I know I'm not the healthiest person out there, nor the skinniest or the most fit. I still like my twenty-piece chicken nuggets, my chips, my ice cream, my ramen. (Although I've totally given up soda ew soda = sugar water = enormous amount of calories = instant fat. Plus it doesn't even taste that good.) Buuut I've taken the time to look up stuff like healthier alternatives, how to lose weight the healthy way, and exercising/eating well and staying fit and toning muscle and that sort of thing.
On the other hand, you always say that you wish you were skinnier but... don't really do anything about it. I've always wondered that if you spent the time that you spend now complaining about your weight instead getting fit, changing your diet options, toning muscle and losing fat that maybe you'd be healthier than I am.
(Okay dunno if that sentence made sense but it made sense in my head. My thoughts are basically one huge run-on sentence.) Anyways, you keep saying you want to lose weight but then I tell you some basic weight thing, that you should know if you even tried searching up "weight loss tips" on the Internet... something you'd do if you were really serious about getting skinnier, and you don't know about it.
So.
Some tips that I've found on the internet/made up to keep myself on the right track (Get to 103 pounds by summer, pleeeease?) and that hopefully keep me from eating crappy junk food all day.
Exercise is really only about 30% of the whole weight loss thing. If you're out in the gym all day, then go eat a Big Mac with large fries and a Coke or something, that's like taking one step forward and taking two steps back.
So... first step.
Change your diet!!!
- Cut out all soda. Immediately. Please. It is all sugar. ALL. SUGAR.
- Cut down on chips (unnecessary carbs) and sugary snacks. (<-- ALL SUGAR.)
- Drink water. Lots of water. Recommend ice cold water because apparently that helps you burn like 20 calories an hour (...? Hmm.) Also drinking lots of water = good for your face because flush impurities from pores/skin so no more pimples! Can personally attest to this because my skin cleared up super fast after I started drinking lots of ice cold water c:
- If you don't want to drink water (Whyever not) or need a change, green tea is a good one. It also has no calories (unless you add sugar or honey, which why would you even, smh) and helps fill you and is also very good for the skin. Helps clear up redness, or so I've heard.
- Some people restrict carbs or count calories but I feel like that just easily leads to eating disorders like anorexia because they're so obsessed with counting calories they forget the healthy part of losing weight. Idk, if it works for you then.
- Don't eat past 9:30. You gain weight like CRAAAZY if you eat late meals or midnight snacks. Don't. Just don't do it.
- Eat light meals, like 100-300 calories, but don't eat just three of those light meals (you'll starve, as I know from experience). Eat lots of light meals. Try not to snack between those light meals.
- If you must snack, like you're dying, prz stay away from junk food. Eat veggies or small amounts of fruit for some natural sugars.
- Pick small plates to put your food on, and portion your food carefully. This will make you eat slower, and as a result, feel fuller faster.
On to exercise:
- Start slow. Don't expect to be able to do 100 situps the first day.
- Don't just target and work on one part of your body. I mean, you can do some sets where you'd like to specifically lose weight, but weight is usually an over-all thing. You don't get to choose where you'd like to lose weight (thighs, face, stomach, arms) so just concentrate on slimming down your entire body.
- Regular exercise helps build up your metabolism.
- If you don't want to be a bulky muscle monster, don't do heavy, short sets of cardio. Exercise for longer amounts of time, like walking or jogging for an hour instead of sprinting hard for twenty minutes.
Personal tips/experience:
- Since I am already pretty toned from swimming (burning 800-1000 calories a day during swim season like yeah) the parts where I wanted to work on most were stomach/abs + thighs/legs.
- I keep a large glass of ice cold water or green tea on my desk and when it's empty I go and refill it. But before I go I do twenty v-ups and when I come back I do another twenty v-ups.
- Still working on my sixpack.
- And thighs. For toning thighs, I just run/walk at Clubsport for extended amounts of time. Also go on the moving step machine thing. Tend to stay away from the leg weight machines because I dun wanna bulk up. Going for the whole slim/skinny but not fat thing :D
Okay so yeah. That's basically it... unless I forgot something.
Super excited to get both my YesStyle stuff AND my Threadless shirt tomorrow! C:
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