Weight loss

JessieSmileYourPerfect

Hello Everybody!
I am trying to lose weight and i would love to get adivce on how to lose weight and not gain it back.
I am going back to eating healthy food and staying away from junk food and unhealthy drinks. Going back to drinking water.
if any of you would love to give me adivce on how to stay healthy. I would love to hear it.
i would love to have as much support as i can.

remieres93

http://nutritiondata.self.com/tools/calories-burned

This my dear will be your best friend, input your information (when it comes to activity level, if you scroll down it gives you a definition of what each activity level means), and it'll calculate how many calories you burn a day.

For example, I just entered in my info and it told me I burn nearly 2,500 calories a day. (it's an estimate.)
1 lb= 3,500 calories.

That's when this amazing app comes into play. I use the mobile app for all my entering's because it's a lot easier, and easier to read the results than online. I told this app how many lbs I want to lose a week, all my info, and it calculated I should personally eat 1500 calories a day. (Always make sure you AT LEAST eat 1200 calories though, eating less than that isn't healthy).

Since I burn nearly 2,500 calories a day naturally, if I eat only 1,500 calories a day, it means I automatically burned 1,000 calories a day before any exercise (this calculates how much you'll lose just by eating alone, if you exercise, it'll add the calories burned to your food, and want you to eat those calories back.) so it means that within 3 1/2 to four days i'll burn 1 lb, or by the end of the week 2 lbs. which means by the end of the month 8-10 lbs.

Depending on your eating habits, and exercise habits you could lose more or less. I do know the bigger you are, the better you eat the more you'll lose. If your tracker is right if YOU were eating around 1500 calories a day, you'll probably lose a lot more a week than I would. It all depends on how much you burn a day. If you're bigger you burn more, which gives you room to still eat more calories of healthy things and still lose weight. As you get smaller, the numbers get smaller, your nutrition has to even further improve, calorie intakes get smaller, and more exercise needs to be put into play.

Does that make sense? So cut out AS MUCH junk, juice, all sodas, and anything that's not water (milk, and orange juice maybe with some of your meals.) But do allow yourself cheat days, do allow yourself the sweets you enjoy in moderation every now and then. It's good for your metabolism! And if you don't want to cut It out forever it's good to keep things you want to continue into your diet, just not as frequent, and in better moderation

If any questions, PM me.

diannethegeek

Speaking as someone who lost a lot of weight and then regained a portion of it, I would actually recommend not cutting out all junk, unhealthy drinks, etc. Moderate them, absolutely, and cut out anything that you don't want to eat, anything that causes you adverse reactions, or anything that you can't control yourself around once you start, but it doesn't all have to go unless that is truly the way you want to eat for life.

The great thing about MFP is that it's reteaching you how to eat for the rest of your life. You've probably heard the term "lifestyle change" by now, and it really is. But that doesn't mean that you need to cut out "unhealthy" foods forever. You just have to learn how to live with them in smaller amounts, instead.

As part of a balanced diet, there's nothing really wrong with most of those foods. In moderation they don't make you fat or cause you health problems. It's when those foods become the majority of your diet and start edging out the veggies and the lean protein and the things that you need that the junk becomes a problem. If you are getting good nutrition from the majority of your diet, those treats won't undo that hard work.

This is why many dieters regain their weight (note I said many, not all). They cut everything out that's considered "junk" or "unhealthy" and eat only nutritious, good for you foods. But when they reach their goal weight and stop the diet they haven't actually learned how to eat in the real world.

There are absolutely some people who've been incredibly successful eating only those foods considered healthy. And if that's the path that you want to take then you should do it. But if you look around, you'll find that a lot of those here who've been the most successful didn't cut out the junk. They just learned to be satisfied on less of it. And that, in my experience, is one of the great keys to long-term success. Learning to be satisfied with moderate amounts, learning how to enjoy a cupcake at a birthday party instead of 6, learning how to fit pizza night with the girls into your week, it's all a part of the bigger picture that is Keeping the Weight Off.

remieres93

There are absolutely some people who've been incredibly successful eating only those foods considered healthy. And if that's the path that you want to take then you should do it. But if you look around, you'll find that a lot of those here who've been the most successful didn't cut out the junk. They just learned to be satisfied on less of it. And that, in my experience, is one of the great keys to long-term success. Learning to be satisfied with moderate amounts, learning how to enjoy a cupcake at a birthday party instead of 6, learning how to fit pizza night with the girls into your week, it's all a part of the bigger picture that is Keeping the Weight Off.

She actually does have a really great point. If you don't want to cut out things forever, then keep them around in extreme moderation. Trust me if you don't eat that candy bar or soda that you're craving, later on you'll end up eating more than just one. It's actually good for metabolism as well to have a cheat day or two or to have snacks like that in your healthy diet. Especially because you don't want to spend the rest of your life not being able to enjoy the sweet snacks you used to.