Weight Loss

i’m 14 years old
5′4” tall
180 lbs.
i want to weigh around 120-130
how do i make a weight loss plan that will work well resulting in me weighing about 120 by december of 2009?
any suggestions or plans are welcomed and very helpful
thanks

I’m in the same boat.
I’m 16 and weigh 180.
My new years resolution
(starting tomorrow though)
is to loose weight and be 120-130

I am going to eat less and watch what I eat…
Kick out all soda and anything else and start drinking tea and water and those crystal light 5 calorie things, if you dont like drinking water… some people don’t like my little brother.

Eat more fruit and veggies, try to stay away from a lot of carbs like breads. Try to switch to wheat bread instead of white.

Another thing is to keep a book of what you eat and use
mypyramid.com to calculate your calorie intake, making sure it’s in the right place not too high or too low.

Eating breakfast is another thing, I NEVER used to eat braekfast, but if you do it raises your motablism and you burn fat more.

Work out at least 30 minutes a day, you can break it up into two 15 minute sessions or whatever you’d like.

Try to get friends or family into helping you as well. My mom helps me out by ketching me when I try to cheat, ha. Or I go on walks with my friends.. anything to stay active. Get invloved in a sport.

Last but not least weight lifting!!! It’s pretty easy to do and the more muscle you build the more you burn IN YOUR SLEEP! =D

If all else fails, you can always do what I do as a fall back plan, Slim fast, it’s really simple shakes and bars and it even suggests things on the packages!

Lauren describes her first week on the Atkins Diet program.

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Ok so I went to this site that calculates your daily calorie needs. It says that to MAINTAIN in my weight (250), given that I consider myself lightly active, I should eat 3575 calories a day. Also supposedly, if you want to lose 2 pounds a week, you need to take 1000 calories less than what you need to maintain your weight.

Sooo, if I eat 2000 calories a day, I should lose a little more than two pounds a week.

My plan is to eat 2000 calories until it takes less than 3000 calories to maintain my weight. According to this calculator, that will be around 210 pounds. It says at to hundred pounds, I can eat 2860 a day to maintain. So at that weight, I am going to eat about 1860 a day (1000 less than what I need to maintain). I will do this until I reach 160. Then I should be able to maintain around 2288 but before I go back to that, I’ll be eating what I need to still lose until I reach the 160. Does this make sense?
I know that 3500 isn’t going to help me lose. I’m just saying that eating that supposedly will maintain my weight which is way way way to high anyway.
And I do exercise. I go to curves 3-4 times a week(actually pushing myself on the equipment). Also I try to walk twice a week.
Here’s the calculator I am using.

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_6_1x_Calorie_Calculator.asp

Honestly, no.
Forget the calculator stuff. Basic intake is around 2,000 cals.
Most people on a diet it around 1,600-1,800 calories. That’s what you need to do.
Eating 3,575 calories a day? Not good. It’s not going to help you "maintain" 250 lb, you’re definetly going to GAIN weight. Unless you NORMALLY eat that much.
To cut a pound a week, it’s true that you need to take 1,000 calories less. Less than what you NORMALLY eat. Track what you eat and calculate off that. I don’t really trust this weight/calculator business, because in my opinion it doesn’t take a lot of other major factors into account.

Want to lose weight? Simple plan. Hard work.:
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- Load up on the veggies & fruits. Lowest calorie plan out there, totally natural. Find your favorites – I like mangoes & strawberries, I can a whole box in a sec!
- Cut the junk food. No sodas, my dear. No candy. I guess it’s ok to indulge, but not daily. Try to find substitutes, or balance it out [like chocolate-dipped strawberries].
- Lots of water & sleep. Water flushes out toxins, keeps you healthy, and increases metabolic rate. Sleep – can we ever get enough? Like a cute saying I heard the other day, you can buy all the diet pills and organic food you want, but water is cheap and sleep is free.
- Careful of what you snack on! A bite of your friend’s cookie, a swig of Coke from your co-worker, a couple fries from your sister’s McDonald’s bag can all add up to 700 cals a day.
- Exercise. Yes. You have to. Dieting is fun and all that [yeah right] but exercise helps you get there a lot faster and STAY there. You CAN indulge in that occasional Snickers if you exercise. Yoga, running up stairs, fitness tapes, jumping rope, gardening, kickboxing, swimming, lacrosse, basketball, tennis, cardio dance, millions of jumping jacks – whatever works for YOU.

You’ve heard this all before, right? Because it’s what WORKS. It takes intense determination, and may need some restarting over and over. I know. I’m on day two of my millionth diet plan and just dug into some peanut butter. But hey! I did cardio dance today.

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Michael describes his third week on the Atkins Diet program.

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What weight loss plan do you follow and has it been successful?

Well right now I’m not dieting because I’m 33 weeks pregnant but have only managed to gain 17lbs . I stick with 5-6 healthy small meals a day and weight train / cardio 4-5 times a week.

Pre-pregnancy I was 127lbs with low b/f% and weight trained 5-6 x’s a week w./ cardio . I ate VERY lean – high protein , low carb and low fat with one cheat day a week .

After gaining almost 60 lbs. from my last pregnancy, I REALLY need to lose the weight. I am contemplating joining weight watchers, but am not certain it is the best plan for me. I cannot afford ANY diet plan that costs money, but I am desperate. I want to learn to eat more healthy foods and change my lifestyle. I know I could do this on my own without the support of a diet plan, but I need everyone’s opinion. Has anyone lost a lot of weight and how?

At the moment, I’m on my own diet, I just picked up a lot of tips from here and there and combined them. I cut out a lot of junk food in my diet, I replaced crisps and coke with fruit/ veg and drank water instead.

I also keep a food diary which helps show me what I am eating and where I was going wrong, it’s amazing when you look at what you eat over the day, you don’t realize at the time that one biscuit here and there adds up.

The most important thing for me was exercise!! I started of gradually, I bought a few dvds, which you can buy cheaply on Amazon in their sales, and i also started using my treadmill which was bought and never used!! So far I have lost a stone in the past four or five months.

It’s also good to lose weight with someone as it helps to motivate you, but once you start exercising and drinking between 1.5 to 2 liters of water a day, you will soon start to see the benefits. And don’t be strict, allow yourself treats, once or twice a week, you wont stick to it otherwise

Good Luck!!!!!!

Hello, I am a teenager who is overweight. I need a plan to lose the weight. It cant be expensive and it needs results. Please let me know any of your ideas.

1. Water is vital to your health and is so important for you to drink plenty of it.
2. Carry a pocket notebook around with you for about a week to keep track of the food you eat and the daily activities you do.
3. Instead of eating three large meals a day, eat five or six small meals. People tend to get 30 % fewer calories this way.
4. Walk for 30 to 45 minutes a day. If you can’t fit it all in at once, split it up in 10 to 15 minutes each session throughout the day.
5. Get all the fat clothes out of your closet.

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