Strategies To Lose Weight Fast

Hey, I want to lose at least 3 pounds in one day through excercising. What exercises could help?

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If you look at many of the ads and articles about weight loss, you will notice that a large percentage of them seem to imply that you can lose weight without having to exercise. They will promote some diet pill or simply a diet which is going to take the weight off.

The question is, can you really lose weight just by adjusting your diet? So many people feel that they do not have the time to exercise, or feel they lack the energy to exercise, or just plain don’t want to. It would be great if all they had to do was take some pill or eat some specific diet and the weight would go away, right?

Now, my problem is that when I think of, or advise someone on, weight loss, I automatically throw in adjectives like "healthy" and "permanent". I’m not really in touch with the concept of using a diet to lose a few pounds to get back into last year’s clothes or to look good at the high school reunion. I tend to think of losing weight as a step to the point where you achieve your weight loss goal and enter the realm of weight management. At this point, you are living a healthy lifestyle of combined physical activity and proper nutrition and are able to enjoy life to the max…for a good many years to come!

"Yeah, Don, that’s great, but I’m one of the first group of people you talked about. I just want to lose weight and don’t want to mess with exercise. Heck, man, I’m so overweight and pooped all the time that just thinking about exercise scares me. Just tell me what diet pill to take or diet to follow so that I can get my weight down, look good, feel good about myself, and enjoy life like you say!"

Well, there are people who want to be rich but who don’t want to "mess with" saving, or making wise purchasing decisions, or working hard, either. Whatever we really want in life usually has some sort of price tag attached, and, as the saying goes, we usually, "get what we paid for".

To throw in another old saying, anything worth doing is worth doing well.

To get back to the weight loss without exercise issue, let’s look at a couple of facts.

1. Diets do not work as far as permanent or healthy weight loss is concerned.

2. Permanent, healthy weight loss is commonly achieved through a combination of exercise and proper nutrition.

3. While there are diet products and supplements which can enhance the effects of any weight loss program, they very seldom do the trick by themselves for most people.

Let’s start with that last one.

Start by reading the labels or advertising literature of most diet pills and other weight loss supplements. Somewhere you will usually find a statement that will say something like "when used with regular exercise and a sensible nutrition program". In other words, taking that diet pill or supplement "might" help you lose weight IF it is taken as part of some other weight loss program.

Even the manufacturers of the Alli fat loss pill, which at the moment is the only federally approved weight loss pill, will let you know that you really need to be doing other things as well as taking their pill to experience effective weight loss. Testing of that pill, one of the most effective available, show that weight loss with the pill alone will be minimal unless it is used with a program of regular exercise and proper nutrition.

Let’s face it. If there WAS one diet pill that you could take and then sit around watching TV, eating ice cream, and drinking beer…AND still lose weight and be healthy, there would not be so many different diet pills claiming to do the trick!

Okay, I started with the last fact, so let’s jump around and deal with the first fact next.

Diets per se do not work for permanent, healthy weight loss.

When you suddenly decrease the calories you regularly have been feeding your body, it senses a starvation situation (built in survival trait) and lowers its basic metabolic rate. In other words, it adjusts itself to function with fewer calories. This might not be too bad, but, if you go back to your old eating habits, the same amount of calories will now produce more fat to be stored on your body.

This is why going on and off of diets is actually possibly likely to cause weight gain, rather than weight loss! It’s called yo-yo dieting.

Additionally, extreme reductions in nutrition can also mean extreme reductions in the vitamins, minerals, protein, carbohydrates, fats (needed for life), phytonutrients, and other nutritional factors required for health, energy, and long life. You might lose weight but actually endanger your health and lack the energy necessary to live your life with pleasure.

Just to make all this senseless as heck, once your body adapts to its new diet regimen and adjusts its basic metabolic rate, your weight loss will stop. This usually occurs after only a few pounds have been lost. To lose more weight, you will have to cut your nutritional intake even more, or simply decide to take a look at the second fact I listed.

Test after test and study after study has demonstrated beyond a doubt that the most effective weight loss program is one that includes regular, moderate exercise and healthy eating and living habits. The exercise does NOT have to be extreme, although overall results will usually be directly related to the amount of effort expended.

Most of us are NOT going to wind up looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Cory Everson unless we exercise and eat like they do!

However; regular, moderate exercise can burn calories and build lean muscle tissue which will continue to use up excess calories and burn fat even when we are not exercising. It will raise energy levels, make daily life easier, help elevate mood and fight depression, and will help protect us against a host of degenerative diseases. It has been shown to delay and mitigate the effects of aging, and has been shown a potent protector against many conditions including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, and many forms of cancer.

Healthy eating does not necessarily mean "dieting". Healthy eating involves such things as proper selection of foods, paying attention to portion sizes, and changing a few eating habits…including that great American pastime…snacking!

I used the term "healthy eating and living" because such things as getting the proper amount of sleep, having fun, and having friends can also contribute to health in general and weight loss in particular.

Is weight loss without exercise possible?

Sure! Millions of people throughout history have gotten very thin before they starved to death!

Millions more have simply combined exercise with healthy eating and living habits to experience permanent, healthy weight loss and have enjoyed a long and happy life as a result.

Your choice?

Donovan Baldwin is a Texas writer. He is a University of West Florida alumnus, a member of Mensa, and is retired from the U. S. Army after 21 years of service. His interests include nature, animals, the environment, global warming, health, fitness, yoga, and weight loss. He has posted several of his articles on health and weight loss at http://nodiet4me.com/articledirectory/

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I want to lose about 10 pounds as quickly as possible. I am 5′ 1/4 of an inch and my weight fluctuates between 110-115 pounds. I have a problem with eating like crap one day, then not eating for two or three days in a row because I feel so guilty about eating the bad food. I stay pretty thin this way, but if I can get the same results by eating as I do by not eating, I would like it more.

Simply put, what’s the best way to lose that last stubborn 10 pounds, either through exercise, eating healthy, or both?

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Im 15 and i want to lose 10 pounds in 3 weeks. Will I be able to do it? Can anyone give me advice on how to succeed my goal?

Not many people know that the key to a successful weight loss is by mellowing down your metabolism.

Metabolism is the process of burning calories in your body which happens naturally even if you are not exerting any effort- yes including when you are sleeping.

Metabolism, if increased, would result in taking much fluid thus weight loss would happen gradually. The recommended weight loss of 1 – 2 pounds per week is really possible… By increasing the metabolism you are giving the body a need to have more amount of protein.

As we all know, exercise could increase metabolism but the point is that an individual must do an exercise that is suitable and effective for his or her body type. Increasing the metabolism must come before trimming down on calories.

A permanent weight loss may be achieved through increasing metabolism and this process provides different benefits.

This would give you more time to do whatever you want because you do not need too much exercise- this would allow you to enjoy other activities. Moreover, you do not have to force your self to do tough exercises.

Unlike other diets that hold promises of remedies when actually you just end up disappointed, increasing your metabolism will give you better long-term results and will not give you bigger possibilities of gaining weight again.

Please note that skipping meals is not a solution to this. A drastic change for your body is not good. Never dwell on the idea that missing a meal would make your waistline look well-carved.

Always bear in mind comes from deep within. You will never conceal the fact someday that you are living an unhealthy life. Whenever you do a sudden stop in eating, your body would react to it in such a way that it will slow down its metabolic rate

You do not have to ignore the favorite food and you need not spend so much time just preparing non-fat meals. Of course, you could stop spending too much just for this non-fat food and the like.

These benefits are very simple but these are very important especially for the well-being of an individual. When we exert effort and work hard on our objectives like losing weight, impossible will not even be a fact at all.

These benefits are just some of the many increasing your metabolism could offer- so what are you waiting for?You could start it today!

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Recent media release suggested that parents are to be held responsible for their children poor eating habit. This is because children tend to copy their parents poor eating habit by eating what they see their parents eat and as a result will grow to continue such habit. The study concludes that children of obese parents are likely to suffer obesity from their early age and recommend counselling and introduction of Weight Loss Plan for families involved.

In my opinion, there is no way you can solve the problem of obesity without people agreeing to change or modify there eating patterns. In my years counselling people on how to lose weight fast, I have persistently told them the basic fact about weight loss. Apart from some medical reasons, over 80% of weight gain is due to poor eating habit with, too much of food intake. If you eat too much, you are certainly bound to put on some weight. The best bet is to eat balanced diet while controlling your calories intake and also eat moderately if you can. If you must eat plenty of foods then support it with a proper Weight Loss Plan like lots of exercise. By eating large ration and doing lots of exercise, you will be burning the fat and at same them converting some the fat into muscles.

The best way to a successful Weight Loss Plan is you! Once you are ready to loss weight fast, then the first step is to set up a Weight Loss Plan or weight loss programme and strictly abide to them. Another way is to use some organic diet pills or herbal diet pills or capsules. I tend to be very biased towards the use of organic diet pills in any Weight Loss Plan. The main reason is that I have been a supporter of the use of alternative medicine in the treatment of most illness. The reason for this is because they are natural and not much processing has been done and also they are easily accessible to everyone and can be easily grown in our garden .Another reason is that they don’t have as much side effects as their conventional counterparts. Finally, they are cheap and affordable.

Testimonies from users show that people have overcome overweight successfully by following simple Weight Loss Plan and using an organic diet pills named Zotrim as supplements. They claimed that the use of Zotrim has played a significant role in making them loss weight fast. Zotrim is a organic diet pills and contains 100% organic fat binder, Its use has been widely backed by not less that 8 clinical trials and its success rate has been published in notably magazine and journals. Zotrim is said to stimulate appetite and help burn off excess body fat

Whilst all these organic diet pills have been scientifically proven to work,it is always wise to consult a genuine physician before using them. Doctors certainly are in better position to certified there usage. In addition, set up a Weight Loss Plan or weight loss plan and follow the plans.

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The weight loss industry is a multi billion pound industry and people make a lot of money from it with new crazies coming and going. As always, at some time the latest exercise fad eventually dies off!

So, what’s the next craze to hit the industry?

Thirty minutes of attempted escapology with a 30 second dunk in a tank of water every 2 minutes, just to raise the heart rate that little bit more?

Seriously, where are we going wrong?

Well firstly, there are a lot of desperate people who will do anything to lose those unwanted pounds of stubborn bodyfat but unfortunately want to lose it all way too quickly and with no extra effort. Well when I say anything, what I really mean is anything that’s involves taking a magic pill.

Well I’m sorry but there’s no such thing and even if there was, wouldn’t you rather lose weight and feel healthy at the same time?

Let’s face it, what exactly drew you to this article, it wouldn’t be the title fat loss would it?

Now honestly ask yourself, were you expecting to read something unfound and so amazing that the pounds of bodyfat will be dropping off as you read this?

If so, then we’ve got problems. If you thought that maybe there’s a better approach to losing weight than what you’re doing right now then your right!

So what’s the first step to take when you finally realize that you can’t lose weight by eating chips (something I read in a men’s mag). Well before you start dialing the number for your nearest weight watchers or slimming world club (my personal opinion is don’t bother), you need to get your mind ready for action.

Remember everything you do comes from the mind so if your mind isn’t ready, you’re on the familiar road to failure.

Take this scenario for instance, how many of you have decided to go on the latest fad diet the night before, woke up the next morning and already decided to leave it till the next day?

What’s worse, you then feel that’s it’s then expectable to eating crisps, chocolate or whatever you crave by telling yourself that it’s alright because your diet starts tomorrow!!!

If you were mind set on your diet in the first place, you wouldn’t have chocolate or crisps or whatever you crave for you own in your home!

This is also very true for the latest gym exercise fad or January/February rush. “Right, that’s it….I’m joining a gym and getting fit” or “there’s this great new body combat with real weapons and the instructor said it’s good because the fear of getting injured raises the metabolism.”

Ok, so maybe a bit far fetched, but that persons been going to the gym for 3 months and hasn’t lost a single pound!

All I am trying to reinforce here in my ‘grumpy old men style’ is to prepare your mind before you rush off to try the latest fad diet or exercise and stop looking for the miracle cure.

Crunch Time

So what do you need to do?

Firstly, you need to determine what drives you to want to lose weight or get fitter. Then you need to change the reasons why you want to lose weight into why you must lose weight.

So straight away, we change from wanting to lose weight to having to lose weight and already become very powerful and fixed on what we are going to achieve.

In fact one thing that we do at Kevin Raison Personal Training Studios in the West Midlands is find out exactly what they want before they start training with us. We start this in the consultation room where we get our clients to be as precise as they can when it comes to achieving their goals.

This is recorded to make sure that our clients stick to it and are reminded each and every session why they are with us. We also get them to write down what they are going to achieve in that certain time frame and recommend them onto programs such as www.themagichundred.com. A goal setting program that helps you achieve amazing results.

Note: ‘what they are going to achieve not want to achieve.’

We then ask our clients to read out there goals aloud every morning and evening before they go to bed. So what’s the reason for this?

Have you ever woken one morning and had a craving for a certain food or drink. Then at mid morning it strikes again, then again in the afternoon and finally in the evening when you can’t resist and you give into temptation.

Now imagine if you were to wake up and the first thing you do is read out aloud your goal on your goal card or read you magic hundred list, then mid morning you do the same and so on for everyday.

Can you see where I’m coming from now?

You actually become what you think about!

If you think about what you are going to achieve this much you actually turn your thoughts into positive habits and positive results.

At first this may all seem a bit strange; I must admit it seemed a little strange to me when I first started doing it. Then things just started falling into place, you still have to make things happen of course, but if you’re in a positive frame of mind it will happen.

So how do we go about starting?

Simple:

•Choose your goal and be as specific as you can

•Don’t set to easy a goal, make sure the goal scares you a little

•Think about your goal as often as you can

•Actually imagine yourself being the person you want to be in that time frame

I promise you, if you stick to the above rules you’ll be closer than you’ve ever been to your goals and you haven’t even started your programme yet!

Kevin Raison is fast becoming a sought after Personal Trainer in the UK. Having been a senior trainer at Dax Moy’s Personal Training Studio in London. Kevin now has his own Personal Training Studios in the midlands. You can visit Kevin at http://www.kevinraison.co.uk

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Well I know in general, 2 pounds a week is all you should lose. BUT if you are extremely overweight, it’s not uncommon to see more than that dropping when you first start to exercise. I’m 50 pounds overweight and want to start losing it.

Based on calculations, 2 pounds a week takes about 6 months. But I’m not sure how to factor in the bit about how you might lose more than that for the first few weeks. So maybe, 5 months? I want to be close to my targetted size by Halloween.