how do i lose weight when i can not do crunches, running, or pull ups to lose 10 pounds?
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Department of Health and Human Services\nFood and Drug Administration\n5600 Fishers Lane (HFI-40)\nRockville, MD 20857\nJune 1998\n(FDA) 98-1247 1\nLosing Weight Safely\n\nThe Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, is part of the United States Government. FDA requires most food labels to list the amount of important nutrients the food gives you. Use food labels to choose healthy foods for losing weight.\nIf You're Overweight, Slim Down for Better Health\n\nOverweight people have an increased risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, and other illnesses. Losing weight reduces the risk. This brochure tells you how to lose weight safely.\nAsk Your Doctor About Sensible Goals\n\nYour doctor or other health worker can help you set sensible goals based on a proper weight for your height, build and age.\n\nMen and very active women may need up to 2,500 calories daily. Other women and inactive men need only about 2,000 calories daily. A safe plan is to eat 300 to 500 fewer calories a day to lose 1 to 2 pounds a week.\nExercise 30 Minutes\n\nDo at least 30 minutes of exercise, like brisk walking, most days of the week.\n\nThe idea is to use up more calories than you eat. You need to use up the day's calories and some of the calories stored in your body fat.\nEat Less Fat and Sugar\n\nThis will help you cut calories. Fried foods and fatty desserts can quickly use up a day's calories. And these foods may not provide the other nutrients you need.\nTips for Cutting Calories and Fat\n\n    * Eat plenty of vegetables, fruits, and grain products like bread and rice.\n    * Eat only small, single servings of foods high in fat or calories.\n    * Eat less sugar and fewer sweets.\n    * Drink less alcohol or no alcohol.\n    * Choose foods whose labels say low, light or reduced to describe calories or fat.\n    * Choose 1 percent or skim milk products and reduced fat cheeses.\n    * Replace ice cream with fat-free frozen yogurt.\n    * Replace sour cream with fat-free or low-fat plain yogurt.\n    * Make sure fish, poultry and meat are lean. Trim skin and fat.\n    * Broil, roast or steam foods.\n\nEat a Favorite Rich Food, Sometimes\n\nThat may keep you from craving it. But eat only a small amount.\n\nMake sure your other foods that day are low in fat and calories.\nEat a Wide Variety Of Foods\n\nVariety in the diet helps you get all the vitamins and other nutrients you need.\nWatch Out for Promises of Quick And Easy Weight Loss\n\nFad diets aren't good because they often call for too much or too little of one type of food. As a result, you may not get important nutrients you need daily.\n\nRemember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't true.\nWhat About Diet Pills?\n\nDiet pills you buy without a prescription won't make a big difference in how much you lose each week or how long you keep the weight off. If you do use them, read the label carefully. Because of possible side effects, like high blood pressure, never take more than the listed dose.\n\nAlso, be careful about taking cough or cold medicines with diet pills you buy without a prescription. These medicines may contain the same drug used in diet pills, or a similar drug with the same effects. If you take both products together, you may get too much of the same type drug. This can hurt you.\n\nBefore taking a cough or cold medicine while using diet pills, ask your pharmacist if it's OK.\n\nPrescription diet pills may help some people. If you use them, follow the doctor's directions carefully.\nBefore Signing Up For a Weight Loss Program, Ask Questions\n\nDoes the Company:\n\n    * Explain possible health risks from weight loss?\n    * Explain all costs?\n    * Include weight control over a long time?\n    * Have proof of success, not just praise by other people?\n    * Give a clear, truthful statement of how you're going to lose weight, including how much and how fast?\n    * Teach how to eat healthfully and exercise more?\n\nDo you have
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Try to do these exercises until then...\nDaily workout schedule \n\n10:00am- 15 push-ups, 20 sit-ups, 25 leg-ups, weight lifts- 5 and 10 lb dumbbells\n2:00pm- 10push-ups, 25sit-ups, 30 leg-ups \n7:45pm-15 push-ups, 20 sit-ups, 25 leg-ups, weight lifts- 5 and 10 lb dumbbells         \n10:30pm-10 push-ups, 20 sit-ups, 30 leg-ups\n\nDoing these exercises Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday for 3 months, will result in huge weight loss. For those of you that do not need to lose weight, this will result a gain in abs, arms and leg muscles.  If you’re really outgoing (and don’t have access to weight machines), buy some weights and put them in a backpack. Wear the backpack full of weights while you’re doing pushups. Or just have somebody get on your back while doing them. Also, be sure to eat healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, ect...  Proper nutrition is important while doing workouts. Eating extra healthy foods during workouts will help give a boost for you body.\n\nThey should help alot.
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Eat right and exercise. Alot of cardio if you want to lose water weight or excess flab...ex: running, yoga, pilates. And then after you've lost the weight you want then get firm, built muscle, get toned...ex: kick boxing, yoga, weights.
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Most think doing crunches or sit-ups will do the job. But we are what we eat.. Think about that. I don't even know you but I am sure you need to look at your diet. I'm not bagging you, just it's the diet that's most important. Then exercise. Good luck !!!
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If you won't exercise, losing weight will be sloooooow. But you can start loosing weight by cutting out all the extra sugars and calories you don't need - like sodas, powdered juices, pastries, sweet desserts like pies and ice creams. You know what is fattening.  If you don't know, get one of those diet book and read it or search the internet on the foods they recommend you remove.\n\nAdding lots of vegetable fiber to your diet will also help. Fiber hastens the cleansing process of your system, removing the fat before it can be deposited into you system as only fiber can by encouraging elimination more often. Plus it helps give you a full feeling so you don't eat as much.
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go to gym, go jogging and have a good diet schedule for eating sweets and fat. But 10 kilos for a month is a lot. I really don't recommend that!
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Easy. Cardiovascular excercise. If you want to shift that weight - try running. Buy yourself a treadmill! It's the best investment you'll make. \n\nLeave the weights (including the crunches) till later on.
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Whatever you do, don't loose weight by not eating (completly) or by squeezing the weight in your belly out. Tips: Exercize daily (not too strenuous exercise) and eat healthy foods (vegetables and such). Doing a couple sit-ups (10-40 or 50 if you can) every day might help.
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Press ups and abdominal crunches are effective exercises that you can to at home without equipment and without taking up a lot of your time. They will tone your body and strengthen your core muscles which will reduce your paunch.\nHowever, if you have excess fat as well you will need to exercise for longer or more intensively to lose it, or reduce your calorific intake.
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First off, go outside. Go for walks. If you don't like running, go for bike ridees they work wonders. Do ab work outs. Crunches...sit ups..cruches but bringing right elbow to left knee. You will want to do high reps with little weight, unless you are planning on building musscle mass.
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try lifting weights. gaining some muscle raises the rate at which you burn calories, because it takes more energy to maintain muscle. and it will help you lose the weight.
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1. drink plenty of water\n2. stay away from white starches stick to whole wheat bread  stay away from sugar,and do not any starches after 6 pm because wyou need time to burn them off\n3.Eat lean meats such as turkey or chicken\n3. Do not eat at least two hours before you go to bed\n4. work out for forty five minutes a day, this means getting your heart pumping. If you like to walk make sure you are walking fast not strolling.\n\nMain thing burn more calories than you take in. You most likely can lose 10 pounds in a month if you stick to this.
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Walk or run outside several times a week, it's free. Try going up and down a few flights of steps each time too. Crunches or situps on the days you don't run--- it'll help flatten your tummy.  Pushups to tone your arms.  Or.... pop in a great CD or organize your favorite MP3s into a collection that has some peppy songs you can dance to and make up your own aerobics routing.  All kinds of thins to do, the hardest part is getting motivated to do it!! Good luck!
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Do not listen to the people that tell you to do crunches. Crunches only DEFINE muscle. They do not burn fat. To burn fat, you need to do atleast 30 minutes of cardio (your heart gets to pump) and every other day you need to do some kind of resistance training (either weight lifting or resistance bands). Crunches and other moves like that will only show their worth when you burn the fat around them!\nHope this helps!
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First, watch your carbs! Don't do the no carb at all diet, but cut out breads any kind of "white" food. That will help tremendously. Also, do aerobic exercizes such as walking, jogging, dancing, or aerobics....and with that...add in crunches at least three times a week...drink lots of water too...Good Luck!
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Eliminate as much fat as possible (eat more protein than carbs), run for at least 2 - 3 miles per day and weight train for about 1 hour after the cardio (I work out at least 6 days per week).  Cut calories down to 1300 to 1500 per day.  Lots of crunches, sit ups, reverse crunches, etc.\n\nI lost 10 pounds and got my six pack back in less than a month.
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I do crunches, push-ups, flutter kicks, sit-ups (regular & sitting v-ups), jumping jacks, etc. The ones that focus on my stomach are the sit-ups, crunches, and flutter kicks. What you might be missing that is a very important factor that is usually skipped is cardiovascular exercises. Are you including running in your exercise routine? If not, that might be the problem. If you are including cardiovascular exercises, the reason you might not be losing the belly fat might simply be due to your diet. Exercise and diet go hand in hand. I didn't lose anything until I changed my diet and I worked out everyday. If you are including cardiovascular exercises and you are eating healthy all you probably need is persistence and patience and that extra tummy will be gone in no time.