I want to loose 5 lbs. by august 28?
Question:
can it be done?
i need excersizes and nutrition info pleasee.
this would be greatly appreciated.
Answers:
First and most important, your diet. I dunno how good it is now, but here's pretty much the healthiest way to lose the weight with regards to food:
1. Instead of three large meals a day, eat between five and eight small meals, depending on how big an eater you usually are. This makes sure that your metabolism never has a chance to slow down. Also, the less time you go being hungry, the better, as you're more likely to overeat or eat the wrong things when your stomach's rumbling and your energy's flagging.
A 'small meal' would consist of a serving or two of vegetables/fruit and maybe a couple of crackers. Not that you have to eat veggies and crackers, just so you get the idea of the size. But you should have at least one, preferably two, larger meals.
2. Use the Food Serving Guide to understand more about what and how much your body needs to stay healthy. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-...
3. Eat only lean meats, preferably NO red meat, and pork only rarely. Fish is best for weight loss.
4. Find low fat/low calorie anything and everything. Condiments, packaged snacks, candies, so on and so forth.
5. Eat only whole grains, as they take longer to digest and leave you feeling full for longer. Not to mention refined flour is completely awful for you.
6. This is not so much with the being healthy, but it will help you get into the routine of healthy eating.
For the first three days, at least, eat less than your body wants. If you've been eating three large meals a day, your stomach is larger than it should be, and if you keep eating as much as you want in smaller portions, you're not going to make a lot of progress. You'll make some, but not as much as you would otherwise. So if you feel like being extreme, cut the amount of food you want at a meal roughly in half. If you want two servings of carrots, eat one. If you want half a cup of yogurt, eat a quarter cup. For a sandwich, only use one piece of bread, rather than two. I wouldn't recommend cutting your consumption in half, though. It would be an awful few days. What I did was cut my consumption by a third. I was constantly hungry, but I only did it for a few days and it was worth it - shrunk my stomach a good amount, which made it much easier to deal with eating smaller meals.
7. Look at the nutrition info for absolutely everything. Calories, fat, carbohydrates, sugars, and sodium are what you should be looking for, mostly. If you're eating a variety of foods throughout the day, vitamins shouldn't be a major concern.
If you're really desperate, count the calories of everything you eat. But it takes a lot of patience and can be discouraging. Since this is for weight loss, try to get it so that you're eating 1200 calories a day. If you were doing this strictly for health, you might be eating a few hundred more. But again, I don't recommend calorie counting. It's not much more than a pain in the butt.
8. Drink only water, at least eight glasses a day. Pop, as you should know, is a major no-no. If you look at the nutrition info on the packages, you'll see that juice is almost as bad. If you must have a drink that tastes good, try flavoured water. It's not perfect, but it's much better than juice. You could also have fresh-squeezed juice as part of your breakfast, but you'd need a juicer.
9. Allow yourself to cheat sometimes. A piece of pizza isn't going to ruin you. But if you're going to cheat, do it the healthiest way you can. Frozen yogurt instead of ice cream, veggie pizza, hard candies (they last longer than soft, meaning more satisfaction, fewer candies), instead of a bar of chocolate, a couple strawberries dipped in it...you get the idea.
Finally, the exercise bit. Less complicated and long-winded than the food stuff.
At least 30 minutes of exercise every day, preferably more. Make sure it involves cardio. The gym is best for helping you get your exercise more organized, but if you haven't got the money or don't like them, jogging/walking/sports work too.
If you do want to try a gym, start with a half hour workout of only cardio. Treadmill, bike, elliptical trainer, stairmaster. Whatever. After a couple sessions, either truncate your cardio time or lengthen your workout (which is better) to involve strength training. Don't depend on strength training for fat loss (though it does also burn fat), but for muscle toning. If you've gained weight, chances are your muscles have gone a bit flabby, too. But muscle toning/building takes longer than getting rid of fat, so don't expect to make a ton of progress by the time you start school.
If belly fat is an issue, crunches will help a lot. Full sit-ups don't work your abs quite as much. This can be done at the gym or at home. That's pretty much all I've got exercise-wise.
If you follow this, even generally, you should be able to lose the weight in time. I lost five pounds in two weeks on this diet plan, and that was before I started exercising. If you start exercising right away, you might lose more.
i want to lose weight too before school starts...good luck.
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