Effective Exercise For Losing Weight Quickly?
by Nazish
Nice to read your articles regarding health, i work from 9 to 6 and don't get much time to do exercise. Also i need to lose weight from Hip, waist stomach abs and chest area. You can say i want to lose all over weight. My height is 4 feet 9 inch and weight is around 110 pounds, which is over weight for my height. Kindly recommend me some good and effective exercises which i can do 15 to 20 minutes daily and can loose weight effectively. Also recommend me any healthy and effective Chinese medicine to loose weight. I live and work in shanghai, i can buy from shanghai. Also please tell me if playing badminton can help me lose weight and how much calories one can burn while playing badminton. Please reply for my questions. Matthew's reply: Hi Nazish, there is no quick, healthy way to lose weight and keep it off. It requires the right diet for your body type, the right regular exercise and time. There is no safe weight loss medicine that helps you lose weight quickly. Chinese medicine can help but the best way is to get an individualized prescription from a professional herbalist - not some bottle of weight loss pills from a store. If you have 15-20 minutes a day use it to do some kind of exercise that will increase your heart rate so that you can burn off excess weight. Pick an exercise that you ENJOY - very important or you will not stick with it. Even do a few different ones like using a treadmill or exercise bike at a gym, or running up stairs somewhere, or jumping rope. Up to you. There are some exercises in the Abdominals section of this site, like the Ab Lift, that you can do as well. Badminton can give you a good workout especially if you play singles and in the heat of the Shanghai summer. If you like badminton then by all means play it. I do not know how many calories it will burn, sorry. Diet-wise it depends on your body type and specific needs. Generally, you should avoid stodgy foods like white bread, pizza and excess pasta and white rice. These foods tend to add to any excess weight around your waist. I recommend traditional Chinese dietary advice for most people. You can get some general tips from my Chinese Diet report which is on this page. For specific dietary advice and if you are interested in taking Chinese herbal medicine to address any digestive imbalances contributing to your excess weight, I suggest you see a Chinese medicine doctor in Shanghai. Also, there are a number of other postings in the Abdominals forum that are related to losing weight. All the best, Matthew |