I'm a 30 year old female who does about 20 minutes of core training with weights a week and rebounding for at least 5 minutes a day. I've been doing this since January and have only lost 10 pounds. I have 5 more pounds to lose before my ideal weight. What else can I do to speed this along. I eat somewhat healthy but I'm sure I could always do better. Thanks!
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Since you are doing core training, I assume you need it stronger so you can do a standard free weight program. Until you have it built up just use machines, that is better then nothing. Then you can switch when your core is good. Do some cardio on the other days until your heart and lungs are in good shape. Then you will be able to do high intensity interval training. Exercise every day if you can. 2.5 to 3 hours of weights over 3 days is good. Then do 15 to 20 minutes a day 3 times of intervals and 1 20 minute session of regular cardio. Over a couple years I have cut more then 80 pounds of fat. Put on 70+ pounds of lean mass too. I know some of it is bone density, but it is mostly muscle. I think 4 hours a week should do it.
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You might want to up your workout if your body feels ready for it.  As far as speeding up your weight loss, I would have to say losing a pound a week is great.  As much as you might want to lose it overnight, slow but steady is MUCH better.
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Hello, here is what you need to do, if you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off. Eat 6 small meals a day about every 4 hours. Only the size of your fist, carbs in one and protien in the other. exercise every day, Monday cardo, tues upper body, wed cardo, thurs lower body, fri cardo, sat upper. Sunday eat anything you want and dont exercising, you do this on sunday so your body doesnt freak out. if you stilck with this you will have a great body. also drink aleast 8oz of water daily!
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you should not exceed 2lbs a week.\nQuestion- are you weight training, or doing body resistance (i.e. lifting weights, or pushups or sit ups, or things of the sort), if so you may be putting on muscle, which weighs more than fat.\nAlso, are you doing cardio (i.e. running, elliptical, etc) for 20 minutes with your heart rate at its target (i.e. 60-75% of it's max). If not you may not be burning fat.\nAnother question- are you cutting calories? or eating healthy? if you don't get a balanced diet you may not be getting the most from your metabolism.\n\n1) make sure you get the cardio\n2) weight train/do body resistance because the more lean mass the better your metabolism works\n3) make sure you're getting plenty of water\n4) cut the calories, but not too drastic.\n5) don't do anything that you can't keep up for basically the rest of your life or you will gain it all back.\n\nif you've done all this and you're still not loosing weight- talk to your doctor because your thyroid may not be working correctly. And don't diet, there are no good diets that will keep the weight off or they're unhealthy. this has to be a life change or else you will gain it all back plus more- I guarentee
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there is no safe way for you to lose a lot of weight in such a short period of time so before going on any kind of diet or workout plan, you need to accept that.  it's going to take a while for you to lose weight.  however, if you switch to well balanced, healthier eating habits and start on a regular workout routine, you may be able to see a small change and feel better about yourself by the time the dance rolls around.\n\ni suggest you combine aerobics with strength training, 6 days a week.  as far as food goes, i'm not sure how many calories you eat a day but you need to create a calorie deficit in order to lose weight.  a really good article about how to do this is here:\nhttp://weightloss.about.com/od/eatsmart/a/blcalintake.htm\n\nyou also want to eat smaller portions of food in 5-6 small meals a day (3 main ones + 2 or 3 snacks in between).\n\nanother thing is that you shouldn't be as concerned about your weight as you should the amount of inches you're losing in your arms, waist, thighs, etc..  you should get a tape measure and take your mesaurements once a week instead of using a scale because scales are bad news and can be very deceiving.  another important thing is to be consistent!  even if it looks like there have been no changes, you have to keep going.\n\ngood luck!
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You are on the right track. You won't lose weight overnight, if you lose a pound a week you are doing great. \n\nI used to be a model/actress as a teenager, I still worry about my weight levels. \n\nWhenver you lose weight quickly, let me give you an example: Putting on your heaviest sweat suit and running 5miles, while drinking water. You lose 10lbs instantly. Those 10lbs however are water-weight. Which is not good to lose that quickly, because you risk dehydration. \nAlso, you tend to gain 20lbs back just as fast. \n\n9 out of 10 over the counter diet supplements don't work. I have tried them first hand. This includes the Hollywood Juice.\n\n\nKeep up with a healthly balanced diet complete with meals that inlcude something from the 5 basic food groups. When you want Ice-Cream eat frozen yogurt or enjoy some home-made desserts. If you love Oatmeal, make some oatmeal rasin nut cookies, cut the sugar from the recipe in half and use brown sugar. These cookies are so healthly you can plastic wrap them indivisually on like a Sunday and eat on them all week for Breakfast. They are packed full of nutrients and they are cheaper than Store bought health bars. \n\nIf you want more adive feel free to e-mail me at: Diamondheart16@yahoo.com I am 22yrs old. Female living in Honolulu, HI!
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Yes you could lose weight by running 1 hour per day.  Running is a bigger calorie burner than swimming, but it is fine to mix them up.\n\nGenerally, running burns 100 calories per mile or 100 calories per 10 minutes.  Your calorie burn will vary depending upon your fitness level and how hard you are working.\n\nSo assuming you burn 500 calories per run, it'll take you (theoretically speaking) 10 weeks to lose 10 pounds (7 days per week at 500 calories, where 3500 calories equals one pound).  \n\nHowever, running that much might result in injury, especially if you currently aren't a runner.  I recommend hitting the pool or an elliptical trainer.  Your body will enjoy the change of pace and you'll put less stress on your joints and you'll have less burnout.\n\nI usually run about 25 - 30 miles a week and hit the gym for weights 4 x week and I've maintained my weight for years.\n\nYou can use a site such as www.fitday.com to monitor your calories and activities to see how you are doing.  Keep in mind, you certainly aren't overweight and I'd recommend using running for fitness, not a weight loss tool.\n\nGood luck.
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20lbs in 6 weeks? sounds like a lot of people agree with that, and sure, you can do it! but theres a downside to that, a big downside, if you lose more than about 1 pound a week, you wont keep the weight off very long... thats simply because if you go on an extreme diet just to lose weight quickly, your not gonna stick with the diet... exercise is important, and f*ck that not lifting weights! in my opinion there is no such thing as a healthy weight, there are healthy body fat percents and such, but healthy weight? if you are 5'6 and 180lbs but in very good shape, slim, lots of muscle and stuff, you are technically over weight, but you're much healthier than you would be if you were the same height and weighed 10 pounds less but were chubby and out of shape... plus, for every pound of muscle you burn something like 30 more calories a day than you would otherwise... so really, do you want to lose pounds or inches? and do you want to lose it temporarly or permanently? personally, I'd chose inches and permanently...
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You can lose 10 lbs. in 4 or 5 weeks. Safest way is to lose 2-3 lbs a week. If you do more than, or do crash diets, and when you go back to your normal eating habits, the weight you lost will come back or even double! So take it slow ok? :)\nI started as 135 and I'm also trying to reach my goal weight which is 120. I lost my 3 lbs in 1.5 weeks. Here's what I did.\n\nFirst, WATER is very important. you must drink at least 8 glasses a day. It also helps suppress your appetite. Drink a glass when you wake up in the morning and before you go to asleep. Drink also a glass before every meal. And if you exercise, drink before, in the middle, and after your exercise routine. This helps you lose water weight.\nWater weight is all the water accumulated in different parts of our body because the body makes sure that it has a reserved "stock". So if you constantly drink a lot of water, the body will release the water weight (which is maybe 2-5 lbs)because it will think that the supply will always come.Ok? :)\n\nOh, and if you drink ICE COLD WATER extra calories are burned because the body can not utilize the water in its cold state. So it has to bring it to normal body temperature first.\n\nYou could also try green tea. 2 to 3 cups a day burn 80 calories. This has been proven. :) Add also lemon. :)\n\n\nEating smaller meals does help. Eat every after 3 hours. This is the time when the last meal you ate is fully digested. You must not go hungry because this will slower your metabolism.\nHere are some food suggestions:\neat foods with fiber: whole wheat bread, oatmeals or non-sugar cereals with skim milk. \nprotein: tuna in water, skinless chicken breast, eggs(not too much), low fat cheese\ncalcium: skimmed milk \n\n*It is also proven that calcium helps boost your metabolism.\n\nFruits but no bananas and Vegies but no potatoes. you can have as many as you like.\n\nYou can also have frozen yogurt. low/non fat.\n\nStay away from carbs like white bread/flour. I'm not saying you shouldn't eat them but a daily requirement is 50 grams.\nThe atkins diet tells you to take 25 g. This is dangerous and can lead to ketosis.\nStay away from sugars or starches. No sodas please. If you wish to drink fruit juices then buy fruits and use a blender. Those powdered juices have too many sugars in them. :)\n\nOh and if you wish to exercise but have no budget for gym or are too lazy to do it like I am :) hehehe. try the following while listening to your mp3 or while sight-seeing.\n\nwalking--250 calories burned an hour\nrunning--500 cal\njogging--900 cal\n\ngood luck! ;)
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Walk. \nWalk 30 minutes a day, at a slow pace. If she can't walk 30 minutes at one time, walk 15 minutes 2 times a day. It will take several weeks to see results. It is best to lose weight slowly as it tends to stay off. If weight is lost fast, it has a tendency to be put back on, with extra pounds. The healthiest way to lose is 1-2 pounds a week. Also, don't diet. Change of eating habits. Instead of 3 main meals, have 5 or 6 small meals.
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Hey, we are on the same page. I'm 5'3'' and I weigh 125. I used to weigh 107...so I need to lose 18 pounds. I know this sounds crazy.....but I lose weight by eating one meal a day. I'll snack on fruits and veggies only. Limit your calorie intake. Your body burns about 10 times your weight. So right now, your burn about 1,140 calories in a day. There are 3000 calories in a pound. Slowly cut back your intake. I lost 20 pounds in 2 1/2 months doing this. Try eating about 500 calories a day. then youll burn about 600 calories a day + whatever excercise you do. But always snack on healthy foods throughout the day or else your metabolism with slow. NO SODAS.FRIES.CANDY! limit your bread and pasta/rice intake as well.
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There really isn't a way to lose weight fast.  You want to lose fat, really, and your body cannot burn more than two pounds of fat per week.  If you lose weight faster than that it's either water weight (at the beginning of a diet) or muscle mass.  \n\nHere are some tips:\n\n1.  Walking is the best way to lose belly fat.  Buy a pedometer (about $5 at Wal-Mart for a cheap one) and count your steps.  Try to increase 1000 steps per day until you go over 10,000.  \n\n2.  Do some strength training, such as lifting weights.  This will help develop muscles.  A pound of muscle burns more calories than a pound of fat (and is about half the size).  You will burn more calories even when you are asleep.\n\n3.  At 230 lbs, your body requires about 2300 calories per day to maintain that weight.  You do not want to cut out too many calories, because your body will catabolize muscle before it will catabolize fat.  You don't want to destroy your muscles.  \n\nTry to cut about 500 calories per day from your diet.  Get a kitchen scale and really measure portions.  You'd be surprised how little a cup is, and how large your portion sizes are.  At that intake, you will lose about a pound a week just from your reduced calorie intake.  If you exercise, you will increase that.\n\n4.  Figure out what kind of an eater you are.  Some people can do portion control.  They can figure out what a 100-calorie portion of chocolate cake is and eat that, or eat 1/4 of a pint of reduced fat frozen yogurt.  I'm not one of those.  If I open the bag of M&M's, I will eat the bag of M&M's, whether it's a tiny little handful or a 1-lb bag.  I have learned that I have to eliminate foods that are unhealthy for me.  I can't buy chips, because I WILL open them, and then I WILL eat the whole bag.  Work with your eating patterns.  If you can pour out 1-oz of chips and eat them, indulge once a week.  If you can't, you're better off not buying the chips.\n\n5.  Focus your diet on whole grains, beans, vegetables, fruits, low-fat or fat-free dairy, and lean meats or fish, if you like them.  Fruit and veggies are your best friends.  \n\n6.  Drink at least two litres of water per day, and aim for four.  Your body stores fat as fatty acids.  In order to burn fat, it has to hang three fatty acid molecules onto a water molecule.  Without water, you can't lose weight.  Also, water fills you up.  Water can be flavored with sugar free drink mixes or sugar-free tea.  \n\n7.  Get at least seven hours of sleep per night.  That's when your body is dealing with the fat.  You can't lose weight if you don't sleep enough.\n\n8.  Educate yourself.  I highly recommend Susan Powter (her Stop the Insanity set is out of print but is sometimes available on eBay), Dean Ornish, Covert Bailey, and Pritikin.  Pritikin and Ornish are a little severe, but they are dealing with people who have serious coronary problems.  \n\n9.  Get support.  Consider joining a gym and finding a personal trainer.  Sometimes you can join a trainer's group and pay a lot less.  Weight Watchers is pretty good, but I'm a member of Take Off Pounds Sensibly, and it's helped a lot.  \n\n10.  DON'T GIVE UP.  If you "cheat" or skip a day of exercise, it's not the end of the world.  It's a minor set back, and if you stick to your diet/exercise plan for a year, no one will notice one chocolate bar or one day spent vegging on the couch.  It's the chocolate bar every day or the vegging every day that kills you.\n\nI'm dieting, too.  I've lost 15 pounds and one dress size in the last two months.  If you'd like to contact me, please do.
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"Quick" weight loss is both a misnomer and unhealthy.\n\nWeight loss should be done slowly over time.\n\nTry adequate fiber and fluid (water, not soft drinks, not fruit juice) intake with exercise such as a brisk walk.\n\nYour only truly attainable short-term goal is toning and elimination of wastes.\n\nSometimes toning is the single best thing you can do in the short haul.\n\nYou are who you are. Be satisfied with yourself and enjoy your date without a lot of self conscious delving into the "what ifs" and "if onlys".\n\nI was afraid to ask someone to the prom because I thought I was too fat. Years later I found that I had hurt somebody's feelings who didn't get to go either -- and in the big scheme of things you'll cherish the experience long after the qualms regarding body image subside.\n\nWe are much more than our physiques.
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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.\n\n\nOn 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.\n\nDon'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. \n\nThere 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. \n\nThe 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. \n\nAnother 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.\n\nTo 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.\n\nFor 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. \n\nFat 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.\n\nThere 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
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You do have quite a large amount of weight that you would like to lose, BUT, you are giving yourself planty of time to reach your goal which will make it that much easier to accomplish.\n\nA safe weight loss is about 2 pounds a week, and lets say that you lose weight slowly. Your goal should be completed by next fall, if you start New Years day. (this leaves planty of room in case you cheat or stop your dieting for a few weeks then need to get back on track)\n\nHowever, and there is a big however, at your current weight you will more-than-likely lose 3 pounds a week for the first 3 weeks. This will move up your goal date.\n\nNow I am just talking about dieting and weight loss pounds. Once you start adding simple exercising you will see that you start loosing more quickly and any flab that you may have will start to firm up. \n\nIf you start by exercising in your room (pilates, crunches, old fashioned floor exercises like leg lifts), you can get over the awkward phase in private.\n\nYou will start looking pounds thinner than your scale shows. By March of next year you should really start noticing a big differance. During March start getting out and walking & jogging.\nBy then you will feel more confident about the way you feel about your body and will be more fit to be able to keep up with others without being winded.\n\nBy April, you will be down about 2-3 pant sizes.\n\nBy May, you will be able to start wearing snugger clothing. \n\nBy June, your down another size\nAnd if you stuck to your diet and exercise routine you will have lost about 4 pant sizes--good going!\n\nBy July, you will see the scale slow down BUT, your still firming up so don't let the scale bother you. As a matter of fact toss the scale for a while. It's how you look and feel, not what the scale shows.\n\nFor the next few months up your exercise routine to really speed up that metabolism. \n\nSo what type of a diet are you going to go on? \nIf you don't have a specific one planned I would suggest you toss all fad diets out the window and eat healthier foods and smaller quantities. Sure many have lost a ton on low carb diets--only to gain the weight back. Low carb isn't something that you can live on forever.\n\nStick to veggies (all kinds except fried), actually most of your diet should be veggies, then add lean meats like chicken without the skin (even if you go to KFC, you can eat the chicken with your friends just remove the skin), have plenty of green salads, low fat milk, yogurts and cheeses (Skinny cow brand ice cream is wonderful--I love it) it's low cal & low fat, so it's a good treat.\n\nUse the internet to look up fast food restaurants in your area. You can find online menus along with nutritional information. Choose what is best from each restaurant, so when you go with friends you don't have to settle for a diet soda. You know in advance what you are going to eat. Most fast food places have a few meals that are low cal & low fat, but you have to look good to find them.\n\nAnd speaking of soda--chuck it all. Not even diet soda! Stick to water, flavored water and fruit juices that you have watered down (fruit juice has allot of calories)\n\nTreat yourself with fresh fruit, Skinny Cow or another simular type of low fat ice cream, low fat microwave popcorn, rice cakes,\nwhole wheat petzels, whole wheat bread (no butter) and sugarless gum.\n\nIf you can get together with other dorm members who may want to lose weight (who doesn't these days) , and keep track of each other. Don't need to weigh in or anything like that, just every once in a while motivate each other. Diet buddies really do work.\n\nI hope that I have not rambled on too much, but it's so nice to see someone who actually doesn't plan on losing 20 pounds in a week. \nYour goal is so easy to attain if you stick to it.\nGood Luck\nPS purchase a calander or make one on your computer and chart your goals and your success's. Plan out each month ah
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A good way to see results quickly would be to start doing some form of cardio (Elliptical Trainer, Treadmill, Stationary Bike etc.), or find an outdoor activity or sport that you like doing and can stick to, like mountain biking, road cycling, soccer, running..you get the picture. The key is to stay active. Cardio will help you get the weight off quickly because your creating a caloric deficiency in your body. \n\nIt is also important to start a weight training regimen to make your body more efficient at burning calories, plus, lifting weights and adding some muscle will help you keep the weight off in the long run. The more muscle you add on, the calories your body will burn on a daily basis. \n\nBuy some fitness magazines/books for workout ideas and tips. Set a realistic goals for yourself and stick to them. Maybe set up an appointment to see a trainer at your gym. \n\nGood Luck!
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Congratulations on your engagement.  Being 15 lbs overweight with 9 months or so to lose it is a weight loss expert dream because that's easy.\n\nEveryone says they eat pretty healthy and I'm not knocking you and saying you don't but what is your definition of eating healthy? That might be something you want to evalaute.  But my personal guess is that it's not so much your eating that's the issue but it's the workouts you're doing that will make or break your goal of looking great for your wedding.\n\nThe best suggestion I can tell you is to do total body weight training. Do not divide your days up and do chest one day, arms the next day.  This will not help you tone up as quickly as possible.  You're much better off either training the entire body 3 times per week with a day of rest between each OR you can workout 4 times a week where you work your upper body and lower body on different days.\n\nAs far as the best time to workout, the answer is simple. Whenever you can get it in is the best time.  It does not matter if it's morning, empty stomach, full stomach, calories are calories and whether you workout before eating anything or after the caloric difference is not enough for you to make that change.  But if it's best for you to workout first thing in the morning there's no issue with that either.\n\nWhen it comes to your side aches, I'm guessing since you probably aren't an avid runner that your body just cannot take the impact of running just yet.  I would opt to use the elliptical machine and alternate the intensity levels up and down for 30 minutes.\n\nIf you want to know more about what to do the best answer is my free newsletter. It won't be free for long so I suggest you get to it.\nI reveal strategies to drop weight in there that I'm sure you'll enjoy and your future partner in life will also.\n\nhttp://4evertoned.com/newsletter.html