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"Looking for help...."

... and I came here.. how desperate am I? :-P

Basically, it's me. I'm fat and am in desperate need to a diet/excercising plan to lose some weight around me waist (alll my fat) and my @rse.

Heh, I sound like a woman *puts on squeeky voice*
'I need to make my ass and waist smaller' (just joking ;-) )

y'see, I'm wierd in this one way.. My arms and Legs are all muscle (scary, actually) and all my fat is around my waist and stomach.

Any ideas for excercises/diets? I'm looking for something that would allow me to eat school food (obligatory in my school) and not take up too much time, as I'm heading into my GCSE year..

And by the way, I came here so as not to get answers like 'EXCERCISE!!!!!!!11111' from the General Chat-monkeys ;-)


Thanks a lot,
Nidal

You can't 'choose' where on your body you lose fat from. Exercising your stomach, for example, won't specifically target the fat on your stomach (though it will the muscles, obviously).
That's what mens' health told me, and I believe them.

The answer is to eat sensibly (far better for a long-term solution), with the emphasis on fruit and veg, then carbohydrate second, then fatty foods and sugars last.
(To learn more, if you don't want to research properly, buy mens' health for a few months. They usually say the same kinds of thing (I don't know how they managed to string it out to more than 5 issues), and after a few issues you'll have probably picked up enough general nutritional info.)

If you snack, eat fruit or something, or drink a bunch of water to fill you up.

The answer continues:
Exercise is also necessary. If you find it boring, and it sounds like you do, try to find an active sport you enjoy. Then you'll want to do it.
Failing that, try to build extra walking and physicalish stuff into your lifestyle.

If you do go for plain boring exercise, I'd suggest you try to keep it varied, it'll be more interesting and you'll be less likely to quit.
Cycle some days, run some, go walking, stay inside and do sit-ups or an aerobics tape (one with nice women in lycra, aerobics is an excellent excuse ;^) ), or skipping (you can get a leather rope so you skip like a boxer, instead of a school girl!).
If you do three of those things every week, and eat right, you'll be sorted.


Good luck cheif.

saggy talks sense...

*walks off to kitchen*

A sharp knife and persperation is all that you need to lose weight. With studious cutting one can lose up to three stone in one carving. My best advice is to avoid ripping into any arteries or vital organs.

If you go by the BMI then people like Arnold Swarzenneger end up being described as morbidly obese.

All you need is a healthy diet and exercise. Or maybe just a healthy diet - I get no exercise at all and I'm underweight.

Belldandy wrote:
> First thing is to find out your Body Mass Index (BMI) This takes your
> height and current weight to tell you what shape you're in, and to
> show your ideal weight for your height. Should be charts on the net
> somewhere.

These are pants, they're all different, and don't take account for muscle mass, which weighs substantially more than fat. Plus they're inconsistent. Running about the net, different charts rate me between "slightly overweight" to "dangerously obese".

I'm closer to a little over slightly overweight atm, although I've lost 8lbs in the last three weeks, have about another stone due to fall off over the next month leaving the rest as muscle, but still some of these BMI things will maintain that I am obese.

A better indicator is just whatever you feel comfortable at. I knew I had to lose weight because I felt genuinely weighd down by the extra belly weight.

Reduce your fat and sugar intake.
Eat medium amounts of protien and complex carbohydrates.
Eat plenty of fruit and veg

http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk/healthiereating/ (space) are_you_healthyweight/howtobea_healthy_weight

Want to lose weight? Reduce your carbohydrate intake and do plenty of CV exercise.

I went through a 'must lose weight' phase at 16, I did only fifty sit ups a day and within a few months I had noticed a big difference in my stomach's size. I got bored of doing fifty sit-ups a day though, realised the way to a girls heart is 'understanding' and now enjoy eating what I want, when I want.

If you want to lose fat without exercising the simple answer is don't eat.

Think about it, that's what fat is for. It's a food reserve, and if you don't eat your body starts using it up instead.

Unless of course the fat is there for a metabolic/genetic reason rather than simply food overdose, in which case always consult your doctor before starting on any diet.

My BMI scrapes in at 25.2, or something like that.. I scrape in at over-weight.

But I'm overweight mainly because of my muscle (which I have no interest in building up) and I'm on a mission to do some major fat-loss....

And nobody mention Atkins, please :-)