Reduce body fat?!
Question: What is the best, healthy way for a woman to reduce body fat %?
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aerobic exercise, cut back on your portions, a little weight lifting, not heavy weights, light weights with more repetitions. stop drinking beer if you do that. and sodas. remember its not about weight its about the fat %.
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Increase your intake of Protein and reduce that of Carbohydrate. Regular exercise of at least 45 minutes on alternate day which may include cycling, swimming, running and wait lifting. Keep yourself moving during day time i.e. don't keep on seating at one place for longer. Balance diet will also help in reducing body fat %.
Here is a support group called OA for eatting problems.
This is what one person said about there experience:
Twenty-One and Afraid
As a youth, I didn't believe I could trust anyone. Yet, the secrets that haunted the corners of my mind were destroying my life and making me crazy. I knew that I was very close to ending my life. If I didn't end it myself, I knew that my disease of compulsive eating and purging would end it for me.
I grew up in an alcoholic home and was molested many times by "family friends." Being the quiet good girl of the family, I never told a soul. I started withdrawing and soon became the world's greatest chameleon. I could put on any mask.
Food was the only thing over which I had power. When I was angry or hurt, I would smile sweetly and act as if everything were fine. Then I would go off by myself to binge and purge until I felt good again. However, this good feeling was only temporary. Soon the disease overtook my body and soul, leaving nothing of the real me. I hated everyone around me. I was dead inside.
Then, at the age of 21, I stumbled into a Twelve-Step meeting. Thank God! My life has never been the same since. Working the Steps stripped away the dead layers and brought alive the person I had buried.
The last several years have been full of learning, growing and forgiving. Finally, I can look into the mirror and like what I see.
I live the Twelve Steps. I am not perfect, but I work hard. I have had my ups and downs, but when I entered this program, it was like leaving a prison and walking through heaven's gate. For me, there is no turning back.
Life is so precious and dear to me today. I spent so many years numbing the pain. Now I have an entire childhood to catch up on — so much to feel, so many hearts to touch, so much left to experience.
I am grateful for who and what I am. I owe my life to God and to the Twelve Steps. I could have died. Instead, I am thriving. The gift of recovery is a beautiful, life-long journey without end.
— Reprinted from Lifeline, March 1998, p. 9
Source(s):
http://www.oa.org
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