IT SEEMS TO NOT HELP  LIKE I HAVE JUST LESS THEN A WEEK TO TONE MY ABS  for a swimming party but how can i lose about 10 or 5 pounds in a week ? any answers ? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I AM IN A NEED I WILL DO ANYTHING EVEN  RISKY it seems to me that i keep getting cravings for junk an cant help myself also that i keep getting muscle on mt stomach but it is fat under it .when i only want muscle and flat .not fat and muscle on top it just doesnt look right
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Eat sensibly.\n\nYou will lose more weight faster but doing anarobic activities - like weight lifting or push up than doing strictly aerobic attivities.
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I tried to lose weight for a while, and no amount of cardio got off the last 30 or so pounds.  I was introduced to a cleansing and nutritional system by my mom, who lost something like 40 pounds in a few months.  Anyway, I got on this cleansing system, which cleans out toxins and impurities in your body and i lost 30 pounds in 6 weeks, energy is super high, and just felt awesome. It's been over a year now, and I've kept it off with this system and feel great every day.  If you're looking at a great way to safely and quickly take off fat and get healthy, you should give this a good look.  I'd be glad to share it with you, send me a message. Good luck!
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Well, please allow me to be honest. I am a medic in the U.S. Army, and I myself was around the same weight at that age. First things first. Lets take the focus off your abs. That will come with time. Right now you should focus on your overall health. You know as well as I do that this is not healthy. You want to be more concerned about your heart than your abs. So, lets get started. Eat more. I know it sounds wierd, but try eating 5 meals a day, but smaller portions.  This will stop you from starving yourself so that when you do eat its enough to feed a small country. And what do you do for exercise? Do you have P.E. in school? If you do, thats not enough. Start by doing some walking. Work up to a slow jog, eventually start running.  Do some push ups, if you can.  Those are a whole body exercise. And of course some situps. These will attack those abs. But more than any thing, you must have persistance. Stick with it. Don't give up. if you don't lose weight right away, don't \ngive up. That is something I learned in the Army. Never accept defeat, and never quit. The more you exercise, the faster it will come off. I think you have my e-mail, if not it's: johnnewmaniii1@yahoo.com. Feel free to e-mail me if you have any more questions. I hope this was helpful.
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It will take a little more than three weeks... be patient. Also, you have to lose the fat before the flat abs will show. It's all about calories in, calories out. If you are working out, but still eating more calories than you're burning, you won't lose any fat. Plus, the more muscle you have, the more fat you'll burn. Try lifting weight, not just cardio all the time.\n\nAbove all else, 114 at 5' 4" is skinny. At 16, you just have a little baby fat still. There's nothing wrong with you.
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It's not as weird as you think.  \n\nWhen you lose fat, you cannot chose where it falls from - in this case your stomach.  The body part where you have the most fat will be the last place you lose fat from and will take the longest.  \n\nI recently lost about 10kg and I lost weight from places I didn't think were fat, like my wrists and fingers - my watch and rings are now too big for me!\n\nDon't just have bursts of activity to try and decrease your stomach size as this will take forever.  Go for a 30min power walk 4 or 5 days a week and strength train with weights and your own body weight (squats, lunges).  The more muscle you have the more calories you will burn.  \n\nAvoid salty food as this will make you look bloated.  \n\nCrunches will not make your stomach smaller.  They will work the muscles under the fat, but if you don't get rid of the fat, you stomach may end up looking bigger (because of the muscles underneath) rather than smaller.  \n\nStick with doing cardio at least 4 times a week and strength at least 3 times a week.  Do your crunches for 5-10mins three times a week.\n\nTh most important thing is to not give up.  Yes, it will take a while to see results, but you will see results if you keep at it.\n\nAll the best...
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Look! You have to be strong for your self forget the friends! Do you want this? First of all this is not a quick process loosing takes time and focus with dedication. Instead of eating junk think of things that will take away your appetite like pickles. eat watermelon it fills you up and it is a water source. eat on a saucer rather than a bowel or normal size plate. Watch your calories and carbs when you think your hungry drink water or fruit. If you need sweets buy low fat sweets and try to wing your self away from them. do crunches at night 2 hours before bed and when you wake up in the morning, the more you tighten your stomache muscles the less you will want to it. Our stomache's are not big we stretch them by over eating. Focus and keep in mind that you can do it You are on control Not the weight! good luck!
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You need to hit the gym babe and you gotta go on daily jogs. Do 100 to 200 situps each night. You should see results. Oh, and it may sound prissy, but Pilates really work too! My stomach got flatter and I formed some abs in about a month of all that and eating right. You're doing great with the eating(make sure your portion size isn't too big). You're half way there!
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You are on the right track. You won't lose weight overnight, if you lose a pound a week you are doing great. \n\nI used to be a model/actress as a teenager, I still worry about my weight levels. \n\nWhenver you lose weight quickly, let me give you an example: Putting on your heaviest sweat suit and running 5miles, while drinking water. You lose 10lbs instantly. Those 10lbs however are water-weight. Which is not good to lose that quickly, because you risk dehydration. \nAlso, you tend to gain 20lbs back just as fast. \n\n9 out of 10 over the counter diet supplements don't work. I have tried them first hand. This includes the Hollywood Juice.\n\n\nKeep up with a healthly balanced diet complete with meals that inlcude something from the 5 basic food groups. When you want Ice-Cream eat frozen yogurt or enjoy some home-made desserts. If you love Oatmeal, make some oatmeal rasin nut cookies, cut the sugar from the recipe in half and use brown sugar. These cookies are so healthly you can plastic wrap them indivisually on like a Sunday and eat on them all week for Breakfast. They are packed full of nutrients and they are cheaper than Store bought health bars. \n\nIf you want more adive feel free to e-mail me at: Diamondheart16@yahoo.com I am 22yrs old. Female living in Honolulu, HI!
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Hello, here is what you need to do, if you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off. Eat 6 small meals a day about every 4 hours. Only the size of your fist, carbs in one and protien in the other. exercise every day, Monday cardo, tues upper body, wed cardo, thurs lower body, fri cardo, sat upper. Sunday eat anything you want and dont exercising, you do this on sunday so your body doesnt freak out. if you stilck with this you will have a great body. also drink aleast 8oz of water daily! You can do it in 12 weeks and see a 70% turn around but you have to be serious
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I agree!!! It's doesn't help you lose your belly. You should really consider doing cardio exercises at least 3 times a week; along with jogging. You will see better results instead. Drink a lot of water too. Try this website below. It will tell you a lot about ab workouts. It help me alot.
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4-7lbs of fat loss per week is not advisable nor is it easily achievable (you can lose water weight, but that is not healthy).  Just tailor your workout routine to lose 2lbs of fat per week and if you happen to lose a little more then great.  100lbs of fat is a lot to lose, but I have seen it happen and since your "ideal" bodyweight at your height is about 155lbs (formula for a woman is 100lbs + 5lbs for every inch over 5ft tall) that should be possible.  A lot of your extra skin will shrink back, but you may still have some loose skin but I guarantee you will be much happier without all that extra unneeded bodyfat.  To put this in perspective, just think of it as you are carrying the equivalent of roughly 15 gallons of fat on your body every day.  But you are young and now is the time to change your life and shed that extra unneeded weight.  The best way to do this is to raise your metabolism which can only be achieved through building and maintaining muscle since muscle is the only thing in your body that burns calories (and it does it all day long including while you are sleeping).  Fat does not burn calories.  I recommend using a 3-4 day a week full body resistance exercise routine (ie. lift weights, preferably free weights where possible) and supplement this with some cardio and a healthy low-fat non-processed food diet.  At the beginning of this workout you may not notice much change if you are paying attention to the weight scale, but this is because your body is gaining muscle while losing fat.  You will instead notice the changes in the mirror and in how your clothes fit.  But make sure you don't stop here.  Keep going and your muscle gains will slow down (your body will come to a natural balance), but your fat loss will continue as long as you continue your workout routine and healthy diet.  If you start to become bored with your workout at any time, change it up and add something new.  Or try a new outdoor activity in place of a workout.  Before you know it, you will have lost your weight and will be worrying about your pocketbook as you go out to find new clothes to fit your new great shape.  Good luck.
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Hey, I hear ya.  Start doing some cadio to uncover the layer of flab; then do crunches for the top of your abs, and leg raises for the lower part of your abdomen.  And keep going on the diet.  The 30 minutes of cardio 3 or 4 times a week are just as important as the crunches and leg raises. ok?  goodluck:)Oh, you can do the cardio and the crunches together.  Just alternate days; that's what I do.:)
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It might sound weird, but maybe you're not eating enough. You're doing a lot of exercise and burning a lot of calories, which is AWESOME. I know that in order for me to lose weight when I exercise a lot, I have to eat my activity points (on Weight Watchers). I've lost 50 pounds on it. I hit a plateau as soon as I lost 20 pounds as started exercising. I couldn't understand it...why am I exercising like crazy and not losing weight? I started eating my activity points and the weight just started dropping off. I mean, like, instantly. I lost about 8 pounds in two weeks once I started eating a little more each day that I worked out. I think it has to do with your body going into a starvation mode because it's losing so many calories. If you have any other questions about it, I suggest you check out the LJ forum that I post on. It's full of helpful weight loss tips. Here's the link... http://community.livejournal.com/_weightwatchers/ Good luck! :)
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You definitely have to try a Pilates class or get a Pilates DVD or VHS and work out to it. I have been trying to get rid of my belly fat for the past 3 years (since my son was born). Since I started going to a pilates class in February twice a week I have noticed a HUGE difference in the shape of my stomach, butt and legs. I am 5'6" and started out at 130lbs and now weigh 121 lbs. I have lost 9 pounds in 3 months and I can wear clothes now that I wouldn't have a couple of months ago. I also try to watch what I eat and drink water, water, water!!! There is no magic pill or supplement that is going to make you get rid of your weight...you just have to be willing to work hard for it. Trust me..I wasted three years on all of those stupid little tricks that we all hear about and got nowhere. Stay focused and work hard!! Good Luck!!!
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I am in the same boat w/you. If you dont act now, you're going to slowly put more weight on.  I didnt' notice when i went from 120- to 135 at all, so its good at least you're noticing. I acually went from 120- up to 150 and then i noticed it!! Scary.well anyway.. to your question. There is no safest, fastest way. Everything has its consequences. My best advice to you is to eat alot of vegetables and fruits. Eat meat only twice a week *boiled meat* is the best. Dont put it in the oven or grill Boiled meat in my opinion is the best, it will probably taste like crap, but it is the smallest in calories (it has to be lean too). Boiled fish, and stuff. I heard cabbage soup works too. Just cabbage, carrots, you can put lots of spices in it. Try eating it for a couple of days( i don tknow if you can eat it for a week) but if you do, guaranteed 10 pounds loss. I Have tried cabbage soup before it works great. Just make sure its only cabbage, carrots, spices, no potatoes!!! If you eat it for a week, you will loose 10-15 pounds. Tummy weight a lot of sit-ups. and jogging. Good luck!! I know its hard, butyou got to catch the beast early, because it only gets harder when yhou have to loose like 30 pounds and 40 pounds!! Also try to get a gym buddy if you can; i wish i had one!! hehe Good luck again, i hope this helps!
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Over the past 6 months I’ve researched the internet looking for how to do one thing.  How can I get defined and toned (see my abs).  In other words, how can I lose weight and gain muscle effectively.  What I found is this.  For one, it’s not one goal, its two separate goals.  Before you say it, doing both is possible but your results will be so minor it will take years to see the changes.  I’ve been in a gym for 5 years and the only thing I’ve gained is I’m in good shape!  Stop following workout magazine routines!\n\nAfter learning everything I could, 6 Months ago I decided to focus on each goal for a period of time (this is how to see results up front and each week).  I started with weight loss otherwise known as cutting.  To lose weight you have to create a calorie deficit and once that deficit reaches 3500 you’ll lose 1 pound.  You can do this by cutting your calories or increasing your activity level.  You should do both.  While doing this you also need to drop the “bad” fat!  Your body will burn the newest stored fats first before it gets to the older stored fat, which is covering your abs.  All fats should come from lean meat, nuts, olive oil, and good ole fish!  Your eating habits can stay the same but eating “good” nutritional food is a must.  To find your abs you must do cardio, cardio, cardio, cardio, and more cardio while eating good foods and creating a calorie deficit.  Never go below 1800 calories if you’re a male.  I’m 5’9” age 33 and I cut my calories between 2000 and 2500 while increasing my cardio. A good way to estimate how many calories you eat a day is to log your food on fitday.com!  I did this for 1 month and was shocked how easy it is to eat 3000 in one day!  I created a deficit between 500 and 1000 a day by running, biking, and weight training.  At this point I was looking a little to thin because losing weight will burn muscle at a small rate.  No way around it even with increased protein and glutamine.  That will only slow it a little.  Then I switched to focus on muscle gain!\n\nIn order to gain weight you must create a calorie surplus (500 or more over).  You must weight train hard for 1 hour at least 3 times a week.  You will exhaust stored glucose within 30 minutes of lifting weights so the key is to hit it hard and fast (but take those small breaks in between sets)!  Overtraining is the number one reason people in the gym look like they’ve never been.  \n\nIn conclusion, I focused on one goal at a time.  Right now, I switch every week.  During weight loss I cut calories to 2000-2500 and eat every 2-3 hours and limit fat intake.  For males to see there abs, you must drop below 10% body fat and the only way to do that is cardio, cardio, cardio, and eat right every few hours!!  Since you increase your activity level you will need to eat often to maintain enough energy to do cardio.  You will also lift weights during weight loss.\n\nDuring weight gain, eat the same as you are during weight loss between 2000-2500 a day but use protein muscle gainers to increase your calories to create a surplus of 500 or more a day.  Lift weights and cut the cardio down to no more than 2-3 times that week not to exceed 30 minutes (best done on your off days from lifting).  If you do cardio on the same day you lift, lift first so you use all stored energy for max weight lifts!  When you switch back to weight loss, just stop taking the muscle gainer.  This is how you keep your eating habits the same.  If you would like to contact me to discuss my results and advice, my email address is wgclewis@yahoo.com.  \n\nI would start with weight loss for 2 months before doing the switch every week. It’s best to lower your body fat before trying to gain muscle.  In short the only way to see your abs is to drop your body fat that’s covering them.  Fat will come off in reverse of how it was put on.  For males fat is stored in the love handles and midsections first and then through out the whole bod
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Yes, it's possible to lose 10 pounds in 3 weeks but it's not healthy and you will probably end up regaining some of the weight. 1 to 2 pounds/week is the best way to go and you will keep them off.\nI think you'll be ok losing 5 pounds but 10? It seems a bit excessive to me for somebody your age and your height.\nDon't forget that men in general like women with curves, not rails.\nGood luck.