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I feel like I need to lose a bunch of weight...
I'm a 15/f and I am 5'1 and I weigh 95 lbs. I still want to lose weight though. I look in the mirror and my stomach is sticking out and my butt looks strange. My arms and legs are fine its just my stomach sticks out when I eat. Which I don't eat anything. I just wanted to know if there's any good ways to lose weight??
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hey:) it sounds like you're at a healthy weight! but i know exactly how you feel. anyway my stomach sticks out as well after i eat and yours probably still does when you don't eat because that is the layer of fat- sure if you don't eat for long periods of time you will loose that fat but when you start eating normally again unfortunately it will come straight back. try this diet; it's used by many russian gymnasts to slim down-
Breakfast: 1 piece of high-carb fruit (banana, large pear, 1/2 mango)
Lunch: 1 pice high-fibre fruit (apple, plums, 1/2 cup berries)
Dinner: 1 piece citrus fruit (orange, small grapefruit, tangerines, 2 clementines)
try this for 5 days and drink plenty of water- don't exercise too heavily- go for a brisk walk or do some sit ups. you'll feel great afterwards. after this you will probably find your tum is gone- then aim to do 300 sit up's a day. what people don't realise is that if the layer of fat is still there you can't get the hot abs you want! you should really start to notice a difference if you keep this up each day and the more you build up your abdominal muscles the less weight you will gain onto your stomach- so you won't get that bloated look after you eat. remember to eat healthy and don't let your weight run your life! also you might want to give yoga or gymnastics a go.
goodluck- hope this helped:)
xx
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Be careful! You've got two things going on - you're naturally small, and you're still growing. Don't do anything radical at this point, because you don't have as much of a "safety net" as someone 5'9" and 160 pounds, and any major cuts in your nutrition at this point could affect the way you grow. Furthermore, 95 pounds is not excessive for someone of your height; it is on the low end of normal.
The very best thing you can do is speak with you doctor, and tell him that you want to be at a healthy weight and look good. He will probably prescribe a diet AND exercise plan for you - and that "diet" will probably NOT involve cutting calories, but rather it will emphasize certain kinds of food over others. Paradoxically (it may seem), he may actually have you consume MORE calories. The problem with your stomach could be that you're not getting ENOUGH nourishment; the body's natural response to that is to begin storing fat as a defense against starvation. If that is the problem, then cutting calories further will not only make it worse, it could make you seriously ill.
I'm not an expert, but it seems to me that if your arms and legs are fine but your stomach and butt are not, then your problem is not weight, it's muscle tone. Aerobic exercise combined with sit-ups will probably be beneficial, IF you also consume sufficient nutrients to maintain the higher metabolism. But don't take my word for it - talk to the guy who went to school for twelve years in order to add the M.D. after his name.
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