You shouldn’t restrain yourself from eating but rather cut back on all the sugars, refined carbs, processed foods, etc. Fill up on proteins, healthy fats, fruits, and veggies. The more you eat sugar and all that other crap the more your body craves it. Once you eliminate that stuff from your body, after a while you won’t crave it anymore.
If you’re trying to lose weight you should eat only when you’re hungry (not just to eat). You eat enough to be satisfied but not stuffed. If you eat 5-6 small ‘meals’/day that usually amounts to every ~3 hrs. Why this works is because you are never allowing your body to go into ‘starvation’ mode and start storing fat. this happens when you withhold food from your body (from not eating for long periods of time). By keeping the ‘meals’ small and healthy this enables your body to not have huge spikes and drops in energy (which can happen with large meals stuffing yourself). Some folks like to eat a relatively large breakfast to replenish their body (keeps the muscles that could be burnt after a long nights sleep). This is probably ok for most as long as all the other ‘meals’ are relatively small.
Running…how many competitive runners do you know with a big butt/stomach plus you can run no matter where you live. Just pick a route with people on it so you feel safe.
- Jump rope (60s on, 30s off). Repeat 5-10 times.
- Butt/quads: do Lunges (no weights). Walk across the floor doing thigh bends (your knee should almost hit the ground). Go slow and concentrate
- side jumps – get a step (or something similar). jump over it non-stop (side to side) for 60s, take a 30s break and repeat (4 times).
- upper arms (triceps) – do close grip and diamond pushups. also do tricep extensions (can use one of those strength/resistance ‘bands’. You can also do seated dips (hands behind you on the end of a chair. Feet on the ground or up on another chair (60s)
- Eating and stomach (abs)
You can (and should) eat 5-6 semi-small nutritious meals…speeds up your metabolism and prevents you from being too hungry. Don’t load up with ‘tons’ of food and don’t cut your calories to bare mininum (1K) as this slows down your metabolism.
You can try eating various things: fresh fruit, chicken, brown rice, broccoli, beef jerky, protein shake, applesauce (no sugar added), veggies, lean ground turkey, turkey sausages, Low sugar protein bars (or try Kashi bars). Oh, and substitute any junk food with Odwalla bars (the choco. chip ones are fabulous and have 8 grams of protein). (I’m ‘frugal’ too and can still find good, healthy food to eat)
If you eat ~7 a.m. ~10 a.m. 1p.m. 4 p.m. 7p.m. (and 10 p.m. if you’re up late you should be great. Get your excercise/workout in b/w any of those meals (or directly prior)
You don’t need many weights or machines. You can get one of those ab balls online or at a Target/Wal-mart for like $10-$15. Do abs using the ball…always works your core. Also get some resistance bands and you can work your legs (outer thighs) as well. You can deflate the ball and take it with you.
- Oblique exercises (twisting – works your ‘love handles’). Do a lot of these using the ab ball: sit on the ball hold a 10 lb weight and walk your feet forward. ‘Lay down’ and with the weigh above you twist to one side-up-pause-twist to the other side. Ensure you’re using your obliques to do the work.
- Start taking a thermogenic fat burner (will burn fat faster when your body temp rises – i.e. working out), ripped fuel 5x, or hydroxycut hardcore before your workouts. Don’t exceed the daily recommended allowance and drink plenty of water. You don’t NEED these, they just help burn fat faster while providing energy. You could take a multi-vitamin instead (relatively cheap at Wal-mart)
One word…Insanity (google the Insanity workout, do it, and you will be in great shape).
Other things you can try (P90X, Zuzana’s workouts – http://www.youtube.com/user/charliejames1975
You can follow my advice below as well:
You shouldn’t restrain yourself from eating but rather cut back on all the sugars, refined carbs, processed foods, etc. Fill up on proteins, healthy fats, fruits, and veggies. The more you eat sugar and all that other crap the more your body craves it. Once you eliminate that stuff from your body, after a while you won’t crave it anymore.
If you’re trying to lose weight you should eat only when you’re hungry (not just to eat). You eat enough to be satisfied but not stuffed. If you eat 5-6 small ‘meals’/day that usually amounts to every ~3 hrs. Why this works is because you are never allowing your body to go into ‘starvation’ mode and start storing fat. this happens when you withhold food from your body (from not eating for long periods of time). By keeping the ‘meals’ small and healthy this enables your body to not have huge spikes and drops in energy (which can happen with large meals stuffing yourself). Some folks like to eat a relatively large breakfast to replenish their body (keeps the muscles that could be burnt after a long nights sleep). This is probably ok for most as long as all the other ‘meals’ are relatively small.
Running…how many competitive runners do you know with a big butt/stomach plus you can run no matter where you live. Just pick a route with people on it so you feel safe.
- Jump rope (60s on, 30s off). Repeat 5-10 times.
- Butt/quads: do Lunges (no weights). Walk across the floor doing thigh bends (your knee should almost hit the ground). Go slow and concentrate
- side jumps – get a step (or something similar). jump over it non-stop (side to side) for 60s, take a 30s break and repeat (4 times).
- upper arms (triceps) – do close grip and diamond pushups. also do tricep extensions (can use one of those strength/resistance ‘bands’. You can also do seated dips (hands behind you on the end of a chair. Feet on the ground or up on another chair (60s)
- Eating and stomach (abs)
You can (and should) eat 5-6 semi-small nutritious meals…speeds up your metabolism and prevents you from being too hungry. Don’t load up with ‘tons’ of food and don’t cut your calories to bare mininum (1K) as this slows down your metabolism.
You can try eating various things: fresh fruit, chicken, brown rice, broccoli, beef jerky, protein shake, applesauce (no sugar added), veggies, lean ground turkey, turkey sausages, Low sugar protein bars (or try Kashi bars). Oh, and substitute any junk food with Odwalla bars (the choco. chip ones are fabulous and have 8 grams of protein). (I’m ‘frugal’ too and can still find good, healthy food to eat)
If you eat ~7 a.m. ~10 a.m. 1p.m. 4 p.m. 7p.m. (and 10 p.m. if you’re up late you should be great. Get your excercise/workout in b/w any of those meals (or directly prior)
You don’t need many weights or machines. You can get one of those ab balls online or at a Target/Wal-mart for like $10-$15. Do abs using the ball…always works your core. Also get some resistance bands and you can work your legs (outer thighs) as well. You can deflate the ball and take it with you.
- Oblique exercises (twisting – works your ‘love handles’). Do a lot of these using the ab ball: sit on the ball hold a 10 lb weight and walk your feet forward. ‘Lay down’ and with the weigh above you twist to one side-up-pause-twist to the other side. Ensure you’re using your obliques to do the work.
- Start taking a thermogenic fat burner (will burn fat faster when your body temp rises – i.e. working out), ripped fuel 5x, or hydroxycut hardcore before your workouts. Don’t exceed the daily recommended allowance and drink plenty of water. You don’t NEED these, they just help burn fat faster while providing energy. You could take a multi-vitamin instead (relatively cheap at Wal-mart)