Can I lose 6kg in a month?
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The farther you are away from your 'ideal' weight the easier it is to lose weight. The more overweight you are the easier it will be to lose 6kg doing following your plan.\n\nGood luck with it.
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Its a bit of a tall order.  You might lose 6lb but not more...and you would need to exercise to lose that much.  Eat small portion, no fatty or sugary foods, fill up with fruit and raw veggies.  Keep meat to very small portions.
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Losing 28 pounds safely and permanently should take at least 3 months (2 pounds/week), and VERY few people can do that without gaining it back. That would be a very unusual pace. \n\nMore common is the 1 pound/week pace, which puts 28 pounds at about 6 months. \n\nOf course, all this depends on how overweight you are. If they're your LAST 28 pounds, it's much more difficult that the first 28 pounds. \n\nBe patient. Do it right. Diet and exercise.
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Yes, it's possible to lose 10 pounds in 3 weeks but it's not healthy and you will probably end up regaining some of the weight. 1 to 2 pounds/week is the best way to go and you will keep them off.\nI think you'll be ok losing 5 pounds but 10? It seems a bit excessive to me for somebody your age and your height.\nDon't forget that men in general like women with curves, not rails.\nGood luck.
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Cross Training and Diet.\n\nIt appears that you are doing enough exercising....5 days a week is very good. \n\nA Four pound loss is also good in one month.\n\nMuscle weighs more that fat, you may have actually lost more weight, but added some weight with Muscle and Toning.\n\nAdd the tread mill to your exercise routine or add walking.\n\nIncrease your fluid intake and keep an eye on your calorie intake.\n\nTry this for another month and make another evaluation.\n\nMany people do not see any significant weight lose in the first month.\n\nWeight loss is a delicate balance of exercise, dieting and your own ability to burn calories.\n\nKeep up the Good Work.  \n\nBilly                    \n\nFormer Dance Aerobics instructor.
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It really depends on how vigorous the exercise is and whether your diet stays constant.  \n\nYou can probably burn between 300-400 kcal for 30 minutes of swimming.  It take burning or decreasing 3500 kcal to lose 1 pound of weight (or 7700 kcal for 1 kg).   If you keep your diet constant, you could lose around 3 pounds or 1.3 kgs in a month. Swimming can make you hungry though so if you're doing it just to lose weight, you should also monitor your calorie intake.\n\nIt's recommended that you shouldn't try to lose more that 2 pounds or 1 kg a week, so losing 10 kgs in a month could be unhealthy.\n\nSwimming is a lot of fun and will help keep you in shape and fit.  Try not to have unrealistic expectations though on how fast you'll see the results.
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1 kilogram per week is medically healthy.  The slower you lose weight, the more likely you'll keep it off. Not more than 2 pounds per week.
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The first thing to do is look at your weight loss as a goal and break it down into manageable parts.\n\n3 stones sounds like a lot of weight but if you think of it not as the 42 lbs which it is but as 42 divided by 7 months (November to May inclusive), that's only six pounds a month, which suddenly seems a lot more manageable.\n\nEven so, it's a still not an insignificant amount and it will take work and a specific plan.\n\nA few points occur to me:\n1. I have no idea what the source of stress is in your life but is there any way that you can directly relieve that stress?  If so, that will help your general well being in many more ways than just your specific weight loss goals.\n\n2.  Try to find a specific strenuous physical activity which you enjoy and that suits your budget.  Some people love pumping iron in the gym but it's not for everyone, whether or not they can afford it.  If you don't enjoy it, you won't keep it up but remember enjoyable isn't necessarily the same as easy especially at first - you will have to work at whatever you do.\n\n3. If you can do an activity which adds a little muscle (we are NOT talking hare about changing your body to look like a 1980s East German shot-putter), you may find that you need to lose less simple numerical weight to achieve your desired body proportions.  This is for three reasons: firstly that everything hangs better on a more toned body - you'll jiggle less; secondly, muscle is denser than fat, so if you don't lose weight, you may still lose inches; and thirdly, muscle tissue burns fat even at rest, like an idling engine.\n\nThe other aspect is diet.  In fact, the word diet has taken on a terrible negative meaning - like you are depriving yourself.  Your "diet" is your normal nutritional plan.  Don't deprive yourself of any food you enjoy but cut back a little at a time and if necessary fill in with healthier options.\n\nDrink lots of water (or other non-sugary drinks if you really can't cope with water).\n\nI probably don't need to tell you that the healthiest diet consists of lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, lean meat and poultry and oily fish.  Avoid processed foods as much as possible\n\nTry to stick to whole grain versions of bread, rice and pasta which I think are tastier - the white types are nearly absorbed by your system in the same way as sugar (they are high GI (glycemic index)).\n\nHere's a tiny bit of science and a tip: many people say that healthy food doesn't taste as good as fatty food and that's why they eat fatty food.  This is partly psychological but does have a biochemical scientific basis.  Many of the vaste range of delicious natural aromatic flavours which technically you smell rather than taste, are dissolved in the fat contained in food.  So if you remove the fat, you may also remove the flavour.  Therefore (and here comes the tip), if you're a flavour junky, try spicing your low fat food with whatever fresh herbs and spices "float your boat" to make it tastier without upping the calories.\n\nAnd by the way, avoid too much salt as that has other health consequences.  Oh ... and a lot of dried bottled spice powders have a lot of salt in them and that's why I said to use fresh herbs and spices\n\nHope all this helps.  Your goal of three stones in 7 months is very achievable but you will have to work at it.  Good luck.
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If you walk, quickly, for thirty minutes a day and drink plenty of water, cut down on carbs and sugars, you can lose six pounds within two weeks time.
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If you make a few life style changes you should be able to lose 5 pounds within a month easily.  Here are a few suggestions that may help you.\n\n1. Eat three nutritious meals and three snacks everyday. Cut out junk food. You probably need at least 1500 to 1800 calories a day. Many people make the mistake of not eating enough when they try to lose weight and then become discouraged.  Do searches for healthier recipes for the types of food you especially like.  There is always a healthier recipe!!  Eat fewer hotdogs - just don't have them as often.  Include lots of fruits and vegetables.  \n\n2. Drink lots of water - at least 8 big glasses as day. Lots of water is essential. Stop drinking soda and other drinks with useless calories. Eat fresh fruit instead of fruit juices - the juices are very high in calories.\n\n3. Begin a simple weight lifting program at home or at a gym. Ordinary household items (tins of soup, for example) can actually serve as weights for beginners. Buy yourself a good weight lifting book. Actually the "dummies" series of books has done a rather good one.\n\n4. Walk, walk, walk. Buy yourself a pedometer and aim for at least 10,000 steps a day.\n\n5. Record everything you eat and all your exercise to make sure you have a "calorie deficit". Two of the sites I've included will help you do that. Basically buring more calories than you take in leads to weight loss. You need a deficit of 3500 calories to lose one pound.\n\n6. If you drive, do less of it and park at the back of the parking lot instead of close to the door. Always use stairs - never the elevator or escalator.\n\nI hope these thoughts help. You can do this. Good luck with it.
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Yes, if you lose 5kg, your pants size will definitely be less. By how much will differ from person to person.
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Yes, it works for about a month. So if you want to lose a lot of wieght really quickly it'll work.  But after a month your body adapts and you get hungry again.\n\nIt can be addictive, so be very careful.
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losing 10 kilos in ten days is very very dangerous and unhealthy for anybody.  think about this:  a regular person consumes an average of 1500-1800 calories a day, and in order to lose 1 pound, you have to burn off twice that much calories.  in order for the body systems to function properly, you need a daily calorie intake of at least 1000 calories, and to burn 3000 calories in a day, you have to do about 6 hours of exercises.\n\nplease do not do this, it is very very dangerous to your health.  you'll be jeopardizing a lot more if you force yourself to do that.
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Please talk a doctor before trying a weight lost program.  Your goal of 25 pounds in one month is a little high. If your trying to lose weight the healthy way you should only lose 2- 3 pounds a week. That's 24-36 pounds in 3 months.  I would suggest to try to get a trainer. The reason why I suggest a trainer is because they will push you more than I' m sure you will push yourself and sometimes that's what you need. I have lost weight on my own but I got so much more from training with a trainer. They also can give you a meal plan, teach you how to breathe properly when  exercising, and also how to use the machines properly. If you can't afford a trainer go to a book store and purchase a book called The Body Sculpting Bible for Women by James Villepigue and Hugo Rivera. Its very informative it will tell how to use certain machines at the gym and how many sets you should do per exercise.  Also it will suggest a meal plan and  supplements.\n     Start out slow but please make sure you are stretching before working out for at least 5 minutes and a 5 to 10 minute warm up before your actual work out.  I don't know if you have a membership at a gym but that's what worked for me.  I would go after work and work out for and hour to two hours depending on what exercises I was doing that day. My routine was Mon. Wed. Fri. were my cardio days(running for 25 minutes on the tread, biking, walking stairs, jumping rope like a boxer, precor or elliptical machines) Pick one cardio exercise and do that for 25 minutes than do a 15 minutes of abs then 30 minutes of another cardio exercise.  On Tues and Thursdays were my weight training days. Tues was upper body and Thursday was lower body.  \n       I hope that this helps you lose the weight. Try not to give up I know its hard.   Try to eat at least 5 - 6 small meals a day. Tip: I eat my meals on saucers not an actual plate.  It helps me lower my food intake. I hope this helps.
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Yes but you would have too keep losing about 2-3 punds a week at a constant rate. Beleive this is one hard task. You have to give a lot of respect to extremely obese people that try to lose weight. It's probobly like trying to quit smoking or something like that. Any losing weight is one of the biggest challenges you will have in your life because it is a 24/7 task.
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There is no safe way to lose a kilogram of weight per day; the shock to your physiology could easily be fatal!  You don't put on weight that quickly; you can't lose it that quickly without a major chance of death.
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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