I'm 14 and 170 pounds. I can't seem to loose any weight! Help Please.?

Question

my belly won't go away.
i've tried almost everything.
i quit jogging half an hour each morning
cause my legs were getting more muscle
and nothing to my belly.
i tried skipping meals.
that just makes it worse.
i can't stay on a diet.
i think im too young for diet pills.
don't message back if your just gonna laugh
and call me a fat.
i neep help.
because im on the edge of liposuction..

Answer 1

Well I weighed 140 lb and when i became a vegetarian i lost about 20 lb in a month or so. White breads turn almost straight into stomach fat. If you do leg lifts a lot, it helps burn your lower stomach that situps don't fix. Running and swimming vigorously help burn stomach fat fairly quickly. Don't eat starchy foods like bread or pasta unless they are dark, case starch turns to fat real fast if you don't use it. If its a hormone thing, taking a multivitamin can help regulate your weight. Don't eat out, a sandwhich has more than the fat u need in a day. Eating forms of Soy might help cause they are real healthy and help out with almost everything

Answer 2

Eat better and exercise. It's the sermon everyone preaches, right? Eat better and exercise.

Yeah, right.

Honey, it is SO much easier said than done but, if you don't want to take diet pills (and VERY few diet pills work, anyway), diet and exercise are the ONLY way to go.

But what is eating right? How much exercise do you need?

Cut out all soda and fast food. Yes, I said it. Soda and fast food are OUT. This includes Diet Coke (I know it has no calories, but the carbonation causes more bloating than you'd probably expect), Taco Bell, and Mickey D's are absolutely forbidden from now on. If you're used to chowing down on these kinds of things, this might be the single most effective thing you can do to cut calories. If it's tough to do it, find replacements you can live with. I was addicted to Pepsi (ADDICTED-- as in, drinking at least 100 ounces a day!) before I decided to try to lose weight. It was the hardest change I made to my diet, but I started to drink Crystal Light instead of Pepsi. I also made Subway the only fast food I would allow myself.

Drastically reduce the sugar you're eating. This includes candy and things like donuts. It's all empty calories.

Load up on fruits and veggies! When I'm hungry, the last thing I want is a salad, but it's not hard to add some spinach leaves and tomato slices to the turkey sandwich I eat for lunch. Look up nutrition advice to find out what the best foods to eat are.

And don't stop exercising!! You may think it's bulking up your leg muscles, but building muscle burns calories! *HAVING* muscle burns more calories than fat, because it takes more energy to sustain muscle than to not. Jogging for thirty minutes a day is a terrific jump-start to your weight loss efforts.

I hope this helps, hon.

Answer 3

You need to keep up the cardio no matter what and don't skip meals because then your body gets scared and the next time you eat it stores more fat in case it gets starved again. Anyways, do exercises that concentrate on your abdomen like crunches etc. (search the internet for stomach exercises to see examples) and don't be so upset about it. You are a growing boy and in the next year or two could grow a foot and the weight may even out on its own. :)

Answer 4

Here is what you need to do, if you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off. Eat 6 small meals a day about every 4 hours. Here what that will do for you, your metabolism will increase (i.e. loose weight) and you will have more energy. If you go on a diet and eat less, your metabolism will slow down and store to fat. That is why diets don’t work. Only the size of your fist, carbs (examples: baked potato, pasta, oatmeal, beans, corn, melon, apples, fat free yogurt, whole wheat breads) in one and protein (examples: chicken breast, swordfish, shrimp, turkey breast) in the other. You can also eat vegetables and salads with any meal; they don’t have none or little fat). 30min cardio exercise every day. Any of these(examples: walking, jogging, swimming, running, biking, ect), Monday cardio, Tues. upper body (arms: curls, tricep extensions, pull ups, front press)(abdominals: leg pull crunch, leg raises), (chest: bench press, butterfly, pullover)(shoulders: front press, arm pullover, cross county skier machine)(back: seated row, lat pull downs, back extension)(YOU DONT HAVE TO DO IN ONE DAY, mix it up) wed cardio, thurs. lower body (legs: leg pull, leg press, squats, lounges) Fri. cardio, sat upper. Sunday eat anything you want and dont exercising; you do this on Sunday so your body doesn’t go into starvation mode. YOU NEED TO TAKE SUNDAY OFF. If you stick with this you will have a great body. Also drink at least 8oz of water daily! Stay away from McDonalds, Wendy’s, ect. Because there is nothing good for you on the menu's even the salads are bad (becon bits, cheese, dressing, ect.) Good Luck :)

Answer 5

It is mostly NOT your fault, if you need to lose weight. The way you have been taught to eat is responsible for making obesity the number one health problem in the world (according to Atlantic Monthly magazine) replacing hunger and infectious disease. You need to re-learn how to eat so you can become thin. Not a diet, but diet lifestyle.

Find out about fastest way to lose weight, gradual ways to lose weight, most effective exercise and anti-water. Lose bodyfat and retained water which also makes you a lot fatter (bloated). Most important-- make sure to read the last "fat loss tip", first before anything else, to see the number one food that causes Americans to be fat.

http://phifoundation.org

Answer 6

dont do lipolsuction because diet pills are much less dangerous... i had to lose about 30 lbs in one month to get to playing weight for football when i was 14 and what i did was....

First off i practiced hard with the team and that helped me athletically...

I made sure my mom never bought sweets

I also made her make me eat stuff like salads (no ranch) and fruits

I actually did steal some diet pills which didnt really hurt me but i wouldnt suggest it

My coach made me run laps in a black trash bag

yea i went from 180 something to 156( a lb. overwieght since it was a 155 lb. league but the guy let me slide) so i can honestly say it worked for me

now two years later im 205 lbs....

but no fat stomach because its mainly muscle and i work out alot...

Answer 7

It is better to understand how your body burns energy first than to just do everything on the fly.
I am currently trying to loose 5 pounds or so, and it has been working slowly, but surely.
Some tips:
What you are trying to achieve happens slowly, it's like watching your hair grow, it happens very slowly.
You don't need to eat diet things to loose weight. I eat about what I burn. If you take in 3500 calories, but you burn only 2000 calories, your body has a + difference of 1500 calories which enevitably gets stored as fat. I try to eat when I'm feeling hungry, not to much, but enough untill the next time I'm supposed to eat. If you feel hungry (stomach growling) then it's time to eat. Don't starve your body, it can go into a survival mode and store everything if this happens. Only eat when you feel hungry, eat SMALLER portions.
Next, workout. I walk atleast 4 times a week. I walk atleast 45 minutes to an hour at a fast pace. Jogging/running works, but you have to understand that everytime you step down on your foot running...you are putting 4 times your body weight due to gravity on your knee. At this rate your hips/knees aren't going to last long. A fast walk is fine and will allow your body to utilize its fat stores after 10 - 15 minutes of work. Muscle tone is great! Do your sit-ups and push-ups. These simple free excercises can reduce your gut as well due to the amount of energy it takes to do these excercises.
Lay off the fat. Keep more carbs in your diet & less fat, simple energies that your body can utilize readily.
Recap...
Don't over eat. Eat only when you feel hungry. When you eat, eat SMALLER portions. You don't have to cut what you like out, just eat less of it.
Constant work outs. Walking at a fast pace is perfect. Won't destroy your hips/knees and will tap into that fat reserve of yours.
Tone your muscles. These simple workouts can tone your muscles and utilize your fat reserves due to heavy work being exerted.
Hope this helps.

Answer 8

ur to young to get liposuction. u have to excercise and instead of skipping meals eat healthier. like get rid of beef and pork becuz those r the worst meats for u. eat more fruit and vegetables. it is pretty hard becuz i'm tryin to lose weight right now and i've lost 25 pounds but i still have a while to go.

PS i weigh more than u

Answer 9

Sit-ups, and just walk a mile or two a day. Keep walking. And eat less at night, more in the morning, and decrease your sugar intake in general.

Answer 10

The following healthy living recommendations will help you if you’re trying to lose weight, tone up your muscles, have aspirations of building lean muscle mass, are attempting to get a wash board stomach, or just want to feel better:

*1) Burn more calories then you're consuming everyday and measure your results using the following formula: Calories Consumed minus Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) minus Physical Activity minus the Thermic Effect of Food (TEF). A website that explains this formula in more detail and will help you determine how many calories you need to reach or maintain a certain weight is at http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/library/weight/calsburned.htm

Get a diet and fitness calculator that you can put on your computer or cell phone. This will allow you to easily calculate the above formula, set goals, log your daily calorie consumption, and register your physical activities.

Set realistic goals for your ideal body weight. Here are two websites that will calculate a suggested body weight:
Adults: http://www.halls.md/ideal-weight/body.htm
Teens/Children: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/exercise/weight/bmi.html

It is difficult and unhealthy to lose more than one or two pounds per week. There are 3,500 calories in a pound. If you eat 500 fewer calories per day for a week you will lose one pound. If you burn through exercise 500 more calories per day for a week you will lose one pound.

*2) Eat natural and organic foods found on earth versus something created by a corporation to make money. Eat meals in small portions throughout the day and take a good multi-vitamin supplement.

Avoid “High Glycemic Load Carbs” (sugar, pastries, desserts, refined starches such as breads, pasta, refined grains like white rice; high starch vegetables such as potatoes) and drink lots of water. Read this article for more information on high GL Carbs:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates.html

Do not try fad diets or diet pills. Here is an excellent food pyramid that anyone can follow: http://www.rayandterry.com/html/images/PyramidLRG.gif?osCsid=26a424be471d1337e7c2f105d5c64d9d

*3) Exercise on most days by doing cardiovascular training and/or resistance training activities.

Read a book or find a certified trainer to make sure your doing all resistance training exercises correctly. A great book to buy that teaches you the resistance training basics is “Weight Training for Dummies”. A superb magazine to buy with resistance training routines that will not get you bored is "Muscle and Fitness". Signup for the free newsletter. An excellent free online resource is at http://www.exrx.net/

A good book to buy that teaches you the cardiovascular training basics is “Fitness for Dummies”.

*4) Get plenty of sleep. Sleep experts say most adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep each night for optimum performance, health, and safety.

*5) Educate yourself continually on health issues and make a life long commitment to good health. A great free publication is “Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005”. A superb book to read is “You The Owner’s Manual”. An excellent periodic publication is the “Nutrition Action Health Letter”. A reputable test you can take to measure your biological age is at http://realage.com

Look at all areas where you can enhance your health. For example, make improvements in the quality of the air you breathe. Review outdoor air quality forecasts where you live and get an indoor air purifier. Send me an email or yahoo instant message to "gainbetterhealth" if you want an indoor air purifier recommendation and if you have any questions.

*Click on all the source links below to get the full benefit of the recommendations. The answers presented to your health questions are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.