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Lose 50 pounds in 2 weeks!

Krazzikk

Krazzikk

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    What is your opinion on weight loss plans and diets? Do you think they work, or are the most effective way to lose weight? Most weight loss plans/kits advertise amazing results, bit are these accurate? And if they work, are they good for your health?
     
    Diet < lifestyle change. Much better to change your overall eating habits and physical activity routines rather than follow a set plan.

    I'm sure dieting is effective but it's mostly deprivation and strict control. Worst part of it is you'll bounce right back after the diet is over; to maintain your goal weight you have to maintain the program for life. It's lame.
     
    USE THE POWAH OF THE POKEWALKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Just kidding.
    Nah,I'm serious.
    If you don't have one though,you can always use Streetpass on the 3DS.
    Once you get 100 steps,you get 1 play coin.
    And with those play coins,you can continue and play games on Streetpass.
    If you don't have these and can't buy it,just get a diet then.
     
    Diets suck. If you're gonna lost weight, do it the healthy way.

    Some people think I'm starving (a.k.a having a diet) myself to look thin and everything, but the truth is - I have a fast metabolism, and it's hard for me to gain weight, just like it's hard for some people to lose it.
     
    Losing weight involves creating a calorie deficit. You can do this two ways, by eating less or burning more - hence the two sides to this coin, diet control and exercise. Personally, I find it easier to eat 300 less calories a day than burn 300 calories. To eat 300 less calories you take 100 calories off each meal, or perhaps 50 off breakfast and 125 off lunch and dinner. To burn 300 calories (at 150 pounds) you run at a good pace for half an hour. Furthermore, you probably end up craving food after that run. Even with the calorie burning partially offset by fueling up for the run, it takes a decent amount of time to work yourself up to running for half an hour every day if you're not an initiated exercising person. In the light of my personal experience, which I hope can be somewhat generalized, dieting is actually pretty easy to do. The trouble comes from people slashing like 30% or more of their daily caloric intake, then the body starts fighting back and all the bad stuff happens. Slow and steady wins the race.
     
    Both exercise and dieting within reason are great ways to lose weight, though results do indeed vary from person to person.

    All summer long, when I was exercising and taking out sugar from my normal food/drink intake, I lost upwards of 15 pounds.. then due to lack of motivation, I stopped exercising but continued to not intake as much sugar into my diet and I still managed to drop another 5 pounds or so.

    I'd say just do whatever you want if you wish to lose weight, but don't overdo yourself when it comes to both diet and exercise. Some of these diets you see on TV aren't really all that effective, and losing weight too fast could be bad for your health.
     
    Dieting to lose weight is likely to backfire because as soon as you show progress you'll get lazy and slide back into your old habits because you still have those habits. I'm pretty sure this has been demonstrated repeatedly. You have to break your habits - lifestyle change, as was said - if you want to lose weight and/or be healthier.

    But like BiS said, it's easier to control how much you take in than to burn it off. Who has time to add an exercise routine to their day if they don't already? The only problem is that I don't think people are used to counting calories either and instead are taught by all the fad diets that there's one part of their diet (salt, sugar, carbs, etc.) that if they just reduce they'll magically get thinner. It'll probably work for some in the short run because they'll just end up eating less, but it won't last and it's not exactly healthy to cut something out completely. (Well, sugars might not be a bad thing to really cut down on.)
     
    I've heard an interesting way to lose weight is to, effectively, trick your metabolism, by changing your diet on a day by day basis so that you're always working towards something. If you eat healthy every day your metabolism kind of plateaus, and you stop losing weight. Whereas, if let's say maybe you eat healthy for a few days, then you cheat one day and eat whatever you want the body's metabolism is shocked and starts up again. Then you just repeat.
     
    Krazzikk said:
    I've heard an interesting way to lose weight is to, effectively, trick your metabolism, by changing your diet on a day by day basis so that you're always working towards something. If you eat healthy every day your metabolism kind of plateaus, and you stop losing weight. Whereas, if let's say maybe you eat healthy for a few days, then you cheat one day and eat whatever you want the body's metabolism is shocked and starts up again. Then you just repeat.
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    I remember a few years ago someone in my house was watching tv and it said that "If you eat healthy for 6 days of the week and you don't see weight change then on the last day you eat all this crap you will suddenly lose weight, it's because you are tricking your metabolism" and he went on I just remember it very well.
     
    I think some work in that they allow you to lose weight, but they don't necessarily work in regards to keeping that lost weight off. Some are quite dangerous as well, so one needs to be conscious of the risks involved with fad diets.
     
    The only pounds diets like that will make you lose are £. Quick diets work by imbalancing the nutrients you get, or slashing a one of them. The final result is that, once the diet is over, you'll quicklu gain all that weight back as the body tries to get all the nutrients you starved it from.

    Only diet that works is eating enough, varied, cutting on fat, adding fruit and vegetables and doing exercise.
     
    What you should do to develop lean muscle and lose weight is to eat 5 small meals a day. Go for a walk or a run for at least 30 minutes a day as well as doing something else that burns a lot of calories. Make sure it's something you enjoy or you won't keep up with it.

    I've done videos like Insanity and P90x, but those are hard and you really got to be motivated to do it. However, any weight loss diet plan really won't work unless you are really over weight and are an all-around unhealthy person.
     
    It depends what kind of diets. If you're overweight, then yes a diet is something that would be good.
    If you're not that overweight than you should just enjoy eating what you want but also include veggies, fruits and that kind of stuff. The healthier your food, the better. It's really up to you.
    I don't know a lot about diets, but it seems like an expensive service which is equal to healthy eating habits. I think this should only be considered if you have health problems. Remember, skinny doesn't mean healthy neither. If you're really underweight than you should contact someone as well.

    Healthy eating habits are important but a lot of people forget to work out, move their butts.
    Working out is underrated. It has been my goal to shape my body the way I want too and I've been working out for 5 to 6 days a week for the last 2 years with results I'm satisfied with. Results are harder to get than you think, but keep moving forward and don't stop until you are where you want to be.

    At the end, it's about how you feel in your skin. Being healthier is simply good, and the result of your body will boost your confidence. You'll also have more energy.
     
    southpark32 said:
    Some people think I'm starving (a.k.a having a diet) myself to look thin and everything, but the truth is - I have a fast metabolism, and it's hard for me to gain weight, just like it's hard for some people to lose it.
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    We have it hard. :( Fortunately I started going to the gym like a year ago so I gain weight from muscle mass. So far, so good.

    Obviously don't know a lot about diets from my own experience, but I have friends who are overweight that managed better by exercising rather.
     
    You need a diet to jump start the weight loss/gain and a lifestyle change to keep whatever you reach.
     
    Whatever you do, you have to figure out what works best for you. The ads and things that you see on television might work, I don't know, but for my Mum, they don't. She's tried the calorie count thing, and she just couldn't get it to work. This was because, by watching calorie intake, and by following these set diets and whatnot, she was consuming more carbohydrates. She's figured out that she needs to focus on the carbs, and unfortunately, the ads you see on television tend to not focus on them.

    So yeah, pretty much, whatever helps you lose weight will depend on your own personal needs. I'd say try a low carb diet if the other stuff isn't working, but you should also exercise as well, so that you can get fit as well as thinner.
     
    Even though there are programs out there that employ professionals who think they know what they're doing and what's best for you, the only person who can truly know is yourself. You have to find what's best for your body and the type of body you want to achieve. For myself, my diet has been lessened to a vegetarian diet, which was my own choice and now it's become a lifestyle and I don't see myself being tempted by meat anytime soon.

    But yeah, perseverance is key to attaining what you would like from your body. If one particular diet that you set for yourself doesn't work, try another.
     
    What is good for one person is not good for another. That is the basics of nutritional differences. These plans and kits that claim to help you lose 10lbs in 3 weeks are often the same information regurgitated from the mouths of thousands of spokespeople.

    Simple fact of the matter is, you must exercise and eat right to lose weight. While everyone has said this to some degree, the thing most overlook is nutrition. Just because someone cuts out 300 calories doesn't mean anything if what they cut out was food that was good for them. For example, 1 Hershey's candy bar, which is about 2 inches by 6 inches, has 210 calories. It is also high in sugar and fat. Compare that to a salad made of iceberg lettuce, grape tomatoes, broccoli, and Italian dressing. 1-cup lettuce, 1/2cup chopped grape tomatoes, 1-cup broccoli, and 2 tbsps Italian Dressing has 150 calories, which is 60 less than the chocolate, minus most of the sugar and fat, plus you get a lot more.

    The problem is, however, that most people think vegetables are disgusting. While I detest celery, myself, I have learned to eat it, because it is healthier than junk food. Most people, in the United States especially, do not care if something is healthy. They only care if it tastes good. For the longest time, I avoided any salad dressing that was not ranch. Hated the fact that the others might be different. Recently, I learned that my father has diabetes, as does my grandfather, my aunt and uncle, and some of my cousins. So, I decided to make changes in my life.

    Long story short, 2 weeks ago today, I weighed 215lbs, and today, I am down to 202.4. In order to lose weight, you must change your life, but in order to make the changes, you have to first want to change. And you have to do it gradually, step by step. Instead of chugging Mountain Dew, grab some flavored water, or just plain water instead. Do this for 10 days, and then see what else you can change. Who knows? You might amaze yourself.

    Sorry if that sounded a bit pitchy at the end, but that is my own personal experience.
     
    Exercising is the best way to lose weight! Diet control wont lead to anything! If you wont eat according to your daily needs then you'll get weak!
     
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