Monday, October 10, 2011

Exactly What Should I Eat Daily If I Want To Lose 6-8 Kilo's By Christmas?

396545382 Yeah I want to lose 6-8 kilos by Christmas. Actually I dont just want to i NEED to.
This is what I used to eat on an average day before I started a diet (which im not sure about):
2 pieces of toast for breakfast, some biscuits or a cupcake and some fruit for morning tea, a sandwhich or sausage roll and another cupcakes or biscuits or something for lunch, then again something yum but unhealthy for afternoon tea, and probably AGAIN for a second afternoon tea, then whatever was for dinner, then icecream for dessert or something. I got fat.... What foods and drinks exactly should I eat/drink daily if i want to achieve this goal?

5 comments:

  1. BeeRad - Don't reduce the calories you eat, just make sure you are eating the right kinds of foods.

    DO NOT STOP DRINKING WATER. People lose weight when they stop drinking water because you your body is 68% water. This will only let you lose weight until you start drinking again (which will happen because your body NEEDS it). First let me start off by saying that the reasons for your weight can be placed into 3 categories.

    1) Diet --> What goes into your mouth accounts for 80% of the way you look.

    2) Exercise--> The physical activity you do ( 30 min - 1 hour ) accounts for 10% of the way you look.

    3) Genetics--> Unfortunately 10% is unchangable without plastic surgery.


    --As far as your diet is concerned, just stay away from the "white" foods. "White" foods include sugar, white flour, potatoes, mayo, and salt. Don't get me wrong, potatoes are good for you, but too much starch can be bad. All I can tell you is DON'T eat ANY fast food ( except for subway ) and STAY AWAY FROM WHITES. You should also drink LOTS of water ( 1 gallon/ day).. yes this seems like a lot, and no you shouldn't just start drinking this much everyday. It takes some time to build up the ability to drink this much water in a single day. Follow these simple diet rules and you'll lose weight/fat in no time.

    --Even though Exercise only accounts for 10% of your physique, you MUST exercise a minimum of 30-60 min every single day. If you have a treadmill, the best exercise you can do is inclined walking moderations. This means after every min you should increase your speed and incline until you reach the max, Than you decrease every min back to ground zero. The reason you want to walk when you do this is because Walking burns fat, while Running burns calories. Burning fat will be most important for you if you want to lose weight.

    --Unfortunately your genetics also account for 10% of your appearance and there is no natural way that you can deal with this.


    I have followed These rules and have lost a lot of weight pretty quickly, and have gained this knowlege through Fitness Trainers and Biology courses on the human body. There are many different ways to get results, but from trial and error I can honestly tell you that my program is one of the best.

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  2. Charlotte - No 'afternoon/morning snack'!!! Count your cals, that's how I did it. If you do have a snack, eat fruit or veg! I ate carrot sticks (loool) so much my friends started calling me Bugs Bunny :) But, whatever fruit or veg you like. The cupcakes and biscuits are okay to have once in a while but not too much. Maybe for meals you could have salads, salmon with fresh veg and potatoes? That's one of my faves :) Squash is good to drink, as it's mainly water and has hardly any sugar and no fat. Or water itself. Boring, but I'm telling you, it will pay off (well until you have a huge Christmas dinner and chocolate and cakes etc!!!) Just persevere, and all will work out! :) Hope that helps x

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  3. shutuppauface - Your whole diet is "yum but unhealthy".
    Start by cutting out biscuits, cupcakes, sausage rolls, and ice cream (curious why with all these tea times you referred to it as "dessert" and not pudding").
    Cut out fizzy drinks, sauces, fried/fast/junk foods, two of your THREE tea carbo-loading sessions, whole milk, cream and sugar from your one remaining tea time. and get off your azz and get some exercise.

    How can you type that and wonder how you blimped out?

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  4. Frankie - If you NEED to do it, you must determine to have will power to eat healthy without cheating every day. The more you cheat, the less progress you will make. However, having a small treat each week sometimes helps people stick to their plan longer because it gives them something to look forward to so they don't feel deprived and totally quit. Just make it a small treat, not a huge meal or all day binge.

    While the number of times you are eating during the day is fine, the quantity and quality of what you are currently eating is horrible. Keep eating your meals and snacks, just make them much smaller and healthy by cutting out all sweet, fried, processed, junk, and fast foods. This would include the biscuits, cupcakes, sausage rolls, and ice cream. That alone will help a lot toward your goal.

    Eat lots of fresh fruits and veggies at each meal and as snacks instead of things like biscuits, crackers, cookies, bars, chips, etc. Switch to whole grains for things like cereal, bread, rice, and pasta. An easy way to limit your calories and get a balanced diet is divide your plate into quarters. First fill half your plate with veggies. The other quarters are for lean protein and healthy carb. Do not have seconds. Drink only water. Lean protein includes fish (such as baked salmon, trout, and halibut but not fried or battered), baked or grilled chicken. Have lean cuts of pork and beef only occasionally.

    Pay attention to portion sizes. Dividing your plate like described above will help with this. A serving of meat is only about 5 ounces, or about the size of the palm of your hand and thickness of a deck of cards. Fresh fruits and veggies at least 2 cups everyday. Carbs should be no more than 1/4 of your daily calories

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  5. Betty B - What about exercising and physical activities...which is how you lose body fat healthily, once you eat enough to cover your BMR?

    Women’s Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR):
    655 + (4.35 x weight in pounds) + (4.7 x height in inches) - minus (4.7 x age in years)

    You do not eat “whatever was for dinner” like a husband coming home from work, too lazy to cook, and having to eat his wife’s cravings.

    Do not have a “diet” diet, where you’re told what to eat, just eat healthy, have a simple healthy diet, so you can satisfy your cravings and answer your body’s need for some missing nutrients. If I’m building muscle mass, I’ll need a lot of carbs to do the weight training (because it’s anaerobic and fat burning shuts down) and then I’ll get huge cravings for eggs, nuts or a good juicy filet mignon (need for protein for the “repairing stronger” part) otherwise, I would only eat eggs or meat like once a week.

    Eating healthy is about avoiding the unhealthy food as much as possible. Once you stay away from fast food (any restaurant food, really), packaged and boxed food (except for bread, pasta and rice, if you don’t make your own bread/pasta), canned food, prepared and processed food, then you’re left with the fruits/veggies, whole wheat food (the brown kind of bread, pasta), brown rice, legumes (beans, peas, lentils, peanuts...), lean meat, low fat dairies, eggs and the good kind of oil (olive, avocado, nuts, fish). You can have any of the bad stuff occasionally so they don’t become forbidden obsessions. Have some French fries, or one slice of pizza (with your favorite veggies) or a cookie, once in a while. Just don’t do it every day and watch out for portion sizes.
    Also the cooking method can double the calorie content of a meal, so learn about healthy cooking without having to add extra fats, like using a steamer (using water), a rotisserie (using heat and herbs), a slow cooker (using homemade broth and herbs), a pressure cooker, a grill…

    Once you cook your own meals, you can control the calorie content because your control the cooking method and all the ingredients. A lot of people are overweight because they keep eating food that they did not cook.



    Once you can manage a healthy diet, you can lose half a pound of body fat a week (1,750 calories of exercising), so that would be 5.5lbs in 11 weeks (until Christmas). That would be about 2.5kg but not on the scale as you would need to gain muscle mass during the first 3 months while getting in shape. One pound of muscle mass gain a month is average if you weight train properly and eat right. But then you still go down a dress size and get thinner when you lose body fat with aerobics and gain muscle mass with weight training (muscle mass take 3 times less space than body fat).

    6 to 8 kilos in 11 weeks? That’s 13.2lbs to 17.6lbs so you need to get the right expectations or you’ll end up regaining all the weight you lost, next year, if you lose if too fast and the wrong way.

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