Weight Loss – Weightloss Resource and Slimming Diets

plushpenguin says:

To start loosing weight, first, you need to decide on an appropriate goal weight based on a medical height/weight chart. Searching for “ideal weight” will definitely lead you to a bunch of charts and calculators. Another simple, but not quite as reliable, way of finding your “ideal” healthy weight is to start at 100 lbs and add 5 pounds for every inch above 5 feet you are.
According to this very basic formula, if you are 4’11″ your ideal weight would be around 100 lbs. You might want to add or subtract ten lbs based on your frame size (bone size). Wrap your fingers around your wrist. If they overlap, you have a small frame. If they just barely touch, you have an average frame. If you can’t get them to touch, you have a large frame. Subtract another 5 lbs if you’re extremely sedentary, or add five if you’re athletic. Once you have chosen an ideal weight, multiply it by 15 to find the amount of calories you should eat per day. For example, If you choose a goal weight of 100, you should eat around 1500 calories per day, that’s around 500 calories a meal. Go to a meal planning website like this one http://www.thedailyplate.com/ , to get an idea of what a 500 calorie meal looks like. If you don’t want to count calories (although you should at least give it a try) just follow this basic and cheap plan. You should be able to follow it even if you have to eat out, order in, or your parents buy the groceries: For breakfast try cold cereal with a side of fruit, or a large egg white omelet with cheese and a side of buttered toast . Apples and firm pears are cheap and last over two weeks without refrigeration. If your parents or roommates don’t buy these fruits you can buy them yourself by the 5lb bag for extremely cheap. Berries are no good if you’re low on cash or time, cuz they rot in 3 or 4 days and they’re expensive to begin with. Ironically, all cereals, including sugary ones, tend to be very low in calories, except supposedly healthy granolas (500 calories a cup!) and hot cereals like oatmeal and cream of wheat. For lunch, eat soup, salad, or both together. For dinner, try a lean protein like chicken or white fish with a very large side of any non-starchy vegetable. Feel free to use plenty of cheese and butter on the veg. Vegetables are so low calorie that it balances out, I promise, and plain steamed veggies are no fun anyway. In general, fried foods, sandwiches, and pasta (if it’s eaten as a main dish), are all no-no’s if you’re not willing to count calories in order to fit them into your daily calorie total. Finally, stick to calorie-free drinks such as water or diet soda. Diet sodas, diet iced teas, and drink mixes are a huge treat when you’re dieting and you can have as much of them as you like without adding calories to your daily total. However, the most reliable way to diet is to actually count the calories you eat. You might want to try counting for only one week just to get an idea how bad off you really are, and figure out where you are making the biggest mistakes. As far as working out, weight lifting or other strength building exercises will burn more calories than cardio. Cardio, such as running on a tread mill or doing dance aerobics will strengthen your heart and lungs, helping you to do activities that rely on speed like competitive biking or track, but cardio will do very little to help you loose weight. This is a fact that’s well known to doctors, but after years of Jane Fonda aerobics videos and leg warmers, people have somehow forgotten the truth, not that there’s anything wrong with doing cardio. Online you can find tons of strength workouts that don’t require weights or special machinery. I really like this one: http://www.realage.com/WorkoutCenter/fit... You might need to create an account to view it, but don’t worry, it’s free. Wow! That’s the longest answer I’ve ever given