How To Lose a Lot of Weight Fast

I’ve been helping people over at Yahoo Answers who have questions about weight loss, and the most common question seems to be “how do I lost X pounds in some ridiculously short amount of time.” I thought I would post some of my answers here – sometimes you just need things posted in a particular way to get the most out of them. I’ve changed a few of the details so it’s not as easy to search and find the person that asked – for privacy.

How do i lose weight. i have 120 days to lose 70 pounds?
ok im a male. im 18 years old. i weigh 257 pounds. i like to play soccer. i will do anything except for pills and surgery. in may i want to weigh at around 175 to 180. dont tell me i cant, just tell me what to eat, what not to eat, what to do. ok. plz help

Hi – there are a number of ways you can approach weight loss – you are trying to lose a LOT of weight, very quickly, so you’ll want to use most of them. If you figure out a plan, now, that you can follow for your 3 months, it will be much easier – the challenge of changing your plan every few days uses up the energy you should be putting into working out and watching your eating. I think buying a complete weight loss plan from a trusted professional, while expensive at first, really helps. Because a professional wrote it, it’s trustworthy and you won’t have to second-guess yourself.

Which plans to follow? The one I’ve used that could be a big help is Eat Stop Eat – you fast/don’t eat for 24 hours at a time, once or twice a week – brings down your calories a ton, isn’t hard to do after the first couple fasts, and it explains how this really helps your metabolism and weight loss in general and the plan gives you tips on how to boost the effects http://ActivelyLoseWeight.com/recommends/EatStopEat. This is my top recommendation, this alone should easily help you lose 2-3 pounds a week.

That plan gives you a little bit of other diet advice, and you can support the Eat Stop Eat way of dieting with another plan, or just basic good sense – don’t eat anything from a box or can (nothing processed), and as little sugar and flour as possible. So just vegetables, whole grains, beans, and lean meat. Getting good at spicing food helps make this enjoyable – use lots of fresh herbs and vinegar-based sauces (not sugar or salt based). Cutting out all the crap from your diet will do wonders.

Most of your weight loss will come from your diet, but exercising helps, and will keep you healthy and from wasting away. It sounds like you like exercising already, play as much soccer as you can and do start weight lifting! Muscles do great things for weight loss – burning calories while you’re not exercising, raising your metabolism etc. Add some intense interval training at the end – Soccer is already sort of intervals, sprinting etc, but doing them with a program is much easier. Look at http://www.youtube.com/cbathletics for ideas to start – he focuses a lot on fat loss and has a lot of body weight workouts too if you can’t get to a gym.

Hope that helps – best of luck! Have a plan and be determined and you’ll do great.
Source(s):
http://www.youtube.com/cbathletics – workouts
http://ActivelyLoseWeight.com/recommends/EatStopEat – best, easiest way to lose weight
http://ActivelyLoseWeight.com/recommends/BurnFatFeedMuscle – really detailed, fat-loss focused, nutrition information