weight loss diet

Along "healthy" fast food:

A lot of people got annoyed with me in my journal, but I started replacing all fast food with Subway, which really, really helped. If you do it correctly, (a turkey sub, no cheese, no mayo, spicy mustard, all veggies, no oil, wheat bread) you really get your calories down - a 12 inch sub comes out to less than probably about 600 calories for a LOT of food (you can save half for later).

Taco Bell is a good option when you get fresco style, but it's really hard. I work there. Fresco style is just NOT AS GOOD as the actual, but again, you have to get used to it, I guess.

Even though ultimately it's about expending more energy than you take in, there are a lot of other factors so that it's not merely "calories in, calories out".

If you want my advice (as I am losing a lot of weight recently) go out and exercise for a good fifteen minutes+ a day, aerobic, and just watch what you eat. You'll lose weight, because your metabolism will get a MAJOR boost, which is what you want.

Weight lifting also helps, but for two reasons: (1) for the perpetually overweight, it can be difficult, and therefore you might do less than reccomended, and (2) it's too easy to focus on cosmetic changes when doing that (i.e. the guy with the huge gut working on his biceps is typical; he'd benefit more from a full body approach).

When you run, you don't lose many calories, but as your body chemistry changes to burn more naturally, you'll burn more when you're not exercising, which is the goal.

That being said, the last point to mention is that there is a fine line for a person to know whether or not he's truly hungry or craving foods for the taste. It's absolutely necessary to learn the difference. You should not allow yourself to be hungry, as that is counterproductive. However, you probably could go without eating 3000+ calories a day. Try to listen to your stomach cramps and if you're hungry, eat (well).

Jam it back in, in the dark.