Weight Loss Tips?

[darkprincess]

Just wondering what works for everyone else?

I keep trying workout routines, and I change it up every 3 months, and I keep a pretty good diet, I eat lots of fruits and veggies and get lots of protein and wheat and dairy products. But I can't seem to lose the weight! I'd like to lose my stomach my summer for bikinis, but I doubt that will happen. Although I have lost inches, and 10 pounds in a year, I'd like to tone up my stomach and lose the extra I DO still have.

Any tips? Workout routines or exercises I should try? What works for you?

Thanks in advance!

[Tamikaze]

Losing weight is about 90% diet, 10% exercise. It is amazing how hard you can workout and barely use up calories. Exercise will help you tone up but it won't help you lose that much weight, though it can help some. It does help you feel a lot better about yourself and can keep you to eating right.

If you want to lose weight you need to cut down your calories in a healthy way. 1st, eliminate drinking your calories. Do you drink coffee drinks with calories, like mochas? Or do you drink energy drinks or sodas? Stop drinking any of that stuff. Do you eat fried food? Don't. Stop eating junk food. Now you don't need to eliminate it altogether but the point is that the more you eat of healthy stuff each day and the less you eat of worthless calories, the more fit you will be. Save junk food for the occasional treat, not daily or weekly meals.

Finally, if you want to tone (won't help you lose fat there) your stomach, go to Youtube and look for videos that feature core workouts. Strengthening your core will give you a much nicer mid-section but be aware we all gain weight in different places and a lot of girls and women gain it in their stomach and have to get stick thin (not advisable) to have a "flat" stomach. But I wouldn't worry about that until you change some more eating habits and started doing core workouts.

[4everyours]

Sit ups = flat stomach

Do them every morning before you go to school or start your day

Do as many as you like, but a good number would be 50-150

Don't drink any soda, because that causes bloating.

This method works, because I've lost my stomach from working out in cheerleading, and we did a lot of sit ups

#2 I know 3 girls who do it every day the most one girl did was like 200 a day it works they're all flat as boards, but also they work out like two do dance, and the other basketball.

Stay active, I recommend doing a sport, because you will get toned up in every way

Or

You could jog or walk miles every weekend

Get a friend to work out with you, so you could stay motivated and won't get boread or discouraged easily.

Last but not least, Seventeen Mag has ways to switch up your diet like if you wanted chips instead eat pretzals read that magazine and it would give you ways to eat heatlhy

[darkprincess]

Ok sit-ups don't work, cause I have amazing muscular endurance, and I've been doing them for 2 years every morning (like 200 of them) and it doesn't get rid of fat, it tightens the muscles beneath the fat.

[4everyours]

Well, rock hard abs don't hurt

[fleeble]

Doing sit ups = strong abs, so probably less flat stomach.

You can't target fat loss.

[OutOfMyElement43]

I don't know your goal. You're going to have to start counting calories. You need to count up the calories you're eating now, keep a log of the foods you eat, and start cutting calories. I'd start by cutting dairy products and all processed food. I'm about to start losing my "winter weight." Many people will tell you to go low carb, but I don't see any benefit in a low carb diet unless you're very overweight. I eat a 60/40 carb/protein diet. Low carb diets make you feel like crap, and the quality of work you put into exercising suffers. This gives a good overview of carbs:

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Eat meat! Try to get most of your protein from animal meat. If meat is the source of your dietary protein, you don't have to force fat calories into your diet.

[Anonymous]

Go to the gym. Do both muscular and cardiovascular exercises.

Do you visit a gym?

Also, you've got to get all of your nutrients while having as little fat in take as possible. One way to do this is to replace what would normally give you protein with a Protein powder mixed with milk. Because the powder has no fat at all.

And every time you reach for chocolate or patato chips.. Get an apple. seriously, I was getting ill from eating too much junk so I cut it all out and ended up eating 2 apples and a banana when I would usually have eaten junk.

[Anonymous]

Just to add on to what other people have said:

always remember that a magazine's image of "fit" is most likely not reality. Your body has a weight that it is comfortable at, so as long as you are eatting healthily and exercising regularly, then you are healthy. If you can believe it, I have the opposite problem: I'm 20 years old and only weigh 100 lbs. I tried to gain weight during my teens by taking in a LOT of calories, but nothing worked, this is what my body is comfortable weighing and I'm okay with that. Being healthy is much better than being super skinny.

Also, make sure that you do have some fat intake, your body needs it to make proteins. Just cut out trans and saturated fats

[fleeble]

You look fine. You don't need to lose weight.