Thursday, February 16, 2006

A healthy amp; quick weight loss plan? -

I m trying to drop a few pounds (and grow a little taller/stronger at the same time), would you consider this to be a quick (and healthy!) weight loss plan?- run every day for about 5 minutes- do crunches and push-ups for 10 more minutes- run some more until I m tired- drink more water and milk

Depends on your diet. Make sure you are eating healthy. Make sure you eat enough and don t starve yourself. Usually a person should be active for an hour and break a lot of sweat.

Running for 5 minutes? That s not going to do anything. You need to run for atleast 20 minutes. 30 - 40 minutes is better.Crunches and pushups won t help you lose weight - they ll just build muscle. Don t do them for 10+ minutes. Instead, count how many you do. Try around 30 - 50 each.Deffinately drink more water. Not so much the milk, as too much can get fattening. You still need some for calcium though.

Not healthy or quick. You should eat 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight everyday. Eat 6 small meals a day. That helps with your metabolism the protein helps you maintain muscle so when you do lose weight its fat. Instead of the running try this, I dont know if you are lazy or crunched for time but if you are only gonna put 5 minutes into cardio look up tabata routines. it will do more fo r ya than just running for 5 minutes. They only take 4 minutes but they are intense. Cut out sugar and refined carbs like white breadwhite rice stuff liek that. Eat wholegrain bread only and not much of that, stick to whole grain pasta and brown rice. Eat green leafy veggies. The water and milk are ok but id not get too carried away with the milk. Eat lean protein like tuna and chicken. You can also throw in lean beef. Find out on a site like fitday.com what your caloric intake should be for healthy weight loss. Do you not have time for a good routine and just trying to get something in? If you have time to put in about 30 minutes 3 days a week on a bodyweight fitness band routine and do the cardio on your offdays try this one.http://www.iwantsixpackabs.com/abs.html. Doing it this way willhelp you be healthier overall and you will keep it off.Hope that helped.