is not necessarily low calorie or healthy! I have learned to like most salad type vegetables (except tomato).

I also exercise almost every day. No gym membership because my hours of work just don't mesh with gym schedules and I am not always in the same house (I kind of rotate between my mother's and my house which are 75 miles apart). And my office is 110 miles from my house. So needless to say I spend a lot of time in the car! But for exercise I do a brisk walk. When the weather is nice I take a hike in the woods (I live on the edge of a National Forest). When I am at my mother's I just take a walk around town. If the weather is bad, I have a treadmill at my house.

When I started out, I could barely walk 1/4 mile - now I am up to 3 miles at a 3 mph pace on the treadmill!

I still hate to exercise and sweat but do find that having some good music on an iPod helps me out!

 

[Pomlover2586]

OK so i went to livestrong.com and created a calorie tracker and diet plan. I'm allowed to eat 1023 calories per day and should theoretically lose 2 lbs per week......

It's 6:11 pm CA time and I have 32 calories left. I'm trying to keep my calories at or under 1000 per day just to be on the safe side.......

This is a lot harder than I thought.....I'm hungry.....well not hungry...i just have the munchies and want to munch.....I'm being good though and drinking water/brushing my teeth instead.

Tomorrow I'm going to go out and buy a bunch of diet food- including lots of fruits and veggies so I can consume more periodically throughout the day.

Prayers appreciated........this is hard for me. I'm wishing I could just write a check to the weight loss Gods and have the lbs fall off......

 

[paintnolish]

Good luck and hang in there. When you start to see results, that will help to motivate you. I think you have very realistic goals which can be attained in a month!
Me...I've let a few lbs. creep on in the last year or so but am currently not motivated enough to do anything about it! Yet...