So, I'm 14, almost 15, and I want to lose 10-15 pounds before school starts. We start August 26th, and I know no matter how hard I try, I'm probably not going to lose my goal weight, but I'm gonna lose as much as possible. I'm 5' 0", and 170 pounds. (I legitimately don't look it though, maybe 150-ish) But, basically, I have a 3-mile loop around my house that I can jog, and when school starts, I made JV soccer, so we have either practice or games every day. Please just help me out on what to do. Thanks!
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Your body naturally burns calories everyday just to keep you alive. With your age/height/weight, you burn around 1950 calories a day. So as long as you eat less than that, you'll lose weight. I'd suggest you cut down to 1200 calories a day. Just by doing this, you'll be burning an extra 750 calories a day, which will help you lose 1.5 pounds a week...or around 4.5 pounds by the time school starts. Then add in some exercise. Try to burn around 500 calories every day by doing cardio exercise. This can be walking, jogging, running, biking, elliptical, swimming, etc. There are plenty of websites out there that will tell you how many calories you burned during exercise...I use MyFitnessPal.com. You just put in your height/weight/age and how long you exercised for and it will give you calories burned. And it's usually pretty accurate. You should be able to burn 500 calories in about an hour of jogging or biking, maybe closer to an hour and a half of swimming. Anyways, if you add in the exercise, you'll lose an extra 1 pound of fat a week on top of the 1.5 you're losing because of your diet. So that's 2.5 pounds a week or about 7.5 pounds by the time school starts. And finally, do some little things that will help speed up your metabolism and get your body to burn more calories throughout the day. Try to drink 1-2 cups of green tea every day (hot or iced, and you can add lemon juice and Stevia or honey to flavor it). Also, drink ice cold water whenever you can. Your body has to burn calories to heat up the water before you can use it. Eat more spicy foods. Adding things like fresh jalapenos or ground cayenne pepper or ginger can help speed up your metabolism for a couple hours after you eat them. If you do all of this, you should lose 10 pounds by the time school starts.Other Answers:
- you can exerciser as much as you want but its the diet that is most important. you need to develop these habits early on. dont worry about losing the weight super fast. just worry about losing it. it should take you about 5 months to get to your perfect weight were you still have curves and looks great. you might think tht is alot of time but it goes by so quickly. Think of how much time youve wasted in the last 5 months. its worth it. goodluck!
