I cannot control my eating of junk food (Alli, Weight Watchers, system)
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For the poster who posted ... it's a myth you have to exercise to lose weight ... I have an even bigger myth for you ... it's a myth you don't have to exercise to lose weight. If you take in x amount of calories and never exercise, initially you will see weight loss but then your body will adjust accordingly and compensate for that calorie deficit ...and that's when you will hit a plateau. Exercising properly you get muscle, muscle burns calories while you sleep ... fat doesn't. OP go to calories per hour . com it will explain to you why exercise is important as well as healthy choices ... and not some bizarre diet.
The 10-15lbs? Well as long as they continue the healthy diet. They might even lose a little more. If they go back to their normal eating, it will all come back + more.
I am a working executive, working long hours and addicted to fast food, usually eating while I'm in the office. I seem to eat whether I'm hungry or not and have got to a stage where I am unable to control my eating habit. Unfortunately, my weight is increasing and I'm being forced to buy clothes a size larger than normal. I can devote a little time to exercise, but is there a recommended safe way to lose weight? I've heard of all these diets, such as Atkins, that don't sound very healthy at all.
Just order vegetables and salads or meats. Tell them no potatoes! And drink water during dinner. Alcohol makes you drink more.
For the poster who posted ... it's a myth you have to exercise to lose weight ... I have an even bigger myth for you ... it's a myth you don't have to exercise to lose weight. If you take in x amount of calories and never exercise, initially you will see weight loss but then your body will adjust accordingly and compensate for that calorie deficit ...and that's when you will hit a plateau. Exercising properly you get muscle, muscle burns calories while you sleep ... fat doesn't. OP go to calories per hour . com it will explain to you why exercise is important as well as healthy choices ... and not some bizarre diet.
I agree with the first part. The human body is very quick to adapt. If you cut calories, you'll initially lose weight. But it won't be long after your body adjusts and learns to make due with fewer calories. The idea that you don't have to exercise to lose weight is a myth. If something's too good to be true, it usually is.
The only part of your post I would dispute is about muscle building. Muscle does burn more calories than fat. But there are two problems with trying to gain muscle as a means of losing fat. One is that gaining muscle requires taking in more calories whereas losing fat requires taking in less. These goals run in conflict of one another. The other problem is that muscle doesn't burn as many calories as people think. That's another myth that's really taken root. It still burns more than fat, but the impact has been overstated. If your goal is to lose fat, then you should exercise for two reasons. One is to maintain the muscle that you have and the other is to create a bigger caloric deficit without slowing down your metabolism.
Ok I see you haven't learned the magic of calorie shifting. I HAD to do this because I had to lose weight without regular exercise.
When I dropped inch wise again I would maintain every day for a month or two depending on what my body liked. It was easier to hold a steady weight when my body fat was lower and my weight was lower.
I got all the way down to the 130's this way with the proper amt of body fat %. (20-22%)
I exercised here and there but it was in no means a religion. Basically just a few weeks with stints here and there when I was in the 140s doing HITT.
After that you cant lose much weight without exercise unless you eat perfectly. I cant do the large cuts anymore. Anything under 1000-1200 for a female would of stalled me out.
Another thing I personally notice...Its nice to save the muscle rebuild for post loss. When you increase your calories from a calorie cut place you metabolism will be slower and you can turn those bumped up calories into muscle with lifting and resistance your body will respond to FAST because it hasn't been doing it all through the diet. Besides the more muscle than fat burning thing is about 15%...
If you lost 15% more its not really much if you wont stick to what you are doing.
Cardio takes out muscle too if you dont have the nutritional support or overextend yourself . So if you are really looking to maintain on a diet you should just lift and not look to lose more than 1 lb per week. Keep your cardio to 30-60 minutes 5-6 days a week.
I just wanted the weight off because of pain. its a lot easier/more desirable to exercise now than when I was bigger. If someone told me I had to exercise to lose weight when I started I would of probably just quit right then and there. But I did it my own tweaked way and got exactly what I wanted without making myself miserable all the way.
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I think one of the above is actually about undoing the effects of junk food.
I recently lost 45 pounds (Over a 3 year period)) by eating healthy. I could eat anything I wanted, I just choose NOT to. While on the diet I discovered something that shocked me... When I ate carbs or drank a soda, the next day, my appitite was out of control and I was so hungry, I just shoved the food in without a thought.
How about taking at least 5 pieces of fresh fruit to work with you and eat that when you get hungry? Have a BIG salad for lunch (no bacon bits or croutons and limmited salad dressing)...
While on my diet, I avoided fast food and processed foods, made everything from scratch myself so I could control what was in what I ate.
Once you make up your mind to do it, you can loose the weight.. do NOT set a time frame on loosing weight... like I said, I did it over 3 years. Once I reached my goal weight, I had enjoyed eating like I was for so long that I continued to eat like that and lost more weight than I planned. I had planned to stop loosing at 130# and have finally figured out how to maintain my weight at 122# for the last 6 months. I STILL have to watch my carb intake or I will eat everything in sight the next day without a thought.
What you eat/drink CAN make you hungry so figure out which foods make you hungry and avoid them.
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