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ritaleung
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Hi Goldeedee,
Once you decide is for long term and have good habit about food and exercise. A reasonable weight loss rate is around 0.5-2 pounds a week. To loose weight too fast is bad for health and will resolve nothing in long terms.
I keep the following reviews:
1. Take the habit to go to buy food with a list (of healthy stuff of course – forget soda, cookies, chocolate…) and with having eat something before.
2. When you need a snack before lunch and dinner … eat some fruits (fresh or dry) and some vegetables (little carrot…). Forget the “low fat” product snack … useless and expensive!
3. Share your weight-loss plan with a friend. It is always easier when you are two people (and more fun!)
4. Write down your goal on many papers with details (prefer something like “loose every week 2 pounds” to “I must eat less”) and stick it everywhere (bedroom, fridge, bathroom …).
5. Drink a lot of water ( 3 L per day) and forget all kind of fast food.
So the first thing you should do is keeping all the healthy food in the kitchen and the fridge. So all the stuff like soda, cookies, chocolate etc. should not in your kitchen. There are also many things you have to plan.
Hope this can help you to have a good beginning. Good luck!
Once you decide is for long term and have good habit about food and exercise. A reasonable weight loss rate is around 0.5-2 pounds a week. To loose weight too fast is bad for health and will resolve nothing in long terms.
I keep the following reviews:
1. Take the habit to go to buy food with a list (of healthy stuff of course – forget soda, cookies, chocolate…) and with having eat something before.
2. When you need a snack before lunch and dinner … eat some fruits (fresh or dry) and some vegetables (little carrot…). Forget the “low fat” product snack … useless and expensive!
3. Share your weight-loss plan with a friend. It is always easier when you are two people (and more fun!)
4. Write down your goal on many papers with details (prefer something like “loose every week 2 pounds” to “I must eat less”) and stick it everywhere (bedroom, fridge, bathroom …).
5. Drink a lot of water ( 3 L per day) and forget all kind of fast food.
So the first thing you should do is keeping all the healthy food in the kitchen and the fridge. So all the stuff like soda, cookies, chocolate etc. should not in your kitchen. There are also many things you have to plan.
Hope this can help you to have a good beginning. Good luck!
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Vernilion_Crine
New member
Hi welcome.I hope you will manage to lose weight.I will give you some advices from what i have read ....i am to the beginning too .
-Try to drink tea without sugar it accelerates the metabolism(green tea)
-if you get hungry even you have ate you read a book , play something anything to forget that you are hungry
-and the basic stufs run a lot ,tae-bo , drink a lot of water and etc.
-Try to drink tea without sugar it accelerates the metabolism(green tea)
-if you get hungry even you have ate you read a book , play something anything to forget that you are hungry
-and the basic stufs run a lot ,tae-bo , drink a lot of water and etc.
KaraCooks
New member
Hi and welcome.
Here are my suggestions for getting started.
The first thing I'd suggest is registering for a free account on FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal or Calorie Counter, Diet Tracking, Food Journal, Nutrition Facts at The Daily Plate and starting to log your food. This will let you see how many calories you're eating and how your nutrition levels are breaking down. Once you know that, you'll be able to see more clearly where you can make adjustments, cut back, change your nutrition, etc.
The next thing I'd suggest is checking out the various sticky posts in the exercise area of the forum (Weight Loss Through Exercise - Weight Loss Forum). There are some very good posts on exercise, both cardio/aerobic and on incorporating weight lifting into your exercise plans.
I'd also suggest starting a diary in the weight loss diary area (Weight Loss Diary - Weight Loss Forum) as well as reading and participating in other diaries. This is a good way to make updates to your progress and to get support from others. It helps to find the diaries of people who have successfully lost weight (or are losing weight) and reading through them as well. Following the diaries of those who have been successful is both inspiring and informative.
Finally, I'd say you should read as much as you can of the posts on the board, especially anything that's marked "sticky". There is a ton of good information around here and a lot of times questions that new folks have has already been answered very thoroughly - so do take the time to look around and read.
Hope that helps you to get started.
Here are my suggestions for getting started.
The first thing I'd suggest is registering for a free account on FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal or Calorie Counter, Diet Tracking, Food Journal, Nutrition Facts at The Daily Plate and starting to log your food. This will let you see how many calories you're eating and how your nutrition levels are breaking down. Once you know that, you'll be able to see more clearly where you can make adjustments, cut back, change your nutrition, etc.
The next thing I'd suggest is checking out the various sticky posts in the exercise area of the forum (Weight Loss Through Exercise - Weight Loss Forum). There are some very good posts on exercise, both cardio/aerobic and on incorporating weight lifting into your exercise plans.
I'd also suggest starting a diary in the weight loss diary area (Weight Loss Diary - Weight Loss Forum) as well as reading and participating in other diaries. This is a good way to make updates to your progress and to get support from others. It helps to find the diaries of people who have successfully lost weight (or are losing weight) and reading through them as well. Following the diaries of those who have been successful is both inspiring and informative.
Finally, I'd say you should read as much as you can of the posts on the board, especially anything that's marked "sticky". There is a ton of good information around here and a lot of times questions that new folks have has already been answered very thoroughly - so do take the time to look around and read.
Hope that helps you to get started.