I am so motivated to lose weight - more than I ever have before BUT .... ???!
Question: ... I'm still living at home with the parents!
Not a problem you may think, but, my mom insists on buying crap - crisps, chocolates, biscuits, sweets etc from the shops.
I'll have one small chocolate - and I get back into old horrible habits where I end up eating 4/5 chocolates. Which is just gross - but I feel as if I need to eat it because it is there.
( I've been bought up not to waste food. )
I manage to stay motivated except for when I am home and there is unhealthy crap all around me.
I've spoke to my mom about this and she just says '' Your not fat, you don't need to lose weight. ''
But I'm over weight, and I am almost in the obese section according to my BMI.
What form of exercise can I do besides walking - with no gym equipment?
And what is the quickest way I can lose weight - but not starving myself to death.
Any support is thoroughly appreciated, and I shall choose a best answer also.
Thanks.
Cassie
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Answers: ... I'm still living at home with the parents!
Not a problem you may think, but, my mom insists on buying crap - crisps, chocolates, biscuits, sweets etc from the shops.
I'll have one small chocolate - and I get back into old horrible habits where I end up eating 4/5 chocolates. Which is just gross - but I feel as if I need to eat it because it is there.
( I've been bought up not to waste food. )
I manage to stay motivated except for when I am home and there is unhealthy crap all around me.
I've spoke to my mom about this and she just says '' Your not fat, you don't need to lose weight. ''
But I'm over weight, and I am almost in the obese section according to my BMI.
What form of exercise can I do besides walking - with no gym equipment?
And what is the quickest way I can lose weight - but not starving myself to death.
Any support is thoroughly appreciated, and I shall choose a best answer also.
Thanks.
Cassie
x
Its always important to eat in moderation, you can still eat all the good stuff, because honestly diets dont work, so just eat small portions, its going to be hard at first but the thing u need to have is will power, understand that what you do now will affect you for the rest of your life, and if u want a healty life, u should have that mind set :-) As far as working out u can do sit ups, stretching, jogging in place etc.but take it slow, if u rush into it, it'll be no good for ure body... I hope everything goes well and it will (always stay positive).
YOU CAN DO IT BUDDY!!!!!!!
Maybe you can buy *or get your mom to buy* you a workout video. You can do it in your room, away from everyone. It's easy and fast. It can also be fun.
Only eat the foods that you do have in the house in moderation. Put a smaller portion on your plate so you dont feel like you are wasting. Drink more water, it will fill you up, so again you dont over eat.
Stairs, biking if you can. If you see something you want to eat that you KNOW is bad for you, drink water. Drink lots and lots of water, chew on ice. Only eat your 3 meals a day, or 5 smaller meals throught the day. If you get hungry (or bored), try to find something that will occupy you until your next meal.
Ok. How much is 13 stone. I am 13 and 5'6" and 130lbs but I stay in shape from basketball. If you have bigger legs try wallsits. If you have a bigger stomach try sit ups or crunches. If you have big arms try pushups. Also you dont have to excersize all at one every little bit helps. Try eating fruits and vegies.. you can eat as many as you want... they are very low in calories. Leave out a fruit tray and I am sure you will eat it... and tell your mom you need help and hopefully she will help you :) Glad to help :p
well if your mom wont listen you need to take controll. Take all that bad food and toss it out.
To excircise more you can watch TV and do crunches, Push ups, all sorts of things.
You need to shift the blame to yourself. Blaming your mom because of the foods she buys is not right. You have the choice of whether or not you will eat it. Me, every time I see food like that I am so tempted to. But I refuse and skip it to a more healthy food. Although their our some times when temptation takes over , when it does I'll eat a really small portion of it. Its funny how you say "by not starving to death", do you really think you can lose weight that way? The best way is to keep eating right, avoid junk food, oily foods, fast foods, sweets. Do cardio. Join a sport and you will eventually lose weight if you work hard enough
Heres what you do. Youve got to break your mom. So you go into the kitchen and get some cookies or whatever when no one is around. You feed that crap to the dog and if he gets full you give it to the neighbors dog. You dont eat it. But if your mom asks you tell her you ate them. If its all gone in like 2 days shell have to go get more. After doing this a few times shell get irritated with you because its expensive and start trying to cut you off either by hiding stuff or stop buying it. Im telling you to raise her grocery bill by 200 pounds a month as long as she does this. If she complains about going broke say oh you arent broke youre fine and keep doing it. See youll be getting mom to do what you want but she wont even know what game youre playing on her. It will be fun as well.
There's nothing like calorie control and exercise for losing weight. Walking for an hour or so every day at a moderate pace is a great way to not only lose weight this season, but also to set up an enjoyable habit for activity when you're old. Living at home without control over the menu is hard though and the only suggestion i can make is to offer help planning the week's menu or to eat smaller portions of the food that you know is healthy and to avoid the bad stuff.
you are indeed overweight, it's unfortunate that your mum doesn't support you in your need to lose weight. I suspect she is overweight herself. However, YOU and only you are responsible for what you put in your mouth. You must develop the discipline to avoid those foods you know are "crap" and eat only what is available that is healthy. This is a difficult thing to learn, responsibility and discipline, but better to learn it now before you gain any more weight and then spend the rest of your life fighting ever harder to lose it.
You must keep your total daily calorie intake under 1500, and you must exercise daily for one continuous hour.... walking is truly fine, or swimming, or calisthenics in your back yard, but you must do it daily for it to be effective.
When my children were toddlers, I got into a terrible habit of finishing the food on their plates whenever they didn't, which was often.
I couldn't afford a treadmill, so I paid $15 for a step-platform. I started doing a walk/jog pace on it in front of the TV each evening for at least 30 min. 5 days a week. The exercise kept me motivated to eat correctly.
For me personally, jogging has helped a lot. I used to walk and walk, but I never managed to lose much weight. Then I decided to jog instead, and it has increasingly worked for me. Since I was overweight to begin with, it was very difficult to job without feeling like I was dying. So what I would do is jog for a five minutes, walk fast for three and then jog again for five. I continued this until I was able to jog for long periods of time without walking. You may lose weight slowly, but the good thing is that you keep it off, because you are losing fat. Also, my mother-in-law is just like your mom, she buys a lot of tempting crap food. You have to have will power to resist. I learned to resist it by saying to myself if I eat this twinkee, my 30-minute job was for nothing. Just try best to snack healthy items, and also it helps if you eat about five times a day, but very small portions, because it speeds up you metabolism.
You're a very intelligent young person to realise at this stage that your health is so important. Remember the fact that while you're growing, the number of fat cells you have can increase, so the heavier you get now, the more troubles you'll have in the future. Another plus is the fact that you're still growing, so you don't have to diet as such, just eat a healthy low fat diet and your body will use your extra weight to help you grow.
I had a very similar situation at my home in that chocolate was readily available to me.
Find a weight-height chart and show it to your mum. Show where you are on this chart (You are slightly overweight for your age and size) and say that this shows you do need to lose weight, regardless of what she says. It may be that she's concerned about her own weight too, but wants to brush it under the carpet which is why she wont acknowledge the fact that you want to lose weight. So it might be an idea to show her where she fits on this graph too.
It's difficult to lose weight and so you need the help of your entire family. Tell your mother that you think it is unfair that she is not willing to help you in your aim to get fit and healthy. She doesn't even have to stop buying chocolates - she can buy them for herself and hide them from you. Just let her know that you want to lose weight because you are unhappy and you need her support to do it.
Remember there are little rules that you can adopt to lose weight.
1. When you feel you are not hungry any more, stop eating. Try to tune into your body and not eat until you feel significant hunger pangs. If you think you're hungry, drink a glass of water. If you're still hungry 5 minutes after, then you are truely hungry and you can get something to eat. Did you know that sometimes our bodies get confused and send you an "i'm hungry" signal when you are actually thirsty?
2. You don't have to finish your plate of food. Try to get in the habit of leaving at least something on your plate - even if it's just a chip. You'll feel so empowered when you leave something. And if your mum chips in with the good old phrase - eat all your dinner, there are starving people in Africa, then come back by saying - "Why? Will it help them if I eat all my dinner, get fat and then go to Africa and say look, I ate all my dinner?"
Sorry for rambling. But best of luck to you. Try to be strong. The longer you stop yourself eating chocolates, the better you'll get at refusing them.
Here's a height-weight chart you can use:
http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/bod...