how to lose weight?

Question

is it possible to lose 6 pounds in three weeks?

i'm scared because my mom said that everyone in her family plumped up and lost it all in a year without do anything except going out to work. it's heterditory. (sorry for the spelling). i'm starting to gain weight and my clothes do not look good on me anymore.

can i still lose weight in three weeks? i have homecoming coming up.. i don't want my dress looking funky! what's the best diet plan?

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

You can easily look 6 pounds in three weeks. I lost 10 lbs in two weeks. Just cut back your food intake a little bit, or make healthier choices. Don't cut back too dramatically unless you are really overeating, you don't want your body to go into starvation mode. I get in some exercise. Walking, running, swimming, cardio machines. Whatever you can afford. 30 -60 minutes a day, 4-5 five times a week.

Answer 3

the best thing to do is

eat healthy (3 meals a day but nautral foods & stuff like fruits, vegetables, and special K)
* note: don't eat just one thing because if you eat any of these things in overdose they can make you gain weight

eat proportionately... don't fill yourself up. eat one serving of things and get a smaller plate so you thikn you're eating more

drink a lot of water.. it fills you up instead of eating

and work out... running or an elliptical are the best things to do every day for about a half hour to an hour

Answer 4

F^$#^%$ YEA

i lost 8 pnds in one day once
i think by drinkin 14 cups o water

DO THIS TO LOSe wEIGHT FAST!!!

drink one cup of DISTILLED water as soon AS you wake up

AND!!!

drink 12, or 14 cups throughout the day not all at the same time

Answer 5

i know if the rest of your family is big then it is probably hereditary...the best thing to do is to really cut out the fat calories and to get all the exercise you can....you have to make this your life style not just for awhile...and as you get older then it is harder to get off the pounds....i tell you the truth i use to have a eating disorder but i am over that now....but i live on fruit and veggies...and i still have trouble getting to where i want to be...but i am older now...i eat very little meat and i use not to eat any...but sometimes we have to splurge once in a while if someone offers us something tempting to eat....but basically get all the exercise you can...and i do not think the diet plans work...i have took fat burners and they just make you more nervous than anything....i hope i have helped some anyway...i do not think you should go to extreme like i did being anorexic and starving yourself...it is not worth all that....and being bulimic or anorexic can kill you...so just watch the calories you take in and try and burn them off...

Answer 6

As long as you take in less calories than you burn, you WILL lose weight! Cut your calories, exercise daily (hard enough to break a sweat) and drink plenty of water!

Answer 7

Find the right diet for your individual body because there are many ways are there to lose weight just find what works for you

Answer 8

Sleeping will effect your blody weight so get enough sleep to looss your weight

Answer 9

Good carbs like celery and carrots will never make you fat. Bad carbs like cake will, but you don't need to know the whole science of glycemic index and load. It is mostly NOT your fault, if you need to lose weight. The way we have been taught to eat is responsible for making obesity the number one health problem in the world (according to Atlantic Monthly magazine) replacing hunger and infectious disease. You need to re-learn how to eat so you can become thin. Not a diet, but diet lifestyle.

Find out about fastest way to lose weight, gradual ways to lose weight, most effective exercise, good and bad carbs and anti-water. Lose bodyfat and retained water which also makes you a lot fatter (bloated). Links page has gov. BMI calculater to find out just how much overweight you are (teens plug in your age to compare to others your age). Get latest info like American Heart Association does not want you to eat more than 6 ounces daily of meat, fish or poultry. Most important-- make sure to read the last "fat loss tip", first before anything else, to see the number one food that causes Americans to be fat.

Diets do not work. 99% of people gain the weight back. Here is how it works. No one teaches the animal what to eat and what not to eat. He knows instinctively what to eat. Humans also have the same instinct. The way it works is just eat whatever tastes good and that will be healthy for you and non-fattening. That is why a baby tastes everything. So again whatever tastes good, is good for you. This is why you will spit out spoiled milk.

But wait!!! Man has the technology to create rat poison. It tastes like healthy food (good taste) but kills the rat. So man has done that to you. Note- any food unaltered by man (uncooked) that tastes good, is good for you. So if you are stranded in the woods, that is how you know what to eat (cooking changes that). So man has created fake fruit. It tastes like fruit that exists in nature but it is terrrible for health, addictive and fattening called sweets.

So it is natural to like real sweets called fruit, like a baby does, but they have fooled you just like the rat. But they do not want to kill you. They want you to become obese so you will buy lots of their foods. This is called GOOD BUSINESS. Remember the above (not on site) and see site below to re-learn how to eat so you can be thin and fit for life.

http://phifoundation.org

Answer 10

To know how much calories you have to eat just add zero to your weight