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Getting enough sleep also is important. You need to drink a lot more than 8 Oz of water a day unless you eat fruits and vegetables loaded with water. The average adult needs 8 cups of water. Most Americans are dehydrated, thus the obesity rate. We also often mistaken thirst for hunger. When you feel the need to eat, take a glass of water. After that, you can take a healthy choice. I second the proper fat intake. And protein 3× a day. Low fat protein.
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amother
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Thu, Nov 24 2022, 7:12 pm
If you eat few enough calories, you'll lose weight.
But actually successfully losing weight and keeping it off is a matter of figuring out how to eat fewer calories without driving yourself insane. There's some interesting research about how relying on will power for weight loss just doesn't work over right. You need to work with yourself, not against yourself. Well, most people can successfully use willpower at the grocery store. But once they've brought something home? No.
Low carb, low fat, whatever, they can all work because by restricting your diet, you'll tend to eat less. If you try one of those diets and it doesn't reduce your calorie intake, you won't lose weight. The right personality can make calorie counting work, but for plenty of people, that will just drive them a bit insane.
After trying a bunch of diets with no success, I started keeping a food journal. Notice what breakfasts you're eating on days when you eat well vs days when you eat stuff you aren't happy with: I find that any sugar in breakfast (including in coffee or tea) gets me off to a high nosh day, but a sweet treat after dinner is fairly harmless if I can afford the calories. Eating more protein is also really helpful for appetite management for me. You want to make simple and sustainable changes, not ones that make you crazy.
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Thu, Nov 24 2022, 7:17 pm
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if you're really physically active it will help a lot. I don't mean 'going to the gym' a couple of times a week and schmoozing, I mean committing to a serious program of excercise (biking, jogging, or whatever) several times a week and making that a real, lifelong committment. I know very few people who do that and who are legitimately overweight.
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amother
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Thu, Nov 24 2022, 7:39 pm
| Ima_Shelli wrote: | | if you're really physically active it will help a lot. I don't mean 'going to the gym' a couple of times a week and schmoozing, I mean committing to a serious program of excercise (biking, jogging, or whatever) several times a week and making that a real, lifelong committment. I know very few people who do that and who are legitimately overweight. |
The bolded - you can definitely be active and overweight. I have been actively involved in sports since a teen. I am in my 50s now and still regularly exercise at a decent intensity. I am “legitimately” overweight. As I said in a previous post, I don’t mind though, as I love what my body can do. I just wish other people didn’t mind - it is others who seem to be bothered by fat people, even those like me who enjoy regular exercise. I know slender people who have had cancer and strokes and yet I have so far evaded both. Even so, it seems skinny people are still all the rage, regardless of how fit the fat person is. 🙄
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amother
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Thu, Nov 24 2022, 7:42 pm
| amother Viola wrote: | No there’s no such thing. There’s something you’re doing wrong. My dr said to me, in the Holocaust not one person stayed heavy. If you don’t take in more calories than necessary you lose weight.
Are you drinking at least 8 oz of water every day? Eating healthy fats? What are you eating in a day? If you eat too little your body stores up fat because it goes into starvation mode.
I tried every diet and would lose some and then gain again, until I did high protein, low carb. I did no fruit (that turns to sugar just like candy does). Veggies, lots of healthy fats (avocados, olive oil, coconut oil), any proteins I want… lost over 70 lbs.— best diet ever, no hunger. | I drink a lot of water, avocado, olive oil, I eat a lot of protein, and low carb. but I do eat 2 fruit every day.
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Ima_Shelli
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Thu, Nov 24 2022, 8:11 pm
| amother Clear wrote: | | The bolded - you can definitely be active and overweight. I have been actively involved in sports since a teen. I am in my 50s now and still regularly exercise at a decent intensity. I am “legitimately” overweight. As I said in a previous post, I don’t mind though, as I love what my body can do. I just wish other people didn’t mind - it is others who seem to be bothered by fat people, even those like me who enjoy regular exercise. I know slender people who have had cancer and strokes and yet I have so far evaded both. Even so, it seems skinny people are still all the rage, regardless of how fit the fat person is. 🙄 |
Kudos to you! It’s just an observation that any one of my friends who are very actively physically fit (and my non frum colleagues in particular are very into physical fitness, like running marathons etc) are generally not significantly overweight. Of course there are exceptions to that and heavy excercisers come in all body types, and health and beauty are very possible at every size. But I do think that most people I know who are lifelong excercisers tend to be a certain way, that’s all. I know my body significantly changed when I made a lifelong commitment to excercise about ten years ago and I have kept it up through pregnancies, nursing, busy periods of life, etc and it is legitimately what keeps me at the size I am without needing to count calories (I was never good at that). But everyone needs to do what works for them, their bodies, and their health.
May you be able to keep your health and fitness for many many years!
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Thu, Nov 24 2022, 8:14 pm
| amother OP wrote: | | I exercise every day a little, but weight is more about what you eat then exercise. |
Definitely consider becoming more physically active. Like walking more, using the stairs, not sitting at a desk for hours (get a standing desk for example), and upping your excercise. Take walks or jogs during lunch breaks. Buy a set of weights and use them for a few minutes a day. Hold a plank for a couple of minutes a night. Commit to 30 sit ups and push ups every day. That sort of thing can make all the difference.
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