How can I lose 20 lbs by Dec 19th?

Question

I run 3 miles a night and do 100 pushups and 100 crunches when I wake up each mourning plus I stopped eating anything past 3 pm and this originally helped me to lose 80 pounds but I platuoed and recently started putting on weight I fear its only gonna get worse because of the hollidays. but I absolutely have to lose 20 lbs before the dead line because I ship out to boot camp on that date

Answer 1

Keep doing what you are doing but keep a food journal to find out where your weight gain is coming from. Keep in mind the following in order to keep the weight off:

Diets and changing your eating to healthy food choices can work but because we know so little about ourselves and our relationship with food, it makes it difficult to win the battle. A lot of us have problems with dieting because we have a problem called "emotional eating" we eat to comfort ourselves during difficult, stressful, sad, etc times in our lives.

You may experience all those emotions during dieting as we continuously get on the scale hoping to see a big difference in numbers after dieting only for a day or two. Also what is stressful when dieting is that we try to lose a large number of weight in such a short period of time which in most cases is unreasonable.

This all brings about stress, discomfort and sadness. When we feel this way, we turn to our best friend for help and support which for many of us is food. The diet is now broken and we feel that we can't stick to diets. We then try fad diet after fad diet hoping to lose the original 20 pounds and now we may have as much as 30 pounds to lose because we continue to put on weight as we continue to break these fad diets by binging before starting our next diet.

Please learn about your relationship with food before your next diet so that you may achieve your goals. To help a little, keep in mind the following:

You already know how to lose weight. You know that if you eat less and exercise more eventually you’ll see the pounds come off. What’s getting in your way? Why do you usually regain the weight you lost? The answer to all these questions is the same “Emotional Eating.” Simply defined, emotional eating means you eat to satisfy emotional hunger; it means you use food for comfort or as a way to cope with life; and it means you eat for reasons other than what your body needs. Whenever you reach for a boredom-breaking snack despite your commitment, or whenever you eat to quell anxiety, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you binge after a fight, or double up on portions because your day turned sour, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you feel that sharp craving for your favorite food, that’s emotional eating. When we eat during these times while on a diet, we believe the diet doesn’t work or that we lack self control and then look for the quickest way to lose weight (fasting/diet pills, ect) after eating all we can since we already messed the diet day up. Read the information below but remember that emotional eating plays a big part in why we don’t continue dieting and why we regain lost weight and why we binge today and start a new diet tomorrow. Best of Luck.

P.S. After learning about my relationship with food, I was able to drop my weight from 263 pounds down to 151 pounds which is a 112 pound weight lost.

Answer 2

I can give you the answer, but it is up to you to follow this program to a tee to accomplish your goals before you go to Iraq.......I mean bootcamp.

First, the only exercise you will do until you ship out is cardio, lots of cardio. I once weighed 280 lbs. until new years day 05 I decided I had enough. All of this conflicting information that so-called experts put out is confusing as hell, so I made my own plan, and it worked, four months in a row. I did 2 hours of cardio a day on an elliptical machine. Now don't let this number scare you. I did an hour in the morning broken up into two thirty minute sessions with a 10-15 minute break in between. I went home and came back in the afternoon/evening and did the same thing. Have an Ipod or portable dvd player as this will make the time go by quicker. But don't go for a leisurely stroll, if you want to burn the maximum amount of fat, you gotta sweat. Look up your target heart rate and try to keep it in that range when u are doing cardio. Most cardio machines have a heart rate monitor built in. Now do NOT do any weight training at all!!! No pushups, no nothing! CARDIO is the only goal here. Then when you get down to your desired weight, then introduce weights into your plans. Now the workout is only fifty percent of the solution. My diet during these four months, which by the way, each month from January thru April I averaged 20.3 lbs. weight loss a month. And I also monitored my bodyfat percentage during this time which dropped an average of 4% percent per month. Now you have exactly a little over a month, so listen up. I ate NOTHING BUT cereal during this time. That's Right, a high carb diet of nothing but cereal. I started just eating special k but branched out to whatever type of cereal I liked from golden grahams to captain crunch. I suggest three bowls a day. Now believe it or not, but I took every weekend off (sat and sun) from MY DIET, not my cardio, and I ate whatever I wanted. By Monday, it appeared as if I gained a little weight over the weekend but it was from water weight as I tend to drink a hell of a lot more liquids during the weekend. But by midweek my weight would be back on track and by the end of the week I would have dropped more weight. Try to drink only water or diet sodas. But this is what worked for me then, and I am still sportin that awesome success now starting on weights. So good luck and wish you the best.

Answer 3

One of the essential matters you ought to do in seeking to drop some pounds is to get in a healthy eating plan and keep it up. You ought to manipulate now not best what you devour however the quantities. Use your down time, non paintings time, to be lively alternatively than watch T.V. You additionally have got to set functional objectives in steps alternatively than anticipating a difference in a single day. Find a nutrition that works for you. When you devour the primary serving of a meal deliver your self a while to permit your frame to let you know if you want extra, if this is the case then get a moment serving however smaller one. You would possibly wish to additionally don't forget seeing a medical professional as there could also be an underlying scientific hindrance that's inflicting you to keep to drop some pounds.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

You might think about trying this book called "The Movie Star Diet" by Steve Simmons. It helped me lose thirty pounds in 2 1/2 months when I didn't think anything would work. My goal to begin with was only 20 lbs! It has a really easy plan to follow and an excellent workout as well.

Answer 6

The book "You and Your Diet" by Dr. Oz might really help...they talked about it on Oprah and just from watching that I learned a lot so I can image how good the book is...

Answer 7

Mix up your workout routine, the exercises you listed focus on muscle developement and endurance. Try more cardiovascular exercises that focus on burning energy, such as sprints, swimming, kickboxing....etc. Also, switch your diet up, focus on high fiber foods, and stay hydrated. Good luck at boot camp, and thank-you for protecting our country.

Answer 8

Try cutting things from your diet. I have a friend who stopped drinking Dr.Pepper which she drank alot of daily, she lost 10 lbs in one month.

Answer 9

go on a soda diet... trust me it works no soda or cafine....