I need to lose this weight quickly because my clothes are beginning to not fit me. I am desperate and unhappy. I need to lose 5 initially to get me going. Any ideas?
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It is weight or water retention?  Try 7-day cabbage soup diet.  Check out South Beach Diet.  Don't do diet pills.
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DON'T !!!!!!!\n\nLosing more than 3-5 pounds in the first week and 2 pounds a week aftr that, pretty much GUARANTEES that you will regain the weight (and each pound will be more likely to bring a new friend along with it, next time.)\n\nI know you feel desperate, but desperate attempts will lead to longterm regrets.  Been there, done that, wrote the novel, GAINED the pounds to prove it.  Then lost them by using the old tried-and-true.  These really are the best steps to losing weight:\n\nEat  lots of friuits and veggies, and when it comes to cabohydrates (grains, things made with flour or corn or sugar, etc.), eat only QUALITY calories.  Read up on the "glycemic index".  Get nice and familiar with it.  This is how to make sure everything you do eat packs the most nutrition per calorie!\n\nAvoid junk, and especially anything fried.  But have a reasonable portion of a treat once in a while so you won't feel totally deprived and go bingeing.\n\nBalance your carbs with a little protein, every time.\n(Protein slows down how fast your body burns through those carbs, so you don't feel hungry again as quickly, and your blood sugar stays more level so you don't get highs and lows that make you want to sleep or snack more.)\n\nMake sure you get enough fibre, both the soluble and nonsoluble fibres.  (Eat whole-grains, especially oat fibre.)  Fibre fills you up, and has the added bonus of transporting toxins out of your system.  This is especially important when losing  much weight, since some fat-soluble toxins may be released into your system as fats break down.  YOU MUST balance fibre intake with fluid intake.  That's very important!\n\nExercise 30-60 minutes a day, 3-5 days a week.  (Walking is highly under-rated.  If it gets your breathing and heart rate elevated, it's good enough!)\n\nStrengthen your muscles through weight training or yoga.  (Stronger muscles burn more calories even when you're at a 'resting' heart rate.)\n\nAnd hey....be your body's best friend.  It does a lot for you - judge it more on all the cool stuff it can DO, than what you think it should look like - fads in 'ideal' body shape have changed throughout history and according to culture.  I've also learned from looking back on old photos and remembering what I thought about myself  at those times in my life, that what the song says is really true - you are NOT as fat as you think you are.\n\nGood luck!
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Losing weight that fast isn't a good thing. If you lose it slowly, it stays off longer.\nIf you feel it works and isn't going to do you harm in the long term, good 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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self-control and excercise. determination and patience are key. you should not force yourself to lose loads of weight in a very short amount of time... it all depends on your body's metabolism, and it's usually activity that determines it.\n\nalso, i've learned that you lose more weight when you don't worry yourself about it much. remember that crash diets and eating disorders are not the best ways to go.\n\nlove yourself the way you are. try to improve, but never let yourself reach the point of compromising your well-being. when you're happy in your own skin, it will show through.
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If you want to lose it fast then WW is not the route you want to go, but if you want to keep it off WW is the place.  \n\nJust limit your calories/ exercise and you'll lose the weight quick.  You just have less of a chance of keeping it off that way.\n\nAlso, if you don't want to go to meetings, you can do it online.  I have done it.
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aerobic exercise, walk everday a couple miles, no fastfood, no soda, eat healthy, cut down on your calories.  Do exercise 5 days a week you will see a difference. Be very discipline, keep telling yourself evertime you dont feel like doing it, or you want to binge, you have to for that dress.  I have lost over 40 lbs doing this.  20 in the last 2 months.
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If you are serious about losing weight, the calories\nin the food you eat should be less than the\nenergy you use. You will have to increase your \nmetabolic rate now, and plan your diet carefully.\nFormulate your own weight loss plan and you will \nlose weight faster. More details available at\nhttp://tinyurl.com/m7ckx
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Healthy weight loss is never quick.  If you lose weight too fast, you will regain all of it and then some.  You should never lose more than 2 pounds per week.  You haven't said...how much weight do you want to lose?\n\nAvoid fried, fatty foods. Stick with lots of vegies and fresh fruit. Avoid regular sodas and fast foods.  Drink lots of water and be sure to exercise at least 3 times a week.  Eat smaller meals (smaller portions) but eat something every 3 hours to prevent hunger pangs..for example: breakfast, snack (piece of fruit), lunch, snack (piece of fruit or fresh vegies), dinner, snack.
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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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If you are serious and understand that there is no overnight way to loose the amount you are asking about maybe this will help. At about 5 lbs. a week it will take  about 10 weeks to loose the weight You would be better to set your sights on 2-3 lbs per week. NEVER, EVER eat anything after 5pm. Never eat just before going to bed. Eat only twice a day. Drink water, lots of water, and a glass of warm water before bed. Drinking water helps the body to flush out excess fat wastes and toxic body waste and helps with giving you a full feeling. It also helps with mental mentality. Have a bit of fat in some form early in the day, like REAL butter on a piece of toast, this will make the body feel like it is not being slighted. If you must eat sweets try the sugar-free kind, they cost a bit more but are worth it in the long run, pace yourself with them. Get out of the house every day if only to walk once around the block, don't rush, notice everything around you, think about what you see. Add more blocks as you feel as ease with, change routes. If you are pressed into feeling bad by someone near, start doing a chore, laundry, dishs, vacuuming, taking out the trash (and you can sneak that walk as you drop the trash in the trashcan as you go by), STAY AWAY from the ice box. Binge eating only makes the problem worse and you feel you are less of a person after it is over with. If you get weak when out and hit a fast food place and after ordering you feel you shouldn't be doing that, DON'T !!!!, pay for the food, walk OUTSIDE!, don't sit down, and drop the stuff in the trash can or give it to someone outside or an animal. You will feel odd doing this but then you will feel that you just took control over yourself and it will get you thinking about the other things in your life you should look into taking back control over, and you just proved to yourself that it is not impossible. Try taking yourself out of the circle you focus on all the time and place yourself on the edge and others in the center. When I was losing weight I found that taking Chromium tablets each day curtailed my craving for chocolate. I am a big choc-0-halic. Amino acids also helped for control (all over the counter stuff). Make sure you are not alergic to any of this though. And do not make a big deal of your trying to loose weight to others, keep low key, pretend to be eating so other do not try to keep handing you stuff to stuff in your face. I stopped smoking by not telling anyone and keeping a half pack of ciggs in my shirt pocket so all could see I had it and they did not offer me any. It was worth their bumming them from me to ward off any questions. Nobody near around you will help you if it is not in their best interest to keep you in the position that is more conveient to them. FAKE them out! Depend on yourself, in the end you are the only one who is there for you no matter what is said. O.K. eat more veggies, take them with you, snack on them, unlimited, try all the diffrent veggies at the store, take time out to go to the store just to see what is offered, strange to you or not, try it! And stay out of the other areas of the store. Well, that's what I can tell you for what it is worth. I gained a lot of weight after 3 surgeries and am an older person in my 50's, and now it is so hard to loose, so very hard. Do it now while you can, and like yourself, not what others want you to change into for them, you are not them, you are YOU, and control will come with practice over time.
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Well, if you are really serious about losing weight quickly, here are three easy steps you need to follow:\n\n1) Try a good cardio workout for about 30 to 45 minutes twice a day.  You can do this by running, biking, StairMaster, whatever you enjoy.  Keeping your heart rate up will help you burn calories and lose weight.\n  \n2) Strength training would also be a good idea, things like basic sit-ups, jumping jacks, deep knee bends, push-ups, some light weight lifting, etc.  These are activities that will help you build muscle, and muscle burns fat.  So, just do it!\n\n3) The third eat wisely!  Count calories and make sure you are not exceeding your recommended allowance.  Cut out all soda and sweets.  \n\n4) Drink plenty of fluid!  Doctor's recommend eight 8 oz. cups of water a day.  This is highly recommended if you are putting in the workouts described above.\n\nIf you can do these things religiously for a month, I am confident you will be able to lose 20 lbs or more in a month.  But you have to really dedicate yourself to it daily!\n\nBest of luck!
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Fast ways....eat how you normally do but during the first week take 2 bites less of everything. The next week 3 bites.....and so on...\n\nSecondly, take the stairs instead of the elevator. And park further out....Walk just a little faster. \n\nDance....if a song comes on you like...dance to it for 3 minutes or so. \n\nFinally, dont let yourself get frantic about losing weight. The stress only makes it harder.
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Slow and steady DOES win this race!!!  I lost 10-15kg about 6yrs ago and went from a 16 to a 8/10 (Aussie sizes)  I'm now a 12 and am still very happy!\n\nYou sound like you are more than ready to begin this change - you certainly have the desire to do it!  Starting is by far the hardest part of the weight loss process.  Once you get healthy habits going, it's surprisingly easy to maintain them.  You need to find a way to give yourself that inital push or get someone to help you do it.\n\nI suggest you set a date to start your new healthy lifestyle - say to yourself "I am going to change my life and I am going to begin today.  I will not look back because this is something I am doing to better myself."  \n\n\nConsider consulting a nutritionist - they'll be able to help you understand why you binge eat and create healthy eating habits as well as eating plans.  I suggest you also consult your regular GP and find out the state of your health - blood pressure etc.  You don't want to push yourself too far too fast because that will most likely make you lose your motivation.\n\nYou have to accept that you are going to have to be selfish to a degree, because you will not be able to achieve your goal unless you take time out for yourself.  Ask your family and friends to support you by encouraging you and being conscious of their own habits when they're around you.  The more supportive, and healthy influences you surround yourself with, the more chance you have of succeeding.\n\nIf you're not used to exercising, you'd be best to start with gentle exercises, because the going from 0 to 100 will make you hurt and the more you hurt, the less you want to exercise and as a result, you lose your motivation.\n\nDon't expect things to happen overnight, and don't bother with fad diets that promise a quick fix - your body registers dieting as "starvation" and hangs onto your body fat.  \n\nKeep things interesting for yourself.  If you find yourself growing bored with your chosen exercise regime, try taking it up a notch, or else try something new.  If you join a gym, try to find one that gives free consultations with trainers every so often.  If not, make sure you join one that has plenty of staff around who can help you use the machinery and advise you on how things work, and what weights and speeds you should be using etc.  If you're nervous about embarrassing yourself, don't be!  Look around at different gyms, there are a heap of ones that aren't filled with people pumping iron and are quieter and less imposing for beginners.  If your finances can run to it, try to organise a session with one of the gym's personal trainers once a month or so -  that way you can get a proper, personalised evaluation and find out if you should be changing your exercise routine.\n\nIf you can't run to a gym membership, the try walking - set yourself a goal to reach, I used to go to video store at the top of the main road.  It only took me ten minutes to walk there, but I slowly increased that to include the streets surrounding it.\n\nWhen you go out, try to get a particular friend to keep an eye on you and help keep you from straying.  However, don't forget to treat yourself every so often.  I find that if I deny myself a treat for too long, I end up binging, which destroys all the good work I've done!  \n\nAlso, try not to eat before you go to sleep - I believe 2hrs is the minimum recommended gap.  And don't forget the mental component to losing weight - the mind plays a big part. Don't eat in front of the TV or computer - it distracts your mind from the process of eating.  Eat slowly - it helps your body feel fuller - 15-20min is the recommended minimum.  And try to prepare your own meals, your sense of smell plays a big part in your enjoyment of food - it's a preliminary stage to eating, so it prepares your mind and unconsciously begins to help you feel mentally fu
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PLEASE read ALL of this. its very correct info and WILL help you.\n\ndont try to loose it fast. please. if you do, it is usually unhealthy and you will gain it back.\n\nyou cannot "spot reduce". its just not possible. maybe spot tone.. like tone up your calfs or whatever.. but spot reduction isnt possible [w/out lipo and other surgeries]\n\nwhen you loose weight, it comes off everywhere, and very slowly. dont give up.\n\ntake time and read all these articles [it might take a while but its totally worth it.]\n\nhttp://www.wikihow.com/Lose-Weight\nhttp://www.wikihow.com/Lose-Weight-Effectively-and-Safely\nhttp://www.wikihow.com/Lose-Weight-Without-Going-Hungry\nhttp://www.wikihow.com/Lose-5-Pounds-in-5-Weeks\nhttp://www.wikihow.com/Start-Walking-for-Exercise\n[there are many more articles also]\n\nnow heres what i say:\n- eat less and more often [like every 3 hours, eat 200-300 calories]\n- drink plenty of water\n- walk. alot. [then once you are able to walk alot w/out getting tired, try running or other things]\n- dont starve yourself. dont go on those fad diets [lose 10 pounds in 5 days!! etc] you will just gain the weight back.\n- after you lose the weight, keep eating healthy and excersizing. it CAN come back.\n- alcohol is empty calories. dont drink.\n\n\nthats all i can think of for now.\n\nif you do all those things i said and what is in those weibsites and it still doesnt work, buy this book:\n\n-title: YOU: the owners Manual. \n-author: Micheal F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz \nit teaches you all about your body, health, excersize, the healthy way to do things, everything. i learned soooo much form it. even for non-overweight people it is a great book to have.\n\nalso knowing your blood type will help you figure out which foods are good & bad for you. i dont know what the book is called but im sure you could go to a popular book store or a health store and ask them about it. It just tells you about what foods are good and bad for you for each bloodtype, and many other things about it too. its a great book sorry i dont know the name.\n\n\n\nremember: read all those articles in the links. they will truly help. and dont give up. it will probably be really hard.\n\n\n\nPS. \nyou shouldnt do "juice/liquid" diets. they supposedly clean out your intestines, liver, etc. BUT, the truth is, is that those things clean themselves. honestly. The liver is your cleaning system for your body, skipping meals and only drinking liquid wont help. trust me. im well informed.\n\n\nhope i helped! you dont need luck- i know you can do it.
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Unless your physician has given you specific instructions otherwise, 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 would make you feel awful. \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\nIf 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.\n\n\nAloha
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I suppose it all depends on whether you want to LOOK small or actually BE small.  You could try looking for a dress that is suited to your body type, and will give the illusion of being smaller.\n\nOr you could start working out, but remember, it's not healthy to lose too much weight in a small amount of time, and since you only have a month or so, I'd say focus on picking a flattering dress.