Losing Weight probelm

[Anonymous]

I would really just like some help with this because I'm 16 years old, and I weigh around 116 pounds & my height is about 5'0. Because I'm so short I tend to look fat ish, some guys in my gym class constantly joke around about how I look and its starting to upset me, I really want to lose weight so I don't get made fun of so much, so could anyone help me, and tell me how I can lose weight the natural way, no pills.

I've also stopped drinking soda, and eating sweets.

[Anonymous]

Well stopping sugar is a great first step, so keep that up. Especially if you usually eat a lot of it. Eat more vegetable based meals, and less processed foods. Especially white flour and margarine/vegetable oil.

Here's my general advice that I tell people to lose weight and be healthy:

Dos

- Eat lots of vegetables. 4+ servings. French fries don't count. Leafy greens.

- Get more protein. Highests sources are beans, seeds, fish, meat, eggs, lentils, nuts, cheese.

- Eat healthy fats such as saturated and monounsaturated. But use sparingly because because of their high calorie density. Butter on vegetables, coconut oil for cooking, olive oil on salad. If you believe the myths about saturated fat, do some research. It's actually not that bad.

- Eat frequently, 3-4 meals/day, with one snack in between them. Also helps increase metabolism. Starving yourself tells your body to store fat.

- Drink 6-8 glasses of water a day

- Lift weights and build muscle (girls don't worry, estrogen stops you from being buff). Do some cardio, but not as much as lifting weights. Less than 30 minutes every 2 days. Muscle is better because it continues to burn callories even after you workout, while cardio only burns when it's being done.

- Sleep properly, take a multivitamin, increase nutrients, decrease toxins.

- Variety is the key to health. So many people eat the same thing for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. Or only one type of fruit, vegetable, meat, and nut. This lacks micro nutrients.

Donts

- Don't eat much sugar. Don't eat candy, pops, juices, packaged snack foods, popular cereals, etc with added sugar. (IF YOU MUST, have very little not often, and be mindfull of it. Enjoy it. Sitting in front of TV chowing down on chips is not being mindfull, that's how people overeat.)

- Don't eat most "Sugar free" labeled foods if they have aspartame, it's a poison. Don't eat any foods with "High Fructose Corn Syrup", that's even worse than sugar.

- Don't eat foods with processed flours like "enriched wheat flour". It has no vitamins and just turns into sugar in the body. Basically almost all packaged grain based foods like cookies, crackers, etc. Eat 100% whole grains.

- Eat less starchy carbohydrates like white breads, fries, potatos, rice.

- Don't eat "low fat" labeled foods, they are higher in sugar, and sugar is what makes you fat. Eating fat does NOT make you fat. You need fat, your cells and brain is made up of of fat. Excess fat is what you don't want, and that comes from calories, and bad fats like in vegetable oils.

- Don't eat vegetables oils such as canola oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated oils, margarine, shortening. They are NOT healthy like the food companies want you to believe. They are highly processed, oxidized, high in omega 6, and low in omega 3 (the good ones). When you have a high 6/3 ratio, you get inflammation. Inflammation and OXIDIZED cholesterol is a major cause of heart disease and others.

You might also find this site and videos

[kheserthorpe]

Keep fibrous vegetables and lean protein up, slash sugar and soda, tell us where you are in a month.

[nermalinda]

Stop weighing yourself, but start working out.

These videos are great.

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[Anonymous]

No soda and sweets will help.

Give it time to take effect.