HOw do I loose weight the fastest
 

I need help......Im 5'2" and im almost 200 pounds......
I play basketball almost everyday....but I eat like its holiday everyday almost 4 times aday....
Now Im starting to run and lifting a litle weight.....but I still havent lost a pound......
I need advice......

Reduce your carb intake. I used to run or row every night and row all day on Saturdays and Sundays. I never lost a pound. I stopped eating bread and potatoes and lost 14 pounds in three weeks. I still had a piece of toast over the weekend and occasional spud with me Sunday dinner.

There are ways of losing weight in the short term but changing your diet and exercising permanently is the only way.

I also started taking pills called Metabolift......
is that good or bad..
Its like 4:40 here and I still dont feel sleepy.....I took the pill say around 9:00.....and now I just cant sleep...I felt a litle numb and a little dizzy and i tried to sleep it off but i cant sleep...
should i keep taking the pill or not???

METABOLIFT

Learn the sentence, "no thanks I'm full."

In all serioussness, the balls in your court. The decision to eat the amount you do is entirely yours. In my experience, magic pills and potions may help you lose weight, at the expense of your health.

Think positive.

I think this thread is an advertisement and assume it will be deleted forthwith.

Greaser:
If that is the case it is a pretty poor advert as Markos is saying that it doesn't work!

Markos:

There are a million and one diets out there, most of them will reduce your weight and if you go straight back to your old ways of eating you will put it all back on!!

To maintain body weight calories in = calories out.

If calories in are greater you will put on weight, if they are less you will lose it. Doesn't matter if you achieve this by Atkins, GI diet, zone diet, low fat diet, weight-watchers, cabbage soup diet etc. etc. The only thing is if you go on a drastic plan, firstly if you eat too few calories your body goes into starvation mode and will use your existing muscle stores for energy while still storing fat! (a throwback to the feast or famine hunter-gatherer days). Too few is less than about 1200 cals for a male - by the sounds of it this is not your problem. Secondly, you will soon get hungry/fed up and ditch it, putting all the weight back on.

Do some basic research into how much you are eating calorie-wise and how much you need to maintain your weight (2500/day for 'average' man). (keep a food diary for a few days if necessary - and be honest!!). The heavier you are the more calories you burn just by being alive - 10 mins on the internet will tell you this.

Apply the formula above and hey presto!!

When you are with 'thinner' friends look at their portion sizes (brearing in mind they may well be eating more than normal if they are eating out). A 'portion' of meat is supposed to be the size of a deck of cards - are you eating a 5-deck poker shoe?

Just try to keep a healthy balance of fat/protein and carbs noting that you need some fat in your diet (preferably not saturated animal, but oily fish, avocados, nuts etc are good). And note that carbs do have a lot of calories (a 180 gram baked potato has 250 cals = 1/10th of an average adult males daily intake). Oh and if you drink a lot of beer, that is a waistline killer 6 pints is 1500cals, not to mention the fact tha it gives you the munchies!

The main problem if you are a big eater is being hungry - if you eat junk you will feel hungry all the time, read/see supersize me by Morgan Spurlock - whilst eating McD's he was always craving more and overeating - even though he had just eaten a much bigger portion than he was used to.

Ditch the pills, keep up the exercise, eat fresh/home made wherever possible and check your portion size. If you don't eat it your bady can't store it!!

Good luck

Take the fork out of your mouth.................:E

I have to disagree with ETOPS on the exercise advice...

A calorie is simply a unit of energy - nothing magical, you can calculate the calorific value of the fuel burnt in your aircraft!

If you are burning calories you are not consuming they must come from your body stores - hence weight loss.

Also how bulky do the marathon runners you see on TV look?

If you lift heavy weights (designed to put on muscle) you will indeed put on lean muscle mass. However your body needs to expend far more calories to maintain muscle mass then it does fat mass so you will burn more while sitting in your armchair!

At the end of the day is your actual weight important (are you a horse jockey/rowing cox?) or is it how much fat you are carrying/how you look? You can weigh 30 pounds more than a guy who is bigger than you beacause his blubber weighs much less that your muscle so his waist is several inches bigger!

If basketball is your thing then I would keep doing it, it won't put on much muscle anyway

I have started going to the gym regularly in order to lose weight and on advice started doing weights at the same time without very much change to my diet - the result 8 pounds lost in 4 weeks, 2 inches off my stomach and an inch ON to each of my arms. The fat I have lost is far more than those eight pounds, but I have still had to buy new trousers!:D

If you need a 'fad' diet to initially lose the weight to motivate yourself then carry on, but if you don't change the way you live afterwards it will be so temporary. If you eat what (and how much) you should anyway you will find your natural weight anyway. It will be slower but proably permenant.

As someone posted on this subject previously, the best diet in the world is "...if it tastes nice then spit it out"

Go to WeightWatchers - it works.

ok....I eat like twice a day now and sumtimes oones a day...is that healthy and will it help me loose weight.....and I also sleep late everynight..does that affect my weight loss?? and no its not an Advert.....lol...
on yea and can sumone xplain to me how calories work...i mean how do I avoid calories where do they come from....

Ive got a good idea....stop eating 4 times a day as if you were on holiday....

or as the wise old Billy Connolly said "eat less and move more"!!

in all seriousness, i lost a shed load of weight by just eating well and exercising...
i think the key to it is ur daily diet. I just made little changes to my diet and it went a long way. I drink a lot of water and don't go near carbonated drinks like coke etc...i introduced a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables to my diet and cut down on bread, spuds, white rice(i use brown rice instead)and pasta....
i try to stay away from canned and processed food and cook and make everything from scratch. It's takes time and alot of effort, but it is worth it. The big one to shy away from is alcohol!! :(
for me it's just about not eating 5h17e andit works for me.

i think the fact that you said you "eat like its holiday everyday almost 4 times aday"is the root of your problem tbh.
This is a good rule to follow-
only eat when you are hungry and when you are full, stop eating. It may sound like nonsense, believe me it isn't, you will really surprise yourself!

the one thing i will say to you-
get rid of the pills or whatever 5h17e it is u are taking. I have no timefor thatstuff.
Sorry to say it but, it is a lazy man's solution to a lazy man's problem. If you are overweight from eating 4 meals a day, you have to look at the problem and deal with it. A small pill is not going to undo it for you.
Look at your diet and excerise routine and makes changes from there.

Good Luck with it, it isn't an easy path, but get a plan together and stick with it :)

Weightwatchers and many other diets work because they make you apply the one characteristic you appear to have let slip - discipline. I'm the same most times - head in the fridge, mmm that looks good, just a quick bite then. But once I get into a diet regime and STICK TO IT the weight drops off. An exercise worth doing is trunk curls, or anything else that tightens up the stomach muscles, as this reduces the amount of space left for your stomach to expand into and so makes you feel full sooner.

What I found to work for me is very simple - walking.

The machines in my gym can monitor your heart rate when you hold the grips. Calculate your max heart rate - a rough calc I think is 240 - (age *2) and find a rate of exercise that will get you to 65-70% of that. I'm 26 so what I aim for is a heart rate of 125-130 or so - thats a brisk walk at 7.5km/h for me. 30 minutes of that and I've burnt off about 400 calories.

If your exercise is more stressful than this, you're probably burning up carbs/protein rather than fat.

For cardio work, I also do a further 15 minutes on a cross-trainer and about 10 minutes rowing. But it's the walking that burns off the fat, trust me. Just make sure it's a good quick pace.

You will have to be more disciplined about your eating, but not to the point of eating rabbit food three times a day. Everything in moderation, especially beer.

Weigh yourself every day.
That's the first step.
Drink loads of water, loads of fresh fruit and veg, talk to your doc about fasting for a week to 10 days, exercise.
Diets are dumb - you need to change your lifestyle.
I'm 6'4" and weigh around 175lbs, which I can maintain with no sweat. Apart from the exercise-related stuff...

On the other hand, if you don't know where calories come from (as in "how do I avoid calories where do they come from"), I'd do a bit of research. Here, for example:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calories

I read somewhere before that you SHOULDN'T weigh yourself each day..
I think the better thing to do is weigh yourself each week at the same time of the day eg every Thursday morning
I can't remember the exact reasoning behind it, but it made perfect sense at the time...i'll have a root aropund and find out I think i remember where i got that information

They key to losing weight is not to do anything drastic like stop eating, partake in any "fad" diet or exercise till you drop.

The best way is to set a target weight loss (say 1 stone) and aim to lose a pound per week - so 14 weeks for the whole plan.

Weight gain and loss is simply the result of calories in and calories burned so make sure you burn more calories than you take in. Roughly speaking 3500 calories equates to one pound in weigh which makes for an easy 500 calories per day.

For me I have calculated that I need 2500 calories per day to maintain weight so I limit to 2000. For each day I calculate the net loss/gain and record it as a - or a plus (so yesterday for example was a -5 - meaning that I have lost 500 calories). At the end of the week the addition should come to -35 or more.

I also make sure my fat total does not exceed the daily allowance.

If I exercise (which I try to do 3 times per week) I can either eat/drink more or lose weight faster!

For me it has worked as 8 weeks in I've already lost a stone. Best of all I haven't had to make any radical lifestyle changes - just take care not to eat too much.

Hope this helps.

I found that cycling and just giving up alcohol completely worked for me.
I ended up doing the 15 mile round trip to work by bicyle and although I do like my beer, ultimately I didn't miss it.

As with any exercise, you don't have to seek to attain Olympic standard speeds or distances, but you must stick to it and any other dieting on a regular basis.