How do I get toned defined abs while building muscle?

I am 19 and a female. I weigh 133 and I am 5'5. I play basketball in college (DIII) and we workout, lift, etc but I did not get results I was hoping for. After season, I really focused on eating healthy and working out regularly on my own and still I have not seen results I picture in my mind. What should I do? Do I take certain supplements or something? What is the difference between bulking and just cardio and regular lifting? Should I bulk? I don't want to look like the Hulk, I just want toned defined muscles all over. Help!! I don't want to lose weight but FAT! Lower my body fat percentage..

How to Jog to Lose Weight

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Abdominal miuscles show when you're lean enough and shed off the fat. Notice the physiques of runners and endurance athletes; their lean bodies show tight muscles in all the right places. I suggest you step up your cardio routines, and do sit-ups and crunches once you see the faint cuts of your abdominal muscles show. I know people who dread sit-ups, though, and you may benefit from an energy boost coming into a workout session. Try USPLabs Jack3d on days when you don't feel like exercising; the stimulant should get your drive going in no time. Enroll in a workout program at your local fitness club and partner with a trainer for best results.View site on the source page if you want more variety in your supplementation.

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• Plank everyday. Works like a charm. Search #plankchallenge for me info.

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How to loose weight fast?

I'm 15, going on 16 this October. im 5'2 about and i thought i was 87 but apparently our scale is wrong. bc my dad went to the doctor and hes ten pounds more than what the scale said. Any ways, Please are there any tips to loosing weight asap? any exercises? or maybe how to get through fasting easily without wanting food soo much? Ways to hide diet so noone find out? maybe also excersises to flatten the stomach? is the 5:2 diet any good or should i try fasting more than 2 days? thanks!

How to Lose Weight With a Six Week Program

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When you are losing weight, you should exercise and diet together.If you exercise without dieting, you will get bigger appetite, whichwill lead to increase of weight, or muscle growunderneath the fat layer, and make you bulkier. If you diet withoutexercising, you will become flabby and will have excess skin. Fordiet, go wheat free. No pasta, pizza, bread and so on. And no foodafter 7 p.m. People achieve marvellous results with it. Depending onyour initial weight, you can drop upwards from 20 pounds a month. Ifyou don't eat wheat then you don't eat all those sticky, fatty goeycakes, you don't eat junk food, and you don't eat biscuits. But yourdiet is still balanced. It costs nothing, and you do not have tocalculate points or to buy special meals or plans. For exercising,start with walking, and then switch to running/jogging. Running is themost efficient and calorie-burn exercise ever. If you are overweight alot, walk first or you may have health complications (heart attack,disjointed bones and so on). Weight lifting is a good means to targetyour problem areas for men and women. It's not necessarily to become abodybuilder or even join a gym - a couple of dumbbells will help youto target your problem areas (stomach, butt, legs, arms, chest).

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• The word is "lose" (loose means not tight) and sounds to me like you are underweight and have (or are working on) an eating disorder...Sorry hun, this is diet and FITNESS and being severely underweight has nothing to do with being fit and healthy...or attractive...A 5'2" female should weigh 102 - 122 per the source site...
• Get your dad to take you to the doctor. You're anorexic. If you really weigh 97 pounds or less then you're reaching the point where your organs may begin failing.

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Is there any way I can get a prescription for Adderall?

So, I'm 13, and I was just wondering how easy/hard it would be for me to get put on Adderall??I have taken it before, but it wasn't prescription and I really liked the way it worked for me. In the small time frame that I was on it, I know that my grades went up a lot, but once I was off it, I dropped from a straight A student, to my lowest being a B-. And it doesn't sound too bad, but I'd really like to keep my grades up where they were.I've been thinking that I might actually have ADD/ADHD, only because I have a lot of the symptoms and stuff. I know that with the doctor I had last year, he didn't even bother testing me because he thought that I just wanted the Adderall for weight loss. He told me that lots of girls my age have asked about it, but honestly, I don't want it for that! I just wanna get my grades back up and be able to focus on something and be able to finish something rather than stopping halfway through.So is there anything I could do to help my case with my situation??

How to Lose Weight Overnight

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Some doctors pretty openly prescribe amphetamines like Adderall. I'm kind of hoping this comes to an end (don't worry, there will always be speed) since it causes people to get addicted and also leads to interest in abusing harder drugs. Amphetamine abuse can be a rather vicious addiction to endure.Some would argue that dexedrine is much milder than methedrine, but given enough they both lead to a similar situation.

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How to loose stomach and chest fat quick?

Im going on holidays in 3 weeks. Ive been excerising for the last 2 weeks and i swim alot. I go cycling 12.5k a day and it doesnt seem to be helping. I do 20 press ups and a belly tightner. Ive also cut down on half the amount of food i usually eat and try to eat more fruit. so far ive only lost 0.9kg? how can i loose chest and belly fat? i way 9 stone! :)im a teenage boy! :)I dont want drugs or anything like that. just excerise

How to Lose Weight in a Month

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hi.....fruit contains sugar it is good for you if you eat it before ameal but not aftarwards .......sport doesn t help you lose weight completly it just helps with your cardio and muscles what i suggest is you keep doing you daily exorcise for your muscles and go on this diet (that my mom does) it is a proteine diat and works really well (i live in france so its a french diat) here is the site adresse (this link won t be the normal page it will direct you to the page that tells you the stuff you are allowed an not use google tranlate if you don t speakt french also you are NOT allowed FRUIT!!!? LINK: www.dukanaute.com/liste_complete_des_aliments_dukan.htmlLINK for the differant phases of diat: www.dukanaute.com/les_phases_du_regime_dukan-3.htmlyou will have to translat everything but it is worth it (my mom was 12 stone and has lost 3 stone in 3 monthes)

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No Matter What I Do, I Can't Gain Weight...And What Weight I Have I'm Loosing!!!?

Ok, So I'm at a little bit of a dilemma. I'm 20 years old, 5 foot 9, and 105 pounds (ON A GOOD DAY) and I'm about sick and tired of feeling inadequate and less of a woman because I'm thin. I wait tables so I do a moderate amount of running/walking around and I do some exercises once or twice a week, only for a short amount of time. (I had read somewhere that it can help you gain weight... and sofar none for me... go figure. I eat healthy, lots of salads and I eat the right amount of meat, veggies, fruits yada yada yada. (Literally, I have spent countless hours online reading about what I should, shouldn't eat to gain weight and stay healthy) On top of it all. I feel like crap. A lot. I'm loosing my hair, I'm tired all the flippin' time (even with 8-9 hours of sleep) I occasionally have stomach pains... like the kindof stomach cramps you got when you where in school and that p.e teacher made you run excessively and you had to hold you side to ease the pain? Yeah, I got those just laying down. Umm what else.. oh and I have headaches, a lot. I'm just aggravated because this has been an issue with me all my life and no doctor (in this area) can seem to figure out what the issue is. And I'm so tired of being told "to eat more" I'm always shoving my face and I'm tired of being so full, it almost hurts. Here is a little side note: I had my first born a year ago, and when I was pregnant I had soo many issues and no one could figure out why, or take the time. I had heart palpitations by my second trimester, gestational diabetes (keep in mind I was 100 lbs before I got pregnant so that shouldn't of even been an issue) excessive swelling, again with the hair loss.. AND NO ONE COULD TELL ME WHY. I apologize for the excessive ranting, I just need someone to point me in the right direction. Obviously this isn't normal but I have yet to find a doctor who would take the time... just tell me "you need to eat more" ..sigh...

How to Lose Weight With Shift Work

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The first thing is to have yourself looked at by a doctor who will take the time to see if you're diabetic still. Just because you had gestational diabetes doesn't mean you're not still having it. Your symptoms could be diabetes that isn't controlled. For that you'll need a first thing in the morning appointment, and you'll need to make sure not to eat starting the night before so you can tell the doctor "I'm fasting, so take my fasting bloodwork now, please."Other possibilities are Chron's disease or one of those digestive ones like you can't digest phenylalanine (an amino acid). Although health agencies tell people to "run to the doctor as soon as you have signs of appendicitis" in reality, most people's appendix has burst before anyone diagnoses the real problem, so you should suggest that the health of your appendix be directly determined. For the moment I'm assuming the hair loss is because you're too skinny and it will come back, but if you gain weight and it continues, I'd start suspecting something weirder like there's radon in your house. Radon testers are easy to find. The second thing is to ask yourself, did this start at a certain point in time? Maybe after you'd travelled out of the country? Or even spent a lot of time on a farm or near horses, or do you have feral cats near your house that you feed? Most doctors don't ever check people for worms in the USA, but there are types of worms that are fairly common for both the northern states and southern ones. And they can affect humans, though not usually as bad as you are describing. Because no doctor I've ever met even takes the idea seriously, and deworming things are over the counter, even the ones for humans, just buy some pyrantel from someplace like amazon.com and see if taking a dose of it helps you out or has no effect at all. Feel free to repeat the dose weekly for 3-4 weeks to end the life cycle, unless you have negative effects. There are lots of other dewormers, but many are designed for horses which are much larger than humans, so calculating the dose is tricky. In any case, no matter what the verdict of the above advice, you can definitely benefit from some kind of gentle probiotic like yogurt of kefir to help your tummy get back on track. There's no lactose in things like that as long as they say "live active cultures" you're safe eating it, even if you can't usually eat milk.

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• Well, just be persistent and keep eating and exercising

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Did i screw up my weight loss?

So ive been counting calories for a few weeks now in a attempt to loose weight and have been doing fairly well. Although today i really screwed up. Its embarrassing and complicated to explain so lets just say it ended with me having eaten half a pizza and more than half a tub of ice cream. I am very ashamed about what i ate and will not be doing it again anytime soon. My question is will what ive eaten today affect my weight loss? I know ice cream has a TON of sugar which goes right to fat. Will i gain weight from today? If i get back on track tomorrow will everything be normal?

How to Lose Weight by Fasting

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I know exactly how you feel. I have been counting calories as well. There was one day that I got a bit off, but I still put those calorie in my fitnesspal app. Remember that 1 pound = 3500 calories. If you consumed that many calories, then yeah, you most likely packed on an extra pound or so. I would suggest going back to your routine, drinking LOTS of water and exercising. Try at least an hour of aerobics a day, if you can handle it. Depending on your weight, you should be able to burn those calories right off with that. I burn a bit over 1000 calories a day because of my weight, but that will change. Just remember to stay of used Hun. If you feel you want something sweet try eating a fruit or even try frozen yogurt. It's fine to have those things, just not too much of them, and if you're going to eat them just be prepared to work those calories off! Good luck! :) Stay strong!

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• Not really. Sometine, you just gotta give yourself a break. You may gain some weight tomorrow, but you will lose it eventually if you get back on your usual diet.
• eat light tommorow to even it out. Dont do it again tho. And ignore anyone who tells u 'cheat days' are fine, thats just a lazy excuse to put toxic crap in ur body.Diets dont work for long term solutions. Learn about food and whats in bad food and just make wiser choices.
• It's called a cheat meal buddy, you are permitted to have one per week :) and no, sugars are not turned to instant fat. Sugars are used as energy, excess fat is caused by eating more calories than your body needs to maintain weight. You can actually a tub of ice cream and pizza a day and still lose weight with a diet called "if it fits your macros" but if you don't know what your doing when it comes to creating a diet plan I wouldn't reccomend you to try it. No you didn't ruin your weight loss, everybody needs a break every once and a while lol.

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Is there a way to control where you lose fat in your body?

Recently, I've put on a bit of weight. Most of the weight has gone to my breasts which I am kind of happy about as it makes me look a little better proportioned. However I want to work out and keep my stomach flat and tone my body up. In the past, when I've lost weight, my chest is always the first thing to go. I was curious if it was physiologically possible to control where you lose weight through diet or exercise or short of getting lipo am I doomed to lose it in my chest again?If it helps...I'm 5'8 and 146 lbs I am mainly looking to stay in shape and tone up. Not necessarily lose weight.

How to Run to Lose Weight

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Everyone has a problem spot. It can be around the stomach, thighs, arms or chest. No matter where your trouble spot is, the solution is exactly the same. You need to eat less and exercise more. The reason why there's only one solution for all of these problems is because it's impossible to tell your body where to burn the excess fat from.When you eat too many calories, your body stores the excess energy as fat in different areas around the body. To lose this fat, you need to create a calorie deficit (eat less than you burn) to force your body to start burning that fat for energy. There is absolutely no way to control where your body goes to find this extra fat. A tool such as the calorie calculator - http://calorieneedscalculator.com will help you figure out how many calories you need each day.The larger your calorie deficit (a bigger calorie deficit means a bigger difference between what you eat and what you burn) the faster your body will burn excess fat and the quicker your body fat percentage will start to decrease. You can increase your calorie deficit by cutting your daily intake and exercising more. Sit ups will do nothing to target the fat around your abs just like squats will do nothing to target the fat around your thighs.Reduce Body Fat Guide - http://straighthealth.com/pages/guides/reducebodyfat.html

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• No you can't target fat. I'd suggest doing some cardio to tone up slightly, then do some chest exercises, to 'perk them up'. It'll give the impression of bigger breasts.

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Need to lose it (weight tips)?

It''s march at this moment, and I''m going on a vacation in the beginning of July. I want to lose some weight and I have about 3 months to do it, but I don''t want to do crazy hard exercises every day. I started my diet of eating healthy and limiting myself on food already and I just want to know what are some simple exercises I could do before bed to drop the weight a little quicker? Ideas and tips please & thanks :)

How to Lose Weight Without Losing Meat - The Weight Loss Program For Meat Lovers

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Try green tea metabolism boosters, I think spices help. I know if you don''t eat when you wakeup your body breaks down possibly some fat, but also some muscle.

• You don''t want to exercise right before you go to bed. I lost 30 pounds in 12 weeks and I have kept it off for 2 years now. I did a little research and came up with my own plan. Part of it using video games for exercise.
  
  If you want to see what I did to lose weight I wrote about it at http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-lose-weight-without-starving-yourself2
  It doesn''t cost you anything, I didn''t take any diet pills or join a weight loss company, I just wanted to share my story. Check it out and see if you think what I did could work for you.

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Will cutting my daily calories in half for 6 months have adverse effects on my academic performance?

I realize it''s somewhat ironic that I''m asking this question on here. However, I just read (in my psychology textbook) about a study on semistarvation in which men were given only half their required calories for a period of 6 months, and they stabilized at 75% of their normal weight.

I would like to try this. I like to experiment with fasting, but this seems more interesting because it''s so long-term. I know to expect a 29% decrease in metabolism, but I will take that into account when I begin eating normally again.

What I really want to know is whether this will impair my mental functioning. I can''t go ask a doctor because I know my doctor would not condone this, but I would still like to know what other people think the answer might be. I know I''ll lose a ton of weight and feel listless and low-energy, but is there anything else I should expect (mostly mentally)?

Easy Ways to Lose Weight and Burn Excess Fat Safely

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interesting question. i doubt anybody on here can actually answer that question accurately and correctly.

i''d assume it wouldn''t have significant impact on your academic performance, but it probably would minorly affect you mentally.

still though.. half the food? >.> that sounds horrible. id rather just exercise and enjoy double the food :) lol. do what you will though.

• Your brain needs a correct diet to function function properly; also your heart, organs, blood, etc. A good plan would be:
  
  Breakfast: low fat milk on cooked 9-grain cereal (from health food store), mixed with cooked oatmeal and wheat bran. Add some nuts and berries. Drink hot Ovaltine.
  
  Lunch: Egg, tuna or turkey sandwich on whole grain bread with bean or alfalfa sprouts and yogurt w/fruit. If you had meat loaf for dinner, bring a meat loaf sandwich (NO mayo). On cold days, a squatty thermos of hot chili, split peas with ham or beef stew.
  
  Snacks: Fresh (not canned) fruit: banana, orange, apple, kiwi, grapes, peach, nectarine, cherries, pineapple. No chips and nothing ever from a vending machine.
  
  Dinner: salad with white meat chicken and fresh (not canned) veggies: tomatoes, 2 kinds of lettuce, 2 kinds of shredded cabbage, shredded or sliced carrots, alfalfa or bean sprouts, zucchini, hard boiled eggs, brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, tofu, cottage cheese...Instead of dressing, squeeze 1/4 tomato over it.
  
  Or homemade bean/vegetable soups; great way to recycle leftovers.
  
  Or omelet: In blender, whip together eggs, tofu, cottage cheese, onions, garlic powder. Cook with mushrooms, chopped tomatoes.
  
  Foods to avoid: junk food, pastries, desserts, sugar, salty foods, syrup (even canned fruit in syrup), peanut butter, fatty/greasy foods (pork, wieners, chops, bacon, salami, pizza), pasta, potatoes, white bread, rice, canned veggies, ice cream, fast food, soda, chips. And of course no tobacco or alcohol in any form. Both of those add wrinkles and destroy your brain. No oil except olive and mac nut. Coffee also rots your brain.
  
  To keep your skin clear, drink water. Veg. juice is good too. But not canned juice (too much sugar.)
  
  Join a gym; they have all the equipment and staff to show you how to use it to get the look you want to achieve. Much cheaper than buying your own equipment. Also hiking, biking, jogging, bowling, swimming, badminton, tennis...
  
  If you lack energy to exercise, take stress B vitamins.
  To lose weight, try an appetite suppressant.

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Will this work out schedule help me lose weight/get fit?

So I am looking to start going to the gym again. I plan to go to the gym 4 days a week and working my way up to 6. I want to do an hour of cardio (walking/running) and another hour of weight training each day (working out different muscle areas each day). In two months, will I be able to see a great difference? I am at ~150 pounds and I want to lose ~25 pounds for the summer. Does my plan sound like it will wok? Thanks for any input =)

Why Losing Weight Fast is Bad!

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This regimen will never get you to a 25 pound weight loss in 3 months if all else stays the same. One of the biggest misconceptions about exercise is that it is really useful for weight loss (at least in the amount you describe). If you jog for an hour, you will burn about 300 calories, and weight lifting for another hour might burn 150 (one takes a break between sets and does not lift continuously). So, you will--at best--perhaps drop 5-8 pounds.

BUT--what happens with many people is that after they work out, they feel they EARN a treat and get a bag of chips or a cupcake or whatever, and all the work is out the window; for others, the workout makes them hungry and they eat more.

Exercise is great for your mind and your heart...and can help weight loss at the level you plan, but not give you as much as you want. Here''s what to do: NO STARCH at dinner, that is, no potatoes, rice, pasta, or corn. Meat/fish/chicken, veggie and salad. No bread (except low-carb bread). And NO SNACKING between meals...that raises insulin levels and helps build fat. And no diet drinks or sweets...just water. Good luck.

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How to lose stomach weight fast?

Gahh I hate my stomach it''s so flabby. I just really wanna lose stomach weight. Any dieting or exercising ideas? I kinda wanna have a flat stomach by summer lol. thanks c:

Healthy Ways To Lose Weight - The Easiest Ways To Lose Weight

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trying to lose weight but thats not the right way to do it. try the dukan diet x

• try high cardio vasular exersices. and eat a lot of fiber .
• Do lots of ab exercises like planks, crunches and sit ups
• Take a really really sharp knife. best if you use a surgical knife if available. Now take a marker and outline on your stomach which area you wish to have lost really quick. Very quickly start to cut away the access fat.. This is were a staple gun would come in handy so have that ready before you start to cut.. Now that you have the staple gun at hand. shoot yourself in the head a few times if you made it to this step yet..
• Cardio works... try bicycling and running.
• Don''t sweat it grow a couple of inches and it will mel away/
• ^_^ Ban junk food from the house
  Keeping junk food in the house may seem harmless and it can be easy to convince oneself that strength will prevail over the temptation to overindulge and partake in unhealthy food.
  In moments of weakness, stress and boredom, over eating the foods that used to be consumed and brought a person to a current, unhealthy weight can be unbearably tempting and derail weight loss efforts.^_^^_^

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how much could i possible gain from one binge?

i usually eat very healthy and keep to 1500 cal a day roughly but i had a binge today i know it was my own fault . i was just wondering how much weight could i possible gain from this much food . I''ll list the foods below from my total day intake . i did a little bit of exercise and was also wondering that helped or made any difference to the weight gain .
breakfast :90 calorie yogurt , half a grapefruit sprinkled lightly with cinnamon , nutmeg, splenda and 1 tsp honey and a mug of coffee( 2 table spoons of 1% milk and 1 tbsp of splenda.
lunch : 1 stick celery , 2 sugar free jelly pots , 5 pickles and 3 small beetroot from a jar. mug coffee (same amounts as the first one ) .
dinner : half a Chicago Town cheese pizza stuffed crust , sprinkled with oregano garlic and dried salt onion . 1 table spoon BBQ sauce and 10 calorie tbsp extra extra light mayo .
snack : handful of dried cherry''s blue berries and raisins .
BINGE : a 400g g box of celebrations chocolates
tub of fish food Ben and Jerry''s ice cream
half liter diet coke .
icing off a cupcake (just the icing, id say 20 or 30 gs maybe. there was a thick lair ).
handful of dried berries (same as above )
this was a week end day i would have usually had a proper lunch and dinner . i walked 25 min before the binge and a 30 min walk after .i will be going back to normal 1500 cal diet tomoro .

Lose Weight For Free Fast And The Foods That Help You Lose Weight

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Well, you may find you are around maybe 3 pounds more , but if you go back to your healthy eating without the pizza, ice cream, chocolate and the so-called "diet" foods, and eat whole foods and watch portions while exercising regularly doing cardio for at least 30 minutes a day 5-6 days a week, you may lose those pounds rather quickly.

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Why haven''t I had my period?

Okay so I''m 6 days late for my period. I''ve never really had sex, but I took a pregnancy test just to be sure. It came back negative. So I''m just wondering why I''m so late? I know stress can delay it, but I haven''t been stressed about it until recently. I''ve felt like I''m about to have it for a day or two, but it hasn''t came yet. I don''t have a doctor, and I''m only 17. I have lost weight recently, I didn''t know if that would effect it or not. Does anyone know what could be wrong?
I am so scared. I''ve never really had sex, but we did play around (underwear was on the whole time) and he didn''t ejaculate!! Am I over reacting? PLEASE HELP!

Staying Motivated to Lose Weight

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Please calm down. First of all, there is no need to take a pregnancy test since it is near impossible to become pregnant if you have never had sex. Second, I think you need to stop stressing about it, because sometimes periods can be delayed, especially if you are young. Sometimes you skip a month, other times you don''t. Lastly, weight loss should not really impact your periods unless you have lost a noticeable amount of weight, and/or are malnourished.

• you dont have enough fat on you, youve lost so much weight that your body cant produce what is needed to go through puberty (period). thats why you havent had your period
• To much stress can delay your period, just relax & calm down it will come

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After starting a weight program how soon will I see definition?

Hello. I'm starting a weight program where I'm basically training me arms. How soon will I see definition if I lift daily?

Also, will I feel sore immediately after working out each time or feel a delayed soreness with it at times?'

Thanks.

Tips for Losing Weight Fast - Burn the Fat or Eat the Muscle?

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if your just training your arms you should not lift every day this will result in over training witch will cause muscle loss, you should target your arms about twice a week but if you lift consistency you should see results within a couple months and major definition within a year or too, and make sure you diet is in order

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