What are some simple ways to lose alot of weight fast?

Question

any ideas?

Answer 1

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 2

If I knew that I'd sell it. Try shaving just 10% of your caloric intake every day. For example, at each meal, only eat 90% of what you usually eat. Eat smaller, more frequent meals. It's not a big change in your lifestyle, but it adds up quickly. If you usually eat 2000 calories a day, then you've shaved off 200 calories each day, or 1400 calories in a week. That's like jogging about 10 miles. The average person has to walk about 45 minutes or almost 2 miles to burn off the calories of one can of soda, which is also around 200 calories. Eat fruit and drink water instead of drinking juice. Watch out for foods labeled as low or no fat because they are often full of sugar. After 2 weeks shave off another 10% of your calories, or increase your exercise by 200 calories a day. Whatever changes you make, do them gradually so that you will change the way you live and the loss will be permanent. Remember it took time to put the weight on, and it'll take time to take it off.

Answer 3

I used a plan called Shapeworks to lose 95 lbs in 8 months. It was a simple plan and it works, I have kept the weight off for over 4 years now. Here is where I found it on the internet: www.loseweightnow.com/tfward

Answer 4

Fast? If you want to do it in a healthy way. Try a low-fat, low calorie diet (avg. female 1500, avg male 2000). Exercise. Jogging, swimming, calisthenics. Be careful with the 'fad' diets. South Beach is okay, but may be hard for some. Atkins is very unhealthy. People do loose weight with it, but it is very unhealthy to stop eating carbs. Carbs are the best source for energy. Keep a calorie and fat count. Write out every thing you eat for a day or two, then look up the calories and fat grams, then add up the total for each day. If its a lot, make goals to reach. Such as smaller portions of dessert, low-cal, low fat foods, less junk food snacks. Exercise at least 3X's a week for at least 30min each session. When you exercise make goals. (If you don't exercise much, you may be sore the first couple times. Its normal, means you got a good workout.) For example, running. Try a mile. Walk for a few min. then run for a few. Each time do more running than walking, until you are eventually able to run the whole mile. With time, work your way up to longer distances. Time yourself with each run. For example make a goal to run 3miles in 22 min.

Answer 5

Define "a lot of weight" and "fast."

My wife had wonderful success on Adkins and lost 60 pounds in 6 months. That's a lot, and fast, by most standards.

The more you have to lose, the easier it is to get rid of it - the key is NOT provoking the body's starvation response. Fasting may help you get rid of a bit of weight initially, but your body will immediately go into "starvation mode" and insist on extracting every available calorie from future food and pushing it into the fat cells - because if food is scarce, you can't afford to lose what you've got!!!

Proper diet (replacing all high-sugar/carb snacks with low-cal substitutes) and excercise is the HEALTHIEST way to lose weight.

Answer 6

If you have incredible willpower, you can simply eat very few calories. For people that have tried that and failed, the most promising methods are:

Without drugs: High protein diet (like Dr. Atkins)

With Drugs: Most sucessful have been Phentermine and Topamax (Xenical is effective, but usually rejected by dieters because of unpleasant side effects which we wont go into here).

PS: Exercise should be added to the diet to keep the weight coming off fat cells instead of muscle cells (for a number of reasons -- one of which is that muscle cells consume more calories than fat). When you first start execising, don't be discouraged by a small jump in weight -- it's just your muscle cells rebuilding. In a few days the weight will go away and you will be in position to loose weight faster than before.

Answer 7

go 20 mph on your bike for 6 1 2 minutes

Answer 8

just cut back a little on your food intake, start cutting away some snack, soda, and carbs, little things goes a long way and then cut even more as time goes on. and of course a little running wouldnt help. change your self only to make your self happy not other people...always remember that i had to find out the hard way.

Answer 9

Fasting works, also cleans out the system... drink only water and lemon for 3 days... exercise...

After the 3 days, drink 8 glasses of water a day, this is so healthy for you, and exercise, stay away from fast foods, eat healthy...

Answer 10

It depends on what you mean by fast. I've lost 32 pounds in 69 days by using the Stack Body Tune Up.

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