I’m a 16-year-old male who needs to desperately lose some weight. What advice can you give?
First thing to ask yourself is WHY you want to lose weight.Health?Looks?Athleticism?Your list can be long or short. Just decide on a reason to stick to your goal of losing weight. It will help keep you on track when you’re tempted to deviate from your weight loss plan.Since you’re a young buck, losing weight at 16 should be a breeze and provide a unique story of overcoming adversity when you achieve your goal that you can share with others. With all this said, lets get into weight loss advice.Eat LessSelf explanatory. More calories consumed than you use are stored for a rainy day. Best way to eat less is to follow intermittent fasting or track your foods with myfitness pal.Work OutYou’ll burn more calories by being active. Exercise will improve your athleticism, body composition, and release a flood of feel good hormones to keep reward your hard work.Consume a Whole Foods dietA whole food diet is basically eating single ingredient foods. Meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits, rice, potatoes are some examples. You can also use the rule of thumb which is basically not eating foods with ingredient lists larger than your thumb. A high fiber, high protein diet will keep you full and satisfied.80 / 20Pareto Principle is an excellent way to stick to whatever your goal may be. 80% of the time you’re on point with your diet. 20% of the time you can snack on a treat. In order for a diet to be successful you must not deprive yourself of all foods that bring you joy.Keep poptarts and other of your favorite junk food out of sightWe only have so much willpower. Do not waste its finite source on avoiding the snacks you have in front of you. You wont be tempted to snack on chocolates if they aren’t there in the first place.Find the balance between exercise, diet, and treats. The goal is balance and you will be much happier when you find what works best for you.
I'M DESPERATE TO LOSE WEIGHT!?
Losing 10 lbs a month is a good and safe target. Any faster weight loss is likely to be temporary only and in most cases you regain it all. Running, jogging, cycling, swimming, dancing, push ups, sit ups, squats, brisk walking and power walking all help for weight loss but dieting helps more. You can always eat negative calorie foods for weight loss and below is a list of negative calorie foods that will boost your metabolism. Negative Calorie Fruits: apples cranberries grapefruit lemons mangoes oranges pineapple raspberries strawberries tangerines Negative Calorie Vegetables: asparagus beets broccoli cabbage (green) carrots cauliflower celery Chile peppers (hot) cucumber dandelions endives garden cress garlic green beans lettuce onions papaya radishes spinach turnips These foods don't actually have negative calories but when you eat these foods raw or slightly cooked your body burns more calories digesting and processing them than what is in the food itself. For a healthy weight loss add some of these foods to your diet each day. Most of them are full of healthy nutrients. Source(s): Web search for "list of negative calorie foods"
I'm desperate to lose weight...?
I need to lose weight fast. I'm 5'5, about 180 pounds and... wait for it... I'm just 14. I feel like all my problems revolve around me being overweight. Even my family makes fun of my weight. I'm tempted to buy some weight loss pills and wing it. I want to try the old-fashioned way of eating right and exercising, but I don't have time. You might think I'm just a kid so I have all the time in the world, but that's not true. Between family life and school, I'm left with about -5 hours for myself. What should I do? It's not like I have my own car to drive to the gym everyday. And it's pretty hard to watch what I eat because in my house, what's put in front of you must be eaten. I seriously have no motivation or energy to do anything, and it's all because of my weight. I'm tired of being the fattest girl in the room. Just recently I've started wearing men's clothes because I can't quite fit properly in women's clothes anymore. I'm always hungry, too. Even if I tried going anorexic, I would just start eating again. Please... at this point I'm willing to try anything. I really want to get my life back on track and go back to living life as a young teenager, not some nervous wreck who's always thinking about her weight. If you have good suggestions, by all means please tell. If your bored and want to give a stupid answer or something, please go do it somewhere else. Thanks
I desperately need to lose 20 pounds in a month,?
You don't need to pay for any type of program like Joey B is trying to sell you. You may or may not be able to lose 20 lbs in a month, but you can definitely lose some weight if you are disciplined enough. You need to exercises every day, but most importantly you need to improve your diet. Don't worry about the BMI, it's good as an indicator but don't solely rely on it. I don't know what you have been doing already or how educated you are already about nutrition and exercises, so instead of explaining things you may already know, I'm going to refer you to a website that will help keep you on track. It's the government food pyramid website, it's free, and it has great tools for tracking your nutrition and activity so you can see where you need to adjust. It is a lot of work, but it definitely will pay off if you are diligent about it. There are no easy answers when it comes to getting in shape! You have to work hard to get there, and be diligent, even at Thanksgiving time. Healthiness truly has to become a lifestyle if you are going to keep the weight off permanently. http://www.mypyramid.gov/
Desperate need of help- college motivation?
I just got dumped by my ex boyfriend(frat boy) by a soriotory girl. and I've been thinking of him constantly which i know I can't... I just got into my major which is so awesome and I want to be on track for school again..I don't know what/how I can do it.... I want to stay movitvated and NOT be thinking about boys and HIM at the same time...What can i do??