Weight loss?

[Anonymous]

Has anyone lost a significant amount of weight? If so what was your method of achieving this goal? I majored in nutrition and always curious to find what works for people. I am big believer in diet and exercise as the only real way to lose weight other than surgery.

[Anonymous]

weight watchers my dear. it is diet and exercise but it allows you to have treats on it. I lost a lot of weight on it but you have to stick to the plan for the rest of ur life! you can't go back to the way you used to eat or else you will go regain weight. so you need to go to meetings every week til you get to ur goal weight. once you reach goal, you shud go once a month at least to keep the weight off. its not getting the weight off that's hard at all, its keeping it off. anyone can lose weight, the maintenance is twice as hard believe me! But yeah weight watchers works. It's vetted by nutritionists and its basically a calorie controlled diet in the form of "Points". I think there's about 70 calories in 1 UK point with 0 sat fat. A point is not a calorie. It takes into account the calories and saturated fat of food. just google weight watchers to get the website.

[KELLY1990]

I weighed 140 my freshman year of high school.By my senior year, I weighed 120. There were so many factors that went into it though. I changed schools and the campus was probably five times the size of my old school. I stopped eating out of boredom. My freshman year, I lived off of taco bell. I probably eaten it five times in the last three years. I also started dancing my sophomore year.

[Asker]

Oh my goodness yeah I ate taco bell too. the fast food diet and not having the active lifestyle caused me to gain weight. thant and certain meds that I was on .

[kheserthorpe]

Depends what you consider significant. I dropped 23 lbs in January.

My highest to lowest weight is about 60 lbs swing. Was done in a few stages.

Without really intense exercise by far the easiest way for me to lose weight was running a protein sparing modified fast based on whole foods with a couple cheat meals a week.

I need more carbs then that for the training i do now. When I'm losing weight now it's sort if fruit + egg white/yogurt/berries shake morning, then a meal with legumes, quinoa, cheese, vegetables midday, lean meat and vegetables dinner and a few nuts as snacks.

[dasouthernicon]

It's true... I lost 115 lbs bacc in 2003/2004 by diet and exercise... eating less than 1000 cals daily, exercising twice a day (once b4 werk - light weights for 90 minz and once after werk, heavy weights for at least 2 hrs a day, 6/7 days a week), I ran at least 60-70 miles weekly. Ultimately in 13 mths, I went from 279 lbs to 164 lbs. Also, you can start taking vitamins and drinking lotsa water. Plus it wouldn't hurt to start visualizing yourself at the size ya wanna be.

[lisac]

i went from 130 to 115 in about a year. It was hardest from 120 to 115...took me forever. Anyways, eating lots of breakfast, veggies, and fruits did the trick. Also, I've replaced soda with water/tea and minimized junk food. Last but not least, EXERCISE, it leaves you more energized and feeling great for the rest of the day.

[sassygal4]

Healthier food choices and exercise. I lost about 30 lbs this way. Then I got dumped and lost another 20 lbs which was not my intention. Either way, I've kept all the weight off by continuing to eat healthier and exercising.

[Bubbles]

If you want to lose weight the fast food must stop, it's not good or healthy. Losing weight take's time and is hard so I see it. But exercise/water and eating good, stop junk food and you can lose the weight

[Reeses-pieces777]

yeah, I agree, I would rather do it naturally than to do surgery. I've been trying lol. Trying to lose these damn 5 pounds..I've generally drank a lot of green tea through out my life, stayed active, been in sports so that kinda helps.

[dasouthernicon]

LOL Archer Gul...

[Anonymous]

I am a bad example of this. I have an extremely fast metabolism, so all I need to do is to eat when I am hungry and I lose weight. I have to force myself to eat more just to keep my weight. And no, I do not have a thyroid problem, I have been checked for that.

[Deepalee]

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[granite]

I went from 260 to 212 from one season of playing lacrosse which is a lot of running and I didn't even change my diet... and kept on losing the weight till this day