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Need to lose a few pounds by three weeks from now - best most successful diet tips you can recommend would be awesome...
Need to lose a few pounds by three weeks from now - best most successful diet tips you can recommend would be awesome...
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Eat less - move more!!!
I am not being condescending but on that premise you will lose weight.
Eat often and little to keep your blood sugar level's regulated.... And obviously cut out the crap and the booze and try for 2L water a day!!
Not sure how much you'd lose in 3 weeks though?? Esp if its only a few lbs - they are the hardest to shift.
If all else fails, invest in some good underwear and a nice outfit
As another poster said, make sure you drink plenty as mild dehydration is often mistaken for hunger.
If you don't lose any, don't fret - just try again another time. Sometimes your body wants to hang on to the extra lbs, just to annoy you!
Eat 6 small meals/snacks throughout the day and keep your diet balanced.
Don't cut anything out your diet, just eat less of it. If e.g you cut out chocolate then give into the craving and have a binge you'll be back at square one, feeling guilty and demoralised.
1. Drink water
2. Eat a lot less fat and sugar
3. Move your body.
Don't eat after 7 in the evening.
Don't eat 'white' foods ie potatoes, white pasta, white rice, white bread (in fact try and avoid carbs altogether).
Eat lots of celery - you actually burn more calories with the effort of eating it than you are intaking.
Have a big healthy breakfast, small ish lunch, and small snack instead of dinner in the evening.
Exercise as much as you can - take the stairs instead of the lift, walk where possible, get off the bus one stop earlier than normal etc etc
Essentially, eat less, exercise more.
My grandmother swore by replacing fatty foods with fruit and veggies and exercising lots . . ?
1. You have more time to burn off the heavier meal if you eat it earlier in the day.
2. You stay full from lunchtime until you have your snack/'lunch' in the evening, so resist the temptation for a mid-afternoon snack or bar of chocolate on the way home.
I do know that it is easier to lose weight when you have a lot to lose, rather than a few stubborn pounds, but in either case the 'eat less, move more' approach should work. 1lb = 3,500 calories, apparently, so eating 500 fewer calories per day and burning off 500 more than usual should result in 2lbs weightloss per week.
There are no magic bullets, I'm afraid.
Only eat when you feel hungry and don't feel the need to clear your plate. I've started doing a few sit ups too but I'm hardly active all the time and get little exercise really yet the weight still came off.
I'm down to 11st 10 now and aiming for 11st 7. Should be about ideal for my height of 5'11.
The best way to lose weight is to walk everywhere and only eat natural products and avoid MSG.
Drink green tea. Personally, I think it looks like wee and smells like broccoli but, apparently, it's good for your metabolism.
White tea is even better than green tea. White tea also beats green tea in fighting viruses.
I have a niggle with white tea SUD, which is that it was insidiously introduced after all the fuss around the miracles of green tea had died down. I now wonder whether we are going to keep seeing 'new improved' versions of tea as per Persil, Fairy non-bio et al.
If you eat snacks while on the go, only eat them when sitting at the table.
Drink plenty of water thoughout the day especially before and during meal times. The fuller you are with water the less likely you will over eat.
Dont diet, make a liftime commitment to eating healthily and changing your eating habits.
Get plenty of exercise.
Eat all food naked in front of a mirror LOL :eek:
My fridge is full of the little rountree pots
I am in the process of trying this bigger meal at lunch time thing!! Normally I just have soup but as I don't eat until late (8.30pm usually) I know it's really bad to have a heavy meal that late so I am eating a big lunch and sticking to soup, scrambled eggs or beans on toast or a small jacket spud and salad for dinner!!
But everything you say makes perfect sense!!
There really are no magical fixes - sadly!!
cut out all drinks apart from ICE COLD water - ice cold water will burn off approx. 200 more calories per day.
excercise. walk everywhere when possible.
slight overestimation of calories there- five or six ice-cold glasses of water could help you burn about 10 extra calories a day -- equalling about one pound of nearly effortless weight loss each year
I tend to think wheetabix plus a slice of bread is a big breakfast? help.
Now, the weight isn't falling of but i am losing my belly and firming up. I am assuming that, as the muscle replaces the fat, my weight will stay the same but i am turning the fat into productive muscle. But i am losing weight.
I've also cut down on eating the crap between meals. I used to eat crisps, chocolate, snack-a-jacks, those philadelphia dip things etc. Now, i still eat these occasionally but only as a treat.
Doing this will change your life! Trust me, i'm a lazy git and i love my food.