I am 15 and am overweight and I want to lose fat and build muscle. So is it ok to do a fat loss workout alongside a strength/bodybuilding workout?
Adding more muscle tissue actually helps to burn more fat so the two workouts do work together.
Check out this article for more info: http://burnmybellyfat.com/belly-fat-burning-workouts.html
What can be the affects of it?
Beside the fact that it increases your appetitie, what else can lack of sleep do to weight loss?
Here's a pertinent article that I wrote a year or so ago; it's short and sweet!
The Strong Connection Between Your Snooze Time
and Your Waistline
True Story: Many years ago in my college days, I went home for the holiday break. I didn’t really watch what I was eating, nor did I exercise. I still drank alcohol a few nights a week as well. After my 4 weeks of fun I was back at the university, and all of a sudden my 3 roommates are begging me to tell them how I lost weight. Lost weight?? I did?? To my surprise, I realized I did look slimmer than before and my clothes were a bit loose. I had no idea how that had happened. Then it hit me: the only real change I’d made (although unwittingly) was getting a full 8-9 hours of zzz’s a night at fairly constant times, when previously I most certainly had not been. (Let me put it this way; a nickname I had in college was “Vampire” because I had such a ridiculously erratic sleep schedule.) So as you may guess, I am now a firm believer in how important sleep is in regards to maintaining a healthy weight, as well as in regards to weight loss.
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms that inadequate sleep promotes overeating and weight gain. As more studies are being done, more information is gathered to support and explain this occurrence.
Sleep deprivation often has a staggering effect on hormones related to appetite and satiety. Levels of leptin, a hormone that suppresses the appetite, are reduced, while the levels of ghrelin, the appetite-stimulant hormone, are elevated. Therefore, these two hormones can not accurately signal calorie need. A recent study done at the University of Chicago restricted a group’s sleep time for a couple days. Not only did their appetites increase substantially in proportion to the lack of sleep, but their desire for high-carbohydrate, high-density foods increased by a whopping 45%.
Sleep loss appears to also have a significant effect on the hypothalamic pituitary system and the autonomic nervous system. These changes then affect glucose metabolism and insulin resistance, which are both often a definitive step in the direction of type II diabetes and obesity. Furthermore, cutting short your zzz’s alters your growth hormone secretion pattern, reduces your thyroid-stimulating hormone levels, increases evening cortisol levels, increases sympathetic activity, and decreases parasympathetic activity, all of which negatively affect proper glucose metabolism.
If getting enough sleep isn’t nearly as easy as it sounds on paper, or if you think you may have a sleep disorder, make an appointment with your physician so that you can get on the right path to getting a great snooze.
I am going to try and lost weight. I weigh 180 pounds and I'm only 13. I am so sick of being called the "fat kid". It really hurts my feelings. I want to lose enough weight to be thin by the beginning of the new school year (beginning of September). If I eat approximately 1,200 calories a day, how many calories will I lose by doing 120 minutes of intense cardio a day? Tell me the amount of weight loss in a week. Thanks!
120 minutes of intensely vigorous cardio should burn about 1,360 calories.
Lets say: that during the day you burn the same amount of calories that you eat ( 1,200 )
Then each day; you burn 1,360 more calories than you take in.
3,500 calories = 1 lbs
Meaning; You Would Lose 2.72 lbs Every Week On This Diet Plan 
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