Your questions about best diets that work

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My Own. I eat anything I want, in Moderation. Lost 10 pounds this way. I never do any special diets because I can’t follow them. I still eat ice cream (1/2 cup serving) Still eat Chocolate Chips (32 of them) Cereal or scrambled eggs, or 1/2 bagel for Breakfast, Chicken Broth or Salad for lunch, and 1 piece of chicken/fish/or pork for dinner with 1/2 plate of veggies and 1/2 cup of my favorite starch. I don’t have to deprive myself, and I can still lose weight.

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Simply put, calorie control. Either control your input, work out, or do both. As long as you caloric input (food) is less than the output (what you use during the day, breathing and keeping your heart beating + working out) you will lose weight.

In the case of controlling input, simple changes make a huge difference. During dinner time especially, lower your portions- reduce it not by MAJOR amounts, but only about 1/6th or 1/4th- it adds up. When you’re feeling the urge to snack, instead of going for vending machine chips, go for a peice of fruit, string cheese, or a yogurt. Drink plenty of water- it’ll make you fuller, prevent dehydration, and it’s no calories at all. If you want to drink something sweet, try drinking a cup of gatorade (not the whole bottle!) instead of a cup of soda- while ‘diet’ soda is in general not very healthy, drinks like gatorade and powerade are, and if consumed in moderation, they contain much less calories than cola, and are mixed with electrolytes, which is very good if you’re dieting and working out.

To maintain your weight after losing the desired weight, simply start eating a little bit more, until the scale evens out without any major loss or gain throughout the week.

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No, it won’t work. Not in the long run. Why? All cookie-cutter diets are bogus. Studies have shown that of the people who have lost a substantial amount of weight on any diet plan, 95% will regain all of the weight within two years, because the diet is not sustainable. And then there are people who can’t stand the diet for more than a few days. The upshot: Diets only work for approximately 1% of overweight people. In the long run, for the overwhelming majority of overweight people, diets INCREASE body fat, decrease lean muscle mass, make you feel miserable, and undermine self-esteem.

What to do instead? Two things. First, look into Intuitive Eating. (See link below.) One of the main points is learning to recognize when your body tells you that you’ve had enough to eat. (It’s not the same thing as pigging out.) It takes time to master the skills of IE. You’ll learn them faster now than you would after playing the Diet Game for a few years.

Second, do some self-experimentation, and get on a sustainable exercise program. What’s that? It’s the amount of exercise that gives you the maximum sense of well-being at the end of your ‘workout’.

Suppose that you decide on walking. (I don’t recommend running.) Do a moderately brisk 20-minute walk some time during the day, but not when you’re hungry. Make a mental note of how you feel immediately afterwards. Then skip a day. Then do a 25-minute walk. Do you feel better afterwards than you did with the 20-minute walk? Then skip a day. Keep increasing your walking in 5-minute increments. Eventually, you’ll reach a point where increasing the length of the walk makes you feel WORSE than for a walk that’s 5 minutes shorter. That 5-minutes-shorter walk is what’s optimal for you.

These days, I mainly do strength training–with a special emphasis on the legs–for my exercise program. But before that, walking was my mainstay. And 35 minutes of moderately brisk walking gave the maximum sense of well-being afterwards. But you’ll have to find your own optimum. The number that works for me won’t necessarily work for you.

Here are five advantages to a fine-tuned walking program.
•There’s no ‘will-power’ issue. To a large extent, walking is it’s own reward. You’ll look forward to walking every day.
•You burn extra calories when you walk.
•You continue to burn extra calories for some time after you’ve finished your walk.
•A moderate degree of aerobic fitness increases the sensitivity of your insulin receptors, which is good for your health.
•If you don’t walk when you’re hungry, that amount of exercise won’t affect your appetite. (Long walks do increase appetite.)

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Hey Congrats! That is not the easiest drug to get from the doc. You have to lose at least 4lbs a month or they take you off by the way.

I have lost 20lbs so far, in less than 2 months, my dad, who weighs a lot, more than 300lbs, has lost 45lbs in a month. I know, I hate him too! lol

His plan is that you eat only about 1500 calories to 1800 calories a day. He has stuck to that religiously and he eats usually his bigger meal of the day at lunch.

I love Phentermine 37.5 which is what I take, and Bontril is the generic for Adipex, which is what Phen is generic for as well. You will love the med. It gives you energy as well.

I would suggest, since your a woman eating 1800 cals a day. Dad buys those Lean Cuisine meals or Weight Watchers Smart Choice meals and eats them for dinner, doesn’t eat after 6pm, drinks lots of water (I personally love Aquafina FlavorSplash) and eats fruit for breakfast, or oatmeal.

Good luck you can email me anytime if you need support or just need to talk! My email is in my profile.

Good Luck
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