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How do get rid of a double chin?
I'm 5'3& 1/2 weigh 165lbs, and would like to be 135 at least. I'm a mother of a 4-year old, live in a small apartment where the only room I can exercise in is the livingroom, and it's carpeted, and hard to do aerobics on. Can anyone recommend a good exersize mat? What's bothering me lately is that on top of all that, my face is getting rounder, and my chin is starting to sag. My mother is overweight and her chin is like that too, so I'm afraid it's hereditary. Is there anything I can do to firm this area up? I think that I'm reasonably attractive but I used to be so skinny in high school and my 20's and sometimes I get so depresssed that I'll never lose this extra weight. Most of it is in my middle, stomach, and thighs. I feel that nothing really looks good on me. I also crave junk food and I would like some advice on a sensible easy diet that doesn't require a lot of expense to get my weight under control, and don't forget about the chin thing. Whew! I need help!
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Make smoothies your best friend. You can buy frozen fruit, and a quart of low fat or fat free vanilla yogurt for very little. Make smoothies
for breakfast, snack or late evening snack.
Depending on the safety of your neighborhood, you and your daughter can walk to a local park, bike ride, rollerblade. If your neighborhood isn't safe, drive to one that is, park and walk around, meet new people. Now's the time to show your 4 yr old that excercising can be fun.
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My guess is that the chin problem will go away after you've dropped some weight. When I was about ten pounds heavier, I had my dad's identical chin (not really a double chin -- more like a chin and a half!) but you can't see it at all now that my face is thinner.
I haven't tried it myself, but I'm told that the South Beach Diet is terrific, especially for getting the fat off your middle. Apparently once you've been on it for a short while, you really don't have junk food cravings.
I second the recommendations for a yoga mat. If aerobics don't work for you, yoga is easy to do in a small apartment.
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Eat healthier food and exercise. Run around the block once. But you can't leave your baby, so just pretend your running in your apartment. Of course your not going anywhere, but your lifting your legs.
get a yoga mat. <3.
what's most important if your child and your health...i wouldn't worry about the rest.
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I can sort of relate. I used to be overweight. I reccomend yoga mats. I've heard they're good. Just for the sake of knowledge, I learned hereditary traits two years ago in Biology. Double chins are not hereditary. My dad has, like, 8 chins and I have one, I'm happy to say. Well you probably won't get as skinny as you were in high school, especially after having a child. If you crave junk food, eat gum. Sugarless bubble yum is actually very good, and blows very large bubbles. It's fun. As I said, I used to be overweight, and I used this trick. Every time you crave junk food, pop a piece of bubble gum into your mouth. Keep a few different flavors around the house, and keep chewing it even after it loses its taste (which is why I reccomend sugaless bubble yum. The lack of taste in that is tolerable. Juicy fruit works, too. or spearmint.) Or eat hard candy, but make sure not to bite it. When you lose weight - you will, be optimistic! - your chin(s) will diminish. Also, celery is good, or anything veggielike and crunchy. I think Almonds work this way, too, but don't hold me to it. I've heard it takes your body more calories to digest the celery than the calories actually in the celery, so you burn calories just by eating celery. Weird, isn't it? I thought so...Optimists live longer. Just remember that. =)
-Siren
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I wouldn't let the chin thing bug you too much. We all change, we all have things we don't like about ourselves.
As for exercising... I'd recommend looking into yoga mats, some can be pricey but they're really good. It depends on what exercise you're doing, really. Many workouts can be done just fine on a big towel.
Recently I substituted hard candy and herbal vitamin drops into my diet instead of junk food. I think it's helped a lot, I don't crave it as much.
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