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Jillian C.
Hi I am a 15 year old girl. I'm 5'7" and about 217.8 pounds the last time I checked. I finally told myself it's time to get up off my ass and lose weight. I always talk bout losing weight, calculate when and how much I'll have to do to lose the weight but I never end up doing anything. I've been sitting around doing barely anything all summer and probably gained a few more pounds. What I want to do is starting September ( I would start now but I'm moving within a few days) I want to start on my quest to my goal weight of 120-125 pounds. I am going into Grade 11 this year so I want to lose it ll by the end of Grade 11 so I will be ready for not only summer 2013 but my prom the following year. I am going to be living not so far from a community centre where I have an unlimited gym access pass, My idea is to go to the gym 5-6 days a week do 30-45 mins of cardio (elliptical most likely, or treadmill, or bike) and 15- 20 mins of weight training. I am kind of a deer in head lights going into all of this weight loss stuff cause I have been overweight for a good part of my life so I want/need to know these things first:
1) If I were to start this journey September 1st, 2012 and stuck to my gym schedule would I be able to achieve my goal weight (120-125 pounds) by June 1st, 2013?
2) If I were to stick to that plan how many calories would I be allowed to eat each day and how much would I have to burn at the gym?
Take into consideration I am a Grade 11 high school student and I will have a full course load of tough subjects (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, etc). Unfortunately due to the fact that I have so many science courses to take I will not be taking a fitness class because I already have a full schedule. I am also hoping to get a job at the beginning of this school year and I would be working weekends for sure and up to 3 more days during the week. What do you recommend I do to reach my goal within the 10 month time frame? Also, what are the best foods to avoid and what are the best foods to eat? Also one more thing, my mom is overweight and that hasn't helped me in my wanting to lose weight. The problem is that she always brings home lots of pop, cakes, pasta, breads, chips, ice cream,etc. (all of the things you're supposed to avoid when trying to lose weight. I tried to ask her to not bring so much of it home and she said I don't have to eat it, but if that's the only thing in the house to eat of course I'm going to eat it because I'm not so great with will power yet...thanks for the help! Have a great day/night wherever you may be :)
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The reason why you don't finish your plans is because you're biting on more than you can chew. First of all, incorporate a healthy diet of 1300 - 1500 calories each day and have a good proportion of protein carbs and fat. Avoid all processed and junk foods and instead stick to natural and greener options. If you're active you can eat 50% of your calories with carbs and 30% 9rotein with 20% fat, but if you're not too active 30% - 40% carbs would do. Also eating fat does not make you fat. It's the kind of fat you eat that matters. Stick to healthy fats like nuts, seeds, canola, olive oil and avocado but do watch your portion control because it is still calorie dense.
Since your aim is to lose weight, centering your workout on cardio is not a bad idea. 30 - 45 minutes is good, but start with an intensity that is not too hard. Something challenging but you can stick with and not burn yourself out. Also, do something you enjoy doing. Even though the treadmill and elliptical are calorie torching machines, if it's something you hate, you would likely not stick to it, so get a jogging partner or join a spin or dance class play tennis or other sports. Any physical activity is good. weight training should be done every other day to allow sometime for recovery. Take small steps and build it up.
Eat 5 - 6 small meals a day and avoid eating out. Even the "healthy options" in restos are not that healthy. Don't beat yourself up over the calories you consume. ON OCCASIONS, some excess calories are okay especially since you're an adolescent so it would actually reinforce your body's growth and development. You would encounter fad diets and all but stick to a healthy one that you're comfortable with.
When you've established good cardio vascular health, you can start interval training. having 1 day apart each session, but don't do it when you're still not fit enough as it is very strenuous and would do more damage than good at your current situation. Time your meals and exercise everyday so that your body clock would be up to the schedule.
From what I read, I think you're too much of a thinker and obsess over your theories, that's why it's hard for you to actually lose weight. Just start a healthy lifestyle and the pounds would actually come off. Don't get too upset if you didn't reach your goal at a specific time you've set. Because with a healthy lifestyle, it would eventually be gone. Avoid stress and get a good night's rest everyday. Any weight loss is better than stopping just because you haven't reached your goal. Your body is more complex than just some equation and calculations. Besides, sticking on a plan would be better on the long run to keep the pounds off, which is usually harder than just losing weight. You're still young and it's not the end of the world if you're a few pounds heavier in prom than what you envision. :] Be happy and strive to be the best of what you can be :D
The reason why you don't finish your plans is because you're biting on more than you can chew. First of all, incorporate a healthy diet of 1300 - 1500 calories each day and have a good proportion of protein carbs and fat. Avoid all processed and junk foods and instead stick to natural and greener options. If you're active you can eat 50% of your calories with carbs and 30% 9rotein with 20% fat, but if you're not too active 30% - 40% carbs would do. Also eating fat does not make you fat. It's the kind of fat you eat that matters. Stick to healthy fats like nuts, seeds, canola, olive oil and avocado but do watch your portion control because it is still calorie dense.
Since your aim is to lose weight, centering your workout on cardio is not a bad idea. 30 - 45 minutes is good, but start with an intensity that is not too hard. Something challenging but you can stick with and not burn yourself out. Also, do something you enjoy doing. Even though the treadmill and elliptical are calorie torching machines, if it's something you hate, you would likely not stick to it, so get a jogging partner or join a spin or dance class play tennis or other sports. Any physical activity is good. weight training should be done every other day to allow sometime for recovery. Take small steps and build it up.
Eat 5 - 6 small meals a day and avoid eating out. Even the "healthy options" in restos are not that healthy. Don't beat yourself up over the calories you consume. ON OCCASIONS, some excess calories are okay especially since you're an adolescent so it would actually reinforce your body's growth and development. You would encounter fad diets and all but stick to a healthy one that you're comfortable with.
When you've established good cardio vascular health, you can start interval training. having 1 day apart each session, but don't do it when you're still not fit enough as it is very strenuous and would do more damage than good at your current situation. Time your meals and exercise everyday so that your body clock would be up to the schedule.
From what I read, I think you're too much of a thinker and obsess over your theories, that's why it's hard for you to actually lose weight. Just start a healthy lifestyle and the pounds would actually come off. Don't get too upset if you didn't reach your goal at a specific time you've set. Because with a healthy lifestyle, it would eventually be gone. Avoid stress and get a good night's rest everyday. Any weight loss is better than stopping just because you haven't reached your goal. Your body is more complex than just some equation and calculations. Besides, sticking on a plan would be better on the long run to keep the pounds off, which is usually harder than just losing weight. You're still young and it's not the end of the world if you're a few pounds heavier in prom than what you envision. :] Be happy and strive to be the best of what you can be :D
which is a petter pet in your opinion, aussie shepherd or border collie?
Jamie
i am getting a dog and wanted to know which is better in your opinions. what do i want in a dog? by want i mean need lol. i want an active dog (as i am VERY active myself), i want a smart dog (i need challenges too! ;D ), i want a dog that loves to go on walks and runs (i do cross country at school in september then it stops, so i need to stay in shape all year around ;P ), i want to be able to walk without a leash (allie and misa do so it's not hard to teach for me), want a dog that loves swimming (we have a big pool, but if the chlorine does anything - by the way it wouldn't even be until june in the summer then i'll get it it's own pool). i will do everything an active dog needs as that is everything i need too. i picked these breeds because i find they have everything alike with what i like! i love to run, i love to swim, i love to play, i love to learn, i love new things, i love challenges, i love dogs, and i love my parents. :) <3
i don't want the dog as a guard dog, but if needed it would be inside and not fully, not even half. allie (14 pound schnoodle that turns 2 feb 22nd 2012) acts like a guard dog, but she's pretty small. misa (a fully grown - now - 6 pound pomeranian chihuahua that turned 5 months on dec 6th 2011) is very small. they are the family dogs, and my parents (stepmom and dad because my mom and stepdad can't have pets - my mom doesn't like cleaning after them and my stepdad is allergic to all animals - but it would be at my dad and stepmoms since we are there more) said i can get my own pet if i earn it, if i pay some money (i can earn it from shovelling snow, doing chores, anything that needs to be done)
and if i clean after it, bathe it when needed, take it on long walks and runs at the dog park and school (school is about 1km perim. and path in front is about the same length), feed it, give it water, train it (basics and extras - like allie can walk without leash same with misa, allie knows car, van, truck -we have a truck for my dad, a car for my stepmom, and a van for my dad when he goes to work so his truck doesn't get messy or dirty- she knows upstairs, downstairs, get down, go lie down, come (without command, only when we snap our fingers), faster, heel, wait (i tought her faster heel and wait, and some others, but i tought her those ones myself and i'm the only one that commands her those since no one else knows but me :D ), food (when we call her for food), pool (she swims sometimes in the summer maybe once a week), oopy, al, (her nicknames from me, i call her allie oup -like how people say ALLIEOUP! when they jump in a pool? lol. anyways:...). she doesn't really know shake a paw or hi 5 nothing like that because we never thought about her knowing that. but the aussie or border would (whichever i get) know all of the above, basics, and probably agility things with body -ie. weave (weaves through legs), frog (when you stick out your tounge and your dog mocks you lol i find that one cute), bang! (plays dead when you put your finger shaped like a gun and say bang then they fall down playing dead lol adorable), roll over (hand signal and command), get your tail (when you pretend to throw a frizbee and the dog pretends the tail is the frizbee), come here (finger movement when you pull your finger back like saying come here but with your finger?), kiss (when you put your mouth up to the dog, say kiss and the dog licks you), stand (stands on hind legs), high 5 (high five), standing high five (stands on hind legs while hi fiving), speak (say speak and the dog barks), count (lifts paw once when you say one, lifts it twice when you say two, etc), up (to jump into your arms on cue when you lift your arm up and say up), dance (i tought misa dance - it's when you put your finger up say dance when you have a treat in your hand make sure the dog can see it, and then the dog stands on its hind legs and walks backwards to dance then spins), sad (when you frown and say sad the dog puts their head heavily on the bed, your lap, your hand, or the couch near you if you're sitting on either, or whereever you are sitting, like a therapy dog does sustained chin), give me a beat (i wanted to create this one, it's when you say "give me a beat" and the dog drums on the ground dum dum dum dum in a rythym, then when you say "cut!" they stop), and fetch (everyone knows fetch is just throwing a ball or frizbee and the dog chases after it grabbing it lol).
SORRY FOR HOW LONG THIS IS!!!! :/ (not yelling, just so people can see)
so guys, please put your opinions, feel free to list your favourite dogs, your favourite tricks, maybe some tricks i didn't list that you think are cool, if you think i'd be a good owner to one of these dogs, and which one i should get. btw i'm 13 so i still go to school for 6 hours a day then i'm home the rest but if i go out the dogs would come. and no i won't neglect allie and
Answer
PHEW! I got through most of it, but dropped dead when you made your hand look like a gun...
You should look into adopting from ARPH Aussie Rescue.
There are some lovely dogs waiting for homes, all up to the task.
A Border Collie is more apt to be focused on a ball, and not on you - Aussies want to be in you, not just with you - they become a part of your mind. Once you have an Aussies, it will change your outlook on all other dogs. Sounds arrogant, but it's true. It's usually a profound experience.
Aussies were bred to be a replacement for a farmhand - so they are a bonded working partner. BC's are focused on long distance work, not the master, and while they listen for commands, they do not ahve eye contact with anything but a tennis ball or sheep (or cars or bikes or cats...).
Aussies are more often than not brilliant and love to learn tricks and tasks - so you will go far with one. Consider doing something like freestyle, which will keep you both more than busy.
Here are contacts for Aussie rescue:
http://www.aussierescue.org/ContactUs.aspx
PHEW! I got through most of it, but dropped dead when you made your hand look like a gun...
You should look into adopting from ARPH Aussie Rescue.
There are some lovely dogs waiting for homes, all up to the task.
A Border Collie is more apt to be focused on a ball, and not on you - Aussies want to be in you, not just with you - they become a part of your mind. Once you have an Aussies, it will change your outlook on all other dogs. Sounds arrogant, but it's true. It's usually a profound experience.
Aussies were bred to be a replacement for a farmhand - so they are a bonded working partner. BC's are focused on long distance work, not the master, and while they listen for commands, they do not ahve eye contact with anything but a tennis ball or sheep (or cars or bikes or cats...).
Aussies are more often than not brilliant and love to learn tricks and tasks - so you will go far with one. Consider doing something like freestyle, which will keep you both more than busy.
Here are contacts for Aussie rescue:
http://www.aussierescue.org/ContactUs.aspx
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