Weight Loss Tips!!!

Know Your Body
# Accept your shape, and learn to work with what you have. Stand in front of a mirror, and assess your shape. If you are small on top and larger on bottom, you have a pear shape. If you are wider around the middle, you have an apple shape. If you are small in the middle and larger on top and bottom, you have an hourglass shape. Your frame might also be athletic, petite or medium. Athletic and medium shapes tend to be more muscular, whereas petite shaped girls have a slighter build.

Workout Tips
# Work with your individual body shape. Pear shapes often need to focus on more aerobic exercise in their bottom half such as running, jogging, elliptical, dance, kickboxing and biking. They will usually lose weight in their lower halves last. Apple shapes also need aerobic exercise but may want to include specific exercises for their abdominal area using crunches and other exercises to target the area. Their middle halves will be the last to decrease in size on an exercise program. Hourglass shapes might want to focus less on the waist, abdominal and upper body so they do not add width to the shoulders. They will generally lose weight all over on a
diet and exercise program.

Less Fat
# Eat less saturated fat and junk food. Try to make the right choices at vending machines and fast food restaurants

Nutrition Labels
# Learn to read nutrition labels on your foods at home. Let your parents know you are trying to eat healthier to lose weight, and go with them to the store to purchase food. Look at saturated fat and sugar content on food labels. Fat, both saturated and unsaturated, should be no more than 10 percent of your overall food intake.

Food Cravings
# Limit your sugar intake to as little as possible as well.

Fruits and Vegetables
# Get most of your nutrition from raw fruits and vegetables

Exercise
# Include aerobic exercise in your daily schedule. Get your friends involved in your exercise program in order to stay motivated. Play sports or do activities that you enjoy such as tennis, swimming, basketball, baseball, etc

Extreme Diets
# Do not starve yourself.Starvation diets that limit calories to significantly lower than the FDA-recommended amount can cause the body to store fat. When you begin eating normally, the weight will usually come back, and sometimes even increase. In addition, diets that limit certain foods can cause nutritional deficiencies in teenagers who are still growing, including bone and muscle loss. Finally, starvation and extreme diets often lead to psychological disorders such as anorexia or bulimia, especially in girls, and can cause long-term damage to the body systems.