You need to eat right so you don't put on more weight, and you need to exercise to lose the weight you have. Your diet is controlling how much weight goes in, and your exercise controls how much weight you'll lose. Eating a plant based diet with regular exercise will make you a lot healthier. It's more important to be healthy than to be skinny, or than losing weight. If you have to get unhealthy to reach a goal weight, then it's not worth it. Your health comes first, and if you're healthy then your weight will drop to what's right for you.

Annette : Some professor did a study where he ate only twinkies for a certain period of time and he lost weight and ended up healthier (better blood pressure and such) than he was before the study (I think he was fairly out of shape). I can't remember the specifics of but if I find the link I'll share it.

And I read somewhere that jumping rope (or jumping jacks, I would assume) burn calories faster than walking or running. I did it a lot to get myself in shape to run for PT, and thought it was easy and more helpful than just running. But that was for getting in shape, not losing weight. Good luck with however you do it.

EDIT: Found it. Looks like he still agrees with you even after his experiment. Still just goes to show we don't really know what "eating healthy" is.

soxfan849 : Eating healthy is eating a plant-based diet full of nutrient rich vegetables, sugar/carbs from fruit and healthy fats from avocados and plant oils. Maybe some whole grains thrown in there too.

Annette : I wasn't trying to argue that traditionally healthy diets are really unhealthy. Just saying there seem to be more ways than just one to achieve the same results.

umm i guess run and work out eat less calories and do stuff you watch on t.v sorry i'm no help

The most effective way to lose weight is to run. There are other effective means, but running is the simplest and easiest. Putting a stop to that second scoop of ice-cream couldn't hurt, either.

The best method for losing weight is to have a good diet and workout by lifting weights or running on a treadmill.

Well you could try eating 3 meals a day and staying outside all day playing and you could lose weight

A lot of complex answers here. I think that just restraining your appetite (eat enough but not too much) a bit and doing any activity that gets your heart pumping will do the trick. The human body is designed to store calories, that's why it's generally easier to gain weight than to shed weight. Why do you want to lose weight anyway? Health concerns? Self-conscious?

The easiest way to lose weight is eating small portions of food and stretch those 3 meals a day to about 5-6. Eat plenty of fruits and veggies, exercise 3-4 times a week. Cut back on the junk food and replace it with healty snacks like granola bars, yogart, dried nuts, fruits, etc. Make sure you have a good breakfest. That's the most important meal of the day. You should lose your desired weight in 1-6 months. I lost 10 lbs. in about 45 days by following these steps.

I am losing weight pretty fast right now, I was 216 lbs and now I am 160 lbs. (I'm 6'3 btw) I just used to eat until I was full because food tasted good instead of actually eating because I was hungry. I just took up some hobbies and started drinking water only along with only eating when I am actually hungry.

Also started doing 200 sittups a night with weights on my shoulders. So pretty much cut back on the unnecessary carbs and then exercise.

well, if you're already fat, we can figure out WHY you're fat,

1 could be that your parents keep telling you at dinner "eat everything on your plate" or something like that, so then you have to even if you're full, which leads you (after a while) to no longer be able to tell if you're full, so you just keep eating and get fat.

2 could be that you're just not eating the right foods, some bad quality foods that don't have any nutrians make you fat because you feel "full" once the nutrians reach your blood and you have enough to last for a while, but then if there isn't any, your body tells you to keep eating to GET those nutrians, so then you get fat.

3 could be that you you're not eating ENOUGH, when you don't get enough food, your body thinks that you're unable to get food so then it turns all of the food that you would use for energy, (running, fighting,) into fat to try and make it through the winter,

so to solve the first problem, try looking up what the right amount of food for someone of your age should be eating every day, (how many pounds or so) and limit yourself to that amount,

to solve the second problem, READ THE INGREDIENTS when you buy something, if it has big words or stuff that sounds artificial that you don't understand, don't buy it. (saturated fat, diogluceide blah blah blah) and if it says "enriched" don't buy it, because they don't need to enrich stuff unless they took out some vitamins to start with, or just plain buy fruits and vegetables and learn how to cook. (EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE)

to solve the third one, don't starve yourself, eat until you're full, simple as that!


but my personal opinion, go vegetarian for a while, people who did that lost more weight than weight loss companies claim that their course gets you to lose, just eat the fruits and vegetables, and stay away from artificial stuff, (sugar, corn syrup, and the crazy stuff they put in potato chips,) and if you start craving meat, just eat meat, eating it just once on your vegetarian diet won't hurt, just go back on the diet once you've ate it!

I think you'll do just fine with all this information, and if you need more, you've still got google!!!

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Get plenty of exercise, eat lots of grains and vegetables. And don't eat too much sweets and food in general, get all the nutrients you need.

You can eat healthier or exercise, that can work

Limit you portion sizes (only have one serving), grab fruit or a vegetable instead of junk food when you want a snack, and exercise every day for at least 45 minutes. that should do the trick! and oh, drink more water, less soda, and don't eat at resturants that uch, and try to avoid fast food.

I know I probably sound like a commerical but I have a sure fire way to lose weight with a extra nice side effect too (less dental trips). Replace your soda with water. About 5 of my friends did this and the average weight lost was about 15 pounds. They didnt cut out dessert or anything they just stopped drinking soda. If that is impossible for you, then do what my mother did- drink 8 cups of water a day. Really commit to 8 cups of water- it will keep you from feeling hungry, keep you from overeating, you probably arent going to want to look at too many other liquids and just think of all the calories you will burn running to the bathroom (I have tried this myself unfortunately you need to find a bathroom about 2x as much as you used to but you feel a lot better).

Start by walking at least a mile every day, once a day. Try to move up to two miles. Start in the morning or evening. Then, after a couple of months, start to jog your walking route. Try not to take breaks, try to jog the whole way. You could also lift some light weights and/or do curl ups to help. How many of what is up to you.

with the walking/jogging part, you'll lose weight, get outside, get fresh air and sun, and feel better.

Eat salads, and no deserts for awhile. Also get as much exercise as you can like running or walking a mile.