| I want to lose weight so bad and I need help to do that this summer.... |
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stronghawkhciknumber1
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Posted: 24 June 2005 07:34 pm |
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I am not a big person or obese, I am just over weight. I am 5'1" weighing 123 pounds. I would like to lose 23 pounds and I am struggling how to do this. How many calories do I need to eat and also how much should I run per day? I am not a very good runner... so how can I build up in running? (Though I want to get better at running, I would love to run at least 4 miles nonstop someday).
As far as diet goes, I eat kashi for breakfast with some fruit on it and then it depends from there. But I have trouble stay away from junk food. Is there some sort of way to to remind myself to get away from it? Also, I lift weights as well.
Please help me, I want to feel better about my self and it is just the food I have trouble with, not to mention the running part. I was never born a runner, but I want to change that. Thanks for reading this and posting whoever does.
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jmalchik
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Posted: 24 June 2005 08:43 pm |
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First of all make sure that you have a healthy goal. Though you can be 100lbs at your height it is on the low end of healthy and may not actually be healthy or realistic depedending on your bone structure. For example, I am 5'2" and, according to every test I've had done with trainers and fitness experts, my minimum healthy weight would be about 120-123.
As for weight loss you can use the calculators on the site to enter the weight you are now and the weight you want to be and it will help you figure out your goals. Then just use the food calculator and the activity calculator and you will have a pretty good estimate of your daily calorie loss. Good luck with your plan :) Avoiding junk food is tough; it's a struggle we all go through I think! Just don't give up and you'll find your habits improve over time.
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Dave Brown
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Posted: 26 June 2005 09:03 am |
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Hi Stronghawkhciknumber1,
If you want to reduce your intake of junk food, here are some things to think about:
1) There's always a penalty associated with unwise food choices. The consequence may be delayed for a while because the human body has many biochemical mechanisms that serve to keep one reasonably while health erodes. Like an undercut stream bank, at some point a vital body function will collapse and mental or physical disease will manifest itself. All too often, those who do not have access to health insurance are just one diagnosis away from financial ruin.
2) On the other hand, consistantly making wise food choices can make health insurance unnecessary. The wise, nutritionally savvy consumer, having health assurance, has little need for health insurance.
3) Experience has taught me that with advancing age, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain sound health even when one is deliberately trying to make wise food choices. It makes no sense at all, then, to try to nourish ones self with fabricated food artifacts containing who-knows-what sorts of processed ingredients of unknown quality. So if you like taking risks, by all means include plenty of junk food in your diet. However, if you like being healthy and feeling good, inform yourself about added sugars, vegetable oils, and white flour, the major ingredients found in junk foods.
In closing, I'll leave you with this thought (or rather quote) from the Preface to Food for Nought by Ross Hume Hall, PhD. "Nourishment of the American populace has undergone a startling transformation since World War II. A highly individual system of growing and marketing food has been transformed into a gigantic, highly integrated service system in which the object is not to nourish or even to feed, but to force an ever-increasing consumption of fabricated products."
Dave Brown
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