If you're like most adult Americans, you're probably overweight. According to the latest centers for disease control studies, almost two out of three American adults are overweight and better than one in four are considered obese - having a body mass index of thirty five or above.
Which means you need to do some exercises to lose weight. You need to change you diet. You need to get up earlier and go to bed later, and live life to its fullest rather than just sitting on the couch, shoving peanuts down your gullet, watching family guy and pecking at the computer, surfing the internet.
Now, a lot of this is pretty easy. Getting out of the house and leading an active lifestyle is just a matter of will power. You have to make yourself do it. Do what it takes to talk yourself into getting up, being active and leading the type of lifestyle that will let you become a better person.
As for diet, that is will power and common sense. We've omnivorous mammals. We evolved over eons and eons subsisting primarily on stuff that grows - whether it's fruits, vegetables, berries or whatever, we've evolved to derive sustenance from food that gets its own sustenance from the sun.
So eat a salad. Have a piece of fruit and some oatmeal every morning. When you're snacking, avoid processed foods and eat a handful of almonds or some fresh strawberries or an apple. Do what your body is evolved to do rather than just eating the first, most convenient crap that you see.
And then there are exercises to lose weight. Really, anything that is physical can be one of the best exercises to lose weight if you do it at a high intensity. But generally speaking, the name of the game when it comes to exercises to lose weight is cardiovascular work. You want to get your heartrate up, you want to do it for a prolonged period, and you want to do it at least three or four times a week.
For me personally, I have difficulty with high-impact exercises such as jogging, so I use an exercise bike. I set the resistance to low, then just pedal as fast as I can for anywhere from twenty five to forty five minutes. This will burn anywhere from three hundred to five hundred calories at the intensity I do it.
Other exercise are better. Anything that uses your whole body - like certain aerobics classes, swimming, or the rowing machine - will burn even more calories, burn even more fat, and build more muscle.