Ruby Weight Loss

August 5, 2010

Looking for a Good Diet and Exercise Routine. Any Tips?

A tough diet tips question this week. Let’s dive straight in

Question: Hey…I’m 12 and I’m looking into losing weight. I’ve already posted a question about weight loss but now I want to know, does anybody have a good Diet for me to stick to and a good Exercise routine? I’m not a very fit person, so any stretches, exercises I could do in my spare time at home would be handy. Its the Summer Holidays over where I live and in September, I’m going to Florida so I would like to have a body I am proud to show off!
So please tell me different ideas of stretches, exercises or weight-losing foods I can try. Thank you. :-)
Answer: Fad diets, starvation diets, fasting, and diet pills do not work. Any diet that is temporary will only produce results that are temporary at best.

Losing fat any faster than about 4 lbs a week is impossible. Any additional weight you might lose would either be water weight, or your muscle atrophying.

The only way to lose fat is a complete lifestyle change where you stop doing what made you obese in the first place and adopt healthy eating and exercise habits for the rest of your life, such as:

1. Eat about 6 small complete meals throughout the day (fish, almonds, walnuts, and lean proteins in general, plenty of raw fruits and vegetables, and complex multigrain carbohydrates) spaced out about every 2-3 hours. Consume between 1500-2500 calories a day.
2. Do NOT starve yourself, do NOT binge eat.
3. Be as active as you can; nothing to do for 10 minutes? Knock out 10 push-ups.
4. Eat some spicy foods; take a decent amount of vitamin C, and drink between a half-gallon and a whole gallon of WATER a day. Avoid anything deep-fried, white bread, sprinkles, and any refined sugar.
5. No more soda. Ever.
6. If you do drink coffee, drink it black.
7. Do at least 35 minutes of cardio straight at least once a day, at least three times a week, more if you are not trying to put on muscle.
8. Do a large amount of full body exercises whenever possible (Jumping Jacks, Pull-ups, Chin ups, dips, squats, hanging leg raises, hanging knee raises, back raises, glute ham raises, burpees)
9. Get at least 6 hours of sleep a night, but no more then 9.
10. Here is the most important part: STICK TO IT!

You can feel free to email me with any questions or comments.

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