Weight loss questions?

I weight 175 lbs , 5'6 and im 17 what should my target weight be? What is the best and fastest way to lose weight?

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  1. about 140 lbs. the best way to lose fat is to exercise and lower your daily calorie and fat intake
  2. 150 unless your body has a larger area like hips work it girl stay away from fast foods i 5'6 at 126 but my motto is if you don't know what you want you're not hungry so try it for a week let me know OK good luck
  3. target weight depends on your sex and genetic makeup. there is no right or wrong answer and you will have to use your judgment as to what is healthy for you. I recommend running 6km everyday (it is hard work, I know). Take one day off every Saturday (or whenever else you want to ) but you gotta work hard the rest.
  4. Being that you're 5'6, the healthy weight you should be at is around 125 pounds. My advice to you is not to go by the scale, it can be very misleading. As they say, muscle weighs more than fat. The best thing to go by is measurements. Instead of saying or thinking "I lost 10 pounds!" think "I lost 2 inches!". You may lose 10 pounds, but you could gain it all back in muscle and be much thinner than you were. It will leave you feeling discouraged. Or, if you have an article of clothing that once fit, and is now too small... then your target should be to be able to fit in that piece of clothing! There is no healthy way to drastically lose weight fast. The best way is by dieting and exercising. The U.S. Surgeon General recommends at least 30 minutes of exercise at least 4 days a week. I suggest that you reduce your calorie intake to about 1, 200 calories a day with at least 30 minutes of exercise every day, you can give yourself one day off to rest. So here should be a typical day: Exercise before or after breakfast. Breakfast: Bowl of cereal, Special K is actually great w/fat free milk. Bowl of fruit (strawberries, blueberries, watermelon, etc.) Cup of coffee (if you drink it) with no sugar, you'll save yourself a lot of calories over time by doing this. Snack 1: Serving of carrots and a string cheese. Snack 2: Yogurt Light lunch: Some sort of protein, like ham on a low carb/low calorie bread w/lettuce. Watermelon, water. Snack 3: Fruit Snack 4: Rice cakes Dinner: Small chicken breast, steamed broccoli, water, and a yogurt w/fruit & granola for desert. *Substitute water for carbonated beverages and juices. *Don't eat after 8 p.m., the foot just sits in your stomache and takes much longer to digest, essentially adding fat. *Throughout the day, you should never feel full or hungry. This keeps your meetabolism going. *Watch your calories, and if you feel like getting ice cream, get yogurt instead. Don't forget to stop and ask yourself if you're actually hungry, or if you just want to eat (I have this problem) *Not only watching calories is important, but fat content as well, it adds up. Exercise: If you can't run, then power walk! If there's a nice path by your house, or even a treadmill. Make sure and do 30 minutes. You can actually split your cardio up, 20 minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. You'll burn more calories this way and you won't be as tired. There are some great walking routines that you can do, here's one that I found: http://walking.about.com/cs/fitnesswalking/a/walkworkouts.htm Just google "walking workouts" and you'll find loads of stuff. Don't forget to do crunches and arm workouts. Makesure you do omore than 40 cruches, 20 doesn't do much. Good luck & I really hope this helped! If you need any more advice or help, just become one of my contacts!
  5. Eat only when hungry and not more than thrice a day. Nothing other than water in between. Include plenty of uncooked vegetables and fruits in each meal, preferably 50%. Chew each morsel at least 32 times to activate ur body to generate signals of hunger/fullness. Obey these signals. Take light exercises and brisk walks regularly preferably twice a day. U will achieve what u have not even dreamt and that too in a reasonable time. Do not be in a hurry.
  6. I think that it would be between 135 and 140 lbs. If you eat 5 to 6 small meals a day your metabolism will speed up. I do it all the time when i want to lose some weight and it works. So eat like every 2 and half to 3 hours apart in small healthy portions or what you think is not too fatty or sugary and excersise. Drink lots of water too. Within a week of doing that I could see myself losing weight. Not by scale because i was gaining muscle from excersising, but by inches. Also to tell if you are losing fat and not just water weight and muscle mass, there are these test strips that i had found at walmart supercenter that you use to see if your body if burning the fat stored on you and not just the food you are consuming. They test for ketones in the urine which are the byproducts of fats that you store. You either pee in a cup and test that way or just pee on it. Just follow the instructions. there is a chart that you match up on the tube. If the color is different than the control then you are burning the fat stored. I ran tests and took one strip before i started doing that 3 hour eating program and excersise and the color on the strip wasn't any different than the control. I did it three different times each on different days to make sure it wasn't the strips. Then i started on the program and after two days i took another test and the color changed. It was a very light change in color though. After two more days of the program i took another test and it was darker than the previous one, etc and more of the color that represents ketones in the urine. I too could feel and see a difference on my body as well so i knew that it was working and always works everytime i follow that program. Its very motivating too, to see that you are burning the fat stored and feel your clothes fitting differently too. Your metabolism wiil speed up because the body knows that it is getting food without going hungry for a long period of time and since it uses energy to digest the food you eat then at 3 hour intervals its constantly getting what it needs and keeps everything working more effeciently. If you don't eat or starve yourself, your metabolism will slow down because your body will going into survival mode, where it slows down to keep what you eat longer and yes you might lose some weight at first but when you go back to eating normaly again, you'll gain it right back and more because your metabolism has changed to slower.Any ?'s, you can contact me.Hope this helps. good luck!
  7. Change your diet to complex carbohydrates with lots of vegetables and lean protein, Cut down sugar and simple carbos. Then exercise. Choose your favourite so that you won't tire of it. Remember to keep at it and make it a lifestyle change. Xiaozhen http://lowcarblowfathighfibrehighprotein.blogspot.com
  8. 1.Set goals. You'll be better able to make a realistic weight loss plan if you know how much weight you want to lose. 2.Identify your weaknesses. Are you a bread fiend? Do you have dessert after every meal and every snack? Is McDonald's your second home? Find the weakness and throttle it. It does not own you, you are stronger and cooler than to allow some silly little craving to knock you off your path. 3.Throw away anything you know is tempting. Those cinnamon buns with 500 calories each? Gone. The ramen noodles in your cabinet? Gone. The problem is that this is not always feasible. Often times we are not the only ones in our homes and therefore the call of the food must be withstood. In this case, out of sight truly is out of mind. Put unhealthy, unfilling foods in a drawer or in a cabinet that you rarely use. Put them all together to make a particularly unappetizing sight. Don't place them all in a decorative basket out on the counter. Place them in a drawer. A drawer heaping with pastries rarely looks like anything but a drawer of fat. 4.Eat less, but eat more often. If possible, eat 4-5 meals a day. This helps your metabolism and blood sugar to stay level as well. This does require a change in your schedule. Eat less within 6 hours of your bed time. You're less likely to burn the calories closer to your bed time. It's fine to eat a large breakfast and lunch because your body will be working on burning those calories for the whole day. Large dinners are likely to go unburned and converted into fat. 5.Do not skip breakfast. If you don't have time to prepare breakfast, buy healthy breakfast bars or those smoothies on the go. It is important to eat breakfast to jump start your metabolism and give you energy for the day. Otherwise you will probably end up falling back on unhealthy foods during the day. Yogurt is also known to boost your metabolism. 6.Eat healthy snacks when you feel hungry between meal times. Healthy snacks would be things high in fiber, fruits and vegetables. Avoid high sugar and high calorie snacks. This will help you get nutrients as well as help lower your appetite so you won't overeat during meals. 7.Increase your fiber intake. Fiber acts as negative calories. It's also filling and healthy for your digestive system. Make it a part of every meal. 8.Eat slowly and chew more. Take time to enjoy your meals. This will help you to finish at the same time as others, and you'll not be tempted by a second helping. Also, chewing more will ensure you get the most out of all the food and it will be digested faster. The more you chew, the more your appetite will be satiated. 9.Drink more water every day. Stay hydrated. While you don't need 8 cups of water a day to stay hydrated, it'll make sure you're hydrated as well as cut down on your hunger levels and force you to get a little bit more exercise (trips to the sink, water cooler, water fountain, and bathroom). If you're a heavy soda drinker, permit yourself to only one diet soda per day, maximum. Just one extra soda each day can add 15 pounds. Recently, fizzy drinks, even diet ones, have been said to slow down metabolism. 10.Increase physical activity. There are two ways to reduce net caloric intake: 1) reduce the number of calories in your diet and 2) Increase the number of calories that you burn in your daily activities. Both approaches are usually necessary and healthful and both are effective in losing weight. You can pick and choose which exercise you want to do, depending on your fitness level and drive. For example: walking, jogging, using the stair stepper, using cross training machines, swimming, tennis, and basketball. Weight training (and resistance training) can help reshape your body. The more muscle you have the higher your metabolism will be. 11.Find active friends. Find people that will drag you out to do more active things. It doesn't have to be much, but any exercise even walking around the mall is better than none. 12.Don't get discouraged. After one or two weeks of initial weight loss, it is quite common for your metabolism to slow down as it adjusts to the new calorie count. Stay on course and you'll see results. In some cases, the scale will tell you your weight is barely changing, but you may be gaining muscle weight while losing fat weight. Also make sure to weigh yourself first thing in the morning to try to avoid the fluctuations in weight due to water. 13.Take all advice with a grain of salt. Everyone is going to have some tidbit of information for you. What worked for them might not work for you. Take it all in stride and work with what is getting results for you. Trying to do everything everyone says will only cause overload. 14.Eat more protein. If you choose to go this route, do not cut out all carbs. If you do so, as soon as you start eating carbs again you will regain your weight back. Instead of eating stand alone pasta, throw some meatballs or chicken in. Eat some beans, they are high in protein and very healthy for you. Increase the ammount of protein, but not by too much. The more protein you take in, the more water you should drink as well. 15.Eat less calories. The average woman should eat around 2,000 calories a day and the average male 2,500. There's many ways to reduce the calories you intake. Try not to eat frozen dinners, pizza, or from fast food joints. There's also certain drinks, such as Green Tea that are calorie reducers. Lettuce is another calorie reducer, but be careful because dressing tends to have the calories. Low fat/light vinnegette, balsomic vineger, red wine and vineger are pretty healthy dressings, but do not load it on
  9. The answer to your target weight? For me, it is at what weight I feel comfortable with my body, not what anyone else tells me. To get there, you need to understand that any significant amount of weight loss is going to take a lot of time, determination and hard work. It is NOT easy! Try a vegetarian diet. It doesn't sound like any fun at first, but after awhile it does if you like experimenting with cooking. I also think that easting small frequent meals only when you are truly hungry, eating only until full, and not because some thing tastes good is a great habit to get into. Cut out breads, pastas, and sugars. Doing this and walking at least 3 miles a day for 3 months helped me to lose almost 50 lbs. Like I said, it's hard work and you really have to stick with it. But, when guys start turning their heads to look at you, you'll see that the effort you put into it was well worth it!
  10. 120-130
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