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How far is this going to get me??
Hi I'm 15/f
and I weigh 148 lbs, and i am around 5'7''
and I want to go down to 130 lbs, and I know its not easy because I used to be over 170 lbs but I exercised through out all year, losing some, gaining back some, then losing some more.
But since its summer again, (because i started exercising last summer), I want to try to see if I can lose 10 pounds, or maybe 8 pounds before school starts again.
This is my plan...
eat all three meals, but dont have anything that isnt meal. as in No junk food whatsoever, no soda, no nothing. Maybe except for fruits and veggies, on occasion.
and get up early in the morning, around 6:30 to do these 2 abs exercises i got from Seventeen magazine(they are not long. it maybe took me 15-20 min doing them)
then during day, I probably will go skateboarding, but not a lot because its really energy draining thing and I have really low stamina. Maybe skateboard for 30 min to 1 hour a day.
Then about 1 hour after dinner, do 25 min of pilate crunch video thing
Then take shower then rest, and around 8:00 p.m, do 200 sit ups.
(But none of them applies on saturday, or sunday because I have to work and I get back late so that plan of mine only works through monday-friday)
So anyone have ANY idea if I can lose 8 pounds in about 2.5 months or so?
any suggestions that will help me lose more weight??
*** Most importantly, any suggestion that will keep me from snacking? because I can do it for couple days, then I always crack...
Well thanks so much in advance!
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I know this is not what you want to hear but it's important
YOU ARE NOT OVERWEIGHT!
Your are not even close to being overweight so you dont need out your body through this!
You are 5 foot 7 and 10 stone, if you see from this height and weight chart that you are at a perfectly healthy weight
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Well you have the right idea, but I would recommend a little bit different of an execution- With that much exercising you will need more than 3 meals (Actually we all do). I would recommend 5 small meals spaced every 3-4 hours broken down to approximately 40/40/20 Protein/Carb/Fat ratio- thats just a guideline for your meals you can tweak it. Get yourself a good multi vitamin as well and take it with breakfast (Look for high potency, time released)
Secondly you are too inconsistent during the day with the exercising. Your body responds much better to one all out full effort workout than 4 little ones and you won't be involving enough Type 1 and Type 2 muscle fibers in order to introduce change in muscle if you space it too much. You're doing way too much volume on your stomach region and you're going to overtrain yourself if you continue to do it- this of course means that you will see no results. I would say the Pilates workout is enough and you can ditch the 17 magazine workouts and the sit ups and focus on your skateboarding and Pilates- more isnt always better. You're going to have to at least keep your diet in check on Saturday and Sunday because one slip-up will ruin this whole effort and you'll have to start over. I should also mention that I like the goal you have set being 8 lbs in 2.5 months instead of some ridiculous 10 lbs in a week- very good on your goal setting.
Now most importantly- your snacking.
The reason you feel the need to snack is simply because you aren't eating enough throughout the day or you are having not enough fat and protein and too much carbohydrate. Everyone's body reacts the same way before we sleep- our Seratonin levels drop and your body usually needs more blood sugar to fix this (This is why you crave bread or pasta or cookies or some kind of carb). However if you eat enough- you give your body enough nutrients to handle itself and not go into a major insulin spike crave mode.
Simple solution- Eat more meals with more protein.
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ah. finally sometime i'm good at. loosing weight. (: it took me a while to get used to my diet, but that's mostly because i have ADD, and it's hard for me to stay on track of things.
but anyways, you might want to stay away from starches like pastas and potatoes. add fish to your diet, because fish hardly has any calories. i'm not a fan of fish, but i do remember that it hardly has any calories. meat has alot of calories, so you might want to stay away from it. but you still need protien, so you might want to eat some pork 'n' beans every once in a while, that or peanut butter (even though peanut butter has alot of calories, i love it. so i eat it with apples to make it healthier).
i think that if you do what you're already doing you'll loose more than 8-10 pounds. i lost about 20 pounds in two months, and i wasnt starving myself. but i reccomend doing your situps every other day, but keep all of the other exercise. i do 300 every other day. your body needs time to rest, however you should still do your skaeboarding. (: also, eating yogurt in the morning is good. it gets you up and if you get the low-fat yogurt, it hardly has any calories. and you usually don't crave food until later on in the day. morning jogs are good, too, because the weather usually isn't too hot or too cold. i happen to have a hard time with running and jogging, i can walk forever, but running and jogging i'm not very good at, and i cramp easily. but it's alot easier if you have an mp3 player of some sort. make a playlist of fast, up-beat hip-hop/techno-ish music. it takes your attention away from the pain of running.
i started doing all of that around mid-march. i was 125 then, and now i'm 103. i've cut down on my dieting and exercise, but i still do it, just so that i dont end up having done all of that work for nothing.
hope this helps. (: sorry it's so long, i usually go on and on when i answer questions.
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hey! i think this sounds like a good plan... seems like a lot of work to me (but i am kind of lazy lol) but if you can do it, then that's really good! :) if i was you i would do 2 things:
first, make sure not to skip the skateboarding thing , and if you do, then at least run for 30 minutes or jump rope, because cardio is VERY important for weight loss. the crunches you will be doing are good to build muscle, but you need cardio along with it to lose weight and speed up your metabolism.
second, as far as the snacking thing... in order to avoid it, instead of 3 big meals a day, i would cut those meals in half and eat every 3 hours. so something like a small breakfast at 8, healthy snack at 11, lunch at 2, snack at 5, last meal at 8. something like that... that keeps you from snacking because you never really feel hungry because you are constantly eating. just make sure you are eating small portions each time or else you'll gain weight! and also, drink a LOT of water ... carry a bottle everywhere you go and keep refilling it! that helps soo much when trying to lose weight, and it keeps you from always feeling hungry and wanting to snack! :) good luck!
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