East less and/or do more exercise.

Excercise means anything that gets your heart going, so not just "sit-ups".  Using the stairs instead of the lift, parking an extra mile away from work, etc.

Diet, all I can say there if anything eat reguarly in good portions, not on a snack basis.

I lost a stone over a few months just by cutting out the weekly curries, and eating healthy stir frys a lot more often, and cutting out snacks pretty much all together, didnt change anything else

I was high 13 stone, im now low 12 same thing happened to me, saw a belly coming so had to take action :whoops:

I am only 56 and weigh 10-11 stone.  So appearance wise look fine, just the belly is what I need to lose.  I am surprised that walking makes a difference to my belly.  I always thought I would have to work that part of my body only.

By the way... walking distance in my opinion is any journey that will take less than an hour to walk.

I walk at about 3.5mph (walking when pushing my bike with its speedo on ). Means im quite willing to walk for 3 miles or a little more than that to get somewhere. So it takes me an hour... dont care, gives me time to enjoy the day.

Granted if its pissing it down I vote for either public transport, waterproofs, or get on my bike to shorten the time out in the freezing rain

eat slald for tea.

Ive lost 17lbs in about 2.5 months eating sandwiches for lunch and salad for tea. and swimming 4 times a week.

Matt

Assuming youre early to mid 20s youre prob going to need between 2000 and 2500kcal to maintain your current weight.

If you eat 2000 calories a day youll gradually lose weight since youre eating slightly less than the maintainance amount.  The general consensus is its all just net calories.  If you eat 2500 kcal and walk off 500 then youre on target.  If you burn 1000k from exercising then youre gonna want to eat 3000 kcal, etc.

If you add in a bit of exercise then itll appear to go faster but you probably want to still have a net of about 2000kcal a day, i.e. eat a bit more when you exercise (ideally make your evening meal being a piece of protein like a chicken breast/steak/mince and then pad it out with veg like a potato/cauliflower/whatever).


Trying to think what else lowers weight...  

You really want to be eating breakfast as it starts your metabolism working earlier in the day.

You dont want to be eating between meals (although noone says you have to only eat 3 meals a day).  Just keep your total calories at the right level.

Despite the people above eating at regular times is a huge benefit.  Your body starts to expect food at regular times.  When you skip meals or eat later then your body starts to think its starving and your metabolism changes to store fat - for guys it does this in the form of trunk fat (i.e. your belly, love handles and tits).  If you eat regularly your body will stop trying to horde food so much and will store the food for immediate use rather than fat (think its glycinogen or something).  youre supposed to aim for eating about 80% of your meals at regular intervals.

Low fat dairy binds to fat and stops you absorbing it as easily so low fat yoghurt is probably not a bad idea.  

Obviously dont eat fat filled foods.  you need some fat in your diet but not much.  You definitely want to be avoiding saturated fats if theyre not necessary.

One thing to note is muscle burns fat just by being there.  If you can increase your muscle mass your metabolism will increase so if you plan on losing weight you really need to be doing some resistance work as well as cardio/running/swiming things.

At the end of the day though it doesnt take a hell of a lot of exercise to make a difference if you just keep your calories slightly below you maintainance level.  Personally I just use the gym for an hour+ every day before work.

actually Serious youre in disagreement with most of the medical experts in the world.  The consensus is that your body balances the amount of each fuel source in your body over a period of 2 weeks.  If you burn fat your body will replace it when you eat.  When you burn carbs they will be replaced.  The total net difference in calories is the only thing that matters.  It doesnt matter how much energy it takes to digest them in the short term as it balances over the longer term.

Eating healthy versus junk food is more about your body needing a range of ingredients to not think its short on some of them and starving and then altering its metabolism to compensate.  The two things arent mutually exclusive.

At least thats the current belief of the BMA.