What's the best way to lose weight fast?
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read this blog post I posted few months ago about weight loss\nhttp://health-4all.blogspot.com/2006_05_10_health-4all_archive.html
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Unless your physician has given you specific instructions otherwise, 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 would 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\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\nIf you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.\n\n\nAloha
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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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There is no good way to lose weight fast.  If your trying to lose you should shoot for 1 to 2 pounds a week.  Cardiovascular exercise, a disciplined diet, and a weight training routine are the way to go.  To keep it off you just have to maintain your exercise routine and eat sensibly.  \n\nTheir is no magic diet or woder pill, you just have to change your lifestyle.  If you are really serious about this you can do it.\n\nDon't even think about an eating disorder.  It does way more harm then good.
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Be careful about losing weight rapidly.  Slow, steady weight loss is more likely to last than dramatic weight changes. Healthy plans aim for a loss of no more than ½ to 2 pounds per week (although, the more you weight, the more you'll lose initially - also men tend to lose quicker than females). If you lose weight quickly, you'll lose muscle, bone, and water instead of the fat you want to leave behind. \n\nAccording to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most successful weight-loss strategies include calorie reduction combined with increased physical activity and behavior-modification therapy designed to improve eating and exercise habits. \n\nWeight Watchers is a good program that encompasses all areas of your life -- and you can still eat your favorite food...you're not restricted to certain food groups (like Atkin's)...and you get rewarded for exercise.  Look into it...
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Relax. \n\nWeight loss (like weight gain) is a slow and gradual process. One of the worst mistakes a dieter can do is to stop eating, or throw it all back up. When this happens, your body goes into a crisis mode and starts to store fat and burn muscle, leaving you still flabby with no muscles. \n\nThe best way to lose weight is through healthy eating and exercise. Weight loss is simple math, consume less calories than you burn and you will lose weight. \n\nBe patient and continue to push yourself physically. If your current regiment of exercising is becoming too easy, increase the distance when you jog, or increase the number of endurance exercises you do.
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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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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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The quickest way isn't always the best way or the right way for you.  Here are 3 different approaches that work:\n\n1) The quickest by far is surgery, of course.  Liposuction is fast and works wonders- but actual stomach reductions (stapling, bypass etc) have not only been proven effective for weightloss but also in reducing the chances you'll develop adult onset diabetes.\n\n2) Next fastest is to eat a diet of 80% natural fats and 20% protein, in 5 small portions, with a target of 1000 calories a day.  This is like eating a 2 oz bag of macadamia nuts, or 2 oz of egg salad or tuna salad as a complete meal, every meal.  It works- and for any significant amount of weight it's better than starvation.  More importantly the high fat content of the diet ensures that your body continues to produce the hormones you need to retain muscle tissue- so you lose fat pounds and not muscle pounds.\n\n3) Probably the best long term solution to lose weight and improve your health is to follow a light excercise routine several times per week, and to eat a diet that is high in fiber and has a low glycemic index (that is- eat foods that are low in processed sugar and grains, preferring when you eat carbohydrates to try whole grains and natural sugars).
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no, there are no healthy ways to lose weight quickly ad maintain weightloss. All of those fad diets are not based on evidenced based science. They are based on a billion dollar dieting industry. Healthy weight loss should be 1-2 pounds a week. I would suggest doing something sensible like weight watchers, not the low carb diets.
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increase your self esteem... or\ndehydrate yourself and go to the bathroom a lot.\n\nyou said easiest.\n\nThe best way to lose weight is simply to elevate your heart rate at least 30 minutes a day. You dont even have to exercise for a long time. You dont have to job, jump, or do stairs. Just do anything that raises your heart rate pretty high for a few minutes, and your heart will continue to pump fast and burn calories. Instead of eating a few big meals a day, eat many small meals.\nMake realistic goals like 5 pounds a month and stick to a routine. Have confidence in yourself and dont obsess by looking in the mirror everyday. It will happen, just have patience :)\nI made a site to check BMI and calories burned per day. It's not all that great but I spent a lot of time adding quality links to the further links section.\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/lose_weight.php
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Why dont people give detailed answers here anymore and just give these one line answers?\n\nAnyways....here's the thing about rapid weight loss. Its severely unhealthy and the weight is almost always gained back with sometimes serious repercussions.  First it is extremely bad for your heart, stomach, and immune system.\n\nI will explain the way people lose a lot of weight within a week and then I will explain what i feel is the proper way to lose weight.\n\nThe following is what a lot of people do to lose weight but i find it to be very unhealthy and hazardous to your health.\n\n1. Take weight loss pills like dexitrim.\n2. Take laxatives like exlax.\n3. Do lots of bodywraps, which severly decrease water weight.\n4. Do methamphetamines (speed, tweek)\n5. Do herbal methamphetamines (phen phen (which is outlawed most places) and herbal phen phen which is still legal)\n6. Stop eating all together.\n7. Over exercise\n8. Exccesive use of steam rooms and saunas.\n\nAll of these can be very dangerous (look at Karen Carpenter who died like this), especially if several of the above are used together. The drastic loss or water weight, malnutrition, and use of drugs and/or supplements can prove to be lethal.\n\nWhat I would suggest is:\n1. A reasonable diet (small portions, high in protein, low in carbohydrates, starches, and fats and sugars.)\n2. Try a protein shake in the morning with blended fruit as a breakfast.\n3. Several small meals throughout the day and eat them slowly.\n4. If you are going to get bodywraps done or anything like that make sure you still keep hydrated.\n5. Movie stars have been known to get a high-colonic (enemma) before red carpet events as it does reduce alot of waste in your body thus decreasing weight.\n6. Do lots of cardiovascular excise but nothing too high impact. Stick with swimming, bicyling, and other low impact exercise.\n7. Take a vitamin supplement everyday like Centrum.\n8. Do not take laxatives or diet pills, or keep them to an absolute minimum if you are going to do it.\n9. Look into supplements that naturally speed up your metabolism without damaging your stomach or organs (ginseng is one).\n10.No matter what be realistic and reasonable with the amount of weight you feel you can lose in one week. A person should never fluctuate weight too drastically. Anymore than 15-20 pounds in a week I think would have severe consequences to your body.\n\nHope this helps....
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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\nFor a more detailed answer, you are welcome to look at my 360 Blog of September 10.\n\nAloha
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There are no sidetracks or fast ways to lose weight - here are some hints and tips-\n1 - Exercise - try and do at least 20-30 minutes of cardio (walking, running, skipping etc) everyday\n2 - Eat 6 meals per day - breakfast (muesli with fruit, porridge, yoghurt etc), mid-morning snack (fresh vegetables or fruit), lunch (salad, chicken, tuna etc), mid-afternoon snack (yoghurt, strawberries, fruits etc) then have your normal dinner.\n3 - Try and cut out all white foods - this means bread, pasta, rice etc\n4 - NO JUNK FOODS! NO SODA! \n5 - WATER! WATER! WATER! - this is very important in losing weight and maintaining a healthy body. It will kick-start your metabolism and flush all the yuckies out of your system
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Do a tun of crunches. If you have like 30% plus body fat The fastest way to lose weight is to elevate your heart rate as many times and and as high as you can safely elevate it. Eat small portions of meals many times a day instead of really big portions only a few times a day. Jump rope rules. Anything running or sprinting will burn a super amount of calories, incomparable to weight lost just dieting.\n\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/lose_weight.php
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The best way to lose fat is simple - exerise. If possible, do some cardio first thing in the morning before eating any full meals. This burns the maximum amount of fat. Since your body has not had any food for the last 7-10 hours, it burn the fat in your body for energy. If not, then cardio and a little weight lifting anytime of the day will do. It is important to build some muscle since it will aid in your fat loss. The more muscle mass you have, the faster your metabolism.\n\nAlso, try eating small meals more frequently as opposed to the big 3 (breakfast, lunch, dinner). try to eat a small meal every 3 hours. The reason for this is that your body burns more calories since it is constantly digesting something in your stomach and will raise your metabolism. It is also useful to eat small meals because your stomach will not be stuffed and will always have a smaller look. If you are afraid of doing this because you might end up eating more, try this: when you are about to eat lunch, separate everything on your plate into 2. eat half and leave the other half to be eaten 3 hours later. do the same with dinner.\n\nlastly, losing weight is just simple math. If your calories taken in is more than when you use up (exercise, daily activities, metabolism, etc) then you gain weight. If it is less, then you lose weight. If you are really determined to lose weight then i suggest you start counting how much calorries you consume a day and cut it by 300-500 each week until you notice some results.\n\nPS. if you are really serious, avoid eating foods high in sugar without any real nutritional value (chocolate, cakes, doughnuts, ice cream, all desserts) and foods way up there in the calorie scale (pizza, fried anything, etc)
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The only smart way to "lose weight" is to eat right and exercise.\n\nActually, you should be eating 5-6 small meals every day versus larger meals.