Ruby Weight Loss

May 20, 2010

I Need to Lose Weight! Any Tips That Don't Involve Diet Pills?

Filed under: diet tips — Tags: , , , , , , — Ruby @ 7:01 am

We’ve had a reader question come in on the subject of diet tips. Let’s take a look:

Question: I’m in 7th grade and I’m about 5′8. I am a very competitive swimmer and I have a lot of muscle mass, but not enough that it makes me look like a friggin female wrestler. I weigh about 151 lb and I’m not fat, but i could stand to lose a few pounds. I also have kind of chubby thighs, which is bad considering i’m in a swimsuit every day. Any tips on how to shed a few pounds? My mom is very against diet pills, and i kind of think that thier bad for you.
Answer: You are correct, diet pills are not good for your mind and body. In order to lose weight you must keep one simple formula in your head at all times when you drink or eat anything.

Calories Consumed must be less than or equal to Calories Burned

Now I am not a huge health nut, but I learned a couple of simple tricks to lower the amount of daily calories consumed. One, remove all sodas from your diet. This also includes diet sodas as well, because aspartame (sweet-and-low) can cause your body to retain water. Substitute sodas for low or no calorie fruit juices, or of course water being the best.

Second, do not eat a full breakfast. When you wake up, eat a nice Washington apple. It will give you just enough energy to make till lunch, which can be whatever you want.

Third, use a small plate, and only one plate for dinner. Also, make sure you eat dinner at about 6pm so that your food is nearly digested before you sleep.

Finally, the best advise is cut out fast food and junk food as much as possible.

1 Comment »

  1. When you are losing weight, you should exercise and diet together.
    If you exercise without dieting, you will get bigger appetite, which
    will lead to increase of weight, or muscle grow
    underneath the fat layer, and make you bulkier. If you diet without
    exercising, you will become flabby and will have excess skin. For
    diet, go wheat free. No pasta, pizza, bread and so on. And no food
    after 7 p.m. People achieve marvellous results with it. Depending on
    your initial weight, you can drop upwards from 20 pounds a month. If
    you don’t eat wheat then you don’t eat all those sticky, fatty goey
    cakes, you don’t eat junk food, and you don’t eat biscuits. But your
    diet is still balanced. It costs nothing, and you do not have to
    calculate points or to buy special meals or plans. For exercising,
    start with walking, and then switch to running/jogging. Running is the
    most efficient and calorie-burn exercise ever. If you are overweight a
    lot, walk first or you may have health complications (heart attack,
    disjointed bones and so on). Weight lifting is a good means to target
    your problem areas for men and women. It’s not necessarily to become a
    bodybuilder or even join a gym - a couple of dumbbells will help you
    to target your problem areas (stomach, butt, legs, arms, chest).

    Comment by ny — May 20, 2010 @ 12:42 pm

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