I need to lose weight

[sean911]

well ppls I need to lose weight, so I have started a low carb diet. going crazy due to hunger pains...anyone have any ideas how to curb the hunger.

[barbie]

I eat whenever I am hungry. Today I ran from my home to my office. It's about 6 km or 4 miles, taking about 40 min. If I run everyday like this, I can maintain a 26 inch waist (I guess mine now is 28 inch).

Barbie~~

[sean911]

wow thats awesome..I did join up at the Gym today..I use to be a bodybuilder. So I cant wait to tone up and look good.

[LordKAT]

Munching on raw vegies usually helps.

[rexgsd]

drinking water or flavored water will probably fill you up a bit.

i say to myself though that the more I excerisize, the more i can eat. as long as i work it off than i can eat it sort of thing. it'd be easier for me to up my excersize than curb my eating haha i dont think i could ever control the hungry beast in me

[fastknight]

Whatever you do, don't eat anything "white" (white pasta, white bread, white rice, potatoes, etc...) to fill yourself up. Personally, as a vegetarian and a "second-hand dieter", I find eating a lot of protein helps (not to mention, it's fuel for muscle). Eggs (the whites are supposed to be pure protein), beans of various varieties, meat (or for me, meat substitutes for meat. Vegetables are great for filling up, but go easy on the fruit, as most of it turns to sugar in your system. I eat cheese pretty constantly, even though that might be a little more fat than you're looking for

EDIT: Staple grains from other countries such as Quinoa are also great for keeping you full for a long time.

[Erica L.]

100% agree with the suggestion of water/flavored water. I push lots and lots of water everyday, and it absolutely helps with the hunger!

If you're looking for a prescription appetite suppressant, phentermine cannot be beat.

[jesse]

Actually fast night is correct about the eggs eggs are the perfect protein use them in a 1 egg yolk to 3 egg whites ratio to reduce colestral intake. eggs  are the standard that all proteins are measred against and rated in quality. eggs have all the amino acid building blocks the body needs to fuel and build muscle. hence their a first choice for body builders.

[justmeinoz]

my 2 cents worth- walk lots , like a couple of miles a day, cut out the sugar, only eat when you are hungry. Other than just eat unrefined foods.  Works for me, I'm 56 and have to watch my weight due to abnormally high cholesterol.  I'm 6'3" ( 190 cm) and  90 kg (200 lb?) and have been for years.

[OnyaKonyaLonya]

well ppls I need to lose weight, so I have started a low carb diet. going crazy due to hunger pains...anyone have any ideas how to curb the hunger.

i usually eat tape

[Cameron James]

I'm not a huge fan of low-carb diets - but Weight Watchers has some great low-cal snack recipes online. Raw fruits and veggies are always great to curb hunger too.

[Shang]

Water helps.

So does chewing on a piece of gum.

[Miniar]

I don't remember where I read this, but recently I read that in the diet and exercise equation for better health and loss of body-fat, that the exercise was the lion's share of the equation, so...
low-carb eating can help, but you'd be better off getting more exercise

[Miniar]

I've got a chronic pain problem myself.
The thing about exercise is that it doesn't have to be "running", it can be anything you "can" do as long as you do "do" it.
I walk... mostly..
it helps with the pain too.

You got to keep active, keep moving, even if you're in pain, or other parts of the body will suffer for it. Exercise just means you'll do more of it.

[Cameron James]

@Dee & Miniar - Have either of you tried water therapy? Exercising while in a pool helps to reduce friction and stress to the muscles, but can still work out the muscles pretty well.

I threw out my back when I was 17 while working at a grocery store and have had chronic back pain for the past three years. While I can do most exercises, if I have to bend or pick things up often I experience back pain so severe that I simply cannot walk. Exercising while in water at my local pool has helped a lot. Most pools will have water weights and may even have a water exercise class as well.

[Miniar]

Aiden, I used to practically live in the pool when I was younger. There's a pool just across the street from my house.
I'd rather go running, with all the horrible pain it causes, than to go to the pool with the chesticles still attached and the body still... well.. you get the idea.

[Shynoir]

I used to have 180 pounds when I once gave up on life, recently though I'm at 120 pounds. No point in going on a diet at all. Its all about having small meals throughout the day (5-6), plenty of anti-oxidants (yay green tea, no sugar!), lots of water (at least 8 glasses a day, green tea instead of water works too), lots of fruits and veggies, and about 30 minutes to an hour of exercise on the thread mil/exercise cycle everyday.

I have lot of stretch marks though, so take it easy and slow... I'm trying coca butter on skin to make them disappear but it doesn't seem to work ~_~

[Hikari]

There is a science to losing weight, and it is simple: spend more calories than you take in. That is really all there is to it. Oh, it can get much more complicated, but it doesn't really need to.

I lost alot of weight, just thinking about that actual statement, and it worked really well. I think the biggest problem for most people is information, namely the fact that they don't understand just how many calories they need or how many calories they burn.

Exercise can be a great help both aerobic for burning calories on that day and anaerobic (Such as weight training) for increasing your metabolism (Which increases the amount of calories burner while not working, usually referred to as your Resting Metabolic Rate [RMR] or Base Metabolic Rate [BMR]).

The thing is exercise isn't actually required to lose weight, but without it your body just won't be shapely enough to be pleasing usually. Exercise though, tends to add to muscle so if one does exercise to lose weight a photograph may be a better way to keep track then a scale, where the number doesn't care weather it is muscle, bone, or fat that it is measuring.

What worked for me was a food plan and calorie log, along with light exercise. In my food plan everything was planned out by time and calories the week before and I just had to stick to my plan. And I did have to ratchet the amount of calories down over time even with my exercise. I started at about 2500 a day (Yes, I lost weight at that amount per day) and now I should be at around 1800 a day (even though this last week I have been on about 1300 a day, due to financial constraints).

You can use calculators online that can compute what your eventual weight would be based on calories per day. Assuming you have your RMR figured out correctly, these figures should get you in the ball park for the amount you should actually eventually be eating.

One word of caution about that, when you eventually figure out how many calories you need very few versus what you'd expect. That is rather normal, I have had to give up pretty much all fast food in order to have 4 meals a day. There is just not much on the fast food menu that can fit into a calorie budget, and leave enough left over a whole bunch more meals.