help how to lose weight

Eat less, move more. read this to get started

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1296011/calorie-counting-101/p1

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

Good luck!!

Eat at a deficit, weigh your food, and exercise.

Start buy making small changes to your diet like
- drinking water instead of pop
- 15 min of exercise
- cutting out white bread
- cutting any ingredients that say enriched wheat flour,high fructose corn syrup
- having honey instead of table sugar

bgmmccleary wrote: »

Start buy making small changes to your diet like
- drinking water instead of pop
- 15 min of exercise
- cutting out white bread
- cutting any ingredients that say enriched wheat flour,high fructose corn syrup
- having honey instead of table sugar

NOPE
OP, you don't need to give up anything. Eat at a deficit and you'll lose.

It's all about sensible eating. When you go shopping focus on healthy proteins (poultry, lean beef, fish, lean pork) good complex carbs (potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice, quinoa, etc) fruits and veggies. You will hear from others that if it's within your calorie deficit you can eat it, junk food and all, but to me that doesn't make sense. The goal is not to just drop pounds, the goal is to also create a healthy body and create healthy habits that are sustainable. Plus as others have said you have to move!

Every persons body is different. It's the changes you will need to make for yourself that will help you lose weight. I have stopped drinking soda like ten years ago so getting rid of soda altogether should be number one. It's not just bad for your weight but it's incredibly unhealthy.

Start with a 1500 calorie a day. Start looking at foods your eating and what's in them. If something has even half your daily sodium don't eat it. Find something different. Trust me there is always a alternative. I found a food scale helped with how many ounces I was eating for food too. Anything high in sugar I'll just pass up for something else. Don't get me wrong I will still sneak a small square bar of dark chocolate every other day. But dark chocolate is good for you. Just a little at a time not a lot.

It's not cutting out but rather changing what you should have instead. Instead of white bread choose multi grain bread. Instead of having white rice choose brown rice. Hey I'm still figuring things out like which butter is okay to have than the other when I do need butter or which syrup is better to have than the all sugar kind. It's a working progress and it takes time.

This isn't coming from someone who is a skinny me either. I've lost 50 pounds two years ago just excerising. And been in limbo until I started this. I haven't gone to the gym yet. All I have been doing is calorie counting and doing my daily schedule of working two jobs. For the past thirty days I've lost a little over ten pounds. I still don't see a difference or believe it honestly but I'm going to keep going. It's actually fun after a while to get everything under 1500 and eventually I'll try 1200 calorie limit because according to online that's where woman should follow is 1200. Slow and steady though takes time

I would recommend eating less. Do not worry about choices for now, just make sure your calories are less than your daily required as suggested by MFP (or other online calculators).
If you want to cut things out like sugar, carbs...I wouldn't even worry about that until you are well on your way. Being restrictive will make it more difficult.
After you are well on your way, if you want to start looking at your macros, and fine tune your eating habits, that would be the time. Stay away from overkill.

Exercise is great too, but again..don't go crazy with it because you want to do whatever is sustainable.

Lift weight too, just because it works!

Good luck