Question by Kay: What can I do to lose weight? (10 POINTS UP FOR GRABS)?
Alright, so here’s my physical profile:
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Height: 5’8
Weight: 139 lbs.
Calorie Intake: 1500/day
Exercise: 40 minute run 4-5 times a week (just started weight lifting again)
I am an aspiring model. Before you all go off on a tangent about how I should get a real career, I am an honour role student and plan to pursue a career as a secondary school educator. I want to do modeling on the side, more for fun.
With this being said, I know that I do have to become lighter in order to be somewhat successful in this domain. I want to drop down to 125lbs. I know that I can probably drop down to 130lbs with just the running and everything. So essentially, these are my questions:
How do I lose the five pounds after that? (I eat pretty healthy foods by the way)
Will weight lifting make my arms thin enough for a model?
How can I target weight loss in my upper thighs? (need to burn the fat off of them!)
Thanks in advance guys and gals!
Best answer:
Answer by Izaq
Join your local boxing gym, you dont have to actually box anyone, just join the gym to do the fitness and training part, youll sweat off plenty of weight fast.
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I was worried at first as a lot of model spire to be unheathily slim. 125 pounds at 5’8 for a female is very healthy. Simply lower your caloric intake a bit. If you eat 1500 calories daily and are not losing weight with 40 minutes of cardio 5 times a week it may also be the quality of the calories. Do you eat any junk foods? If your diet is good, you are just simply taking in too many calories. Try to lower it a bit without changing anything else and see if you see any results. I’d give that 3 weeks and see the difference.
This is as simple as it can get
use this website to calculate the calories your body uses each day
http://nutritiondata.self.com/tools/calories-burned
Now develop a diet plan in which you consume about 500 fewer calories a day. A recent study showed that its not what you eat, but how much you eat it. heres a link. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html
Here is a good thread that gives you a lot of good low calorie snack ideas. http://caloriecount.about.com/very-low-calorie-snacks-ft19593
You might also want to try and boost your metabolism. Do this by eating six meals a day, never go longer than 4 hours without eating at least a little snack. Muscle also increases your metabolism, so I suggest picking up some Golds Gym resistance bands from walmart, its like 10 bucks and comes with a pretty good workout dvd.
That being said. Good luck.
Once you hit about 132, I would switch your calorie intake to about 1200 a day. Drink tea in the mornings to boost your metabolism. Running or intervals 5 times a week will be really great for your body too. I recommend trying some Pilates for toning. Look up a few different routines, I really recommend the side leg series for toning your thighs. There is no way to target your weight loss, but you can make a body look leaner.
The side leg series consists of lying on your side and propping your head up with your elbow. Lay your other palm flat on the ground for support. Then, without moving your body lift your outside leg (flat footed- don’t point your toe) up and down 20 times. Then do that 10 more times, but pointing your toes on the way up. Finish it up with 20 toe slides. To do these point your toe and lift your leg straight up into the air, bend your knee, and then run you toe down the length of your leg. Do ten like that and then reverse the motion and do it ten more times. Then flip to your other side and do the same exercises with your other leg. Make sure you keep your abs tight! If this is confusing, just look up some videos to get a good look at how the pros do it.
I wish you luck with your weight loss, I know you can do it!
Hi Kay,
Good for you for knowing what you want to do at 16 and taking charge and setting goals for yourself.
When you jog, you want to keep your heart rate at 125 to 140 beats per minute. I come to this by using a scientific formula that has been proven to be the best at fat burning. 220 – your age (16) multiply by 60 to 70 percent. Looks like 220-16=204x.6=122.4 round to 125.
The weight on the scale is not the best indicator for size, measure your arms waist, thighs and any other area. Also, look in the mirror to make sure you look proportionate to what you want to be.
Make sure to cut out sugar, fat, and bleached/enhanced flour products. Some fats are good for you.
I recommend Dr. Oz’s book, “You on a Diet.” It tells you how to eat healthy and how to workout to burn fat. Not only does it tell you how, it tells you why.
There is no way to target weight loss, like losing weight off your thighs. But there are ways to tone, tighten and firm up certain areas.
Good Luck, it would be nice to hear how you are doing.
Gary