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Why don't you do something totally crazy like exercise?
Digital_Ghost
I've been walking in a retention area near my house, but since living in a state that has insane heat during the spring and summer it's hard to do that, and the insane heat has already started. And being in the poor house, I'm not going to be ripped off by a gym.
You don't need to go to a gym to lose weight.1. Revise your eating habits: Drink a lot more water, no carbonated beverages. Limit your fast-food to at most once per week, unless you already don't eat the stuff. Eat less red meat, more chicken and fish. None of what I've mentioned here should be any issue. if it is, you're just not willing to put in minimal effort for decent results. A person's diet can be a big reason for being overweight, and it's easy to change. And contrary to popular belief, you don't need to starve yourself to lose weight, just revise what you're eating and continue to eat in regular intervals so you keep your metabolism going. The diet never ENDS though. It's a lifestyle decision.
2. Get more exercise. You're in a hot climate? Do it indoors as much as possible. Crunches work. Situps work, but cardio is quite important. If you can fit an early morning jog into your schedule before the heat is too crazy, then do that. If that means not staying up as late, so be it. More cardio you can do at home is jump rope, which is easy to learn and you can actually play games like seeing how many in a row you get. you have a staircase? Go up and down it for 20 minutes. Practice dance while listening to music. There are PLENTY of ways to do cardio at home, most just don't look, or don't want to feel embarassed. People look at me weird when I'm in my kitchen dancing while making my lunch(kitchen is right at the front of my house, I air it out and leave the door open with the screen closed). Whatever, I'm getting exercise and I'm having fun.
3. Make sure you eat in regular intervals. Don't eat too much in one go. Keep your portions reasonable and let your body adapt to that. People these days eat far too much and with larger gaps between eating. Breakfast - Snack - Lunch - Snack - Dinner - Snack should be par for the course, with each snack being something half-decent for you, or at least not real harmful. I like fruit. It's relatively inexpensive especially during the harvest season if you can get it locally at a farmer's market.
If you're eating good food, getting exercise, and eating regularly, then your metabolism will thank you and may step it up a notch to only further progress your efforts. if you're young still, it'll be easier to get that metabolism back if you used to have it(seeing as you said you were thin before, I'd imagine you did)
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