Im not sure if this is the right catagory but......
Question Posted Sunday October 23 2005, 5:35 pm
I am over weight and i have tryed exercise and diets and im only 13 so i cant do anything like pills. But i seriosly need help im like 5 2 and 150lbs please please help! What do you think i should do?
Dr_Chad answered Sunday October 23 2005, 7:10 pm: A diet is a short-term solution, a temporary fix with a tragic rebound effect. Do not go on any diet!!
What you need to do is focus on leading a healthy lifestyle, which includes eating healthy foods and exercising regularly. The importance of exercise is not in the burning of calories during the workout, but the resulting boost in your metabolism that makes you overall a more efficient burner of calories, even when you aren't working out.
Many books have been written on what constitutes healthy eating, but the one I recommend is actually addressed to people who suffer from PCOS (poly cystic ovarian syndrome). The book prescribes specific foods which keep the patient from developing diabetes.
...............I just searched the entire house and I can't find my wife's book, so I don't know the title. Sorry.
Diabetes is mostly caused, or triggered, by an unhealthy diet, which is why most diabetics are obese.
A while back I decided to start eating healthy foods because I had my cholesterol checked and the "bad" cholesteral was dangerously high. I gathered dietary information from many, many sources, and starting January of this year I've been following my new dietary lifestyle.
HEALTHY EATING IS NOT A DIET. HEALTHY EATING IS A LIFELONG COMMITMENT TO A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE. IT IS A PERMANENT CHANGE IN HOW YOU EAT.
There is a commercial on the radio here in Wisconsin from Aspiris Clinic in which a dietician tells the story of a woman who tried every diet and failed at each one because she always made losing weight the focus of her efforts. The dietician taught her to focus instead on her health, and that now losing weight is a "pleasant consequence of a healthy lifestyle". That is what I am recommending.
Stay away from high-fructose corn syrup, found in hundreds of products, notably soda pop. In your liver, high-fructose corn syrup is converted almost entirely in fatty-acid chains instead of useful energy (glucose). It gets stored in the tissue as fat. Every time you eat or drink something with high-fructose corn syrup, you get fatter. I'm not kidding. Look it up.
Stay the hell away from fast food. In fact, one of the fundamental principles of my dietary lifestyle is to eat very little processed food. Look for MINIMALLY PROCESSED FOOD. If it's packaged and ready to eat, and the label lists fifty ingredients, and it could last for months in its wrapper, don't eat it.
A brand of food I recommend is Kashi.
Eat lots of fiber-rich foods. Fiber is a key player in the digestive process.
Eat whole grains.
Eat sweets once in a while. Don't deprive yourself of anything. Just eat small portions. When they serve cake, have a small piece. If there's a lot of frosting, scrape some of it off. Don't deprive!
Two more secrets of success: Eat small portions, and never feel obligated to finish what's on your plate. If you're full, you're full. Simply stop and push your plate away.
Avoid sugar and other carbohydrates in the morning. If you just eat protein for breakfast, your body will burn fat to feed itself, and also, because insulin won't be released to process that sugar you didn't eat, you won't feel hungry all morning.
I could go on, but what if you don't like what I'm preaching? Then I'd just be wasting my time.
If you want to know more, then leave a message at my advice column. Make sure you identify yourself somehow so I know you are continuing our conversation.
BSLover001 answered Sunday October 23 2005, 6:57 pm: Try and moderate your food intake and excersise regularly...it might be helping and it keeps you in shape also so keep it up...u might also be overweight and cant help it because of your family history maybe you should look into that..sometimes you just have to be comfortable with urself. look in the mirror and focus on the beauty of urself. find things your good at and focus on the important things in life. no one cares if your overweight and if they do they are not very good people. whats important is whats inside that counts. so your overweight that doesnt matter. i bet you have a great personality and you are a fun person to be around. plus your only 13 and you will have groth spurts so dont let this overweight issue get you down! [ BSLover001's advice column | Ask BSLover001 A Question ]
Advicelady6798 answered Sunday October 23 2005, 6:39 pm: Most people just have water weight so a way to get rid of that is to drink water. If you are addicted to pop then you should drink like 1 can per day or the best would be none. You lose alot of weight if you dont eat chocolate either. Exercising more than the amount of calories you gain will also help you lose wieght. You can tell if you are out of shape by exercising alot and breaking into a sweat. [ Advicelady6798's advice column | Ask Advicelady6798 A Question ]
DumBlondeCanHelp answered Sunday October 23 2005, 6:15 pm: Well you could go to toneteen.com. They have some advice for losing weight. And on am-i-fat.com they will give you certain advice depending on how much you weigh and your height.
I recommend crunches. I do about 100 crunches a night. And about 100 puah ups a night. Dont forget to eat healthy!!! Cereal for breakfast, some fruit for lunch, and vegetables for dinner would be very good. Or something similiar in calories to that.
GOODLUCKHUN !!!
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Peace.
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craazylau answered Sunday October 23 2005, 6:06 pm: I've managed to lose about 10 pounds recently by halving the amount i have for breakfast (and always having breakfast), eating just fruit for lunch and having a normal main meal for dinner with no dessert. In addition i've stopped eating bread because i think this puts on weight. For snacks i eat little cereal bar things that are about 100 calories each and have less than 5 grams of fat per 100g. To find this out you check the food labels. This should work! [ craazylau's advice column | Ask craazylau A Question ]
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