Tips on weight loss?!

Tips on weight loss?

i'm 16 years old and i've been put on bipolar meds and recently gained about 30 pounds in a few months...and i honestly would love to do ANYTHING to lose it all in a month or a little bit more than a month, and it may sound crazy to people...but i would love to absolutely lose what i've gained from my pills... i have a weight set for softball training, so i already know i should start doing muscle toning, but will lifting weights just turn the fat into muscle and i won't even lose weight? what kind of diet should i commit to? any weight loss exercises? i would really like to know how to go from a low metabolism to a higher one.. anyone know how to do all this?

It isn't very realistic to lose 30 pounds in a month, and you're more likely to reach your goal if you settle for a few months and don't get discouraged if it doesn't come off as quikly as you'd like. Muscle does not turn into fat, or fat into muscle. You will burn calories while building muscle when you lift weights, so that's a great start. The main fat burning excersizes though are anything that really gets your heart pumping, anything cardio. Examples of cardio are running, trampolining, jumping jacks, swimming, and dancing. Aim for half an hour of cardio a day and eat a healthy diet and the weight should come off fairly quikly.

To switch up your diet to speed the weight loss process, eat ONLY wheat products made with whole grain flower (whole grain cereal with less then 10 grams of sugar a serving, preferably, and whole wheat pasta and bread products), cut out all junk food, increase the amount of fruits and vegetables you eat each day (six servings +will keep you more full), eat lean meat such as chicken, turkey, and lean pork and avoid red meat such as beef, don't drink juice or soda or any other caloric drinks besides milk and/or soy milk, have no fast food, and drink eight glasses of water a day to keep your stomach satasfied. Non-fat yogurt, oatmeal, raw nuts, and cottage cheese are considered "super foods" because they're very filling, so you may want to buy some of those. An example of a healthy breakfast is one serving of whole grain cereal with nonfat milk, an orange, and on scrambled egg. A healthy lunch is a sandwhich with two slices of whole grain bread, 97% lean turkey (about 4 oz), lots of vegetables, and some olive oil drizzed on (never mayo). A healthy dinner is a single servings of whole wheat pasta with tomatoe sauce and chicken breast, some steamed vegetables, a glass of nonfat milk, and a green salad with lemon and olive oil. A good snack or dessert is nonfat yogurt parfait layered with whole-grain cereal and fruit and a few almonds sprinked on top. If you decide to count calories, keep it below 2,000 (most teen boys need 2,500 a day, but since your on a diet you'll have a deficit) but never go under 1,400 or your metabolism will be slowed and your weight loss will be halted. Even if you don't count calories, look on lables. Rule of thumb: if its a carb food, the higher in fiber the better. If its a protein food, the higher in protein and lower in fat the better.

Good luck shaping up! I know what its like to gain weight from medication, I've been on anti-depressants and I gained over twenty pounds last summer. You can get it all off though as fast as it came on if you commit to it though, I promice.