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Only in 3 weeks. 30 lb or over. Fastest way.
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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Any tips from experience or that you just know to lose 10 lbs in 30 days? I already lost 2 lbs so far which is just water weight i guess, but any exercise ideas that are fun? Foods to eat, how many calories i should be eating in a day with and without exercise, ANYTHING! Thanks, 10 pts for best answer!
I"m following a plan called P90x I"ve dropped 28 pounds in 30 days so its definatley possible to drop 10pounds :L My diet is normally:
Breadfast:Whole grain cereal with milk around 200 calories
Mid-morning snack: Low fat yogurt 100 calories
Lunch: two turkey rashers with half an English muffin 150calories
Mid-afternoon snack: Half an english muffin with marmite 100calories
Dinner: Piece of Salmon 250 calories
Which is about 800 calories and very filling to be honest 
I add in the workouts which are an hour a day and vary
And i jog 3 miles a day, which is about 30minutes
I"d try doing around an hour of exercise a day that makes you sweat so you wouldn"t have to buy P90x
Hope this helps
Im 17 and 5"1 and i weigth 209 i want to lose 30 lb or at least 10 inches off my stomaches wat kind of excersices i can do to lose 30 in 9 – 10 weeks.
If you work REAL hard, you can do it and in a healthy way…10 wks for 30 lbs is possible.
Eat right and exercise regularly. Work up to at least 1 hr of exercise at least 5 days a week. Do plenty of cardio, with some strength training to tone your muscles. Cardio exerise gets your heart working and burns fat/calories. Strength training helps firm untoned muscles and build them up a bit…the more muscle you have, the faster your metabolism so the more calories you burn even at rest.
Good luck!
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