how can I lose weight in 2 weeks?
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If weight loss is what you're looking for then here's what you need. The best combination for weight loss is calorie restriction, resistance training, and aerobic work. Let's start with calorie restriction. Over the years I have had personal training clients as well as athletes come to me wondering why they are not losing weight. They tell me they eat right, exercise right, say their prayers, eat their vitamins, etc., and they just can't seem to lose weight. Well, most of the time, once I really get to know them, I find that nutrition is the culprit. You need to know what you're eating. Most of the people I'm talking about all thought they did. \n\nHow do you change this? Well, it may sound tough, but it's not that bad. You need to keep track of what you eat for 2 days over the week, and 1 day over the weekend. Next, go to you're local book store. You can find charts, books, and computer programs that will help you analyze the foods you ate. Another suggestion would be to take your dietary recall to a nutritionist or exercise physiologist at your local college and let them find it for you. \n\nThese recalls will tell you how many calories you're getting plus where they are coming from. For example, are they coming from protein, carbohydrate, or fat. It will help you see where you stand nutritionally. \n\nNext, you need to get on a good strength program. When a person is losing weight, the weight comes from fat, as well as muscle. That's kind of an unfortunate thing because muscle is an important thing when keeping metabolism high. There is enough research out there to safely say that when going through a phase of high intensity aerobic work and calorie restriction, strength training decreases muscle wasting. So, in short, strength-train. It's important. I wouldn't strength-train for anymore that 20 to 30 minutes. You can get what you need in a short period of time. \n\nAfter the strength training, it's time to get on the bike, treadmill, stepper, track, whatever. Keep your workouts to 30 minutes and up in order to burn the calories. Train between 3 to 5 times per week. Keep your heart rate at 60 to 90% of heart rate max. \n\nDon't look at losing weight as some mysterious monster that you can't get the reins on. Look at it as nothing more than stored energy. That's what fat is?stored energy. If you had a tank full of energy and it kept filling up higher and higher, what would you do to keep your tank from growing too large from the excess energy? Well, burn some of the energy off. That's what you need to do to lose weight. Keep the "energy in" lower than the "energy out" and abracadabra, you're losing weight. \n\nNote: You need to change your routine every 2-3 weeks in order to get the best results. \n\nMonday \n\n\nLeg Press 2x12 \nChest Press 2x12 \nLat pull down 2x12 \nShoulder Press 2x12 \nDB Curl 2x12 \nTricep kickback 2x12 \nAerobic Work  30 or more minutes. \n\n Click Here For A Printable Log Of Monday! \n\nTuesday \n\n\nAerobic work 30 or more minutes of aerobic exercise.\nWednesday \n\n\nSame as Monday.\nThursday \n\n\nSame as Monday, or take a day of rest.\nFriday \n\n\nSame as Monday.
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Don't lose too quickly you'll put it all back on.  Also you risk damaging your heart (which is a muscle) because your body might be forced to burn muscle as well as fat if you eat too little. \n\nAim to lose 1-2lbs a week (it will be more to start with) by cutting out fatty and sugary snacks, alcohol and sugary drinks.  Eat three sensible low fat meals a day, and drink plenty of water.  If you are hungry between meals have a glass of water or herbal/fruit tea to fill your stomach and give you the sensation of feeeling full.\n\nDo a bit of exercise to boost your metabolism, burn some fat and build muscle.  Muscle weighs more than fat but burns calories quicker, so you can eat more and put on less!
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Losing 2 lbs. a week is really hard to do. But there is only one way to lose fat: You have to eat less than you burn.\n\nA pound of fat = 3,500 calories. So to burn a pound of fat you have to burn 3500 cals above and beyond what you're eating. \n\nTo lose a pound of fat a week, you need to burn 500 cals a day (above and beyond what you are eating.) To lose 2 lbs of fat a week, you'd have to burn 1000 cals a day. It can happen, it's just really hard to do.\n\nRemember that you don't want to starve yourself. If you don't eat enough calories your metabolism will slow and your body will start to break down muscle. You may lose weigtht this way, but you will lose lean weight as well as fat weight. It's not very healthy!\n\nSo, To answer your question depends on your resting metabolic rate. roughly 1500/day for women and 2000/day for men. This is your bear minimum for the day... you shouldn't eat less than that. Then up your exercise and you're off toward weight loss!!!
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Yes, and in a healthy way.\n\nYou want to set a goal of losing 1-2 lbs a week...in the beggining, it's ok to lose 3 lbs per week, but this will average out to be 1-2 lbs during the 16 weeks.\n\nTry Weight Watchers, LA Weigh Loss, or other groups and they'll support you and teach you how to control your calories to lose 1-2 lbs a week. It's not as hard as it appears, just take baby steps and focus on the individual week!\n\nYou should only be exercising <cardio : step, treadmill, jumping jacks, rollerblading, swimming> 3-4 times a week.  You're biggest part is controling what goes into your body: <diet soda-pop or water>, <chips or vegtables>, <chocolate or strawberries>, <hamburgar or skinless chicken breast>.  I've found that my liquid controll <only WATER> helpes the fastest to drop the weight.  Seriously, the groups that offer weight loss programs are reasonably prices, and effective tools to teach you.\n \n16 x 2 = 32 lbs
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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'm in the same boat.  i need to lose 20 pounds by Jan 6th.  first of all you wont be able to lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks.  the most you can lose is 5-10.  this is what my doctor is having me do - \nskip out any fast food, especially soda and fruit juice - switch to water and 1% milk.  eat lots of vegetables, fruits and nuts and lean meats like chicken, pork and shrimp and fish.  dont quit eating- you want to increase your metabolism by creating a good exercise routine and eating healthy foods for your body to burn.  doing so will make you leaner.  remember muscle is heavier than fat so your weight may or may not change, but you will look a lot more trim and your body will look more defined and sleeker...\n\ni got ankle weights and pilate stretchy thing at target for cheap.  i've been using it for about 2 week now.  i'm starting to lose my big butt and thighs.  This is my routine - \n\nWalk 15-30 min a day with ankle weights\nArm curls - twice a day (morning/evening) 10-15 each\nleg lifts - twice a day 8-10 each\n15 -20 sits ups - twice a day\ncardio work out - biking, treadmill, jogging,  etc - 2-3 times a week.
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The best way to loose weight and keep it off as everybody knows is to eat healthy foods in not too large portions, exercise and drink plenty of water. Also you should make sure you are getting enough sleep.\n\nThis will not be an extremely fast process, though it is the better choice. To loose weight fast I would smoke, not eat and exercise heaps and introduce heaps of stress into my life. You may be dead by the end of two weeks, but at least you will fit into the size 8 dress you always wanted to wear...
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It is not healthy to lose that much weight that fast. You should only lose 1 to 2 pounds a weeks.
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NO.  You should not lose more than 1-2 lbs per WEEK if you want to stay healthy.  It sounds like you should see your doctor and ask him/her for a referral to a good nutritionist who can help you learn how to eat healthy.  And you need to exercise too.
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It's best to aim for 1 - 2 pounds of weight loss each week, so that would be 10 - 20 weeks to lose 20 pounds.
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You don't!  The only thing you'll accomplish by trying to lose weight really fast, is to get dissappoined really fast.  Set a goal of 1 to 2 lbs per week by exercising with something you enjoy.  Chart the results and don't rush it.  You didn't gain it really fast I assume.\n\nMake it a lifestyle change...not a fad diet too.\n\nGood luck.
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I would do the South Beach Diet, you stick to it and and you can lose 7-15lbs in two weeks. I did.
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Well, it would be difficult to drop 10lbs in two weeks healthily.\n\nIt's not a bad idea to establish good eating and exercise habits and sticking to them. Meanwhile perhaps you should consider buying clothing that fits, and/or have the dress tailored to fit your current physique.
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2 inches in one week is asking for alot. no quick fix diets as youll put on again just as fast you need to get into a good habbit of an eating and excercise plan. this might help.
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Well you left it a bit late! 2 weeks is not enough time to lose more than 5lb the sensible way. Just try to eat healthily, go mad at the gym for a couple of weeks and when you are on your cruise, make sure you take advantage of the exercise equipment and swimming pool! Good luck and have a good trip : )
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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. \n\nYou are welcome to look at my 360 Blog of September 10 for some aggressive but realistic suggestions on improving fitness.\n\nAloha
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3 - 5 months, depending on your body and age.\n\nYou shouldn't lose anymore than 2 pounds a week.