Lose weight help?

Weights will mostly tone your body, make you fit. To lose weight, lessen your food intake.

Eat what you want but drink only water. Eat less every meal but only two meals. No snacks. Eat on time but skip either breakfast or dinner. You can drink water when you're not eating. When during your skipped meal, you get woozy, add salt to your water.

Eat meat, eggs, cheese, non-starchy vegetables, and whole milk dairy products. They satisfy your appetite and do not make you fat. Fat is good for you. Avoid carbohydrates, especially wheat and sugar. They make you fat and hungry.

Weight loss is about 85% diet and 15% activity.

The basics are so simple to know--and so hard to do. Eat smaller portions of the right kinds of foods. Make foods high in fat or sugar a treat rather than something you have fairly often.

Eliminate fried foods completely. That's french fries, fried chicken, potato chips, mozzarella sticks, etc. Eliminate non-diet soft drinks and juice completely. (You can have diet soft drinks and the fruit the juice is made of.) Eliminate candy, sweet baked goods, and ice cream.

Limit fats like oil, butter, margarine, peanut butter, and mayonnaise, and measure them so you never overindulge. Limit carbohydrates--bread, cereal, rice, pasta, potatoes--to a serving the size of your fist. When a carb is available in a whole grain version, take it. Minimize alcohol consumption, especially beer and drinks make with mixers other than water.

Eat lots of lean protein (white-meat poultry, fish, shellfish, beans, lean ground turkey or chicken), lots of fruit, lots of vegetables. Enjoy low fat or fat-free dairy products, or dairy substitutes like soy or almond milk. Drink enough water than your pee has almost no color.

Count calories at first, while you settle in. Adults can aim for 1200 - 1500 per day, teens 1500 - 1800. Don't go lower, since your loss will be muscle rather than fat if you do.

It's difficult to give up the way we've been eating much of our lives, but that's how we got fat and stayed that way. You have to make a basic change. Don't think of it as a diet which will one day be over, but as a change to healthy eating that you intend to be permanent.