Ah thank you for reading my post and taking concern. Well I am quite short, just hit 5 foot...but I am quite muscular and heavily built, but I know I have to loose weight.
I think I made a few wrong calculations, that you seem to have cleared up, I wish to get down to around 9 stone, or 9 1/2 stone.
I chose the atkins diet, as my dad is well, to be honest, obsessed with it, even though he is average, every time he puts on 1 or 2 pounds, he does atkins and it shifts it right away.
I have also been on atkins twice, both times I have lost around a stone, but this time I want to loose a little more and keep it off.
Could you suggest another diet? As I do wish to loose weight and no, I dont want to just "excersise more", it doesn't work for me, never has and neither has portion control.
I also forgot to add that I will not be following the atkins diet 100% to the book, I will be having more carbs than suggested. I have also been to a nutritionist, that my mum uses, she just gave me advice, but said that a "watered down" atkins diet would not damage my health at all.
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Haha - well congrats on hitting 5feet!
9 to 9.5 stone sound about (on average) right for someone with a medium to large frame size standing at 5feet.
Well, I'm not sure why or how your dad does the atikins diet to loose 1-2 pounds, as. The average person fluctuates in weight by around 3-6 pounds a day. Most of that being water and glycogen.
I don't believe in "diets". I believe in lifestyle changes. A diet is temporarily. A change for the better is more permanent.
Once a diet is over here by reaching the goal weight. Whats next? The general person slips right back into destructive habits, over eating, under exercising, binging, and so on.
They gain at least part of the weight back until they feel like doing something about it. They go on their "diet" again. They gain the weight back and repeat. Its nothing more than a trap into a "yo-yo" diet system.
Atkins is designed to do one thing. That is, to shift your body into a ketogenic state. A watered down atikins diet won't likely do this. So, you are no longer on an atkins diet but a diet with reduced carbs but not reduced enough to create a ketogenic state. I don't believe 13 year olds should place them selfs in this state.
Your just on more of a "lowish" carb diet. You are sure to loose good amounts of water and glycogen weight fairly quickly. However, your goal is "fat" loss. For this to occur you need to ensure you are creating a reasonable calorie deficient daily. In other words, "burn" more calories than you are taking in on a regular basis. The key here is consistency and knowing where that "limit" is.
If you have determined that you need 1,500 calories(example) a day to put you in a 500calorie a day deficient. If you can stick to this on a regular basis by the end of the first week you might loose 3-4 pounds. With only 1-1.5 pounds of this being actual fat.
The problem with increasing the deficient is you are placing more stress(over simplification)on the body and creating a higher chance of failure. Slow and steady really is the best bet for weight loss. Anything else just is unlikely to work in the long run.
then for lunch, I had prawn salad and for dinner I will also have a low carb meal.