Does any one know how i can loose 10 pounds by thanksgiving, and how many calories i'd have to eat?
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How much do you weigh now?  How tall are you?  How old are you?  How much do you exercise?  How much sodium is in your diet now?  These are the important data points to answer your question.\n\nWith less than two weeks until Thanksgiving, you probably cannot expect to lose ten pounds between now and then.
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Be careful what you wish for, when i was younger in my 20's, i took weight gaining pills (they didnt work and made me sick). But now in my 30s, i wish i could loose 10 lbs! It has to do with your metabolism!\nBut, one way would be to eat alot of carbs, like bread and pasta, doughnuts, bagels with pnut butter. But, that is SOOOOO UNHEALTHY! i suggest just eating 3 normal healthy meals from the food groups, its never good to battle your body! Just worry more about being healthy!
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A better question to ask is do you really need to lose 10 pounds. If you are over weight follow the advice about decreasing your calorie intake, make sure you exercise. Since you changed your question from 20 lbs to 10 lbs. I suspect that you are probably perfect just the way you are and that you are letting an incredibility distorted body image sold by the media make you feel too heavy.
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i found this artical called "50 Habits of "Naturally Thin" People\nHow to get Started:Decide how much you want to loose and see how many calories a day it will take to make it happen by year's end.Then, work into your routines however many of these eating tweaks and exercises you need to achieve your goal.\nSlash 250 cal.s a day to lose about 25 lbs. in a year, Slash 500 cal.s to loose 50 pounds.\nThis is based on a 150-pound person: you may need to cut more/ fewer calories depending on ur weight, age & gender. It also assumes your normal calorie intake essentially stays the same and your weight is stable.\n* I'm only going to give you the ones that are most helpful and burn calories. If you want more then email me*\n1.Wake-up Workout - When your eyes open, sit up slwoly w/out using ur hands. W/ legs straight out, lean forward until u feel a gentle stretch in ur back & hamstrings. Hold. Then, Using ur abs, lower urself flat. Rest & repeat 2 more times. BURNS 10\n2. Balance Booster - While u brush ur teeth, alternate standing on 1 leg as u switch mouth quadrants(every 30 seconds). BURNS 10\n3.Be a Ballerina - As ur coffee drips, stand sideways, put 1 hand on the counter, and lift the outside leg straigh out in front of u, keeping it extended. With upper body straight, hold for a few sec.s and move it to the side: hold and extend it behind u. Do 5x on each leg. BURNS 10\n4. Talk It UP - Every time u grab the phone, stand up & pace around. BURNS 50\n5. Carry Some Weight - When ur grocery Shopping/ running erands, wear a backpack with 5-10 lbs bag of sugar inside to increase resistance & burn more calories. Add purchases to ur load as it becomes easier. BURNS 20 (FOR AN HOUR OF ERRANDS)\n6.Pump at the Pump - While ur getting gas, With 1 hand on ur car, Stand on the balls of ur feet & slowly rise up & down for as long as it takes to fill ur tank. BURNS 10\n7. Shop till the Pounds Drop - at the mall try on at least 10 outfits- pants and shirts.BURNS 60\n8. Jog for Junk Mail - For every piece of junk mail u get each day, do 1 lap around ur house/ building, / up & down a flight of stairs. BURNS 35-140\n9. Play Footsie - After Dinner, while u are sitting at the table, extend your right leg out & slowly bend it up & down, squeezing & holding in the up position for at least 5 sec.s. Repeat 5x for each leg. BURNS 10\n10.Ease into Evening - sitting with feet uncrossed, grab ur wrists & raise ur hands above ur head to lengthen the spine. Take a deep breath in as u reach & hold the position, breathing slowly in & out for 20 sec.s, taking longer on the exhale. BURNS 5\n11. Sing a Song - Spend sunday morning belting it out in the church choir. BURNS 70 PER SERVICE\n12. Catch This! -\nSpend 30 min tossing a ball or a frisbee with ur kid/dog BURNS 90\n13. Make Whoopee - Instead of a bowl of ice cream as a bedtime snack, have a robust tussle with your spouse. BURNS 300
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to do what to loose weight u need to do something like this:\neat 5 to 6 smaller meals a day, 2 of the meals should b protein drinks, the other meals should consist of\nprotein: egg whites, chicken, tuna, fish, steak\ncomplex carbs: brown rice, yams, whole wheat breads\nveggies: asparagus, green beans, broccolie, other green veggies\nand drink alot of water, and drink green tea throughout the day\n....cardio 6 days a week, in the morning, before any breakfast right after u wake up, walk on the treadmil for atleast 40 minutes....in the afternoon 3 times a week do a full body low weight circuit workout, do abs every other day.... email me if u need anything else
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Hello. My name is Adam and I am a former Mr Arkansas and fitness trainer. I do have experience dropping weight for events. Well, first of all there is no need to worry too much at your age. You should be able to get your weight down fairly quickly. Your body is going through a lot of physical changes so don't ever feel like you're going to be stuck with 80 extra pounds the rest of your life. The good news is... you can loose the weight!!!\nThe best way to loose weight fast is to cut your cards. Don't listen to critics of this diet. I can tell you, from EXPERIENCE, that it works. The biggest myth to this diet is that you can eat as much meat as you want as long as you don't eat cards. Wrong!!! In order to loose the amount of weight that you are talking about will require low fat meat and absolutely NO sugars (example – ham, turkey, chicken). Yes, that's right. It means no pastas, breads, fruits, soda, and absolutely no alcohol etc....\nI can tell you that this diet is extremely difficult to get started because of all the temptation out there. With the great holiday food coming around it’s going to be difficult to keep the discipline that you will need. Discipline is the key!!!! If you can get past the first two weeks then it is very, very easy to maintain. But those first two weeks are really tough. So, what would a typical meal look like? Breakfast – 4 eggs (with one egg yoke), and 3 pieces of turkey bacon. I like to sprinkle a little season salt on the eggs for a great flavor. Lunch – 1 piece of meat and a low carb veggie. Dinner – (always) boneless/skinless chicken breast and veggie. There are a hundred ways to cook all of these so that it is not soooo monotonous. For instance, sometimes at dinner I’ll cut up the chicken breast and fry it with onions and green peppers in olive oil and put it on a salad, just make sure the dressing is low carb. If you search online I’m sure you can find many ways to cook a low carb meal. \nThe next step is exercise. This doesn’t mean running 5 miles a day. It only means walking for at least 50 minutes every morning and working out with light weights 2-3 days per week. Walking at a fast pace on an incline burns almost as many calories as jogging, and I for one hate running. Kill the time by watching TV or listening to an audio book on your ipod while you walk. Doing this in the morning is the key!!!! Your body doesn’t have any spare carbs that it might have gotten from the food you’ve been eating, so your body burns every calorie from your fat storage. So while you’re walking just remember that you are 100% burning off the fat. It’ll get you excited!!!! \nAll of this boils down to how bad you want to loose the weight. Like I said before, the hardest part is getting past the first two weeks. After that, you are going to be so excited because you will literally see your body changing every week. \nPlease feel free to IM me if you have any questions. I would love to hear your progress. You can do it!!!\n\nRegards,\n Adam
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losing ten pounds in a week really isnt healthy... but if you have to...\n\nexcercise EVERYDAY and burn off every calorie you eat. Better yet, DONT EAT... drinks tons of water... \n\nBut this really isnt a good thing to do
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that's NOT SAFE!!!.. never lose more than 10 pounds a month. But if you really want to do it.. cut WAY back on your calories. Like eat about 900-1000 everyday. That or lots of working out (or both.. but be careful). drink lots of water.. it will flush you out.. and help the fat come off. Also, drinking before a meal makes you eat less.
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you do the exact opposite of just eating 3 meals a day.  Firstly, if you start to get a craving and don't suppress it with any sort of snack, it will become uncontrollable and you will eat more in the long run.  Secondly, the more you eat, the more you increase your metabolism which burns up fat.  Most of the suggestions were good ones.  Exercise, eat veggies, and I would only eat a little fruit and on its own - don't mix it.  10 lbs is not hard and there are lots of ways to lose it but it you give it 2 weeks minimum, you have increased your chances by 65% to keep it off.  If you give it 3 weeks, you have increased your chances by 90%.  Drink up your water and try to cut partially hydrogenated stuff and high fructose corn syrup out of your diet.  Good luck!
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Diet and Exercise is it.  There is no magical special way to take weight off quickly that will ever stick.  Go to mypyramid.gov and print off your own food guide pyramid.  This will tell you what and how much you should eat each day.  Eat a healthy diet consisting of 500 calories less than you need to sustain your current weight, and exercise enough to burn 500 calories each day.  This will enable you to lose 2 pounds each week.  Two pounds is healthy weight loss.  If you are very obese you can cut a few more calories and loose a little more each week and still have it be healthy.  Also, keep in mind as you loose weight you'll need to constantly adjust your diet.  The less you weigh the less calories you need to take in.
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A good way to lose weight is to track your intake of calories.\n\nEveryone burns up a certain amount a day, the more activity that you do, the greater amount of calories your body burns up. \n\nSo, by knowing your calorie intake( I try to limit mine to 500 for breakfast, and lunch, about 250 snack, and 700 for dinner.) try to keep total calories about 1,500 and you should lose weight.\n\nOther ideas:\n\nDrink lots of water\nIf you do eat something like binge eating, so what; start again.\nKeep active\nRemember you did not gain weight overnight, and you won't lose weight overnight.\n\nYou will get there...good luck.\n\nIf you can afford it...weight watchers would be good. Because you will have support.
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That's alot to eat for anyone....it takes 3500 calories to gain a pound. Now you would have to take the amount of calories you have burnt all day and subtract it from the 10,000...whatever is left over is going to go towards gaining.....
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You do not loose weight by starving yourself. You can loose weight by exrecising daily: taking a walk, or jogging. you could also do some basic exercises like sit-ups and stretching for your muscles. And try working out in a gym. \nThe best way to loose wait is to burn it out.\nSO EAT GOOD FOOD that is  BALANCED DIET DAILY.
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Technically, I think the claim is 10 pounds in TWO weeks.  But that is still a lot.\n\nThe thing is, you're talking about replacing two meals a day with bowls of cereal that run about 200 calories each.  To lose 5 pounds in a week, you'd have to create a calorie deficit of 2500 calories a day - something that would be hard to unless you're pretty big to begin with, or exercising 3 or 4 hours a day.\n\nThe only way somebody of average-to-overweight (but not morbidly obese) size could lose this kind of weight in that time frame would be for them to take off some water weight, too.\n\nBTW, good for you that you have enough sense to recognize when something sounds too good to be true!  Many people don't have half as much sense.
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drink lots of water limet your caffine intake and eat high protein foods eggs,chicken,fish,ect; baked or boiled food NO fried food and stay away from any thing made with flour. eat lots of brocolli brussel sprouts and cauliflower,and cucumbers (they eat more fat)and buy akins protein drinks ,have 1 with each meal.I did something like this and lost 74lbs in 10 months it was the physcian weigh loss diet but it was more expences to join,(also see ur doctor before starting and doing)also if y are near a weight loss center u can buy their protene drinks instead THEY WORK !! better yet check it out online at www.pwlc.com u can buy the  protein drinks them self online, PS it's mind over matter.you have to really want to do this.  good luck
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Well there are several ways to go about loosing weight...First you could find a brand of diet soda you enjoy...it took me awhile to find one that I liked but diet Dr. Pepper and diet Root Beer do the trick for me...\nTo loose a pound a week you need to cut out 3500 calories from what you are eating now...that could mean cutting back on portion sizes and eating lower calorie foods...Also I would highly suggest working exercises into a weight loss plan by even just walking a few days a week for 30 min you can improve your chances of loosing weight and this way you would not have to focus just on cutting calories...either way to loose a pound you have to make a 3500 calorie deficit by some combination of diet and exercise. Good Luck!
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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.