How much weight can I lose in 10 months?
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The answer depends on where you are starting... it would be better to ask what is a healthy rate of weight loss and then talk about what a healthy target weight is.  Here are some ideas.\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 then
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Depends on how much. If it is just like 10 or 15 lbs you can cut back on calories and exercise more and you will lose at least 10 lbs in 6weeks
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No way. Not unless you starve yourself and even then I don't think it's possible. The most you should lose in one month SAFELY is 8-10 pounds. That's about 2-3 pounds per week.
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Yes, 8-10 pounds per month is a realistic goal. Keep up the good work!
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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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You can lose up to 10 inches and 10 lbs in 10 workouts if you are very strict with your diet. I'm actually selling the instructions for it on ebay if you are interested.  I listed the link for the auction in Know Your Souce.
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Lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks??\n\nThere are some websites on the Internet, which promise you that you are going to lose 10 pounds in every 2 weeks. If you are good in math you will find that keeping these stats in mind, 260 pounds in a year. Losing 260 pounds is the figure, which is unbelievable and unexpected.\n\nThis kind of claims are planned just to cause clients to make impulsive decisions. When you gain weight, did you gained around 50 minds in two months? Certainly not. We gain weight in weight in small parts, which add up to our weight. This keeps on increasing with time.\n\nI think you get what I mean to say. We normally gain weight in grams like 65 gram per week. With this stat you are going to gain around 7 pounds at the end of year.\n\nThis weight is so slow that you cannot measure it weekly. But in fur years you are going to gain around 28 pounds.\n\nSo how can you expect this weight to go in few days? You are going to lose the way you have gained it. So it will take time to lose weight. So you have to start losing weight systematically. You can lose weight by developing the good eating habits in you and nutritious foods.
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How much weight are you talking about. I mean 5 pound 100 pounds. I can promise you that you can lose it quicker then you gained it. It sounds like you are being unrealistic with this 10 day thing.
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You shouldn't lose that much weight in one week.  It's not healthy.  If you're going to do it regardless, you could always starve yourself I guess, but in the end, you'll just gain it all back.  There is no healthy way to lose 10 pounds in one week.  Healthy is 2-3 pounds a week.
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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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Ok you have around 4 months.. 16 weeks.. if you lose 1 - 2 lbs a week.. which is HEALTHY weight loss.. you'll be in great shape.\n\nYou can walk in your neighborhood.. or job.. do aerobics, etc.  Just watch your calorie intake.  Keep a food diary (and be honest) and it'll show you where you can shave off some calories.. like in uneeded non-diet sodas or junk food, etc.  \n\nYou'll make those 20 easy! :)
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You cant.  You will be doing well if you lose 10lbs in that time.  Diet and exercise is the only way and that takes time and patience...;
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You don't. Your best case senario depending on how much you way now and if you are male or female would be 32 pounds.  It's recommended you only lose 1 to 2 pounds a week to be healthy.  Besides, the slower you loose the more likely you are to keep it off.
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If you can burn about 500 calories per day (and don't eat more to compensate), you can lose 1 pound per week.
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10 pounds is a lot for a month.  Eat smaller portions of pasta, preferably the whole wheat kind.  Limit your fats and eat lots of vegetables.  Exercise!
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10lbs is 2 weeks is not health at all.  Try losing that in a month instead of 2wks
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I'd go for 10 lbs, if its to lose the week before you can always gain some back.  gaining it back is the easy part.