Need to Lose 5lb In A Week

[Castout]

Any of the following combination:

Skip lunch or skip lunch and breakfast.

Watch your dinner so not to compensate for the skipped lunch.

Limit your intake. Or only eat a little each time without skipping any. Or only eat when you feel hungry. No it doesn't mean eat when you're craving for food.

Stop snacking.

Go to work with bicycle.

Jog periodically at least 3 times a week. If your weight prevents that then walk fast for at least 40 minutes each day.

Try doing sit ups periodically. To make it harder with bent knees. Do it at least 30 each day(If you can't start with a few). Pull strings or exercise with weights periodically.

If it's within walking distance then walk than drive.

Emotional scars are usually the reason why people over eat or have an obsession on anything to an unhealthy or destructive degree. In the long run this have to be dealt with. try to be positive and cheerful in life. If you feel great you eat only what you need. You may need to change your environment so that you'll have a more positive environment to back you up(like finding new community). Anything negative or hurting must go: friends, job, relations, etc

If you have repressed anger then get a punchbag. Let it all out to it each day. It's exercise good for the body and good for the mind. When you're slim get a rifle and practice long range firing at the gun range. Good for the soul . . . . . the focus exercising will help you to calm down. But never ever handle a gun or rifle when you are angry. When you're angry go back to the punch bag.

Or take martial art commitment in the long run.

[Feuer Frei!]

The OP has vanished.

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by razark

Step 1. Get a chainsaw.
Step 2. Decide which limb is your least favorite.
Step 3. Post the video to youtube.

My first thoughts when I read the topic title. Well, maybe without the reasonable step 4, but still...

[Stealhead]

Skipping a meal is not always the best idea for some people because they will only wind up wanting to eat more the next time they eat.

Hey it is still a good topic of discussion even without the OP.

[Anthony W.]

OP Reports - I need to get rid of the 20-40lb beer belly I have.

I weigh 200 - and I'm only 5'8

I need to loose the weight. I used to be able to perma lose 5lb a week when I was in Florida for a month swimming all day every day

I'm sick of running out of energy so easily - I'm sick of women winking at my face and grimacing at my gut. I'm sick of being compared to celebs with abs.

I do 50 sit ups every night before bed - I started that last night. I ran till I was out of breath today, which was maybe 1/8th of a mile, very slowly. The only muscles in my legs worth looking at are my calves. My calves are incredible.

[Stealhead]

You are just going to have to work on then you wont get results over night but use that frustration as determination to improve yourself.Keep running and practice your breathing find a pace to it that helps alot.Start slow and build up from there as it gets easier push to go farther also don't give up people that are in good shape where not born that way.You will not find a Navy SEAL or Green Beret that did not want to be one 100%.If you want to feel and look better you have to have the same attitude.

You may want to seek the advice of a doctor about the over weight bit also feeling out of energy means you are not getting enough energy for some reason.Eat several cups of steamed
rice or just plain pasta(no sauce) with olive oil before you work out I mean not just before because you will end up barfing if you eat just before you go running I mean maybe 1 hour before hand.

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by Platapus

5 pounds a week for 8 weeks is a lot of weight in little time. 40 pounds in two months?

Is this to make a weigh-in, meaning that you are only looking for temp weight loss? If you are looking for a permanent weight loss, I think 5 pounds a month is more reasonable.

A guy in my platoon in the service lost more during two months of basic. But then again, the ammount of physical exertion there was a wee bit higher than most people would put themselves through vouletarily.

First impressions, too much too soon.
vegetarian option, rapid weight loss by simply eating German beansprouts

I'm sick of women winking at my face and grimacing at my gut. I'm sick of being compared to celebs with abs.

Have more self confidence and ignore comparisons to artificial creations.

The only muscles in my legs worth looking at are my calves. My calves are incredible.

A person with a serious eating disorder will complain about how their body looks but say their belly is incredible.

I ran till I was out of breath today, which was maybe 1/8th of a mile

OK thats a problem, do you smoke?
on another line would you like to have weight loss through smoking?

The main key to this topic is contained in the post......

I used to be able to perma lose 5lb a week when I was in Florida for a month swimming all day every day

...apart from the "perma".
Swimming is good, relatively quick and effective for most of the body. Get a proper schedule drawn up and aim for basic 1.5 hour sessions working on an 8 days in a week basis. For a bonus on your legs cycle to the sea/lake/pool for the sessions

[Castout]

Be patient and put in the commitment. No easy way losing weight. It is for the long run.

Should not overdo it early so you won't get tired of it or over exposed to it and give up. Build up your determination by accumulating success after success, small success after small success.

Never fall for a girl or woman who fell for you on the first impression as she might easily flirt with another just the same

it's not for the women out there it's for you and your well being.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Castout

Never fall for a girl or woman who fell for you on the first impression as she might easily flirt with another just the same
it's not for the women out there it's for you and your well being.

Well put, Sir!

[Castout]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Well put, Sir!

But if you're looking for sex not love well why not . That is if you're that kind of guy who can easily take advantage of women (shame on you)

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Castout

But if you're looking for sex not love well why not

Well, your credibility just went down a notch!

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

That is nonsense, you can be vegetarian and obese, its not very hard.

You could be, but if you use your head you probably won't. Don't replace meat with excessive dairy, go easy on oil, fruit and nuts and you will almost certainly lose weight.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

That is nonsense, you can be vegetarian and obese, its not very hard.

I know two vegetarians that are (were) obese, and both developed gaulstones. One started to take up running about 18 months ago and the weight dropped off. Now she runs everywhere, and takes part in half-marathons and fun runs (a misnomer, surely?) within 100 mile radius about every other weekend, has joined an athletics club and trains daily. If you'd have seen her 18 months ago, all she ever did was sit at a PC playing music and games - she can't drive but would never walk anywhere, or even get the bus. If her husband didn't drive her she wouldn't go! Now she's BOBFOC*



The other one hasn't taken up running, and still complains of general ill health.

*For those that don't know - Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch!

Edit: Oops, just realised I'd hit reply on page one, and not read page two!

If swimming did it for you then it can again, just need the municiple pool. Running for 1/8th of a mile and stopping isn't great, try this - it worked for my wife.

1. Week one: Walk for six minutes, then jog at an easy pace for one minute. Repeat three times. Aim for three sessions with that same sequence for week one.
2. Week two: Walk for five minutes, then jog for two minutes. Repeat three times. Aim to do three sessions in week two.
3. Week three: Walk for three minutes, then jog for four minutes. Repeat four times. Aim for four sessions in week three.
4. Week four: Walk for two minutes, then jog for five minutes. Repeat four times. Shoot for three of those sessions in week four.
5. Week five: Walk for two minutes, then jog for eight minutes. Repeat three times. Do three of those sessions in week five.
6. Week six: Walk for two minutes, then jog for nine minutes. Repeat three times. Try to do three sessions for week six.
7. Week seven: Walk for one minute, then jog for 11 minutes. Repeat three times. Do three sessions this week.
8. Week eight: Congratulations on making it to week eight! For your first run this week, try walking for five minutes to begin and end the workout, and run for 20 minutes in between. By the end of the week, try to run for 30 minutes without stopping.

Above anything else, you must strech your muscles before and after - just google pre-run streches.

The more exercise you do, the better you will feel. Even just a walk before your breakfast could make all the difference to the rest of your day!

[Betonov]

Always burn more than you eat. It's burning that gets the job done, not starving.

I've lost 3 kilos in the last month. Not much but I havent gone up in that time. The first time I'm under 95kg in the last 10 years. Next stop 90kg. It helped I suppresed my asthma. Now I can run for 5km without an attack.

Here's my advice:
1) learn to cook, if you live in a rural area like me, the grandmothers food is fatty, drowned in lard and the meat is not prepared to remove the white fat on it. If you know how to cook you can prepare yourself low fat dishes that are still tasty. Tuna and tomato sauce, spring salads, steaks that do not drip from fat... Just don't go into the extremes, eat my friend, serve yourself a giant stake and run it out the next day

2) as mentioned, burn more than you eat. Taking sports is the best thing.

3) run everytime you feel angry/depressed/sad/disapointed. You'll sweat the bad feelings and the fat out of you in the same time.

4) the hardest one, find motivation. I motivate myself by my sheer hatred of women and want to be on the giving side of ''just wanna be friends'' speeches from now on.

5) don't measure your progress by weight alone. Muscles also ad to the bodyweight