how can i get motivated and lose 10 pounds in three weeks?
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the most you should lose a week is 2 lbs unless you're really overweight. \n\neat healthy foods, exercise, control portions of foods, don't deprive yourself of your favorite food.
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hey i lost 15lbs in a 3weeks by doin situps for 10minutes everyday
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This is the fastest, but not the safest.  Cut your calorie intake really low.  Drink nothing but bottled water or flavored water with zero calories.  You don't need to do excercises, but it is a good idea since the weight drops so fast.  You will want to be firm.  You can drop 10-15 lbs a week.  Buy goldfish crackers and snack on them when you get hungry.  Celery has no calories.  If you are not disciplined enough to just eat like that for a few weeks.  Then go the whole day without eating and drink water only.  Eat 1 meal that is 500 calories or less.  It definitely works.
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No dairy products, reduce your carbs, increase protein and eat 5 SMALL meals (snack size) a day. Power walk at least 45 mins a day, and within 2 weeks you'll be 10 lbs lighter.  If you need to lose 5-7 pounds super fast, then just buy meal replacement bars and only eat those for a week.  Nothing else.  (No more than 2.5 a day).  Not the best thing to do, but short term it works.
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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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If you don't want to work on losing the weight, then what's the point of asking this question? It's up to you to stick to diets, and working out, and not some easy way. If life was like that, then we'd all be in perfect shape. \n\nI lost 12 pounds in three weeks (I think that's a healthy amount to lose...). All I did was cut fast food out of my diet and hit the gym every other day for two hours straight with an hour's worth of cardio (the other hour was for weight training, but if you just want to lose weight, stick with cardio). I still drink coke like water, and I've managed to pull that off. All you have to do is watch what you eat. Instead of McCrap, go eat something a bit more healthier with zero transfat (like a bagel for breakfast or something). You don't have to count calories, or follow food guides, or any thing like that. Just use common sense and eat as much healthy foods as you can.\n\nYour five-pounds a month goal is definitely attainable, and my hat goes off to you for using your brains on that one. And, I'm no nutritionist or anything, 35 pounds by spring break is more than attainable IF you commit to a total lifestyle change. Good luck.
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Forget calories:\n\nJust don't any bread (any)\nDon't drink any soda or crystal light\nNo red meat - chicken breast or turkey\n\nNo butter No mayo, no chips, no candy.\n\nIf these things are heavy in your diet, you will see huge results - 2-4lbs in a week.\n\nWork up a sweat and use 3lb weights and you look fabulous before school starts in the fall.\n\nIt takes 7 days to form a habit...21 to break it....suck it up for 22 days and the rest will be easy.
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1. Find something you love doing and go for it!\n\n2. If you have to do something you are not so keen on, you have to develop motivation by thinking of the goal or payoff you get from it.\n\nFor example, if you have to clean out the garage and have been putting it off, just imagine how you would feel when the garage is clean, the junk thrown away. What a relief you would feel. If you can see the desired objective, imagine it vividly, and make it seem real and concrete, you will be more inspired to do the necessary work to reach your goals.\n\n3. Define your goals specifically, your time frame, and the steps you have to take to reach your goals. Making your objectives specific and measureable go a long way in keeping you on track.\n\n4. Take small steps and celebrate each milestone toward your goal. For example, you want to reduce your wieght, but haven't been able to keep on a diet. Make a plan to reduce a few pounds each week, measure your progress on a chart, and celebrate your success on meeting each weekly goal (but not by eating, of course!).
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Well my first suggestion would be to exercise.  Walking is an excellent way to start.  I would say to keep doing that.  I agree with one of the earlier answers to join the YMCA.  I belong there and have made many friends.  It helps to keep me motivated.  That being said, it sounds like you are an emotional eater.  ME TOO!!!  When I am upset, when I am happy, when I am depressed, when something good happens, when something bad happens etc.....  I use food to fix all issues and celebrate the good one.  \n\nSo I joined LA weight loss.  I love them.  I am only saying that as a suggestion.  But I will tell you what they taught me.  \n\nFirst and most important is journaling.  Write down everything you eat and be sure to include portion sizes.  \n\nNext I would concentrate on portion sizes.  Keep track of how much of each thing you eat.   Now you have a starting point to where you can start to make smaller portions and healthier choices.  \n\nIf you don't already, start eating more fruits, veggies and lean proteins.  Grill your chicken, steam your veggies and loose the fast foods.  I love chinese and have had my share of depressed chinese eating but if you find yourself there, just have a smaller portion and fill up on water.  \n\nThat is the next important point.  Drink water and pleanty of it.  At least, if not more, 8-10 8oz. glasses a day.  Stay away from soda as it is empty calories and makes you dehydrated.  \n\nAnd keep your chin up.  It will not happen over night but it will happen.  I have on my refridgerator a list of all the reasons I am trying to lose weight and what my reward will be.  I am 10 lbs from my goal and my reward is getting my belly button peirced.  I have lost over 50 lbs so far.  If I can do it, so can you.\n\nIf you would like to email me you can.  My personal email is ejniver@hotmail.com\n\nElicia
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- Do excercises you like doing.\n- Make short term goals so you can see progress fairly quickly (2-3 weeks).\n- Check yourself out in the mirror\n- Eat food thats healthy and you like\n- Read the calories or estimate how many are in what you're eating along with fat and sodium content. The high numbers are deterrents.
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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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You're doing fine--10 lbs in 3 weeks is a little over 3 lbs per week!  Normal weight loss is 1-2 lbs per week!  From the sounds of it you're acually undereating, no wonder you're so hungry.  112 lbs will take time and patience.  For your meals I would add more protein to each one, maybe have 5-6 meals a day, be sure to eat protein at each meal.  \n\nMeal 1 ideas: cottage cheese, egg whites with veggies, oatmeal, good grains avoid any bread that is white. Dont' forget your healthy fats--flax seed, olive oil, fish oil, peanut butter (but not too much-it has a lot of saturated fat, etc)\n\nMeal 2:  Protein shake with oatmeal or rice cakes\n\nMeal 3: tuna, chicken, fish, turkey, lean beef, egg whites with small salad or veggies; olive oil or fish oil capsules\n\nMeal 4: so on and so forth\n\nThe meals may get a little bland after a while, but you can add spices, and dress it up with mustard etc...\n\nI'm not crazy about the South Beach Diet, but it will teach you how to eat healthy, and it works for a lot of people.  You just have to teach yourself about nutrition and remember that it takes time to change your lifestyle.  Don't worry about short term, focus on long term goals (eating/cooking healthy for you and your family).  You'll find a list of "clean" foods at the oxygenmag.net forums.  They're great!  You can also read there on how to get the right mix of proteins/carbs/fats for weight loss.  It's the best forum I've come across.  Keep on trucking--you'll make it, remember baby steps :).
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-Eat six small meals a day (total up to 3 normal meals a day), it will help kick up your metabolism.  Your diet should be made up of 60% protein/30% carb/10% non saturated fats\n-Drink lots of water. By the time you feel thirsty, you are already dehydrated\n-Start weight training (start slowly-i.e. 3 times a week, and gradually up to 4-5 times a week, working the whole body each week).  More muscle burns more fat\n-Do aerobic exercises, but make sure you enjoy them.  Basketball, soccer, tennis.  Again, start slow and work your way up\n-Don't do crash diets.  At a max, you should only lose 1.2 lbs. of fat a week, anymore, you're probably losing muscle.  Remember, muscle weighs more.  Weigh yourself at around the same time when you do to get a consistent measurement.  But in the end, it's how you look, not what the scale reads.\n-This helps you stay motivated.  Take a photo of yourself (that will show your body) every 3 weeks.  Compare each 3 weeks the before and after and you will be amazed each time you look at it.
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Try cutting starches and carbs, and drink water when you are feeling hungry.  This will work for 10 pounds or less.  Remember to not return to unhealthy habits you've developed up til now.  Good luck with your new regime!\n\nFOR BREAKFAST:\n\nHalf grapefruit or 8 oz. Glass of unsweetened grapefruit juice \n2 eggs: any style (fry your eggs in butter) \n2 slices of bacon \n1 cup of coffee or tea (black) \nFOR LUNCH:\n\nHalf grapefruit or 8 oz. Glass of unsweetened grapefruit juice \nMeat, any style, or fish \nSalad with sugarless dressing \n1 cup of coffee or tea (black) \nFOR DINNER:\n\nHalf grapefruit or 8 oz. Glass of unsweetened grapefruit juice \nMeat, any style, or fish (gravy must NOT be made with flour) \nSalad (as much as you can eat) with sugarless dressing \nRed, green or yellow vegetables, as much as you want (no potatoes or corn!!) \n1 cup of coffee or tea (black) \nFOR BEDTIME SNACK:\n\nTomato juice or skimmed milk \nSPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:\n\nEat at each meal until you are full. \nDon't eliminate anything. \nGrapefruit is important; it starts the fat-burning process. 4. Only one cup of coffee per meal. \nNo eating between meals. \nThis diet eliminates all sugar & starch. (Fry your eggs in butter; do not use artificial sweeteners.) \nUse butter generously on vegetables. \nEat until you are stuffed. The more you eat of the proper combination, the more weight you will lose. \nFor best results, follow the diet directly. \n10 POUNDS: 10 DAYS .... You can lose 10 pounds in 10 days!\n\nConsult with your doctor before you start any new eating or exercise program.\n\nBon Appetite and good luck Yahooligan!
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Your probrably going to need to work out more often then three days a week  but here are some guidelines.  the basic rules to losing weight are no soda, no fast food, lots of chicken, fish, fresh (not canned that’s bad) fruits and vegies, whole wheat stuff, yogurt. Not so many cakes and donuts and cookies. Basic common sense for eating, you just need to enforce it. Get all the bad stuff out of the house right away, just toss it or give it away while your still motivated. No alcohol if that applies. Some juice but make sure its all natural, because the ones that aren't are loaded with sugar and a leading cause in diabetes in children and adults. Lots of water, 3-4 liters a day, not all at once, but spread out. Its really easy to down a liter or two while your watching tv or on the computer. Also drink some after you eat the bigger meals of the day, it helps your body pick out the nutrients in food when your food is more spread apart.  These rules may be hard to adapt to at first so start with cutting out the things you know you can live without.  Then work to there.  Remember these are  perfect eating habits, it can take you a while to work into it.  If you know you can’t live without your one treat a day, don’t fight it by trying to eat something else, just eat it and make sure that’s the only one you cheat on a day.  Otherwise you’ll get depressed and quit.  Another important point is getting the right amount of sleep every night.  You need 8-9 hours of sleep each night for your body to function correctly.  This is an important factor of losing weight.  Set up a routine for yourself and go to bed at about the same time each night.  \nAs for exercise, lots of cardio. Find something you like. If you have never exercised much before, start with walking 30 minutes a day at a brisk pace. Move on to different terrains that include hills and increase the time spent. After a week or two, try jogging the route. No matter what find an activity you enjoy. Walking to jogging is just an example, try hiking, rollerblading, biking. Once you get into a regular routine, if your not happy with the level of difficulty, try signing up with a gym. Spinning, pilates or kickboxing classes are great. It will also introduce you to working with weights. Talk to a trainer for instruction before using any weights. A cheap investment is a balance ball, it works you stomach while your just sitting on it, like at your computer and its great for posture. There are hundreds of exercises you can use it for for your entire body. I can give you some ideas if you want, just email me. Also for more info on the benefits of water go to www.watercure.com Good Luck!   Please don't hesitate to IM me at this name if you have anymore questions, i'd be glad to help
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How to lose 10 pounds quickly\n\nYou know Christmas is around the corner. Christmas is the season of parties, celebrations, enjoyment and buying new stuff like clothes, gifts and what ever you like. Why not set a goal for yourself to lose 10 pounds in the next few days and it will help you find a better dress for you as you will feel more confident and more comfortable after losing some weight.\n\nChristmas weight lossIt is a great feeling even after losing very small amount of weight as that motivates us to lose more weight. The very first thing you can do is that calories consumed must be less than the calories burnt. Keep the record of each and every thing what ever you eat. Check out the amount of calories in a food before ordering that. So you have to be very careful about the amount of calories you consume.\n\nTry to cook your food by yourself and avoid deep fried food. Limit your calories intake to 1000 to 1200 per day. Remove all sugar and starch from your diet.\n\nSo here are some quick tips to lose 10 pounds quickly\n\n\n    * Drink lot of water\n\n    * Eat a healthy breakfast\n\n    * Do not eat any thing in between the meals\n\n    * Exercise everyday for 30 minutes at least\n\n\nSo go ahead with this and gives yourself a Christmas gift by losing more pounds and look sexier, healthy and more confident.
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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.