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[Fresh Prince]

When I was younger I was skinny as a rail and could eat anything I wanted, over the last few years though, my metabolism has really caught up and it's getting harder to keep the weight off. I remember older people telling me that this would happen many years ago: They were right.

Anyone have any success stories in losing weight without crash dieting? I'm hoping people with actual experience in the matter can share some ideas.

[RACETRAITOR]

I cut back on my drinking and the weight is dropping off dramatically. I really do believe there's something they put in Korean beer to make us fat. Last time I went back to Canada for three weeks, I lost weight while on a steady diet of Canadian beer.

[JustJohn]

I think anytime your diet is JUST beer you're probably going to loose weight...

[mindmetoo]

Life style change. Eat less. Move more. Barring the eating less, moving more. I lost weight by simply joining a gym and never significantly altered my diet.

[thepeel]

Some "no's":

No soda
No fastfood
No being lazy (3 times a week for 40 min will be enough exercise for most)
No snacks not called fruit

[CeleryMan]

If you're post 30, its all about what you eat not how much you exercise. Eat like an typical Korean male in his late 20s, early 30s and you'll have a huge face, protruding gut, no shoulders and chicken legs - look at the dude next to you.

Get to know your body and educate yourself on basic nutrition. I'd suggest getting on a routine exercise regimen - walk to work, ride a bike, take the stairs etc.

If you don't have the willpower to sweat, simply eat 'healthier' more times than not and you'll be alright.

When all else fails, ask yourself what's your incentive to get in shape? My gut tells me your sense of humor won't score the chicks at the bar?

Go get em tiger!

[JMO]

I've recently quit drinking beer, started keeping a food diary and started exercising. The food diary is a great help as you can calculate how much you are taking in. I do my cardio as soon as I get up in the morning. I don't do it for long but it is high intensity..recommended b a friend. I felt genuinely sick after the first time i did it.

30 sec half capacity/30 sec full capacity (on exercise bike) started at 4 mins..now at 12. You go up 1 min after every two sessions. I take a break every two days also. No idea if it works but I feel better so far.

[Czarjorge]

Sparkpeople.com has been fairly helpful for me. They have both calorie and exercise trackers. And it's free, always a plus.

[Justin Hale]

Become addicted to heroin. Its depressant effect on the central nervous system means your appetite will be almost nonexistent. You get to be high all the time too! Just kidding, obviously.

Definitely avoid junk food. Big-mac, fries and coke = a bottle of whiskey. That's why I - a drinker - am slimmer than the fat white girls I saw in McDonalds today despite the fact their alcohol consumption is a fraction of mine. I have burger/fries as a special treat - not several times per week.

Obviously exercise, but it must be accompanied by a reduction in food and alcohol intake to see real results. Actually, people who burn a ton of calories in the gym every day find their appetite increases for obvious reasons and the temptation to eat even more (and actually gain weight depending on what you eat) is strong.

I agree with RACETRAITER alcohol's the killer. I enjoy a drink myself - surprise, surprise - and I have been the same weight for 5 years despite burning 600cals per day and often more. Not that I'm a major boozer, but it's safe to say I enjoy a drink and enjoy food very much. Alcohol is converted to a substance called acetate in the liver. What this does is it replaces the burning of fat and carbohydrate as your body's source of energy. Nuclear power stations use uranium. Coal power stations use coal. Bodies use fat and carbs. But if you drink, your body burns acetate and not fat/carbs.

[blurgalurgalurga]

I recommend: drink lots of water, cut down massively on refined sugar, find vegetables you like to eat, exercise as much as you can stand, and consider fruit juice to be essentially the same as sodapop with some vitamins in it.

And, here is an exercise regimen that doesn't involve going to a health club: Do ten pushups today. Do eleven tomorrow. Do twelve the next day, and so on. When you max out, start doing two sets, one in the morning and one at night, of whatever your maximum is. Within a month or two you should be able to rattle off a couple sets of twenty or twenty-five, no worries. Surprisingly, you'll get up a good amount of core strength within a few months.

Or: get a pet calf, or a bear cub. Every day, pick it up two times. In a year, you will be picking up a huge animal twice a day. Think how strong you will be! Also, when you stand next to your pet bear or cow, think how thin you will look, even if you're not.

Or: go to jail and do lots of burpees. Or, just do lots of burpees.

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[rockstarsmooth]

i lost 40lbs over 1 year by cutting sugar out of my diet.
initially i cut out all sugars, fruits, fruit juices, refined sugars, honey, candy, pastries, soft drinks, you name it.
after a little while, i started letting myself have one serving of sugar a day, whether it's a piece of fruit or a glass of juice, or a cookie. and how i eat the sugar is important too, i always make sure to have it with something else, a protein or something.
i didn't cut out the sugar to lose weight, it was a pleasant and unexpected side effect. i'm hypoglycemic and was fainting on a daily basis for about a month. thus i take my sugar serving with food.
other than the sugar, i didn't make any changes to my diet or lifestyle. i generally eat pretty healthily anyways, whole grain breads, little meat, organic food as much as possible, lots of water.
sugar. it's a motherfucker and insidious.
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[atomic42]

Drop the soda and pick up the green tea, 3-5 cups a day will benefit your body in a matter of weeks. Also, stop eating processed food - potato chips, hamburgers, etc in favor of a more natural whole foods diet. Buy cashews, pistachios etc instead of the crap which is extruded from a machine.

Cook at home, moderate your salt and fats, easy on the sugar as RSS said. I would also moderate my carb intake if I wanted to drop 5-10 pounds in a month. Bread, rice, pasta are all killers.

[Dome Vans]

[laogaiguk]

Don't diet, don't listen to some of the people here with "this diet worked" crap. Just start off slow. Expect to lose weight over the next YEAR, at the earliest. Start taking away a few things, but keep everything else and start eating just a little less. Do it step by step. Stop eating chips to start (for an example). Also, if you really, really want a chocolate bar, chips, hamburger, etc, eat it. But make sure you want it. I lost a lot of weight and have kept it of for a very long time.

You need physical activity too ofcourse, but again, start small. Just have realistic goals.

[Dome Vans]