I need to loose like 30 pounds in a month what can i do?

Answer 1

Your goal is a bit too ambitious... though you might find some who will tell you otherwise. Here are some aggressive but realistic suggestions for losing 8-10 lbs in a month.


On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common question amounts to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

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 need to be realistic. No one can safely lose and keep off 30 pounds in a month without major surgery or being very ill. It is thought that to safely lose weight a half to 1 pound a week is acceptable. When people lose more when starting a diet it is usually water weight.

So buy a bigger outfit and fix your hair and make-up, put on a smile and enjoy yourself as is. Start a good exercise program, start a "sensible" food plan and you can lose those 30 pound over the next year and you'll be able to keep them off.

Sorry to disappoint you, but I'd like to see you take a healthy approach to losing that weight so it will stay off and you will stay healthy.

As an aside, I once lost 7 pounds in a week, not because I meant to, and kept losing weight, due to a health problem. Not a good way to go. Not only did I look like a refugee from a starving country my energy level dropped and my emotions were in havoc. So take it from me - slow and steady, slow and steady.

Good luck and remember -your weight is not what is so important (unless it is causing health problems). The way YOU view yourself is what is important and I am sure you are a beautiful person so let that beauty show through at any size!

Answer 3

Okay, I can't promise 30 pounds, but you will lose quite a bit. 30 pounds in a month is dangerous anyway. Okay, if you like oatmeal, have a bowl in the morning, with just milk in it. Then drink 2 glasses of water. For lunch, a salad, and an ice tea, & 2 glasses of water. For dinner, a larger salad with whatever dressing you use and a few crackers if you wish, and 2 glasses of water.During the day, in "between" each of these meals, drink at "least"
2 glasses of water. Walk for 2 to 3 miles per day, every day for 30 days. I "do" promise you'll lose quite a bit, and get or stay firm at the same time. Good luck

Answer 4

Loose is sort of a knot. Lose is the reverse of obtain. Try jogging - situps and push-ups. Don't make unreasonable pursuits for your self, or feel should you lose 30 kilos in a month it is going to keep off. Change your tradition to hold off weight. You want a greater vitamin and excercise. Drink tons of water and reduce out fats consumption. Don't feel through preventing consuming you're going to reduce weight - you inform your frame to enter shop the fats mode- because it see's no different vigor coming again into your frame - accordingly slowing down your metabolism. There are not any fast fixes in replacing your lifestyles for the greater in a most important method. Learn to make convenient alterations you'll persist with without end.

Answer 5

Losing 30 lbs in one month is very dangerous for your health, I would not recommend doing any of the crash diets that are around. On average, healthy weightloss ranges from 0.5lbs-2lbs a week. So on your best, you should lose only about 8lbs a month. That's healthy weight loss, and it'll stay off that way.

Just incorporate more fruits and vegetables, healthy grains, dairy products, and water into your daily diet. Exercise for at least 30 minutes a day, and you will see yourself transform over time. It takes patience and you will see success!!

Answer 6

It is impossible to loss that much weight in one month, the healthy way.
Start eating healthy and exercising on a regular basis. You may not loose 30 lbs but you will loose some weight.

Answer 7

Thirty pounds in a month? That's tough, you could get an arm removed maybe.
Really, unless you weigh about 400 pounds, I don't think you should lose that much weight in that short period of time. Quickest results I've found though, is to remove all 'bad' carbs. ie no sweets, no white, or enriched bread, no potatoes, no rice. If it has carbs, make sure it has lots of fiber. And when you eat carbs, eat them with protein. At the same time, don't go eating nothing but bacon. Watch your sat. fat intake.

Answer 8

Raff is wrong. Even stomach stapling will not give you that much weight loss in a month.

Thirty pounds in a month is too much and is not healthy.

Half that much is an aggressive, but doable, goal.

Cut you caloric intake to 1000 cals per day and exercise. No cheating.

Good luck.

Answer 9

30 pounds in a month is insanely unhealthy especially without proper supervision of a nutritionist and personal trainer. The last place you should be seeking advice on this subject is Yahoo Answers. See you general practioner for advice on a strategy for you to lose weight over a safe period of time.

Answer 10

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