What Foods Are Good to Help You Loose Weight

Eat what you want when you want, but in smaller portions, and try some excercise in the morning to boost your metabolism, even if it's just an excercise bike...You should lose weight pretty quickly, if it's urgent that you lose weight and you don't have any health conditions, you can do a high protein diet which involves eating all meat and a little veg, salad ( and I mean a little). This isn't very good for your body though, and you will put the weight back on in the long term, but if it's only your weight you are concerned with then this is proven to work well, i.E atkins. Be aware though it does have repercussions, and I personally wouldn't recommend it, but it does make you lose weigh fast. No doubt about that. Why do you need to lose weight anyway, treat your body like your temple, excercise eat well, and you can't go wrong.

All the best, xxx

It sounds like your doing the right things already.....Ive personally found that if I cut out most carbs out of my diet I lose weight quickly (this never fails for me) tuna, veggies, chicken, ect these are all great things to eat. My other suggestions would be to eat these foods in small portions about 4-5 times a day, this causes you metabolism to run at a much faster rate. Also exercise will only speed up the process, walking is a great start.
Good luck

I need to loose the weight because I want to go back into my normal size jeans. I hate having to have to force myself into the jeans and then my stomach is hanging over a little. I just want to get down to like 150 right now im at 160. I just need to work on it. I am doin sit ups and push and everything for the stomach any suggestions. Im going to start doing some walking every morning when I wake up. Would that help me shred those 10pounds by mid september. Im eating healthy too salad, less food, I eat approx 3meals a day if I get hungry in between I eat a fruit or something. I don't know what else to do, I do moderate excersie in my home i.E situps,pushups,i walk the stairs when im getting to my apartment also

To be honest sit ups dont do a whole lot of good to make your stomach look thinner, yeah they work the muscle but if that muscle is covered up by fat then you are not going to see results, the only way to go that is cardio, and walking up stairs to your apartment isnt enough(maybe if you do it over and over again for 30minutes it will but other wise it wont) , you need to accelerate your heart rate (walk briskly) for about 30 minutes at least 5 times a week, this is the only way that you can rid yourself of belly fat. Dont get me wrong sit ups are great to tone the stomach muscles, you just have to ride yourself of the fat covering those muscles.

Thanks im starting a walk program today, walkinf for about 30mins each day and still doing my situps and everything and eating good hoping that will work

Good luck! Just keep at it and im sure you will see results.

It's better to eat in the morning and not to eat in the evening at all.

hmm. I think fruits is better...

I am 26yrs & weight 180lbs. it doesn't really show because my tummy is still flat but has a little rippling of cellulite. i really wanna lose the weight cuz as far as I'm concern, I'm supposed to be weighing in at 130lbs. i also wanna know if there's anything that i can do to eliminate or reduce the appearance of stretch marks.

Recommend high proteins, lesser amount of carbohydrates (of which should come significantly from complex carb sources), and keep it down low on the fat.

Simple sugars, such as glucose, maltose, fructose, if left unused by the body, gets converted into fat, so you don't want to eat more carbs then you need to.

So food such as fruits, dairy products and the like, if you must eat them, eat them in the morning or afternoon so you can burn it throughout the day, make sure to use them up with exercise or else.

Yes, increase your meal distributions, do your very best to eat around 5 times a day, around 3-4 hours in between. Don't stuff yourself, it should be right at the level of "satisfied (not full), but could eat a bit more" level until the next few hours before your next mini meal (which by then you should be reaching hunger again). This most definitely does increase your metabolism.

If you are going to be doing weight lifting, not necessarily heavy, but even just as a toning regiment, keep in mind that you will be using carbohydrates as your primary source of energy. Your muscles uses the glycogen (the form of sugar your muscles use for energy)stored in it to give you that short burst to do a set. After you exercise and your glycogen stores are depleted, your body converts the simple carbs that you had in your diet into glycogen and stores it (only a very small amount can be stored), and what is left over is what will turn to fat. Thus, use weight training to control your carb level.

Cardiovascular exercises primarily uses fat to be broken down into energy, this is something we all generally know. Some carb is used as well for energy, but not much. The level of difficulty will vary by the person, do what you can, if you can swim, swim, if all you can do is walk for now, then do so, but make sure you are stressing yourself just enough to get the heart pumping and require some degree of heavy breathing. The heavy breathing is an indication from it being a anaerobic to an aerobic exercise. The more you immerse yourself in aerobic exercise, the more readily your body will reach the energy cycle using the fat stores, meaning the faster you get to burn that fat.

Doing sit ups or other such things will not cut down on your belly fat. Most of the Exercise Science community experts for the moment believe that there is no such thing as spot reduction, meaning that one can attempt to isolate an area and focus on losing the fat there. There are some theories that this may be possible, but as of now no. Do your sit ups and other toning regiments so that when you get the fat away, you have nice shapely abs, otherwise it won't help you with the extra weight situation.

Another little tip, if you decide to do some weight training/toning/other anaerobic exercises, be sure not to have had a huge dump load of simple carbohydrates right before (or even a few hours) the work out. When your body experiences a sudden rush of sugar within the blood stream, in an attempt to balance blood sugar levels, insulin, a storage hormone is released to remove the sugar out and save it elsewhere. During this period, you basically have no sugar reserves at the ready, meaning you can result in an energy crash and have a poor work out.

To the poster right above me, I can't give you a definite answer. The only cliche answer I can give you to the stretch mark problems is cocoa butter, but that is only suppose to make the stretch mark blend in better apparently. I think this is just a case of a "wive's tale", no substantial evidence of it actually working, just that it's been passed on from person to person for so long. This is just a hypothesis, no research conducted, but I would assume there is a correlation between speed of weight loss and stretch mark, so contrary to one's desire to get rid of the fat as soon as possible, they would probably have more visible stretch marks as a result. So, try not to be in a big rush and lose the fat at a steady pace for the skin to catch up with the diminishing surface area. Don't take my word for this though, my "increase fat loss speed = more stretch marks" hypothesis is only a plausibility.

Hope some of the things I have mentioned was of any use.

Miko out =P