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Lose weight?

1) Exercise. Period. You HAVE to move your body. Lift weights, walk, run, garden...move. There is NO excuse for not doing some form of exercise except physical limitations/handicap.

2) Quit eating refined sugars, processed and packaged foods, hydrogenated oils, margerine (butter is better for you). It's all garbage to your body. Drinking soda everyday is insane. Learn how to read an ingredients label.

3) Bleached flour is not good. Add water and you have glue. Stick with whole grains. And if you eat rice, make it brown instead of white.

4) Eat all the meat (chicken, fish,pork and, yes, Beef) and FRESH vegatables you can get your hands on. Avoid processed meats with nitrates and such.

5) Drink water. At least 64oz a day. Preferably more.
Not Soda, not diet soda, not juice, not Snapple...just water.

6) Exercise. Exercise. Exercise. You HAVE to move. Make the time. If you watch TV you have time. I workout at 9:30 pm or 4:00 am. My kids and work take up the rest of the day but I alway make time. A benfit from exercising is that you actually have more energy...

Our grandparents didn't need diet plans. They ate fresh un-processed foods and got more exercise.

The obesity rates we see today are a by-product of lousy food choices (fast foods, boxed foods, processed foods), bad eating habits (supersize = superass) and too much sittin' on butts.

This of course is only my humble opinion but, having lost 85lbs by doing all of the above, I speak from experience. So does my wife.

"6) Exercise. Exercise. Exercise. You HAVE to move. Make the time. If you watch TV you have time."

Best fitness device in the world is a big dog. Andi, my Golden Retriever, enjoys vigorous walks - and the only way she can get them is if I TAKE her on them. So we both get at least one good brisk walk every day, sometimes two. Things get slow here in the office, I just wake her up and off we go. It's actually helped my arthritic knee and hip. And Andi LOVES it. There's nothing like the love and companionship you get from a great canine.

Michael

your post is SPOT ON! I couldnt agree more! :)

Look at old family photos (really old - pre 1950/1940) and see how many OBESE people are in them...I have never seen ONE. Quite simply because crap food didnt exist in mass quantities and people exercised more then now (more walking, less sitting in cars, farm work, etc)

I'll disagree with you.

Glad it worked for you, but you oversimplify, and if someone took you too seriously, he might just never make the change.

In my case, I felt so bad that being told "exercise exercise exercise" would have just meant "forget it forget it forget it."

In my case, I made the eating switch, and purposed to ramp up the physical activity as I could. To my great surprise, that was in fact almost immediately. But it was only as I felt better, thanks to the eating switch.

So I WALKED one of the three flights of stairs up, and all three down, instead of using the elevator, for a week. Then all three. And I parked further away. Then further. And so on.

To tell a grossly obese person that the first thing he has to do is exercise, is to give him one more reason never to think seriously about losing weight.

Dan

Your post 25 is spot on...it EXACTLY what I have done. I started late May this year at 345 lbs (I'm also 6'6") as of this morning I'm 242. I stayed <20 carbs for 3 months, I'm between 20 and 60 now everyday...it works. I wanna get down to 220-235. The funny thing is...having to exercise is not the issue...I want to!