How can i lose at least 15 pounds by the end of July?

Question

I'm having a party with my friends at the end of July. I just got out of school for the summer and i want to lose at least 15 pounds by the end of July so i can shock all of them. I don't have any special equipment i just have 3 pound weights, a medicine ball, and an excercise hula-hoop. i am not going to take pills or have surgery or anything like that. I don't like running but i'll do it but i can't run for long periods of time. i want to lose it specifically in the stomach area. don't tell me it's impossible or that i don't have to lose that much that soon. whoever's answer i like i will vote their answer as the best.

please give a lot of detail in your explanation!!!!!!!!!!!

i hardly drink sodas. i barely have candies either.i don't have a lot of sugary foods at all. i mostly only drink water and the occasional coke.
i don't need to know that i can't do it so if you disagree with my plan then don't answer the question.

Answer 1

1) Eat things that are good for you. Cut the fatty foods out such as chips.
2) The hula-hoop is great exercises. Use it while you watch TV. Also, try doing some sit-ups while you watch the TV. In fact, anytime you find yourself doing nothing, find a way to turn it into some exercises time.
3) Do not eat a thing 3 hours before you go to bed.
4) Get eight hours of sleep. You'd be surprised how important sleep is to loosing weight.
5) Walk your dog (if you have one) 3 times a day 2 miles each time. It's not hard. But, it's good for you too.
6) Don't snack. Drink water to fill up those cracks when you're dying to have something between healthy meals.
7) Do not drink Soda or Alcohol.

Those are my ideas. Good luck.

Answer 2

Well, your body will lose wherever and you cannot do anything specifically do something to make your body lose fat in one area only. Fat comes off the body all over, not just in the stomach or butt or wherever you are hoping it will come off. A 1200 calorie per day diet will definitely help you shed pounds. Make the calories you DO eat be bulky and count for something. Read labels RELIGIOUSLY, including the portion size. You can eat a very large quantity of some things and get 200 calories, or you can eat something very tiny and still get 200 calories. For example, you can eat a huge bowl of lettuce, cucumber, mushrooms, tomato, pepper and a can of drained water-packed tuna and toss it with a little vinaigrette and it might be worth 300 or 350 calories. Or you can go to McDonald's and get a cheeseburger. Same calories, MUCH less bulk and food and time to eat it. You can eat one donut or you can eat an apple, bunch of grapes, an orange and a pear. See how the bulk helps to fill you up in comparison to eating high calories junk? Eat protein with every meal or snack. Try to go for lean protein, like water-packed tuna, or grilled or baked chicken, turkey or fish. Cottage cheese is a good one too, as is peanut butter (NO white bread though). You can lose 15 pounds in the next 5 weeks. That is 3 pounds per week. Count calories, get yourself a pedometer and make sure it is counting at least 10,000 steps per day. Drink plenty of water. With the pedometer you can walk or run or whatever and if you do other activities too, count those as well....swimming will give you 173 steps per MINUTE! Gardening is 73 per minute and housecleaning is 52 per minute, just to give you an idea of activity levels. Eat fewer calories with more quantity, read labels, move your body and drink plenty of water (60 oz roughly) Good luck! I'm trying to do the same by the end of July too!) I'm down 6 pounds so far :)

Answer 3

Weight loss is not rocket science. If you burn more calories than you take in you will lose weight. Go to the gym, find a cardiovascular machine that you feel comfortable with and that preferably will count the calories you burn.
Count the calories you take in and set a daily limit for yourself. The lower this limit and the more you burn the faster you will you lose weight.
You can lose 15 pounds by the end of July and there is an easy answer: willpower. Unfortunately it is easier said than done.
By the way I don't like to run either, I find the precor eliptical machines much easier to handle because they are zero impact.

Answer 4

Most important you need to get your heart rate up for 20-30 minutes 4 times per week. If you don't like running (go on an exercise bike or something). To lose as much as you are talking about (and fast). You will need to work very hard (sweat and pain). here my advise -

1. Stretch
2. get yourself to the verge of exhaustion. Run sprints for 1 minute then jog for 30 sec to a minute the sprint again for a minute. Back and forth for 20 + minutes.
3. Then do sit ups for 5 -10 minutes.
4. use weights for arm curls and shoulder press and squats.
5. jog slowly for another 5 minutes.
6. stretch again.

Eat fresh fruits and veggies and lean meat. Dont overeat. lots of water (no soda or sobe crap or junk food). Eating is almost as important as working out.

Good luck

Answer 5

hmmmm.... i think f u can have a jogging once to twice a day at least 15 minutes and a BIG NO NO to SLEEP after jogging and eating coz am telling you it is the reason why i'm chobby now.:), eat just enough (not much) 3 times a day and don't sit up after eating, if you can try to turn your tummy on a pillow after eating do it(i have tried it and it is effective:), Substitute your breakfast with an oatmeal (Quaker oats is effective), be a vegetarian ang have a after 6 diet, preferably eat your dinner before 6..
addition i just want u 2 know that 2 pieces of loof bread is equivalent to 1 cup of rice so NO NO to that..also with JUNK foods..
TRY It a'll tell you it would be effective. God Bless and GudLuck...:),mwah

Answer 6

first...change your eating lifestyle to strictly lean meats when you want meat (white meat chicken and turkey, tuna, salmon, etc...), nothing at all fried...only eat meats that are broiled/baked or grilled, try veeeerrrrry hard to have as little sodium as possible it absorbs water and tends to give you a bloated appearance, also drink only water (you can have your milk and juices but keep it to skim milk and all natural juices...also keep those servings of juice to a minimum they have a lot of sugar carbs) but try and get at least half your body weight in ounces of water per day. don't neglect vegetables...they have a GREAT way of filling you up but have close to no impact on your calorie intake. as far as calorie intake goes try and follow a 1200 calorie diet. however, if you're more active bumb it up to 1500 or 1700 depending on how active you are. all this will slow down the fat intake

as far as cutting the fat thats already there, do anything at all that accelerates your heart rate and keeps it accelerated for AT LEAST 30 minutes. do that three times a week...also AT LEAST. add a good circuit weighlifting program on the other days and you'll start to get that toned look everybody wants.

go to www.bodybuilding.com ....they have a great database of circuit workouts.

Answer 7

Im not a doctor... but that is like 30 days away. Its too much. Go for 5lbs.

Update I dont know what the first poster wrote but I just looked it up its 1lb a week max 2lbs a week. I think he is confused and was thinking 5 lbs a month.

I guess you could watch survivor for a month and eat what they do. I think they average around 30-40lbs weight loss in 30 days. But they dont eat. Im not sure its healthy

Answer 8

The health board say that the healthy limit is losing a maximum of 3 pounds a week. 5 weeks X 3 pounds puts you right in the good target rate.

Answer 9

Cut out the sugar and fats. Drink water instead of pop and high sugar drinks. Walk. Just move. If you can walk or bicycle instead of driving somewhere that will help. Try sit ups. Remember those exercises we did in elementary school. Keep it simple, stupid! (LOL) That's what people tell me. Do what you like to do.(exercises) I wish you the best of luck. Just don't go overboard!

Answer 10

Barely eat at dinner. Have most of your food in the morning. No snacking. Small lunch. Sit ups... sit ups.... and more sit ups. You need to run whenever possible, if u want to lose it by then. NO TV... JUST EXCERSIZE!!! don't make yourself pass out though. that's dumb. but i'm thinking maybe only 10 pounds.