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ok i'm about 5'3" and i weigh 145 lbs. i really want to loose 30 lbs asap. can anyone help me out about how i should go about loosing this weight? please don't say "eat healthy and exercise and lay off junk food" can you give me examples of some exercises and foods to eat and foods not to eat and how much a day i should eat? i'd really love to hear from the people who lost weight and what worked for them but anyone will do. thanks so much!

If you really are set on losing this weight. Go to your doctor. or to a dietition. They can work with you one on one to figure out what diet will work best for you.

but just some pointers, stay away from a lot of salt. sodium holds water, it'll make you gain a lot of water weight. You said you like sports and such, So try running. If you live in a warm area, near a beach, running on the beach is one of the best excersizes to lose weight. or running in the snow will give you almost equal results. Also Swimming works all of your muscles at once. Swimming laps every day (when you can, obviously not during the winter unless there's an indoor pool reletively close to you) is supposedly the best excersize you can get (... actually thats a lie, sex is. but I'm not going to tell you to whore yourself just to lose weight. that would be stupid)
Also. Oh. I saw on Good Morning America, if you buy small bags of microwave popcorn and eat ONE half an hour before each meal, You will eat less because the popcorn fills you up without much nutritional value. (Its safe. they did studies) and using a smaller plate at dinner time, and eating in a well lit room. Those are just some little things that will trick your mind into eating less than you want, but still enough to be healthy.

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