Weight loss

Eating habits have to be changed for life, not just for the diet. Water is very important. Getting any toxins out of the body and that includes fatty stuff. I found that eating smaller meals helped. Five to six small meals daily keeps the metabolism going. Fruit and coffee helps me first thing in the day to get the system running. I think if you deprive yourself of things you are going to have a problem sticking with any diet. You need to work on portion control and moderation. For instance if you like chips eat some but instead of eating them right out of the sack put some in a (small)bowl and just eat that amount. And parking further away and climbing stairs instead of taking the elevator. And changing your plates to smaller ones makes you think you are eating more but you aren't. Tricking yourself helps too. LOL

often i used to cut my meals and end up starving. It was effective though but i got tired of my routin. So, what i did, i invited a friend to become my exercise buddy. We jog 6 kilometers, 3 times a week . And it was fun. My body toned and i feel so light and heathy, and i don't have to cut my meals.

What you said sounds right to me.

Personally I think that the best way to lose weight is a combination of more than one thing. I like to combine healthy food and the right amounts of food with exercise. I love sweet things like candy, cake and soft drinks and when I decided to lose weight those eating habits were the first thing that I decided to adjust. I still love sweet things and it is very hard to me to avoid those kinds of food completely so instead of avoiding them completely I have decided that I am allowed to eat candy and drink soft drinks in the weekends. The rest of the time I drink water and avoid candy. I also try to get extra exercise and I walk instead of driving by car if the place where I am going is within walking distance.

Hi, Taheraa, the hard thing to do is to keep up the motivation. My father can lose some kilograms in a week, but, after some days, he eats sweets and fats back and gains weight again. Many people fail doing a diet or keeping their low weight. Because of habits, temptation, feel of a lack. It's like fighting an addiction. It requires discipline, activity, motivation. Many people go to a support group and support each other. This is a big part of the diet. Can you survive a week without eating a sweet candy ? I maybe can, but, the moment I put my hands on cookies, I will get a craving and eat many. This is how my addiction to sugar goes. I personally eat fruits and maybe sweet potatoes to get the sweet and still eat healthy. Our health office tells about the food pyramid that refined sugar like candies and sweet drink are things we can skip. Fat food like butter, oil we are supposed to eat few. Protein food like meat, milk, fish...we are supposed to eat. Vegetables and fruits are are supposed to eat even more and finally, water, we are supposed to have the most. On the background, we need to do sport activity like walking, training, running... hmmmm...Now I see we also need to eat a lot of full grain and cereals. I recommend everyone to take a look at the food pyramid at wikipedia.org. There are some doubts about that pyramid, but, you get a lot of useful information about how we better eat.