Advice on losing weight?

[Tomboy]

So wrestling season is coming up again and I am looking to go down a weight class. Basically I need to lose 6 pounds in a healthy way. I've tried running, I joined cross country and ran 6-8km 3-5 days a week and lost no weight >.< The only thing that worked so far was that during the summer I was bed ridden with the flu so I didn't eat and didn't get out of bed for a couple of weeks and combined with no exercising at all during the summer I went from 120 to 103... now I am back to 109... After losing 13 that was mainly muscle I was really out of shape... so any ideas as to how to lose weight?

[firefight1]

drink about a gallon of water per day, more if you can do it, eat around 1.5 grams of protein for every pound you weigh and hit the gym HARD, muscles burn calories just sitting around the more muscles you have the more calories they will burn.. even sitting around doing nothing, and depending on when weigh ins are you could try to cut carbs weigh back during the day, eat like a pb and j about an hour hour and a half before you go to the gym, this will give you energy to lift but once that's done your body will be forced to use its fat stores and protein to make more glucose through glucogenesis, after you lift HARD go run for as long as you can handle, this will put you into a catabolic state.. its confusing but it works and make sure you get plenty of sleep

theres also an equation to calculate how many calories you need in a day to function (without working out) so if you can figure that out you can use that to base your diet off of GOOD LUCK its confusing business but hard work pays off in the end

[Tomboy]

What kind of lifts should I do?

less weight and high reps 15-20reps

medium weight 10-15reps

low weight 5-10reps

or should I do cross fit....

[firefight1]

If you want to do cross fit go for it, its nuts but you should do sets of 10- 15 where its pretty difficult to get the 15, do three sets and only let a minute pass between sets, if you can do the weight 20 times its too light and focus on good form and slow controlled movements

[jbomb27]

The equation I have for caloric needs is for people 19+, if you are under eighteen as your thing says you shouldn't really be worried about your weight and you shouldn't be dieting or trying to lose weight, you are still growing. Your body needs more calories at this point, I suggest just trying to eat healthly. I got the equation from ny nutrition class for university.