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Loosing weight!
Okay so i herd that walking is better then running for loosing weight. So if you take a walk for 30 minutes everyday and then do 10 sit ups 5 crunches and 100 that excercise thing for your abs... and eat heathy can you loos weight or do i have to exercise more or less eat less or more?
my eating
Breakfast - nothing (most of the time) sometimes cereal)
Lunch- Apples&sandwich
Dinner-Rice or somethingelse.. a dinner meal (all sorts of things)
Is that okay and plus my excersising? or should i excersise and eat less please help?
Thanks,
15/f
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Okay, well I'm not sure if walking is beter, but it's easier, and its more likely than you'll do it. So if you're like hmm, run or not run? And you choose not run because well lets facing running really isnt any fun. Then choose walking.
K heres the thing. Awesome excersize regiment, but its alittle off. You choose 10 sit ups because they're hard right? Well thats okay, but what you should do is go do your excersize of situps, but go until you cannot go anymore. You'll be surprised. You can do way more than ten probably. But if not, thats fine. Say you do twenty. Then tomorrow when you do your excersize do twenty again. Then the next day do 21. And increase it by one every two days. This will help. As far as crunches, do the same thing, go until you cant, then add every second day. But one warning, don't lock your feet under a table or couch or anything, it wont do anything helpful. it'll just make your legs work, and not your stomache.
I have no idea what the other thing you're talking about is. But if you can do 100 great. If you cant go until you can and do the adding one every second day thing.
K now onto the eating thing, first of all don't skip breakfast. Never ever skip a meal. We have three meals a day for a reason. So eata healthy breakfast, juice or milk, a peice of toast with a LIGHT layer of butter, and a fruit. But nothing much more than that. Or cereal substituted for toast. Now lunch, thats pretty good. Sandwichs are common, but unless the;re on whole wheat bread or with like lettuce and maybe a slice of meat they arent really doing anygood. In other words peanut butter sandwich on white bread. No. instead try making a salad. But I get it that doesnt always happen, so sandwichs arent bad. A fruit is good. Apples are always good. Other fruits are great though too if you get tired of apples. The get a veggie k? You're not getting enough vegetables and fruits. So Get some sugar peas or some celery. (The green the vegetable the better) and celerey actually burns calories. Drink some water with lunch. And if you find that half way through the day you're hungry pack up a baggy of cereal and try and eat that in break or during cla if your aloud. If you get ceerios thats a good one or some other ones try and get one that says on the side of the box less that 100 calories dry.
For dinner, when you're a teenager, thats hard because usually our parents make dinner, but try this, instead of thinking, hey those ______'s are way high in calories, I shouldnt eat them, think okay, those are alittle bit fatty, so maybe I should take only one scoop of those, and instead take two scoops of salad. Try and get your parents to make salad every night. But if they dont want to, make yourself a small one each night. Most people don't get enough vegetables. So if you try and get more then thats great. USe a table spoon of salad dressing and thats plenty. But dont only eat salad! Eat some other things as well. Meat, rice, thats great. Make sure to keep up the balanced meals.
Now I mentioned earlier about water, drink lots of it. Not only is it a good calorie-less substitue for high sugar drinks, but it also flushes your system and gets out the bad things.
I try to drink one full bottle before lunch and a second one by dinner. Dont drink anymore after that though, or you'll be up al night.
Also try to get 8-10 hours of sleep each night. You burn more calories asleep then you do playing some sports. Believe it!
Other than that, I think you'll be fine. You should loose a bit of weight. If not, try talking to a nutritionist. Try and opt for gym class in school if you have a choice, and try and join a team of some kind.
I hope that answered your question, let me know if you have anymore. Love ya,
angie91
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the other answers are good as far as food, but i've always heard you lose more weight by running instead of walking. What happens is when you get your heart rate up, it helps you metabolize food quicker. Also i learned in a class at my college that by eating less calories you lose a pound for every 3500 calories. So say you cut back 500 calories a day, you would be losing a pound in a week. So you should think of everything that you would eat in a normal day and go to calorieking.com and add up those calories. Then just cut back 250 or 500 depending on how fast you want to lose weight. But just make sure that the calories you do eat have all the nutrients that you need.
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Not eating makes you gain more weight. My mom is a nutritionist, and I have also been researching about the matter. People who eat breakfast actually lose 3 times more weight than people who don't. Why? Because eating breakfast, something like a bagel with butter, oatmeal, or just a few pieces of toast, help to fill you up, so they prevent you from eating too much later in the day. Eating breakfast also helps you burn calories and fat faster, and boosts your metabolism.
As for the exercise, you are at a good starting point. Do what you can- 30 minutes of walking is great, and just in 30 minutes, it's possible to walk 2 miles. Start out slow with your abs, because you have to slowly build up stamina for that. Then, gradually, each night, you can increase your amount of situps. Oh, and situps don't make you lose weight-they just tone up on your stomach muscles but you probably already knew that.
Eating is critical to lose weight. If you don't eat, you won't have energy to work out. If you don't eat, your metabolism will drop, and you could actually gain MORE weight by not eating. Eat healthy foods, such as lean meats (turkey, chicken, etc.), carbohydrates, (bread, pasta, rice) and fruits & veggies. Also make sure you drink milk. Limiting junk food such as chips, and candy will help also.
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Well I think the things you just said are very helpful into loosing weight. Maybe a little more vegetables are good too. You shouldn't have to run so much. If your eating healthy and doing sit-ups and crunches. Do all those thing once or twice a day, you should be good! Best of luck!
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