how do i loose 20 pounds in 2 months?

Question

i have finals coming up which means i dont have alot of time to get to the gym...i need to loose 20 pounds by april . please help

Answer 1

Current recommendations say you should do 30 minutes of cardio on most days of the week (at the right heart rate for your age) as well as eating a well-balanced diet. THIS DOES NOT MEAN CUTTING CARBS. Your body requires carbohydrates for energy as well as for normal brain functioning. If you want to lose weight, it is suggested that you cut 500 calories from your diet each day to safely lose 1-2 pounds per week. Keep your fat intake low and try to replace it with more nutrient dense foods like fruits, vegetables, lean protein, and low-fat carbs. Keep in mind that exercise and proper diet must be used in combination to maximize your results. DO NOT GET SUCKERED into believing a fad diet or "quick fix" supplements will help you.

Keep trying different exercises so your workouts stay fresh. This will also force your body to keep recruiting different muscles. Best of luck. . . .

Answer 2

I don't know if you'll be able to lose the full 20 lbs but the first step is to improve your eating habits. I remember how stressful finals can be and how little time they can leave for anything else. The good news is you don't necessarily have to go to a gym to work out. It's actually a good idea to take a break from studying because you'll retain more that way. What you could do is take a 10-15 min break every 1-2 hours. When you take you're break you could do jump jacks, run in place, sit-up, push-ups, etc.
Also instead of driving where you need to go, walk when possible. Instead of taking the elevator, use the stairs.
Like I said you may not be able to lose the full 20lbs in 2 months but that will definetly help. Also by increasing your physical activity you'll feel less stressed out which will end up helping with your finals.
Good luck

Answer 3

Understand, this is a quick weight loss solution, meaning, temporary. You may possibly gain all of it back, or more. This is a very extreme way to do it but its been effective for a short term solution (2-4 weeks).

In order to get the body to release fat, you have to understand some realities.
# The human body is not really capable of shedding more than 2 pounds of fat in a week, especially on an ongoing basis, and even 2 pounds per week would be an extreme!
# The human body is capable of losing far more than 2 pounds in a week, but that would indicate loss of either muscle or water.
# Muscle loss is guaranteed to decrease caloric burn and slow metabolism.
# Water loss is temporary.
Diet adjustment - lean proteins, complete proteins, protein shakes(drinks), and leafy green vegetable or other type of vegetable meals. Chicken, Fish, and Turkey are your proteins, none of them fried, broiled, or microwaved. Vegetable meals include salads, or meals with all veggies.
No white potatoes, no white flour, no white sugar, no grains at all, unless they are whole grains such as protein rich brown rice. No artificial sweetners (Splenda, Aspartame), no heavily processed food meals, you want to turn your body into a machine that burns up the fuel (food you eat) quickly. You dont want any excess calories from anything so you eat or drink and no diet drinks because those are more detrimental to metabolism because of how the body elimanates the chemicals they contain.
Drink nothing but water, maybe a little juice but preferably vegetable, cranberry or grapefruit those help to flush the kidneys and curb your appetite, in the early part of the day, and herbal tea(such as green tea), and I say again NO diet drinks.

There is a workout part of the answer at the source if you think you can start exercising

Answer 4

I would sit down and start making a food diary. Write down what you are eating so you can improve daily.

Drink TONS of water and incorporate vegetables whenever possible.

Cut out all pop (including diet pop) and if you drink milk, start buying 1% or skim.
Start working out for at least an hour a day (cardio). Morning is what I do.

I've been eating more chicken and fish with tons of vegetables with water/lemon and cut down my red meat intake.

With all this, I've lost over 30lbs in 3 months. Im sure if you work hard and watch what you eat, you'll obtain your goal. Good luck. Remember, no fast food, drink water, water, water, and start exercising! BTW, I don't have the money to go to a gym so I work out at home doing basic exercises. Put on my iPod and dance or make up stuff!

Answer 5

eat healthy. try doing things to increase your metabolism. try walking a few days a week it wont take to long and could help. celery taste fair and is a good diet food try eating it. replace junk food with healthy snacks (rice cakes are great) that way you will have an easier time sticking with a good diet. chew your food better so you get full faster. drink LOTS of water. do some situps in the morning when you wake up and at night before you go to sleep. it doesnt take long and can be effect. actually. crunches are probably better. cut down majorly on cakes and fried food. dont eat very much fast food its got lots of fat. avoid foods cooked in tons of grease/oil. (also on the water thing it taste better if its got ice in it and also somehow taste sweeter and kinda helps fill you up) get good sleep so your not very tired while doing these things. its also an important part of a diet. this is pretty much all i can tell you off the top of my head i hope it helps. oh yeah. 5-6 small meals a day. keeps your metabolism up.

Answer 6

I lost 105 pounds in 6 months. Here is how I did it.
1. Every morning get up and walk for 45 minutes. You can start with less time, but you want to get up to 45 minutes, and it must be fast walk. You want your heart rate to go up. It must be in the morning, it kick starts your metabolism.
2. I cut out Red Meat, and fatty foods. Boneless skinnless chicken breast, baked, or grilled, rice and vegetables (steamed).
3. Eat half. Just eat half of what you normally eat. Put 1/2 on your plate, and put the rest away. Cook less. When you go to fast food, get salads only. Or grilled chicken. No fries, only diet soda. Or water.

It will work, once you get into a routine, you will get hooked on the results, and you will keep the routine. It has been over a year for me.

A sight with some really cool diet calculators and interesting calorie counting calculators is here. Check it out.
http://www.caloriesperhour.com/

Check out my before and after pic at my yahoo 360 page
http://profiles.yahoo.com/gorillamyke

Stay motivated, and get up and walk every day. I seriously lost all my weight starting off my day on my walk.

Good LUCK!

Answer 7

This is coming from a former anorexic...but anyway, try eating up to six very small meals a day and only drink water, no other liquids. No need for intensive workouts but if you can fit it in, try a thirty minute walk at least 5 days a week. Oh, and by small meals I mean like one cup of split pea soup and a sliced apple with a tablespoon of peanut butter. Something like that. Please do not starve yourself and be sure to take vitamins. :)

Answer 8

The cleansing diet is definitely the way to go, my friends have had great success with it. It consists of delicious high protein shakes that you replace meals with and cleansers that clean those fatty toxins out of your body. The shakes leave you feeling full and the cleanser must me some sort of miracle formula ;) Email me at [e-mail] and I can tell you how to get it at a very discounted price (I save 100 bucks a month), retail is very expensive. Anyone else feel free to email me.

Answer 9

get plenty of exercise. jump roping is great exercise, you can burn about 750 calories per hour for the average person. you could even burn up to 1000 depending on how fast you go.

make sure you get a balanced diet, but cutting back on sweets and other foods could really help too. i cut out pop and replaced it with juices and teas, and that made a bug difference.

Good luck!

Answer 10

Diets do not work. 99% of people gain the weight back. No one teaches the animal what to eat and what not to eat. He knows instinctively what to eat. Humans also have the same instinct. The way it works is just eat whatever tastes good and that will be healthy for you and non-fattening. That is why a baby tastes everything. So again whatever tastes good, is good for you. This is why you will spit out spoiled milk.

But wait!!! Man has the technology to create rat poison. It tastes like healthy food (good taste) but kills the rat. So man has done that to you. Note-- any food unaltered by man (uncooked) that tastes good, is good for you. So if you are stranded in the woods, that is how you know what to eat (cooking changes that). So man has created fake fruit. It tastes like fruit that exists in nature but it is terrrible for health, addictive and fattening called sweets.

So it is natural to like real sweets called fruit, like a baby does, but they have fooled you just like the rat. But they do not want to kill you. They want you to become obese so you will buy lots of their foods. This is called GOOD BUSINESS. Learn how to nourish your body thin, instead of starving your body fat. See site below.

http://www.phifoundation.org