I'm not her but I am losing weight. Lost 30 pounds so far this year. Exercise is nice but diet is where you'll get the best results. You can walk a mile to burn 100 calories or you can replace a can of soda with water and just subtract that 100 from ever entering your system. To me, cutting out food is easier than promising to exercise more and longer.
Instead of eating out or eating a meal that's more indulgent, I've learned to buy some healthy meals (there's some really good ones out there). So I replace a trip out where you'll eat a meal that's most likely 1000 calories and replace it with a meal that's less than 350.
Lets say you do that every day. So you've cut about 700 calories. To lose 1 pound, you need to lose 3500 calories. So that's 1 pound every 5 days. 5 a month on average. over the course of a year, that's 60 pounds. Doing that is easier than walking the 7 miles a day you'd need to exercise to lose the same amount. You don't need to make big changes, just small.
Wow! Thank you so much for the tips. I'm overweight and extremely depressed about it and I am desperate to lose weight. Not too much, like 20 pounds. But I have body dysmorphia and want to be underweight. So it's hard to think about reasonable ways to lose weight when I could just starve. But I wanna be kind to my body. So I think I'll try it your way.
Lifestyle change including, rethinking your diet ALONG with exercise..... for soooooo many reasons, it's the best way......... but the hardest part is......... starting.
Instead of eating out or eating a meal that's more indulgent, I've learned to buy some healthy meals (there's some really good ones out there). So I replace a trip out where you'll eat a meal that's most likely 1000 calories and replace it with a meal that's less than 350.
Lets say you do that every day. So you've cut about 700 calories. To lose 1 pound, you need to lose 3500 calories. So that's 1 pound every 5 days. 5 a month on average. over the course of a year, that's 60 pounds. Doing that is easier than walking the 7 miles a day you'd need to exercise to lose the same amount. You don't need to make big changes, just small.