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How do I healthily get as skinny as Alexa Chung?
And as fit as a Victoria's Secret model, like Oluchi or Candice. I started going to the gym and someone told me the elliptical and bicycle are just cardio, so I waste time doing them. I can't afford a trainer, so what can I do? I want to lose about 70 pounds in a year, to be my goal of 5'4" and ~105 pounds. I don't look as fat as I weigh, I used to do school sports, but I was never blessed with a great metabolism. Apparently it means I have more muscle but I felt I struggled the same with weights with my skinnier teammates. I can accept I'll never be my dream height of 5'8", I just want to be slim and feminine, no longer some awkward average bulkyness. I dont care much for curves, I just want skinny legs, arms, and to have a skinny stomach without sucking it in. My neck had this weird baby fat that never properly goes away, too. I eat generally healthy, and have cut back on my binging. For lent I gave up junk on every day but Sunday, and so far, this Sunday I didn't go crazy and get a pizza and eat a quart of icecream, I just had one fanta and ate healthy the rest of the time. My family is African so there's naturally a healthy diet, but any tips I'll take anyways, cause western food is probably my biggest temptation. When I visited Africa I lost tens of pounds without even trying, and I felt fresh. I'd just like tips and reassurance. I have the ballet beautiful tapes and I go to a gym. I used to be embarrassed about showing I was working out or improving myself in General, idk why, but now I'm an adult and I want to look good and set a foundation for a healthy and happy adult life. I wear mediums and larges and I'd love to wear small, even extra small. It would make vintage shopping easier, cause most good stuff is small, or looks good on a smaller frame. I'm not in danger of anorexia or anything, in countries out of America skinny people are normal. So there must be something I can do to be like that, too, and cut my risk for many diseases caused by obesity. Thanks for your time, in advance
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You need to discuss this with a doctor. If you don't go to a dietician or do the proper research on nutrition, you could really hurt yourself both physically and psychologically.
Also realize that VS models' job is literally to look like that, and they spend all day working out and dieting. They have a staff of dietitians and personal trainers who tell them what to eat and how to work out.
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You can be 5'4 and have varied degrees of bone structure, heftiness or slightness depending on genetics. Even with a little extra weight now being in 50's there are still signs of my slight fine bones. I still have pronounced skinny wrists with wrist bone sticking out and visual on elbows and collar bone. Alexa, i did not know but looking at her pic's, even though 5'8, she's one bone structure larger than me, while I'm petite, she appears to be small. That alone will give the appearance of being slender and willowy.
If you are trying to determine if you've reached that look by measuring weigh, well you'll never be happy. Inches can come off with diet and excercise but as you stated, muscles definitely weigh more than fat. It might be best to see your doctor and tell them that you've come to see them because you want to get healthy and lose weight. It is good for many of your bodys internal systems to be at the recommended weight for your body, frame and all. If your Dr. doesn't do this, they can refer you, perhaps an appointment with a dietician. I've recently seen mine, and found I was already eating healthy regarding salt fat and sugar amounts in food and types of food eaten. What articles you see in fashion magazines or hear of on TV are there just to help make money, the concern is not on what should be YOUR personal recipe to health and proper weight. By the way, models are not the healthiest people on the planet. Many have to starve themselves to look as they do, others don't even look as photos portray as most are now photo shopped to present whatever the current popular female image in todays time. Once upon a time, big boned and curvy was in, check out Marilyn Monroe in a swimsuit. Remember also that whether on one end of the scale or the other, tiny or big boned and extra weight, there are guys with varying degrees of what they are attracted to and many have no preference. Your Mr. Right might think you a Goddess just as you are now, without any change. Make sure, any change you do, is for your health as a purpose, not to match what the media says is in, or to catch a guy.
You didn't mention lacking self confidence, so if thats' an issue, do this at least, every time you leave the house, imagine that you look like Alexa when you leave the house. I did the same experiment just imagining that only my eyes looked like a certain actresses. I had no makeup on and all of a sudden, every day some stranger was commenting about how beautiful my eyes were. They didn't look any different, the only thing people were reacting to on a subconscious level is the vibes of self confidence emanating from me.
Eventually, you'll see that you no longer need to do the visualization, as you have confidence in yourself just as you are if at a healthy weight.
As for diets, America has too much junk food and pre made meals which contain too much salt fat and sugar. It is much better to eat lots of fruit and vegetable and make sure to get your recommended protein for the day, (the size of a deck of cards) and dairy. So it isn't much. If you aren't into eating veggies, buy a high end juicer, and put in a mix of veggies and fruits, add Yogurt or Kefir to it and a protein powder and you have a balanced intake of nutrition that will give you optimum health. Read articles online on health fitness guru Jack Lalanne who went on later in age to create a power juicer. I am saving up for one of my own. Good Luck dear.
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