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FOR REAL diet and exercise regimin to lose weight THAT WORKSSSS?

Question by Missy: FOR REAL diet and exercise regimin to lose weight THAT WORKSSSS?
i need a no bullshit plan to lose weight. I started in february and lost 25 pounds. I hit a “plateau” for a while and recently started to run I GAINED 10 pounds in a week from running (this was like a month ago) im about ready to kill myself. everybody said that id lose it or its just muscle. Anyways I weigh 140 height 5’2.5 and id like to lose like 25-30 pounds. can somebody please give me a regimin that i can follow to lose this weight!! Oh, on saturday and sunday since i started this weight loss “journey” i have cheat days, where i eat whatever i want. I know. Please help me!!!

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Answer by Andy L.
Depending on your frame, you can probably lose 20 to 30 pounds and be better for it. Although there are some radical short term plans like the Atkin’s diet that work and other diets that substitute liquid drinks for meals, I found that the best way is not actually going ON A DIET, and instead involves a CHANGE OF DIET. What and how and how much you eat is more related to the amount of weight than exercise. Exercise strengthens muscles including your heart and makes you look toned and fit, but is not a clear measure in weight loss because building muscle also builds bone and does add weight by a bigger frame, so if toned, a higher weight may be appropriate. That stated, I found that a high fiber low fat diet as a permanent change is the best path. I have lost about 30 pounds without additional exercise. There is no cheat day because you would not be on a diet. Instead, you would have a variance day from your normal diet and should take care not to overindulge very often.
Take a multivitamin once a day like Twinlabs or Centrum or other quality vitamin to cover many body needs and cravings. Give up fried foods and high fat foods. Try to eat a lot of whole grain and vegetables and fresh wild caught fish and skinless chicken. Skim milk and fat-free dairy is OK. Drink plenty of water (at least 2 liters a day), and take at least 20 minutes to eat a meal as that is the amount of time it takes to feel satisfied. Stick to 3 meals a day and 2 light snacks maximum. Snacks could be an apple or pear or an ounce of nuts or some carrots or celery, etc.
See my answer here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgjzRgo8Uw45jN.jmmbopk7ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20111104185636AAlpG8q
and follow through the links to a general healthy plan and food nutrition tables.
Think long term. Calories in minus calories burned is the net stored or lost. If you find yourself either gaining or not losing weight from your ideal numbers, then reduce serving sizes, but there is no reason to go hungry and starve yourself. Instead, eating fresh foods with low chemicals consistently brings you to a good weight, and exercise tones and strengthens. It is that simple.

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Any tips on a healthy diet?

Question by TheCoolGuy: Any tips on a healthy diet?
Im a 16 year old male, about 140lbs. I have a good bit of muscle, but really skinny, hardly any body fat. I want to start eating alot healthier. For about a month now, I’ve cleaned up my diet a little, but it needs tuning. I drink alot of water each day (2-3 bottles, 2-3 glasses), poptarts for breakfast, maybe a frozen “healthy/weight watchers” lunch, and meats for dinner as well as vegtables.

My question really is about a few specfic items:
I’ve been eating alot of mixed nuts. Are these something to cut back on? They have protien and vitamins which are nice for my muscle, but sodium intake/fatty intake worry me. Also, I eat alot of fruit thru the course of the day. I am almost always hungry, and I want some new foods that I can snack on that are HEALTHY, no bad foods.

Any healthy snack tips?

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Answer by Myself™
Try this, you can feel and see results in about three days. Muscle will outweigh the fat so don’t let the scale discourage you .

For exercise, try switching it out everyday, so your body doesn’t get used to the exercise (Monday Arms, Tuesday Stomach, Wednesday Legs, Thursday Rest, Friday Arms, Saturday Stomach, Sunday Legs). Also, one the days where legs or stomach or arms come back around the second workout of the week focusing in that area, try switching the exercise out too. For arms maybe lift weights (if you have none then use cans and be sure to hold them away from you or they won’t work). For stomach, you can sit on a bouncy ball and do crunches (don’t hold onto your legs), for legs, maybe lay on your side propped up on your elbow and lift the top leg slowly up and down, then switch. If you are can’t exercise an hour, that’s fine but try increasing the time every week or so. If you are old enough to buy equiptment or go to a gym, try that. As you get further into it, maybe you can buy some equipment for mainly those three areas I listed. Also, walk home from places or on the commercial break, get up and run wall to wall.
Also, a REALLY good workout is at youtube.com and search for 8 minute abs, 8 minute legs, 8 minute buns, and 8 minute arms. Try doing these on other days (ex.: Monday arms and workout from youtube, Tuesday legs not workout from youtube, Wednesday stomach and 8 minute abs, Thursday rest, Friday arms no 8 minute arms, Saturday no 8 minute abs, Sunday 8 minute legs. Try doing those how I listed above and don’t do it more than once a day along with your daily workout.

For food, which is very important (70% of weight loss is food intake while 30% is excercise, though both are VERY important), try this schedule.

Breakfast:Whenever you wake up or an hour after.

Drink of choice: One hour after breakfast (all other drinks being water.

Lunch: 1 1/2 hours after drink of choice.

Snack: 1 1/2 hour after lunch (or two hours after lunch).

Dinner: 2 hours after snack.

Try portioning your food, one cup for meals and half a cup for snacks and drink of choice. As you get more used to this, you can decrease your portion sizes.
Also try measuring your calorie intake and try exercising over the amount of your intake to build muscle which burns access fat. You can measure that at www.myfitnesspal.com where it measures EVERYTHING for you .

If you drink cokes and need help with that, try slowly decreasing the amount of cokes you drink, one day the usual, and decrease half of the amount of that you usually drink until it’s half a cup a day.

While your exercising, I have a problem with wanting to eat then and I’m sure everyone else does too so maybe bring a mug of ice with you and eat the ice so you get a little munch out of it and you hydrate yourself while doing no harm to yourself or your diet.

Hope this helps and good luck!

Also, at www.myfitnesspal.com if you do everything it says exercise an hour a day, eat the amount of calories! Just keep in mind that whichever diet you do YOU CAN DO IT!!!! Good luck

I’ve been doing this and so far I’ve lost 6lbs in 5 days
Good luck

Check your BMR and eat that amount of calories (BMR is the amount of calories that you burn daily just by breathing, sleeping, etc. so if you eat that much, you burn it plus exercise will be burning more then your intake

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