What's the best way to lose 40 pounds by spring?

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You might think about trying this book called "The Movie Star Diet" by Steve Simmons. It helped me lose thirty pounds in 2 1/2 months when I didn't think anything would work. My goal to begin with was only 20 lbs! It has a really easy plan to follow and an excellent workout as well.

go with the fitness plan called 'Body For Life'. its really good

cleveland's diet. Lose 10 pounds in 3 days. Do a google search and ask your doctor if it suits you.

Go shopping with my wife and you could lose it by lunchtime.

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I might be a bitter wheelie demon in my chair, but I'm back down to high school weight. Hehe.

there are 3 ways: (1) medicine , (2) physical activity (3) diet. you dont have time try 10mg of salbutarine (reductil) every morning and lots of water may be 4 lts a day or more, and of course add physical activity and diet.
meds alone helped me lose 13 lbs in one month.
but its much better if you'll follow their habit of 10/20/30
10mg of the meds every morning which you have to gat rx from your md,
20 % reduction of food intake
30 mins of exercise daily

I suggest you check the links I'm giving below. Chances are diets don't work or make you gain all weight and then some when you start eating normally again.
By having 100 to 400 flavorless calories a day, you can reset your weight set point to your ideal weight. No hunger, no special foods, no pills, no exercise (you may add some if you want, for the health benefits but it isn't a must).
Don't waste another day, see the link below and then the boards. You will be amazed at the quantity of people having success!

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs. almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet. that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat. abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.

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What's the best way to lose 40 pounds by spring?

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