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Can i lose 10 pounds in one month and a half?

Hi, im 14 and i do 8 miles every day but not in a row. I eat wright too. Im over weight and i need to lose at least 10 pounds or more. Is it possible for me to loos that much weight until september 1st?

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definitely. if you're very dedicate, anything's possible (well, at least your goal is) make sure to not eat sweets, sodas, you know what i mean. that's great! just keep up the good work and after you've lost the weight make sure to keep eating healthy and continue a steady exercise program (although it doesn't have to be that heavy like it is now)
wow. 8 miles a day! thats great. as long as you keep it up. and be sure and have a healthy diet. you will probably lose more than that. =] good luck.
absolutely. my father did it in a week. he ate weight watchers and ran a lot. if a 37 year - old - man can do it a fourteen year old can definitely
Ya but you really need to stop that 8 mile crap. Yes it helps. But you need to just do sprint drills. It's half the time and about 6 times better. Don't eat sugar at night. It goes into body fat over night. Unless it's a slow digesting sugar...but even than..don't eat sugar at night unless you worked out. So yes it's possible. Go to the gym 2-3 times a week also. The more muscle you have the more fat you burn just sitting there. So do sprint drills. not running for long times. And just eat good and lots of water. You should be fine
Sure try eating less than 20 grams of fat a day, and writing down everything you eat.
100% yes, you can, best excersize though i would say is either a wrestling, karate, or kick boxing class, ive lost 20 pounds in 3 weeks in wrestling
oh easy. you can lose that much in 1 month. 2.5 lbs per week is normal
Its good that you eat right, but you also need to spell right too. You are fourteen! But a key to weight loss is, burn more calories than you eat. But that does not mean, eat less. It means, eat the normal amount, just work out more. Good thing you are going the right way.
i strongly believe u can lose 10 pounds or more if u eat only vege and fruit i do that oso and it works no meat and no hi calorie food
get started or make sure you stick to the challenge be relentless dont give an inch win win win 10lb is a bit too easy go for 15 thats over 1 stone! eazy peazy!!! learn the art of fitness and propper nutrition be at the top of your game and listen to all of the above answers for a balance of views and advise!
Yes Definitly Just need to eat less fast and greasy foods stick to the right meal portions and exercise everyday.
Yes. Try calorie counting, exercising and drinking plenty of water.
Yes eat fruits and vegetables for breakfast and dinner and for lunch you can have what you want. Keep running everyday.
totally. just make sure to cut out soda and fast food, eat better than you already think you are eating. although dont diet, watch what you eat, it'll be less stressful ;] walk everyday for at least a mile but also, do something else like pilates, tai bo, some sort of exercise routine.
of course
Ok, first of all, it's "eat RIGHT". First things first.
I just eat 20 carbs a day drink water and by the end of the week i've lost at least 5 pounds !!
absolutely. as long as you are dedicated the whole time. good luck!
yeah its possible
I'm also trying to lose weight before school starts. eat alot of fruits and veggies and water. when you are watching TV, durning commercials do sit ups or push ups. try to do at least 20 minutes of cardio a day. don't eat after 8 pm don't skip meals i would suggest measuring your waist, stomach, arms, and legs to see how many inches you lost in a couple of Month
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Congratulations. Yes, it is possible, 2 pounds per week is doable and it is good weight loss but 2 pounds per month is even batter. At 14 you are still growing so take advantage of it and sculpture your body. Do read the articles and do as you please. ********** Life Style Change Program for Loosing Weight By minootoo Who needs to loose weight? Answer is simply not every one, only the over weight person. Who is over weight? This is simple, it is easy to find out and it is available on line, it is call Body Mass Index, and calculations are simple. According to this calculation if you find your self say only 10 pounds more, you may not be over weight. Remember every one is slightly different and you can just watch it, on your own and not let it get out of hand. What is the reason for being over weight? This is also simple, have doctor check you out for any physical or hormonal abnormalities. The doctor should be advising you of your ideal weight even though you have already figured out the ideal weight and you are seen a doctor because your weight is not where it should be according to BMI. Basic understanding of loosing weight. Every one uses calories at all time. There may be some exceptions to this rule, for most of us; the rate of use, even when we are resting, we use 65 calories per hour minimum. This comes to1560 calories per day. The actual range is between 65 and 100 calories per hour. This is consistent with heart rate of 60 to 80 bits per minute. Simply put any person eating only say 1500 calories a day will not put on any additional weight. At this level of calories consumption the person should loose some weight over long haul, depending on the individual rate of metabolism. What is a healthy weight loss? When one tries to loose weight, one should loose excess fat; there should be a healthy loss of weight. Loosing muscles tissue is unhealthy. How much is one pound of body fat? One pound of body fat weight is approximately same as one pound of butter. If you look at a one pound package of butter, you will see it contains between 3200 to 3600 calories. This means that each time a person burns 3600 more calories then what the person takes in, the person will loose one pound. How many pounds should a person loose in a month? Any one that is trying to trim down can figure out how long it took to put on the excess pounds. The fact is; it did not happen over night. It usually creeps up, but the person realizes one day suddenly. This is why a person should not be in a hurry to loose weight. The person should start at once but go slowly. Do not wait for New Year. Taking above in to consideration a person should not loose more then 2 pounds per month. If a person looses any thing more then that, chances are that the person will not be able to maintain the weight loss. It will take extra efforts to loose and it will take extra efforts to keep it off. Remember slow and steady wins the race. When an overweight person should start loosing weight? At once. The person should not be in a hurry to loose weight. The person should start at once but go slowly. Again do not wait for New Year. How does body react to weight lose? Any time there is depletion of fat beyond certain level, the body reacts by slowing down metabolism, so that it can build up fat. If the body is use to say 2000 calories per day and detects only 1500 calories per day for considerable length of time it reacts to the situation by reducing the rate of metabolism. When this happens one need to help body by increasing activity. Usually takes about four weeks for body to react. What is the relationship between body and body fat? Under ideal condition fat act as a reserved energy source for our body. Certain level of fat is good for healthy living and even may save our life in certain life threatening situations. Every one should have minimum required level of fat on their body. What if there is no weight loss at 1500 calories in take level? This is a rear occurrence. Do not panic. The body has slowed down the metabolism to such a great extent that you must help it. The only way to help is to increase activities, this means you have to exercise. You do not need to join Gym but you can go on an an half an hour walk every day or batter still engage in a power walk for same duration. Power walk burns 250 calories per hour and walk burns 100 calories per hour approximately. What is the importance of body fat for a female? Females require little more body fat then men. In the absence of certain required level of body fat, females are not able to function properly; in particular they may not be able to conceive. You can find lot more about this on internet. At 1500 calories intake per day what one must drink and eat? Drink One gallon of liquids most of witch should be in the form of water (zero calories). Calories should be accounted for all other liquids. Why water? Water is a universal solvent, means it dissolves almost every thing at least in very minute quantities. This helps purification of body. Eat What should be your proportionate in take of fat, Proteins and Complex Carbohydrates? This depends on what your need are. 1.Need to reduce fat. Fat: 10 percent of 1500 calorie per day = 150 calories. Complex Carbohydrates: 30 percent of 1500 calories per day = 450 calories. Proteins: 60 percent of 1500 calories per day = 900 calories. 2.Need more energy. Fat: 10 percent of 1500 calorie per day = 150 calories. Complex Carbohydrates: 40 percent of 1500 calories per day = 450 calories. Proteins: 50 percent of 1500 calories per day = 750 calories. 3.Need to reduce weight only. Fat: 25 percent of 1500 calorie per day = 375 calories. Complex Carbohydrates: 25 percent of 1500 calories per day = 375 calories. Proteins: 50 percent of 1500 calories per day = 750 calories. 4.Need to increase muscles bulk, but still reduce weight. Fat: 10 percent of 1500 calorie per day = 150 calories. Complex Carbohydrates: 15 percent of 1500 calories per day = 225 calories. Proteins: 75 percent of 1500 calories per day = 1125 calories. Exercise the muscles you want to develop, you can find right exercise on line, recommend use of light weights. Foot note: To take fat is so important, while reducing even fat, that it is included in all cases. If the fat is completely cut out, body will think of producing the fat, and will produce the fat by reducing metabolism, without fat in take, you may actually again weight even at lower than 1500 calorie level. You will feel run down and lethargic. How one must, drink and eat? Drink Every one may not be able to follow this regime. A 16 oz glass of water first thing in the morning will be very healthy start. If you need to stabilize your stomach before eating, you can have a glass of water just before each and every meal. This is the easiest way to meet your quota of gallon of liquids. Eat To day almost half the world is starving. In western culture. Standard healthy practice for long time was three warm square meals per day. No eating in between, but children were allowed night cap. All that has changed, present thinking is 5 to 6 times per day. Any way what practice one follows is up to them; to each his own. Another best practice will be a glass of water before bed time, nothing to eat for two hours before bed time. How do I know the calorie count for various drinks and food? If you are buying packaged items it is on the package. Go on the internet and find the calorie information. Lots of cook book now a days list calorie per serving. Use your best guess, in this method use higher figure then you have guessed. References: http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv1-mdp&p=Calories+chart http://www.halls.md/body-mass-index/bmi.htm http://www.active.com/fitness/calculator... http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/diet.html ***** Tips for Loosing Weight By minootoo You must count calories and at least in initial stages write down what you are going to eat and when then stay on that list. Your total calories for the week must not exceed, 1500 x 7 = 10,500 calories this will give you leave way to indulge at special occasions like wedding and parties, but you must write down what you eat and account for the calories latter and adjust the total intake next week. Please read my article on this subject and follow them. While at it build your body too, while reducing by doing body parts specific exercises. If you are not too old, then best way to reduce your weight is to increase your height. Vegetarians have a big advantage, in loosing weight, it cost less and they can satisfy the hunger more easily, some vegetables have only 1 calorie per pound, so they can fill themselves up with it before enjoying each meal, and never go hungry. Most people should take one a day water soluble multi-vitamins when on this program; they can be purchased at the pharmacy near you. http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&... http://www.halls.md/body-mass-index/bmi.... ******* Increasing the Height By minootoo In rare cases, you can increase the height up to age 30. Cycling is good exercise and fun too. You need to adjust the seat so that when you paddle from seating position you will actually stretch your legs, it is a difficult position but doable. For safety you need to be on track and not in traffic, safety first. The FEW things I did at least helped me. Swimming. Not just playing in water, but serious laps type swimming, do not try to beat the clock but steady full strokes swimming. Remember slow and steady wins the race. Stretching exercises on floor. Find them on line. Chin ups. Full stretch type. Swinging from a rope. Full stretch climbing. In other words do things that require stre
That is the easiest thing to do in that amount of time. Eat healthy foods. Vegetables & fruits. Salads. Whatever you *think* might be to much of a serving-cut it in half. Eat less than what you would normally eat-& exercise. Trust & believe in me, you will lose more than 10 pounds. The Best Of Luck 2 U.
look tell me how much do u weigth then i can help you good luck anyways
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I once lost 20 lb in 1 month and I didn't exercise as much as you. I spent 2 hours a week climbing a mountain and at least 30 minutes a day, walking... It's all about eating right. I seriously doubt you're eating right if you're overweight.
Yes absolutely!
To achieve any weight loss, you really need to excercise and eat an overall healthy diet that consist of complex carbohydrates (whole wheat foods that would be great for fiber and needed nutrients), lean protein to help build muscles and repair your body, and good amounts of fat for energy and needed nutrients the body needs that your body cannot create on its own. By eating every 4 or 5 hours (having 4 or 5 smaller meals instead of 3 big meals), it helps to keep your sugar levels balanced and prevent dips. Then you are more likely to take in less calories throughout the day. By making a few adjustments to your current diet (such as switching to water in place of juice and soda, etc, snacking on fruits and raw veggies instead, chosing whole grain products instead of enriched foods, etc) can also help you to shed some weight (depending on how your current diet is). Also cooking healthier (using a cook spray, switching to olive oil, grilling and steaming more often than pan frying and deep frying, etc.) And to help lessen your sweets consumption, try at least limiting yourself to only 2 or 3 a day. And try having healthier sweets like yogurt, all fruit frozen bars (some are only 90 calories each, and with calories so low, that a treat you could possible have each day), jello, 90 calorie or lower pudding cups, fruit, and low calorie ice cream bars (such as skinny cow, weight watchers, etc.) If you try interval cardio training and some weight lifting/resistance training, not only will you lose weigh, but you will also help your body become more leaner and tone looking and your core will become stronger. Try doing some ab work and don't forget to work out your obliques (your "love handles") Also because muscle does weigh more than fat, you may be heavier essentially, but leaner too. Eventually the more muscles you will build, the more weight you can burn. More muscles will help you burn more calories at rest. And then eventually the fat/weight will come off... but everything takes time. Remember, it is possible to be leaner and stronger, but weight more. But don't give up and stay motivated... we all hit plateus. Also remember, that every one is a different individual and that we all lose weight from different places at different times. Your body choses when it is time, just be patience. And please note that if you try to lose a lot of weigh in a short amount of time, your body will really go through some health problems. Some risks could be that your hair may grown thinner, your periods may not be regular anymore (which is not a good thing), and your stomach system will be working slower, etc. Realistically, if you lose weigh the heathy way, then 1 to 2 pounds per week is a reasonable amount per week. Anything more, may be due to water loss or you have decided to go the other route and lose weigh by starving yourself. Remember that the number on the scale doesn't define you... you define you. The scale can't tell you how great you look in your jeans or how you feel... so don't rely so heavily on that scale. Our bodies's weight constantly fluctuates all the time... so it isn't always so reliable.
yes anything is possible
I lost more than your target. After I gave birth I was more than 120 lbs. What I did I gradually reduce eating rice til I got rid of it and substitute oatmeal or nesvita for at least 1 month til I reach 105-110 lbs. But, don't abruptly get rid of rice. You can have half rice every meal or take small meals frequently. Better consult your doctor before you take further step coz you are soo young. What i did maybe effective to me but not good for you.
Of course just stay focused
yeah definitely possible...try to eat more smaller portions throughout the day and drink tons of water (atleast 8 glasses a day) and keep the food healthy try to cut out the carbs, dairy and fatty meat ( I lost 20 pounds in 2 months) good luck
It sounds like you're already getting enough exercise. Make sure you are eating your food in smaller portions. Instead of 2 or 3 larger meals, you'll want to eat the same amount of food spread out over 6 times a day. This will speed up your metabolism. So will drinking green tea. Eat all your carbs in the morning when you wake up. Do not eat carbs or sugar after noon. Make sure to eat catabolic foods later in the day (foods which require more calories to burn than they contain, so they actually result in negative caloric intake while providing essential nutrients-these foods include most raw veggies) Make sure you are drinking lots of water.
OF COURSE if your eating right and excersizing theres no doubt you will loose 10 pounds some extra pointers would be to not eat after a certain time (6pm-7pm) and drink a lot of water but otherwise you could totally do it!
You may not like this answer but most likely NO. Losing 10 pounds in a month is a HUGE task on you body that is something nobody should do to themselves. You should bring this to your parents and ask them to help you drop weight slowly so you can keep it off. Given your age your still growing into your body, your maturing and your body needs to figure itself out. Trust me you don't want to start dieting now. ONCE you introduce dieting to your body it never forgets it, so when you try it again it become a little more difficult the next time and so on and so on. It will hold onto that fat more and more. Just EAT smart and eat in PORTIONS and move your body. Ps. If you learn how to eat now you will be SET for the rest of your life. Organic & Natural is the best! Good Luck! Ellie
You could probably lose more then that if you wanted. Just eat right. A lot of people say to cut carbs, but I strongly disagree... We have a food pyramid for a reason and as long as you stay in those guide lines you should be fine. Working out also does good. But you dont want to over do it, that can be bad for you. One of my friends runs 6 miles a day in cross country, but he started out running less than a mile a day. You shouldn't jump right into 8 miles, you can cause heart problem and other things, like torn ligaments.
It is possible. But as you're probably still growing, it's likely that your weight will increase somewhat until you reach normal height
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