Well as far as i've read there are two kinds of fat distribution in body apple type (predominant fat in abdominal region ) and pear type ( more in thighs and hips )...  plz provide me a plan for diet and exercise specific for this region.\nAlso tell me about the time it takes to reduce fat in the body... i am about 10-12 kgs overweight so if i am exercising and restricting high calories then in how much time can i expect to lose weight and how much?
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About fat distribution, everyone is different, but if you're trying to lose fat from one area, it can't be done without loosing fat from all over your body at the same time. You can try toning the area with leg excercises, but ultimately, it still won't be as effective as total fat loss.  Perfect example, those Ab-Rollers you see on tv, promising bodybuilder like abs in just 5 min a day. If you excercise and start loosing fat, the abs will naturally show...\nAbout your weight loss, don't try to lose too much weight too quickly, ie crash dieting. When your body reaches your ideal weight, you will start binge eating and put it straight back on... your best bet is to slowly reduce your calorie intake, make sure you eat breakfast with a low GI index, and don't eat late at night. Just by changing your eating habits you will re-program your metabolism which will be more effective.
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Weights DON'T burn fat. Dieting REDUCES THE SIZE of fat cells (fat cells hold your fat and they are like balloons --and they get smaller, as if you were letting out air.) \n\nWeights increase the size of muscles. So do a standard workout, as in any good weight lifting book or magazine and don't overtrain the arms. You'll only strain a joint and not get what you want anyway.\n\nIf you want to reduce the fat on your arms, diet. Fat cells get smaller all over the body in an order determined by your genetics. Some people lose fat first in the face, then the chest, then the legs and arms, then the butt and last, the stomach. For others, it can be in an entirely different order. \n\nJust keep doing weights and for best fat loss, 40 minutes a day of aerobics like vigorous walking. Which is what really burns that fat along with a diet low in carbs, sugars and fats.
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My older brother clued me into something a long time ago about diet....and thus far,  it's always worked for me.  Just check for three things on the nutrition label of your foods....check the fat, protien,  and carb content..if your protien and carbs are each more grams than your fat grams,  you're good to go.  Now,  we're all different,  and some diets work for some and not for others,  but I can tell you this....I have been many body types over the last 15 or so years,  and no matter what my build had been at any given time,  this one has always worked for me.  Good luck,  hope you get where you want!!
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There is no way to reduce fat in a certain area of the body (called spot reduction). To lose weight you need to burn more calories than you burn. \n\nTo lose 1lb you need to burn 3500 calories per week. That means 250 calories a day through exercise and 250 calories a day reduction in food intake. \n\nYou can find out how many calories you need to maintain your weight by using the BMR formula at www.caloriesperhour.com. Once you find out your BMR (basal metabolic rate) you can figure reduce that by 500 - 1000 calories per day to burn 1-2 pounds safely in a weeks period. \n\nI recommend strength training to go with any regular exercise program so that you also reduce INCHES which can show a flatter belly, tighter abs, and tighter thighs and butt.\n\nBest of luck to you!
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It's impossible to reduce fat in a site specific manner due to an exercise.That's referred to as spot reduction,it's a myth.Any form of exercise done on  regular basis,combined with a proper diet will help.\nFirst you have to cut calories below what you actually use during the day.You can find that number by calculating your basal metabolic rate.Just start doing an exercise routine you think you can stick with You'll see results in time.\nLook up spot reduction myth if you don't believe me.
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They don't work but this does: If you want to do this it is for life so you need to totally change your way of eating and exercising. This is not a diet rather than a healthy eating plan for life. So no more talking diet cause it means time limit. \n\nHere are the golden rules: \nInitially cut down to 1200 (women) - 1500 (men) calories. \nExercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved if you don't have the access. \nDon't eat carbs after 4pm, never eat carbs within 2 hours of exercise or within 1 hour of exercise. \nDrink 3 litres of water per day. You can have a green tea at the end of the day. \nLimit your fruit in take to 2 pieces per day. \nNever eat dinner after 6pm.\nAdopt of low GI eating plan this is sustainable for life!\nMake low fat dairy choices \n\nFollow this menu plan as a suggestion: \nBreakfast 7am - 1 cup hot water w lemon\n20 minutes later have a bowel of oats w water (no honey) OR\nfruit salad w low GI soy yogurt\nSnack 10am - pear or apple (both low GI)\nLunch 12.30pm - muligrain sandwich w 50g tuna & salad (no butter)\nSnack 3pm - low GI yogurt OR skim berry smoothie (no honey or banana) plenty of ice, 1/2 cup skim milk & 1/4 cup yogurt\nDinner 5.30pm - 120g grilled lean meat/fish/prawns/tofu patties (not fried) w spinach salad & mixed vegies (no whites, carbs) OR 3 egg white/soy omlette with ham, cheese and tomato\nSnack - 1 scoop of low cal low fat ice cream (if hungry)\n\nExercise is must be intense. Refer to www.bodybuilding.com for your weights routine. Never do weights two consecutive days have a cardio day in between. \n\nCardio needs to include running, go hard up stair wells and cycling. If you have access to a gym include boxing and spin classes as well. You get the most benefits from exercise when your body is totally fatigued and this is when you see changes. \n\nTo maintain you can increase calories to 1500 (women) - 1800 (men) and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1200 (women) - 1500 (men) cal and 6 sessions again. \n\nGood luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.
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Hi, I got best answer for this before (the first bit) so someone thought it was worthwhile information and I think I'll continue to use it until people start being sensible about their body image and stop bowing to what they think they should look like.\n\nThere is no such thing as spot dieting / exercising.  There is no such thing as a safe quick weight loss. Diets and diet pills don't work they just act on the pituitary gland and make the body lose water (hence weight). It's good to exercise as anything which raises your pulse and makes you sweat is good. It may also be that you're not having enough calories as the body goes into "famine" mode if it doesn't get enough norishment and stores anything it does get as fat, rather than glucose. Every cell in your body respires and this uses energy, ie, food. Without enough energy, your metabolism slows and food is stored as fat. Incidentally, who says you need to lose weight and do you really need to lose the weight? The only thing guaranteed to get a body healthy (note I don't say "lose weight") is to exercise and eat a healthy, balanced, wide variety of foods plus the occasional treat in moderation (this stops any food becoming "naughty" and therefore craved).  Eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables but don't skimp on meat, fish and dairy products - they're all important in moderation.  \n\nPlease note that body muscle mass weighs four times more than body fat because the fibres are so much closer together. Some fat is important on the body though as it helps regulate hormonal levels in the body and prevents osteoporosis and other bone wasting diseases in later life. Some fat is important on women as too little can cause periods to stop and fertility problems. Women are designed differently to men and a totally flat stomach and no hips isn't healthy on a woman. The question to ask yourself is - do your clothes fit better and how do you look in a mirror - not how much do you weigh. If you think you look untoned, then incorporate some light weights (low weight, high repetitions) into your regime.\n\nPilates works as a toning exercise.  I have friends who have taken up Pilates and although they never lost weight, their clothes looked fantastic on them, their posture improved and their entire bodies firmed up. I watched this happen and the change was quite dramatic. Pilates strengthens your core muscles (the ones that hold your skeleton in place) so correcting posture imbalances and making a slimmer shape. I believe that yoga also does this although I don't know anyone who has done this. Additionally, try dance (old style ballroom / salsa) as this is a fun way to tone up. Any excercise / activity that raises your heart rate and makes you sweat BUT IS FUN will ensure you stick to it and get fitter.\n\nAdditionally, drink lots of water. Lots of people eat when they are in fact thirsty. If you feel hungry, drink a glass of water first and if you're still hungry half an hour later, then eat. Eat sensibly and regularly and don't forget to eat breakfast (so named because it "breaks" the night's "fast"). Missing breakfast starts the day off badly as your body will just crave and store anything you eat later as fat.\n\nReduce your intake of fizzy drinks, alcohol and caffine as these act as antidiuretics (they hold onto the water in your body) which can give you a puffy look.  Avoid fruit "drinks" as these tend to be a bit of juice mixed with water and sugar.\n\nHope this helps.
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Congratulations on your great progress so far!  \n\nAs far as "fine-tuning," what the medical experts say about there being no such thing as spot reduction is true. If you, like most women, tend to store most of your body fat in your thigh and hip area, then continued reduction of overall body fat combined with resistance training is the only thing that will lean out those trouble spots.\n\nIf you are already working out five times a week, hopefully you are doing both cardio and weight lifting.  If you are not lifting yet, start to integrate it into your workouts.  A very basic split would be:\n\nM: Weights - Lower body\nT: Cardio - 30-45 minutes\nW: Weights - Upper body\nTh: Cardio - 30-45 minutes\nF: Weights - Lower body\nS: Cardio - 30-45 minutes\n\nTo accelerate fat loss, increase cardio to 5-7 days a week.   Incorporate lunges, leg presses, squats, leg curls, and sprints in your workouts if they aren't already in there to firm up the muscles in your lower body so it will look great when you do shed those last few pounds of fat. \n\nAt this point, diet is probably more important than the workouts.  Eating 5-6 small, balanced meals a day at a caloric deficit instead of 3 large ones will boost your fat burning.  \n\nAn easy to understand nutrition plan in this style is Body for Life - http://bodyforlife.com/nutrition/guidelines.asp
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Everything works as long as you stick to it.  Diets are just a temporary fix.... if you really want to keep the weight off you have to change the way you eat and exercise for good!!!!  I heard Lindora has a really good food plan (never tried it myself)... and for exercise....Curves is a great gym, and its WOMEN ONLY!!! so it's alot more comfortable to go to (I'm a member and I've lost 15lbs).... or if you want to work out at home you can try Turbo Jam. I just started it last week and I feel great...its alot of fun!  Well I hope I've helped some.... good luck!
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For tummy.\n\nEat less salty foods.\nDrink 8 glasses of water daily to avoid fluid retention.\nRemain physically active to burn calories. Different activities burn different number of calories. Choose an activity suitable for you.\nDo cardiovascular exercise (for at least twenty minutes, five times a week) like walking, jogging, swimming, bicycling, tennis, basketball, etc. You can also use a fitness ball. Remain in the target heart rate zone of the exercise intensity.\nWalking briskly for at least thirty minutes puts all of the abdominal muscles to work.\nAdd more mass to your muscles. Concentrate on all the muscle groups. Work down from the largest to the smallest muscles. Concentrate on these muscles in order: front and back of thighs, buttocks, back, chest, triceps, biceps, calves, hips, forearms and shoulders. Exercises with fitness ball or gym ball can be used for all the muscle groups.\nStabilize your blood sugar by eating every 2-3 hours. Know about glycemic index of foods and eat vegetables, fruits, nuts, berries, and whole grains with low glycemic index and low glycemic load values.\n\nfor hips.\n\nEat plenty of fruits, vegetables, wholegrain bread, pasta, rice, beans and cereal without any oily toppings. Choose low fat or fat free varieties.\nFlax seed oil and Evening Primrose Oil (EPO) gets converted to PGE1 and therefore are considered to be as fat burning supplements. The effect of PGE1 is to force fat to be used as fuel.\nExercise for fat Hips: Lay on your back on a flat surface on a floor mat with your hands on sides of your back. Move your legs as if you are cycling. Do it for 5 minutes daily.
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have you been eating more?  How long are you working out? and hour? half hour? Remember first that muscle weighs more than fat does..really...most adults should strive for 30 minutes of exercise everyday..to loose weight you'll need to increase your cardio and decrease your caloric intake..lost 22 pounds this summer...was really strict w/calories..no junk, no mid am snack, mid pm snack was steamed veggies, reminded myself that it was okay to be hungry, and worked out 5-6 days a week for a minimum of 60  minutes, more like 90 minutes a day...drank tons of water and iced tea..it worked but it was hard work...you can do this..have an epiphany to change your life and embrace good health
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First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.\n\n\nOn Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.\n\nDon't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful. \n\nThere is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below. \n\nThe most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode. \n\nAnother overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.\n\nTo lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.\n\nFor diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet. \n\nFat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.\n\nThere is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs
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Maybe you are taking in excess calories from the fruits. Certain fruits tend to be more calorie dense than vegetables and vice versa. \n\n1cup of water melon has 46calories\n1cup of papaya has 55 calories\n1cup of chopped apples 65 calories\n1cup of pear slices has 96 calories\n1 cup of mashed bananas has 200 calories\n\n1 cup of cucumber slices has 16 calories\n1cup of shredded lettuce has 6 calories\n1 cup of cherry tomatoes has 26 calories\n1 cup of cooked boiled cauliflower has 28 calories\n\nsee   www.calorie-count.com\n\nand so on\n\nmaybe if you examine the amount of calories you are taking in and their sources you may be able to pin point the reason why although you are working out you are not losing weight.\n\nAlso if your exercise consists of weight training exercises then you would be gaining muscle which weighs more than fat and this would give you the impression that you are not losing 'fat weight' when really you are!!!!\n\nIf you look at yourself in the mirror and notice a difference in your appearance although the scale says that you are the same weight it may very well be that you are losing fat and gaining muscle. Which is a good thing!!!\n\nSo keep up the training and the healthy diet!!!\nGood Luck
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Hey, we are on the same page. I'm 5'3'' and I weigh 125. I used to weigh 107...so I need to lose 18 pounds. I know this sounds crazy.....but I lose weight by eating one meal a day. I'll snack on fruits and veggies only. Limit your calorie intake. Your body burns about 10 times your weight. So right now, your burn about 1,140 calories in a day. There are 3000 calories in a pound. Slowly cut back your intake. I lost 20 pounds in 2 1/2 months doing this. Try eating about 500 calories a day. then youll burn about 600 calories a day + whatever excercise you do. But always snack on healthy foods throughout the day or else your metabolism with slow. NO SODAS.FRIES.CANDY! limit your bread and pasta/rice intake as well.
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The ONLY way to lose body fat is to do a slimming diet.  Exercise is OPTIONAL.  Exercise can increase your metabolism so that you lose weight quicker, but that's all.\n\nYou are not alone; many people think like you seem to -- and it is 100% completely WRONG!! Think about it -- anorexics are known more for not-eating than taking exercise.  Bulimia is an eating disorder, nothing to do with exercise.  Anorexics and Bulimics are stick-thin... yet I'll bet you know some fat people who are energetic, who do a lot of exercise.  Body-Builders and Gym-goers tend to weight more than fat people, and they eat more than fat people too!\n\nFor a height of 1680, you are more-or-less 10kg overweight, coming in just now at 83.5. At a sensible and modest average daily weight loss of 0.1kg, it would take 100 days for you to reach your target weight.  That means you would lose 1kg every 10 days, so it's not very difficult at all.\n\nFor you I would recommend that you shrink your stomach, detox and regain control over you metabolism by doing a 24 hour fast -- no food at all (no problem for a 20 year old, and fast have been part of most religions for centuries). After the fasts, simply follow these rules: (1) Chew all your food very well  (2) Drink 2 litres of water every day (3) Never ever ever drink carbonated or fizzy drinks ever (4) Always leave some scrap of food as waste on your plate -- never ever clear your plate (5) Never exercise at a gym -- it builds muscle which is heavier than fat, it is also a life habit that does more harm than good if you do not keep it up. (6) Walk a lot, walking is the very best exercise you can do, it requires no equipment (othe rthan sensible shoes), and is vwery sociable. (7) Pick any slimming diet -- fad or not... count calories, count points, whatever -- every slimming diet actually works!  The trick is keeping the weight from coming back -- and the only way to do that is to keep your portions down, shrink your stomach and drink water.\n\nJust remember, health is all about balanced diet, vitamins, minerals, supplements, diet, exercise, lifestyle, regimes etc... losing weight is simply about eating less, and particularly about eating less of the the fattening foods.
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im going through the EXACT thing (same weight range, too!!) to lose weight the healthy way, drink lots of water (NO soda), do low impact exercise (so you wont build up lots of muscle), dont eat after 7, eat smaller portions, and remember that fruit is your friend!! GOOD LUCK
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Never heard of this one ,,, interesting ,,, I lost 24 pounds and 2 3/4" in my waist in 30 days. I still have 27 more pounds to go which will be gone before Christmas. I did this on a no diet weight loss plan that is natural and healthy and only requires about 10-15 minutes of your time daily. You do not skip meals or have to eat or buy special foods and I even lost this without exercise. As far as a fat flush plan ... Hmmmmm