i want to lose weight as i am about 15 stone, 5ft 7 or 8 and a size 16 (UK) So i am going to eat healthy but its so expensive! im 16 years old and live at home and would love to have like smoothies for breakfast etc but i cant afford a machine also i cant afford to keep buying fruit!!! help!
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Eating healthy is no more expensive than not eating healthy. However at 16 it is more difficult if you are not making the normal food purchase choices. Don t focus on one thing -- like a smoothie for breakfast, because then when you can t get it, you will have problems. If you are looking for some fruit, you may want to try dried fruits with cereal -- but be careful what kind of cereal. With your weight, you may want to speak to your doctor about a good plan for you, or a school nurse or health teacher can help you with a diet plan that can work based on the foods you have and can purchase. There are a lot of good breakfast cereals that help give you a good start to your day. The most important thing is to make sure you exercise regularly, and don t skip meals thinking it will help. It may reduce calories, but you need to eat to live, and you are more likely to make poor food choices if you don t eat a good healthy breakfast.
its hard to loss weight i know, i have the same problem for years. go to your gp , he his the very best person to help.good diet advice and someone to talk to as well.good luck.
As you feel changing your food is not an option the easiest way to loose weight is to exercise more. Eating = more caloriesexercising = burning caloriesif your exercise = more than you eat = loose weight.
Bloody hell everyones wrote essays! Bottom line is i was pretty much in the same boat but im 18 and weighed 10.9 stones...i now weigh 9.3 and still going...Eat less have 3 meals a day...its not expensive markets and stuff have offers like 10 kiwis for a pound and so on...go look around and dont be embarassed...show em ur healthy...for breakiee have some cereal with low fat milk..lunch have some chicken with a salad and for dinner some pasta...then just do some form of exercise...dancing, swimming, jogging, walking....walk everywhere...atleast half an hour...do these for 1 or 2 months...and then start to tone up with sit ups and crunches and all the rest...im sure your mum or dad will be supportive in this situation as its for your benefit and will make them happy as well...be patient if you feel like you cant do it anymore just think of how better you could be than everyone else around you....be confident and weigh your self every week to see how much youve lost...good luck...email me if you want more helppp ozzy_b18@yahoo.co.uk...i can motivate you....mwah xx
There are lots of rapid weight loss methods around, but they can cause more problems than they solve.Generally, the SLOWER you lose the weight the better. The fastest a human body can possibly lose fat (if ALL its fat-cells are releasing fat, under PERFECT nutritional circumstances) is about one pound per week. Anything faster than this will CERTAINLY be water loss or disposal (not burning) of muscle tissue. Neither of these is particularly good for you, and both of them can interfere with fat loss.In reality, perfect circumstances do not happen, and fat-cells release varying amounts of fat. It is much better to set a very low target, perhaps ONE POUND EACH MONTH, so that over a year you are losing nearly a stone, and you will not be severely affected by any loss of muscle or dehydration.A very low rate of loss requires very little adjustment in your diet or (better still) activity pattern. Exercises to do at home are often boring, so you could add a regular dance class (social dancing, say at a nightclub or etc, is often less vigorous than it seems, and you get to eat drink unhealthy stuff while you re out) to your current activities.If it is a style that needs constant practice of techniques (such as Rock Roll), this will give you an opportunity to fit in small (say, ten minutes) sessions several times daily. That way, your ability will improve quickly, and you ll be burning off a bit more fuel while you re having fun, so that it doesn t feel like hard work.
Try www.sparkpeople.com, it s a great free website, totally healthy, you can watch how your weight changes while also tracking whether you get all the needed nutrients. And they give you all the guidelines you need about losing weight the healthy way. There s also a support research centre, where you can read millions of great articles about healthy eating or excercising. It will take a little bit of your time, since you ll have to enter foods that you ate over the day (a fast internet connection is a plus in that case). But it is totally worth it!
you may not be able to afford a machine but you will be able to afford a hand-held blender, they start from around ��5 and go upto ��30 depending on the make. They look like a large vibrator but are not (I promise!!) you just chop up the fruit like you would in a blender and out it into a cup or bowl, and wizz up what you want.Try apple, orange and strawberry,or watermelon, grape and a satsuma/clemintine/mandarinor just banana and skimmed milk.Also try any seasonal fruit, you can tell which is which by the prices as seasonal stuff is normally cheaper!!Also try making tomatoe based sauces as oppose to creamy ones by blending baked tomatoes (removing any core) and adding fresh herbs, tabasco or lea and perrins or balsaminc vinegar and lemon juice
find daily calorie intake calculator on the net, enter all your stats and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to maintain, take off 300-400cal off that number and thats how much you need to lose.eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours - it optimizes your metabolism)5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day8 glasses of waterhave complex carbs for breakfast - they give you energyhave protein (lean meat, legumes etc) for dinner - repairs musclecardio exercise 4-6 times a week for 30-50min (ideally 45min because the first 20-30min body burns carbs and only then starts burning fat), light weight training (more muscle=faster metabolism)dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, pasta etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried, oily.ofcourse you can spoil yourself once in a while with a little treat:)
Nikki, healthy weight loss doesn t need quantity but quality of food. Once you get into a routine of healthy lifestyle it will not be much work. Sometimes it will take time to change over, but if you really want it you will persist and concur . Here is the essence of healthy weight loss. If you eat NUTRITION (no empty calories) the pounds will shed off of you. Questions is how to do that. I have been serching for some system to keep me healthy without too much work and this is what I have found. I am taking routinely a set of integrated supplements. What I mean is I don t have to worry if I ingested all the essencial viatmins minerals and essential fatty acids while I am on the system. This will make sure I have good ellimination which is the 1st requirement to be helathy and certainly to loose weight. If your colone is not functioning well you inevitably going to have problems with your metabolism. Excercise daily, even if it is just a 30 minute walk.Next I am trying to only eat healthy, that is raw organic fruit and vegetables and high quality protein. Never, never never put in your body anything conatining white flour, sugar or other refined products. When you eat qualtiy you need very little as your body is satisfied, it has enough nutrition. There is a doctor who has a booklet with high lifeforce recepies. They are also delicious . Many puddings that will taste better than smoothies with all the artificial sweeteners and colores etc. His name is Dr. Mick Hall (ask for Jenice if you call). He has his office in California in Costa Mesa, his website is www.inneractivenutrition.com You are very young and would have a lifetime of benefit changing over to a routine that your children and grand childrren will benefit from. Not only because they will not inherit demaged genes, but will learn from you how to live a healthy life. I do believe he does have someone in England as well, but I don t know any more than that. Try to contact them (by phone)and find out. And Nikki there are no shortcuts. You will lose weight and be healthier then when you were borne if you change over. Good luck and congratulation for thinking the right way. I wish I would have started that early.Olghi :)
