Help with Diet?
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I think your weight is great right now, especially for your age but if you want weight loss info: The only variable you can really control is exercise. Find a method exercise that you enjoy and do it every day. The key is to try something until you like it and look forward to it. Find at least three things that you really like. If you need help with motivation download some music or podcasts or books on tape to enjoy while you work out. 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 and it makes it harder to lose weight again after each diet, which is one of the reasons it's hard for older people to lose weight. They've already ticked off their bodies. 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.
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.
i am 5 ft in my 30's and i weigh 99 pds. my secret is having whatever i want BUT everything i ever eat is a child's portion. i have not increased portions since 8 years old.
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I'm 58 and can relate on troubles of dieting later on in life. However, most diets want you to move. Let me suggest that you reach for some weights. Five (5) pound dumbbells will work just fine. I assume that your inside environment is air conditioned, so that shouldn't be an issue. You can lift the weights in a variety of ways. If you like to read and I think you do or you wouldn't be a minister, there are a number of books in your local bookstore that will help with the how to part of your program. Good Luck
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