I need to lose 10 pounds in one week. Okay 8 pounds. How do i do it.
I’m on Atkins. I eat less than 20 carbs a day. I exercise. WTF _ can’t seem to break 140.
So I stop eating solids and just drink the Atkins shakes for a week and hope that’s enough? (They are actually a meal in a can).
Okay, this sounds incredibly petty I know. But I’ve had trouble losing this last ten pounds, and the goal was the B/F’s birthday - which is next Monday. And If I haven’t done it, it’s just another nail in the coffin of promises I’ve broken. Long story.
I know it’s not healthy, but would a total lack of food and existing on water for a week get this process jump-start? I was at 132 before for MONTHS, and I somehow gained 10 pounds over the December holidays. I do 200 crunches a day. 50 side lateral crunches each side. I do aerobic workouts…I am at my wits end.
Does ANYONE have any HELPFUL (please read that last statement carefully before you post the snarky comment you were thinking of posting - it’s trite to you, but it’s a major factor in my life and lifestyle and the future of it) comments or suggestions to help me get to 135 by Monday the 18th?
Short of bulemia, which is something I do not want to do, I need just a short term quick fix…
Drinking the shakes would not be enough calories, and thus would force you into stavation mode, likely stalling your weight further.
Do NOT go below 20 carbs/day. You need some carbs a day.
That being said, up your fat. Tablespoon or two of pure olive oil should do it. It’ll help speed up all that Atkiny goodness. Pure whole whipping cream also helps tremendously with fat metabolism and raising of the ketones.
Try it for 2 days, see how it goes.
But trust me on this one. I am Queen Forever of Things Low Carb. I spent a year on the deathly ketogenic diet for epilepsy, which makes Atkins look like a carb fest.
First of relax a bit and take a deep breath. Your weight is important but there is no way it should be this important. Although now that I re-read your OP is there some test or something that you need to be 135 to pass?
Anyhoo you really ought to forget about losing 10 pounds in a week. It simply is not healthy to drop almost 8% of your body weight in a week. As far as what you need to do to lose the weight you seem to be on the right track. How much aerobic exercise are you getting? Stomach crunches will only get you stronger abs not lose weight.
Man, I have got to know what this is about. Wrestling match and you need to meet your weight class? Wedding dress too tight and the groom said he’d walk out if you wern’t in it? About to lose your job as a high school mascot? Planning a cat burgler caper in a house with small windows?
It sounds like a good way to seriously screw up your metabolism.
Seriously, rapid weight loss is extremely unhealthy. (I won’t go into my opinions on the Atkins Diet, other than to note that it works by denying you body the resources to appropriately digest some of the proteins and fat you are intaking.) I’m not trying to be trite here, but if achieving 132 pounds is “a major factor in [your] lifestyle” then it requires a change to your lifestyle, not a quick fix.
So, while IANA nutritionist, from what I know and have read, no, there is no healthy way to lose 10 pounds in a week, even for someone who is massively overweight. For you, for whom ten pounds represents nearly a tenth of your body weight, you’d be courting potentially chronic damage. I don’t know what promises you’ve made to yourself or anyone else, but it just isnt’ worth destroying your health over. IMHO, of course.
Honey, you could do all the tricks my dad used to do before a race (he was a cox) and you’d lose 10lbs, but it would be back on in 2 days.
I’m talking about taking 2 hour saunas in a wetsuit, daily 10 mile jogs in 2 wetsuits and a wollen jumper, eating nothing but lettuce and drinking nothing but water (and only 1 pint a day) for a week, and smoking like a chimney to suppress the appetite.
You do NOT want to do that kind of crap.
Carry on with the diet you’re on, count your calories to less than 2000 a day and do some AEROBIC exercise (30mins to an hour) every day to kick-start things. You could lose up to a pound a day that way, and it would be about as healthily as you could.
I think when you cut out food… when you do eat some it goes to reserve.
Maybe you’re gummed up… as you’re eating… every few bites have a sip of something to drink. That’ll get it out easier. Also after eating a big meal do just a few situps… only around ten… that way you don’t feel as uhh. Try this and you can eat as much as you want. Any extra 'll just come out.
half hour running, or 2 hours cycling - that’s what it takes before you start to burn your fat reserves. Before that time, you burn what’s in your stomach. The better shape you are in, the quicker your body can shift to taking fat from your cells rather than burn the carbs in your stomach, hence exercise, while it makes you healthier, doesn’t necessarily lower your fat reserves.
So the answer is to do sports for longer periods. For this you have to build up your shape, though. Which is why it is important to rest your body. So basically, you should try to do sports for as long as you possibly can every other day. That means more than 30 minutes jogging, or more than 2 hours cycling. Stuff like that. Running has always worked best for me, and the one time I really wanted to lose weight, it helped me real fast. I think I lost nearly 5kg after three sessions of just over 30 minutes. But I was never in a really bad shape, and I can’t promise it would do the same for you - running for 30 mins isn’t easy - I couldn’t manage it the first time either, but you do seem to build up shape fast. I hated running, but after I lost the 5kg I quit running and it never came back (except once, when I worked out for a while, but muscles are heavier than fat - and don’t stick around as easily ).
Good luck, and next time, just don’t make any more promises. Just do things, without adding that pressure.
If you’re promising other people that you’ll lose the weight in time for some arbitrary event, you need to ask yourself why they even need your promise. What business is it of theirs that you’re a few pounds overweight, assuming you’re even overweight at all? (Unless you’re below 5’3", I doubt 140 is even plump for you) I’m not talking someone worried about how morbid obesity is going to harm your health; I’m talking about why someone needs a promise that you’ll lose a small amount of weight by a certain date.
Every thing you named off is very likely to screw up your metabolism, and if you do them, you’re almost guaranteed to put on at least double as much weight as you lost in the next year. Just exercise, eat right (and I’m including Atkins in the eating right category), and let the 10 pounds come off naturally.
My advice would be to get to the bottom of why, exactly, losing 8 pounds by his birthday is such a big deal, and why not meeting a goal constitutes breaking a promise. Seriously, a goal is something you strive for, not something that you put into an iron-clad promise, and I’d think anyone around you would surely understand that, so anyone around you who would hold these 8 pounds against you is just a wanker. If this is more about a promise to yourself…well, I’m not going to call you a wanker, because I understand how these issues can be. But I would suggest serious examination of the issue, possibly with some therapy, because this is a much bigger deal than the 8 stinkin’ pounds.
Unless you’ve lost all the fat you’ve wanted to and are just trying to build some ab muscles, you can quit the crunches.
Crunches are a muscle building excercise, not a fat burning one. You want fat burning, you need aerobic/ break a sweat/ raise your heart level/ increase your breathing exercise a couple times a day for 20-30 minutes.
As you probably know, during the Induction Period of the Atkins Diet, which lasts two weeks (or more if you choose), you eat up to 20 net grams of carbs per day. I successfully followed that <20 g. for months, making sure to take my daily vitamin and mineral supplements, and lost an amazing amount of weight. In the first two weeks alone I lost 14 pounds.
You don’t need carbs. You do need amino acids (the building blocks of proteins), vitamins, minerals, fiber, and calories.
It takes 2 hours on a bike to break into fat reserves? Seriously? I was on my bike for a little over two hours yesterday and I was wiped.
Are you talking about a stationary bike?
I was on an actual bike and I did 27 miles in that time. Is that what it takes to burn a little fat? Sheesh!
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