Losing weight properly, and not having saggy skin?!
Question: I'm quite big for my age.
I'm 12 and a half stone. And I'm 17. And I'm 5'7.
I fit into a size 14 or 16 ( Which I HATE! )
Anyway, I am wondering, besides eating well and avoiding junk, what exercies I should do so that when weight starts coming off me, I don't have a load of gross saggy skin.
I want to be nice and toned and muscly and strong.
Thanks my fellow yahoo-ers!
:)
Answers: I'm quite big for my age.
I'm 12 and a half stone. And I'm 17. And I'm 5'7.
I fit into a size 14 or 16 ( Which I HATE! )
Anyway, I am wondering, besides eating well and avoiding junk, what exercies I should do so that when weight starts coming off me, I don't have a load of gross saggy skin.
I want to be nice and toned and muscly and strong.
Thanks my fellow yahoo-ers!
:)
Hi!
The ONLY way to lose weight properly is to cut down your calorie intake, exercise and aim to lose ONLY 1-2 lbs per week. Do not crash diet. Do not starve yourself. Do not take slimming pills. Do not exercise too much.
If you have any money, a stepper such as the Lateral Thigh Trainer (google it) is brilliant. You can put it in your bedroom and watch TV whilst you exercise. Just half an hour a day will help. Trampettes are also good.
What you need to do is concentrate on cardio until you reach your desired weight - THEN concentrate on building muscle later. If you do weight training at your current weight, your fat will turn to muscle, which will make you bulkier than you wish to be.
A great website which has really helped me understand weight loss is http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/lose... Read the whole article (a few times over if you need to!) and this WILL work for you.
It can be tedious and boring writing down what you eat every day - but it's the only proper way to do it. Not only will it help you keep track of things, but it will also teach you where you are going wrong. For example, if you're having cheese on toast every morning and realise it has 400 calories, you might decide to have porridge with skimmed milk instead, which would have half the calories.
Don't deny yourself treats - work them in to your diet in small portions. Make sure you are eating ENOUGH calories. Using the website above, you need to find out how many calories you NEED, then subtract 500 per day to lose 1lb a week. If you starve yourself, your body will store fat because it will think that there is no food available. Strangely enough, you need to eat to lose weight!
Also set yourself a realistic target. It's not going to drop off in a month. Let's say you want to lose 2 stone. That's 28lbs. At 1-2lbs per week, it will take you around 3-6 months to lose the weight. But really, give yourself a year. There are always times that you will lapse or have bad days. Don't beat yourself up - just start again the next day and get back on track. Every time you lose half a stone, buy yourself a new outfit or give yourself a treat. Keep yourself motivated and don't rush things.
Don't skip breakfast, lunch or dinner. Don't buy junk food - only have healthy snacks to hand. If i've got an apple and a cake in my cupboard, I'll always go for the cake! Jogging, jumping, swimming, skipping and stepping are all great weight-loss exercises. Work-out DVDs can also be good. Davina's power of 3 is a good one to try!
Good luck!
xx Emmie
You wont have saggy skin however you lose weight. You are only a teeny tiny bit overweight and young so your skin will be fine.
join a gym, a trainer will advise you of the best exercises for each area
Really consider losing weight the way my co-workers and I did....I actually met my goal last week. Can't tell you how much the cds, dvds and downloads helped keep the majority of us on track. For curbing our appetite we used satisfied on half portions and remove the sugar addiction. Some people that hate to drink water used the increasing the desire for water you drink recording (it worked for them) I already love water. Anyway, exercise should always be included and what we used was the P90X dvd. It's like a boot camp for home exercise. Plus the recording to motivate us to want to exercise more. The cds/downloads come from www.independentachievement.com. The dvd for exercise comes from beachbody.com. Good luck. It worked for a big group of us, and we got the idea from Answers!
First off, the right amount of weight that the average person should hope and try to lose a week when eating and working out correctly is something like 1 or 2 pounds a week. That is a good, healthy, safe, smart, effective amount to lose. That right there is fast weight loss. So if you are losing weight at that speed, then hang on tight, because you are going the maximum weight loss speed limit! Yup, 1 or 2 pounds lost a week. Not as fast as most people would hope for, but sadly, that's just the way it is. You just can't lose weight fast, or at least, as fast as many people would like to. Aside from all of the obvious health risks and possible negatives of losing any more than that a week, losing anymore than 1 or 2 pounds a week means you are losing muscle, not fat. As you can guess, that's not good.
Here are some training and Im not joking. 1 is the easiest to hardest
1) Light housework
These activities also burn little total calories - around 2-3*calories per minute.
2) Walking
Walking is said to be one of the best exercises for losing weight. The percentage of fat burning is around the 55% ** mark, however as with all exercises it really depends on the intensity of effort.
3) Aerobic exercise or light Jogging
Aerobic classes are very popular for many trying to lose weight. They can be very effective in burning a large amount of total energy in a single session. However if a person is overweight and/or unfit the class may become too intense for proper fat burning, especially if the individual is highly motivated to keep up with other, fitter members of the class. For this individual breathing would become heavy and this will always result in carbohydrates becoming the predominant fuel, pushing the percentage of fat burning down as low as 30%
4) Running (7 minute mile average)
At 7 minute mile running we will burn more than 10 *calories per minute and looking at most runners on the street many may deduce that this must be the best exercise to lose weight. Most runners seem so thin and lean but in fact running at this pace would not be the best idea to lose weight. We would probably be burning about 80% carbohydrates and only 20% ** fat.
5)Sprinting or weight training
Some of the most intense exercise we can perform. The energy to fuel these activities comes almost exclusively from carbohydrates. The amount of total calories burned is very high whilst performing the movement, however they can only be performed for short periods due to muscle fatigue. Plenty of rest periods are needed between each bout resulting in less total calories burned over the course of a training session. Normally other aerobic exercises are performed continuously for the whole duration of a session therefore total calories burnt are usually much higher. A positive reason to exercise lightly over a longer duration!