Hi all.I have lost 15 pounds in 7 months....Four questions..Who can help?

Question

Do you think this is a good weight loss or i could have done better.. .. i could have slowed down?.
If i want to lose 7 ponds in 15 days .how many times in a day i can work out and for how much time as i have some free time at hand now
I am under the impression that weight is lost all over the same..There are people who say weight is first lost here and last lost there where it is first gained is this a myth ?
Last when an individual loses weight ,does a size drop of one inch that is 2.25 cm makes a difference in your appearance .I wonder whether anybody can help with all these question .It takes a bit of patience.Anyways thanks for reading

Answer 1

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you exercise them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 2

First of all, congrats on your weight loss!

QUESTION 1: You lost 15 pounds in seven months -- any weight loss is good. If you really work at it, you can lose two pounds a week (maybe three) safely through diet and exercise. Any more than that is pushing it. The person who ultimately has to determine whether 15 pounds in seven months is "good" is you. Are you happy with it? If so, GREAT!!! If you felt that you could have done better, well, OK. Just do your best, realize you're going to have good days and bad days, and don't give up until you reach your goal. Not making progress is not failure -- quitting is.

QUESTION #2: If you're doing aerobic/cardiovascular exercise, you really shouldn't do it for more than 30 minutes at a time. If you do, you risk burning muscle instead of fat. No problem working out more than once a day if you have the time though. Best exercises for fat loss are: (1) Circuit training with light weights, and (2) Sprint drills -- pick an aerobic exercise you like, say jogging, cycling, swimming, etc. Do a 30-second "sprint" followed by 90-120 seconds of "low pace" exercise, repeat 8-12 times.

QUESTION #3: You can't spot-reduce fat. Your body puts it on and takes it off as it pleases. Wherever you have the highest concentration of flab (for me it's my gut) that's where it seems to come off last because there's more there than anywhere else. You can do exercises to make parts of your body appear smaller, like doing crunches and abdominal exercises to bring your gut in, but it won't necessarily make you lose flab in that area.

QUESTION #4: A size drop of one inch may make a difference in your appearance, then again it may not. Depends on where you lost that inch and how many inches you need to lose there. For example, if I were to lose an inch off my waist it probably wouldn't be very noticeable to the casual observer. However, it would be noticeable to me because it would make my pants fit more loosely. See how loss of inches can be a good indicator of progress, even if you don't "see" the change?

Answer 3

15 pounds in 7 months is roughly 2 pounds a month and you can safely and healthily lose that much a week which is about the rate you're asking about in your second question. Unless you're in excellent shape with excellent recovery, I wouldn't work out more than once a day. You can work out successive days, but if you're weight-training, alternate your muscle groups. You are correct about losing weight all over which is why if you want to lose 10 pounds around your middle (for example) you might have to lose 50 pounds total (for example). Lastly, I'd be more concerned with losing fat, rather than weight, or to put it another way, think of how you look, how your clothes fit rather than simply "how far the needle spins around the weigh-scale dial".

Answer 4

That weight loss is good. Most people don't do that.

Yes you could have lost a lot more but at least you lost what you did!

Don't worry about weight so much. It can be decieving. What you want to focus on is

*Are you healthy?
*Do you look good?
*Are your clothes fitting better or falling off?

When you lose fat you lose it all over (fingers, face, hips, abs, etc.) you notice it in the places that you have the least amount of fat first. When you gain fat you gain it all over.

When you lose fat, you should see your clothes getting loser.

I don't know your height, weight, or fat % so it is hard to advise you. If you have a lot of extra fat you will see your self shinking and losing weight. If you have low fat levels you may actually see yourself tone/bulk up and gain weight but you will be healthier and look better.

Don't get overly concerned about your weight. Think more about being healthy and looking good. Diet is extremely important. To slim your body you must:

Burn more calories than you eat.

Cut your fat intake.

Eat three cups of fat free low cal yogurt a day (make sure it has live cultures in it). This helps you break down your food.

Do 45-60 min. of aerobic exercise a day (preferably before you eat in the morning).

Do 20 min of weight training three times a week. This will build lean muscle which will in turn burn fat.

I lost 40 lbs in two months and have kept it off for two more months doing this. I also took my body fat % from 30% to 14%

Be Blessed

Answer 5

re the amount of weight lost: my doctor said I should lose no more than 2 pounds a week... but that is a good average.

and when I do lose weight, my boobs get a size smaller almost immediately, and my dang stomach stays the same until the very last. I think that's genetic.

Last question: the 1 inch change being noticeable is really relative: If you're already pretty thin, that will show big time; on a huge person ( like me :-( i mean) it's hardly noticeable. Good luck!

Answer 6

To lose 15 pounds is a great weight loss. Your metabolism may have prevented you from losing more weight. Be happy with that accomplishment rather than second guessing yourself.

I would discourage you from doing anything to lose that much weight in 15 days. Rapid weight loss like that can damage things like your gallbladder. Also, excessive working out puts your body in starvation mode where it holds on to every last calorie instead of burning them. Try a more sensible routine of exercising for an hour or so each day and work within your target heart rate for that hour. Eat smaller meals, more often if you are working out. Believe it or not you need this to lose weight.

For the weight loss on parts of your body - it depends on the person. Some people gain and lose weight in certain parts of their body. For me I notice it in my stomach before I see it anywhere else.

An inch in weight loss can often be the difference between one clothing size and another so yes it makes a difference.

Answer 7

It's not all about the workout. 85-90% of the battle is the diet. You can not consume more calories than you burn in a workout. I would evaluate your diet, consume (depending on your weight already) 1500-1800 calories per day divided into 5-6 meals per day, and exercise 35-60 minutes per day 5-6 days per week, making sure your heart rate is in the 75% or your maximum. If you don't know how to find your max, take 220 minus your age, that is your max heart rate, multiply that by your percentage. SO 220-age times 0.75.

Answer 8

To lose weight, a person has to reduce the calorie intake by some amount by modifying their diet. A diet without sufficient nutrients will only increase the appetite of the person trying to lose weight. Since most people combine a diet with an exercise plan, additional nutrients are required for the growth of muscles required to increase the metabolic rate required for long term weight loss. More information available at http://tinyurl.com/jax5h

Answer 9

odds are you re eating too fast try holding a conversation while having a meal so you re not gulping down more than you need to feel full

Answer 10

swap half of the avocado in a 1 2 cup of guacamole for zucchini