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weight loss
hey there um..i need to lose weight, the last time i went to the doctors they said i was 20 pounds overweight. i'm 14 and i'm like...5'8 i don't know my weight cause...well..i forgot it ^^''.. anyways school starts up soon in september and i REALLY wanna lose those damn 20 pounds! >.< i feel like crap every time i look in the mirror and sometimes i just want to stop eating. because when i eat i feel like a pig D: i know thats bad though so i'm starting to eat salads more often (as often as i can! my sister LOVES salad so she eats it all before i can get to it :P)
i also know that i need to work out, but i don't live ANYWHERE near a gym. i can't to pushups so thats out and i try to walk my brother around our area like at the park and all that as often as possible but i see no results D:
can i really lose 20 or more pounds by the time school starts?
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In the future, with weight questions, I'd really appreciate knowing a little more about you - your age, your gender, and (for health questions) your weight. I know you said you forgot, but it would've helped to gauge. Someone who's 300 pounds could easily, healthily, lose 20 pounds in a month. Someone who's almost at their target weight can eat nothing "bad", exercise daily, and maybe lose five pounds over a month.
Just so you know, if you're asking me your question in hopes that I'll give you some fad diet or list of foods and things to do to melt pounds off like butter, you're SOL, my friend.
To answer your end question bluntly, yes, but not in a healthy manner. As in, you'd have to do everything right to malnourish your body to the point that it would basically eat itself in order to lose those 20 pounds.
I'm glad you're aware that not eating is bad, that's a good start. You should also be aware that salads aren't actually good for you unless there's basically no dressing on them, and even if that's the case, there usually isn't much substantial nutrition in there. Just veggies. You need veggies, fruits, starches, and proteins to make a healthy diet. For a healthy lifestyle - and yes, you can lose a lot of weight doing this, I'm living proof - you must, must, MUST exercise.
You don't live near a gym, but you say you walk? Why not try jogging? Or a combination of walking and jogging? I couldn't jog the whole way the first couple of times I tried, and then I got to the point that nothing stopped me, so I started off running three miles a day after hardly running at all, and gave myself a stress fracture. (Bad idea, don't do that...^^)
Anyway.
You can't do pushups because your muscles aren't that strong yet. You can start off at a lighter incline, or do "girl pushups," where instead of balancing on your toes, you're on your knees. It takes a lot of the stress off your core muscles (like abs) because you're not trying to balance AND lift your whole body.
There are a TON of exercises you can do at home without weights. I suggest googling weightless workouts, or workouts without a gym or something similar, and see if you can find some ideas. Or check out www.bodybuilding.com, they might have some things you can work off of.
Your key is gonna be eating small meals every three hours. I'm guessing you're decently young, you can still retrain your metabolism to work faster.
Here's my little story - last year, I was almost 140, anorexic, and in horrible shape. Of course, I have some crazy willpower that's actually more of a fault than an asset, but this is what I did. Cardio. Weights. I adjusted my diet, and I ate every three hours. I dropped 20 pounds pretty fast. Then I gained about five, but it's muscle mass. Now I can wear clothes I had when I was fourteen and look BETTER in them.
You also need to know that you'll gain muscle mass from working out - not big bulky scary muscle mass, because without a gym you're not gonna be lifting too much weight, but lean muscle mass - and that muscle weighs considerably more than fat. So measure by SIZE when you get to that point, not the number on the scale.
I'm gonna stop there before I throw too much more information at you, lol.
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