how I can loose 40 pounds in 4 months?

Answer 1

Let's start by clarifying a couple of things:
1. weight is not the best indicator of your health (because muscle weighs more than fat, two people of the same height can weigh the same and be drastically different in terms of health).
2. Body fat percentage is a true indicator.
3. Fat is burned by reducing overall caloric value.
4. If you burn more than you consume, you will lose fat (lower body fat percentage)
5. If you exercise and strength train, you can burn more calories and replace fat with muscle which will allow you to burn calories even when you rest.

If you are trying to lower your body fat percentage there are literally hundreds of ideas out there. In my opinion, the best way, which has been proven time and time again, is a two part method: Eat right and exercise. First, exercise is a no-brainer. You have to burn more calories than you take in for exercise to be considered exercise. How you do it is worth another answer all to itself. So, that brings us to the Eating Right part. If you understand how your body works, you've got a head start on the world. Food is fuel for the body. Once you've accepted that concept as more important than the idea that food is entertainment, then the rest will be relatively easy. If you are American, and I assume you are, the Nutrition Facts label that you find on all foods bought in the U.S. are the next thing you need to understand. Go grab something from your kitchen (i.e. jar of peanut butter or a bag of chips...anything with a nutrition label). OK, yeah you need vitamins and minerals and all that. But focus on these three items: FAT, PROTEIN, and CARBOHYDRATES.
Let's take these one at a time:

FAT is basically divided into good fats and bad fats. The body needs good fats (mono- and poly-unsaturateds). You'll find these in stuff like olives and avocados where the bad fat is minimal if not nonexistent. The bad fats are your saturated and trans fats that you'll find in meats and oils. If you are trying to lose weight, keep these to an absolute minimum. My suggestion (based on a 1500-2000 calorie diet) is to limit yourself to no more than 15g of saturated fat per day. This is hard to do if you're used to eating fast food. It's also hard to do if you drink whole milk, eat cheese (even the 2% variety), and eat fried foods. All of these are high in bad fats. The good news is that you can substitute your diet to eat the very things you like to eat but with better ingredients. If you eat cheese, buy fat free. If you drink milk, buy skim. Slowly take yourself down from whole milk or 2% to 1% before going skim/fat free if the transition is too radical to do all at once. If you eat a lot of ground beef, use the extra lean variety (96% fat free/4% fat), or substitute lean ground turkey instead. Do whatever you have to do to get the bad fat grams down to less than 15 per day.

PROTEIN: The building block of nutrition (aside from your vitamins and minerals) is protein. You need it strengthen your muscles and it will be essential with your exercise routine. Without protein, you can't build muscle tone or lean body mass. And guess what? Just having lean body mass (muscles) allows your body to burn more calories even when you are sleeping. Therefore, you are able to lose weight (bad weight, that is) just by sleeping. But, you have to exercise!! Don't forget that. You can find foods that are high in protein but also high in saturated fat, so be careful. Stick to poultry (chicken, turkey), fish (tuna is a great source), and beans. Don't fry your meats because if you do, you just added a bunch of bad fat to your otherwise healthy protein filled meal. Instead, grill, broil, or bake. You can do this! Don't forget to exercise to exponentially reap the rewards of consuming protein.

CARBS. In my opinion, the no-carb diet is crap, because you need carbs for energy, especially because you are exercising! That's right, you can't forget you are supposed to be exercising. The trick is choosing the good carbs. You'll see on your nutrition label Total Carbohydrates and Sugars. Sugars should be kept to a minimum and should be avoided within hours of going to sleep. The calories associated with them get stored (for energy) but are not easily burned when it comes time to burn them. Therefore, it's harder to lose the weight associated with them. That's why it's not good to eat lots of candy, cookies, and ice cream that have a lot of sugar. The other kinds of carbs (complex carbohydrates) are essential. You can get these from grains and potatoes. Good stuff!!

Now that you have a brief understanding of these three nutrition components, time to get to it. Not as easy as it sounds? That's because, you're human. If you treat your body right (and I mean very right, by limiting your saturated and trans fats, limiting your sugar carbs, and eating plenty of protein), then you deserve a day when you can eat whatever you want. The body has cravings and you should be able to fulfill these cravings IF you can stand to wait until the end of the week. I call this one day of decadence your cheat day. After 12 weeks of exercising and eating right in this manner, you'll get to the point where you don't even crave the bad stuff anymore.

For more on this method, I encourage you to check out www.bodyforlife.com. The principals I wrote about are spelled out in greater detail there. Consult your doctor before drastically changing any diet or exercise routine. Good luck!

Answer 2

I've tried many diets and couldn't make anything work. Since having my first child, I've been carrying around an extra 30 pounds. This diet just made sense and showed me that everything I was doing before was wrong and a waste of my time.

The plan was so refreshing and so simple to follow. I did everything plan said and lost 23 pounds in the first three weeks. I'm now starting the diet again to lose 7 more pounds. This plan has changed my life.

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Answer 3

I PERSONALLY LOST 42 POUNDS IN 4 MONTHS

-I didn't exercise
-I didn't lift a single weight
-I didn't starve myself

!!!!!I ATE ALL THE TIME!!!!

- I WAS ALLOWED TO EAT CHOCOLATE.

I was really desperate to loose weight and was very frustrated, depressed and unmotivated.

I have to first start off by saying if you do not have any self control or self motivation, what ever eating plan or life style change you choose will fail because YOU FAILED TO STICK TO IT!!

So here's the answer THE THREE HOUR DIET. I know it sounds odd and unbelievable, but I saw this book at the book store and it guaranteed to decrease belly fat (which was my biggest problem). I was very skeptical. I had tried so many other fads from Atkins and South Beach, nothing worked, but I was determined to make something work.

It not only goes over how to eat, but why you eat. I debunks all other "FAD" diets and [with scientific evidence that is documented in the bibliography that you can verify] why the will NEVER work.

You can still eat at your favorite restaurants; you can still eat fast food, and even frozen quick to prepare and the best part YOU CAN STILL EAT CHOCOLATE.

The key words you do need to keep in mind are Caloric Intake, Portion Control and Hydration.

You can eat anything you want and loose weight, as long as your daily caloric intake is less than what you burn daily. You can eat meat and carbs and anything else you want as long as you control the portion of what you eat, and my least favorite. YOU HAVE TO DRINK WATER
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Answer 4

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Answer 5

dance dance revolution, it's a video game that is lots of fun because you are "dancing"- the thing is, you need a system and i suggest the PS2 but it's supposed to come out for the 360 sometime relatively soon. i'm not sure if the game will be much more fun on the 360, but the graphics will be better. then again, you don't really need good graphics for that game. anyways, it is on probably every system but the wii, 360, and PS3. there is a workout mode that calculates the number of calories you burn.

Answer 6

diet and exercise. That's it. The rate at which it comes off will depend upon how hard you work at it, and also how big you are now. Heavier people tend to lose weight faster because their bodies have to work harder and burn more energy to complete the same tasks as thinner people.

Answer 7

drink lots of water and do turbo jam you will loose 10 pounds in 10 day and don't eat fat food.

Answer 8

Try Atkins with alot of exercise...I lost 31 in 4 months.

Answer 9

Thats two and a half pounds per week. Thats doable with willpower.

Answer 10

That's alot to lose in a short time!! I wouldn't do it personally.

Answer 11

cut back on your carbs, sugars, and salts... do about an hr of exercise daily...should do the trick