How can u lose like 20 lbs withot it taking 3 years?

Question

it also has to be free

Answer 1

First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.


On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount 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

I just lost 23 lbs. on Nutrisytem, but it was too expensive. So I cancelled it and now I am continuing to lose weight by eating 5 to 6 very small meals a day, and walking for 20 minutes after any 2 of the meals. I also stop eating 2 hours before I go to bed, and drink lots of water.

Answer 3

Exercise that pushes your heart rate closest to your targeted heart rate is the most suitable exercise to get rid of fat. You should exercise with sufficient intensity to raise your pulse rate, which in turn speeds up the fat loss process. The exercises that bring your heart rate close to your targeted heart rate will boost your metabolism, which will lead to fat loss.Besides, making you look better, weight loss offers hosts of other health benefits. When you reduce 10-15% of your weight, your chances of suffering from heart attack, diabetes as well as cholesterol levels go down. Hence if you are thinking of getting started, the best time to get started is now.Commitment is the most crucial factor to get any exercise program started.

Do cardio exercises for 30-60 minutes at least 3-4 times per week. Regularly working out for a month will increase your energy levels, improve your mood and reduce your waist size. Commitment will also help you to choose the best exercise that will aid your fat loss.Vary your exercise routine. This will make your workout exciting, thus increasing your motivation. Choose any exercise to burn fat. The most popular types of exercises are running, walking, hiking, playing basketball etc. But ensure that you do this chosen activity with enough intensity to raise your heart rate. You can also choose a combination of two or more activities.

Answer 4

Just revel in lifestyles! Get out and opt for walks, motorcycle rides, and so forth. consume house cooking rather of speedy meals, and do not fear approximately loosing weight, you're nonetheless developing and can want that weight till you're performed developing (and at five'one million I consider you are going to develop a minimum of a couple of extra inches). I'm 24 and whilst I used to be your age I used to be somewhat obese. Within a few years I slimmed down, and from then on I've been (and nonetheless am) an excessively good-looking muscular guy with a good built healthful frame and I certainly not consider approximately what I consume or how a lot I undertaking, and so forth! :D I guess you that if you do not attempt to unfastened any weight, consume up to your frame tells you to and revel in your lifestyles, you are going to be an stunning good built skinny lovely healthful girl! Just feel in your self, revel in your younger age, and revel in your lifestyles, when you consider that you handiest are living as soon as! ;)

Answer 5

This is free but you will still have to go to the grocer every week to buy food as usual. But you might be spending less.

Here's the idea;

Large breakfast

Large lunch

Very small dinner; soup & salad

Drink large amounts of water and juice in between meals.

Answer 6

Have you seen even one instance of this EXACT same question asked here every single day? Why do you think you are going to get a different answer than all those other people?

Answer 7

Go to this place called cuvers.I lost 30 IBs in 6 months

Answer 8

Weight watchers

Answer 9

the answer is Atkin diet

i have tried many but this one work with me very well
and as you know it is mostly about carbo fasting

Answer 10

dun eat so much.......jus think about the hungry children of Africa....n the millions of children in other parts of the world who went hungry everyday.