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Originally Posted by Ustwo
The solution is obvious...
EAT LESS FOOD
It is NO ones fault but their own if they are over weight. Its not the media, its not work, its not the reptiloids, its their own. If you know you are gaining weight you are eating to much food, if you keep eating that much you will keep gaining weight, eat less and it goes away. NO one is immune to this, NO one violates the laws of physics. If you eat less calories than your burn you will lose weight. If you don't either your body can't break down fat and you need to see a doctor ASAP or you are still eating too much.
Its not always fun, and there are days I overeat but when I get on the scale and I've gained weight its because of what I've done to myself.
Its about self control.
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I'm 5'8" and used to weight 214 lbs, of which little was muscle. I'm now 165, and in the best shape I've ever been in. I can tell you right now that self control is crucial, but eating less is not as important as eating right. I, myself, have around 5-6 meals a day, and it is mainly the quality of what you are choosing in you meals that is the deciding factor in loosing fat. A majority of Americans today have little clue of what a healthy diet entails. For example: Atkins, Low Fat Diets. Those are very common diets, and they may help lose weight,
but not in healthy manner. Seperating good carbohydrates from the bad is a must (fruits and veggies, not baked goods), and the bad fats from the good fats ( emphasize monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, and fatty acids; not saturated, or trans fats). The food pyramid is very outdated, so I do not recommend ever using it. Anyway...
A majority of Americans are fat because 1. The lack of persistence in diet or excercise regiments. Most people want fast results, so when they diet & excercise for a month and see little results, they usually quit, thinking that their program isn't correct, or something like that. The best advice I can give for maintaining a healthy lifestyle is this:
Learn to enjoy the process of getting into better shape. Like life, staying healthy is a journey, not a destination! 2. Many Americans want to get into better shape, but lack in the knowledge of eating healthy, and proper excercise. And finally (the big one) 3. "Time to workout, but the O.C is on!". It isn't easy to miss your favorite TV show to go jogging, or take some of your free time to do tedious excercising when it would be so easy to just put it off until tommorow, and relax. Staying healthy means persistence. Changing the way you live isn't easy, but neither is walking around with all that constant reminding. It is definately, and majorly, a test of willpower. If you want to lose fat, and get healthier bad enough, then you can.
A few tips for anyone reading who wants to lose weight:
a.) Try working-out somewhere you enjoy going. If you look foward to working-out you're alot more likely to do it.
b.) Try smiling and staying relaxed when you excercise. Sounds funny but it works.
c.) Make a bet with your friend that you can stick to it. If you don't you owe them 100 dollars.
d.) Subscribe to Men's Health magazine, or visit
www.menshealth.com. Their slogan is very true "Tons of useful stuff." I highly reccomend them.