Thread: Newbie and Help Needed

The key success to losing weight:
1) Stay focus, be consistent and persist - follow your diet and exercise plan with the vision of who you ultimately want be
2) Find someone who can be your whip to move you along when you slacken.
3) Have a low calorie diet of high in fiber ( fruits, vegetable and whole grain ), lean protein, plenty of water, zero sugar from soda, sweets and deserts.
4) Do anaerobic exercise such as weight training or circuit training as it burns 9 time more fat and the burning continues even when the exercise stops.

Keep a food journal!! Log everything you eat and how many calories you are eating. I think this will help you see where you need to make changes. You would be surprised at the amount you are eating or not eating. Some people aren't eating enough and slow down their metabolism. I eat several times a day but I'm eating healthy and small meals/snacks. You can work out 5 days/wk but if you have a bad diet you won't lose the weight. So you must combine healthy eating with exercise. I think the best thing to do is make small changes. If you try to restrict everything all at once, it will be too hard and you will give up. Commit to making one small change per day or week.

The other thing you must remember is that once you gain fat cells, they never go away, they just shrink or expand. So you must make a lifestyle change and eat healthy and main physical exercise or the weight will just come back on if you go back to old ways.

Also, one last thing, cut back on sodium! Fast food, processed food/packaged food is all very high in sodium and will make you retain water.