In shape for the summer???!


Question: I'm not usually one to sit here like some girls and complain about being fat and ugly, but the thing is, this winter Ive put on a lot of weight and I do feel ugly! LOL.
This summer I plan on taking a trip with my boyfriend and his friends and I want to look good in my bikini which right now, is deff. not happening.
Also, I just want to feel healthy.
I have a gym membership, but I just want to know what workouts should I do or what foods should I eat because its all so confusing! Some magazines say that I should eat breakfast first thing in the morning and that would help me to feel less hungry during the day. But I dont know anyone whos ever tried to get in shape before so I have no one to ask!
I want to be thin, but mostly, I just want to look like I'm in shape...
Lately my weight has made me so self conscience.
Should I start working on my body NoW while I still have months until summer???


Answers: I'm not usually one to sit here like some girls and complain about being fat and ugly, but the thing is, this winter Ive put on a lot of weight and I do feel ugly! LOL.
This summer I plan on taking a trip with my boyfriend and his friends and I want to look good in my bikini which right now, is deff. not happening.
Also, I just want to feel healthy.
I have a gym membership, but I just want to know what workouts should I do or what foods should I eat because its all so confusing! Some magazines say that I should eat breakfast first thing in the morning and that would help me to feel less hungry during the day. But I dont know anyone whos ever tried to get in shape before so I have no one to ask!
I want to be thin, but mostly, I just want to look like I'm in shape...
Lately my weight has made me so self conscience.
Should I start working on my body NoW while I still have months until summer???

If you're self conscious start now! Exercise and eating well are both excellent ideas. Sometimes, if you start exercising first, you'll have more motiviation to eat better in a few weeks, too. So start with your gym. Ask a person that works there to go through the machines with you and set up a program. Tell them that you want to lose weight, and you want to combine cardio and weight lifting. Try to lift weights two to three times a week (always alternate days - your muscles need time to rebuild, and rebuilding is what makes them stronger). Don't rely on the scale ~ take measurements of your body. Muscle may way more than fat, but a pound of fat takes up 2 or 3 times as much room as a pound of muscle. Bonus - increasing your muscle mass will help you lose weight while just resting! Don't worry about bulking up ~ women are not genetically able to bulk up just doing this type of workout.
Find someway to be active for cardio. If you like the outdoors walk at least 30 minutes five days a week. If you like to socialize, sign up for a couple of classes at your gym if you can afford to. If it's cold outside and you just want to read a magazine - go to the gym and hop on the treadmill, bike, elyptical machine, etc. If you can, mix you workout up a bit - your body will get used to the same routine and it will become less effective over time. If you walk, try walking further, adding some more hills, etc. If you are on a machine try another or do a different type of workout. Remember to start slow - the reason most people quit is because they try to do too much and end up being to sore to come back. It takes 30 days to make something a habit, and years to make it part of who you are.
With just exercsing you should see a difference in the way your clothes fit.
Remember - this isn't a diet (dieters tend to feel punished and resume their eating habits after losing weight). This is a way of eating healthy, and if you want Haagen-Dazs one day, well, then have Haagen-Dazs - a serving size - not the container. :) Aim at eating healthy, a few indulgences is not going to kill you. You're not on a crash diet. As far as eating well, make sure you are getting the nutrients you need by taking a general vitimin (whatever you like, even flinestone work!) if you don't eat fish, I recommend taking an omega 3 supplement or sprinkling a tablespoon or two of flaxseed on your veggies or cereal every day (this is an aquired taste - not everyone likes it) or eating a handful of walnuts or brazil nuts everyday. Make sure you don't cut out all the fat in your diet, but try to stick to monosaturated fat (olive oil, canola oil, avocadoes, nuts, etc). Always eat breakfast - if you cannot eat when you get up throw in a couple of cereal bars (not too high in sugar) in your purse and eat in an hour or two. Try to eat two snacks that are around 100 calories (100 calorie packs, fruit, veggies, nuts, yogurt). Try to combine any sugar you eat with protein - protein will help you feel full longer (example - grapes and a 1 piece of low-fat string cheese). Try to eat whole wheat as much as possible because it will also make you feel better. Try keeping a food diary to keep track of what you eat.

FREE Resources online

www.sparkpeople.com
Free diet plans, message boards, food tracker. You can alter your diet to make it more ecomical (if you buy everything on initial list they give you it can be expensive - if you change it so you have the same breakfast everyday, for example, you have less items to buy). It also has a food journal.

Other suggestions (Not always free):
Book or online source - reader's digest change one ~ you change one aspect of your diet (such as eating breakfast) each week. This book is good for giving you ideas about portion sizes. You might even be able to find this book at the library!

Sites such as
http://www.nutrax.com/welcome.shtml (you can use your camera phone to keep a food journal ~there is a "nutrax lite" version where you can track your own progress for free. or "Nutrax select" version where you get feedback from a nutrition. I've never used this site but I've read in fitness magazines that these types of sites help some people. If you do this, remember that you have to pay for the texts you're sending on your phone...

Good Luck! :)

no, you should just keep sitting at your computer on yahoo answers. that will solve every thing. why are you asking a question you already know the answer to.

work out 3-5 days a week, for like 3-5 hours a day!
and eat healthy DONT STOP EATING, if you eat healthy and do it in portions you will be good to go!

You should not worry about the number on the scale but rather how you feel inside and out. Don't base your image on a catalog add. Learn to love yourself and change for yourself no one else. If you want to drop some pounds by summer then yes go ahead and start eating a balanced diet and exercising.

Simple, do Cardio and eat fruit, and proteins.

yes because if the first things you try don't work you can try others if i were you i would workout and cut back on junk foods and by summer you should look fine. although it may not work for anybody but thats what my mom did and she lost alot of weight. good luck!

Do you like to read?

If so then please go to this website and read some articles on fat loss.

It's helped me to lose 45lbs (20kgs) of fat and retain my muscles.

To summarise all those articles would be difficult, but as a general rule:
- Eat more meals in smaller portions through the day
- Eat breakfast
- Eat more protein, good carbs (brown bread, brown rice, brown pasta etc)
- Less fat and sugars (sweets, mcDonalds)
- Snack on a handful of nuts a day (good fats, will help you burn fat believe it or not)

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