What is a good diet/exercise plan?!


Question: What is a good diet/exercise plan?
So, I need a diet/exercise plan.
I am 15. I weigh a little less than 220. I want to loose weight so bad. I hate looking in the mirror. Some days I don't even eat. I need a legit way to do things. I'll even take food to school for lunch, because I know that food is nasty and I mostly eat out of the snack machine there. I know it's a lot to ask for, my goal in the long run will be 100 lbs. But at first I just want to find a healthy way to loose weight. Any tips?

Answers:

Well, first off how tall are you? Second what do you pack for lunch and what do you usually have for dinner. Do you eat breakfast? Eat late at night?

What I suggest first is make a journal to keep track, set a realistic weight loss goal for a week. Keep track of what you eat and the exercises you do. That way you will know if you are doing something wrong or right.

Now come the workout, I suggest start out by jogging then running(cardio basically). First week start out by jogging a mile, improve your time during that week. Set your max mile for that month, say 5 miles by next month by jogging. Join a gym if you like to, but I would hold off till later. Keep jogging a mile until you can run it, the average time for a mile by a person is 6 minutes. Once you accomplished that go for two miles while maintaining the 6 minutes pace. Keep building up, no need to rush. Jump rope is a good exercise you should look into, so is swimming.

Second is weight/resistance. The best thing for you to do right now is to do body weight exercises, it's cheap and efficient, granted that it's harder than most weighted exercises. Start out with the classics, push ups, sit ups, pull ups, dips, leg raises, planches, mountain climbers, the warriors etc Google is your best friend and so is youtube.

You should always start out with 3 sets of 10(reps) with any exercise that you're trying to execute. If you can do that easily then it's time to bump up the intensity or replace that exercise with a harder one. For example, push ups when done correctly is elbows in, bend at 90 degrees, chest down touching the ground then all the way up. The advance version is diamond push ups, superman push ups, and so on. You should experiment and find what is best for you, meaning you can feel the burn. If you feel you are doing body weight exercises easily then you are plateauing, and need to switch it up to weight (benching etc).

Diet and nutrition should be take into consideration when trying to lose weight and gain muscles. First off, always start your day with breakfast, why? In the morning your body needs energy in order to kick start your metabolism, which causes you to burn energy therefore fat. If you skip it then your body will actually cut back the metabolism, conserving energy, a defense mechanism when food is low, so you could survive longer. Eat healthy in the morning(google), make sure you are 70% full. For lunch eat light, since lunch it's consider a snack by most cultures. Dinner should be the same thing, eat early and light. Since you don't burn a lot of calories sleeping. Try not to eat late or wake up and snack at 12:00am.

Give it a try, you're still growing so you still have lots of time left. Once you are comfortable enough with the way your are, try out for a school sport. It's fun and will let you make a lot of friends, fit friends so they will continue to encourage you to maintain a healthy life style. Plus colleges like if you do sports.

Good luck! Any question just ask me.

Myself. Amateur boxer.



Stop your bad habits of not eating. Eating like crap is better than not eating at all. In order for you to maintain your weight at over 200lbs at 15 years of age. You're consuming way too many calories. Now counting calories is really annoying, it feels like too much to deal with in your head but you only have to do it once for everything you eat on a regular basis. Once you write it down, there is no forgetting. Keeping a balance of 2000 calories per day will be a good exercise in itself. Try P90X, it will kick your *ss.

Personal tips*

1. Stop drinking soda and sugary juices. Water and Orange juice/cranberry juice will do.
2. Lower salt intake
3. Count your calories and watch out for condiments and portion sizing (often what looks like a single serving is actually 2 or more. That makes the labeled calories double or even triple)



Hmm, calorie shifting?




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