PLEASE HELP ME LOSE WEIGHT!?

Question

Im 21 and 5.4' and I weigh 160lbs. im medium build. How much should I lose and how?

What kind of excersizes do i need to do? how often? and how long everyday?

Answer 1

well women naturally retain water so i do not think there is a way to stop retaining water  you should go for runs do crunches and sit ups do push ups and eat portion sizes and eat healthier you should exercise  at least one hour a day  for at least 5 days a week hope this helps

Answer 2

have you tryed jogging

Answer 3

Don't eat after 7:00 p.m. Digestion system of human body stops after that hour, so things you eat turns into fat after that hour.

Answer 4

id say do alot of cardio

like go jog a mile or 2 everyday

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Answer 5

Eating several (5-6) small portion meals of everyday healthy food per day, along with exercise, will burn calories faster and build your metabolism in a short period of time, without dieting or counting calories.

You will lose an average of 2 lbs per week

(eat about every 2 hours)

Meal suggestions:

piece of fruit

bowl of cereal (high fiber low sugar)

bowl of oatmeal

string cheese, summer sausage

cottage cheese/yogurt (lowfat)

tuna/turkey/ham sandwich (lettuce, tomatoe)

soup

salad

raw veggies

boiled eggs

popcorn

Always eat a good dinner (small portions)...fish/meat (bake, broil, grill) potatoes/pasta/rice, veggie...your body needs carbs, protein and vitamins to stay healthy...cooking with olive oil is best.

Low calorie sweets...sugarless candy, ginger snap cookies,

fig bars, 100% juice popsicles

Drink plenty of water (6-8 glasses per day)

http://www.freedrinkingwater.com/water_h...

Drink milk (low fat) or 100% juice/green tea/water with every meal

(no soda pop or flavored drinks)

Stay away from munchies, fried & fatty foods (no fast-food)

Never eat before going to bed

"Daily" simple and cardio exercise (20-30 min. per day) like walking/hiking, running, biking, kick boxing, swimming, jumping jacks, aerobics, dancing and playing any games that uses a ball will shed pounds, tone your body and keep it fit.

Food is fuel, energy for the body, if you don't exercise to burn the energy, it turns to fat...fasting or skipping meals lowers your metabolism and forces the body to hold on to calories/fat, causing headaches, fatigue and weakness.

Losing weight at a healthy pace along with exercising everyday you will feel and look so good.

Here is a great site to target specific muscle groups abs, butt, legs...

http://www.shapefit.com/training.html (scroll down)

BMI

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/healthyw...

healthy weight 135 lbs

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/healthyw...

Answer 6

you should lose between 15 and 20 pounds. you are now overweight. If you want to fix your abs, here is a website. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2htZIjhuD... you can run a mile or 2 in the morning, before the sun sets, or both. eat less junk food, and more healthy food. watch less tv, go on the computer less, Exercise to get your heart pumping. The more you sweat from exercise, the more calories and at you will burn. go to the gym. a great way is if you are on a treadmill, have a donut or something you crave hooked on a fishing pole and have someone wave it around so it looks like it is running away. the more you temp it the faster you will run.

here is a website you can use to calculate your health. http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/usefultoo...

hope it helps

Answer 7

3-5 times per week excersie 30,mins-1 hour each day..lots of water ,  many small healthy meals  

Answer 8

Alright. Let me chase you with a chain saw.

Answer 9

At first, be patient. I guess you're too worried, as me=) Stop being nervous it will help you in losing weight..Chill out and let your body prepare for a good , healthy weight lose. Losing fast isn't healthy. So in 7 weeks it would be wonderful if you lost 5-6 kilos. 3500 calories are 500 grams. if you eat 3500 calories more, you'll gain 500 grams, if you burn 3500 calories, you're gonna lose 500 grams. My advice to you would be counting calories. You should eat 1500-1200 calories to lose weight. Of course it depends on your BMI, look it up in google. try good calorie targets. You could use www.caloriecount.about com. Train at least 3 time in a week, for 45 minutes or so. Personally me, I'm exercising for 90 minutes per day.

Good luck to you

Answer 10

Most people eat 2000 calories a day. A diet is usually 1,500 calories by eating this many calories you can lose a pound a week, which is healthier. Most of the time when people lose like 5 to 6 pounds a week is just water weight or is not health. 1 to 2 pounds a week is healthier and stays off easier. For exercise you should always do sit ups and crunches. For instance, you can do crunches where you lay down lift you legs up and cross your calves and do them that way. also you can lift your legs straight up in the air, laying down and lift your arms and try to touch your toes. for the lower tummy you lay down and put like two fist on your lower back, and lift your legs which get your lower tummy and thighs. You can do sqats and lunges. Do a lot of all of these i would say maybe 20 of them and then later on go up to 40. it may hurt a bit but afterwards it feels good and all tight. You should also maybe walk a bit more or a slight jog.

Hope this all helps!

Answer 11

Hi, you need an all round plan.  Exercise and diet.  Find an exercise that you enjoy and stick to it.  Drinking plenty of water is key to water retention - sounds odd, but the more water you drink, the more water your body lets go of.

Stick to fruit and veg, pulses, chicken and fish.

Answer 12

For 20 minuites run on the treadmill everyday. Do some yoga tapes every now and then. Go on a healthy diet and you should be fine.

Answer 13

start watching what you eat and portion everything better and use less salt and exercise and...........

Answer 14

Well, all i can say is

Dont eat too much Fast food

Eat alot of fruits and veggies

Do about 20-30 Sit Ups everyday

Go on walks more often  

Answer 15

just eat everything you like to eat but only half the amount and just do a light work out, what a hassle to strain yourself working out and not seeing any changes in weeks or month and tghen you'll get discourage and eat again, so take it easy and chillax, LUV yourself more and be happy, that will give you a boost of energy to walk miles and miles hehe.

Answer 16

now im a guy but im preaty sure this will work on u to.

wat ive done i stoped drinking soda and i drope a big 10 lb.then i started doing sit up pushups at night and anothr 10lb and now im runing 3 time a week and so far ive lost 7-8lb

Answer 17

u shouldent lose weight i think ur perfect...

Answer 18

I wrote this answer originally for another question, but it fits and would take too long to type out again so I'm going to just copy/paste it here.  I'm 5'4, medium build and was always around 120lbs until about two years ago when I piled on the weight and hit a high of 165lbs.  I'm 136lbs now after starting doing exactly what I'm going to put below.  

  

>>First of all, you need to figure out what your RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate - also called Basic Metabolic Rate/BMR) is. You can go to this website and find it out pretty quickly. http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calcul...

What your RMR is, is an idea of how many calories you would burn if you did nothing but lie down all day. So if you want to lose weight, you have to make sure that you consume less calories than that through a combination of diet and exercise. With your height, weight and age, your RMR is around 1550 calories per day.  

So that means, if you want to maintain the weight you're at right now, you need to consume 1550 calories a day - consume more and you'll put on weight, less and you'll lose.

You can do this through a combination of diet and excercise - so for example, if you ate 2000 calories in a day, but excercised off 450 of them, you would not put on any weight.

So now that you know approximately how many calories your benchmark is, you can work on cutting down your intake through a combination of diet and exercise. A good rule of thumb is if you consume 500 calories LESS than your RMR each day, you should lose about 1.5-2lbs a week.

However, you really don't want to eat less than 1200 calories a day, so try to make sure you are hitting your target of around 1050 calories a day by exercising as well.

Use a website like www.thedailyplate.com or www.sparkpeople.com for free calorie counting. It's pretty easy to keep a track of what you eat through those websites, and they have a community of users who all support each other too.

As for exercising, it is difficult to tell how much good it is doing without knowing what kind of exercise you do and for how long at what intensity. My suggestion is to buy a heart rate monitor (if you can afford it) and monitor your pulse while you exercise. this will give you a very good idea of how much you burn. If you can't afford that, both The Daily Plate and Spark People (URLs above) have calculators to help you work out how many calories you burn for different exercises, but these are a lot less accurate than heart rate monitors.

Lastly, I would make sure that the type of exercising you are doing is the right kind. I have lost 30lbs by doing cardio 4x a week for at least 45minutes, and weight training about 2x a week (I haven't been as good at doing the weights as I should though!). My favourite is doing an intense cardio class like Spinning at my gym, but that's not an option for everyone. Try going for a run - with the heart rate monitor you'll be able to see when you're working in 'the zone' and when you're letting yourself slack off. Try running until you've burned around 350-500 calories per run.  

  

I don't know how you can stop retaining water, but you might want to make sure you cut down on your sodium (salt) intake as that can make you retain water a lot.  

  

In 7 weeks, a healthy amount to lose is around 7-14lbs... but don't stress if you don't lose that much.  My weight loss goes in steps, not a steady downward slide.  Like, I'd stay at 155 for ever, then (as long as I kept on working out and eating right) all of a sudden I'd be down to 150 or 149 in one go.  It wasn't a little bit less each day.  

  

I also found it helpful to buy a scale that measures my body fat % and measures my weight to 0.2 of a pound... that way even a little bit of weight loss is reflected when I step on the scale.    

  

Hope that helps anyway!

Answer 19

Okay, all you have to do is drink lots of water (8 glasses a day) and eat vegetables, nuts and raisins, and a lot of fruit. Stay away from the fast food and meat. But chicken and turkey are okay once in a while.

Answer 20

As long as u don't eat much fatty foods, keep eating what u eat, but add a little more fruit.  Maybe an apple, pear, peach, or banana per day, everyday.  It's the exercise.  U need 2 exercise more.  Run for 1/2-1 hr per day, at least 3x per week.  Also, do sit-ups and push-ups.  

Answer 21

Drink slim fast after every giant meal....  

Answer 22

dont eat at night and walk alot.

also drink alot of water.

try not to eat anything after 5-6. If ur really hungry try to eat some fruit and veggies. its what I do. I havent been following it strictly, I even drank bubble tea almost everyday during the day but I've lost 5 pounds in the past 2 weeks. if you follow it I think you should lose some weight. good luck =]

Answer 23

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Answer 24

Just eat less. Count calories. Reducing your diet by 500 calories a day makes you lose 1 pound a week.