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Alright, someone help me and try to tell ma few diets. I know about Atkins, I can't go on Slim fast, I need more info on low Cal, I need a way to loose from 30 - 50 pounds I'm not in a hurry so anything can be good really. Please help! (link)
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Count calories and keep your daily intake to 1300-1500 calories a day. Most packages have calories on them. It may take a little math sometimes to figure out servings. Get a book with a calorie list. Most diet and nutrition books have them. Keep a food diary of what you ate, otherwise you will loose track.
Measure whenever you can, because then you will be more acurate. When it comes to meats, calories are usually listed by ounces. Estimate 3 ounces is about the size of a deck of cards. If you can find one, get a little scale to check meat servings once in a while.
Keep track of your weight loss once a week, and if you loose more than 3 pounds a week increase your calorie intake by about 100 to 200 calories until you are loosing about 2 pounds a week.
Hopefully you know what good nutrition is. Eat approximately 2 servings of meat, 4 servings of vegetables, 2 fruit servings, 3 or 4 servings of grains or starches, 2 milk or dairy servings a day, and take a multi-vitamin.
It is really difficult to stay on a diet. Your life becomes all about food. I would try for around 300 to 350 calories for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and 100 to 150 calories for snacks. Eat frequently. Experiment with food, especially low calorie and diet food. Some of them are awful, but some aren't bad.
Allow yourself to go off your diet once or twice a week if you need too. If you can stay on it the other 5 days, you will still loose.
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