Q: Hi, I seriously do not have enough spare cash to spend on any machines or weights. I repeat: I cannot buy any weights. I don't have access to a gym either. I weigh 230 lbs, am 15, and I really wan't to get down to at least 180 by the time I graduate. Please help, because I have no clue how to effectively lose weight without weights or other devices.

A: If you absolutely cannot get weights, then you'll have to have a good diet and use your own bodyweight to do resistance exercise. Losing 50 pounds in 3 years should absolutely not be a problem -- that's only 1.5 pounds per month which is both very doable and a very heathy fat-loss pace. For the diet, I think I've already gave you all the directions I could. For training, since you don't have equipment, you'd want to follow the no-equipment weighttraining program 4 times per week (or even more often if you want). The only thing I ask you to find is a pullup bar. It could even be a tree branch -- just anything from which you can hang. Do your best with these exercises. With pullups if you can only do 1 or 2 (or even none), just do the best your can with partial pullups. Same with pushups. If pushups become too easy (you can do over 20 in a row easily), starting placing your hands closer and closer together -- that makes them harder. I hope that helps, feel free to post follow-up questions as they come up.