I am 15 years old and right now I weigh 143 and I want to get to my goal weight 115. I know that’s a dramatic change but I checked online what a healthy weight was for my height [67 inches] and it said that a healthy weight range for me was 104 lbs. to 153 lbs. I just really want to get to my goal weight REALLY bad. Can you give me all the foods that burn body fat and what exercise I should be getting everyday?
The only food I know of that consumes more energy to digest than is provided is celery.
My physician explained it like this:
Weight change is a function of calories eaten minus calories burned.
However, this is not the complete story. Your body has evolved over tens of thousands of years to handle periods of feast and famine. Today, the only periods of famine for most people is when they go on a diet. Your body believes that it is in a period of famine and will slow down the rate at which you burn calories (starvation mode). If your body does not get at least 10 times your ideal weight in pounds in calories:
Example: Ideal weight is 120 pounds, your minimum daily calories will be 1200. Don’t eat less!
If you don’t eat enough calories, your body will try to maintain body fat and it will also trigger irresistible urges to eat high caloric foods (sugar, fat, refined carbohydrates). That’s why people have binges after being good about their calorie intake for a few months. They end up putting on weight during the periods of feast as your body has been programmed to do.
The answer to your question is to follow a low-fat pure vegetarian diet as described by Dr. Dean Ornish. You’ll need to have a balance of legumes, whole grains, leafy green vegetables, colorful vegetables, whole fruits, some nuts, some Omega-3 fatty acids, and B12. Get out in the sun each day for about 10 minutes. Your skin needs this to process vitamin D.
Once you are on a healthy diet for a few weeks, I’d talk to your doctor about how to get on an aerobic exercise program. After a few weeks of being on these programs, I’d look at a free weight program to build muscle mass. If you start eating extra calories, some people put on 7 pounds of fat without much effort. If you eat to excess and are building lean muscle, you will add only 1 pound of muscle weight. Muscle takes a lot more calories to burn.
By all means avoid convenience foods, over processed foods, sugars, fats, too much salt. Aspartame and MSG are neurotoxins that will cause your brain chemistry to change. You will add weight and feel a bit fuzzy if you eat or drink these substances. Avoid soda. If you are by any chance taking medications, please be careful. Statins, for instance, can cause very serious neurological side effects once you reduce the cholesterol in your diet through a healthy pure vegetarian diet. (Drug companies admit to these serious side effects in 1-2% of statin drug user, but others claim it’s closer to 50%.)
If you are on medication, please be very careful and do your homework, especially if you cut fats or otherwise improve your diet.
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