How Can I Lose Weight Making Small Changes?
Hi,
I’m a 42-year old woman and I’m at my wits end with my weight! I’ve tried so many diets I can’t count, but I’m still about 50 pounds overweight and very frustrated. I keep hearing diets don’t work and you have to change your lifestyle, but how can I change what’s keeping me overweight when I don’t know where to start? I hope you can help… Louise C.
Hi Louise,
Relax! Trying to make too many changes at once is frustrating, and it’s also nearly impossible. The key is to make just one change a week, or a similar pace that works for you. People who are overweight know they eat too much, know what foods are fattening, and know they should be more active. Choose something you know is contributing to your weight loss, and find an easy way to change it for you.
Some ideas are:
1) Keep a food diary so you can be totally aware of what you’re eating. After you’ve done this for a week or so, take a good look at what you’re eating and when. Do you sometimes eat when you aren’t hungry? Can you make an effort to stop eating food you don’t really like, but just nibble on because they’re in the office conference room? Can you make a “no eating zone” in an area where you stress eat, like your desk or your car? This helps eliminate some of the calories you’re eating and not even enjoying.
2) Consider portion sizes: Are you cooking too much at dinner time? Eating 2 portions when you could be getting another meal out of the leftovers? Are you going out to eat and cleaning your plate out of habit? Can you make a change here and start eating smaller amounts at meals?
3) How can you be more active when it’s not second nature to you? Can you go for an early morning walk, or perhaps one after dinner? Join a sport you’ve always wanted to play, or take those flights of stairs each day. Exercising does not have to mean going to the gym for 2 hours a day.
Once you’re comfortable with one new habit, continue working on it while you add just one more small change.
Now how do these small changes add up to make a difference? Well, for every 100 calories you can shave off your intake (or burn off by moving more) each day, you’ll lose nearly a pound at the end of a month. I know a pound a month isn’t much, but it’s likely you’ll be able to cut your intake by closer to 300 or 400 calories, and work off another 100 or 200 by walking a mile or two. Now you’re up to five or six pounds a month.
Still not convinced it’s worth it? Multiply this by 12 months and figure out what you could weigh a year from now, just by making small changes–no crash diets or starving!
If you need guidance, support, and accountability, consider hiring a diet coach (hop over to www.mycoachlaurie.com to read all about it), or joining one of the many free weight-loss support sites like TheDailyPlate.com or FitDay.com. LoseIt.com is another site that has an app to go along with it so you can use your iphone to keep your daily food and exercise log.
Weight Loss Supplements: Is It Possible To Go With The Most Efficacious Ones To Lose Weight Fast?
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How to Lose Weight With NO Effort At All.
OH SNAP! Did you really click over here and think you were going to find a real answer to that one?
The clue phone is ringing folks and it’s time to pick it up. Do you think this dude just woke up looking like that? HELL NO. Getting your body that conditioned takes TIME and EFFORT and DEDICATION and STRATEGY. IT REQUIRES A PLAN, AND STICKING TO IT.
This game of getting more fit is one that doesn’t end. It’s one that isn’t ever going to be “easy”. You can’t take a pill and make it happen. You can’t buy a $15 gadget on an infomercial one night and instantly have rock hard abs in a week, while you eat Ho-Ho’s and drink a case of beer every night.
You have to make the effort. It’s an EFFORT. Well worth it, but it’s work.
It’s work to not eat out and order the super-size option at the drive through every day. It’s work to say no to the chips/dip and brownies and cookies for some Jag’s birthday at the office. It’s work to get up at 5am so you can workout before work, and it’s just as much work to NOT sit on your butt watching American Idol and instead go get in a workout after work.
GET OVER IT. It’s a choice. Decide what you want and then DO THE WORK.
It took me two years of a lot of drama and whining about this and that and not really finding my plan and sticking to it……all that said guess what, each week, each day– as much as I LOVE working out and I ENJOY healthy food, it’s an effort for me to stay on my PLAN. But what is the alternative? I don’t want that. I don’t want another year of feeling like my jeans are too tight to strut in them. OH NO.
I have a meeting to get to. Then I’m coming back, because I was up until 1am working last night (NAUGHTY KELLY!!!) and slept in until 8am– which then made Kelly even naughtier because she didn’t workout this morning. I’ll be gosh-darned if I won’t do my workout this afternoon.
Guess what? I like what I see more EVERY DAY in the mirror. The effort is paying off. And it makes me want to work that much harder tomorrow. And I will.
Here’s my ramble-on-a-thon from actually- the end of last week. Whatevs. Enjoy it. And go out and make PROGRESS today, not EXCUSES.
Just do it.
That’s RIGHT.
Go get you some.
Help: I can’t lose weight!
I am a 19-year old female college athlete and I can’t lose weight. I am 5’1″ and 145 pounds. I get plenty of exercise, and I try to eat less but it doesn’t seem to work. What can I do? Rebecca L.
Dear Rebecca,
I’m sorry to hear of your challenge, and I hope I can help.
In order to eat less and lose weight it’s almost essential to keep a food log. When you say, “I try to eat less but it doesn’t seem to work” I infer the attempt was not a serious and consistent one. In other words, we often try hard for one meal or skip one snack, but then indulge later in the day, making up for the calories we tried so hard to avoid.
When a person loses weight by eating less, it’s something that must become a way of life in order to lose weight and keep it off!
So, start by eliminating all the “empty calories” in your diet–sodas, candy, cakes, and cookies. Focus on eating healthy, whole grains and fruits and vegetables at each meal. Consider having a fruit or vegetable as a snack, or peanut butter and crackers instead of a candy bar or chips. Choose broiled or baked food at meals instead of fried. And limit the dressing you pour over a salad.
This doesn’t mean you can never have a sweet food again–but if you’re trying to lose weight it would be a good idea to pick a “cheat day” and enjoy this type of food only once or twice a week.
Helpful websites to keep your food log include http://www.sparkpeople.com/ and http://www.fitday.com/. They will count your calories for you!
Keep me posted on your progress!
The #1 Downside to Weight Lifting, Badly Illustrated (All I want for Christmas is laser hair removal)
This will be my next option. As I get older I’ll just call it Bride of Frankenstein.
Weight lifting builds bone density. Weight lifting increases strength and power. Weight lifting burns fat all day long. Weight lifting makes you look tougher than Chuck Norris at Comic Con. Oh sure, everyone always talks about the benefits of strength training but there is a dark side no one ever talks about. No, literally, a dark side. Namely, in my pits. Because I have very dark hair and very light skin, see. For those of you not similarly cursed (it’s not a bug, it’s a feature?), let me explain:
This is me in the shower after my workout. You will notice I am wearing a bathing suit for modesty. I do not wear a bathing suit in the shower at home but if I’ve learned anything from Ashton Kutcher it’s that I can’t have nudie pics of me floating around on the Internet or I’ll never get to inherit Demi Moore’s creepy doll collection, right? But my shower curtain really is transparent. Anyhow, here I am showering blissfully, trying to wash off all the germs from the gym. Well as blissfully as one can with a) the door ALWAYS open (Children have a strong aversion to shut doors – they assume candy is being consumed. They may not be wrong.) and b) a peanut gallery. Jelly Bean is obsessed with bathing and so she must stand and s-t-a-r-e at me the whole time I shower. Eh, you get used to it.
Jelly Bean is also obsessed with toileting. She sees the water streaming down my legs and assumes I have wet myself. Again, she may not be wrong. Notice that I have no hair. My hair is so fine that anytime it gets wet it pastes itself to my skull and I look exactly like Ralph Nader.
And Jelly Bean is also obsessed with soap (two-year-olds are obsessed with being obsessed). I have to hide all the soap from her or she’ll “wash haaaans” until it’s all gone. Now she thinks I’m peeing bubbles which would be a neat trick if I could pull it off.
She calls herself “Nay Nay” which I find utterly adorable… until I realize that she has taken her diaper off and made “pee bubbles” on the floor. Sigh. But I can’t get out and clean it up because I still have to shave all the real estate between my chin and my toes. (Aw heck sometimes I shave my toes too). I tell her to look away. Me shaving my pits is not a pretty site. First, this is what a normal person’s armpit looks like:
And this is what my CrossFit honed, P90X toned, Bodyrock zoned pits look like:
I might as well be trying to clear the Rocky Mountain national forest with a push mower.
No matter how I contort my arm and tug on my armpit skin, this is what inevitably happens:
The razor does some damage but still leaves me with Yellowstone 10 years after the fire. And always at least one realllly long rogue hair that defies any cutting method. Sometimes there’s blood. Eventually I call it good enough and give up. At this point I have two options: embrace my body for the hirsute loveliness it is or wear a smoking jacket to the gym.
You can guess which one I go with. I’m pretty sure all my fellow gym-goers are making a fund for my laser hair removal as we speak. (Note: any company that wants to give me free laser hair removal – I will blog the everloving heck out it! I’ll even draw really ugly pictures of you!!) And because I know you’re curious – here’s the unedited real deal:
You see what I’m up against?! Anyone else find an unexpected downside of their exercise routine? Any pit-shaving tricks to share with me?? What’s your shower routine like?
Acupuncture, Hypnosis, Running an 50-mile race: What would you try to lose weight??
This is a real book. The subtitle: “Naughty hypnosis to rocket your pulling power.” Egads, so many double entendres! My head might explode! It’s almost as if they can read my… Actually this has “unintended consequences” written ALL over it.
“If you could live longer as an obese person verses a thin person, how many years would have to be added to your life to make you choose obesity?” Gym Buddy Krista came up with this one-question survey for her final project for a graduate school course on overcoming weight bias. Go take her survey – take you 2 seconds! – and then come back here and tell me if you are surprised by the results. I sure was. But perhaps I shouldn’t have been. Unless you’re an alien invader (in which case, welcome, my kids have been expecting you) then you already know our society is weird about weight. You’re too fat. You’re too skinny. You’re never ever just right.
So it makes sense that in an effort to lose weight, people are willing to try almost anything. Some things like diet pills, diuretic teas, the latest cure-all book and tapeworms may make me cringe but at least I can understand them. Other things however, I don’t understand but I’m learning that some of these so-called alternative therapies work better than most people might think.
A couple of years ago, Gym Buddy Allison tried acupuncture for weight loss after the birth of her second baby. I’ll admit it, at first I thought it was nuts – they stuck her with needles attached to an electrical current for pity’s sake! – but… it worked. And it was way safer than a tapeworm. She was surprised. I was surprised. And it was all good! To read more of her story and see her before-and-after pics, check out my story on Shape.com “I Tried It: Acupuncture for weight loss.”
My next introduction to an unconventional approach to weight loss was through Reader Georgia who let me interview her for Shape.com about her experience using hypnosis for weight loss. Again, I was skeptical and again, it worked. In fact, it sounds a lot like Intuitive Eating, except kind of better! To read Georgia’s story check out my piece “I Tried It: Hypnosis for weight loss.”
And then I got to interview a bunch of die-hard runners about their favorite destination races – sports + exotic locale = yes, please! – and learned how one woman lost over 100 pounds training to run an Ultra 50-Mile race. Did I mention the race is a trail run that goes over one of Colorado’s tallest mountains? To check out this run plus some other goodies, go see my slideshow “10 Destination Races You Must Do Before You Die.”
If you need more motivation for your own training, the Gym Buddies and I took P90X founder Tony Horton to the gym with us. Courtesy of the new P90X iPhone app. Sure a tiny man in a phone leading a group of grown women through strange motions is a little weird but really it’s nothing after those last 3! Check out my review on Shape.
Also motivating: $50!! Which is what Inside Tracker is offering all GFE readers. They heard you when you said you wished you could try out their preventative health service but couldn’t afford the steep price tag and so they want to give you $50 off to help you out. Just use the code GFEXPB11256 at checkout!
Have you ever tried any alternative or non-conventional therapies? Were you as shocked as I was by Krista’s survey results?
Other articles I wrote this week:
The 8 Parenting Jobs I Wish I Could Outsource. Seriously, please someone save me.
It’s been an exciting week as Redbook’s Motherboard blog council launched “No Judgement Day” in an effort to get women to be kinder to each other. I kicked it off with a really long, heart-felt, reasonably well-written (in my estimation anyhow) essay about all the times other moms could have judged me but didn’t. And they made me cut it down to 500 measly words. Boo. Perhaps I’ll post the whole version here later. At any rate, still fun: End Mom Guilt Now! Plus, check out all the other “Don’t Judge Me…” essays on there.
The Great Mom Debate: Acupuncture for Autism? Would you let your kids try an alternative therapy?
Why My Kids Will Never Love the Muppets as Much as I Do. Muppet Treasure Island remains to this day one of my 5 most fave movies ever. Yeah, I said it.
The debate over the Thanksgiving prayer: do you or don’t you?
Co-Sleeping and Babies with Meat Cleavers – probably the worst parenting ad I have ever seen. (You’ve gotta see the pic on this one.)
Anti-Bullying Week: The Conversation You Need to Have With Your Kids
Why am I Gaining Weight?
Hi,
I am a 30-year old woman, 5’2″ tall, weighing 125 pounds. I have been happy with this weight, but recently I have been gaining. I walk about 12,000 steps at work every day in addition to walking on my treadmill for 45 minutes 5 days a week at a 3.8mph pace. I eat about 1900 calories a day. Can you tell me why I’m gaining weight? Valerie L.
Hi Valerie!
I can’t tell you exactly why you are gaining weight but I can tell you there are just about 3 possibilities:
One is that you are eating more than you realize. This can happen easily around the holidays when there are festive treats everywhere. We tend to “just take one” or mindlessly munch off a plate of cookies in the break room. Some indulge a bit too much at holiday dinners and never lose the pound they add on here and there. You might consider keeping a strict food diary to find out exactly how much you are really eating.
Second is that you may be exercising less. This can happen when our schedules get busier (again, not uncommon around the holidays). Perhaps a day is skipped here or there because of holiday events or shopping days, or even from being exhausted after all the parties and shopping! Start keeping notes of the days you are actually exercising, and think about the chance that you could be walking less at work for some reason. It could even be that you’ve changed something at home–stopped walking a dog, moved to a one-story house–or another change that did not seem significant.
Finally, there is a chance you have an underactive thyroid. As many as 10 percent of women have some compromise in their thyroid function. This can slow your metabolism and cause weight gain. The diagnosis can be made with a simple blood test (and usually some other testing to confirm) and the treatment can be a simple daily pill.
If you’ve determined there is no change in either the calories you take in, or the calories you burn over the past several weeks, take a trip to your family physician to find out if something physical is going on.
Laurie
Help! I’m stuck at this weight.
Hi, I’m hoping you can help me because I’ve tried everything and I just can’t lose weight! I am a 32-year old mother of two, 5’2″ tall and 130 pounds. I’ve tried low-calorie diets but stopped because I was told I was not eating enough; exercising 30 minutes a day and increased to 60 minutes because of no results; I switched to a more active job, and gave up drinking soda. I’ve tried all of this for months and have not lost a pound! What is going on? The really odd thing is that I can eat huge amounts of chocolate, soda, steak, etc and won’t gain any weight. So really my weight is very “stuck”. I can’t gain it, I can’t lose it.I would really appreciate any advice you can give me because I really have no idea what to do at this point. Even my family and friends are amazed I haven’t lost a pound after witnessing all my hard work.
Jen S.
Dear Jen,
I know how frustrating this can be!
I wonder for how long, and how consistently, you’ve stuck with any of these low-calorie diets or hour daily work-outs? If you eat less and exercise consistently (especially for an hour, 5 days a week) for a whole month with no exceptions, you will probably see results. I would suggest you try this for 30 days, while keeping a food diary.
You see, people tend to remember their hard work, and brush off an occasional slip or treat. So we end up focusing on all the working out and all the smart lunches, but ignoring the cookies someone brought in to work, the dessert for the special occasion, the 3 days we didn’t feel like working out last week, and the quart of ice cream we had to have due to cravings.
Since you know you can have huge amounts of chocolate, soda, and steak, I assume you have been doing this! You won’t notice weight gain from eating 1000 calories more or less over a few days, but adding those calories in to your diet will certainly negate any results you’ve had!
Because of your small size you can’t expect to lose more than about 1/2 pound a week, even with a reasonable (1200-1500) calorie restriction and daily exercise.
So here’s my suggestion: Try again for 30 days in a row (note any exceptions in your food journal as they are bound to occur!) to eat a reasonably low calorie level, exercise an hour a day (as often as possible) and see if you don’t get 2 pounds off. I know it’s slow-going, but in the mean time you’ll be developing great eating and exercise habits, and when you stick with those, the rest of the weight will come off too!
Keep in touch to let me know how it goes 
From Oscar-Seeking Stars to Empathetic Personal Trainers: What happens when people try to gain weight?
When super-fit personal trainer Drew Manning decided to “get fat” for six months and then lose the weight, chronicling his journey on his website Fit2Fat2Fit, his story shot into the media limelight faster than a starlet’s nip slip. Everyone, it seems, wants to know why Manning would voluntarily shed his rock-hard body – one he’d used to model in the past – and trade in his thin privilege for something most Americans are doing their darndest to get rid of? He explains,
“My goal is to inspire people to get fit, teach them how to do it and give them hope that it IS possible to get fit and stay fit. I want to share my comprehensive fitness knowledge with my followers so that they can know how to lose weight successfully, even though for many it’s going to be a struggle. People that are overweight have to overcome both physical and emotional barriers when it comes to losing weight. I hope to have a better understanding of this through my experience over the next year. Also, I hope to better gain an understanding of how hard it really is to be overweight. I know it’s only going to be for 6 months, but at least it’ll give me a small window of the physical and emotional issues that come with being overweight.”
This idea of a personal trainer gaining weight and then losing it to better understand his clients has been done before. A couple of years ago a trainer in Australia named Paul James did the same stunt with mostly positive results. But whether it’s a testament to the increased frenzy over weight over the past few years or that Manning is a more astute self-marketer than James, the response to Manning’s crusade has been immense.
I’ll admit to some ambivalence over watching him gain 70 pounds in 6 months – his favorite way was his “doughnut challenge” where he had to try to eat a dozen of his wife’s homemade doughnuts in one sitting without upchucking – as it struck me as frat boy at best and binge eating at worst. As a professed “gym addict” was it really a good idea to trade one compulsion for another? But he’s trying to be altruistic and I’m all about learned empathy and whatever. And honestly, how else is one supposed to gain that much weight in that short amount of time?
While his ride up the weight roller coaster was kind of painful to watch (albeit with moments of hilarity – when he discovers the joy of eating breakfast cereal right before bed it was like explaining Halloween to a toddler), his shot down the other side promises to be interesting. About two weeks ago he passed the 6-month mark thereby starting his return journey from “fat 2 fit” again. Even though he’s only been losing weight for two weeks (down 13 pounds so far!), he admits that it was harder than he’d anticipated. “Now I understand a little bit more of how hard and how real addictions are to foods,” he said. “It’s just like a drug. It really is.” The fact that his addiction is to Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal only endears him more to me. (Although if I had to pick the best cereal of all time mine would definitely be Barbara’s Peanut Butter Puffins…ah crunchy peanut-buttery pillows of corny goodness!)
The next few months will tell whether chugging protein shakes and exercising per the recommendations he gives his clients will get him back into his previous shape. Although if I were a betting girl, I’d say he’ll do it. I would think that the pressure from all the public scrutiny alone would be enough to keep a person on track, not to mention all the muscle memory he’s built up over the years.
So when Shape.com assigned me to do a slideshow on celebrities who gain weight for movie roles, my first thought was of Drew Manning. While their reasons are different – money, an Oscar, acclaim for their unholy devotion to method acting (what up, Christian Bale?) – their experiences are equally as interesting. For instance, while both Renee Zelwegger and Gwyneth Paltrow admitted to “panic attacks” when asked to gain weight for roles, Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron were very zen. But Hillary Swank gave me a whole knew perspective on our miraculous bodies and Russell Crowe cracked me up. (Eva Longoria might make you want to throw something though – just a head’s up.)
No matter what the motivation, I think it’s fascinating when people intentionally buck the societal standards. Although I will say that I’m glad it’s them and not me.
What’s your take on Manning’s adventure – unhealthy publicity stunt, well-meaning but misguided or awesome? Does it matter to you if your personal trainer/nutritionist has ever had to lose a large amount of weight? Do you think it’s crazy or admirable when an actor gains weight for a movie role? What’s your fave breakfast cereal??
Apple Cider Vinegar: Acne, Weight Loss, Dandruff Plus Other Uses
What is apple cider vinegar?
Apple cider vinegar is produced by allowing the bacteria and yeast to break down the sugar in apple cider and turn it into alcohol and then into vinegar. Apple cider vinegar contains acetic, lactic, citric, and malic acids.
Apple cider vinegar has a light yellow-brown color and is usually unfiltered and unpasteurized. Health benefits of apple cider vinegar include lowering blood glucose levels. When consumed with meals, apple cider vinegars lowers the glycemic index of foods and in this way assists weight loss. I found that it tastes less acrid when mixed with little apple juice. The usual recommendation is to take 1 tablespoon diluted in a glass of water before meals, but if you are prone to heartburn avoid taking the apple cider vinegar on empty stomach. It’s fine to take it with meals. I also found that when I take apple cider vinegar regularly, I feel less prone to hunger attacks or cravings for chocolate.
Apple cider vinegar and acne
Apple cider vinegar is a very useful skin tonic. When used in skin preparations, apple cider vinegar lowers skin’s pH. As a result, many unfriendly bacteria, including acne bacteria, are destroyed. As a mild natural acid, apple cider vinegar also helps clarify the skin, dissolve and rinse off dead skin cells, and cleanse the pores. For more natural treatments for acne, visit Petite Marie Organics Acne Skincare page.
Apple cider vinegar also makes a great poultice for acne. Do not use it undiluted as you may suffer severe skin irritation and even a scar! Instead, dilute the vinegar 2:1 with water or an herbal tea and saturate a cotton pad, then apply to the blemish and leave overnight if possible.
Apple cider vinegar for hair
Apple cider vinegar is also a valuable help for dandruff. If you suffer from dandruff, apply some diluted (2:1) apple cider vinegar to your scalp, wrap your head in a towel and relax for 10-15 minutes, then rinse it off. If you suffer from dry flaking scalp, keep the spray bottle of diluted apple cider vinegar in your bathroom to rinse or splash your hair after shampooing. Apple cider vinegar also makes your hair grow faster because it stimulates the circulation in the scalp.
For more great home beauty recipes, check out my book GREEN BEAUTY RECIPES: How to Make Organic and Natural Skincare, Hair Care and Body Care Products at Home