weight loss cardiff answers:

Eat healthy: eat 3 whole meals a day. For your meals, you want something healthy and that fills you up so that you don’t get hungry again for a long time. You need to also make healthy choices like eating whole wheat bread or whole grain bread instead of white bread and brown rice instead of white rice. Cut all junk food. They are bad for you and cause weight gain fast. Cut fast food as well! If you get hungry in between your 3 meals, eat a piece of fruit/vegetable, low-fat yogurt, skim milk, or fruit juice. THey are all good and healthy and will burn fat. As well as eating healthy, combine with exercise and you will lose the weight healthfully and easily. Diets don’t work in the long run. When you consume too little, or deprive yourself of certain foods, you are also not getting the essential nutrients. That’s why everyone gain the weight back and more in diets. Diet’s are a plan for fail. INstead, just focus on eating healthy. You will feel better, look better, and perform better. Opt for a healthy lifestyle, not a fad diet. That’s how you lose weight and keep it off for good.
For the exercise, don’t overdo yourself. Just walking, jogging for 1 hour each day will be more than enough. Rememeber to rest for 1 day of the week. Also, if 1 hour is too long for you, you can BREAK IT DOWN thorughout the day. Nobody said you have to get it all done in one shot, just do some after you wake up, some in the afternoon myabe, and sometime before or after dinner. It’s more managaeable that way. Walking, jogging, running or swimming are aerobic/cardio exercises and they burn the most calories and fat. They will make you strengthen or build your muscle and keep you burning more calories and fat.
Eat healthy and exercise is the golden rule of losing weight. Good luck hun 🙂

weight loss cardiff answers:

Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is about 1,430 calories (female, 15yo, 125lbs and 5’4), to which you should add calories you need for aerobics (like 8 calories/minute at your weight) plus calories for your growth, as you’re a growing teenager, so you need to eat more when having a growth spurt as to not stunt your growth (you get ravenous).

You should eat enough calories to at least cover your BMR or your body will adapt to a low caloric intake and lower your metabolism, making it very hard for you to use your body fat as you get an adjusted lower BMR and there are no formulas for those. And then, as soon as you would eventually start eating normally again, you would make body fat very easily, because you would have a lower metabolism and therefore regain all the weight you lost and keep going up, unless you exercise A LOT.

Your BMR is what you need to be alive because your body is dreaming, digesting, breathing, fighting off bugs with the immune system, repairing and regenerating, pumping blood with the heart, handling oxygen with the lungs, keeping your core temperature constant. Your brain, liver, lungs, heart, kidneys, intestines, all your organs are working 24/7. Even your skin is doing a good job to protect you from germs and stay hydrated.

Women’s BMR:
655 + (4.35 x weight in pounds) + (4.7 x height in inches) – minus (4.7 x age in years)

Men’s BMR:
66 + (6.23 x weight in pounds) + (12.7 x height in inches) – minus (6.8 x age in years)

You’re not a 60-year-old, 5’5 and 120lbs woman having a 1,200 calories BMR and eating more than that as hopefully she’s physically active.

You seem to be confused but the way you phrase your question confuses me as well… “wont eating what u are going to burn bring your net calorie to your basic calorie needs to maintain your weight be USELESS?”. I don’t understand that question.

To simplify things, I would suggest that you do not mix up your apples with your oranges (calorie intake vs. Calorie expenditure).

You do not lose weight by eating less…you only eat less if you were eating too much so you now you eat what you need and stop gaining weight (usually you have to lose weight because you gained too much weight, if you either ate too much or did not exercise enough or both).

Just eating less to lose weight puts you at risk to eat under your BMR (which is what you’re doing right now btw) so you’re sending your metabolism down the drain and any weight loss you could achieve would be irrelevant, as you would regain the weight back eventually…either that or you enter “eating disorders” territory.

Once you can manage to eat enough to cover your BMR and growth, then you can lose weight with exercising (3,500 calories of exercising for each pound of body fat that you wish to lose) so you don’t mess up your metabolism.

So you should eat 1,430 calories + whatever you want when having a growth spurt. Being ravenous and eating a lot (above your BMR) is not bingeing but growing when you’re a teenager. You’re supposed to gain 3 to 5 pounds a year until you reach your 20s and your adult body. BUT you already have an adult body weight and you’re only 15. Still your body wants you to gain weight every year and makes you ravenous so you eat more to get more nutrients for your growing bones and organs.

Now, if you want to lose weight because your friend (same age and height as yours) weighs only 95lbs (at the 5th percentile) and you weigh 125lbs (at the 67th percentile), then you feel fat because you weigh 30 pounds more. If you try to lose weight when your body wants you to gain weight, you’re fighting a losing battle. You could lose weight by eating under your BMR but that would not be a success as you would develop an eating disorder which would not feel like you’re winning your battle.

What you could do is MAINTAIN your weight for the next 5 years. Still eat enough to cover your BMR + growth, so you don’t mess up your metabolism and you can get taller but then when you’re having a growth spurt and needs to eat a lot…you just exercise more. I had a huge growth spurt at 16. I grew up 4 inches (eating like an ogre and being active all day long). The body looks much better when you’re taller.

weight loss cardiff answers:

Well i’m a teenager and i see ur difficulty and most of these methods i use and i have lost 15 pounds (and it is harder for females to lose the weight)

first off try to cut Sugar out of your diet (or a Large soucre of Sugar) for me it was substituting Juice for Water

Drinking bottles and bottles of water can help you in many ways
-helps releases unhealthy toxins in side you
-it can help you kick craving since water can fill you up
-water weight can be worked off very easily

an effective way to lose weight without starving yourself is to make some of your meals smaller
the difference should kick some pounds

Last Advice …… Take your time
most weight lose doesn’t happen instantly so give it some time
but also keep in perspective certian certian pounds or baby weight you can’t excersize off