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14/f 5'2 126 lbs, size 5

I want to get down to a size 3 in 4 weeks. I need help on dieting and excercize. So tell me what to do. Dont tell me to skip junk food and blah blah. Tell me exactly what I need to do. I need a plan that will let me have chocolate everyday. I eat dinner with my parents so fixing my dinner isnt possible. I am also a vegetarian. My problem area is my thighs so help please

Vegetarian?

That isn't a high calorie diet, so that's no problem. And contrary to popular belief, chocolate is not fattening-- the sugar content is. Eat chocolate with artifical sweetners or low calorie chocolate if possible. But chocolate isn't the issue.

The amount of food is. A mental and emotional attitude on eating is use a smaller plate than you normally eat meals on, and reduce the amount of food you normally eat a tad, and the plate will appear completely full.

This is recommended in all good dietary programs because the mental picture of what you see, is the amount, the coloring, the pleasant appeal of the food, as well as the smell and taste which is related together.

That's one trick.

The second trick is to stop sodas. Drink sugar-free, diet soda. Drink plenty of milk and plenty of water. This flushes your system.

Then, exercise burns calories as well as tone and helps burn off excess fat tissue in our bodies.

Once the excess fat is burned, it will burn and tear down muscle which will rebuild itself, strenthening into great tone and form.

Muscle builders, weight lifters, athletics in general, all exercise to break muscles down to rebuild stronger.

Drinking plenty of water is the best for washing your system and hydrating you properly to exercise and be active to reduce a size or two.

Any jogging, walking or normal sit ups, general exercising you've learned in gym and seen or done will do. But thighs is stretchs, walking, jogging, riding a bike, anything that strains the thighs.

Just be aware of high calorie, fattening food. And whether you like it or not, junk food is fattening. French fries, even mashed potates, fried veggies, etc.

If you want potatoes, eat baked potaoes without butter, using low-cal sour cream, plenty of chives and seasonings or stuff them with your favorite cooked veggies and even low-cal cheeses, and whatever you want. The potatoe isn't fattening, it's the butter and junk on it that is.

Eat plenty of raw veggies. Great for anyone. Dip into low-cal Ranch or favorite thing as long as it isn't loaded with fattening calories.

Use common sense.

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