Weight Loss

[Yui108]

I need to shed about 5 pounds in 6 months for American Football. I am an adolescent boy. Will doing this be impossible/very hard, or will it be relatively easy with some dedication? Is there any dieting habits you all would reccomend?
Thanks in advance.

 

[cidknee]

Umm... go to a gym, eat healthier, stop eating junk food. Cut out carbs.

Nothing a google search wont find.

 

[LightFang]

Be a flexitarian--eat mostly vegetables, and try to avoid meat. Once a week is good.

Stick to whole, unprocessed foods. This means real food, not food products. So none of that Gogurt stuff. Avoid high fructose corn syrup, it's awful. Basically, check the ingredients of everything you buy! It should only contain things you recognize! And try to avoid things that contain unwieldy amounts of ingredients.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Skip dinner (and evening snacks) four nights a week ie. eat less.

 

[Perfection]

There's weight restrictions in football?

 

[Knight-Dragon]

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[Luckymoose]

5 pounds in 6 months is super easy. I can lose that in a week. Just restrict calorie intake to about 1200-1400 a day and exercise for 25 minutes a day.

 

[King of Town]

I've lost ten pounds this month alone. The best way to do it, and most helpful for playing football, is just to weightlift. that way the excess weight stays off a lot easier.

 

[classical_hero]

Five pounds in nothing. I have lost five KGs in the past few weeks.

 

[Brighteye]

Five pounds is almost a question of taking a laxative and not drinking anything the day before.
If it's for a sport, just take your weekly routine and add a couple of 30-minute runs. For added health, cut back on junk food and eat meat instead.

 

[Yui108]

There's weight restrictions in football?

For youth divisions, so big kids don't kill everyone. I think that's kind of the point but..

I've lost ten pounds this month alone. The best way to do it, and most helpful for playing football, is just to weightlift. that way the excess weight stays off a lot easier.

But doesn't muscle weigh more than fat?

 

[downtown]

How old are you?

 

[King of Town]

But doesn't muscle weigh more than fat?

Muscle burns fat though, so the more of it you have the easier it usually is to lose weight. Though you will end up gaining some muscle weight, it takes a lot of really hard dedicated workouts to gain a lot of it.

 

[Fifty]

If its a weigh-in situation, you might as well just do what brighteye suggests. It would be ridiculously easy to cut 5 pounds. Heck, just taking an extremely hot bath or sitting in a sauna for awhile would probably do it, if you're afraid of laxatives.

 

[salty mud]

Push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups etc are all easy, free and great at getting you fit. And make sure to follow all this good diet crap as well.

 

[Elta]

5 pounds in 6 months is super easy. I can lose that in a week. Just restrict calorie intake to about 1200-1400 a day and exercise for 25 minutes a day.

Yeah, you could even eat 2,000. Just hit the gym hard for 4 or 5 hours a week at least.


Protein and Fiber will make you feel more full for longer. So try and get some.

 

[Bllasae]

Be a flexitarian--eat mostly vegetables, and try to avoid meat. Once a week is good.

This is if you're a hippie. Eat as much meat as possible, as you need the strength. But exercise and lift weights or something. Run around the city where you live.