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stacey23

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Hi everyone,

Just registered here as it looks like everyone is pretty knowledgeable and knows their stuff so hopefully can help me out...

Basically I'm 23, and weigh around 130 pounds, and am around 5 foot 4. I know this may not seem like I am 'overweight' as such, but I went to America for a while and put on weight while I was there. I used to weigh around 112 pounds, and would like to get back to that.

I have started going to Body Pump classes which I really like, and also go to the gym.

Does anyone have any ideas of how I can get this weight to fall off?!

Thanks!
 
fall off??? weight does fall off..it takes time and work..... and from my understanding the closer you are to your goal, the slower it comes off. To loose 1 pd of weight (a week) you need to consume 500 less cals a day. Track your cals for a few dys to find your average and then try to cut 500 cals a day.

hope that helps??
 
Some folks get the weight to fall off by cutting out things like Sugar and Soda.

I've never been able to watch it fall off and I only lose when I put serious effort into it.

No weightloss goal is too big or too small for this place. I agree with Korrie on tracking what you eat for a few days. You'd be surprised at how little it seems we eat but how big in calories those foods are.

GL and Welcome.

~kattwoman :seeya:
 
It starts and ends with diet.

What does your diet currently look like? Are you monitoring it at all?

With regards to nutrition, you can be as hands off or hands on as you want. A logical place is to start with the hands off approach. This entails simply 'cleaning up' your food choices. Getting rid of junk and processed food as much as possible and sticking with balanced, natural choices. For some, this is enough to generate weight loss since it calorically controls itself in a way. (healthy food is less calorically dense)

If this isn't working, and often times when you don't have all that much weight to lose you're going to have to do more, you're going to need to use more of a hands on approach. This starts with monitoring your foods with something like . It also entails paying attention to macronutrients. In general, and remember this is general, you should first set your calories to ensure a deficit. Once set, pick and choose what will fill those calories.... I like to start with protein. Set protein at about 1 gram per pound in your case. Then set fat, which should come predominantly from the good stuff (fish, fish oil, avocados, nuts, flax, safflower, olive oil, natural peanut butter, olives, etc, etc). Fat should be set at roughly 25% of total caloric intake. Fill in the rest of your caloric goal with carbs and/or more fat. That last step will vary greatly from person to person and is dependent on things such as individual food tolerances, goals, lifestyles, preferences, etc.

Becoming active is certainly good too. Body Pump is a fine intro to this... however, I would eventually ditch the circuit training mentality and move into regular weight training. This is best for muscle maintenance, which should be high priority in your case.

When relatively light people try to get lighter, chances of losing muscle while dieting are much greater. Proper weight training supplies a stopgap to this problem. Much has been said about this in the stickie threads here at the forum.
 
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Thanks guys for your replies...

My diet - well, when I was in America, sweets, cookies, brownies, chocolate, soda drinks, cheeseburgers, chicken wings, fries etc etc.

Previous to going to America (and now that I am back, I am back to my 'normal') - salmon, rice, chicken breasts, tuna, fruit, vegetables, water, squash.

I am allergic to wheat and gluten so cannot have bread, pasta etc, and also allergic to lactose so no milk or dairy for me either!

Basically I just want my skinny thighs back...I know it sounds vain but none of my clothes fit me!
 
Well as my post stated above... by making wiser food choices, which you seem to be doing now that you are back home, will probably solve the problem.

If not, of if you want to speed the process up a bit, do as I said above with the 'hands on' approach.

And if you aren't overly concerned with being 'ripped' and it's just a matter of losing the extra lbs of fat, body pump is fine.
 
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