Lose 25 Pounds FAQ:
I also would like to quit smoking at the same time, i am a student in her third year with a heavy work load, how can i diet properly and still study everyday?
I also found out some info on the mastercleanse is this a good option?
I also would like to quit smoking at the same time, i am a student in her third year with a heavy work load, how can i diet properly and still study everyday?
I also found out some info on the mastercleanse is this a good option?
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Losing weight is not the hard part. The hard part is keeping it off and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. For you to want to lose 25lbs in 4 weeks, you would have to dramatically reduce your caloric intake to a point where your body thinks it’s starving..and when you do lose some weight, your body will take on even more weight because it thinks it starving so you will have an even harder time losing weight. Quitting smoking is a great start, but start it slow.
Drink lots of water and reduce the quanity(not quality)of food that you eat.Don’t eat bread or sweets at all.
There are alot of factors to consider here…First, how overweight are you? If you are ‘flabby’, then yes, you have a better chance of losing that much that fast with diet and exercise, but it’d be serious diet and exercise. Also, you have to consider that what you probably want to lose it the fat, not the actual weight. Keep that in mind. Muscle weighs more than fat and you can have a fantastic and lean appearance while also weighing much more than you probably think you should.
Anyway, if you have to lose the weight to make an operation safer to perform, then you’ll want to consider a seriously low calorie liquid diet that’ll be mostly based on protein drinks and probably fiberous vegetables and some fiberous fruit with good fats (fish/flax/extra virgin olive oils) thrown in for balance. This would probably get you there fast, but you would likely lose muscle due to the starvation mode you’d enter on this plan. To find the calories, look up a formula online and figure it out based on RMR and what not.
If you simply want to lose the weight and you are currently eating the terrible diet most Americans eat, you could do what I just described along with some very clean solid meals such as chicken, turkey, fish, and lean beef. Eat a small meal every 2-3 hours and start exercising. If you are eating a bad diet, that drastic change will go a long way toward your goal. If you want to measure that easily without alot of complication, look into Weight Watchers points or simply measure by making protein servings the size of your palm or closed fist, and eat mostly vegetables and some fruits instead of potatos, rice, bread, etc.
As far as exercise, I’d suggest resistance exercises with dumbbells and high reps (8-10) for maybe four sets for each muscle group. Or find a good full body body-weight exercise program of pushups, squats, etc and do that once a day with a good long walk at night (look into heavy hands here).
Hopefully that made sense. Its a vast subject with alot of variables.