How much weight do you think I can lose in 3 1/2 weeks?
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By doing all of this, how much weight do you think I can lose in 3 1/2 weeks?
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That is not healthy and I do not recommend doing it. You will not lose 20lbs and your body will suffer. You will burn away muscle by eating that little.
It will go into catabolic state.
Your recommended allotment is:
Percent of total calories from fat: 10%
Total recommended calories per day: 1400 to 1800
Total grams of fat per day: 15 - 20 g
And that is considering you want to LOSE weight. Especially if you are going to be as active as you claim, you need it.
You want HEALTHY carbs and lots of protein.
The old ‘three square meals a day’ mantra is flawed, and not beneficial to both muscle gain and fat loss. For fat loss terms, eating 6-7 small meals is much better than eating 3 large ones—its simple energy conservation. In the body, digestion is considered work, and eating smaller meals increase your metabolic rate. For muscle gain, it ensures a continual stream of nutrients needed for muscle building during the entire day.
I recommend a meal plan more like this:
Breakfast: Oatmeal/Fruit
Snack: 1/2 tuna sandwhich or chicken breast
Lunch: Organic Peanut butter and Light jelly sandwhich
Snack: fruit
Dinner: chicken breast, low fat yogurt
Snack: Fat free cottage cheese
Or alternatively if you would like to work out as well:
Meal 1: Post workout shake
Meal 2: Lean chicken breast, 1 piece wheat bread with sugar free jelly
Meal 3: Carb-free protein bar (I’m usually in class)
Meal 4: Can of tuna, one bowl oatmeal (1/2 cup, no sugar added)
Meal 5: 2 slices wheat bread, fat-free/sugar-free lunch meat (so lean lunch meat) and fat free cheese
Meal 6: Chicken breast, 1 cup mixed greens
Meal 7: Pre-bedtime protein shake (egg/casein protein)
Basic diet tips to lose fat:
Cardio on an empty stomach if possible
Eat low-moderate GI carbs, from the GI index. These are oatmeal, wheat pasta, wheat breads, and sweet potatoes.
No carbs after 8 o’clock if possible
Eat every 2.5-3.5 hours
Cycle carbs, I go three days 150 carbs, then one day 300-400, repeat. Sort of tricks your metabolism.
Lean proteins: tuna, chicken, fish, extra lean beef if you can afford it.
Get your EFAs, your essential fatty acids. Avocados, olive oil, flaxseed oil, and natural peanut butter are good sources of this. I also supplement with CLA.
Calculate your BMR, add for your daily expenditures, and eat 400-500 less than that. This should balance out to 1-2 lbs of fat loss a week.
Eat breakfast. Just eat something without sugar in it
Also, if you really want to lose weight, forgot running two miles. Try doing HIIT. Less time, more results. http://www.youronlinefitness.com/fitness...
i would say that if you keep up that routine, in 3 1/2 weeks you should probably lose between 10-15 pounds. im not a professional or anything, but thats just my opinion. good luck with your weight loss!
I don't think you will lose any. Your body will try desperately to hold on to every scrap of nutrient that you give it because you will be in starvation mode.
With love and respect I say, if you weigh 235, you are not a light eater. Forcing your body to exist on 800 calories a day will make you very weak and sick. You will not be able to keep up that much activity either.
Talk to your doctor about how many calories a young teenager needs. Do workout! Those ideas a great! A little unrealistic, but great things to do for your health. If you do end up working our so vigorously, you will need to eat a little more to keep up. I know it doesn't make sense, but your body NEEDS food.
Good luck, sweetie. Be smart and focus on health more than pounds.
Sorry to be the one to break this too you, but that would be a terrible idea.
Let me run through this with you, first I will point out why this wont work.
1. 800 calories a day is not going to work, if you are 235 pounds, there is no way your body will be able to function on that little amount of food, and do all these activities you are planning.
2. The "safe" amount of weight loss per week is 1-2 lbs. You should want no more than 4 or its going to be water weight and go right back on. So adjust your goal to 14 lbs (That's max, and it still might be beyond your body's safe limits to get there)
3. Reality check, have you ever run 2 miles? Let alone every day? I know I hadn't at 13. You can say your going to run a marathon everyday but when it comes to doing it you will only quit faster because the goal is unrealistic.
Run for 15 minutes straight, take a 30 minute break, and go swim for 30 minutes. Sit ups are pointless they are just another cardio excersice, if you think they burn fat off your stomach your are mistaken. If you have any energy left after the above go do your trampoline or whatever.
If your body is used to living off 3000 calories a day, and you drop it down to 2500 you will have enough to function and have a head start when you begin your cardio, I suggest keeping track of how much you eat on a normal day. Then subtracting 500 calories from that. That will be safe, effective, you won't starve yourself, and you won't get demoralized by the giant goal.
Good luck
you will lose mostly water weight with no measurable loss of fat on that diet. you should never consume less calories than "your" basal metabolic rate requires or your metabolism will slow and impede fat loss. this is one of the most basic functions of human biology
Hi. To be honest with you, there is no diet that works on a short run. You can lose some weight but eventually it will come back. You should try some of the diets that take longer but weight wont come back because your metabolism will be changed. You should try the UN diet. Everybody just says best about it. My mom lost 44 pounds in 90 days. And weight never came back. The UN diet rocks in Europe!
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