Effective weight loss

calorie-jammed - fastfood killers
@maxen07 (882)
Philippines
November 14, 2012 12:08am CST
I was told by a friend that 80% of weight loss comes from what you eat and only 20% of it comes from exercise. I did an additional research and my friend was right. Visceral fat, the kind of fat that binds with our internal organs can only be lost by proper nutrition. I have a weight problem and after four weeks of exercise and a low fat-high protein diet, I was able to lose 15 lbs. There are actually two kinds of fat: saturated and unsaturated. Saturated fats are the ones we need to avoid, like bacon fat. The unsaturated fats are good and healthy fats that our body needs to be able to absorb fat-soluble nutrients like Vitamins A,D,E and K. What we need to monitor more than fat is our calorie-intake. Often foods on the supermarket shelf that advertises itself as low-fat may contain high contents of calories that when you indulge on them too much, will still make you gain weight.
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12 responses
• Philippines
14 Nov 12
Hello Maxen, I wonder when am I gonna have time to exercise knowing that i have an old treadmill in my room. you are also correct that our weight gain depends on the food that you eat. recently, i started decreasing my consumption of rice, and always thought of drinking water. I have been doing my best to lessen food intake. by the way, congratulations on the lost of 15 pounds, and that is a huge improvement on your part my friend.have a nice day
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@Mavic123456 (21898)
• Thailand
14 Nov 12
I have a problem with my weight so I guess i should be listening to you instead of me giving my feedback. I am really having trouble cutting a bit of my flesh, if only i can get a knife and cut them out one by one. and sell. ouch too violent.
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@JamesKYTan (1605)
• Malaysia
15 Nov 12
Obese is due to the food we eat, heredity and lack of exercise. Weight loss is, I agree with you may be achieved by cutting down on the consumption of saturated fats, take more proteins-enriched food and exercise regularly. Take small portions of food regularly. Fast once a month. But during fasting of solid food, consume more water to dilute the stomach acid.
• Bangladesh
14 Nov 12
I have learnt from a discussion in here that if we take light meal at least five times a day instead of 3 heavey meals a day, our body wont gain any tendency to store fat. Thus our body burns instantly what calorie it takes. Infine I would say that we have to spend what we gain in our body. Our body is not out of mathematics.
• India
14 Nov 12
absolutely agree with your point..If we split our food,,,it would have a good idea...because mostly people took their meal very heavily..According to Indian Ayurveda..we should eat when you are really eager to get that..
@missjahn (4574)
• Philippines
15 Nov 12
thanks for this. but just an add-on: to avoid intake of food at your diner times, drink two glasses of water before eating and that if you want to drink water after eating, make it lukewarm so that the fats will be washed away and turned into a waste. it is working that way, for have done. tea is useful for that :)
• United States
15 Nov 12
I think it should be a moderate balance. Eat good and exercise moderately. You don't want to starve yourself nor excerise until you faint.
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
14 Nov 12
I have been trying to shed the stubborn fats that keep padding on the wrong parts of my body. It is not only for beauty sake but for health reasons. The problem with me is I love to cook and naturally I eat what I cooked without concern of the fat or caloric contents of the foods I put inside my mouth. The years of abuse has taken a toll on my health and I have no choice but to forget all the foods that I love. I have to settle for the boring food of oats , veggies and fruits. Truly you are what you eat. Now I don't simply put food inside my mouth. I have to think whether the food is beneficial to be consumed.
@dheckerz (473)
• Philippines
14 Nov 12
This is a good input. Thank you for posting this, hope this will help me with my weight loss challenge. I am on my day 3 right and doing both. Cutting my unhealthy food intake and at least run and walk for an hour at least three times a week. But the information you posted helps a lot. I should take more fruits and vegetable as well.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
14 Nov 12
Knowing the right food and amount of food to eat is the best way of having a healthy body. Of course, together with exercise, you would be a lot fitter.
@prashu228 (37526)
• India
14 Nov 12
This is new to me, i never know that. Good information . What are the high protein foods which helped you to loose your weight so effectively? we never eat bacon and any type of meat, i eat only sea food that too mostly prawns ,fish once in a while , but still i am gaining weight.
• Canada
14 Nov 12
Eating the right stuffs at the right time is key. Protein needs more effort for the body to digest and break it up. So it burns more calories than sweet/carb item. By the time it reaches to be stored, after protein being broken up, the possibility to get stored as fat is les than 70%, while sugar is going straight to fat. If you depends on exercise only, it won't help if you eat the wrong item. The eating will reverse the good effect of the exercise. When we exercise, we burns calories at that time. If we exercise the right way, the burning effect can last 2 hours even after we finish exercising. However if eat small portion, the right food (protein, fiber, slow carb, no sugar) at the right time, more frequent, your internal organ is doing the job to digest it ALL the time. So that means you create a burning machine to run all the time and burn fat. This is way food is important! Unlike exercise, the burning effect is all the time. This is the science behind this theory.
@mutahhar (10)
14 Nov 12
Only regular exercise can help you lose weight, what you eat does matter , in my experience eat anything and exercise regularly