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How to lose about 60 pounds by September (5 months)?
I'm a 15 year old girl, 5'5" and about 165 pounds. I have muscle too but there's also fat like in the rest of my body I want to get rid of. I've just been gaining wait.. since last year I've been like "Okay, I'm going to stop binge eating and start running for 1 hour everyday" but then I end up binge eating and then hoping to go running soon.. making excuses and stuff. Its so annoying. I really want to be around 110 pounds, though, and don't need comments on if you don't think its a good weight or whatever, I just want to know how.
I dont want to go anorexic/bulemic cause it sounds gross and its unhealthy. I dont know how to eat better as like I eat what my parents make. We rarely ever eat out but from now on I'm never buying lunch from school again. But like my family makes traditional African (Cameroonian) foods and being in America i see like other sugary things and it makes me want to eat that stuff but we don't really have that stuff in my house so i subsitute this with eating sugar, like putting sugar on my corn flakes or cheerios, or binge eating whenever we get more sugary stuff which makes my mom not like to buy stuff like that cause of the binge eating. its so annoying. like i do it with ice cream or nutella.. im like 'this is the last time' but i just keep doing it. i've been doing it since i dont know, i was like 9 or 10? but its gotten worse each year. it wasnt like this when I was in England when I was younger and skinny. Stupid American portions. But like in lunch when we get so much food, i've been taught to finish whats on my plate so its weird to like throw food away.. especially since I dont want to waste money. For that reason I'm not buying lunch anymore.
I think my problem is snacks. Like we dont really have snacks other than fruits so often i get bored with eating them or when fruits are finished i end up binging on something sugary or something. my mom says snacks arent really important but i think a variety of healthy snacks will. i need examples so i can tell my mom to buy them. like as healthy as possible.. my mom just bought nutrigrain bars and im worried at my impulsiveness if I'm going to binge on those. So what are a variety of cheap healthy snacks we could get regularly?
And is there a website with very healthy recipes for food, or like recipes like on that new show "Cook yourself thin" where like it reduces the calories? If i have to help my mom cook to get skinnier I'll try! and then i'll learn how to cook better so its a win win, lol
And finally, EXERCISES! would it be a good idea to run for 1 hour before school and/or after school, or 30 mins before and/after school to reach my goal in my goal time? would running just solve all my problems? i feel its more effective than riding my bicycle.. cause i dont have great stamina and am often embarassed during gym class when we run cause i end up being the slowest cause i cant keep up the tempo. i mean its not like im not athletic. I play volleyball but im off season and unfortunately my parents wouldnt let me do club vball this year so basically my exercise has been like about 20 mins of gym class. but are there other ways to target my problem areas.. which are pretty much everywhere cause everywhere gets fat? its like all around my body, ugh. Like put a website with these exercises and how to do them, or really describe it and stuff. I need a work out plan then if running alone won't solve it. Like a basic outline of how to manage my time with that and how long i should spend doing things..
I need motivation! I dont have an ipod which really sucks but I have to make do with that. I really want to reach my goal but how to just.. get out there? What do you do or what tips do you know about how to just go and exercise? I know it will get easier overtime but how to just start it? I really want to be skinny cause I'm moving to a new town and I wanna get new clothes that will look good on me. I dont like going shopping now because I'm not at my ideal weight yet. But at the same time, I need new clothes. I rarely get to go shopping for clothes (this school year I've gone like twice in total) which makes it worse.. I like want to only buy things when i really like how i look. I mean I'm pretty but I can be like a lot prettier if I was skinnier definately. It would really help my self esteem, too.
So basically i need a work out plan & eating plan (w/ recipes for very healthy meals and healthy snack ideas on websites) and tips in general too.
Thanks a lot!!!
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Sounds like you've got a carb/sugar addiction going. High doses of carbohydrate and sugar in the diet cause the brain to release opioids, which give you a rush along with the burst of energy you get as the sugars metabolize. Over time, you get addicted to the opioids, and you crave them. Also, your pancreas overproduces insulin, which strips all the glucose from your bloodstream and makes you hungry.
Fortunately, there are ways of getting around this. I've used the Carbohydrate Addict's Diet (CAD) with some success; I lost about 60 pounds over 8 months. Basically, eat 2 low-carb meals and 1 high-carb meal per day. Breakfast could be an omelet with peppers and scallions and a little cheese, lunch could be a salad with herbs and cucumbers and radishes (no onions or carrots; very high-carb), dinner is whatever you want, including dessert, but you must eat within 60 minutes. The diet works on lowering insulin production; the less insulin in your system, the less hungry you feel. You can eat healthily and lose weight, and still get the foods you like (and not offend your parents by refusing to eat what they make for dinner.) Definitely skip school lunches and bring a salad. :-) Snacks should be protein rather than sweets or chips: a piece of cheese (some people swear by Laughing Cow), or a tin of sardines (my personal favorite, but I'm weird).
Google Carbohydrate Addict's Diet and you'll find more info about what foods can and cannot be eaten, the science behind insulin resistance and carb addiction, etc.
Hope this helps.
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Well, to start off, monitor your eating and exercising habits for about a week. And then modify them with a food and exercise log that you can keep up with. I've made my goal of 20 pounds in a year by doing this. Sounds bad, I know, but it all depends on the length of time you want the weight gone.
What I suggest you do is to go to this website and keep up with your journals. It works for me=):
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It says you have to be 18 or older, so I just made myself a little older;). But it is a very nice place to help you keep track of things. And it also has some DELICIOUS recipes too.
Hope I helped! Anymore questions feel free to ask!
Ayatame_Kishatake (This is my name up there too;))
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