Help me lose weight/ tone up? :)

[Anonymous]

I'm not fat, but I want to lose some weight and tone up.

My main problem is I'm a little squishy, like my under arms, inner thighs, and belly.

I just want them to be firmer.

I eat pretty healthy, but with college fast food places have become a bad habit.

This is what I usually eat on a daily basis:

A special k bar or something simple for breakfast

A chic fil a sandwich or a slice of pizza for lunch (bad, I know :/)

A random snack in the after noon, nothing in particular. I love fruit and stuff like crackers.

And then I'll either grab a burger for dinner, or make steak or chicken and rice with some veggies.

One thing I know I'm really bad about is water.. I just hate it haha

I typically drink either a Gatorade, or something like Chrystal light or lemonade but I dilute it a lot.

When it comes to exercising, I'll do the elliptical for about 15 minutes and some crunches, push ups, squats etc.

I'm weak though and it sort of unmotivates me.

Does anyone have advice? I'd really appreciate it :)

Sorry if this was long

[brebre12]

its really not that hard

first off fast food is expensive in comparison to a grocery store , if you have to go with moe's southwest grill their the best I've found or get grilled salads from the place NO DRESSING

i get complimented on my body a lot by girls and guys

im almost 17 but I have an hourglass body while still being skinny

like the curves of kim kardashian but more so the size of like megan fox

i eat really healthy but that's just because that's what I'm used to and its really not hard to do if you just get used to it

im half arab [ egyptian ] so I eat a lot of shawarma and falafel which is good for you and also tabouleh salad I eat this like 2 times a week

everyday I eat hummus , as an alternative to a snack

i don't eat pork , I'm not muslim I'm christian the reason I don't eat it is because I think of it as unhealthy and unclean and frankly disgusting look up what pigs are like people say their clean animals but their not they kill animals just to drink the blood and eat their own waste also the fact that the government is allowed to disclose 25% of what a hotdog is made up of scares me

stick with lamb and beef but I mainly eat lamb and fish [ tilapia is amazing]

i get my exercise from dance if I haven't danced for a while I will start and in a week lose like a couple pounds plus I love it , if you don't like dancing don't do it

the point is to do something you love that provides exercise so that it seems like more of an activity than an exercise , swimming is probably the best thing you could do you burn A TON of calories plus its good for you skin

thats really all I can think of comment if I forgot something...

[ryanryan90]

okay so from talking to my trainer and gaining experience with all of this I have learned that its best (at least for me) to eat more in the morning than at night. it seems like a special k bar for breakfast is too small and a burger or a steak for dinner is too heavy. as the day progresses your meals should get smaller and smaller because your not moving around as much towards nightime so you cannot burn it off. you need more energy in the day time.. make sense? that just what I have learned is best for me. plus when you have a small dinner you wake up with a flat morning tummy. you should also try drinking a lot more water. I don't eat red meat because its really not that great for you. maybe try substituting meat for fish or chicken. generally lifting weights is for fat reduction. most people think that cardio burns more calories than lifting weights but the opposite is true. look it up. eating small meals every 3 hours also helps.

i have found that for me changing the way I ate was crucial to losing weight. I work out about 2 hours a day and try very hard to eat healthy. we are not perfect though and I know its hard at times but keep at it and I guarantee that you will see results.

[Voltaire]

Throw a couple hundred Russian twists in at the end of your workout. That'll kill pretty much any softness on your stomach.