need help

[roughfeedah]

I really need help in my diet... can any1 share ur experience loose weight...

[ash_loves_kids]

I agree mostly with Brice, except for the eggs, I don't think thats the most perfect protein....Soy milk has a ton of protein, beans and nuts as well.  Simple carbs and starch turn to sugar in your body so stay away from those as Brice said.  Here's a couple of things I do.  First, I have a smoothie every day.  My smoothies consist of kale, collard greens, spinach, carrots, ginger, blueberries, strawberries, banana, peaches, soy milk, 100% juice, and a scoop of ground flax seed.  I wash and freeze the kale and collard greens because they last longer, you could even do mustard greens or anything else, but I do kale and collard greens because they have more calcium in them.  And for the fruit, I do a lot of frozen fruit because its cheaper and I live in a cold area, so finding good fruit for a good price is hard to find.  I use soy milk instead of yogurt because it has more protein and less sugar than yogurt.  Flax seed is full of omega 3s which help suck out bad fat from your body.  I drink one of those smoothies a day.  I drank them when I was pregnant and my baby came 6 weeks early and was only in the hospital for 9 days and he is as healthy as can be.  I know they work because when I was taking prenatal pills my nails and hair would get shiny and strong, I stopped taking those and still drink smoothies and my nails and hair are still really strong and shiny.  
A second thing I do for a meal is what I call ''bean salad.'' It's kinda like a taco salad but mines just modified a little.  So I get dried uncooked beans, any kind you like.  I use a combo. Soak them in water overnight and make sure they are submerged about an inch under water.  Then you cook the beans for about two hours.  You may have to add water while they are cooking, you want them under water when cooking as well.  When they are done, drain the excess water, but dont throw away.  You can eat the beans that way, or you can smush them into refried beans and flavor them.  Then you can pour that excess water back into to find the desired consistency you like your refried beans.  Why go through this work instead of buying canned beans? For one, doing it my way you get more than just a small can of beans, its like cooking in bulk.  Second, they cook those beans in LARD and use lots of salt.  You are adding unwanted fat and salt to your meal.  Then I get some greens, add a scoop of beans, add whatever you like..I put avocados, tomatoes, salsa, sometimes I will make mexican rice and put that in there, then stir up and enjoy.  Can't really get more healthy than that.  If you want the recipe for mexican rice, which is also healthy, then just let me know.  Hope this helps!! Good luck!

[brice1967]

Different diets do different things.  I may be naive, but are you trying to lose weight?  If you're trying to lose weight, it seems as if everyone has their own "perfect diet" that worked for them.  I've been fortunate enough to lose weight in a couple of different ways.  The first one was watching my caloric intake.  Basically that means you have to burn more calories than you consume.  The problem with that is, you have to count every calorie that goes into your body and then make sure you are burning more than that.  It requires you either carry or memorize a little calorie counter book.... it worked.

The easier way for me was cutting out all simple carbohydrates. No bread, tortillas, cookies, candy, chocolate (except for the really dark stuff, and only for an occasional treat) no potatoes, no pancakes, no waffles....  Nothing with sugar added...

Think protein.  Chicken, fish for meats above anything else, then lean pork and beef.  Try to stay away from processed meat and don't forget EGGS!  Probably the most perfect protein, if you ask me.  If you have a cholesterol issue, just eat the whites.  Vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower are great in moderation, so are carrots.  Lettuce and celery are basically fiber and water, so they too can be eaten.

As important as what you are eating, exercise and water consumption are critical.  Weight lifting light to moderate weights with a lot of reps will work to make you more lean.  In order to put on muscle mass, work your way up to higher weights, less reps.  More importantly, cardio.  Walking is a great exercise and you can alternate that with running short distances.  Walking stairs or a stair climbing machine is a real work out so are almost any of the other cardio equipment out there.  Biking is another.

When I am hard after it in the gym, I do a little bit of cardio every day and lift weights every day, 5 days a week.  My regular work out, I warm up on a bike or treadmill for about 10 minutes to get the blood pumping and get everything loosened up.  Then I'll do my weight routine (depending on what areas I am working) and doing sets of crunches between each lifting exercise.  After I complete my lifting, I hit the cardio machines again for about 20 to 30 minutes.  

Hope that helps.  Really, keep moving and concentrate on your food choices.  Always try to take the healthiest choice.... oh, stay away from juice unless you are making it yourself and not adding anything to it.