desperate please help!!

Hi Marissa. Set realistic goals and start walking or something that gets you moving. Since it is getting warmer take her to the park and play with her. Take small steps and be happy when you meet a goal. Get some friends to help keep you motivated. Feel free to add me if you would like. A support group works. Look for the small changes. This won't happen over night. Think about getting something that measures your steps. I have a fitbit and my goal is 10,000 steps a day. I have already hit my goal by walking steps to my basement. Biggest thing don't get discouraged!! You can do it!! Good-luck

You have received great advice from SherryTeach and gummyy_bear_ninja:). A healthy diet is the best diet. On your plate make sure 1/4 is lean protein, 1/4 complex carb and 1/2 of your plate pcked with green leaf veggies. I agree that walking is s great excercise. Of course, you can go to the gym too. I love going to the gym. But I started out right at home. Be consistent in your diet and exercise. Make reachable weekly goals. First week just do your walking and eat right. Then do the same next week, only add 10 more minutes of walking...and each week do this!! You will see a big change in your body!!! So when are you going to start? You can do this without a doubt. You have to commit yourself for yourself!!

Marissa,
Read this guys blog, ontheregimen.com...he wrote a great simple article on macros. His article is titled: HOW TO COUNT YOUR MACROS (A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE).
Btw, yogurt is great. You need to make sure you eat good food. Dump junk food!! If you must eat junk food, then manage eating them. Like eat fried food once a week and one meal only. Or, if you must eat chips, eat only 1 serving and eat with a sandwich with lots of green in it & good lean protein. I am only suggesting.

Hey there! We're kinda close in age (I'm 17) so maybe my ideas will suit you a little better? Idk haha.. Basically I put all the food I eat on here and pay attention to the nutrition diagram the app supplies. It tells me what I need more of and less of. Next, try getting out and just walking. Not running. Build your endurance slowly. Once you have a nice pace going, head to the gym and use the *machines* not weights. The machines are better for beginners. That will help you not shed but transform the extra fat into muscle. You can do different exercises to get lean or bulky muscle. I assume you'd want lean based on your age. Either way, google work "lean muscle building work out routines" or "bulky muscle" instead and find one you can follow. Remember if it burns, its working so don't stop because of burning. Do stop if you're going to throw up, pass out, or have injured yourself! A safe work out makes a healthy body. I also recommend the first thing you do in the morning is 10 push ups. Then go eat break fast. This will boost your metabolism! I hope I helped a little!! (:

I'm sorry, but there is so much BAD advice in this post I had to stop and comment. (Being 17 she shouldn't even be on this site, as it's for adults only) I'm sure the poor girl had good intentions, but please do not listen to her, especially what she says about using machines, not weights. Beginners can absolutely use weights! I started out as a beginner once, we all did.

Free weights are almost ALWAYS preferable to machines, and this is because free weights engage more stabilizer muscles, and not just an isolated muscle. You just have to make sure you are doing the lift correctly, and there are tons of websites and Youtube tutorials to teach you good form. I recommend www.exrx.net, they have a great searchable database with handy little gifs of lifts with step-by-step instructions.

If you want to run, then run. You don't have to start with walking, unless you really feel you need to.

You cannot "transform extra fat into muscle". A fat cell is and always will be a fat cell, and a muscle cell is and will always be a muscle cell. You can shrink the fat cells, and build more muscle cells, but one does not ever change into the other. This is weight loss and fitness, not alchemy.

Furthermore, there are no exercises to get "lean" or bulky" muscles. A muscle is a just a muscle, and it can be big or small. You get "bulky" by eating at a surplus and lifting really really heavy several times a week. You cannot EVER get "bulky" by accident. Those hugely ripped, oiled bodybuilder women? Yeah, they TRY to look like that, it takes YEARS of hard training, discipline and focused dieting, and it can't ever happen by accident, so no worries if that's not your goal, OP. If you eat at a calorie deficit and lift weights, you will get lean and strong, not bulky, regardless of the "types" of workouts you do.

If you want to do 10 pushups, great. But don't think they will magically make you drop weight. That happens through a long term, sustained calorie deficit. Do whatever exercises you want to do.

And the timing of eating breakfast, no matter before or after your workout, has no effect on your metabolism, so disregard that as well. Meal timing has been repeatedly proven to have no real effect on the boosting of metabolism.

Eat less, move more, stay consistent. That's all. It's not always easy, but the formula is simple, and it works! Good luck!

@yhealthy2000 ontheregimen.com

@AllOutof_Bubblegum www.exrx.net

Thanks for the helpful links Ladies!