I need more tips on weight control and weight loss?

[Depressed-shawti101]

So I have been on a diet for a while now I have lost weight but I want to lose more I want to be skinny like I was as a kid I mean I know that my man likes me and I'm a big girl but I am just not really liking exactly how I look. I have a huge rack and it takes a toll if I could lose more weight quicker than maybe they would go down too lol.

Ive been eating small meals and drinking water. I don't eat candy and don't drink pop. I exercise to but I want to know what else can I do? Please help me!

[kandyflip]

Dieting is good and all, but it doesn't help you burn much fat. A few benefits of a good diet is higher nutritional content, antioxidents, and a better digestive system, that in turn will help you internally function more efficient. Dieting is difficult since it depends a lot on your body type and genetics/metabolic system. I've tried dieting several times, and I will plateau once I reach a certain level, and hunger is hard to control, even when I try proteins and small meals throughout the day and lots of fiber.

I've found the best thing (for me) is cardio exercise and diet together. Have you ever seen an overweight runner? Diet helps with limiting the junk that gets into your system, and keeping some of that junk from building up in your system. But exercise helps move your metabolism, creates muscle, burns calories, which in turn can burn fat and improve your circulatory system. If you think of your body as a big filtering system. Diet helps with what goes into it, and the crap that builds up in it (like fat/cholesterol/sugars), while exercise helps clear out the crap that has already built up in your system like fat. Muscle is also very important. It takes a lot more calories to maintain a pound of muscle than a pound of fat. So for every pound of fat you convert into muscle, you body is automatically burning more calories even while resting.

1) Whatever your plan is, you MUST be consistent. You need something you can continue for a long term, like 6 months to a year minimum. (lifelong is best)

2) You will need to make long term goals. Imagine someone who is fit. Imagine how many miles they can run, or how many pushups/situps or other exercises they can do. Imagine what weight they are. Then aim for yourself to be somewhere between where you are now to where this fit person is at. This will be your long term goal of where you want to be at. How long it will take requires the next steps.

3) Figure out what fitness level you are. See what you can do constantly for 30 minutes straight, whether it's power walking, jogging, eliptical, bike, etc

4) Set steady short term goals. If you have the resources, consulting a personal trainer and/or a dietician or a friend who is into exercising. Set goals like "this week I power walked for 30 minutes on the treadmill at 4mph." "next week I will power walk for 35 min at the same pace, or 30min but at 4.5mph."

5) Keep making smart reachable goals. Try to push yourself a few % more each week. As far as distance, or speed is concerned. It's OK to not increase as long as you stay at the same level too.

6) Create a routine, and stick to it. No matter what you do, if you don't stick to it and have the discipline to do the same amount every week, it will not improve your situation.

The other good thing about routinely exercising, is that it's OK to eat something and treat yourself to something small every once in a while, because you know you'll end up burning it in your exercise.

Good luck!

[martyfellow]

For steady results, get help from the pros. Sign up with Weight Watchers or a similar group that counts all the calories for you and gives you low calorie desserts so you don't feel you are starving all the time.

Right now yuo're probably hit or miss with your diet, right? For the results you are looking for, you need a steady program to follow.