Fruit Drinks | Tracy Weight Loss

November 22, 2010

Judge My Weight Loss Plan?

Filed under: weight loss — Tags: bed time, cheerios, daily basis, fruit drinks, miles per hour, rice chicken, roti, sit ups, thighs — Tracy @ 7:01 am

What’s this week’s weight loss question? Let’s dive straight in…

Question: Since today I’ve been doing the following.

Exercise (Daily basis)
Treadmill: Incline 4, Speed 4-5 miles per hour, 255 calories gone. Time spent 25 minutes.
Push ups: 100
Sit ups: 100
Stretching: 20 minutes. All areas.

Exercise (Every 2 days or so)
Basketball
Football
Handball

Breakfast 6:00 A.M-7:00 A.M
Food: Cheerios, and any source of fruit.
Drinks: Water and Milk

Lunch: 2:00 P.M 4:00 P.M
Food: Salad, rice, beans, boiled chicken, potato’s.
Drinks Water

Dinner 6:00 P.M-7:30 P.M
Food: Rice, chicken, fish, beans, cabbage, wheat stuff such as bread or roti, and salad.
Drinks: Water

Snacks Anytime
Fruits

Waking up at: 6:00-6:30 A.M
Bed time: 11:00 P.M

I’m a 15 year old boy.
Height: 5′5 or 5′6
Weight: 175lbs

Areas of fat: Mostly belly, in thighs, not so much legs, and not so much neck or arms.

Is this weight loss plan good enough? Should I add anything? Should I take away anything? Please feel free to be as critical as possible.

Answer: Your exercise plan looks really good, but some of your food choices are a little vague. For example, how many servings of fruit are you having? This should be a planned priority in a diet for weight loss. Yogurt is another excellent addition to any diet and is proven to aid in fat metabolism. Rice however is a fairly empty calorie filler food, even if you eat only brown rice…still mostly carb calories (which are very easy to over eat in this form) I would suggest adding stir fried vegetables to your diet and decrease your rice portion as much as possible. You need a mid morning snack too, as from 7 am, its a long time to 2pm and you will no doubt get hungry, which can lead to overeating. I recommend a cup of yogurt and an apple as a snack twice a day…under 200 calories, but very satisfying. Also fyi, wheat and gluten are proven to add pounds and puffiness from water retention, so….these things are best in moderation (try it for a few days and you will see a difference) PS you cannot target fat loss per se, you can only build and tone muscle in specific areas…which does makes things look smaller! So I would say go wheat and gluten free for a few days (rice is fine) and see how you feel. And eat as many fruits and vegetables as you can. Good luck reaching your goals!!

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August 30, 2010

Water: Does It Contribute to Weight Loss?

Filed under: weight loss — Tags: fruit drinks, soda, weight loss — Tracy @ 7:04 am

What a great weight loss question:

Question: For the past few weeks, all I’ve drank was water. No soda, no fruit drinks, etc., and I’ve noticed that I seem a bit slimmer.
Is it true that if you drink more water, you lose weight? Is it a good factor for weight loss?

Answer: by drinking water instead of other drinks(that have sugar, fat, and calories), you are consuming less calories daily, contributing to weight loss, yes.

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