healthy weight loss?

Question

i want to lose weight as i am about 15 stone, 5ft 7 or 8 and a size 16 (UK) So i am going to eat healthy but its so expensive! im 16 years old and live at home and would love to have like smoothies for breakfast etc but i cant afford a machine also i cant afford to keep buying fruit!!! help!

Answer 1

Losing weight is a simple equation: if you burn more calories than you eat, the weight will come off. Start off by estimating how many calories you burn each day using the calorie calculator http://straighthealth.com/pages/tools/caloriecalclb.html This will give you an idea of how many calories to eat. Healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds per week. To lose 1 pound per week you need to create a calorie deficit (burn more than you eat) of 500 calories per day. To lose 2 pounds a week, you have to double the deficit to 1000 calories per day. You can achieve this by eating less, exercising more or a combination of both.

Beginners Guide to Dieting - http://straighthealth.com/pages/guides/begdieting.html

Answer 2

Nikki, healthy weight loss doesn't need quantity but quality of food. Once you get into a routine of healthy lifestyle it will not be much work. Sometimes it will take time to change over, but if you really want it you will persist and concur .
Here is the essence of healthy weight loss. If you eat NUTRITION (no empty calories) the pounds will shed off of you. Questions is how to do that. I have been serching for some system to keep me healthy without too much work and this is what I have found.
I am taking routinely a set of integrated supplements. What I mean is I don't have to worry if I ingested all the essencial viatmins minerals and essential fatty acids while I am on the system. This will make sure I have good ellimination which is the 1st requirement to be helathy and certainly to loose weight. If your colone is not functioning well you inevitably going to have problems with your metabolism. Excercise daily, even if it is just a 30 minute walk.
Next I am trying to only eat healthy, that is raw organic fruit and vegetables and high quality protein. Never, never never put in your body anything conatining white flour, sugar or other refined products.
When you eat qualtiy you need very little as your body is satisfied, it has enough nutrition. There is a doctor who has a booklet with "high lifeforce" recepies. They are also delicious . Many puddings that will taste better than smoothies with all the artificial sweeteners and colores etc.
His name is Dr. Mick Hall (ask for Jenice if you call). He has his office in California in Costa Mesa, his website is www.inneractivenutrition.com
You are very young and would have a lifetime of benefit changing over to a routine that your children and grand childrren will benefit from. Not only because they will not inherit demaged genes, but will learn from you how to live a healthy life.
I do believe he does have someone in England as well, but I don't know any more than that. Try to contact them (by phone)and find out.
And Nikki there are no shortcuts. You will lose weight and be healthier then when you were borne if you change over.
Good luck and congratulation for thinking the right way. I wish I would have started that early.
Olghi :)

Answer 3

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Answer 4

There are lots of 'rapid weight loss' methods around, but they can cause more problems than they solve.

Generally, the SLOWER you lose the weight the better.

The fastest a human body can possibly lose fat (if ALL its fat-cells are releasing fat, under PERFECT nutritional circumstances) is about one pound per week. Anything faster than this will CERTAINLY be water loss or disposal (not burning) of muscle tissue. Neither of these is particularly good for you, and both of them can interfere with fat loss.

In reality, perfect circumstances do not happen, and fat-cells release varying amounts of fat. It is much better to set a very low target, perhaps ONE POUND EACH MONTH, so that over a year you are losing nearly a stone, and you will not be severely affected by any loss of muscle or dehydration.

A very low rate of loss requires very little adjustment in your diet or (better still) activity pattern. Exercises to do at home are often boring, so you could add a regular dance class (social dancing, say at a nightclub or etc, is often less vigorous than it seems, and you get to eat & drink unhealthy stuff while you're out) to your current activities.

If it is a style that needs constant practice of techniques (such as Rock & Roll), this will give you an opportunity to fit in small (say, ten minutes) sessions several times daily. That way, your ability will improve quickly, and you'll be burning off a bit more fuel while you're having fun, so that it doesn't feel like hard work.

Answer 5

Eating healthy is no more expensive than not eating healthy. However at 16 it is more difficult if you are not making the normal food purchase choices.

Don't focus on one thing -- like a smoothie for breakfast, because then when you can't get it, you will have problems. If you are looking for some fruit, you may want to try dried fruits with cereal -- but be careful what kind of cereal.

With your weight, you may want to speak to your doctor about a good plan for you, or a school nurse or health teacher can help you with a diet plan that can work based on the foods you have and can purchase. There are a lot of good breakfast cereals that help give you a good start to your day.

The most important thing is to make sure you exercise regularly, and don't skip meals thinking it will help. It may reduce calories, but you need to eat to live, and you are more likely to make poor food choices if you don't eat a good healthy breakfast.

Answer 6

Try www.sparkpeople.com, it's a great free website, totally healthy, you can watch how your weight changes while also tracking whether you get all the needed nutrients. And they give you all the guidelines you need about losing weight the healthy way.

There's also a support research centre, where you can read millions of great articles about healthy eating or excercising.

It will take a little bit of your time, since you'll have to enter foods that you ate over the day (a fast internet connection is a plus in that case). But it is totally worth it!

Answer 7

Bloody hell everyones wrote essays! Bottom line is i was pretty much in the same boat but im 18 and weighed 10.9 stones...i now weigh 9.3 and still going...Eat less have 3 meals a day...its not expensive markets and stuff have offers like 10 kiwis for a pound and so on...go look around and dont be embarassed...show em ur healthy...for breakiee have some cereal with low fat milk..lunch have some chicken with a salad and for dinner some pasta...then just do some form of exercise...dancing, swimming, jogging, walking....walk everywhere...atleast half an hour...do these for 1 or 2 months...and then start to tone up with sit ups and crunches and all the rest...im sure your mum or dad will be supportive in this situation as its for your benefit and will make them happy as well...be patient if you feel like you cant do it anymore just think of how better you could be than everyone else around you....be confident and weigh your self every week to see how much youve lost...good luck...email me if you want more helppp [e-mail]...i can motivate you....mwah xx

Answer 8

HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS, you'll only use 1-2 lbs a week. food- limit to 1500 calories a day to eat. Fruits, veggies, whole grains, lean protein, dairy, nuts. Exercise - try to exercise every single day - walking, biking to class, taking the stairs, walking around the entire campus, walk briskly and quickly and try to beat your time week after week. If one lap around the campus takes 1 hour, try to make it 56 minutes the next week, then 54 minutes, etc. Other exercises, trying to jog, going to the gym, is great. Try and exercise 45-60 minutes a day. You can try a sport if you want. exericisng every day, limiting food intake, you'll lose weight. Cheating every now and then with a cookie is ok. Not an entire bag. Slowly you'll lose your taste for them. I have. I'm doing stir fry veggies and chicken or shrimp for dinner, like 150-200 calories, total. A granola bar is 120-140 calories. Eat salads, do veggies and dip, buy a bag of apples and eat 1 or 2 a day. Cottage cheese and fruit is really good. Doing these things week after week, month after month, they will become lifestyle changes you make for like. Fad diets, water diet, grapefuit diet, fruit diet, these are all short term diets where you lose weight and then gain it back quickly.

Answer 9

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The plan was so refreshing and so simple to follow. I did everything plan said and lost 23 pounds in the first three weeks. I'm now starting the diet again to lose 7 more pounds. This plan has changed my life.

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Answer 10

find daily calorie intake calculator on the net, enter all your stats and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to maintain, take off 300-400cal off that number and thats how much you need to lose.
eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours - it optimizes your metabolism)
5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water
have complex carbs for breakfast - they give you energy
have protein (lean meat, legumes etc) for dinner - repairs muscle
cardio exercise 4-6 times a week for 30-50min (ideally 45min because the first 20-30min body burns carbs and only then starts burning fat), light weight training (more muscle=faster metabolism)
dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, pasta etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried, oily.
ofcourse you can spoil yourself once in a while with a little treat:)