Ruby Weight Loss

May 11, 2011

Any Healthy Diet Tips for a 16 Year Old Girl for the Summer?

Well here’s a question I just had to answering straight away:

Question: I really feel like I need to lose weight especially since both my parents are overweight. I’m deathly afraid of ending up like my parents when I grow up, and I know that the eating habits I develop now will follow me in the future. This summer I’m determined to lose weight, and keep it off. Any tips on how to keep the case of the munchies down will be helpful since I’ll be spending most of my time at home now. I’m 5′5 and don’t really now how much I should weigh so information on that is needed. I’ve tried researching diet and exercise tips, but they all lead me to buy something that I don’t really know will even work. I would appreciate healthy diet and exercise tips to start off on, and I would like some foods that can help me with my anxiety and depression. I’ve heard that there are some foods that tend to trigger anxiety, so I would like to know to stay away from it as much as possible. Thank you for your time, and I will give 10 points for the best answer.
Answer: I lost over 20 lbs at 16. I was never over weight, I was 5"3, alot shorter than you so dont worry. I weighed 135 as my personal highest and 6 months later, everyone noticed. I looked like a different person. (although I was also going through many life changes and stress) which probably added on to my weight loss. I joined the local gym, no personal trainer needed, and worked my a** off. I walked to the gym and back, 1/2 a mile each way, worked out, and walked back home. After a few months of doing this DAILY, i saw results. After all that, I still work out and eat healthier. I was finally 115 lbs. Throw out alll the junk food crap in your house and stock your house w. all new, healthier, even organic food. Fruit and vegies will be your new best friend. And you can also talk to your parents about this, they’ll understand. it will be so worth it in the end, its gonna be tough, but if you stick your mind to it, youll be good :)

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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