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From Aryana, Age 15

Ht. 5'11", Start: 200 lb, Today: 195 lb, Goal: 145 lb - Ok,so I'm trying to lose weight. One main reason is because diabetes is throughout my family and I could catch it anytime, but luckily even with my weight where it is now...I have yet to get it. I can't remember the healthy girl I was 5 years ago, because I'm no longer as active. Basically, I need some help. Quite a while ago my mother passed on, and she was the cook in the house. Then after that my father started buying me fast food...and more fast food...and more. I was getting hooked, and i didnt know it. I was drinking coca cola, and not any water. I quite cheerleading, soccer, basketball, everything that was important to me before my mom died wasnt anymore...and I hadnt known I had a problem before it was to late. So now I have switched from drinking coca cola to coca cola zero, and even now I'm trying to give up that to drink water, and more healthy drinks instead of soft drinks. I've stopped eating fast foods, demanding that my father stop buying it and I'm going to the grocery store for better meals in a few days. Though I want to know what would be good things to buy, what would be good workouts and what to definetly stay away from, that I don't know about yet. I've lost five pounds on my own, but that was from excessive working out but the weight comes back on from 200, to 195 and then to 197 and then back up again...I can't seem to get back down to 180, or even to 190..I want to be able to reach 185 by october, then by December I want to reach 175, and then by march i want to reach 165...and then finally by June I want to reach 145. It's a healthy weight, and I need to lose this weight for MORE than just being healthy, more than just staying away from diabetes. I need it because I need money for college, something that i think about daily. And to do so, if I lose this weight, a local mall would allow me to model for very good pay, but to be able to I have to lose the weight. They say I have the look, and that if I could lose the weight I could be a model. However I would only be a model to gain money for college...and that's what I need...more than ever. College is my main goal in life, to graduate with a Phd in Psychology and start to help people...but to do that I need help myself. So, what's some good, healthy ways to lose the weight i need to?