Needs to loose weight the fastest way, unhealthy or not.

prella · Newbie Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 5

Hi my name is April and I am 16 years old 5'1 and I weigh 148 pounds. I hate myself from head to toe. my mother is a gorgous skinny woman as are the rest of my family and I am the ugly fat outcast. I need advice on how I can lose weight before my family reunion, in 2 weeks. I dont care how unhealthy it is how much pain ill be in as long as I can lose at least 15- to 20 pounds in 2 weeks. Please anyone tell me what I can do. I will do ANYTHING. Crying or Very sad

lululemons · Newbie Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 6

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I have just read your comment April. I feel badly for your experience. I have also struggled with my weight and found that the people around me, including doctors and family members were unable to help. By researching on the internet and seeking the help of a naturopathic doctor I have found my way back to a healthy body. Here are some things to consider:

- Do you have a healthy thyroid? The tests your doctor does may not be the answer. There are tests online to determine if you have a healthy thyroid. And there are nutritional ways to help if you feel you have a problem with your thyroid, which has a huge consequence for your metabolism. People with hypothyroid (underactive thyroid) often cannot lose weight no matter what they do. A couple of things that can affect your thyroid are mercury toxicity from your fillings or from vacinations, and also candida overgrowth in your intestines and lack of vitamin D from the sun to help your ileocecal valve. Look these things up, they all tie into a healthy thyroid.

- I agree with the other person who commented about having 5 smaller meals. You can research ways to keep your metabolism reved up that do not do harm to your body.

- Weight bearing excercise helps burn more calories at rest. This is a crucial part of your workout routine.

These are things you have to look into yourself, and it will amaze you the information you can find on the internet. Especially interesting is the information you will find about coconut oil and saturated versus unsaturated fats. You'll be surprised that some saturated fats like coconut oil can help you LOSE WEIGHT.

I wish you the best of luck in your search to a trim and healthy body!

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I know it's a little late to be giving a reply here, but I just thought I would since no-one here is answering your question "fully".

5'1 and 148lbs is pretty bad, most people won't say that openly but it's true and it's why you are here. However, don't get upset about it, just be objective it's the way things are but it's not a mystery why as it might sometimes feel.

I have never struggled with my weight. I have however gained considerable amounts and then decided, well I need to get rid of this!

It's not a secret, and don't believe gimmicks or pills (thought I'm sure some of them help to some degree).

Excluding the fact that you have some kind of medical condition (these conditions I know nothing about) that prevents you from loosing weight, I have heard of and do believe they exist, it's matter of calories burned and calories consumed. Sure the break down of sources from fats, carbohydrates and sugars does matter but you can't escape the fact that the bottom line matters most, on the scale and in your stomach.

So I'm going to offer three ways to loose weight that I am sure will work with results that you will be able to see.

Plan 1
This plan is very unhealthy and will provide quick weight loss but doing it for more than 2 weeks will probably cause problems in your body, I know it from experience only and I'm not a medical guy of any kind.

- Only drink water, and drink lots of it (4-6 litres per day, but not all at once to keep you saline levels up this will keep you hunger somewhat at bay. At first you'll gain weight and pee a lot, that's ok it's because your body has been storing water because of the drought you've likely been putting it through, after a week or so you'll loose all your water weight.
- Don't eat very much, eat small frequent meals of vegetables. Celery rather than patatoes or carrots. But I can't stress very little enough, a meal consisting of 20 baby carrots would be a maximum.

With this plan you'll loose lots of weight, more muscle than fat, your breasts will sag slightly but you can loose 10lbs a week on this, you'll feel week, dizzy and might get a bit depressed (because it takes your insulin a while to drop after the sugar (grain, refined sugar etc)

Another alternative but similar to this plan is an all juce diet, where you juice real vegetables for all your meals, I've never done this so I can't speak for it with certainty but I imagine it would be healthier than mine and have the same success.

Plan 2
This is one of the two healthy plans I will offer

Measure your food, (get a kitchen scale) there are many free calorie counters on the internet. Using this plan you won't loose more than 2lbs a week but it ads up (8lbs a month) is a lot. Eat no more than 1000 calories a day (many people will say this is too low, but of them how many are trim?)

Eat small meals, 5-6 of them a day. Eat at 9am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 6pm. Try your best to keep the quantity of food in each of these meals equal.

Also you'll need to rebase your calories to a lower number after you loose weight, take 50 calories off your daily intake for every 10lbs you loose I assume you don't want to weigh much less than 110lbs at the end of all this. If you find your weight loss stops and you've taken off 50, take off 50 more.

Also instead of worrying of food content just stick by the natural as possible rule. Eat whole grain bread (not white) you'll find in the end that white bread will taste gross after 2 months of this. Never eat things like pizza pockets, cookies or anything like that. That kind of food has 10 times the calories of real food, and will leave you hungry. Canatlope is a great fruit, spinach is a great vegetable, avoid potatoes and carrots you'll get what you need from the cantalope. Eat meat but keep it to tuna, chicken, and the rare treat of lean ground beef. Drink milk, (skimmed) don't have cheese.

Plan 3
This is exactly the same as plan 2 except eat 1300 instead of 1000 and make sure to do 30 minutes of real exersize a day. Go for a brisk walk, use an exercise bike, go for a swim. It has to be 30 real minutes to deserve those extra calories. You won't loose lbs as fast (because of muscle gain) but you will loose fat as fast. With this plan use a mirror instead of a scale, you'll know what I mean after a month.

Eat more tuna and chicken in this plan as you'll need the protein.

To sum up
You said you would do anything, and anything is

- Count calories for your meals
- Get up and exercise, for real (it will be extremely hard at first, you'll get naucious, you may vomit when you hit the wall (that's when you know you've gone a bit too far which usually happens from running or heavy biking). If you find biking boring do weight lifting, it's great because the bigger your muscles are the more calories you burn just by sitting. Do heavy weights 10 reps, 8 reps, and 6 reps as heavy as you can do all of those one after another do not change the weight in between sets. When you can do 10/10/10 it's time to move up in weight. Move up 5lbs per arm (for arm exercises) and 10lbs per leg (for leg exercises). Use freeweights rather than machines.
- Do not sway, don't eat out, don't reward yourself for loosing 2lbs, don't eat package foods you cook in the microwave.

Good luck!

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hey i'm only twelve and i weight 138 how do u think i feel all my friends are small skinny beautiful people but i stand out like the ugly fat person. wish i could loose weight but not really have an expensive diet i mean some of the weight loss programs have 19.95 deals that i can't afford. but i really need a soultion to getting slim by my next summer. I really need to get healthy i'm pretty tall but really THICK. probably why i'm always left out of the double dates cause i can' get a boyfriend. i'm by farnot ugly. i have had boyfriends but not to many. all the boys i asked out don't really like me . I wish i could have a healthy 13 yr. old life and be SKINNY. not skin and bones but not blab i can pick up..................tell me if you lost weight and how u did it??????????
- Ebony Peals

elizasdf · Newbie Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 1

To the twelve year old that wrote right above:
-Excersise, its dificult at first but if you find something you enjoy doing and listen to music while doing it, it will help a lot.
-Eat well balanced meals and count your calories, this is sometimes a pain but will really help you. Say up front how many calories you are going to consume each day so you wont keep increasing the amount.
-Write down everything you eat, this will let you look at the food you should substitute the next day and also helps me keep track of my calories.
-Drink lots and lots of water, drink it instead of softdrinks or sugary juices.
-Think positive! If you feel yourself getting depressed you will be more likely to stray from your diet and eat comfort food.
-Dont make yourself miserable! If you want a cookie, eat a cookie. Just make sure you do really really good the rest of the day. ITs good to treat yourself and give yourself rewards.
-Find your healthy weight. Go to http://healthresources.caremark.com/topic/iweight and it will tell you a healthy weight for you, dont try to be too thin or make unrealistic goals.
I hope you end up loosing weight, just stick through it and im sure youll look great for the summer!! Im sorry you feel so bad about yourself, hopefully this will help!!

rapidforge · Newbie Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 1

Hello, My name is Jeffrey. I am a 5'8", 44 yr old male. I weigh in at 227lbs. I am so frustrated with my weight. I have tried all the gimmicks out there. Pills, Drinks, Patches, Water diet, Fasting, Vitamins, Protein diets, Carb diets, Green tea, Weight loss centers. NOTHING seems to work. Of course I lost a little bit of weight, 10-12 lbs in a month, then it comes right back and even more at times. Friends and Family are always saying. "It's not your clothes that make you look fat, It's the fat that makes you look fat" or Tenants refer to me as the "Chubby man". No one ever comments about my weight, because the obvious is there. I am fat! I can't stand to look at myself in the mirror. I covered my mirror at home in bamboo rods except for the face to shave. I need help desperately. I want to be the person who loves himself and others love me and I want to feel good about myself. I look at other men my age and feel sad that I don't look that good. If there is any way someone can give me direction, I would be grateful. Thanks in advance.

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i've tried every diet on the planet. atkins...low carb is the only thing that works for me. i lost 15 pounds in 5 weeks and felt great. never hungry like other diets. also join sparkpeople.com its free. keep track of everything. i keep my carbs under 50. for your weight you should stay under 80-100 per day.
of course you must also exercise. to maximize weight loss do cardio. then dial in weight training when you reahc a satisfactoiry weight.
good luck

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the fastes way to loose wieight, healthy or not?

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Well :C I've had problems too, and it's kind of hard to control hunger but it's not that hard to just not eat and exersize your butt off Very Happy

(hehe)
You just have to have will power
..alot of it.

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