I'm 140 pounds and 5'5.
Any tips on losing weight?
I'm 140 pounds and 5'5.
To really maximise fat loss stop obsessing over foods that are the cause of obesity. Cutting them things out are great ! But you can do a lot better. So weigh yourself use an online calculator to find out your maintenance calories. Now you take 500 cal from your maintence to put you in a fat burning surplus. To Boost your chances of losing fat? Eat high protein low carb and low fat foods. Include weight training (don't worry you won't become muscular ) . And do 30 minutes cardio. High intensity bursts of working out Correctly will she's those calls fast. Drink plenty of water. When you create your combination of your required nutrition protein , fat , carbs and fibre which is in most healthy carbs like sweet potatoe yams etc. You should work out calories per meal prepared say 2500 calls is my fat loss intake. I would divide it by 6 meals 416 cals per meal. So the calories need to be mostly from protein and carbs and fat. When you master "macro nutrients " which is very easy to learn the basics you can get fat thin fat thin as you choose. This is what body builders use and fitness models. By reducing carbs your body goes into you fat cells for energy , if you eat a lot of fat your body goes into using fat as energy. If you weight train and di cardio and eat a lot of protein you body won't use the protein for energy or your muscles. Because you telling your body you need your muscles and protein to repair. So you have low energy from eating low carbs you eliminate the ability to use fat from foods? So you also weight train? Your effictively telling your body you need to use your stored fat for energy. But don't go to crazy just low your carbs , lower your fat UP your protein and remain under the calorie surplus. eating your daily calories in 6 meals withal it if water will reduce hunger. If you feel hungry by the way do 10 push ups. Diet is 70% working out is 30%
Ok just cuz you eat healthy isn't going to change anything if you still are consuming more calories in than out. I cannot stress that enough. You have to track everything you eat.
How are your clothes fitting? Are they loose compared to what they used to be?
Always measure yourself. Waist, arms, thighs whatever. Especially when you weight train.
The scale is a poor indicator for measuring fat loss. Women are known to Overstreet the number on the scale If you want something very accurate get a body fat percentage checked out buy those do cost some money the more accurate ones do. You can be 2 types of 140. The fat 140 or the lean 140.
Okay so this worked for me! So i stopped drinking everything EXCEPT water! No pop, no juice, no alcohol, only water. Add lemons, cucumber and oranges to make it taste better! Also I read somewhere that losing weight is 20% workout and 80% what you put into your body. So i stopped eating fast food, anything that came frozen (except veggies to be steamed), anything that came in a box etc. So typically i only ate meat (mostly chicken), and bunch of vegetables and little to no carbs. I would still eat bread and pasta just much less and ate more vegetables instead. Also making a huge pot of vegetable soup to eat everytime i got hungry was a great way to be healthy :) Good luck girl!
Try limiting your calories and eating healthier. Exercise helps but it won't be as effective as going on a diet too.
For example, at the beginning of my weight loss journey I stopped drinking sugary drinks and limited myself to just water and green tea, Green tea has antioxidants and helps give you energy, which in turn boosts your metabolism. Along with cold water. I lost a ton of weight by just doing that.
Also, you should eat a lot of lean meats and leafy vegetables. These also give you energy, such as spinach which has a ton of iron and increases blood flow. I hope this helps. Good luck on your weight loss journey!
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Eat protein and rice. Lean meats is good, but add brown rice and broccoli as a meal. You can also alternate your meat protein with kidney beans (protein and fiber) or black beans ( A cup of black beans packs a whopping 15 grams of satisfying protein and doesn't contain any of the saturated fat found in other protein sources, like red meat).
You can also try eating grapefruit for snack, blueberries for snack, almonds for snack, oats for fiber during breakfast, lentils for protein and fiber, same as garbanzo beans. Eat small portions about every 2 to 3 hours. Drink plenty of water.
Continue your work out, but gradually increase with more time and resistance.
Excercise makes you gain weight (from muscle) so if you only want to lose them then dont do any strength excercise. My advice: dont measure your diet's success from weight loss but how your appearance change after diet. You'll get stressed a lot if you you only pay attention to scale number
The problem is the number but also I've noticed or I've felt 'bigger/fatter' then I was before I started.
firstly i dont know pound and bla bla if possible tell in kg cm , secondly you can check your hormones up in a hospital if they all are in a normal level even if they are ok your body can be addicted your ex eating system and now it tries not to accept your new diet and can take time. Finally i think you dont only eat what else?
63-64 kg and 164-165 cm. it's been two months so I think it's adjusted, I cut out everything unhealthy slowly not just all at once. I eat mostly vegetables and grains. I also barely eat eggs and meat.
I could eat like a rabbit.
Honestly you are at a good weight for your height but if you want to lose weight this is what i did I become a pescetarian a few months back; i stop eating meat as well as diary products and eggs and loss a lot of weight 30 lbs in the first week. Drank water and made green smoothies ate more vegetables and more whole grains.
Sometimes the body resists burning fat if you change your diet as a survival mechanism
Basically losing weight depends on having a calorie defecancy, meaning you need to eat less than what you spend
So try to count how many calories you eat a day, and how many you spend, you can do that using a weight loss calcualtor that you can find online
just google "weight loss calcualtor", I can't give you a direct link cause I don't have enough Xper
Can you tell me your daily diet here please? You seem to be doing the right things, exercise and eating healthy. It is impossible to gain instead of lose weight!!! Are you stressed? If you are stressed some hormones are released and they don't allow you to lose weight.
Oatmeal or cereal with almond milk and whatever fruit I have for breakfast. Half a slice of whole wheat bread, it tastes awful but it's good for you lol. Steamed vegetables with some kind of fruit. Dinner is usually vegetable, bean pasta soup but sometimes I'll eat a sandwich. I also snack on fruit throughout the day, I think I'm supposed to lose weight by this diet an exercise but I'm not.
hmm you seem to be eating right baby. try removing sandwich from the dinner and eat only fruits. are you doing cardio correctly or just working with low rhythm? You need to do hit to lose some weight high intensity training. Other than that are you stressed? Strees lowers your testosterone levels (yes girls have too) and thus lower the results of training
From a fighters perspective, you will need to eat less and run more. 30 mins is a warm up. 4 hours is a okay workout. With food you have to focus more on amounts than what it is. Drink only water and eat 1500 calorie max per day. Yes, this will suck and be painful. That is why most people are fat and nasty. They can't fight through.
Avoid all processed rubbish. No meats, Tofu and other soy products. Eat fruits, vegetables and protein drinks. Engage in exercise and increase the intensity and duration as your body gets used to it. Proper squatting techniques can help to lift and build the rear end and push could help firm up the breast.
Up your work out time. When I did tennis my first year of high school I went from 146 to 133 in two months. And that was about 3 hours a day 5 days a week and I didn't change my eating habits
Well the reason why I chose 30 minutes everyday was because I knew I could stick to it for a long period of time. Any longer, I don't know if I could keep going like that for more than a month or two.
You might try doing a water only fast for 24 hours, now and then. Basically only drink water for 24 hours. It lets your body focus it's energy on repairing itself and detoxing, which would help you lose weight.
It all about calories intake. Doesn't matter if your food is 'healthy' if the amount of calories consumed still outweigh calories burned.
Don't trust the scale, instead measure your waist or any part of your body to see the change. The scale doesn't say how much muscle or water weight people gain. The scale doesn't really matter. So measure yourself because it's better. The number doesn't define you. Stay motivated. Visit thefitlives. weebly. com
try to do longer cardio. 30 min is the minimum to start fat burning.
That is another way. High intensity workouts quickly exhaust your bodies other energy sources and brings your body in a state of higher energy consumptium for a period that still lasts after the workout. So the effect is more or less the same, but you must be very fit to train at that high level.
You've lost weight, I'm sure. but you also gained muscle while losing the fat.
Drink a lot of water at least 3 liters a day and do morning cardio with an empty stomach, nothing more than 30 minutes.
Watch your carbs and try to get 10-15 grams of protein for breakfast. Try to drink a gallon of water a day and eat 6 times a day not 3
I lost 12 kilos in 3-4 months. I just ate less bread and walked more. This is the secret
Calories in < Calories out.
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