How would you recommend one go down a few pant sizes

[Whateverist]

Drop one meal a day, no snacking.

No, that'd be counter-productive. Increasing the number of meals would be more beneficial as long as the total calorie intake is monitored properly.Eating 5-6 times a day will help increase metabolism, and if spread out evenly will keep you from feeling hungry. Also healthy snacking can be quite helpful in avoiding fast-food cravings. Oh and drink loads of water. If nothing else, you'd be too busy peeing to think about eating. Teach your body to always be active and you'll get better results than being active at only certain times of the day.

Good point.  It actually is very important to eat strategically.  You need a lot of different things in your diet.  Some fat but never trans fats. Some protein.  Some carbohydrates too but the more complex, the better; think of them as time release fertilizer.  And roughage helps too.  It's worth a little thought and planning.

[KUSA]

http://www.coolsculpting.com

[popeyespappy]

Eat less, move more.  

Boru

This ^

[Aegon]

Amphetamine addiction!

No but in actuality, what others have said. The concept of weight loss is simple: just eat less. There's no magical trick to it. Easier said than done though.

Easiest thing to start with - no more drinks other than water. Calories from beer and soda add up.

[Mermaid]

myfitnesspal.com has helped me in profound ways. I highly recommend it.

[brewer]

Drop one meal a day, no snacking.

No, that'd be counter-productive. Increasing the number of meals would be more beneficial as long as the total calorie intake is monitored properly.Eating 5-6 times a day will help increase metabolism, and if spread out evenly will keep you from feeling hungry. Also healthy snacking can be quite helpful in avoiding fast-food cravings. Oh and drink loads of water. If nothing else, you'd be too busy peeing to think about eating. Teach your body to always be active and you'll get better results than being active at only certain times of the day.

Yes. The jury is still out. There is as much literature for support as non support.

[PETE_ROSE]

Drink only water.

Did someone actually say meth?

[Jenny A]

Eat less exercise more is not very helpful advice. Since my 40s I've been capable of eating around 1300 calories and putting in an hour of aerobic exercise and gaining weight. Lowering my calorie intake further reduced muscle mass rather than fat.

Recently, after reading The Secret Life Of Fat by Sylvia Tera, a book about what we know about when and how fat accumulates and reduces, I designed a diet for myself on which I have lost 8.5 pounds in 6 weeks while adding to my strength and endurance. And I'm eating closer to 1600 calories a day.

It appears that most fat is burned during sleep and that sleeping well and having your last calories well before bedtime matters. So does reducing carbs and allowing yourself to be hungry before meals. Eating too little does reduce muscle mass and weight lost too quickly returns with a vengence.

Currently, I have my first meal after noon. It is a green salad with raw veggies loaded with meat and cheese. I try to avoid dressings with sugar. If I'm hungry I have a small handfuls of nuts or a mug of broth. For dinner, which we have at about 7:30, I have meat and mostly non starchy vegitables, but eat I high vitamin starchy vegetables in low quantity. I exercise before lunch for thirty minutes and that's just a brisk walk uphill. I make sure to get at least eight hours sleep. When my weight loss levels off, I will tweak this diet until I begin to lose again.

Because weight loss is never guaranteed, I'm rewarding myself for keeping the diet, not for weight lost. Weight loss is its own reward.

It isn't magic, but after trying and failing while eating less and exercising more, it feels like it.

[Whateverist]

Many good points. I've also been told in my class that you must sometimes eat more in order to lose weight. The reasoning being that your metabolism can slow down giving you less energy and hanging on even more persistently to what fat reserves you may have. It isn't simple. You've got to be strategic.

[Jenny A]

Many good points. I've also been told in my class that you must sometimes eat more in order to lose weight. The reasoning being that your metabolism can slow down giving you less energy and hanging on even more persistently to what fat reserves you may have. It isn't simple. You've got to be strategic.

I'm basically treating this diet as a science experiment. I'm keeping meticulous records of what and when I eat, how much I sleep, how much and when I exercise. So far I've learned sleep and staying hydrated are really helpful.

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http://www.coolsculpting.com

This essentially non invasive liposuction. It reduces weight by killing cells. People who have liposuction typically gain the weight right back. Worse they tend to replace healthy brown fat with excessive organ fat. I suspect the results of cold sculpting will be similar.