Diet/Exercise Advice?

[redshepherd]

I was a serious competitive swimmer for 8 years, so I'm familiar with nutrients and foods and all that, unless research has changed in the past 5 years. I can provide some basics on losing weight purely with diet.

If you're going to exercise very lightly just for burning fat, maintaining a weight-loss diet really pretty simple. Simple carbs (bread, pastries, anything from bakeries, potatoes, noodles, white rice... but carbs in general) and total fat in a food are really 90% what contributes to weight. Avoid all of those foods completely and utterly. Sugar is unhealthy and slows your body's healing processes, but honestly matters less when it comes to weight, just in itself. Avoid all all of those foods, and just stick to brown rice and maybe a bit of pasta for your carb intake, but keep it minimal.

Main diet should consist of 80% vegetables and fruits (boiled, baked, anything more true to the source... not sure if that's the right wording), around 10% protein (best is if you have the heart to only eat chicken breast for protein), 10% brown rice, and nuts. Don't get your veggie intake from tv dinners or pasta sauces or mixed with heavy creams... just pure, fresh veggies. I used to just bake vegetables with salt and dip them in balsamic vinegar.

In addition, eating smaller meals throughout the day helps lose weight, instead of three giant meals. And this might sound weird to some, but never eat until you feel "full" or stuffed. Just feel "satisfied". LOL. Stomach capacity is also a big contributor on what prevents some from losing weight. Stomachs will adapt and shrink a bit, depending on how much you eat, and you will end up feeling comfortable with whatever amount. Just don't eat too little all at once, or your stomach will yell that you are constantly starving.

That'll get you started...

As for light exercise that you can do at home, you can follow pilates and yoga videos online. There are a lot on youtube, that are just 30 minutes~2 hour long videos following the yoga instructor, like if you were taking yoga classes.