Don't ask me, I wear a diaper and weigh 800 lbs.
Don't ask me, I wear a diaper and weigh 800 lbs.
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1. Stop drinking soda or “juice”; move to water
2. Stop drinking beer & alcohol (a glass of red wine/wk is can be very good; Chilean reds are typically laced with good stuff)
3. Reduce sugar
4. Reduce caffeine (tough I know, start with going 1/2 caf, 1/2 decaf)
5. Get moving somehow...the best excercise (IMO) is..
6. Ride a bike. If your kids aren’t old enough, invest in a good child seat (you may have to order it, but they make the kind that bolt right close to you instead of hanging off the back). If your kids are old enough, get them riding with you. If you can’t get out and ride, get a stationary or invest in a trainer which you can fasten your bike to and ride. (Running is good too, but if your too heavy, this will ruin your knees and fast. The bike is so much better).
7. Do some simple core/ab building excercises
8. Get some hi-tech help - I don’t know what kind of mobile phone you have, but iPhone and (I think) Blackberry have calorie budget app that can be very helpful. iPhone has several and the best one is also one of the cheapest (Free) and it’s called “LoseIt”. You enter in current weight, target weight, and how much you want to lose per week. Enter your intake and keep it under your budget, you’ll lose weight (it’s math really).
Note: You can do this the low tech way too. But the application have a database of so many foods that you absolutely should be able to enter what you ate.
Good luck and good health.
I lost 28 pounds last year by gradually cutting down on the volume of food I was eating. By ding that I got my stomach to feel full with much less food.
The one rule I have to follow is to NEVER allow myself to pig out. My family loves to have big gatherings with food as a central feature which has caused a few backslides. I’ve had to regroup and start again after a few of those.