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Which one(s) did you try?
How much did you lose in how long?
How much did you want to lose?
How difficult was the program?
Male or female?
Looking into shedding 35lbs and need some intel on the options. I know healthy eating +workout is eventually the best way, that's the long-run goal for maintenance and healthy lifestyle. Now I need a way to lose the lbs as quickly as possible before wedding in early Aug. Please advice, thank you.
Which one(s) did you try?
How much did you lose in how long?
How much did you want to lose?
How difficult was the program?
Male or female?
Looking into shedding 35lbs and need some intel on the options. I know healthy eating +workout is eventually the best way, that's the long-run goal for maintenance and healthy lifestyle. Now I need a way to lose the lbs as quickly as possible before wedding in early Aug. Please advice, thank you.
MyFitnessPal app (calorie tracker). The doctor told me for my age/height/weight I needed to consume about 1600 calories a day. Basically whatever your caloric intake is, you should consume 500 calories less than that.
Walking everyday for about five miles (I'm up to about 9 miles a day now). You do that consistently you will lose. I would also suggest using something like fitbit to help track your miles/calories burned etc.
I lost about 25/30 pounds in four months.
I no longer use myfitness pal. I use the "Lose It" app. It works in conjunction with fitbit very nicely.
Which one(s) did you try?
How much did you lose in how long?
How much did you want to lose?
How difficult was the program?
Male or female?
Looking into shedding 35lbs and need some intel on the options. I know healthy eating +workout is eventually the best way, that's the long-run goal for maintenance and healthy lifestyle. Now I need a way to lose the lbs as quickly as possible before wedding in early Aug. Please advice, thank you.
In my experience I did ketogenic diet/low carb (20 grams of carbs max) last year. Lost 62 lbs in 9 months, female. I worked out 5 days a week weight training heavy and cardio 2-3 times a week. I wanted to lose about 85 lbs but then life got crazy and I fell off. Just restarted this week.. Always had energy, skin was clear, didn't have any pains and didn't get sick in that time frame.
Which one(s) did you try?
How much did you lose in how long?
How much did you want to lose?
How difficult was the program?
Male or female?
Looking into shedding 35lbs and need some intel on the options. I know healthy eating +workout is eventually the best way, that's the long-run goal for maintenance and healthy lifestyle. Now I need a way to lose the lbs as quickly as possible before wedding in early Aug. Please advice, thank you.
Exercise is important but fat loss is 90% diet. Calculate your basic burn rate, then decide how much under it you want to go. So if your daily burn is 2500, you can set a target of 1800 calories and you're losing 700 every day. One pound is 3500 calories, so you'll be losing 1lb every 5 days. Do the math and you'll lose the 35lbs in 6 months.
Estimate calories for everything you eat, weigh your portions at home, eat as much protein and unsaturated fat as possible - avoid packaged snacks at all costs. You'll have days where you fall off the bandwagon, don't panic and stay the course the next day. You'll get there eventually. Then any exercise you do on top of it is all gravy
You don't have to get a gym membership, you don't have to go see a nutrionist, and no lap band surgery.
It's as simple as eating proportional meals throughout the day, and go for an hour or two walk in the evening mixed with some pull ups, push ups and/or chin ups.
Diets are so temporary and sometimes cause you to gain more weight from starving your cravings, eat everything, just in moderation, make it a lifestyle!
I once dated a nutritionist and was put on a raw vegan and high protein diet - I believe the diet is Paleo.
Now, I have always been within my weight range - (I'm at 121 with a 5'4' small frame, and go to the gym).
But when my partner at the time put me on that diet, I went from 121 lbs to 114 lbs in ONE week - and I wasn't even going to the gym. People were thinking that I was on some illicit drug, and when I broke up with the nutritionist, people thought that I had lost weight because I was sad!
Still, as a reference, I know that diet works. I am not on it anymore (I love bread and rice and would prefer to work out at the gym), but I now know that it's possible to lose weight while being a raw food / high protein diet without going to the gym.
I don't believe in quick fix diets. People almost always gain the weight back. Only real things that work are surgical procedures or real commitment to changing your diet and behaviors.
when my partner at the time put me on that diet, I went from 121 lbs to 114 lbs in ONE week
On a strict low calorie diet you will easily lose 8 lbs of WATER weight in the first week. Paleo is similar, you probably lost 4-5 lbs in water weight which would just as quickly come back on had you resumed your previous caloric intake
I don't believe in quick fix diets. People almost always gain the weight back. Only real things that work are surgical procedures or real commitment to changing your diet and behaviors.
Eat less calories than you burn= weight loss... Simply as that... Doesn't matter what program you choose...figure out your bmr, add in your daily activity calories burned, and subtract 500-700 calories from that... Eat that many calories , you'll lose about 2 lbs of fat a week.. The first week up to 10 isn't uncommon due to water retention
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