<p>For stretch marks, my friend used vitamin E oil and she said it worked really great.
She also used it on her acne scars too and I can say that it worked really great - flawless skin!</p>
<p>Play A ****ing Sport.</p>
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<li><p>Count your goddamn calories. If you can loose wait eating 2000 calories a day, then eat 2000 calories worth of cookies and be done with it. You will loose wait if you eat fewer calories than you burn everyday.</p></li>
<li><p>Run. What I like to do is set of running, to the point where I pass out or throw up or whatever, and fall over. Don't stop for anything else. Then once you've recovered, stand up and run all the way home. That'll burn some fat off of you.</p></li>
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<p>If you are skinny except for some stubborn fat on the stomach reason or whatever, consider building muscle mass and stuff.</p>
<p>Do cardio exercises. Aerobic cardio exercises (constant heart rate, like steady jogging or cycling), not anaerobic (stop and go kind of stuff like basketball). The former type of exercise uses oxygen to help you lose body fat. It's really good to balance it out, however. Note that you cannot choose an area of the body to lose. So you can't one day decide to lose your ass fat and only your ass fat, for example.</p>
<p>Also, as people may have stated above, count calories. Eat right.</p>
<p>There is a lot of really bad advice on this thread.</p>
<p>Basically, you need to eat healthy, lift weights 2-4 times a week, and do some form of cardio exercise for 30 mins. a day, 3-6 times a week.</p>
<p>There is no way to spot-reduce fat. Part of it is also genetic...some people just carry more fat around their midsections rather than having it be more spread out.</p>
<p>Why, bloodandiron? Counting calories is very helpful in losing weight. Eating 2000 calories of cookies is probably a bad idea, however. </p>
<p>If I need to lose a few pounds I usually cut out lunch, since I don't really get hungry between breakfast and dinner, courtesy of my slow metabolism.</p>
<p>Spanks, it's probably because you cut lunch sometimes that your metabolism remains slow... -_-;</p>
<p>I'm skinny, but I can't get a six-pack. I'm fine with that though, and I look forward to my future beer belly. ;)
I hope my metabolism isnt' too fast, seeing that organisms with slower metabolisms tend to live longer (ironically, we deviate by the rule A LOT, sicne we have fairly fast metabolisms and live longer than we "should").
Another myth is that your rest metabolism can be sped up or slowed down significantly... there is no evidence to that, it's something that the weight-losing industry wants you to think. ;) In fact, most weight medicine acts on curbing your hunger, so you skip "unecessary" meals. Although, I'd still eat at least 3 times a day...
Regardless, exercising speeds up your metabolism temporary and it's a fairly healthy option... you should do it even if you are not trying to lose weight (but not until you pass out, throw up, etc... overstressing your body is extremely unhealthy...)
Recently, studies have shown that mice who cut their calories consumption lived 40-50% longer, so it might be true for us also, as we are fairly similar (and it makes biochemical sense). Also something I personally wouldnt' do, life without unecessary snacks = not a good life. =(</p>
<p>I also fail to see how coutning calories is unhealthy... I think it's rather a good strategy if you are tryign to lose weight.
After all Calories In < Calories Out = Weight lost.</p>
<p>Yep...eating 4-6 small meals a day will help speed up your metabolism and actually help you burn fat at a quicker rate. And if you cut your calories VERY severely, your body will actually store them and your metabolism will come to a grinding halt. </p>
<p>And it DOES matter what you eat. 2000 calories of high-protein, high-fibre, low-carb foods will help you lose weight much faster than 2000 calories of high-carb, high-fat foods. Think about eating lots of poultry, fish, leafy green vegetables and beans. Even if you eat 20g of carbs in chicken, it's still better than 20g of carbs from white bread or cookies...the latter two contain lots of sucrose and will raise your blood sugar.</p>
<p>Me. duh, it's genetic, I think. My entire family puts on weight very easily. No one is fat or remotely overweight, though, because we all work out and eat well. I also always eat breakfast, which is supposed to get my metabolism going. It's not really a big deal, because I'm pretty sure having a slower metabolism is responsible for my lack of an appetite. My parents are in their 50s and are very healthy because we all encourage each other to stay in shape. That's why I really don't know how much I sympathize with people who blame being fat on genes. You can attain any goal you want with enough exercise and a quality diet. Yes, I know there are exceptions, and I'm sorry if I offended someone.</p>
<p>Not that I'm doubting you nodnard, I really don't know, but I'd like to see a respectable scientific sources actually accounting for significant increase in resting metabolic rate. I remember reading in NewScientist that such thing has never been scientifically proven.</p>