how can i drop pounds fast? id like to know from someone who has done it?
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i lost 9 pounds in a week from eating steamed fish and veg, fruit, porridge and walking and swimming every day
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Here are 25 great weight dropping tips!\n\nEating Tips\n\nGood things come in small packages. Here's a trick for staying satisfied while still keeping portions under control: Cut high-calorie foods like cheese and chocolate into smaller pieces. It will seem like you're getting more than you actually are.\n\n\nDon't give up dips. If you love creamy dips and sauces, don't cut them out of your diet completely. Just use low-fat sour cream or mayo instead of the full-fat stuff.\n\n\nGet water-wise. Make a habit of reaching for a glass of water instead of a high-calorie snack. It will help your overall health as well as your waistline. Add some zest with a twist of lemon or lime.\n\n\nHerb it up. Stock up your spice rack, and start growing a small herb garden in your kitchen window. Spices and herbs add fantastic flavor to foods without adding fat or calories.\n\n\nSlim down your soup. Make a big batch of soup and refrigerate it before you eat it. As it cools, the fat will rise to the top. Skim it off the surface for reduced fat content.\n\n\nDoggie-bag that dinner. At restaurants, ask the server to put half your entrée in a doggie bag before bringing it to your table. Putting the food away before you start your meal will help you practice portion control.\n\n\nListen to your cravings. If you're craving something sweet, eat something sweet — just opt for a healthier nosh, like fruit, instead of a high-calorie one. The same goes for crunchy cravings — for example, try air-popped popcorn with soy sauce instead of high-fat tortilla chips. It's just smart substitution!\n\n\nEase your way into produce. If you're new to eating lots of fruits and veggies, start slowly. Just add them to the foods you already enjoy. Pile veggies on top of your sandwiches, or add fruit to your cereal.\n\n\nLook for high-fat hints. Want an easy way to identify high-calorie entrees? Keep an eye out for these words: au gratin, parmigiana, tempura, alfredo, creamy and carbonara, and enjoy them in moderation.\n\n\nDon't multitask while you eat. If you're working, reading or watching TV while you eat, you won't be paying attention to what's going into your mouth — and you won't be enjoying every bite. Every time you sit down for a meal, sit down. Chew slowly and pay attention to flavors and textures. You'll enjoy your food more and eat less.\n\n\nTaste something new. Broaden your food repertoire — you may find you like more healthy foods than you knew. Try a new fruit or vegetable. (Ever had jicama, plantain, bok choy, starfruit or papaya?)\n\n\nLeave something on your plate at every meal. One bite of bagel, half your sandwich, the bun from your burger. See if you feel satisfied eating just a bit less.\n\n\nGet to know your portion sizes. It's easy to underestimate how much you're eating. Don't just estimate things — make sure. Ask how much is in a serving, read the fine print on labels, measure your food. And learn portion equivalents: One serving of pasta, for instance, should be around the size of a tennis ball.\n\n\nMake a healthy substitution. Learn to swap healthier foods for their less-healthful counterparts. Find a substitution that works for you: Use skim milk instead of whole milk; make up a batch of brownie mix with applesauce instead of oil; try a whole-grain bread instead of white.\n\n\nBring lunch to work. Packing lunch will help you control your portion sizes. It also provides a good alternative to restaurants and fast-food joints, where making healthy choices every day can be challenging (not to mention expensive).\n\n\nHave some dessert. You don't have to deny yourself all the time. Have a treat that brings you pleasure, but this time enjoy it guilt-free — be sure you're practicing portion control, and compensate for your indulgence by exercising a little more or by skipping your afternoon snack.\n\n\nAsk for what you need. Tell your mother-in-law you don't wan
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drop sugar, salt, caffiene, and sat fat intake. and yes. walk around. you may think running around will burn fast easy. actually no. walking. low cardio fat burn is what it's called. don't follow atkins diet either. the body needs carbs just to move. take your body wieght. divide by two. whatever # u get you need to be eating that many calories a day just to survive. and thats not counting moving around.\n\ngood luck.\n\nsry, its alot of info. but i'm a nurse in training.\n\ngot a lot of bio classes under my belt.
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This really isnt safe but if your really eager to loose weight fast i recomend lots of water and depending on your height and weight  drop about 800 - 900 calories a day. most people will recomend only dropping 500 a day but if you wanna loose it fast do like i said. however there can be very dangrous side effects to dropping that many a day. but im not gonna sit here and tell you to eat a well balanced diet since your question was "whats the best way to loose weight fast and easy." Now no diet is easy but i find hamsandwhiches (2 a day with only very light mayo and half slice of cheese to be full feeling) or try eating breakfast Like toast with a little butter and 2 boiled eggs and then lunch a tuna sand. and skip supper. meals like these really dont add up to alot of calories but u have to watch starch and stuff like that. bread can pack on the pounds so very what you eat. Im just being honest with you.so far no one else has really answered your question this way. Oh and for exercise i recomend walking a mile a day and then after every 3 days up it to another mile. Becareful this diet can be dangerous.
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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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Do a colon cleansing, then drink lots of water while avoiding red meat, poultry skin, dark meat of chicken or turkey (avoid these, white meat is okay), eat five times as many greens without butter or adding salt.  To lose weight very fast you must avoid all oils, salts, fats and eat more, yes more, frequently.  Eat a small meal every two to three hours avoiding the above no no's, while drinking water only.  Also avoid caffine and fruit juice, bread, etc. and if you possibly can walk up to 45 minutes everyday.  Stop eating two to three hours before going to bed.\n\nThis should remove ten pounds in two weeks.  Good luck.
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well, of course, everybody is going to tell you:\n\nCarefully watch the foods you eat over this period you want to get slim quick (of course you should watch what you eat anyways because if you try some crash diet thing or short term diet, you will gain it all back and MORE when you are done).  EAT SLOWLY.  You will eat less and be just as full.\nAlso, eat smaller meals throughout the day rather than one or two BIG meals.\n\nCalories burned has to be more than Calories taken in.\n\nWater, water, water.  Pound it.\n\nExercise.  Swimming is generally considered one of the best overall exercises you can do for your body.  NO impact, total body workout.  Upper body, lower body, and abs.  Also, if you are looking at certain body parts, work those more.  Pick up a few fitness magazines at the store.  They always have good ideas and workout plans.\n\nMake your entire day your workout.  When you're walking somewhere, walk briskly.\n\nAnd FORGET those get fit quick schemes.  That 24 hour hollywood diet (laxative), slimfast shakes, "eat this powerbar instead of a whole meal" plans.  All you'll end up doing is eating the shake or bar, still feel hungry, and eat anyways, making you GAIN weight.\n\nAnd unless you are morbidly obese, don't do that stupid no-carb thing.  Its retarded, people are idiots.  If you eat no carbs, that means less energy.  Eventually, your body will compensate by lowering your metabolism to burn less energy at any given time.  Then when you eventually get tired of that fad (which you would), you'll gain a TON of weight becuase your metabolism dropped so much.\n\nAlthough, it IS a good short term weight loss technique.  However, you are NOT supposed to stay on it for more than a week (two weeks TOP).  Anything after that and you are actually damaging your body.  Remember the guy who invented the Atkins diet.  Died of heart disease i think it was.
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Losing weight that fast isn't a good thing. If you lose it slowly, it stays off longer.\nIf you feel it works and isn't going to do you harm in the long term, good luck.
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The only real way to lose a significant amount of weight and keep it off is to increase your exercise and cut down on your food intake. Your goal of two pounds a week is a sensible and achievable one. The first thing you have to do is decide that it is what you really want to do. i.e. more important than snacking or lying on the couch. You need to change your life i.e. get up from the computer. It really is not that hard once you make up your mind to do it. It also helps if you can do it with a freind or partner for encouragement. It worked for me. Lost about 60 lbs two years ago. Went to the gym about 3 days a week for 2 hours per time. Walked a lot. Decided to eat smaller amounts but more often and slightly reduced my overall intake. Did not snack unless I was really really hungry. I have gained back a bit of the wieght I lost as I am no longer going to the gym but I seem to have leveled off no with an overall loss of 35 lbs. Good luck. John
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Dieting sucks. Changing eating habits works. A few tips that have worked for me:\n1. Eat slowly. It takes up to 20 minutes for your brain to register that your tummy is full. If you eat slowly you'll give your brain more time to tell you what your stomach really needs.\n2. Eat fresh. Load up on vegetables and cut down your meat. The fiber will make you feel fuller longer, too. Dress up your veggies with shedded cheese, roasted nuts, stuff like that. Eat out seldom. Their portions are huge and not healthy. As much as you can, fix your own food and avoid pre-packaged meals.\n3. Drink a lot of water. It aids in digestion and keeps you feeling fuller, longer. Especially drink a glass of water about 1/2 hr. before dinner. You'll feel like eating less.\n4. Eat a lot of soup. This will get you vegetables and water, fill you up, and it will do it with very few calories. They can be very easy to make, too.\n5. Don't deny yourself things you really like. Denying yourself of one thing entirely will drive you nuts until you lose control and binge. Instead, allow yourself some of your favorite foods regularly, and portion them out. For example, my husband has a problem with ice cream. His habit is to sit in front of the TV with a pint of Ben and Jerry's and a spoon. Without even thinking, he can polish the whole thing off. It's better to portion it out in advance, enjoy a reasonable about, and stop when your plate is clean.\n6. Walk whenever you can. Walking burns just as many calories per mile as running (running just gets it done faster) and is a lot easier and less sweaty to do. A 150 lb person burns about 120 cal/mile. You'll burn more or less, depending on your weight.\n7. DO NOT drink your calories. That means not only soda, but fruit juice and coffee drinks, as well. They have HUGE amounts of calories and they don't satisfy you like a meal. Avoid Jamba Juice like the plague. Snapple is your enemy. And if you really need a latte, please don't get any of those syrup shots.\n\nRemember- 1 lb of fat = 3500 calories. You could run an entire marathon and only lose a single pound! Don't expect it to be fast or easy. It's hard to lose weight, and only people who've never tried to lose don't believe that. Any diet that claims to make you lose weight faster is unrealistic and unsustainable. Numbers don't lie. But if you take my advice it'll come off nice and steady, absolutely. Good luck!
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there is no such thing as healthy FAST weight loss.  1-2 pounds per week is all your body can handle.  Unless you are extremely obese which I  doubt.  Healthy diet and daily exercises is the only real way to loose weight.  To keep weight off it takes a life style change.  Being over weight didn't come over night and it takes the constant effort and hard work to not get back in that spot once you get it off.  A sad fact, once you get a fat cell you can never get rid of it.  You can shrink it down to nothing but its still there and when you eat bad that fat cell is trying to grow so it will attack any excess fat you take in.  good luck and don't ever buy in to any quick weight loss schemes.  they hurt your body and actually cause a negative effect in weight loss.
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Drink lots and lots of water and eat a lot of fruit and veggies.  By the way the quicker you drop the weight, the quicker you'll put it back on
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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.
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Be VERY careful when trying to lose weight fast.  It is terribly bad for you to lose any more than 4 lbs a week.\n\nTo lose weight, you must exercise a LOT!  In addition, you should eat more than 3 times a day, but only tiny portions.  Maybe a half a fruit and some nuts.  Stay away from high fat items like mayonaise, cheese and fatty meats.  Eat fish, lean chicken or turkey, and PLENTY of vegetables.\n\nDon't forget to exercise every day.  Don't overdo it or you will burn yourslef out.
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What ever you do don't try these new 'fads' that are out these days...\nHere is the fastest and healthiest way to lose weight...\nFIRST AND FOREMOST DRINK LOTS OF WATER YOU CAN DRINK IT ALL DAY AND IT WILL TAKE THE WEIGHT OFF FAST!\nFoods you can eat:\nfresh veggies\nfresh fruits\nwhole wheat bread\nrye bread\nMeats:\nchicken\nfish\nhamburger\nany meat as long as its not fried\nbake the meat!\nbeans \n\nFoods not to eat:\nwhite bread\nsugar of any kind (use only sugar substitute if you must use sweetener)\nno cereal that has sugar in it...\ntry to lay off any thing but whole grains\nbut you can eat oatmeal..\nNo salty things...\nNo potatoes\nno rice unless its brown rice...\nno carbs at all\nOK NOW ONE MORE THING:\nDO NOT EAT AFTER FIVE PM!!!\nBUT YOU CAN DRINK WATER...\nThe best exercise for every one is just plain old walking!!!!
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Fasting will slow your body's metabolism, it's the worst thing you can do to your body!\nEat several (4-6) small meals a day...your body will burn calories faster and build your metabolism in a short period of time.\n(eat about every 2 hours)\nThe first 8-10 pounds you shed is water.\nMeal suggestions:\n1st: piece of fruit\n2nd: string cheese, summer sausage, cottage cheese/yogurt\n3rd: bowl of cereal\n4th: soup/sandwich\n5th: a good dinner-meat, potatoes/pasta, veggie...your body needs carbs, protein and vitamins to stay healthy\n6th: salad/raw veggies\nDrink plenty of water \nDrink milk or juice/water with every meal (no soda pop)\nStay away from munchies, fried & fatty foods.\nSmall amounts of food will shrink your stomach and you will feel full.\nSimple activities & exercise (especially walking) will help lose the weight and tone the body.
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Eat less and exercise more. It's the only proven method that will allow you to drop the weight and keep it off in the long term. By saying eat less, I'm referring to reducing your caloric intake, not nessecarily changing what kinds of foods you eat.\n\nLast year I was 255lbs at 6'3", by cutting out lunch and afterdinner snacks and by walking more and using the stairs rather than the elevator, I lost 50lbs and have kept it off.