advice please!!!

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Hi ). I am newbie to this site and just wanted to say that it is very helpful!!. Let me start off by saying I'm 2 months shy of turning 21 years old. I am 5'4 and 139 lbs. My main goal is to lose a little less then 30 lbs and then start toning up. I want to have nice defined abs like the singer Pink has in this picture . I absolutely love that in depth line that it has on each side of her hip (I am not sure what the term is called for that but it is shown in the picture). Anywho, my main point of opening this thread was that I would like some advice on how to get those type of abs, what I should eat, shouldn't eat, how should I excerises (like what excerises should I do, etc).


Thanks in advance!!!
 
Im not a pro, but my two cents...

Hello there and welcome! I can tell you what Ive been told, and that is to get any abs to show, your biggest fight will be in the kitchen (diet, diet, diet).... our body fat needs to be low in order for those muscles to appear..... give us an example of what you eat in a day.... do you eat clean? lots of protein? eat every three hours? all things that come into play(which I struggle with some times too!) Lets start there and then Im sure some of the other more knowledgable forum readers will help you out with some additional good suggestions...
 
Well that's the thing..when I start cutting off food that are unhealthy, I get stuck. For instance, I started my "diet" today, and all I've had was a spicy tuna roll & miso soup with a glass of water. I am going to eat a chicken salad tonight for dinner with a glass of water as well. I know I am supposed to drink about 8 glasses of water a day. I have been trying to do that but it's hard everytime I see the soda in the fridge (I have been consuming pepsi all my life!). I am trying to quit drinking soda and so far so good. And I don't understand the whole eating every 3 hours. If anyone can show an example of what they eat breakfast lunch, dinner and snacks so I can get an idea of how to map out my eating regimen that would be awesome!
 
This is what I generally do:

Breakfast: Steel Cut Oats, Egg whites, Milk (optionally with protein powder)
Snack 1: Fruit (usually grapes or bananas) and Nuts (almonds)
Lunch: Chicken Salad Wrap, sometimes a veggie soup (NO cream soups)
Snack 2: Low Fat cottage cheese and almonds
Dinner: Baked Chicken Breast, Brown Rice cooked in nonfat chicken broth, veggie
Snack 3: Slice of whole wheat bread and natural peanut butter (the kind that only has peanuts as its list of ingredients).

Munching on veggies throughout the day + healthy intake of water.

Hope this helps.
 
Also, at 5'4" - 109 pounds would be underweight and isn't a healthy goal weight for you (assuming you are interested in health). About 120 is the bottom of the healthy weight range for your height, which would give you about a 20lb loss to aim for.
 
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