Some thoughts on losing weight:
First, pregnancy excepted, if you gained weight, it was a gradual gain. You likely didn't cram on thirty pounds in a month. If you are going to reverse the trend, the way to do it is to lose weight the way you gained it: Slowly and over time. Oh, you can lose weight fast if you like by getting into a program where you work out like a tri-athlete and eat like a concentration camp inmate, but if you do and when you hit your target, you will pack the pounds back on faster than you would have thought possible.
So, with that in mind, I offer these suggestions:
First, eat three decent meals a day. Don't stuff yourself, but don't starve yourself.
Second, get some moderate exercise. Walking a couple of miles a day is enough. If you live in a city or somewhere that you walk that much anyway, then you don't need to do any more.
Three: No snacking! Don't eat outside of the three meals. If you find that you are ravenous at supper time, then maybe you need to add something to your lunch. This is key; if you nosh on stuff between meals, then get used to gaining weight. If you can't avoid noshing, then eat an apple. Do not eat sweets, pastry or the like. You might as well just have the fat injected straight to your belly and hips.
Fourth: The scale is your enemy. Unless you have a doctor's office type scale, most home scales will not detect a gradual weight loss. If you weigh yourself frequently, you'll set up unreasonable expectations in your mind and you will doom yourself to fail. If you want to weigh yourself, do it no less than every two weeks. I am serious about this-- this plan will result in a slow, steady weight loss of maybe two or three pounds a month. You can't see that weighing yourself daily.
The idea is not to lose wight by a dive that wreaks hell on your body, but a smooth gradual descent to a lower weight. It's the only way that you can get there, other than by surgical means, that won't result in getting on a weight yo-yo.
My $.02
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Excellent! I wish people would be more level-headed about weight loss, especially women, many of whom injure themselves in an effort to look like some kind of made up standard.
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ReplyDeleteThat's worthy advice. Worth a lot more than $.02
Generally good, reasonable advice. I would only add that if you do happen to have access to a doctor's office type scale it can be a useful motivational tool when used quite frequently.
ReplyDeleteI have one in the gym where I work out and I use it every day. The idea is to weigh myself and then write it down. This is key and accomplishes two things:
1. I know for a fact how many times I actually went to the gym like I promised myself I would.
2. You can track trends, and since you know the scale is right, there's no evading the truth if you start to slip.
I guess whether this would would work would depend on whether someone is particularly given to impatience or to frustration. For me, it's a definite motivator.
Thanks for the common sense. As somebody that fat-acceptance advocate Kate Harding called "literally a freak of nature," I thought I would add my thoughts on CalorieLab item on "fit but fat".
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