How can I lose weight? I am 5'5 and 123 pounds!?

Question

I would like to lose at least 10 pounds

My thighs are huge! I can't accept them. That is why I need to lose weight.

Answer 1

Do squats. Gain msucle in your legs and it will burn the fat and will tighten them up. Run, climb stairs, etc. You already weigh a small amount.

Find a method exercise that you enjoy and do it every day. Build muscle. Eat what you want when you are actually hungry and stop before you are stuffed full. Try to eat a balanced diet, but don't limit yourself with a bunch or rules and diets. Diets don't work and are unhealthy in the long run. Only do things that are healthy and that you can do forever, for the rest of your life, like cutting fast food forever. 95 percent of dieters gain it all back in one year and 99 percent do in two years. Dieting is associated with weight gain over a long period of time. You need at least 1200 to 1600 calories every day just to perform basic bodily functions.

If women like you learned to love their bodies, a billion dollar industry that cashes in on insecurities and making people feel like they are not good enough would collapse. Quite frankly, being a little fat isn't as unhealthy as being thin. Anybody who thinks diets or restricting food types is a good idea is uneducated about the human body. Short cuts do not work. Most of the weight you lose is water weight. For health, eat a balanced diet and exercise for the health and endorphins and forget about an ideal shape. The average age a girl starts dieting is 8. 1/3 women are on a diet at any given time. 4/5 US women are unsatisfied with their appearance. You are beautiful and your body has a set point weight that it wants to be. If you starve yourself, the body will fight back by lowering the metabolism to maintain it's ideal weight. Limit your tv viewing. 1/4 TV commercials send out a message about attractiveness in this brainwashed society that has been seeing images of beautiful skinny women and mocking chubby people. It's worse for women: look at the number of average or uglier guys on tv and in movies versus the number of women. 30 percent of women in a study rated their ideal shape and it turned out to be 20 percent underweight. Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz meet the clinical requirements for anorexia, and so do 25% of playboy centerfolds. If the flippin mannequins became real women, they wouln't be able to menstruate. Women finally get some rights, but we limit ourselves like this and our bodies are reduced to objects we inspect and criticise. Men decide to only value women for their looks and a thin, attractive wife symbolizes social status for them. Girls call each other fat as the greatest insult they can muster. When did fat become worse than cruel, stupid, dishonest, lazy or cowardly. When did "chubby" start to mean the last four of those things?
We are killing our daughters and wasting our lives trying to meet an ideal that blows. I wish women would get together and fight it instead of letting others control us like this. Unless you are considered obese, or have a BMI of over 25, don't worry about it. Love your body and your confidence will light up the room and give other women permission to love themselves too.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I'm 5'5" and I used to weigh 116 and I went down to 109 in about 2 weeks by restricting calories to an "average" of around 800 but having a day where I didn't count calories and if I "binged" 2 or more days I try working out for about an hour. Also a good idea is to not eat the same amount of calories per day, eat maybe 800, then 500, then1,000 it's just better. Also remember the vitamins. Doing Yoga and Pilate's is an excellent way to tone, not build muscle. the "diet" I follow is something I intend to continue. Also there's a great book called "Skinny B*tch" that really gave me a kick in the pants to get healthy. It's like a telling it to you straight so you can get off your butt and put down the chips. Plus I became a vegetarian, soy product have tons of protein to make you feel full and not a lot of calories. I hate when people tell me "you're perfect" when I know what I want to look like. Good luck, I hope this helps!

Answer 4

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:)

Answer 5

You don't need to lose weight. That is a good weight for that height.

Answer 6

WHY? YOU ARE THE PERFECT SIZE! I WOULD LOVE TO BE 123 LBS, I'M 5'5 AND 165-10 MONTHS POST PARTUM.

Answer 7

I agree you're perfect, maybe you want to tone if that is what you want you can work on that, but you don't need to lose weight.

Answer 8

drink 3 cups of green tea in 24 hours researchers say it can increase energy expenditure by 106 calories

Answer 9

You're weight sounds pretty good, but if you're small boned like me it feels like a lot (though everyone else may say it's not). Have you tried like a dance video (I like my salsa one) or maybe Hip Hop abs?

Good luck on feeling good about yourself.

~Laura
http://www.milliondollarbody.com/signup/?username=lauchremi

Answer 10

Avoid late night eating Because your metabolism slows down when you sleep