What’s the easiest diet for someone who needs to lose 100 pounds, and has trouble with diets?
Proud Dreadhead asked:
My best friend weighs 250 pounds. She wants to get down to 150. But every time she tries a diet she only lasts a couple weeks and can’t do it anymore.
My best friend weighs 250 pounds. She wants to get down to 150. But every time she tries a diet she only lasts a couple weeks and can’t do it anymore.
What’s the easiest diet for her to do, to lose 100 pounds?
March 4th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Linda
The Dr Phil Diet-it worked great for me, because you see results pretty quickly and it’s healthy food and some what easy to stick to.
March 6th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Deborah
just tell her to stick to 1800 calories a day and the weight will fall off since she is so overweight at this point.
March 7th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Jerome
You know… maybe it just can’t be done. If she’s eaten many trans fats then theres nothing to do. Trans fats DIE with you. They don’t go away (unless lipo). No matter what you do. Perhaps a few like 30 but no way 100 lb.
March 8th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Gilbert
focus on eating healthy. follow the four food groups. eat more fish and raw vegetables. cut back on eating crap. if you make a habit of eating a good breakfast every day you won’t be as hungry later. try staying under 2000 cals a day. start excersising safely. any pools near you? jump in the water. can you afford any gym memberships? check them out and start slow and safe. talk with your doc. peace.
March 8th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Peter
Tell her to eat only grilled ***** and rice, both are very very good for you, can have nothing on the rice or chicken besides pepper and lemon. An may have over a salad no dressing, this worked wonders for me, when i had my babies…. lost about 60 pounds in 6 months
March 9th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Frank
Thats the problem with losing weight for people. DISCIPLINE it is NOT something you can do temporarily. It is a life change that most be followed every single day of your life. She needs to only eat lean meat, low fat dairy, fresh fruits and veggies, and whole grains. But even healthy food can make you put on weight if you eat to much of it. It is a simple formula to lose weight. Burn more calories than you consume and your body will need to pull energy from other places such as muscle and fatty tissue. Tell her to get some weight loss books that focus on the psychology of weight loss. GL
March 9th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Louis
dont follow anything.. the easiest way to stick is look at ur calories/portion size
March 12th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Shawn
insulin resistance diet, there are 1000′s of items and you get to eat every 2-3hours.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Glenda
I like the diabetic diet. You have an exact amount of food of each allowed type and you eat six meals a day.
I used it and was never hungry.
The bottom line is that to lose weight, you must reduce your calorie intake. One idea is to not eat anything that your Great Grandmother didn’t eat. So, no potato chips, no soda, no fast food, lots of veggies, lots of salad, lots of fruit. Remember, she didn’t have much meat because she couldn’t afford it, and she didn’t have really good refrigeration.
The toughest part is having will power, which really means, in regards to snacks, won’t power.
March 14th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Leo
My teacher said to stick to a healthy diet for life, just eat little portions FREQUENTLY… not starve yourself than eat a lot… that stores fat. This also helps the metabolism digest faster.
If thast does not work, then why not join weight loss programs live Curves, L.A. weight loss or Jenny Craig?
March 16th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Bruce
I am also overweight, I also have trouble dieting, I don’t eat allot its just what I eat, a good diet that has been working for me…
breakfast:
1 cup~ of special K cereal only the protein+
1/2 cup~ fat free milk( not skim unless she likes it)
lunch:
1- low calorie pita bread
if she doesn’t like pita try 100% whole wheat bread
4 slices- turkey
NO mayonaise
NO ketchup
any amount- lettuce
2 slice- of tomato
dinner:
6oz – any white fish, or 6oz skinless chicken
80z raw veggies, or 6oz cooked
salad w/light dressing
IF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TRY LIPOZENE IT WORKS TO!!!
March 19th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Melanie
Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers !
March 21st, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Colleen
I don’t have a direct answer for this one but I’ll tell you why your friend quits. She quits because the results are too slow! she’s dieing for GOOD FOOD! Once she’s over that 2 week diet, it’s only because her weight got stuck on a certain number it won’t go down any further. The best thing you could do for your friend is join a exercising health spa! Maybe you don’t need it? but as long as your friend goes with you…you will be helping her.
If she doesn’t have the money for that then tell her everything she eats…cut it in 1/2 save it for later. Start at 2 hours later finish it… then start extending the left overs by minutes more. Don’t eat 2 hours before she goes to bed don’t wake up in the middle of the night run to the refridgerator.
I’ll tell you one thing though, if she loses that much weight doesn’t exercise in the process…she will have what is called loose skin. So she really needs to exercise some…even a little would help. Exercise with her!
March 22nd, 2009 at 9:35 am
Richard
Be a friend and offer to help her get healthy. Offer to go take a walk w/ her, motivate her to keep to her goals of eating healthy. Call her and say lets go take a walk together. It is easier to exercise w/ a friend and makes the time go faster.
The easiest and healthiest way to lose weight is to take it one step at a time. She didn’t get to 250 lbs overnight. Try one goal (life style change) at a time until that goal becomes a habit them set a new one. One goal could be replace pop w/ water, walk 10 min a day (work up to 30 min of exercise a day on most days of the week), eliminate junk food from snacks, eat 3 healthy meals a day (including BKF) and only 2-3 snacks a day, reduce sugary foods to only one snack a day, reduce portion sizes of food (no one should be super sizing) etc.
Let her know if she fails (eats something she shouldn’t) she hasn’t failed. Not everyone eats healthy all the time. Not everyone exercises like they are supposed to all the time.
Just go back to her goal and see what went wrong, maybe to much restriction to soon. Modify her goal if she needs to and go back to working on her ultimate goal(to get healthy) again.
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:35 am
Glenda
There is allot of information there I think that it will be able to help you out.