Any weight loss pointers?

[Anonymous]

Im trying to loose a little weight before the summer. I'm not fat but I would really like to get toned. I'v been taking kickboxing for a while now but I'm not really seeing any results.any dieting tips?

[Anonymous]

Here's my general advice that I tell people to lose weight and be healthy:

Dos

- Eat a lot of vegetables, more than any other food you eat.

- Eat eggs, fish, meat and protein rich foods. Get more protein.

- Eat healthy fats such as saturated and monounsaturated. Butter on vegetables, coconut oil for cooking, olive oil on salad. (YES SATURATED FAT IS NOT UNHEALTHY, RESEARCH IT)

- Eat frequently, 3-4 meals/day, with one snack in between them.

- Drink 6-8+ glasses of water a day

- Lift weights and build muscle (don't worry if your a girl, your estrogen stops you from getting huge muscles). Do some cardio, but not as much as lifting weights. Cardio is not as good as people say it is so don't think you need to do hours of cardio every day.

- Sleep properly.

- Take a multivitamin.

Donts

- Eat less, or no sugar. Don't eat candy, pops, juices, chocolate bars (except 70%+ cocoa), packaged snack foods, cereals, etc with added sugar.

- Don't eat any foods with "high fructose corn syrup" or any variation of those last 2 words.

- Don't eat foods with processed flours like "enriched wheat flour". Basically almost all packaged grain based foods like cookies, crackers, etc.

- Eat less starchy carbohydrates like breads, potatoes, french fries.

- Don't eat "low fat" labeled foods, they are higher in sugar, and sugar is what makes you fat. Eating fat does NOT make you fat. You need fat, your cells and brain is made up of lots of fat. Excess fat is what you don't want, and that comes most from sugar and to many calories.

- Don't eat vegetables oils such as canola oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated oils, margarine, shortening. They are NOT! healthy like the food companies want you to believe. They are high in omega 6, and low in omega 3. When you have a high 6/3 ratio, you get inflammation. Inflammation is a because of heart disease and others.

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[WeaponZero]

Generally whenever a woman says "I wanna get toned" I know she has her work cut out for her because she likely knows next to nothing about how this whole process works.

What you refer to as "tone" is low bodyfat combined with a lot of lean muscle. Do all the cardio you want, you'll only take care of the fat burning portion of things. You won't build the muscle. For that you need to do resistance training.

[Love2Ball]

Cut out all bad fats and all sugar. Eat good carbs like fruits and vegetables that have a low glycemic index