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toning and diets?
I want to tone up before the summer months hit. Any good ideas?
I also want to lose some weight because I am overweight. Any good diet plans I can do. But I am in school for almost all day. I'm also working put 30 mins a day but I think I need
more excersies.
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Half an hour a day is fine. You can do more of course, but you certainly dont need to.
The thing that needs to be put under control is your diet. If you follow a few simple rules you will be just fine:
- Eat many small meals every day. About one every 3- 4 hours.
- Keep your fat content fairly low, and make sure that most of the fat you do eat is unsaturated. That means cutting out as much animal fat as possible.
- Intake a small amount of unsaturated fat daily, making sure you get some omega 3. This is found in things like oily fish, flax, walnuts, dark green leafy vegetables, etc.
- Drink plenty of water
- Try to eat the slightly larger meals before periods of activity and slightly small ones when you are about to rest/ sleep.
- Base your meals around a lean protein source and eat moderate amounts of carbs. For example a meal might be something like skinless chicken breast/ fish/ lean beef/ etc, 50g of whole wheat pasta/ rice/ etc and some vegetables. Or in the morning it might be a bowl of oats in skimmilk and a few walnuts. You get the idea. The key here is eating moderately but still giving your body the fuel it needs.
- Oh and limit or eliminate empty calories from things that have sugar added, junk foods, etc.
Good luck
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My dear friend,
Subscribe to Seventeen magazine. It's always full of good exercise and dieting ideas. But there are some things I can tell you about my dietary and exercise habits that keep me fit.
1) Eat your high-calorie snacks in the morning. It's harder to burn them off at night.
2) Exercise five days a week for half an hour each time, but know when to give yourself some rest.
3) Exercise when you have the most energy, in the morning or at night, whatever works for you.
4) Love your body no matter what it looks like.
I hope that helps!
-Linda
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