No secrets to lose weight and maintain it.

Hi Vivian,
Thank you for the compliments. There’s no need to follow a specific diet, but it’s important to eat all the macronutrients (protein, fat and carbs) and micronutrients (vitamins, minerals) as well. When I’m hungry I drink water, as much as I can and than drink a coffee, it helps me, maybe you should try it.
Fruits have a lot of carbs, as long as there are carbs on your blood, your body will not use the fat you want to lose as fuel, so maybe you should avoid fruits and eat only an apple per day, veggies eat as much as you can but along with fish or meat and don’t forget to eat fat too. Buy some protein supplement powder, Gaspari brand tastes delicious, it’s what I snack.
I do have a sedentary lifestyle too because I work in a office, but I wake up one hour sooner in the morning and do cardio, and I workout with weights in the afternoon, so I’m, pretty active.
Don’t push yourself too much but establish an exercise routine and try to do it. Increase it gradually but never push too much, there’s really no need, It’s better to do a 30 minutes walk every day, than 15 minutes oh hit 3 times per week, because when you push to much your recover will be slower, your nervous system will be very excited too, and as the time goes by it might cause you stress, which will not be good in a long term perspective. When you get to be in a good physical shape, then you can push it harder because your body has adapted, even thou to much of something, to many times, is always bad.
Consuming to few calories will not help you in your goals, by the contrary, that way you are triggering the body defenses; you metabolism will get slower and you will burn less calories per day, besides as the time goes by you’ll start to feel tired, and maybe sick, it will affect you psychologically too, just thinking in dieting and exercise will make you feel bad, with time you may quit your goals. Eating too little is one of the biggest mistakes. Forget to lose weight fast, be patient and persistent, give your body the time he needs to adjust. Instead of measuring only your wheight try to measure also your body fat percentage, because fat is what we all want to lose, not muscle.

Hi yellowsnowdro,
You only need a gym if you want to work-out with heights. Alternatively to maintain muscular tonus one can do calisthenics; push-ups, free squats, sit-ups, Inverted Rows, calisthenics. I think walking in a fast pace is one of the best exercises to loose weight, plus it maintains your heart in the correct hart beating range where the body uses fat as the main fuel.

Hi shutupandlift,
I didn’t say “diminish all carbs” but “diminuish carb in general” not eating carb is going ketogenic and that’s radical, I would recommend avoid any of the macronutrients, but if weight loss is the goal favor Protein and fat over carbs.