Trying to lose weight---any tips?

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I've been trying to lose weight for 3 years. I gained a ton do to medications. one made me gain a litte over 50 pounds in a couple of months. I have been trying and trying. I feel like i'm at the end of my rope. I tried going on weight watchers, but i found that all I would think about was counting calories. I have a tendency to binge also. (I don't purge) I feel i ahve a food addiction, and most of the time I just want to cry.

any ideas, would be really greatful.

Ooh, that's bad. When it's from medication that's harder to lose.

There might be some medications that have the reverse effect but that might not be a healthy route.

My advice is not to worry so much about counting calories, if you do that too much you will just slow your metabolism down. Don't be afraid to eat, in fact make sure that you eat regularly within reason and start exercising. A lot of people don't like the E word but it is the most effective way, and if you are up to exercising make sure that you don't reduce your calorie intake, you'll need the calories for energy.

Stop trying to loose weight.

You binge because you diet and diet because you binge.

It's like a pendulum.

Eat as much as you want.

Don't try to change the quantity of what you eat change the quality.

Eat real food.

Eat fresh food.

Eat plenty of fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, fresh salad leaves, rice, organic properly baked bread, fresh fish, organic free range meat.

Treat yourself to top quality fresh produce and enjoy it.

Do that everyday; forget dieting; get a little excersise each day and you will loose weight over time.

Don't rush it; don't try to loose; just enjoy eating good food.

These are some tips that a body builder and personal trainer that I used to know told me, and they have really served me well all my life. Don't worry, it's not going to turn you into a muscleman. It's just a very sensible idea about how the body works.


When you first start exercising, you have to eat, and you have to gain weight. Do things that will make you stronger. This is increasing the muscle mass, which will require more fuel in the long run and help you to lose weight in the end. This is when body builders start bulking up. You see their body mass increasing, but you do not see the "cuts" or the muscle definition yet. Eat as healthy a meal as you can, and make sure you are getting enough protein, which will help the muscles regenerate. While you are exercising, don't worry about "eating too much." Don't eat a bunch of junk food, of course, but do not feel guilty if you hungry all the time and have to eat a good balanced meal more often than usual. Underneath all the fat, you are building muscles which will burn tons of calories.

Exchange as much process breads for whole grain as you can. Make sure you are getting your 5 fruits and veggies a day, and of course, your proteins. Basically, just a well balanced meal. Really listen to your body, because if it is hungry, it probably needs more protein to help build up the muscles you just broke down.

When you are feeling really strong, do more cardio (brisk walking, treadmill, or whatever you enjoy) than you were doing before and less weight/strength stuff. That it easy. You don't have to run like your doing a marathon or even a sprint. Just a reasonable pace is fine. This is when you will start eating less. You will probably notice your body needing to eat less, too. If you can't tell, then start paying more attention to eating regular portions. (Not regular American portions, but regular weight watcher like portions) This is when the body builders start getting the cuts, where the definition starts to show between the muscles. You have already built them up, now you are going to start burning off the fat around and in between them.

After I gained 45 lbs with my pregnancy, I lost it all within a few months. I didn't do any special diets, no surgeries, nothing. The reason is that before I got pregnant, I was in great shape. I had a good base to start off with- good muscle tone, good cardio, I was probably in the best shape of my life. As long as you can keep that muscle tone up, your body will burn off the extra calories on its own.
Good luck! HTH

personally over weight my self but slowing losing weight. my advice to you is eat healthy replace candy with fruit eat allot of veggies being there almost no cals in them and lots of volume so you think your eating more than you are. exercise and lift weights. mostly i just weight lift.

Have really bad relationship strife! I lost 5 lbs overnight!....(terrible joke..just kidding..though I did actually lose weight)...the stress I am under is not good for my system and I will inevitably gain more weight from it...
I am overweight meeself...due to genes and a penchant for late nite tacos....

um...keep away from fast food and fried stuff (if you don't already)

One of my favorite favorite meals is yummy Chinese vegetable soup, which is basicly chicken broth with lots of nice fresh Chinese vegetables in it.
High in nutrients and fiber...fills you up...I was pretty thin (of couse I was 13 years younger)..at the time when that was the meal that I would crave the most.
Replace fatty snacks with lighter ones....edamame (steamed soybeans in the pods) are a really nice high pro-low-cal snack...um....

Don't make your regemine so complicated tht you can't follow it....just do what you can...and don't worry too much....

and drink lots and lots of water....

Just eat less.

I'd recomend going down to 2 home cooked meals a day with no snacks if you want to loose weight fast.

Btw don't buy anything promising to lower your weight it is a waste of money.

Drink lots of water, cut out soda and other sweet drinks. Instead of three large meals a day, do several small snacks of healthy foods. Cook things yourself, buy veggies and steam them, whole grain pasta with very little sauce, less red meat, ect.

Exercise, do jogging or biking for the legs, and there's a great exercise for the stomach, it's kinda like sit-ups but more effective. Get on your back and don't let your feet touch the ground, raise your left leg and bring it up to your left elbow ((move your elbow to the leg too)) and alternate.

Think of it as a simple equation, not unlike balancing your checkbook. A certain number of calories taken in per day, balanced by a certain number of calories used every day.

Want to treat yourself to that slice of cake tonight? Then throw yourself out the door tomorrow morning for a 10k run (assuming you're in shape to do that...).

Start drinking a lot of water and cut back on salty foods. That'll start shipping salt from your body, which retains water, and retains fat.

Cut out unnecessary carbs, such as pop, beer, & candy.

Never skip breakfast. Be sure to eat something w/ a lot of fiber to kickstart your metabolism in the morning.

Lastly, don't eat anything within 2 hours of going to bed.

I'm down 30 lbs & counting so far myself.

I think that exercise is essential if you want to lose weight and keep it off. Changing you diet and drinking more water can help too. Exercising actually makes those other parts easier. The more you exercise, the more regulated your appetite will become. And you'll naturally want to drink a lot of water.

It can be as simple as going for a walk every day. I stay in shape by walking my dog. When I lived near mountains and trails, I used to go hiking. Even in the winter.

Those solitary forms of exercise are nice because you can go at your own pace and you don't have to feel like other people are staring at you or something, like they might be in a gym or some kind of team sport.

If you don't exercise at all, you'll probably experience a lot of hunger as you eat less and it will be easy to gain the weight back.

there has been very good advice in this thread.

watching the quality of what you eat sure is good advice, as is the advice by laplantain. it sounds probably creepy to a girl to build up muscle, but its really useful. as laplantain wrote, muscle eats up energy - hence you dont need as much change in your calorie input, and are less prone to swing back up heavily in your eating behaviour, getting a full dose of the dreaded yo-yo-effect.
on top of that, a fair amount of muscle is better for your looks, as it keeps a much more trim and firm appearance. you have some naturally developed muscle and start eating less (reducing the input), your body will of course draw from its reserves, but also try to run on a cheaper energy level, cutting energy use, that it. that way, you even encourage your body to lose muscle tone. basically, you risk appearing flabbier...

i would strongly advise you not to overrate the numbers the scales display. if you build up muscle, your drop in weight wont be as drastic (because muscle has its weight). rather, check by the mirror, cause that may indeed change when you get some tone.

just dont get in the pitfalls a lot of women seem to fall: jump around in aerobics classes for hours, or do enormous amounts of repetitions on the machines with next to no weights. of course, dont do a full bodybuilding workout, but insist on gaining strength. also, it may serve you as helpful when you see that you become fitter - and dont underestimate the endorphines you get from a well done workout.

dont sweat yourself up too much about it all, though. if you feel you need to do something by all means do it. but please, dont get too hung up with any kind of weird ideal figure. work on yourself, that means, listen to yourself. know what you want, listen to how you feel. as much as its a question of how the body is configured (muscle mass for "tenseness", subcutane fat for smoothness, ideally. of course, too much of either wont look all that great), its as important that you feel great in the shape you are heading for.
as much as kate moss or nadjy auermann are good displays of an extremely slim body type that can look beautiful and sexy, imagine anita ekberg or marilyn monroe without their share of body fat. no sexiness award for miss monroe without something to make her body appear smoothly curved all over.

Lot's of fresh fruit and vegetables, oily fish and lean meat.

Step aerobics and Hoodia Gordonii(sp?)help's keep my weight down.

goodluck losing wieght. im at 160 again and need to get in the 140s. i walk alot, and also if the food tastes good it probably will make you fat. good food for you almost always tastes terrible but will keep you thin

you should probably try these, there actually good tasting but are completely made out of soy



hot peppers also make me lose weight

1. I lost 50 pounds during a 31 day long fast in which I drank water. This process is very difficult.

2. There's a new drug coming out that prevents fat deposits from forming and can actually deplete fat deposits without the need for diet or exercise.

So either, starve yourself or wait a year or two until the miracle drug comes out.