okay im 5'8 and i weigh 150 pounds. i want to lose at least 10 pounds this summer. would it be healthy to lose 10 pounds in 2 months? to have a good body, what should be weight be? please dont tell me 150 is fine because its not for me and i need to lose weight...so yeah. so is 10 pounds a good goal for 2 months?
Sk8RcH1cK1773 answered Tuesday July 3 2007, 8:58 pm: Well 10 pounds in 2 months sounds very reasonable goal, and i am glad you are not saying like i wanna lose 10 pounds in a week!!! because we all know that's pretty much impossible unless with lipo.
And I know what you mean about wanting to lose those pounds because I am average but I want TONED body.
150 poudns is in the range of average weight for your height but if you weighed even 145, you would look much toner. Because 5 ft counts as 100 pounds and 5 pounds plus for every inch.
So you can weigh 145 but look more toned because you should develop some muscles that would make you look toned and stuff.
What I did was I started out with 30 minutes of exercise when I just started. Which is a really good time because you don't wanna do less than 30 minutes. Otherwise you won't see that much result anyways.
Best diet for losing 10 pounds is just simple. Eat right and exercise. I know I know that's so cliche but that is only way to keep it off FOR GOOD.
Good exercises you can do
-jog
-walk, make sure you walk in fast pace though or you won't see much results
-pilate, i recommend buying one of those crunch pilate dvd's or video tapes at wal mart, that's how my mother lost weight
-using steps. you know, just go up one step and down one step and just keep repeating.
also for better result and for defined arms, use 3 lbs dumbell on each hand when you are doing steps
those up there were just overall work out however if you are wanting to do more for certain targetted areas such as abs, arms, legs than here are some
abs - definetly sit ups, don't do crunches, i've read so many things saying that they don't show that much result anyways. Also those criss cross kind of things. You know when you are in sit up position, you have your hands behind your head and bring your left elbow to your right knee and vice versa. Those are good for your oblique
Arms - lift light weights if you don't want bulky muscle, just do lot of them. You will get "cuts" in your arm but not gross muscles.
legs - squats.
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as for your eating, you can eat something light in the morning like a bowl of cereal.
for lunch, salad,
and for dinner, you can eat like normally, but just control your portion
As long as you AVOID junk food and fast food, and you control your portion, you can pretty much eat normal foods you are use to eating, unless they are Mickey D's and stuff. Serously, you need to cut out those from your diet to see the best result. Try a fruit if you are hungry or those sugar free pudding or jello. [ Sk8RcH1cK1773's advice column | Ask Sk8RcH1cK1773 A Question ]
easilyfixed answered Tuesday July 3 2007, 8:25 pm: i think that you can weigh around 140lbs. its you're weight that you will most likely be most fit.
as long as you're not crash dieting, loosing 10lbs in 2 months is fine. Eating the right amount of fruits and vegetables, and excersising should get you where you want to be.
OhMyPEACHYKEEN answered Tuesday July 3 2007, 6:50 pm: I would say to lose about 15 but 10 is good too. You can lose that in under two months by the way. I think you can lose that weight in 1 month. As long as you lose the weight the healthy way then yes losing the weight will be healthy. Ne more questions you know who to ask. -peachy [ OhMyPEACHYKEEN's advice column | Ask OhMyPEACHYKEEN A Question ]
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