How can I motivate my father to lose weight?

My father is about two hundred pounds overweight. In the past, he lost roughly one hundred pounds, but gained it all back. He has been working out quite a bit, but he won't stop eating the processed sugars and fats that are hurting him. He knows his eating habits need to change, but they aren't changing. I would like to find a way to help him, but I feel uncomfortable talking about weight loss and proper diet to him. I just love him so much, and I want him to be around for a long time, but if he keeps this up, that's not going to happen. How can I help him?

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I appreciate your love for your dad. Thanks for reaching out. Search for "Rachel Parent youtube"; she's 14 and may inspire you. Best wishes!He will continue to do what he wants, that's his freedom and right as an adult, as long as he's within the law, or can evade it. Here's what I would do. First, I would volunteer to go food shopping or go with whoever does it. There are some healthy foods that are cheaper than most all others (beans, brown rice, buck wheat, whole grain wheats, potatoes, cabbage, onions, carrots, tomato sauce), not all are low carb, but by fixing a lot of foods with these could free up dollars for more veggies, nuts. This also gives you complete control over all the ingredients and how much sugar is in them. I get mine at Costco and Winco (great bulk section and good veggies).I would learn to cook, keep lots of good, low carb dishes and snacks available, at least as much as you can. Fixing a couple a week will be a good start. My two favorites are chili and Greek/Pico salads. Get a couple books to learn what is really healthy: Fit for Life (has recipes), and Forks Over Knives or Eat to Live.Cooking beans with rice will create a complete protein, but rice is high in carbs, so only have enough to balance the diet. There are lots of different kinds of beans, peas, lentils, and lots of recipes online. I do a crock pot each weekend.A fresh Chinese Chicken salad is mostly cabbage, a good Greek or Pico salad is in the middle, if you don't add lettuce it will keep for a 2-3 days in the fridge. Then I fix my own breads and cakes (low-healthy-sweeteners), based on no-egg, no-milk recipes.A lot of time when we think we're hungry one of three other things could be going on:1. We're actually thirsty2. We need some nutrition3. Our stomach did not get the full feeling because we ate high density, high calorie foods, instead of more bulk, more raw foods. If you only ate veggies, you would have a hard time staying fat.To give you the ideal end picture, I would stop buying any drinks from the store, only drink water and enough fruit to satisfy snacking. Then follow these tips...go for a walk with him, ask him to take you to a park or teach you to do something, or throw a Frisbee, 20 minutes a week.Health rules I'm distilling:1. Water intake is the biggest, easiest, cheapest thing you can do for your health, research Water Calculator2. Most people should take a multi-vitamin3. Food combinations & eating for your body type are the most important for food (book: "Fit for Life")http://www.alderbrooke.com/chart.phphttp://www.organicgardening.com/cook/13-best-food-combos-planet4. Minimize manufacturer-processed foods, research the ingredients & side effectshttp://www.eatright.org/Public/content.aspx?id=6442471055http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/jan-june13/food_04-29.html5. Having raw foods and correctly cooking some of them maximizes your food valuehttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=raw-veggies-are-healthierhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/raw-food-diet_b_2015598.html6. Eat natural oils (raw nuts, seeds, avocado), limit extracted oils, use healthier oils, avoid solid fats(books: Forks Over Knives, Eat to Live)http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/shortorder/2012/03/oil-free_plant-based_diets_-_e.phphttp://www.eatingrules.com/2012/02/cooking-oil-comparison-chart/7. Organic is worth as much as financially possible, consider the alternatives when budgetingGMOs - Ask your doctor if cancer is right for you (Natural News, Wells, 10/16/2012) http://www.naturalnews.com/037621_gmo_side_effects_cancer.htmlHow to avoid genetic engineering at the grocery store (Farm Aid, 2011) http://www.farmaid.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=qlI5IhNVJsE&b=6281749&ct=9141885¬oc=1&msource=adwords&gclid=CPSMg4nA5rgCFQE6Qgod7DkATgMonsanto's Roundup pesticides are linked to Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, autism and cancer; they control crop acreage 40% and create pesticide seeds: corn 73%, soybean 90%, cotton 80%, canola, papaya, sugar beets, alfalfa (beef)-- %s are U.S., multiple resources, research yourself8. Exercise is important for mental health and weight loss, gains muscle, and slows total weight loss.Exercise a minimum of 20min/wk, more vigorous is better, too much can be unhealthy

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• Tell him he's fat.
• tell him how you feel. explain to him that he doesn't lose the weight he will not be able to enjoy the activities with his kids anymore. you could introduce him to more healthier/tastier choices. trader joes sells items that are healthy yet yummy. all the best

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minimum walking time?

I am a complete begginer at working out although i move a lot and run around at my job (I'm an outdoor preschool teacher) and walk long distances to and from work but I wanted to walk for a workout just now (I was alternating between jogging and walking) and after i felt it was forever i looked and it was just for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and i was completely out of breath so i stopped. is 4:33 that ok? will it be of any benefit? not necessarily weight loss? i want to gradually increase the time maybe tomorrow 5 minutes or something i don't know- help?

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The rule of thumb is 150 minutes a week. If you can't do that right now, that's ok. Make that a goal. Another rule of thumb is to only increase your minutes, each week, by less than 10%. some people think 5% is optimum. I think you must have meant that you jogged for 4 minutes and were out of breath. That's ok. Try just jogging for 1 minute and then walking for 2 to start off with. oh, and try jogging slower. I'm aslo a big advocate for the "couch to 5K" program. Google it. It might be just the thing for you.

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Could someone that''s been or doing a diet PLEASE answer some questions? (NOT quiz questions)?

Why did you initially choose this diet?
What is the basic premise of this diet/eating plan?
What were two positive aspects of the diet?
Were there any downsides to the diet plan? Explain.
Did you have success on this diet?
Are you still on the diet plan?
Have you maintained your weight loss?
Do you feel the diet is safe? Why or why not?
Did you exercise while on the diet?
Would you follow this diet plan again?

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French Women Don''t Get Fat
1. Because unlike most diets, it''s long term with lasting results. It requires a change of mindset.
2. Eat when hungry and only until satisfied (not full), eat fresh, high quality food, eat foods you enjoy, savor food, if you have a craving, eat what you want but only a small amount and make sure it''s high quality. Do exercise that you enjoy. Stay hydrated.
3. It allows you to customize it to suit your individual needs which will help keep the weight off because it''s easy to maintain. You will learn to love your body and gain confidence as you lose weight in a healthy, natural way. There is no going hungry.
4. It may be hard at first, learning to discern hunger from cravings or thirst, but it gets easier.
5. Yes. You have to keep it up though or you''ll gain the weight right back. At a certain point you "plateau" because your body is getting used to your new lifestyle. Don''t worry this is completely normal.
6. Yes. This is no quick-fix diet. It''s a lifestyle change.
7. No, because I slacked off over Christmas break. And I''ve gained some muscle, and my hips have widened.
8. Yes, because you''re learning to work with your body instead of against it and it''s safe and effective (provided you do it right).
9. Yes. Exercise is an important part of a healthy lifestyle.
10. Still am :)

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Is there such a thing as eating too many vegetables?

I''ve always been overweight, but I made it my New Year''s to eat better. Figured that was a more reasonable goal than thinking I''d suddenly take up exercising more, aka. start out small. Well one of my biggest changes is just the way I eat at work. I used to down about three sodas an hour, snack constantly, and for lunch I''d have a few slices or pizza or a couple burgers.

I''ve switched off to water (no soda for a month now). At first I tried switching off to eating a turkey sandwich or lunch, but I found I was staving. So I basically began to pile a ton of stuff on my sandwich. I switched to a whole grain bread, and I put a lot of spinach, onions, tomatoes, and slices of cucumber on it. Plus I eat an apple or banana on the side. And all through the day I snack on either grapes, baby carrots, or plum-tomatoes. Since the beginning of the month I''ve lost four pounds, which seems cool enough to me.

But my coworker, who fancies herself an expert in everything, says I''m still eating too many calories because I''m putting so much crap on my sandwiches. She says I need to snack less, and just have a salad so I''m losing the bread and meat completely. I don''t fancy this at all.

Should I just keep what I''m doing, or should I listen to her?

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Don’t listen to her…or me, or anybody else.
Listen to your body.
Or relearn to listen to it as you surely messed up your body’ hunger signals and taste buds with junk food if your idea of lunch is a few slices of pizza (probably not the healthy homemade kind that you brought from home) and a couple of burgers (from some fast food joint?).

Nobody should tell an overweight guy to “just have a salad” for lunch.
You NEED the bread (carbs) and the meat (protein).
The last thing you need is to get hungry and deny your body’s craving for food (you have to restore your hunger’s signals, not ignore them).

If you snack constantly, it can mean different things.
It could mean that you do not get satisfying meals (not anything to do with calorie content) to sustain you for several hours.
Like high calorie junk food is satisfying on the spot but you’ll get hungry pretty soon.
Also, young males, whether they’re athletics or just overweight, need A LOT of calories to either sustain their physical activities or just their body weight and high BMR.
They should eat HUGE healthy breakfasts/(lunches might not be always healthy as you’re often away from home)/healthy dinners and have all the high calorie junk food they need for mid-morning snacks, mid-afternoon snacks…not after dinner snacks as they go for seconds and thirds on the healthy dinner.
The crappier your lunch is, the healthier your breakfast/dinner should be so you still get healthy food.

I don’t know your stats (weight, height, age…) but any overweight guy needs more than spinach (92% of water), onions (89%), tomatoes (94%), cucumber (96%), apples (84%)…Those are great additions to your diet to get the vitamins/minerals/fiber, antioxidants. Color, diversity, taste…but contain mostly water.
It’s like if you’re thirsty, eating half a grapefruit is like drinking a glass of water, but better because you get nutrients (fiber, carbs, and vitamins/minerals).

Eat fruits/veggies for health but you need a lot of carbs (at least 60% of your BMR), protein (15%, unless you’re building up muscle mass…20%) and dietary fats (25% or 20% if you’re building up muscle mass and need more protein) just to cover your BMR.

“No soda for a month now”?
What kind of soda?
You would have to get over the triple whammy addiction for regular soda (the sweet tooth, the caffeine and the fizz).
Diet sodas are worse, as everybody knows; fake sugars lead to obesity as you get a sweet tooth with super sweet zero calorie fake sugars…and NO energy to exercise easily and efficiently, since you don’t get carbs. Readjusting your taste buds to get over a sweet tooth is a lengthy process…and a sour one!

I would be interested to know how you can get over a soda addiction in a month.
Hopefully, you’re not popping up pain killers to get over the headaches or you’ll have to deal with a pain killer addiction later on.
And you’re not using sleep aid meds or caffeine pills or tea or you’ll have to get over those addictions as well.
You should not replace one addiction with another.

There are ways (I know one from experience) to get over a soda addiction in a “divide and conquer” method without the need for any meds so you don’t have to deal with additional addictions from meds. It’s like people who stop smoking cigarettes but still have to deal with being addicted to the nicotine patches.



Turkey sandwiches are for…I don’t know…people who are not wondering about where that salty processed sliced food of some poultry is coming from…as long as they heard that it has fewer calories than other meat. The only turkey sandwich I would eat is the one after Thanksgiving Day (in the US) or Christmas (in France), using the leftover turkey meat from the turkey I cooked (and that was raised properly).
You always hear about how chickens are raised, but never about how turkeys are raised.
I would not even be surprised to learn that a turkey sandwich does not even contain turkey…no more than a blueberry muffin or yogurt contains blueberries…just a cheaper lab concoction that look and taste like it, with fake sugar and artificial flavors/coloring…without the healthy antioxidants of course. Manufacturers call that crap blueberry crunchlets or flakes so you might still think they contain real blueberries.


“Baby carrots”?
Not baby carrots but baby-cut ones (cocktail), right?
Those have nothing to do with baby carrots but are regular carrots that were too crooked for packaging so they’re peeled, cut into a deceptively nice shape and processed to the max, washed in carcinogen chlorine water (as they do not have skin to protect them anymore). After a few days, they miserably vomit the chlorine out when stored in your fridge in their plastic bag…If you buy a fresh bag that is not yet oozing the chlorine out, you’ll still have to get some high calorie dip to make them edible.
You can find baby carrots the size of a kitten tail in can with peas…nothing to do with baby-cut carrots.

• First off, Congrats to you and change in lifestyle :D I''m on my way also.
  
  Too much of anything is considered bad for you.
  But like you''ve said, you have already lost 4 pounds on the diet you chose. So where''s the problem? Your doing just fine love :)
  
  Tell your nosey coworker to stay out of your business. Clearly your doing a very good job and your seeing good results, why stop and change that?
  
  She''s jealous she can''t lose weight lol
• You lost 4 pounds didn''t you?!! Keep it up. She is just that, a nosy coworker. Not someone you need to listen to.
• First, if you''re content with the progress of your weight loss, none of us has any business criticizing your approach. Different things work for different people, you''ve found something that works for you so far.
  
  Second, your previous consumption of sugar and white flour sounds so outrageous that you''re lucky you''re not already 500 pounds, and ditching those worst carbs is sure to be a vast improvement.
  
  Third, you don''t need to worry about eating too many non-starchy veggies (unless you''re so insulin-resistant or diabetic that even veggies spike your blood sugar too much. Probably not you.)
  
  BUT -- you know what are NOT vegetables? Tomatoes. Grapes. Apples. Bananas. Those are fruits and contain sugar. That may be fine for you -- but keep in mind that you''re still consuming sugar. If your weight-loss stalls, consider that carefully. It most definitely IS possible that consuming such fruits will slow down or stop you weight loss.
  
  As for ways to improve, if you''re interested in advice. Your coworker is right about bread but WRONG about meat. The fact is that carbs have been the source of your overweight problem. You''re losing weight now because you''ve reduced the carbs (all the sugar, pizza dough, excess sandwich bread). You''d probably lose weight faster if you reduced them still more.
  
  You feel the need to snack, and a turkey sandwich was unsatisfying, because you eat too many carbs and not enough FAT. Yes you need more fat. It''s a politically incorrect fact that humans evolved eating fat and protein, and that''s what you need. If carbs are kept low, you can hoover up all the fat you want (you won''t binge because fat+protein provides great satiety).
  
  You''ll have to cross a great barrier in your mind before you come to believe me. But I wanted to plant the seed. Keep up what you''re doing until it doesn''t work anymore. Then remember my words.

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My weight fluxuates a lot, so whenever I gain weight, my butt gets really big. When I exercise, I lose my butt instead of losing the fat around my hamstring area. Which, consequently, could make my butt look smaller or my butt probably has more fat than my hamstring area. Either way, what kind of exercises could I do that would firm/raise my butt instead of eliminating it? Thanks!

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Squats and lunges are your best bet, they will also help to tone your thighs. And there are many different types. Go on YouTube and look for them and specific to the butt area. :) good luck.

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• When doing treadmill walk on an incline this will lift your butt muscles and make sure you do squats.
• Squats.

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