Whats the best way to lose 30 pounds in 5 months?

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

Probably the same way I lost 30 pounds in 2 months, Shapeworks

Answer 3

Cut out all pop. No diet pop either. Do 2 minutes of situps several times a day. When you wake in the morn., while watching t.v., before bed. Walk instead or drive. Listen to music while cleaning and dance. Music usually makes you want to move faster and burn more calories. Eat cereal, wheaties, oatmeal, instead of biscuit and gravy, bacon, egg. Eat fruit. Low calories all the way. Stay away from high fat foods. Jog. Drink water, gatorade and milk. Do not take diet pills.

Answer 4

Yes. Drink tons of water continually. Do aerobic figure out in empty belly, however ensure you drink water. Eat culmination and greens five instances an afternoon if you'll be able to. Try to get protein from Soy. or Baked fish, Chicken, Turkey is OK.

Answer 5

If you are not already on one, switch to a sensible diet, one that includes lots of fruits and veggies. Use small plates for your food (smaller portions will look big on a small plate). Don't eat before going to bed and if you feel hungry, drink a glass of water, but drink at least eight glasses of water every day.
Exercise regularly - walk, swim, run, ride a bicycle ...

Answer 6

If you want to loose weight and not to gain again. You must plan a log term exercise program. For example 1 or 2 years

Answer 7

That is only 6 lbs. per month!!!
Cut sugar, white flour & anything high in carbs.
Excercise 5 days per week, drink a lot of water. Stay away from alcohol, fruit juices & regular sodas. If you need sugar, use SPLENDA!!!!

Answer 8

>> Cut down what your calories, for snacks eat fruits instead of junk food. Eat a lot of fruits/vagetables. Cut down on junk food/fast food. Drink water or juice instead of pop/soda.

>>Exercise.

healthy diet + exercise = healthy body

and DO NOT starve yourself, otherwise you'll get it all right back once you start eating normally, plus the body will slow itself down so you wont be losing much weight.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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