Is there any way i can lose 20lb by Chrishmas? If so how?

Question

im 15 and about 20lb over weight, how can i lose 20 be christmas? please help!!

Answer 1

Yes. 20 lbs by Christmas is possibly realistic. You should not try to lose more than one or two pounds per week. Even if it's Christmas and you've lost 10-12 lbs, I think you'll be a lot more pleased with yourself than you would be if you hadn't lost any. With weight loss, slow but steady wins the race.

As to how... go to Google and type in "daily calorie needs." It will bring up about 10 different calculators that you can use to compute how many calories you need each day based upon your height and weight. Compute the number based upon a "sedentary" level of activity, even if you exercise already.

After you get that number, subtract 250 calories. Also, find a way to exercise each day that burns 250 calories (personally, I really like Walk Away the Pounds -- there's even a teen DVD... but it can be any kind of exercise). By reducing 500 calories (250 subtracted in food you don't eat and 250 burns with exercise) per day from your total daily calorie needs, you'll be able to sensibly lose a pound per week.

Also, be sure that you're eating at least 3 meals per day or more optimally, six small meals a day. Breakfast is particularly important to get your metabolism started for the day. And see if you can get a buddy or a family member to do all of this stuff with you! It's a lot easier if you don't feel like you're all on your own!

Good luck!

Answer 2

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 engry. If you go on a diet and eat less, your metabolism will slow down and store to fat. That is why diets dont 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 protien (examples:chicken breast, swordfish, shrimp, turkey breast) in the other. You can also eat vegetables and salads with any meal, they dont have none or little fat). 30min cardo exercise every day. Any of these(examples: walking, jogging, swimming,running, biking, ect), Monday cardo, 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 cardo, thurs lower body (legs: leg pull,leg press, squats, lounges) fri cardo, sat upper. Sunday eat anything you want and dont exercising, you do this on sunday so your body doesnt go into starvation mode. YOU NEED TO TAKE SUNDAY OFF. If you stilck with this you will have a great body. also drink aleast 8oz of water daily! Stay away from Mcdonals, Wendys, ect because there is nothing good for you on the menu's even the salads are bad (beaon bits, cheeze, dressing, ect) Good Luck :)

Answer 3

YES THERE IS...
there are 2 ways...
1...Reduece diet and work out mad like eveyone will say

OR

2.. Give alot of though and even consult a professional clothes stylist on how to dress better( i mean to look slimmer)
Because the way you dress can make u look really big sometimes even though your not or vice versa

please give it a though
thankyou

Answer 4

ok im not gonna give a super long solution like everyone else but eating breakfast helps to burn fat and go on a nightly jog witha friend or pet its also a good idea to eat bananas they are rich in vitamins and u can sing the song byguin steffani while eating one lol

Answer 5

Be gentle with yourself. Changing things faster than the body can adapt is almost the definition of stress.

Don't target losing more than 1 to 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

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.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

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 work 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 6

stop eating maccas etc.
only eat vegetables.