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You could try exercising or doing 1 hour of physical activities each day whether it being dancing, swimming, running, walking even playing with your friends or little brother counts as long as you get to move your body for that hour. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!
Try exerciseing about 20 minutes and try counting calories maybe 1400 Hundred a day Just do not go bellow 1200 because you wont lose
Very important to stay away from junk food, pop and fast foods. Even if you decide to drink diet colas it s not a good idea as diet soda has twice the amount of sodium than regular sodas so you can t win as sodium retains water. You got to move with some cardio type of exercise. Eat a properly balanced diet. Don t eat anything with white flour in it. And thinking about losing 20 pounds is crazy if you are talking about doing it in one month time! That is not safe and whatever you lose will come back and perhaps 10 or more pounds more! This is not a quick fix, you have to loose it slowly. Sorry to say!
Fast weight loss is not safe weight loss. Chances are it will not be permanent weight loss either. Safe weight loss is considered losing no more than 1to 2 pounds a week. Everyone wants a quick easy way to lose weight, the bottom line is that there is none. Weight lpss requires exercise, diet and lots of discipline. Good Luck
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Look, the only way you are going to lose ANY weight is to just restrict your portions and exercise at least 30 min a day, 5 days a week. It can be slight jogging (if you don t like heavy jogging) you could walk for 45 min, you could just jump rope for 30 minutes, I don t care how you do it...BUT, the only way to safely and effectively lose REAL fat weight is to cut back your portion sizes, forget about sweets and exercise. You don t have to starve yourself, but make sure you aren t eating as much as you are now.
