Question about losing a lot of weight?

So I'm a 4'11 girl and I weight 145 pounds, after just losing 5 pounds. I want to get down to around 90 pounds. Can losing such a high amount of wait make your face look different or better? Has this happened in your weight loss? Thanks.

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Losing over a third of your body weight will probably effect your face. However, if the result is better or worse, we can't know because we don't know what you look like before and after and "better" is relative and subjective anyway. It will probably look thinner...more narrow. Perhaps even slightly gaunt.Good luck and good health!!♠

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Do people still go to camp at 16?

I'm 15 right now, but I have solemnly decided to not go to camp this summer because I wanted to focus more on my exercise and weight loss.I even visited my great great auntie Louise who is 103 years old.If I decide to go to camp next summer when I'm 16, do you think I will be to old to go to camp then or no?

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16yo tend to go to 'high' adventure (Rafting, mt climbing etc.) or Education/Interest based, not your general Type camps.

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How can I lose weight without going to the gym?

It''s winter and I can''t go running and my fitness center is closed for the next few weeks.
I eat very healthy and track all my food to make sure I don''t go over my calories.
What workouts can I do inside to help me lose 10-15 pounds.
I''m 5''3 140 pounds and I''m 21.

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What about Yoga, Pilates, Aerobics or Zumba dvd''s at home?

• If it''s not winter i would suggest: Fasting
• Do regular yoga, it is long lasting.
• I have a stationary bike with moving handles, to work out arms and then watch TV and before you know it you have your time in.
  I tried weight watchers and still use the plan somewhat. But found the best way to loose weight was I allow 500 calories before noon, noon and after 500 more and then after 5 til I go to bed 500 more.
  1500 Calories supports about 125 pounds.
  I also have a exercise video for beginners I am not able to do more than that. For some reason dancing doesn''t seem like exercise. One friend joined a dance class to learn to dance and lost a lot of weight.
• Women do not really need a gym to lose 15 pounds of body fat.
  Men need a gym to use gym weight machines to GAIN 15 pounds of muscle mass on their way to a six-pack and prominent pecs, biceps, triceps, deltoids, quads, gluteus…
  
  
  I hope you’re not running even when it’s not winter.
  Hopefully you’re not even walking/jogging.
  You can power walk (always keeping one foot on the ground).
  Above 130lbs, you cannot walk/jog nor do any other high impact exercises as you have to mind your joints (ankles, knees, hips).
  If both your feet are off the ground at any point (like when jogging), one of your knees has to handle TWICE your body weight on impact.
  For you, that would be 280lbs of one little knee joint, ouch!
  An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.
  At 140lbs/5’3, you’re borderline overweight (25BMI) at 24.8BMI.
  You’d be “officially” in the overweight category at 141lbs so do not jog.
  
  I weigh 120/125lbs and once I went up 130lbs and started feeling the pressure on my knees while jogging so I switched to power walking.
  I have very good strong big knees…because I always made sure to keep it that way.
  In the long run (can take years), I would damage my strong knees if I would put more than 250lbs of pressure on them.
  
  I don’t get your “It’s winter and I can’t go running”.
  Can you walk outside?
  Buddle up and wear layers if it’s cold.
  If you have snow…go skiing.
  Cross-country skiing on flat terrain.
  
  
  
  If you eat very healthy, you track your calorie intake to make sure that you’re eating enough to cover your BMR so you don’t send your metabolism down the drain.
  You cannot “go over your calories” if you eat healthy.
  Your BMR is 1,460 calories (female, 21yo, 5’3 and 140lbs).
  
  It’s not like a steamed cup of broccoli (50 calories) is going to make you “go over your calories”, even if you add a carrot (20 calories) and a serving of salmon (150 calories)…use a steamer.
  Then you can have 6oz (a bowl) or your homemade fruit salad (80 calories).
  Now you get a 300 calories tasty fulfilling healthy dinner unlike those 300 calories unfulfilling frozen commercial ones with ridiculous names like “Healthy Choice” or “Lean Cuisine”…right!
  More like “Still hungry after eating some defrosted commercial whatever this is supposed to taste like, and please, go easy on the artificial cheese flavor as it is burning my tongue!”
  
  If you used fresh broccolis (that taste like broccoli, not frozen ones), and an unprocessed carrot (not the dreadful baby-cut ones), and fresh salmon fillet and a steamer, you’ll get a good meal. And a bowl (6oz) of homemade fruit salad with your favorite fruits (6oz) is much more fulfilling and satisfying than any of those 80 calories commercial processed cups using conservatives.
  
  NOW you get a problem…as 300 calories dinner is probably not enough to reach your calorie quota (that is why you track calories, to make sure you eat enough, not to make sure you don’t eat too much) so you have to use snacks, like if you snack on half an avocado (great source of healthy fats) with vinaigrette, you’d get 150 calories from the half avocado and adding one Tbsp of extra virgin olive oil (another great source of healthy fats, 120 calories), you’d get a total of 270 calories intake.
  Men would need 2 of those, as they need 2 Tbsp of olive oil/day, so they can eat half an avocado for a mid-morning snack and the other half for a mid-afternoon one.
  
  So a 270 calories snack and a 300 calorie dinner = 570 calories so you still have to come up with almost 900 calories (to reach your 1,460 BMR) for your breakfast and lunch so you might have to have another snack or drink a lot of milk (almost 150 calories per glass if it’s whole) or a handful of nuts (around 150 calories for an ounce).
  
  
  
  Because you have a gym does not mean that you cannot have a stationary bike at home and burn 800 calories in two hours at a 12.5mph leisure speed (I burn 32 calories per mile biking) and it’s never boring because you’re safely sitting (not biking in traffic and wearing a helmet) and can zone out while watching TV or reading. Get a bike with moving handles so you also get an upper body workout and your arms can help when your legs get tired. Get an expensive, sturdy, silent, good quality bike that will last you a lifetime (not some cheap light crappy exercise bike made in China that will break or malfunction in a few years).
  
  If you need to lose 10-15lbs, that is 35,000 to 52,500 calories of exercising.
  Each pound of body fat is 3,500 calories.
  I would need to bike for 109 miles to burn one pound of body fat (32 calories per mile biking).
  2 hours/25 miles/800 calories at a time.
  I would need to walk/jog for 50 miles to burn one pound of body fat (I burn 70 calories per mile walking/jogging).
  
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  Get the right expectations, like half a pound of body fat loss/week…1,750 calories of exercising (like 350/day, 5 days/week with 2 rest days).
  Not total body weight on a scale as you need to GAIN heavy muscle mass while getting in shape.
  
  Do calisthenics at home (using your own body as weight) like when doing pushups, lunges, squats, crunches, heel raises…and get some small free weights for other exercises so you can gain muscle mass, rev up your metabolism and get strength to improve all your aerobics (you don’t need a gym for those).
  
  I have a good gym but I never use the fitness center there…too many distractions and I cannot concentrate on good form (aerobic machines and gym weight machines) while smelling nasty days old sweat (sweat is like pee…does not smell so bad fresh but the next day…eeww), I only use the aquatic center (Olympic size heated pool, whirlpool, sauna…).
  
  Aim for 20 to 30 weeks (or longer which is better to keep the weight off in the long run) to lose 10 to 15 pounds of body fat (5 to 7 months).
  I lost 10 pounds of body fat in 7 months once (never had to do it twice)…never regained those as I did it slowly enough to be among the pride 5% of successful losers.
  
  Get rid of your scale, unless you know how to differentiate between body fat gain/loss, muscle mass gain/loss and huge water/food/waste weight fluctuations and weigh yourself every day (after waking up, after peeing, naked, before breakfast…) but only do monthly assessment so water/food/waste weight fluctuations become irrelevant as you always have to stabilize.
  You can use your body weight as some additional data, along with body measurements, caloric intake/expenditure…
  Use a tape measure as you should not lose total body weight when you’re getting in shape and gaining muscle mass.
  You can maintain your weight for 3 to 6 months while getting in shape if you do aerobics to lose body fat while gaining muscle mass, so you get thinner, toner and stronger…but not lighter (as that would be a sign that you’re eating under your BMR and getting a lower metabolism as your body would adapt to lower caloric intake).

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How does poor diet affect the function of the circulatory system?

Can i just have a brief and detailed answer about how diet affects the function and structure of the circulatory system and plz include more then a sentence! thanks!

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The foremost researcher in the field of the human vascular system in a clinical setting is Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. of the Cleveland Clinic. His work is supported well by the respected nutrition researcher Professor T. Colin Campbell who wrote the book "The China Study." Campbell discovered that rural Chinese who could not afford animal protein had negligible rates of cancers, diabetes, osteoporosis, and vascular diseases. They lived on cheaper plant based foods such as rice, greens, beans, and vegetables. Of course there are diseases that correlated with poverty such as malnutrition, but a well fed pure vegetarian has superior health and longevity. Americans are resistant to such assertions because of constant messaging that originates with the corporate food industry in the United States.

The Standard American Diet (SAD) is high in fat, sugar, refined oils, refined carbohydrates, salts, food additives, dairy, and meat. Not surprisingly, the longest lived populations are those who do not consume these foods. The animal fats and the fats in refined oils are the most problematic issue related to SAD. These saturated fats and cholesterol tend to collect in the vascular system reducing blood flow in arteries and resulting in the body elevating blood pressure. The body attempts to force required blood through narrowed blood vessels. Cholesterol is produced by the body and sometimes to excess. Most often unsafe levels of cholesterol are absorbed through diet. Drugs to reduce cholesterol (statins) do lower cholesterol, however, studies have failed to show that these drugs prolong the life of people who take them. A far more effective way to prevent vascular disease is to eat what''s known as a whole plant based diet.

The circulatory system will develop smaller ancillary arteries to provide another path for blood flow since the main arteries are becoming blocked. That''s how an artery can become totally blocked, but the patient is still able to function to some extent.

Even more insidious are the blockages that occur in the brain and the penis. The very small arteries in these organs can be blocked by cholesterol and saturate fats. This is a common cause of dementia and male impotence. Perhaps the risk of impotence is the most persuasive argument for young men to begin following a healthier pure vegetarian diet. For me, it was finding an attractive "vegan" woman.

Remember that a blood vessel can be thought of as a garden hose. If you restrict flow at the end of a garden hose it spurts out at a much higher pressure. Unhealthy eating results in a build up of material in blood vessels that constricts blood flow and results in higher blood pressure. Consuming salt is another problem because that causes the body to retain water to maintain a salt concentration in the blood. If you put more water in a garden hose, you can see it expand and increase in pressure. That happens to blood vessels as well.

A healthy diet will result in a healthier vascular system. This allows you to avoid vascular diseases such a strokes (blood vessel breakage in the brain), other broken blood vessels, and heart disease (lack of oxygen to the heart and death of muscle tissue).

If this is too simple an explanation, then I would go online to see Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn''s web site or check out his excellent book.

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How to maintain a healthy weight?

I lost a lot of weight like 6 months ago I would say around 60 pounds. && I weighed myself this morning and I''m gainning all that weight back! I know the basic stuff ; eat right, work out. Is there anything else I can do that will help me?
&& plus; I have been eating a lot too. I get a big plate or a normal size bowl but I pile the food up in a bowl. I did get some fruits but somehow, I lost interest in it lately. I really actually don''t know what to put on my plate exactly to have a good, filling meal. When I go to the store, you might think I''m crazy but I don''t understand the food labels at all, it confuses me... Usually they have on the food label a 2,000 based calorie thingy. Plus I don''t even know how much Calories I''m suppost to have based on my age and height. My age is 17 (turning 18 in August) and my recent height is 5''2 in a half.
I did try to research it but I don''t really understand it. So I was wondering, could anyone please clearify all this to me. I would really appreciate it.

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I''m on birth control and I have been for a few years. It was my biggest concern to gain weight. I spoke to the doctor about it a lot. It doesn''t make you gain weight. It''s harder to lose weight that''s all. So you''re not gaining weight from being on it but it''s your lifestyle e.g. not enough exercise, eating rubbish foods.

So if you were slim before, the only thing that''s making you overweight is your lifestyle. That''s the reality it''s a common myth you can talk to your doctor about it too.

To answer your question the way to maintain a healthy weight on birth control is to maintain a healthy lifestyle whereas before walking about might have been enough to keep the weight off. Now it''s more difficult you might have to throw in 30mins cardio a week everyday etc

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What is the best way for a teenage girl to lose weight?

I'm 16 years old, about 125 lbs, 5'7", and like every girl on the planet, I would like to be skinny.
I was a very competitive dancer from ages 6 to 15. I hit puberty about the same time that I quit dance and it hit me hard. I used to do about 26 hours of dance a week and now I do about 5.
Dancers are known for having very strong and muscular thighs, which is what I have. On top of that I had a six pack, which is now gone. So mostly my problem areas are my little pooch of a tummy, no thigh gap whatsoever, and love handles.
I do not overeat but I don't necessarily eat healthy foods either. My diet consists of Starbucks chai tea and a breakfast sandwich every morning, usually not eating at lunch but snacking throughout school, then around 3 when I come home I'll snack, then at 7 I will have dinner with my family.
I have terrible knees which is why I was forced to quit dancing and cannot go for a run or go on the treadmill either.
I am not the kind of girl that is obsessed with her weight or anything either. I am very confident in my body, but would like to lose these stupid love handles for summer!
Please give me links or just describe things that I could do to lose love handles, get a thigh gap, and get a flat tummy.

Please don't tell me to stop getting starbucks because that problem could be solved by me slapping you....and no, I will continue to have my tea.

Any suggestions help! Thanks so much!

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• Eat less food than your body will use. Maybe, cut the amount of snacks in half. You shouldn't be eating in class anyway.
• Core: 100 crunches a day.. 50 in the afternoon, & 50 at night before a shower. I'm not so sure about your love handles or your thigh gap... sorry. That's all I know. You could take a look on Pinterest, great ways to lose alot of non needed fat.
• The word you're looking for is spelled lose. Loose is an adjective.

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I'm a teenager and eat loads but no weight gain?

OK, so I'm a 15 year old male and have been inactive from P.E and walking/going out with friends for
almost 5 years now because I am a computer person (creative). I eat plenty of junk food and drink lots of milk and such but have put on no weight? I wasn't well fed in the womb as a baby because the pipe thing (forgot it's name) didn't work properly some how so I was always a underweight child. I currently weigh 7 stone 11 pounds and have either lost weight or stayed the same for 4 years. What is causing this? Will I ever put on weight?

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The main reason why you are finding it difficult to put on weight is largely due to the fact that you have a high metabolism from one of your parents in your family. It is a genetic trait that you inherit and will burn through the calories you eat quickly. If you are looking to gain weight, a high calorie diet daily, proper rest and the right workout needs to be done right. Let us start off with diet first since you seem to be having a problem attaining a high calorie high carbohydrate diet.

The key to a good plan that will help you gain weight properly is one filled with carbohydrates. This means that you will have to take more potatoes, pasta, noodles, biscuits, bread and rice. It is also advised to eat more times a day as it has been proven that you consume more if you eat more meals rather than if you stuff yourself in one sitting. The major point to take note about diet is also consistency and so many people try so hard for one day, only to give up the next. You must keep doing it for at least a month and see a progressive gain of 1pound a week to ensure that your diet is working well. One way to do so if you are not confident about preparing 6 meals a day is to go for a milk supplemented diet if you are not lactose intolerant. Simply drink 500ml of milk 3 times a day in between your meal. Increase the amount of milk you drink by 100ml every week until you can see a progressive gain of 1 pound every week you weigh yourself.

So many forget about when was the last time they slept well or sleep long enough. In a hectic world, that is one of the reasons why many people failed in making it significant gains on weight. I would suggest trying to sleep and wake up by yourself daily if possible. If not, try to do so every weekend and churn out the 8 or even 9 hours you need on your weekdays.

Lastly, the trigger to help you to grow is diet and that is one reason why so many people find it difficult to gain weight. This is because if you simply rely on a high calorie diet to gain weight, a dip in your diet or sleeping habit could set your plan back by 2-3 pounds in an instant. I would suggest trying the workout at http://gohforth.com to gain the weight steadily after you have accomplished your diet and sleep pattern.

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