Can you tell me how ot lose 10lbs fast?

Question

I really need to lose 10lbs in 2 or 3 weeks.

Thanks

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.


Aloha

Answer 2

I have done this program several times and it always works.

Drinks tons of water!!! No juice or soda! You can have black coffee if you need it.

Breakfast - 3 egg white w/ spinach or brocolli
AM Snack - Low Calroie Protein Shake
Lunch - Chicken breast and 1 cup of green vegetable or salad with chicken breast and light clear dressing
PM Snack - Low Calorie Protein Shake
Dinner - Fish and 1/2 sweet potato (no butter)

You can switch the chicken and fish (have fish for lunch and chicken for dinner), but don't switch the veggies and sweet potato. You can also have a single serving of cottage cheese in place of the protein shakes if you choose.

Excercise - You will need to do 1hr of cardio at least 5 days a week. You can choose fast walking, running, jumping rope, kick boxing aerobics, or an excercise video. If you have a gym membership, circuit training will yeild the best results. Just remember, the higher the intensity and the more you excercise (adding time or more days), the better your results will be.

I got this routine from a perfessional woman bodybuilder who trains fitness contestants. She helped me drop 10lbs and several inches before a trip to Maui. This diet is a good long term program if you can stick to it. The idea is to build muscle with the excercise and increased protein intake because muscle burns fat. By eating so much protein, your body begins to increase it's metabolism naturally (no supplements) and will burn fat even when your not working out.

Good luck! Hope this plans helps!

Answer 3

The atkins diet is extremely hard to do even though in Dr. Atkins book he claims it is easy. Besides crash dieting which I wouldn't reccomend, the atkins diet does work very fast but you have to follow it to an absolute T. I mean NO CHEATING. For two weeks during the "induction phase" you are to eat nothing but meat, poultry and fish. (no breading on the chicken or fish!!!) You can also eat some vegetables and almost all cheese. It gets really boring fast. Bacon cheese and egg omelets sound appealing but they get old after a few days and you start wanting a pancake for breakfast!
My advice is to research the Atkins diet and see if it is something that you could do. It DOES work but it's hard!
Good Luck

Answer 4

Losing weight in one week

Losing weight is difficult. But here I am introducing you some tips to lose a small amount of weight in a healthy that that is also within a week.

Steps to losing weight fast


* Get a set of small hand weights, 3, 5 or 8 lbs.

* Do five to ten minutes of weight lifting for a half an hour after each meal. Lie on your back and slowly lift yourself up with weights in each hand. Do this daily for the full seven days.

* Before or after you take a bath or a shower each day, do five minutes of jogging in place, your weights in hand.

* Do not eat greasy foods. Drink only water and fruit juice. Eat a portion of vegetables at every meal.

* In the morning try to eat fruit. Do NOT dump heaps of sugar on your cereal.

* Follow this regimen for seven days and you will see results.

* Take time to cook, Make food look appealing; don't be afraid to try new things. If you're not sure how to prepare or eat things you can go on an online search engine (such as google) and look how recipes and how to eat things.

* It is a shown fact that one of the "weight loss tips" is not true, many of us believe that if we eat late at night the food turns directly into fat. This is only a myth, food is stored all day into fat, it has nothing to do with time. Make sure you eat a lot of protein, this is important because if you don't have enough protein in your diet you will lose muscle and not fat.(Muscle will be burned but not as much).And finally have fun with it! Make up a dance or jump rope to music, getting active doesn’t mean boot camp!


Quick tips


* Eat plenty of vegetables with each meal.

* Drink plenty of water

* Before buying any food, look for carbs, calories and sugar in the ingredients. You'll want to cut down on all three.

Answer 5

Water

Answer 6

The Best Exercises To Lose Weight
http://weightloss-tips-guide.blogspot.com/2006/09/best-exercises-to-lose-weight.html


Helpful Tips to lose weight
http://weightloss-tips-guide.blogspot.com/2006/09/helpful-tips-to-lose-weight.html

Answer 7

Only by ruining muscle tissue and dehydrating yourself. And eventually you will gain it all back in fat. Choose to be a healthy person. Eat well, exercise and expect to lose 1-2 pounds a week. Be the person that loves and cares for you!!

Answer 8

Check out Eat to live by Dr Joel Fuhrman. Your goal is attainable.Follow his recommendations and you can eat healthier than any of those trendy diets and lose weight quickly without being hungry .Eat the way humans were meant to eat.

Answer 9

Drink Alfalfa Tea.

Answer 10

drink water water water and exercise for an hour a day, eat nothing but fruits and veggies the entire time....nothing else, i'm serious, no sodas or juices no peanuts no nothing that's not a fresh vegetable or fruit or water
goodluck girl!