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Gotta lose 15 lbs in 2 months.
What is the best diet plan to lost 15 lbs in 2 months. I weigh 130, and I want to get down to 115. I bought my wedding dress two years ago, and unfortunately this is how much weight I have put on. I have a 2 year old, so getting to the gym is hard. Any ideas, please let me know!! I am desperate for anything.
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Re: Gotta lose 15 lbs in 2 months.
I bought a treadmill so I can run without having a get certain clothes on and worrying about a sitter. I also joined Weight Watchers. And, I've been doing a Jackie Warner DVD. I've lost 10 lbs since February 1st.
Now, the low carb diet makes you drop weight fast. It's disgusting, and I'm even a vegetarian. But I did it a long time ago and it really did work quickly.
I dont understand how you just figured this out two months in advance of the wedding if you have had the dress for two years.
I agree that eating healthy and exercising is a great thing to do and you should definitely do your best to do those things, but I'm not sure you'll be able to get the results your looking for, which will add much stress to your wedding.
Good luck!
I agree with most other posters that fad diets don't work. Sometimes they even make you sick and you don't need that with a two year old AND a wedding! I suggest you try it the old fashioned way or see if there is a way to alter your dress to make it work for you now.
Good luck!!!
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Losing weight is really just a math problem. If you cut about a thousand calories a day from your current diet you should lose 2 pounds per week, which in two months is about 15 pounds.
A thousand calories a day seems like a lot, and it is. Its up to you how you want to cut those calories. If, for you, its hard to get exercise in, maybe you will have to focus mostly on diet and strictly only consume aprox one thousand calories a day. For me, I work out about six hundred calories a day, so the extra four hundred left I cut from my diet.
Good luck!
Up the cardio, and add in stength training (because 1 lb. of muscle burns more calories than 1 lb. of fat). Eat healthy foods, and pay attention to when you are hungry.
If you eat out of boredom or stress (which I used to do), eat ice or chew gum. It satisfies the urge and adds either no calories or very few calories.
Also, I don't like fad diets but I did the south beach diet for a few weeks and I lost 8 pounds the first two weeks (they say you can lose up to 13lbs). After those two weeks, you slowly add things back in so you don't have to restrict yourself forever (that will only make it less likely that you will succeed). Good luck!
My uncle is a boxing coach and gives this 2 week only diet plan to his boxers to cut weight fast. What it does is clean out your system so that you are only eating protein and then the other things you eat in combination with it will burn any fat away from the food you just ate.. I've done this diet twice and you CANNOT do it for longer than 2 weeks! It is not good for you after that, plus it is designed to only work for 2 weeks. With this diet plan you can loose UP TO 25IBS in 2 weeks (depending on your weight/diet plan before you start) The 1st time I did this I lost 12IBS and the 2nd time I did this I lost 15IBS, my sister lost the full 25IBS but she was also heavier than me and had a poor diet before hand. If you choose to do this diet plan, you should not do it more than once within a 4 month span. The diet plan is below. I call it the "Egg Diet" because of how many eggs you have to eat
Egg Diet – 2 Weeks OnlyYOU CAN LOOSE UP TO 25 POUNDS WITHIN 2 WEEKS. DO NOT ADD OR TAKE AWAY ANYTHING FROM THIS DIET PLAN, NO SALT, PEPPER OR SEASONINGS. YOU CAN EAT JUST THE EGG WHITES IF YOU WANT, AND HAVE WATER WITH EVERY MEAL. COFFEE & TEA MUST BE BLACK, NO ADDED SUGAR OR CREAMER, NO SODA OR JUICE.
BREAKFAST – EVERYDAY**Grapefruit (1/2) 1-2 eggs, coffee or tea. This is the same everyday, except on both Mondays, you must eat three eggs.Monday: Lunch- 3 eggs, tomatoes, coffee or teaDinner- 3 eggs, combination salad, 1 piece of dry toast, grapefruit, coffee or tea. Tuesday: Lunch- 1-2 eggs, grapefruit, coffee or teaDinner- steak, tomatoes, lettuce, celery, olives, cucumbers, coffee or tea. Wednesday: Lunch- 1-2 eggs, tomatoes, green beans or broccoli, coffee or tea Dinner- 2 lamb chops or steak, celery, tomatoes, cucumbers, coffee or tea Thursday: Lunch- combination salad, grapefruit, coffee or teaDinner- eggs, cottage cheese, spinach, dry toast, coffee or tea. Friday Lunch- fruit salad (fresh, unsweetened) Dinner- steak, celery, tomatoes, cucumbers, coffee or tea Saturday: Lunch- same as Friday Dinner- same as Friday Sunday: Lunch- cold chicken (broiled or baked), tomatoes grapefruit, coffee or teaDinner- canned vegetable soup (not vegetable beef), chicken, tomatoes, cucumbers, coffee or teaLet me repeat what's already been said.
FAB DIETS DONT WORK.
Once you reintroduce "regular" food, the weight will come back on.
No one needs to "clean out their system" with some crazy diet, simply switching to a diet lower in processed foods will do that.
We'll just not tell H about this little fact, m'kay?
First off, the real truth is that fad diets do work- for a little while at least. It all boils down to numbers...no matter what you have heard. If you take in less calories than your body needs everyday, you will lose weight(as long as you don't have metabolic disorder, such as some thyroid disorders). The Atkins diet, Weight Watchers, the egg diet, extreme exercise...they can all work. The real problem is the adherence- changing your diet drastically or spending alot of time at the gym all of the sudden and keeping up the changes is difficult! Just know up front that it is possible to lose 15 pounds in 8 weeks- BUT you most likely will gain that all back, and maybe more, if you go extreme with your diet and can't keep it up. This is called yo-yo dieting, and it's not healthy for your body. But, as a fellow bride, I understand where you are coming from.:)
Basically what I would recommend as a RD would be what many people have said- a low-fat, lower calorie diet that you will be able to sustain long after your wedding is over. If you really want to, you can lose up to 2 pounds a week. This would mean cutting about 1000 calories a day through exercise or eating less. You need to first figure out how many calories you need- this you can get from many websites, but mypyramid.gov is good for this.
Weight watchers is really awesome and I highly recommend it- especially if you can go to actual meetings. They teach you real eating skills and nutrition! Aktins, while effective for sure, is NOT healthy. It is not only starving your body of calories, but also of carbohydrates which are essential. The Atkins diet recommends eating less than 20 g of carbs a day. Your brain NEEDS 120 g of carbs a day- it can't use any other fuel (like fat or protein). So, your body has to break down your own tissues and convert them to carbs for your brain- you are basically eating your own tissue- yuck! Not healthy either. But, that's why you lose weight! You are really making your body work!
Oh, and exercise- walking 20-30 minutes a day would be great! But unless you can work off lots of calories a day (like 1000), you aren't going to lose it all just by exercise.
Lbrace, good advice. Finally.
We'll just not tell H about this little fact, m'kay?
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Healthy weight loss is about .5# to 1# a week. But 2# is within a fairly healthy range. The 2 main things that i go by is calories and exercise. Your busy schedule won't be able to allow as much exercise as i would recommend, but you can always try to add it into regular daily activities.
Decrease your calories by about 300-500 a week depending on what you are already eating. take out those simple sugars like sweets and minimize your pasta carbs. Increasing your protein intake can give you an energy boost instead of the highs and lows of carbs, but no need to take them out completely. Definitely get full servings of veggies! They are less calories and filling!
Exercise goals should include at least 60 min a day. I don't think running is a must. Use an elliptical, fast walking, and biking can do it. High intensity exercise will burn calories but also put on muscle so this may make some areas of your body not as slim. So keep your activity at moderate intensity, so maybe the heart rate range you want is between 150-180 throughout the workout, this helps drop fat and help lean muscle build. You can do this 4-5 times a week so you get some recovery time in as well.
Any other help i'd be glad to help!