tips for me to lose weight?

Question

im 5'1'' and i'm in my mid teens. i weigh 150 pounds. i need help to lose weight. i dont eat fried chicken as much as i did a while ago like a year. i swim on my swim team at school and we hav moring practices twice or three times aweek and every day is an afternoon practice. twice a week is dryland. and saturday is a morning practice. my average meal for mornig is usually cereal which is chereeos, lunch is usually salad and dinner usually is either salad or someting like that....

My goal was to lose at least 25 pounds. and i am still doing a lot of swimming almost every day of week except for sunday. and i do drink ALOT of water. and i stay pretty active.

so please give me tips or something b/c i dont know what i am not doing.
thanks

i do eat some fruits for snacks and somedays at lunch i get mashed pototatoes. also i sometimes get french fries for lunch like ones or twice a week. not too often.

Answer 1

This is my theory and this is what works for me. Everyone is different so it may need to be adjusted to your own personal needs.

Energy In/Energy Out

Food Intake: 1,200 Per Day

One Pound equals 3,500 Calories

To loose one pound per day, You need to burn your food intake plus your one pound of fat

1,200 (intake) + 3,500 (Outtake) = 4,700 Calories Burn

You must burn at least 4,700 Calories everyday to loose one pound at least. It is very easy to go up and beyond 4,700 calories each day.

Best way to do this is to track your progress on a calorie counter monitor watch. If you do it by the numbers you can loose the weight. It is just a matter of changing the way you think about weight loss.

Once you start wearing your calorie counter you can see the numbers increase and you fill find yourself doing extra things in your day, like tapping your foot while waiting at the light in your car, chewing gum, singing out loud and so on onto of your workout routines. You begin to see that everything you do in your day contributes to the overall numbers needed to loose that pound.

I, myself, have done this recently. Two weeks later, I lost one pant size and 10 pounds. And that is just my current progress. I have used this method previously after childbirth and have gone from 168 to 127 pounds with in two months.

I personally burn 1,000 calories by Walking in my community for one hour in the morning and I also burn 1,000 calories by simply using a stationary bike while playing xbox. I get so involved in playing xbox that I completely forget I am pedaling or working out. Think about it..How many hours have you spent playing video games..why not burn calories while you are doing it.

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Water Intake/Less Storage

Most people do not get enough water in their system. Water is your body's principal chemical component, comprising, on average, 60 to 80 percent of your weight. Every system in your body depends on water. For example, water flushes toxins out of vital organs, carries nutrients to your cells and provides a moist environment for ear, nose and throat tissues.

Lack of water can lead to dehydration, a condition that occurs when you don't have enough water in your body to carry out normal functions. To determine if you are getting enough water use this simple formula.. Take your weight, for example 150 pounds and divide by 2. Take your answer which is 75 lbs and change it to ounces, in this case 75 ounces. That is how many ounces of water you need a day. Your body performs mostly on water. If you make sure you get enough water everyday your body will perform at top notch and your body will no longer have the cravings of junk food. You will have a better performing body system to help you work out and feel better thru out your day.

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Good Food

My favorite things to eat:

Avocado Wraps

Simple: Low Carb Tortilla, Half Avocado sliced, alpha sprouts, lettuce, soy bacon...Just wrap it up and eat. You can vary the things you put inside so long as you keep it to approx 4 or 5 items. You want to make sure they are fresh, low calorie and filling. Avocado and mushrooms can replace meats in your meal and still have great taste.

Special K Cereals are fantastic. They have that sweetness that one craves and is so good for you. Calories are low. Great for even just dinner.

First thing in the morning...A Glass of Chocolate Milk. Yup!! Chocolate Milk. We all crave that "got to have" item in the morning. Milk is the best thing you can have for yourself while working out. The chocolate (and you can use Carnation Instant Milk for this but I simply use Nestle dry mix) will give you that sweet "snack" that you need. If you give your body a little bit of it and its in a control way, you will not crave sweets and junk the rest of the day.

Lean Cuisines

Fantastic food! Each meal is approx 180 t0 380 calories per box. So think about your calories. 1,200...You can still have several of these meals a day and still be under your intake requirements.

It’s all about the numbers and watching what you take in and what you burn out. And you know what..If you go over your 1,200 mark for food intake...that’s okay...you simple up your total calories burned for the day by what you took it. So long as you burn off the over all calories to be more than your food intake. Just make sure you stick too it so you can reach your weight loss goals.

Fruits and Veggies

All you want on the schedule listed below.
Bananas are my favorite. They are very filling and can make a meal all on their own.

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Vitamins

My favorite is ONE A DAY WITH ENERGY...I am in love with this vitamin because I am just like everyone else who loves those quick fix energy drinks. But what people do not realize is that energy drinks can contain 120 to 440 calories in just ONE Can. If you think about it..That is HALF of your allowed calories for food intake. The best alternative I have found is One a day with energy vitamin. Easy to spot, it is packaged in a green label bottle. Just One vitamin a day will give you as much energy as approx. 1 1/2 cans of red bull...WITHOUT the calorie intake.
WoW..now your making progress already because you have made more room in your intake calories for actual healthy food.

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Soda/Carbonation

Carbonation is terrible for your system because it bloats your stomach. And when your stomach bloats, your jeans just don't fit. You can drop one pant size simply by NOT drinking any carbonated drinks all together..Take away the bloat and you have instantly just made it one pant size lower. Besides, Sodas dehydrate you and with that One a Day Vitamin, you won't need the Caffeine in the soda and it will also cut out those extra calories that you don't need.
So remove that soda and the energy drinks and just think how much calories you just instantly removed from your daily intake. I normally consume what...four sodas and two energy drinks in one day...that is a total of .... 900 calories. Of what??? Nothing...Those are horrible calories and calories that can be replaced by food which will fuel your body for your day and your workouts.

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Your Body

Your body is like a computer. You must program your body to do what it is suppose to do so it won't crash and leave you with a virus. Your stomach is only the size of your fist. So think about it right now, Look at your hand and close your fist. Not very big is it. That is how much food you actually ONLY need to eat, each time you eat for every meal. If you eat anything more than that, you will stretch out your stomach which causes overeating and overweight.

What you need to do is eat every three hours, approx 5 to 7 times everyday around the same time. If you are always giving your body healthy and better food choices (the size of your fist) every three hours, your body will know you are giving it food. It will use that food properly. It will not go into starvation mode or store food away for later because it knows...it will get more in three hours. So what does your body do...it flushes everything out of your system because it doesn't need it.. Now it knows...you wont' forget about it and that food is on its way.

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Walking Buddy

This is the best thing especially for woman. Get a walking buddy. One hour everyday. Just think about how much talking, venting and laughing two woman can do together while walking and yup, you guessed it...it just burns more calories and reduces your stress. You now are more relaxed because you can talk and free yourself of whatever is frustrating you while getting into shape.

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By: My own experience/Joyceeleann

Answer 2

If your estimate of what you are eating and the activity level you maintain is accurate you may not be eating enough. if you are very active you may have a large muscle mass so that you are heavy. Plus your body may be conserving fat if you are not eating enough. Find some charts on the Internet and record your weight and daily calorie needs. Subtract 500 calories per day for a 1 lb. weekly weight loss, but if you are very active account for this by adding calories back to your day. Keep a food journal and add it up each day (most of us greatly under estimate how much we eat) if you stay within your calorie goals there is no reason you won't lose weight.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

During the summer time months, my 2 so much fundamental Weight Watchers pursuits are to drink plenty of water and to be as bodily energetic as I can day-to-day. The bodily undertaking fairly is helping burn the energy I devour, and ingesting 2 or 3 glasses of water at mealtime fairly ease the digestion and support me to suppose convinced however now not too complete. Something that has fairly helped me controlled my weight and decreased meals consumption is that I take time for my foods--fairly benefit from the meals I've all set (or on the eating place). I'm additionally now not a lot of a dessert character; regularly I've had ample time to experience and replenish at the essential path that I simply don't have any wish for a deal with in a while--at so much contemporary fruit slices to cleanse the pallette and/or a small piece of darkish chocolate. The instances wherein I do like dessert are as soon as per week while I move to a restaurant and have fun with a important fancy confection for 20-half-hour following an appetizer (however now not a meal/entree). There's lots extra I would speak approximately, however for the sake of time, I will finish with anything I believe is paramount to wasting weight--devour your contemporary end result and vegetables. When my vitamin is full of contemporary produce, lean proteins, lowfat dairy and entire grains, I've apparently located that I'm now not hungry among foods and for that reason devour much less total (when you consider that July 2004 I've misplaced approximately seventy five kilos, and it feels so well). So my fundamental hints are, drink plenty of water, comprise bodily undertaking into your day-to-day hobbies, and devour a good-balanced vitamin founded round contemporary end result and veggies. You'll be feeling high-quality and equipped to take at the international!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

150 lbs is not that big. You're still growing and your body is still working out your height and weight, so it's hard to say. I'd say you need to lose like, 5-10 lbs, if anything.

Answer 7

a mediterranean diet not only comes with heart benefits studies show it leads to more weight loss than low fat diets

Answer 8

Eat grapefruit before each meal

Answer 9

cut your wine calories in half by opting for chardonnay the lightest option as a wine spritzer equal parts wine and soda water

Answer 10

Never skip evening workouts

Answer 11

Regular water comsumption is more important because dehydration can make you thin you re hungry