If you think reducing the intake of food, fasting, crash dieting alone will help you lose weight and get skinny, then you are sadly wrong.
The truth is that all the above mention methods without exercising will actually make you put on weight especially for women who have more fat and less muscles.
You must be thinking why does that happen? Well it is because your body is programmed in such a way that when you starve yourself the body starts holding on to what it has and starts storing food thinking it is a matter of life or death.
On the other hand, if you exercise while controlling your diet, it will help control your weight.
Exercising not only helps you lose weight it also builds muscle and make you fitter and leaner.
Hence it is very important to exercise along with controlling your diet in order to lose weight effectively.
In order to control your diet, you need to keep a check on how many calories you take per day.
The main rule is: burn more calories than you consume and this one rule will help you lose weight.
In order to calculate how many calories you need to take and burn on a daily basis, you need to know your body weight, and how much you are willing to exercise every day.
There are plenty of calculators online that will help you calculate your daily calorie intake for free, just Google it.
All this seems pretty easy to do now that you are reading it, but it can be very hard to implement so you need to have a strong will and self control to follow through with whatever plan/schedule you make.
Another thing that might help you is keeping a diary of what you did all day like what you ate, how much calories you burnt while exercising, this will help motivate you.
I hope this article will act as a stepping stone towards your goal of losing weight and being healthy.