I'm petite and slim, but I'd still like to lose 5 pounds for bikini season. What's the fastest way to do this?
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I'm in the same situation -- almost there but not quite.  Dairy really helps me lose weight.  I drink lowfat chocolate milk in place of a meal.  It fills you up and it's nutritious.  Good luck.
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This is easy.\n\nIf you run 5 miles, swim 50 laps (freestyle) and bike another 20 miles every other day... the weight will be gone.
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Below site has slow ways to lose weight but specializes in fastest ways to lose weight. Takes off bodyfat, water retention and 3rd thing which is a trick used by models and dancers right before an event with instructions. You can share it with the bride. This trick gives you a flatter stomach and a temporary loss of 5 to 20 pounds in an hour. Is this fast enough for you?\n\nRight before fitting take an enema to get out those 5 to 20 pounds of waste. They come back after a day and a half but site has ways to minimize how much comes back. Then right before wedding do it again to temporarily look better than normal. After learning about it, I wondered if Britney Spears does this before making an appearance or music video. Well you have seen photos of celebrities at events looking great but also on street looking not so great. Mae West used to take an enema every morning.
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You can lose a lot of weight between now and the summer if you work at it a little.   If you make a few life style changes you should be able to lose quite a lot of weight by July.  You need to have a deficit of 3500 calories to lose a pound, so don't try to do it too fast. This is a system that has worked well for me and several friends have also been successful with it.\n\n1. Eat three nutritious meals and three snacks everyday. Cut out junk food. You probably need about 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.  Use the calculator at one of the links to figure out a sensible number of calories for you.\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 for women. Actually the "dummies" series of books has done a rather good one.\n\n4. Walk, walk, walk. Buy yourself a pedometer and aim for 10,000 steps a day.  Start by walking around the block if that is what you can do now, and increase a little every 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 burning more calories than you take in leads to weight loss.  Remember 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\n7. A mini stepper is an easy piece to equipment to have at home and gives great results. I bought mine at a second hand store for $4.   Even if you use it for a minute or two several times a day it can make a big difference.\n\nI hope these thoughts help. Be strong.  You can do this. Good luck with it.
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Drink 6-8 glasses of  2 tbsp. lemonjuice\n                      2 tbsp. maple syrup\n                      and a pinch of cayanne\na day. I was able to do this for one month. It was awesome. It is the perfect cleanser, you get lots of energy, clarity, and the vanity part 20 lbs. less weight.\nyou have to want to do this. you have to commit. The results are wonderful. I was NEVER hungry, still had friends over and cooked for them and WATCHED. They were so amazed by me. Speed walk 3 miles, listen to good music. Be good to yourself. Good luck\nI do it once a yr. Maybe we should do it together.
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Hi my name is Christina and I use to weigh 211 POUNDs. Now Im 185 pounds I know Im still fat but I lost over 15 pounds and all you have to do is take a few minutes every day maybe about 45 minutes and walk in the park or you can jog whatever fits u better. The next step is to go on a diet!!! You can go on the Special K diet and all You have to do is eat the Special K C ereal every day for breakfast and Lunch for 2 WEEKS and You can lose up to seven pounds isnt that good and while your on the diet set your goal of how many pounds you want to lose Whether its 5 pounds 10 pounds or even 15 pounds and to make your stomache flatter and thinner all you have yo do its situps do at least 500 situps everyday and if you do that for about a month I gueranteed that you'll lose about five inches off your waist. That will help your stomache to get thinner but for your legs you can walk or jog or you can even run I think the best thing is to walk or run about 5 miles per day at least four days a week if You want to get muscles than just lift weights either if its 5 pounds or 10 pounds or even 20 pounds. You can buy the weights at K-mart or Wal- Mart
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Jogging and low fat diet.\n\nThe fastest way is via liposuction, but I wouldn't recommend it.\n\nAlways opt for natural solutions first!!
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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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25lbs in 4-5 weeks is not really that feasible - i know - i had to lose 70lbs after the birth of my kiddo - however..you could lose about 15 I say - because I did and here is how...\n\nSouth Beach Diet works very well - its a no brainer and it IS healthy so that part is taken care of. Some people complain about Phase 1 part of the diet, truthfully - I skipped it and went straight to Phase 2 and did very well.\n\nThen second part to losing all this weight is exercise. And believe me - I hate it..but..you HAVE to do it - you have to do something that really gets your heart rate up and for me it was Billy Blanks TaeBo. It is kick-butt and even if you are a beginner - you can just do what you can , march in place and then catch back up when you can again. I did his Basic workout series, not with the bands that he has. Although any of them will work. But you HAVE to exercise - and I did 4 days a week for about 40 minutes.\n\nTHAT is a sure fire way to lose weight quickly and healthy - South Beach and 4 days of 40 minutes of cardio. Check with your doctor before beginning any exercise or diet plan though. \n\nAnd last thought - 1lb of fat = 3500 calories. To lose 1 lb a week - you have to omit 3500 calories from your diet. It sounds like a lot - it is - but not over 7 days - over 7 days you have to omit 500 calories a day from your diet. And you do that two ways - 1. from dieting and 2. from exercising. If you can omit 500 calories in food per day and then burn another 500 calories- thats 2 lbs a week. you'll also lose some water weight - so 2-3 lbs a week is pretty feasible.\n\nAim for 15 lbs in 6 weeks and you'll be doing great! And I'm with ya there - I have 10lbs I want to lose and am on the fast track to getting it off. its HARD though but we can do it!\n\nGood luck - be healthy and try to have fun with exercise so if Tae bo isn't for you - find something else - simply walking (walking fast though) is going to do it for you too. Try taking a class of kickboxing or aerobics - I did kickboxing class 2 times a week and it REALLY helped. (and then I lost the weight last year and haven't exercised since and am paying for it now! hahaha)
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hello,i went on slimfast and lost 7lbs in a week,all you do is have a milkshake for breakfast and dinner then a healthy meal for tea,eg veg and fish.its really hard to do but worth it in the end,and youll feel miles better about yourself,remember its not how big you are its about how comfortable you feel in your body,good luck
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My advice- Buy a bigger bikini!  A  Vacation should be fun, don't torture yourself! Losing weight fast is never a safe option, instead- be happy with how you look now, and enjoy your time there!
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Oh!  Sweetie!  Wouldn't that be wonderful!  You CAN'T!\n\nFor every 3500 calories (less) we eat, you will lose 1 lb.\n\nYou can exercise 3500 calories off also.\n\nDrink more water, eat more vegetables, cut down on refined sugar and yes, you must exercise.\n\nGood Luck
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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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I don't know if it's possible to lose that much weight in that time, most people say you should only lose 2-5 pounds a week. I think I read that somewhere. I would recommend going on some kind of diet either low carb or something. I like the South Beach Diet and the Mayo Clinic Diets and I've heard good things about the Mediterranean Diet. Also, you want to do crunches and other workouts that target the areas you're trying to slim down.
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Eat less junk food and exercise more. If you only want to lost 5 pounds if you just walkt for like 20 extra minutes a day that should do it. Also, I like to have instant breakfast for breakfast, it fills me up and is fairly healthy.
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The ONLY way to lose body fat is to do a slimming diet.  Exercise is OPTIONAL.  Exercise can increase your metabolism so that you lose weight quicker, but that's all.\n\nYou are not alone; many people think like you seem to -- and it is 100% completely WRONG!! Think about it -- anorexics are known more for not-eating than taking exercise.  Bulimia is an eating disorder, nothing to do with exercise.  Anorexics and Bulimics are stick-thin... yet I'll bet you know some fat people who are energetic, who do a lot of exercise.  Body-Builders and Gym-goers tend to weight more than fat people, and they eat more than fat people too!\n\nFor a height of 1680, you are more-or-less 10kg overweight, coming in just now at 83.5. At a sensible and modest average daily weight loss of 0.1kg, it would take 100 days for you to reach your target weight.  That means you would lose 1kg every 10 days, so it's not very difficult at all.\n\nFor you I would recommend that you shrink your stomach, detox and regain control over you metabolism by doing a 24 hour fast -- no food at all (no problem for a 20 year old, and fast have been part of most religions for centuries). After the fasts, simply follow these rules: (1) Chew all your food very well  (2) Drink 2 litres of water every day (3) Never ever ever drink carbonated or fizzy drinks ever (4) Always leave some scrap of food as waste on your plate -- never ever clear your plate (5) Never exercise at a gym -- it builds muscle which is heavier than fat, it is also a life habit that does more harm than good if you do not keep it up. (6) Walk a lot, walking is the very best exercise you can do, it requires no equipment (othe rthan sensible shoes), and is vwery sociable. (7) Pick any slimming diet -- fad or not... count calories, count points, whatever -- every slimming diet actually works!  The trick is keeping the weight from coming back -- and the only way to do that is to keep your portions down, shrink your stomach and drink water.\n\nJust remember, health is all about balanced diet, vitamins, minerals, supplements, diet, exercise, lifestyle, regimes etc... losing weight is simply about eating less, and particularly about eating less of the the fattening foods.
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I have some detailed ideas about weight loss on myYahoo!360 Blog of September 10.\n\nTo summarize briefly, 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\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\nAloha