I'm not overweight or anything, but I just want to lose like 15 pounds.  Could you like please help me and like when you write your answer be like detailed too.  Please try to include good websites too.  THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
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Eat moderately, exercise regularly, sleep at least 7 to 8 hours per night, avoid fried stuff.
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1. A safe level and effective level of weight loss that is about 1-2 pounds per week.. More than that could be unhealthy is is usually not lasting. Look to make lasting changes in your diet and lifestyle, then you will keep the weight off.  \n2. The only way to lose weight is to take in fewer calories that you burn. There is no secret to it. You can do this by dieting to lower your calorie intake, exercise to increase it, or a combination of both. Depending on your current activity level, even adding some walking into the schedule can help.\n3.  Muscle weighs more than fat but is more compact.  Adding muscle may make you look slimmer, and the muscle burns more calories at rest than fat so it can keep you slimmer.\n4. There are many effective diet programs that you can follow on your own or join. These programs do a few things: they can help educate you on proper nutrition; they help you control portions and calorie intake; and, they usually require you to keep a record of your eating behavior. Find one that is comfortable for you if you think it will help, or do it on your own.\n5. Writing down everything you eat over a few days can be very helpful in terms of identifying your problem areas.\n6 There are some helpul resources available from the US Government, including suggested diet and a calorie tracker that allows you to evaluate your food intake for calories and nutrients, and compare it to the calories that you burn through daily activities. I have some articles on my website as well. Links are shown below. \nGood luck!
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You can lose 10 lbs. in 4 or 5 weeks. Safest way is to lose 2-3 lbs a week. If you do more than, or do crash diets, and when you go back to your normal eating habits, the weight you lost will come back or even double! So take it slow ok? :)\nI started as 135 and I'm also trying to reach my goal weight which is 120. I lost my 3 lbs in 1.5 weeks. Here's what I did.\n\nFirst, WATER is very important. you must drink at least 8 glasses a day. It also helps suppress your appetite. Drink a glass when you wake up in the morning and before you go to asleep. Drink also a glass before every meal. And if you exercise, drink before, in the middle, and after your exercise routine. This helps you lose water weight.\nWater weight is all the water accumulated in different parts of our body because the body makes sure that it has a reserved "stock". So if you constantly drink a lot of water, the body will release the water weight (which is maybe 2-5 lbs)because it will think that the supply will always come.Ok? :)\n\nOh, and if you drink ICE COLD WATER extra calories are burned because the body can not utilize the water in its cold state. So it has to bring it to normal body temperature first.\n\nYou could also try green tea. 2 to 3 cups a day burn 80 calories. This has been proven. :) Add also lemon. :)\n\n\nEating smaller meals does help. Eat every after 3 hours. This is the time when the last meal you ate is fully digested. You must not go hungry because this will slower your metabolism.\nHere are some food suggestions:\neat foods with fiber: whole wheat bread, oatmeals or non-sugar cereals with skim milk. \nprotein: tuna in water, skinless chicken breast, eggs(not too much), low fat cheese\ncalcium: skimmed milk \n\n*It is also proven that calcium helps boost your metabolism.\n\nFruits but no bananas and Vegies but no potatoes. you can have as many as you like.\n\nYou can also have frozen yogurt. low/non fat.\n\nStay away from carbs like white bread/flour. I'm not saying you shouldn't eat them but a daily requirement is 50 grams.\nThe atkins diet tells you to take 25 g. This is dangerous and can lead to ketosis.\nStay away from sugars or starches. No sodas please. If you wish to drink fruit juices then buy fruits and use a blender. Those powdered juices have too many sugars in them. :)\n\nOh and if you wish to exercise but have no budget for gym or are too lazy to do it like I am :) hehehe. try the following while listening to your mp3 or while sight-seeing.\n\nwalking--250 calories burned an hour\nrunning--500 cal\njogging--900 cal\n\ngood luck! ;)
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Diet and excercise go together.  If you're 5' 7" at 150 you are of average weight, you shouldn't try and lose 20 lbs.  If you feel like you're fat, I suggest you excercise.  Do cardio and situps.  \n\nAlso, it's good to watch what you eat.  Eliminate junk food and fattening, oily food.  Also, it's best to eat about 5 - 7 small meals a day instead of 2 - 3 large ones.  The idea behind this is that everytime you eat, your body starts to break down the food.  The more frequently you eat, you'll trick your body to increase metabolism, which burns fat.
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you should try to lose 1-2 pounds a week\n\njust reduce your calories and increase exercise....make sure you are doing strength training, so the weight you lose will not be muscle
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Darling, there is no easy way to lose weight, no matter what you will have to do some exercise.  Just take your time to find out what you like, everyone likes something.  The first 2 weeks of exercising for the first time is going to be tough, but after that you will be fine.  Be your own trainer and nutritionist, the basic rules to losing weight are no soda, no fast food, lots of chicken, fish, fresh (not canned that’s bad) fruits and vegies, whole wheat stuff, yogurt. Not so many cakes and donuts and cookies. Basic common sense for eating, you just need to enforce it. Get all the bad stuff out of the house right away, just toss it or give it away while your still motivated. No alcohol and no smoking  if that applies. Some juice but make sure its all natural, because the ones that aren't are loaded with sugar and a leading cause in diabetes in children and adults. Lots of water, 3-4 liters a day, not all at once, but spread it out. Its really easy to down a liter or two while your watching tv or on the computer. Also drink some after you eat the bigger meals of the day, it helps your body pick out the nutrients in food when your food is more spread apart.  You also need to stay away from any sports drinks unless you’ve just had a long workout and then you need to limit yourself.  Most atheletes mix Gatorade with water because its two  complex for your body to get all the nutrients out of.  It needs to be diluted.  These rules may be hard to adapt to at first so start with cutting out the things you know you can live without.  Then work from there.  Remember these are  perfect eating habits, it can take you a while to work into it.  If you know you can’t live without your one treat a day, don’t fight it by trying to eat something else, just eat it and make sure that’s the only one you cheat on a day.  Otherwise you’ll get depressed and quit.  Another important point is getting the right amount of sleep every night.  You need 8-9 hours of sleep each night for your body to function correctly.  This is an important factor of losing weight.  Set up a routine for yourself and go to bed at about the same time each night.  \nAs for exercise, lots of cardio. Find something you like. If you have never exercised much before, start with walking 30 minutes a day at a brisk pace. Move on to different terrains that include hills and increase the time spent. After a week or two, try jogging the route. No matter what find an activity you enjoy. Walking to jogging is just an example, try hiking, rollerblading, biking. Once you get into a regular routine, if your not happy with the level of difficulty, try signing up with a gym. Spinning, pilates or kickboxing classes are great. It will also introduce you to working with weights. Talk to a trainer for instruction before using any weights. A cheap investment is a balance ball, it works you stomach while your just sitting on it, like at your computer and its great for posture. There are hundreds of exercises you can use it for for your entire body. I can give you some ideas if you want, just email me. Also for more info on the benefits of water go to www.watercure.com Good Luck! Honestly if you need anything else don't hesitate to IM me, krista_girl86 even if you don't pick me as best answer, i'd be happy to help.  Also check out the website for the tv show The Biggest Loser on NBC.  There are many, many helpful facts on there.
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Hi OH Girl!\n\nTo best answer your question, I would need to know your BMI, how tall and how heavy, what age.  \n\nHowever, I am going to assume that you are like most people and could stand to lose a few pounds.  Your best bet is to keep your calories at 1500 per day and keep up the running.  Your leg issue is probably where your body stores fat, thus, if you control the calories in, the body fat should start to come off that area.\n\nI believe this answers your question, but if not, you can shoot me an email at: gregg@leandownsite.com\n\nGood luck on your diet and fitness goals!\n\nTrainer Gregg\nYou can achieve anything you set your mind on.
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It depends on how heavy you are now, how tall you are, your age, and how active you are.   Most likely you can lose weight on that many calories.  Most of us need more than that to maintain weight.  You need to have 3500 calories less than you use in order to lose a pound.\n\nThese sites will help you figure out how many calories you need, based upon your current weight, height and activity level.  Best of luck with it.
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Congrats on making it this far.  I really don't see why you should need to lose that much more weight.  I'm the same height as you and 135 falls within my ideal weight range (something like 125 to 140 is ideal, if I remember correctly). So, at most you probably should only lose 10 more lbs, you don't want to be too skinny. Your body has probably just reached a plateau where the weight is going to come off more slowly now.  I'd suggest just going on a maintenance plan for now, then starting a diet again in a month or two.  This will allow your metabolism to regulate, then when you start dieting again the weight may come off easier.  Also, work on thinking of yourself as a beautiful person instead of nit picking about a little bit of chub here and there.  From your description, I'm sure you look great and just don't realize it.
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GIRL.\nright here.\n\nbut first off you dont need to lose weight. your BMI is normall\n\nwww.sparkpeople.com\n\n\n*okay so first, you sign up FOR FREE.\n*you enter your current weight, then enter the weight you would like to be by a certain date and month.\n*you answer some questions about what days you will workout and what days you will strenghten and tone your mussels. NO GYM NEEDED. its soo fun and easy too\n*then make personal goals for your self, it will give you options.\n\nthen it will set a nutrion, excersise, conditioning, personall goals and ect with the EXACT amount of calories, fat, protein, and carbs you need to eat a day to be the pounds you need to be by that certain date.\n\nits self explanitory and easy.\nyou workout three times a week\n\n\n(i sugest you burn more calories just because that means a healthyer better looking person. my fav cardio activeis that burn the most are volleyball, trampolean jumping, dancing around for like 10, and walking around the block for thrity)\n\nive been on this diet for 6 days now and ive already lost almost five pounds.\n\nits sweeet.\ntry it out. goodluck
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This is a GUARANTEED proven method of loosing 10 to 15lbs in only 2 weeks. GUARANTEED!!\n\nI have found that the fastest proven method for loosing 15 pounds without using any supplements is by doing the following:\n\n1. Eat 5 to 6 small meals per day ( every 2 to 3 hours)\n2. Eliminate all sugar, sodium and flour from your diet\n3. Eat at least one portion of protein and complex carbs per meal.\n4. Perform moderate exercise for at least 60 minutes every day (walking at a brisk pace), plus 20 minutes of resistance exercises at least every other day.\n5. Drink at least one gallon of water per day\n\nHow can I guarantee this you ask?\nBy virtue of elimating sodium alone you will loose at least 6 to 7 pounds. With the elimination of simple carbs and sugar you will loose an additional 5 pounds. Then, the addition of cardio and resistance exercises will bring you to at least 10lbs GUARANTEED!!!
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I have come across a safe and healthy way to lose weight recently. it uses health to help your body rid its self of excess weight from unhealthy fat and other fillers. I have already lost three pounds and half of an inch in a week. it also is great because once you reach you goal you move to phase to which helps you to maintain your healthy weight indefinitely. email me for more info or visit www.meltweightaway.com good luck! :)
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1. Go on a diet (I used the calorie diet and it worked really well) if you want more info on the cal. diet let me know Ill be glad to help! 2.Exercise, walk,run,swin, go to the gym anything like that will help\n3.Keep your self motavated if you dont you will just gain extra poundage \n4.Eat good foods dont eat junk, I mean every once in a while is ok but not everyday. \n5.If you are near a gym and can afford it that is a great way to lose weight. \n6. If you want more help just e-mail me @ trippleb93@yahoo.com
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You'll need to lose about 2 pounds per week, which is a little aggressive, but pretty reasonable.  You might want to join an organized program like Weight Watchers for the support and guidance.  If you'd prefer to do this on your own, try the Spark People website http://www.sparkpeople.com  You can do a menu plan and a workout plan there which is specific for your goals.  It's also free, which is definitely a good thing!\n\nCongrats on your weight loss so far!  Keep up the good work.
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I did the exact same thing, At age 13 I weighed about 125 and in about one month I lost closer to 15 lbs, right before I turned 14.  Totally normal.  Enjoy it and stay active.
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A couple of common questions here amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?"  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 then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.\n\nIf you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.\n\n\nAloha
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I tried it and did not notice a difference. If trying to lose weight the best thing is to eat something good for you every three hours. I lost 15 lbs in a week doing this.