Im 17 years old and I'm quite short, about 160 cm, so I can't afford to be carrying any extra weight, I have a BMI of 25.6 and would like to lose 10kg before my cousin's wedding in June, I have exams and revision coming up so my time is going to be limited and I'd like to know if there is anything short of starvation that can help.

Well, you can go to. Free Diet Plans, Calorie Counter & Weight Loss Programs at FitClick it will let you enter your calories on a daily basis. Plus tell you how many you are allowed to have for you weight and hight. With out doing any excersizing at all me and my girlfriend have both been able to lose 2-4 lbs a week. The sight is www. Fitclick. Com if the link does not work.

Thanks ill take a look :)

Just take a look, enter you hight and weight it will tell you how many you can have. Really good if you have not time to excersize.

Okay well starving yourself is certainly no way to go.

Like Josh mentioned you do need to exercise! However you don't need to do any weight training, what you do need to do is cardio and tons of it. If you have a gym membership great, they have tons of machines that focus on cardio workouts, if not don't worry. You can still: jog, run, walk, do jumping jacks [may seem funny but try doing 100, you'll feel the burn], lunges, burpees... etc. Here is a link to a few sites that give you some GREAT cardio work outs:
- http://www.youtube.com/user/charliejames1975 [I love her workouts, they make me sweat and I can really feel the burn! I love it!]
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M38HDCGmhm4 [These too are awesome]
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0IbZ0eiEiQ [Here is some info about Cardio, it was a good video, kind of goofy but it got to the point]

I would also like to point out that what you EAT will contribute to how much you lose.

The main thing is to eat fresh foods, foods that are closest to their original state, like : baked potato not french fries.

You need to be eating MORE veggies, MORE fruits and less sugars, salts, processed foods [like chicken nuggets, hot dogs... etc], it would be better to cut it all out completely until the event your attending [you would also get better results in doing so].

As for your meats, eat only salmon and skinless chicken breast. If you have a BBQ wrap them in tin foil with fresh herbs [no already prepared sauces added to them]. If you have a George Forman grill you can use that too. Or even pop them in the oven.

Stay away from the obvious things like candy, fast food and caffine [that means soda too].

And please DO NOT take ANY laxatives OR diet pills you will do quite some damage to your body if you do so!

Replace your drinks with water! No more juices, no more pop, no more coffee.

If you really want to lose weight you got to stay focused.

Eat right! Cardio daily for at least 30 min! Drink LOTS of water and SLEEP plenty!

Just a few pointers here:
-If you can get a pedometer [it counts your steps]: It takes 70,000 steps to burn 1 lb of fat.

-burning 3500 calories which equals 1 lb of fat

-Use flavorings such as hot sauce, salsa, and Cajun seasonings instead of butter and creamy or sugary sauces. Besides providing lots of flavor with no fat and few calories, many of these seasonings -- the spicy ones -- turn up your digestive fires, causing your body to temporarily burn more calories.




Finally good luck to you! It's fun to lose weight. I was a strict vegan for many years, the last year I decided to say "fudge it" and gained around 20 lbs! I didn't feel good about myself, I went back to my vegetarian diet in Jan. and I've lost it all plus more and I feel fantastic [I did all the above, and still doing it, except I do have sweets here and there... ]

GOOD LUCK TO YOU :)

Thanks :) yh thing is I became a pescatarian just over a year ago, i.e.. I don't eat any meat but fish, but I have a really sweet tooth! I eat cookies like there's no tomorrow :P I have never been skinny, I'm curvy so I know ill never be skinny but id like to be a healthy weight.
I like the idea of using hotter spices to lose weight, I never knew that actually worked!
As a student sleep isn't something I'm getting much of, or water for that matter so ill try that :)
Id never do laxatives or throw up (I like my food far too much) its really the exercise I need to get into, are those links the kind of workouts I could try daily?