I'm 13 and I already keep a food journal, count calories (trying to stay between 1,000 and 1,500) and work out...a lot. I still need to know some exercises and foods that help you burn fat, though. I am basically living off of smoothies, salads, and sometimes a treat like an eggroll or something but basically mostly salads and smoothies. I'm starting to get tired of them so if anyone has any recipes (that dont include seafood) that are only 300 calories or under will you please post them? Also if anyone can tell me how to lose more weight faster or something I'm doing wrong..please help. Thanx in advance!
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I would stop doing the smoothies as there are lots of calories in them; I know because my husband & I tried them for over six months and we did not lose very much weight. And we were still hungry afterwards. What really helped us was Weight Watchers and eating a variety of foods and of course exercise. You need to do aerobic exercise. Your body also needs to have energy (calories) to lose weight and I think you are actually giving yourself too few calories. I would try to up the calorie count a little bit, say to 2000. \n\nDrink your milk with 1 or 2% fat, eat apples and berries (lots of fiber) have some lean meat (like broiled chicken or pork loin), eat oatmeal (not the little packs but the real stuff) for breakfast (my husband swears by it-and he lost lots of weight by having breakfast) have sandwiches with low cal bread and low fat meat or cheese with mustard for lunch and have veggies like brocolli and carrots (broiled or steamed) with your meat for dinner. Do not eat fried foods at all as they will set you back a bit. And lastly, drink your water - you do not talk about that at all and that is probably the most important thing about nutrition and being healthy. It will also keep you feeling fullish. One last thing, I would strongly recommend going to a doctor and a nutritionist to make sure about what you are doing and before you start to do any of these things recommended by anyone on this topic.
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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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fresh veggies, all you can get.\n\nno more than 1200-1500 calories a day, you need to feel hungry nearly all the time.  OK, go crazy one day, have the ice cream, but then back to it.  No eating within 5hrs of bed, this is a model's mantra.  Empty the fridge of anything tasty.\n\nexcercise... multiple goals, no doubt.  walking is just about the best calorie burner for the buck.  Adding mass (muscle) will burn fuel faster (read increased metabolism), so as time permits, would add squats/lunges, and core resistance excercises.  Fat burning doesn't happen until the carbs are gone (30 minutes of walking), so weights first, walking second.\n\nMax safe weight loss goals, roughly 2lbs/week, you can do it, but it will be tight.
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I have recently lost 65 pounds & I will tell you what has helped me. When I first started walking in our local park I could hardly walk just a little. I started taking music with me in my walkman & I also use my exercise time to pray & talk to the lord. I quit drinking whole milk & slowly switched to skim milk. I quit eating things that are fried & if I happen to eat fried things I switched to olive oil. I quit using butter & switched to the I cant believe its not butter spray. Each day you exercise you will be able to do more & more each day. Small changes like swithcing from whole milk to skim really pay off. I also will work out at the gym a couple of times each week. but you dont have to join the gym for results. also right before lunch & dinner I eat a couple of hand fulls of raw carrots with fat free salad dressing & I drink plenty of water. That helps you to feel full & it has helped me to cut down on the amount of food I eat. when you lose just 1 pound you really start feeling so good about yourself. Then when everyone else sees your progress & they tell you they notice you've lost weight you get such a huge natural high. Its really all about the portion sizes you eat & exercise. Watching what you eat & exercise goes hand in hand & you cant do one without the other. If its just getting out & walking for 5 or 10 minutes each day that works. just keep doing it each day till you can build it up to 30 minutes & then before you know it you'll be going an hour each day. Also if you like company get someone that is encouraging to work out with you. If you love music like I do take it with you cause it really helps.  Also stop putting yourself down. YOU ARE NOT A LOSER. God bless you & I wish you the best luck!!! You are going to do it & you are gonna be just fine!!!
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to loose weight....\nA FEW THINGS TO REMEMBER:\nThe correct way to burn fat and stay healthy is to burn more calories than you consume\nYou need to make sure you are eating healthy foods while still excercising\nIf you have a big appetite drink plenty of water so that you will feel full but not consume calories\nBut you should always eat\nIf you start to skip meals you will only be more hungry at your next meal and probably eat way too much\nRemember, the average persons stomach is as big as a slice of pizza scrunched up into a ball\nSo you shouldnt be putting more food into your stomach than what fits\nAlso, it takes aproximately 15-20 minutes for your brain to realize that you are full\nso eat slower and you will realize sooner when you are not hungry anymore\n\nALSO....\ni found this artical called "50 Habits of "Naturally Thin" People\nHow to get Started:Decide how much you want to loose and see how many calories a day it will take to make it happen by year's end.Then, work into your routines however many of these eating tweaks and exercises you need to achieve your goal.\nSlash 250 cal.s a day to lose about 25 lbs. in a year, Slash 500 cal.s to loose 50 pounds.\nThis is based on a 150-pound person: you may need to cut more/ fewer calories depending on ur weight, age & gender. It also assumes your normal calorie intake essentially stays the same and your weight is stable.\n* I'm only going to give you the ones that are most helpful and burn calories. If you want more then email me*\n1.Wake-up Workout - When your eyes open, sit up slwoly w/out using ur hands. W/ legs straight out, lean forward until u feel a gentle stretch in ur back & hamstrings. Hold. Then, Using ur abs, lower urself flat. Rest & repeat 2 more times. BURNS 10\n2. Balance Booster - While u brush ur teeth, alternate standing on 1 leg as u switch mouth quadrants(every 30 seconds). BURNS 10\n3.Be a Ballerina - As ur coffee drips, stand sideways, put 1 hand on the counter, and lift the outside leg straigh out in front of u, keeping it extended. With upper body straight, hold for a few sec.s and move it to the side: hold and extend it behind u. Do 5x on each leg. BURNS 10\n4. Talk It UP - Every time u grab the phone, stand up & pace around. BURNS 50\n5. Carry Some Weight - When ur grocery Shopping/ running erands, wear a backpack with 5-10 lbs bag of sugar inside to increase resistance & burn more calories. Add purchases to ur load as it becomes easier. BURNS 20 (FOR AN HOUR OF ERRANDS)\n6.Pump at the Pump - While ur getting gas, With 1 hand on ur car, Stand on the balls of ur feet & slowly rise up & down for as long as it takes to fill ur tank. BURNS 10\n7. Shop till the Pounds Drop - at the mall try on at least 10 outfits- pants and shirts.BURNS 60\n8. Jog for Junk Mail - For every piece of junk mail u get each day, do 1 lap around ur house/ building, / up & down a flight of stairs. BURNS 35-140\n9. Play Footsie - After Dinner, while u are sitting at the table, extend your right leg out & slowly bend it up & down, squeezing & holding in the up position for at least 5 sec.s. Repeat 5x for each leg. BURNS 10\n10.Ease into Evening - sitting with feet uncrossed, grab ur wrists & raise ur hands above ur head to lengthen the spine. Take a deep breath in as u reach & hold the position, breathing slowly in & out for 20 sec.s, taking longer on the exhale. BURNS 5\n11. Sing a Song - Spend sunday morning belting it out in the church choir. BURNS 70 PER SERVICE\n12. Catch This! -\nSpend 30 min tossing a ball or a frisbee with ur kid/dog BURNS 90\n13. Make Whoopee - Instead of a bowl of ice cream as a bedtime snack, have a robust tussle with your spouse. BURNS 300\n\nGood Luck!!
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I delivered my fifth child November 29th, 2005.  I was 195 pounds at the time, after having the baby I was very determined to get back into my size 4/6 clothing, so I started eating every 2 hours, to speed up my metabolism, then I incorporated a 30 minute workout tape into my day.  The weight came off at a very steady pace, 1-3 pounds a week.  I'm now a size 8 and weigh 141 pounds.  I believe more weight would have came off on a weekly basis, if I were only able to get more sleep, I was averaging 2-3 maybe 4 ( if I was lucky)- hours of sleep a night. Try this and see if it works for you.  Eat every 2 hours- healthy for the most part- I mean, feel free to have the equivalent of 2 cookies a day, if you can't contain yourself, and when you eat your meals- eat them on a small plate.  That way you can control your portions.  If you have bad cravings in between eatings- then chew a piece of peppermint gum, or suck on a minty cough drop...also try drinking water.  Sometimes your body thinks it's hungry, when actually, it's thirsty.  So drink water when you get hungry and wait 20 min. for your body to take it all in, and see if you're still hungry, if you are, then eat.\nTo recap:  Eat every two hours (something healthy)- this includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Eat dinner on a small plate and make sure you have lots of veggies on it, no food after 7pm, and 30 min. of exercise a day- minimum.\n Here's An example of what I eat in a day:\n\nBreakfast:  a bowl of whole grain cereal with Silk Soymilk, and an orange or apple.\n\nSnack: (2 hours later)- Fruit, one serving size of crackers...\n\nLunch:(2 hours later)- a healthy salade, maybe a sandwich...\n\nSnack: (2 hours later)- 2 graham crackers, milk...then \n\nDinner: (2 hours later)- whatever I make for the kids- just more veggies on my plate...and on a small plate.  \n\nA third snack is optional, but no food after 7pm.  It really works.  You'll lose so much weight, and you won't feel starved.
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Hiya!  Ok over the last 6 months I lost 45lbs.  I researced the web over looking for the easy answers. But it comes back to age old news.. Nutrition and exercise.  I chose a low fat diet, much like a diabetic's diet.  Lots of fruits and vegetables, and my special touch was diet green tea made by arizona tea which has ginsing which helps promote the metabolism.  I exercised 3x a week 30 min at curves just cardio.  Believe it or not you do not have to starve, just eat healty and eat in portions, and exercise.  Eating portions I think was very important. When I started portioning my food I really realized at that point how much I had been over eating. An example.. I love spaghetti, but an acutal portion is 1 cup.  Put one cup on your plate lol and look at the difference from your normal portion.  And I thought oh god I'm still going to be hungry. Not... I added a salad, with low cal dressing and 1 slice of bread no butter only garlic.  You can balance your meal. And not be hungry.  But I also believe that more mature women need exercise and putting in that 30 min 3 x a week really works.\nI also took a daily vitamin.. Try the new oil of olay ones it is a multi package of vitamins.  And I found that these do not make me hungry.
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First off, if you need to lose weight, you sould look into activities that you can engage yourself in.  Sweating yourself off will help you lose weight more than having a healthier diet.  Choosing what you eat will support your weight-loss regimen further, though.\n\nOnce you've signed up for some great workout/exercises, try to rid your pantry off of any junk food and replace them with high-fiber foods (i.e. fruits and vegetables) that will make you easily feel full without adding on that much calories.  There are some "fun" snacks out there that can give you the satisfaction of having a bag of chips minus the fats - such as whole-grain snacks (i.e. Sun Chips) - but be careful of the salt/sodium content as this is notorious for water retention (added weight).\n\nYou are basically looking into an entire lifestyle change - one that you will be able to commit to for ... well, forever.  So think long and hard about this and have an expert help you lay out the ground work (i.e. a fitness instructor and nutrionist).\n\nLastly, and this may sound strange, but try to take 2 tablespoons of virgin coconut oil every night or have a constant supply of hot green tea during meals.  Both have been proven to promote faster metabolism in a healthy, realistic way; which means in a slow but steady manner.  Try to read more about these online or, better yet, talk to your nutritionist first.\n\nAs a moral booster, remind yourself that you are doing this not just to lose weight, but because you want to invest on a longer, happier life - the looking good part will just be a great trade-off you get from treating yourself really good.\n\nAll the best as you embark on this journey for a healthier you!
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You know, losing weight is difficult.  There are a lot of answers such as don't eat so much and exercise more.  Those are valid ways to lose weight.  The question is why are you over weight.  What I mean is, are you addicted to food?  Do you eat when you are upset?  Do you watch a lot of TV?  \n\nI suggest getting into an organized sport.  This way, you're a little more locked in to exercising.  People are depending upon you.  Try volleyball, soccer, or even karate.  If you get in to karate, make sure you spar.  You wouldn't believe the amount of calories you'd burn.\n\nYou also should see a dietician.  I say that because you are only 13.  You don't want to deprive yourself of essential nutrients that will hinder your growth.\n\nGood luck with this journey.  It is a long and difficult one.
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well, yes your having 1400 calories a day, but what exactly are you eating? You need to eat healthy...don't bing on the meats, eat fruits and veggies more than anything, and be sure to keep dariy and grains in it all. I suggest that you exercise, because it will help you burn up fat, walk/jog two miles a day, its helped me, and do crunches...all the exercise in the long run will also tighten you up. \nbut the main thing is eat healthy for sure.
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The 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\nYou are welcome to look at my 360 Blog of September 10 for more detailed suggestions.\n\nAloha
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I have this diet that always helps me, but it is very strict. If you follow it precisely you can lose up to 40 pounds in 3 months. The best thing to do would be to open up Microsoft Word on your computer and copy and paste the following diet plan:\n\n\nLow Fat Pesco-Vegetarian Diet\n\nNo more eating out, ever. Now, with school, this will be very hard, and remember that you don’t have to do this 100% strict at first, because it is almost impossible, because you will sneak and eat some things that aren’t a part of this diet at first, but it is ok. It’s ok to maybe still eat out once a week or once every 2 weeks. But the longer you are on this diet, and you are trying to stick to it, your cravings for all of the bad foods will eventually disappear, this may take a long time, though. But sometimes it may only take a month before your body is used to not eating these foods, and then it won’t be as hard. When grocery shopping, you will be shopping differently, because you will have to buy your own foods now plus the normal food you would ordinarily buy as a family. This sounds like a lot, and at first it will be until you have your stock of food that only you eat at your house. I suggest cleaning out a cabinet and making one little cabinet area just yours, so that when you go into the kitchen, you know that this cabinet is the only one you will be eating out of. This probably sounds a little crazy, but it is very time effective so that you don’t search through all the cabinets when trying to find something to eat, and so that it keeps you on track of the foods you should be eating.\nThis is a very strict diet, and you don’t want to mess your school work up with it, so don’t feel you have to rush, unless you just want to. If you don’t do the diet full-fledge, it could mess up your metabolism if you start and then stop, and start again over and over. But, if you do decide to stick with it, eventually you will get used to all of these foods, and at least you will be eating healthier and seeing a positive change. The first 2-3 weeks of this diet are the hardest, but if you stick with this diet for those first 2-3 weeks, you will be through the worst part. Then, it is okay to go out to eat and treat yourself. I suggest not eating out for the first 2-3 weeks to get your body adjusted to this diet. \n\nFirst of all, (very important) don't eat meat anymore, (except any fish, like tuna or salmon). This includes any soups that have a beef/chicken stock as the base. Most soups have chicken or beef stock as a base. So buy vegetarian vegetable soup...not just regular vegetable soup, and eat it for supper (I recommend buying Campbell's because the generic brand is bland). Other soups include Campbell’s Tomato Soup, or any brand, really, and Swanson’s Vegetarian Vegetable broth. \n\nThis also includes milk. No cow milk. Buy some Soy milk. I promise it is delicious. I use 8th continent original light soymilk. And this is 100% healthier than cow milk. This will help you out alot. Unfortunately it only comes in half gallons, and is the same price as a whole gallon. You should buy this once a week. Because a full glass in the morning with oatmeal is the best thing to get you on the right track fast.\n\nThe best oatmeal to start out with would probably be Quaker (or Great Value, the wal-mart brand is what I always buy) oatmeal packets with flavors like Strawberries and Cream, Peaches and Cream, Blueberries and Cream, etc, this all comes in one box of packets. Eat one packet each morning, I prefer using the soymilk in mine instead of water to make it taste better, and while you’re in the shower, it’s a good idea to already have your cup of milk in the freezer getting cold because it is best to drink it when its icy cold. After getting ready, I usually make my packet of oatmeal and drink my milk with it, and if it is icy on top, I take some of the icy milk and put it in my oatmeal to help it cool down, plus this makes it t
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Cardio.  Run, walk, bike, whatever you can do to get your body moving and your heart rate up.  Don't worry about weights or anything if you just want to lose fat.  Weights only build and tone muscle, the fat will stay there.  As for diet, I've always believed that it's never good to go on a diet to lose weight (I've lived with an anorexic, and I've seen what happens when it gets out of conrol).  A diet cant be just a temporary thing you do until the weight is gone.  You have to change you're entire diet, and change it for good.  Try cutting out sweets, soda, anything with refined sugar.  Stop eating all the fast food (if in fact you do eat fast food).  Don't eat more than you need.  Eat to live, not just to eat.
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good for you for not wanting to change what you eat - you're already on the right track: exercise!\n\nI recommend some all-body exercises: swimming and jump-rope.\n\nHowever I also recommend measuring your waistline or similar if you are trying to "loose weight" because you are most likely shedding fat but putting on muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat, so you are probably getting slimmer without loosing actual weight, which is perfectly normal and healthy.
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Well all vegetables and fruit, particularly celery which actually uses more calories to digest than is actually in the celery to begin with, same with cucumber i believe.\nLow calorie lunches that I use are things like heinz vegetable or spring vegetable soup, which are only like 190 calories for the whole tin, add one slice of wholemeal bread (i dont like it much but its alright with soup!!) and you have a nice filling lunch for 300 calories, which is great!! Thing to remember is to avoid sugar (I've dropped from 2 to 1 in my tea) alcohol, too much caffeine, fatty foods, ie cheese, mayo.  Also drink a lot of water! Helps flush you out.\nYou can buy detox tablets on the internet or from boots however I used BIOFIRM\nhttp://www.naturalife.ie/product.asp?cookiecheck=yes&numRecordPosition=2&P_ID=155&strPageHistory=cat&strKeywords=&SearchFor=&PT_ID=88\nThey are a little pricey but they do work, I've done 3 weeks so far, and lost 3 pounds a week all the time i've taken them.  Obviously u have to follow a reasonable diet!\n\nNow when it comes to exercise, I have found that when I go out walking, (i have a dog, and plus i dont have a car anyway at the moment) I walk twice as fast as I used to, simply because, to burn fat, the heart has to beat faster, so you have to be out of breath by the time you've finished!  Failing that I'm getting a cheap treadmill from argos, so i can do it when i'm watching tv!\nA skipping rope is also another EXCELLENT way of increasing your heart rate.\n\nAnything that increases your heart rate for 30 minutes or more, will burn fat.\n\nMore low calorie foods:\n\nFish (non oily ones, EG. cod in butter sauce)\nFruit and veg\nSoups *(they varie per tin, but generally, potato and leek, or veg soup, also are more filling!)\nSalad in your sandwiches (using wholemeal bread.)\n\nBasically, it doesn't take long to look on the back of packaging when ur making a meal, to find out how much calories they contain.  \nWhat got me started, (and I lost 1 stone 7 pounds in 4 weeks)\nwas this:\na woman on average has a recommended allowance of 2000 calories a day.\nI simply cut it down to 1500\n300 for breakfast (2 pieces of toast, or bowl of ceral and piece of fruit)\nbetween 4-500 for lunch.\nand 1200 for dinner, and I found that actually it was really easy and people over eat quite a bit to get 2000 calories!\nHope this helps, good luck!
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Try this healthy eating plan and increase activity. See how this goes!\n\nIf 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 calories. \nExercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved. \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 - multigrain 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. 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 and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1200 cal and 6 sessions again. \n\nGood luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.
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If you are looking to lose weight watch white foods. Seriously it works! White bread, white rice, sugar, pasta, milk, potato, and even cheese are all examples of foods that should be eaten in extreme moderation for a dieter. They are high in carbohydrates which are stored as fats in all but the real athletic bodies, heavy, and low in essential nutrients. So it is basically empty calories. Replace these white foods with a brown version. Like wheat bread, brown rice, wheat pasta, yams, and any other healthier options I didn'tt hink of. The brown version is full of whole grains, fiber (great for dieting!) and less calories. There is a ton more I could load you down with about dieting, but I though I would keep it simple for you. Feel free to e-mail me if you want more info.