Lose 3lbs in a week - only temporarily

[Anonymous]

I have my prom in just over a week and so I thought I'd try my dress on just to be sure it still fit! Lucky I did, because I can only just about do the zip up as it is an extremely fitted dress.

So is there any way to lose 3lbs + of fat in a week just so that my dress will hopefully not tear at the seams during the night :/

(Yes I know any fast solutions will ultimately lead me to putting the weight back on later but I only need to be a little thinner for one night!)

And I want no water weight answers.. Its tightest around my back which is where I need to lose the FAT.

Is it possible to do this by just eating fruit all week every two hours and drinking LOTS of water? (I despise vegetables!)

THANK YOU

[GingerStarlite]

3 pounds of fat? Probably not, to be honest. Any time you diet, especially a short term one, you might lose some "weight" but very well might be water weight. One pound of body weight is roughly 3,500 calories. So to lose 3 pounds, you'd need to burn 10,500 more calories than you consume in the span of a week. Most diets recommend you aim to lose no more than 2 pounds per week, and even that can be difficult, for safety reasons. You don't want to starve yourself and you don't want to overexercise, how fun is prom going to be if you've got low blood sugar from dieting and about to pass out?

Also, even if you wanted to try to lose 3 pounds of pure fat in one week, even if that were feasible and an easy thing to do, one cannot plan where the fat lost will come from. So, maybe you'd lose 3 pounds of pure fat, but it might not be where you needed to lose it or it might not be enough weight to help you out much.

Just eat right though, drink lots of water so you're not bloated from water weight. That's really about all you can do. And if you can, get some Spanx or something similar. Perhaps you can get away with just a little compression of everything to help you out and keep the dress fitting nicely.

[smilesgirl]

Yep. For sure. I've lost a lot more than that before. Low carb / low sugar. Eat low starch veggies.(avoid ones like potatoes, yellow squash, carrots, etc)

but MOSTLY eat lean fish & chicken. (steamed, sauteed', baked)

Drink lots of water.

There are other low carb foods, but often they are high in fat, which can still sometimes slow weight loss, so for this crash diet, try to avoid too much fat as well, like from cheese, bacon, etc. A little fat is good, (like Omega 3 fatty acids, NOT trans fat) 'cause your brain needs healthy fats to function properly. Let us know your results. :)

[Asker]

Thank you :)

[Anonymous]

No, there is no way to lose 3lbs of fat in one week.

You might complain all you like but the laws of nature and biology don't change just because you have a need for them to.

The only thing you can do, is lose water weight. Go on a zero carbohydrate diet from now until prom, and eat 600 healthy calories a day until prom. You'll lose about 6lbs in water weight and glycogen, and that should help your dress fit just fine.

[kheserthorpe]

2 lbs of fat yes, 3 is maybe.

No fruit. Yes vegetables. Yes lean protein (chicken/egg whites/fish).

Send me a message I can give you a more detailed approach. Note you will lose water weight on TOP of the fat loss, but that's incidental.

[Anonymous]

When I was dieting and losing weight, I pretty much at what I wanted. I simply had less of it. A common snack for me during that time was a string cheese with wheat thins. I ate a lot of fruit, apples, oranges, pears, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, etc. I ate vegetables like carrots, celery, mostly. Eggs and toast were a regular thing for me. I didn't drink any carbonated or caffeinated drinks, no sodas or tea. Mostly water and natural fruit/vegetable juices/smoothies. TONS of water. I ate non-fat yogurt every morning for breakfast. And would then graze the rest of the day. Eating 200 calories here, 100 there. I made sure I only ate 7000 calories a week (I don't suggest going that crazy, haha) but I made sure, no matter what my daily total was, the week always ended in 7000 calories.

Doing that and exercising every day let me lose 150 pounds, usually about 20 pounds per month (which is 5 pounds per week). I'd allow myself one cheat meal once a month, just to keep me from feeling too deprived :-)

[Anonymous]

Umm lots of water no food. If you want to eat take a laxative 30 min before. You can purchase the 48 hour Hollywood diet from Walmart you will need someone over 18 to purchase it for you (I didn't look at your age) you can eat veggies and fruits. There are many different ways. I lost weight in all the wrong ways with laxatives and diet pills but have kept it off its just me tho

[Asker]

yeah, I'm a suffering bulemic so I don't feel that you promoting laxitives is a very healthy answer.

This is why I said about not losing water weight as I have no water weight to lose due to my laxitive addiction.

[Opinion Owner]

Awe well I didn't know you had a laxative problem. I stopped eating for a while from depression so yeah

[unighted]

Yeah there is nooo way that you can lose 36 lbs in a week, it is not safe at all.

[Asker]

It was only 3 lbs

[unighted]

sorry, typo

[blackeagle007]

I have one word "Insanity!"

[Asker]

How is it? Imagine you spent ?250 on a suit for one night and realized that it didn't fit right a week or so before? wouldn't you want a quick solution for that one night so you don't have to spend another 250 on a new one?