Best way to loose weight/fat and get healthy

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so the majority of my life I’ve been fairly fit, average height, weight, but I love junk food and soda. I’m 5’7 and weight 125 lbs which isn’t overweight, but I’m definitely not as healthy or as fit as I’d like to be. Any advice? Do you eat healthy (lean meat, veggies, fruits, shakes) and work out regularly? Thanks
 
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so the majority of my life I’ve been fairly fit, average height, weight, but I love junk food and soda. I’m 5’7 and weight 125 lbs which isn’t overweight, but I’m definitely not as healthy or as fit as I’d like to be. Any advice? Do you eat healthy (lean meat, veggies, fruits, shakes) and work out regularly? Thanks
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Male or female actually matters a lot.
 
Yes, some foods create more muscle mass while others can create more fat. Proteins and good fats usually help with building muscle and metabolism, but don’t eliminate carbs since they are necessary for energy.

Whey products and cottage cheese are excellent sources of protein for building good muscle, plus there are fats and carbs in dairy. Many protein powders are good for building muscle. Research online or go to nutrition/vitamin store.

The sodas are probably a good idea to save for a picnic every three months. Try making your own drinks: iced teas with honey or a safe sweetener, herbal teas, electrolyte drink (One quart water, one quarter teaspoon of salt, one quarter teaspoon of baking soda add lemon, or real fruit juice)

The junk food should probably be rationed better; try to find “junk” food with ingredients that are simpler, like popcorn (try to make the real stuff with olive oil, not the microwave kind. Melt cheese on it when it’s done.) Many stores have healthier versions of junk food. Just practice reading labels. This is a generality, but the less ingredients, and the more you recognize the ingredient, the better for you.

In general it is better to do mild exercise regularly than it is to do big workouts. A walk for 30 minutes, alternating days with biking, dancing, or swimming is best. Take a day off but try to avoid taking two days off in a row. The body likes a routine. Make it fun, easy, meaningful rather than complicated and unpleasant. That will make it easier for you to stay with the program. Everyone is different so read, ask, and look around.
 
Eat fruit as snacks, drink water, eat reasonable foods, and do a sport.
 
cut out the sodas, switch to soda water like pellegrino or perrier much healthier

turn snacks of junk food into healthy snacks, like frozen bannanas or grapes

cut carrots, celery, bellpeppers and eat with hummus or cottage cheese with pepper

take up some cardio- walking , jogging, try small at first 1hr a week and go up from there

get a juicer or a blender and make some healthy FAST food 😃
 
I like a free website called Myfitnesspal not only can you easily track your intake of calories if you want to lose weight but you can see exactly how much nutrition or lack thereof is in what you are eating. You just pick the foods you consume each day from their vast database and you can discover how much fat, carbs, protein and sugar etc is in it. By imputing your weight, height age etc. you have recommendations for each nutritional category plus you can add exercise.

Hope I don’t sound like a commercial! I like it because it reveals surprising information about what you eat. Sometimes there’s a ton of sugar in something that I didn’t expect for example.
 
5’7’ and 125 lbs. is not overweight.

Eating healthy is a good idea but you do not need to lose any weight. In fact if you are a male, you are probably on the thin side.
 
"5’7’ and 125 lbs. is not overweight.

“Eating healthy is a good idea but you do not need to lose any weight. In fact if you are a male, you are probably on the thin side.”

Yeah. I would add, though, that a lot of people gain weight as they go through different life changes: marriage, new baby, graduate school, medication, sports injury, menopause, etc. It seems like the older we are, the less we need to eat to keep the same weight. It is important to be in the habit of monitoring weight, so you can adjust your diet and activity level to match. I discovered after I finished graduate school that I’d been gaining 15 pounds a year. Oops! It sounds dumb, but it happens to a lot of people.
 
Various observations, not necessarily presented in any sort of coherent fashion. I am not an expert but I have my own experience, others’ experiences, and research.

“Overweight” as a diagnosis is probably less helpful than considering body fat percentage (bf%). There are many “skinny” people who have very high bf% because they have a dearth of lean mass (muscle, bone, ligaments, etc). Being skinny but having a high bf% is not healthy. Also, “fit” is relative to a task. A person can be fit to perform a task yet still be in poor health. I do not prescribe to a universal approach for achieving/maintaining health. I dislike the term and notion of “diet”. Diet often signifies a temporary change. Good health requires appropriate, lifelong habits, including proper nutrition and exercise. Furthermore, as should be evident, these things must change over time to accommodate aging.

Protein is very important in maintaining and increasing muscle mass. Running a caloric deficit leads to weight loss. Weight loss can be good and bad. Decreasing bf% is good for most people. Very few people in affluent countries have low enough bf% that additional decreases would be beneficial. Very few people have great enough lean mass such that increases would not be beneficial.
Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general.- Mark Rippetoe
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I’ve lost 100lbs and kept it off in the last year. Here’s how I did it:
  1. Do not drink any calories*
  2. Eat only meat, veggies (but not corn, carrots or potatoes) and fats.
  3. Lift weights for 30 minutes, 3x/week.
*1 glass of red wine/day and an 8oz protein shake before and after workouts are the exceptions.

The program is called the “TNT Diet”. Can’t recommend it more highly:

amazon.com/Mens-Health-TNT-Diet-Explosive/dp/1594869766
 
If you look at a BMI chart, you’ll see that at 5’7" and 125 lbs, you have a BMI of about 19.5. This puts you near the bottom end of the healthy weight range. less than 18.5 is considered underweight by this chart. Of course, your doctor is the one who should advise you on whether or not this is a healthy weight FOR YOU, as there certainly is variation among people and body types. But based on your chart, and your description, I would say that you would be better off not losing weight, but eating more healthfully. You know that the junk food and soda aren’t good for you. But if you are maintaining a healthy weight with all of the junk food and soda, you probably shouldn’t just be cutting it out. Instead you’ll need to replace it with better food. Not cutting out soda and junk food can be difficult, not just because the food tastes so good, but also because you might use it to perk yourself up when you are in a slump. So the key is to figure out how to maintain a good level of energy so that you don’t need to be perked up so much.

I am currently on a medically supervised weight loss program, because I have a lot of weight to lose. My observation (which goes along with what they’ve been telling me) is that eating frequently (I have 6 small meals a day, spaced 2.5-3 hours apart) and having high protein food is helping me to have much more energy than I’ve had in ages (if ever), and is keeping my hunger at bay also. It has been socking to see how much more energy I’ve had, which I suspect is attributable to to the protein in particular. So my suggestion would be to look into replacing the sugary foods with vegetables, fruits, and good sources of protein, and distributing the food that you eat more evenly throughout the day.
 
#1 most important thing. Drink ONLY water.

And by that, I mean real water… not the flavored BS.

That alone will make a huge difference.
 
I’ve lost 18 pounds since the start of Lent. One big thing for me was cutting out all the extra snacks. I live with my parents at the moment; my dad is a Type 2 diabetic and at home I more or les follow his diet. My main problem was all the extras I’ve been eating. Perhaps one thing to consider may be “Am I eating extras between meals that I don’t really need and may not be doing me any good?” That’s mainly how I’ve managed to lose weight.

As an added bonus, I’ve been on medication for hypertension for many years; my doctor has recently told me that my blood pressure seems to be slowly droppong and I may eventually have a reading that is healthy even without medication!
 
I lost 3stone in a year by cutting down massively on portion sizes. Cutting out rubbish food. No food after 6pm at night until 9am in the morning. Tiny breakfast. Tiny lunch. Snack before 6pm.

It was extremely hard to do as I love my food big time.

I did relax a little on the weekend whe I had some wine and a curry etc.

I went from 16st to 13st in a year. I still am careful and follow above most of the time.

I don’t exercise at all. Only walk a bit and my daughter keeps me active!

God Bless you
 
I am a Weight Watchers member and if I recall their charts 125 lbs is at the very lowest they say a woman who is 5’7" should weigh. In fact they won’t even take you as a member at that weight. My daughter is 5’7", a size 1 and is a bit over 125 lbs. She has been told not to lose any weight but even to put some on by increasing muscle mass and eating healthy. She had a few sports injuries due to decreased muscle mass (she is not a kid but 28 years old). So she returned to the gym and stopped all the junk food.
 
It’s actually very easy to loose weight and remain healthy…just eat a natural diet.

By natural, I simply mean unprocessed foods. It doesn’t have to be boring; I often make fancy meals, but it all starts with natural ingredients. I also agree with not eating at night; for me eating at night is a guaranteed way to gain weight. Exercise is also important. For weight loss, I recommend working twice a day if you have the time: in the morning before work/school, and a night after your last meal.
 
There are two great documentaries on Netflix Instant Streaming: Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead & Hungry for Change.

I learned alot!
 
At 5’7 125, you do not need to lose weight in my opinion. I was over 300 lbs when I was a teenager. I lost around 140lbs in about a year and a half. No operations or illegal drugs either. The best thing to do is lift weights and jog while cleaning up your diet. You can lose a lot of weight while dieting and jogging, but you will lose muscle too and even skinny people can look fat without muscle. Jog frequently. If you cannot jog… walk until you can jog. You can use calculators on the internet to roughly determine how many calories you need a day to maintain your weight and lose weight. If you don’t know how to eat right and lift weights or jog, do what I did when I was 16 and did not have the internet. Go to a bookstore and get a book. A bodybuilders book will work good because it will have all three elements. Diet, weights and cardio. If you are a woman, get a book for women. Above all, pray every night while dieting. I promise you, it helped me.
 
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