Q. I am a size 16, and would like to drop to at least a ten, if not lower. I plan to eat healthier and exercise daily I want to achieve this before i go back to school on Aug 20. If it's not, how close should i get?
A. Aug. is plenty of time to lose the weight you want to lose.
Being a teenage girl is often difficult enough without having to carry around extra pounds. Dieting often becomes a tedious chore, as you might lose and gain weight in your attempts to attain the ideal figure. If you feel that you need to lose a few pounds to feel more healthy, to participate in sports or to fit into the latest fashions, there are some ways you can be more successful with your weight-loss efforts.
Workout Tips
Work with your individual body shape. Pear shapes often need to focus on more aerobic exercise in their bottom half such as running, jogging, elliptical, dance, kickboxing and biking. They will usually lose weight in their lower halves last. Apple shapes also need aerobic exercise but may want to include specific exercises for their abdominal area using crunches and other exercises to target the area. Their middle halves will be the last to decrease in size on an exercise program. Hourglass shapes might want to focus less on the waist, abdominals and upper body so they do not add width to the shoulders. They will generally lose weight all over on a diet and exercise program.
Eat less saturated fat and junk food. Try to make the right choices at vending machines and fast food restaurants. Instead of getting a burger, get a grilled chicken sandwich with no bun or a salad. Use only half the dressing in the package to reduce fat intake. Instead of buying a package of chips at the vending machine, get a bag of peanuts. These usually contain more unsaturated fat, which is much healthier than the saturated form. If you are going to the movies with friends, choose non-buttered popcorn for a healthy snack. Eat ahead of time if you are going to a party or other event where you know there will be no healthy food choices.
Nutrition Labels
Learn to read nutrition labels on your foods at home. Let your parents know you are trying to eat healthier to lose weight, and go with them to the store to purchase food. Look at saturated fat and sugar content on food labels. Fat, both saturated and unsaturated, should be no more than 10 percent of your overall food intake.
Food Cravings
Limit your sugar intake to as little as possible as well. Cake, candy, ice cream and chips all contain high levels of saturated fat and sugar. You might find yourself craving foods at certain times of the month. Allow yourself small portions of sweet and fatty foods to decrease your chance of binging. For instance, if you are craving chocolate cookies, go ahead and have two, but limit yourself to that amount.
Fruits and Vegetables
Get most of your nutrition from raw fruits and vegetables. Eat salad and other vegetables in abundance. These foods are not only low in calories, but they are high in amino acids that contribute to burning fat. In addition, they will help your body to maintain hormonal balance and metabolize food at an optimal level. Consume 64 ounces of water daily as well. This not only will help you to feel full but also will flush your body of fat. If you drink your water ice-cold, it will increase your metabolism slightly, which will naturally contribute to weight loss.
Exercise
Include aerobic exercise in your daily schedule. Get your friends involved in your exercise program in order to stay motivated. Play sports or do activities that you enjoy such as tennis, swimming, basketball, baseball, roller blading, dancing, surfing or biking. Form an all-girls team, and challenge other friends to softball games or basketball games. Get one of your friends to go on a bike ride or play racquetball. You can also use your friends as a support system to keep you on your diet. When you feel like you are going to binge on something you know is not good for you, call a friend to come over and go for a walk, or just chat on the phone or online.
Extreme Diets
Do not starve yourself. Teenage girls need at least 1,500 to 2,000 calories per day, depending on their fitness regimens and heights. Starvation diets that limit calories to significantly lower than the FDA-recommended amount can cause the body to store fat. When you begin eating normally, the weight will usually come back, and sometimes even increase. In addition, diets that limit certain foods can cause nutritional deficiencies in teenagers who are still growing, including bone and muscle loss. Finally, starvation and extreme diets often lead to psychological disorders such as anorexia or bulimia, especially in girls, and can cause long-term damage to the body systems.
Take Care, Mama Bear
Source(s):
Read more: Weight Loss Tips for Teenage Girls | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/way_5157288_weight-lâ¦
Being a teenage girl is often difficult enough without having to carry around extra pounds. Dieting often becomes a tedious chore, as you might lose and gain weight in your attempts to attain the ideal figure. If you feel that you need to lose a few pounds to feel more healthy, to participate in sports or to fit into the latest fashions, there are some ways you can be more successful with your weight-loss efforts.
Workout Tips
Work with your individual body shape. Pear shapes often need to focus on more aerobic exercise in their bottom half such as running, jogging, elliptical, dance, kickboxing and biking. They will usually lose weight in their lower halves last. Apple shapes also need aerobic exercise but may want to include specific exercises for their abdominal area using crunches and other exercises to target the area. Their middle halves will be the last to decrease in size on an exercise program. Hourglass shapes might want to focus less on the waist, abdominals and upper body so they do not add width to the shoulders. They will generally lose weight all over on a diet and exercise program.
Eat less saturated fat and junk food. Try to make the right choices at vending machines and fast food restaurants. Instead of getting a burger, get a grilled chicken sandwich with no bun or a salad. Use only half the dressing in the package to reduce fat intake. Instead of buying a package of chips at the vending machine, get a bag of peanuts. These usually contain more unsaturated fat, which is much healthier than the saturated form. If you are going to the movies with friends, choose non-buttered popcorn for a healthy snack. Eat ahead of time if you are going to a party or other event where you know there will be no healthy food choices.
Nutrition Labels
Learn to read nutrition labels on your foods at home. Let your parents know you are trying to eat healthier to lose weight, and go with them to the store to purchase food. Look at saturated fat and sugar content on food labels. Fat, both saturated and unsaturated, should be no more than 10 percent of your overall food intake.
Food Cravings
Limit your sugar intake to as little as possible as well. Cake, candy, ice cream and chips all contain high levels of saturated fat and sugar. You might find yourself craving foods at certain times of the month. Allow yourself small portions of sweet and fatty foods to decrease your chance of binging. For instance, if you are craving chocolate cookies, go ahead and have two, but limit yourself to that amount.
Fruits and Vegetables
Get most of your nutrition from raw fruits and vegetables. Eat salad and other vegetables in abundance. These foods are not only low in calories, but they are high in amino acids that contribute to burning fat. In addition, they will help your body to maintain hormonal balance and metabolize food at an optimal level. Consume 64 ounces of water daily as well. This not only will help you to feel full but also will flush your body of fat. If you drink your water ice-cold, it will increase your metabolism slightly, which will naturally contribute to weight loss.
Exercise
Include aerobic exercise in your daily schedule. Get your friends involved in your exercise program in order to stay motivated. Play sports or do activities that you enjoy such as tennis, swimming, basketball, baseball, roller blading, dancing, surfing or biking. Form an all-girls team, and challenge other friends to softball games or basketball games. Get one of your friends to go on a bike ride or play racquetball. You can also use your friends as a support system to keep you on your diet. When you feel like you are going to binge on something you know is not good for you, call a friend to come over and go for a walk, or just chat on the phone or online.
Extreme Diets
Do not starve yourself. Teenage girls need at least 1,500 to 2,000 calories per day, depending on their fitness regimens and heights. Starvation diets that limit calories to significantly lower than the FDA-recommended amount can cause the body to store fat. When you begin eating normally, the weight will usually come back, and sometimes even increase. In addition, diets that limit certain foods can cause nutritional deficiencies in teenagers who are still growing, including bone and muscle loss. Finally, starvation and extreme diets often lead to psychological disorders such as anorexia or bulimia, especially in girls, and can cause long-term damage to the body systems.
Take Care, Mama Bear
Source(s):
Read more: Weight Loss Tips for Teenage Girls | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/way_5157288_weight-lâ¦
How many days is it safe to fast from food?
Q. I am an emotional eater who has 2 basic levels, either can stay away from food completely, or binge. I have found fasting for a few days a week has really helped me gain control of myself, and then can eat healthy for several days afterward, but then bad cycle begins again, so I've started fasting weekly to keep the control. but am wondering howmany days can you do it safely.My deductible on health insurance is too high to try to see dr to ask. My stats are female age 41, weight 340 lbs, have lost 25 in past 3 months. no known health problems yet(the blood pressure cuff at walmart I check all the time and I am in the good range, amazing for someone at my weight). For physical activity I have a office job so I sit alot, but do regular housekeeping stuff and take care of family, don't sit on butt and watch tv all night. Do yard work on weekends and have a 2nd job 1 day a week that is driving. Walk about 3 times a week for a mile but not on days I am fasting.
A. There is nothing wrong at all with fasting,especially if it helps you gain control of your eating problem. Here's an excerpt from a really good book I read, and the website below has great advice. Jesus Christ fasted as documented in the Bible, it wouldn't be there if as His example if it were bad for us.
Fasting can break many food addictions, such as coffee, sweets, alcohol, smoke and other bad habits
The natural process of toxin excretion continues, while the influx of new toxins is reduced, This results in a reduction of total body toxicity.
⢠The energy usually used for digestion is redirected to immune function, cell growth, and eliminatory processes.
⢠The immune systemâs workload is greatly reduced, and the digestive tract is spared any inflammation due to allergic reactions to food.
⢠Due to a lowering of serum fats that thins the blood; tissue oxygenation is increased and white blood cells are moved more efficiently.
⢠Fat-stored chemicals, such as pesticides and drugs, are released.
⢠Physical awareness and sensitivity to diet and surroundings are increased.
Due to these effects of fasting, a fast can help you heal with greater speed,â cleanse your liver, kidneys, and colon,â purify your blood,â help you lose excess weight and water,â flush out toxins,. clear the eyes and tongue,â and cleanse the breath."
Fasting can break many food addictions, such as coffee, sweets, alcohol, smoke and other bad habits
The natural process of toxin excretion continues, while the influx of new toxins is reduced, This results in a reduction of total body toxicity.
⢠The energy usually used for digestion is redirected to immune function, cell growth, and eliminatory processes.
⢠The immune systemâs workload is greatly reduced, and the digestive tract is spared any inflammation due to allergic reactions to food.
⢠Due to a lowering of serum fats that thins the blood; tissue oxygenation is increased and white blood cells are moved more efficiently.
⢠Fat-stored chemicals, such as pesticides and drugs, are released.
⢠Physical awareness and sensitivity to diet and surroundings are increased.
Due to these effects of fasting, a fast can help you heal with greater speed,â cleanse your liver, kidneys, and colon,â purify your blood,â help you lose excess weight and water,â flush out toxins,. clear the eyes and tongue,â and cleanse the breath."
What could be the cause of my stomach pains?
Q. a couple of days ago I had the worst stomach pains..they were in the top middle of my stomach like middle of my ribs. they were
like cramps but so painful I couldn't walk. these keep reoccurring and now after I eat anything I feel sick and very nacsious. also have been having heat flashes. it's not my period or constipation. what could it be?
like cramps but so painful I couldn't walk. these keep reoccurring and now after I eat anything I feel sick and very nacsious. also have been having heat flashes. it's not my period or constipation. what could it be?
A. A few months ago, I had a similar pain and much later, the diagnosis was that it was "GALL STONES" Surprising, isn't it ! Yet I chose not to be operated but to treat it with alternative medicine. Now I am much better and do not feel the pain anymore.
It all boils down to a veg diet. Also the true antidote is to drink sweetened milk (1 cup) at least 2 times a day. This counteracts the acidity (poison) which our body generates.
In addition I take a mild laxative on a regular basis which helps to keep my system clean.
Keep calm, as when we are agitated, we indulge in binge eating which worsens the situation.
Another important thing to note is to have smaller meals and never, NEVER eat till you are full.
A full stomach deters good digestion which is the root cause of the whole problem. Eat only 80% of your capacity. That way the remaining space will help the food to move and aid digestion. Also drink 1 glass of water every hour that you are awake. Water helps to dissolve and flush out all toxins from our body.
Small hints but real life savers.
It all boils down to a veg diet. Also the true antidote is to drink sweetened milk (1 cup) at least 2 times a day. This counteracts the acidity (poison) which our body generates.
In addition I take a mild laxative on a regular basis which helps to keep my system clean.
Keep calm, as when we are agitated, we indulge in binge eating which worsens the situation.
Another important thing to note is to have smaller meals and never, NEVER eat till you are full.
A full stomach deters good digestion which is the root cause of the whole problem. Eat only 80% of your capacity. That way the remaining space will help the food to move and aid digestion. Also drink 1 glass of water every hour that you are awake. Water helps to dissolve and flush out all toxins from our body.
Small hints but real life savers.
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