For those of you have 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 or more pounds to lose, I want to do a challenge with you, I want to see who can do this weight loss plan the fastest and who will be steadfast to it.
The goal:
lose weight steadily!
How:
–Eat 1,500-1,800 calories a day.
–Exercise for 30 mins to 1 hr a day for 3-5 days a week.
–Drinking a LOT of water frequently (Very important, seriously I tried it and it got rid of my appetite somewhat, I was more energized, and I didn’t eat as much at a meal if I had a glass of water right before eating: http://www.lazymanandhealth.com/drinking-water-to-lose-weight/ ***AND*** http://www.ehow.com/how_4490527_lose-weight-drinking-water.html).
–And watch what types of food you eat (ie, dont eat tons of desserts and sweets and sodas and chips, etc.).
What helps:
–Get your exercise equipment out, sign up to a local gym, or
do it at home:
1) run/jog/walk (15 mins)
2) stretch (5-10 mins or however long you can before you get bored) — (stretches: http://www.womensheart.org/content/Exercise/stretching_exercise.asp)
3) lift arm weights, do sit-ups, lunges, and other strength exercises: http://exercise.about.com/cs/weightlifting/a/bestexercises.htm
–Sign up onto a free weight loss website:
You don’t have to know EXACTLY how many calories are in the food/drink you are having, but you SHOULD know about how many calories are in them; here is a website to get a rough estimate of what you are eating: WWW.FITDAY.COM (there are other websites like this); now, trying to keep up with this website and logging in everything you ingest can be hard to do, and some days you will definitely not log in and then you will be demoralized that you missed a couple days and you will stop trying to lose weight, but don’t do that, only use this website to see how many calories are in your food, you don’t have to log in every day, but by doing it often you will get a feel for how many calories are in certain types of food, and eventually you won’t need this website anymore.
–Try not to snack, period. (If you’re eating 3 meals a day, you will not die if you don’t have that cupcake at 4 pm.) They say to eat vegetables when we want to snack, but if you don’t like vegetables you will just fall back into your old ways. (Try not to snack at all, but if you HAVE to eat something because you are just dying, then eat a piece of fruit or a vegetable if you can stomach it.) If you see a snack or a dessert, hide it somewhere where you won’t bump into it again (out of sight, out of mind) try to walk away from it while doing simple arm stretches and then go get a glass of water. This actually will work if you do it, it helps to stop snacking. If you cut out snacking, especially routine snacking, then it will slowly become less of a habit and you won’t feel a need to snack as much. That’s not to say that you can’t have that cookie your friend bought for you. (Or if you are at a restaurant where they have chips before the meal, take 2 gulps of water with every chip you eat.) Here’s the great thing, if you are on a 1,500 calorie diet, you can eat that cookie, just cut out something later at dinner. Like don’t eat the garlic bread, or eat 120 calories less of your meal,
–make a rough estimate though. If you try to eat EXACTLY 1,500, that diet will NOT last. Don’t even try that. Just try to eat about 100 calories less than you wanted to eat for the day. So if you wanted to eat 1,500 calories today, only eat 1,400 calories. Because when you’re estimating food, that 100 calories will slip in there.
–Take into account how much you exercised that day. On the fitday.com website, they have a section telling you how many colories exercising will lose. You type in the exercise you did, ie jogging, for how long, ie 15 mins, and how vigorous it was, ie mild. You’ll only need to use this feature a couple times if you’re consistent with your exercising.
Starting When:
August 1st. (Or whenever you read this.)
Side Notes:
–This is no scam, by the way, because I AM a real person, I’m obviously not trying to sell anything, and I’ve tried this stuff before and it was working. But I did not stick with it because I am human and I fall, but I’m going to get back up again, on August 1st, I will start it up again, and I will be in a better environment for me to do this process more steadily.
–This all really works, you just got to stick with it. These little changes in your habits will become second nature to you and after awhile, you will be doing this without even thinking of it.
–This is NOT a diet, this is a change in your lifestyle and eating habits, this is NOT a temporary thing. (You may be able to eat more calories once you have reached your goal weight though, that should be the only change.)
Just say "yes" below if you are in and want to participate, and I will post
…..and I will post more questions to which you can tell us your progression.
I am hoping to put this on another website, but for now, we will have to use yahoo answers.
Good luck! 
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