What's the best way to lose weight fast and get good abs?

[rad15220]

I need to lose some weight by Christams and I don't know the best and fastest way to do it

[Amagi82]

TLDR: Cut out all sweet food and grains. Eat quality meats and vegetables. You'll lose around 2lbs a week until you hit your proper weight.

Explanation: To understand weight gain, you have to understand how insulin works. I recommend reading the wikipedia page on it, but the cliffs are that when you eat excessive carbohydrate, especially with a high glycemic index, your body has to release lots of insulin to regulate your blood sugar, to prevent it from reaching toxic levels. When insulin levels are high, your body stores calories as fat, and your body cannot access stored calories until the insulin levels drop back to normal. Obesity occurs when you spike your insulin throughout the day, never allowing your body to burn its stored reserves. The most common cause is eating and drinking lots of sugar. We put sugar in EVERYTHING nowadays. You really need to read the ingredients on absolutely everything you buy that has nutrition facts printed on it. Don't buy anything that contains any of the following: sugar, fructose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, glucose, aspartame, saccharin, etc. Don't consume anything that's sweet, and that includes fruit juice (you can drink half a dozen oranges worth of juice, but good luck eating that many actual oranges, and fruit juice cuts out the fiber, which helps to regulate the carbohydrates entering your body). Another thing to avoid is grain. We're told lots of bullshit about eating plenty of "whole grains", but the reality is that those foods have extremely low nutritional value and excessive carbohydrate, which are basically sugar. Avoid them.

What can you eat? Protein and fat. The entire low-fat craze was based on some bad science and loud politicians, and has very little scientific backing. Eat healthy meats, butter, avocado and olive oils, and vegetables, especially coconut and avocado. Kale is an excellent source of vitamins and minerals. So is liver, which is possibly the most nutritionally dense food on earth.

[Amagi82]

But what about calorie counting? Calorie counting is almost pointless. Any diet where you starve yourself is unsustainable, so the question you should be asking is: What food can I eat to where I feel full without overeating? Diets rich in proteins and fats, with plenty of nutrients will make you feel full for long periods of time. You'll feel full, and you won't overeat.

And concerning exercise, working out and building muscle has a lot of health benefits, but there's very little evidence showing it has much of an effect on weight loss.

I learned all this and changed my diet last year, and immediately lost 40lbs. 2-3lbs/week, like clockwork. Pretty much zero exercise. My girlfriend lost 50 or 60lbs. On top of losing the weight, we feel healthier, I don't get headaches nearly as often, and our energy is much more even throughout the day.

[ASOIAF]

Calorie counting is not 'starving yourself'. Eating slightly under maintenance calories isn't 'starving yourself'. Don't be so ridiculous.

And lol at building muscle and working out having no effect on losing weight, it increases your metabolism, obviously its going to make it easier to lose weight.

[Amagi82]

Never claimed it was starving yourself. I'm claiming if you eat the right foods, you won't have to worry about counting calories. You'll naturally eat less.

Show me a study that proves working out has a notable effect on weight loss compared to the effect of dietary changes.

[ASOIAF]

You said calorie counting is almost pointless and then started explaining why starving yourself doesn't work, its clear what you were implying.

Nobody said anything about exercising without dieting, nobody thinks you can eat whatever so long as your exercising.

[Anonymous]

Abs would be decreasing body fat to a point where they are visible, so no amount of calorie cutting will just poof get you abs. Have to work it away with cardio, resistance training and GOOD DIET [chicken broccoli whole grain carbs and not GI carbs]

For instance I lost tons of weight was almost to the point where i was within 4bmi points of being underweight. But I still had fat on my stomach from being so big, that even though I was technically PERFECT weight for age, height, etc. it would have never gotten me abs.

[Anonymous]

Just eat healthier and exercise. Don't try to lose weight as fast as possible. It's not healthy. I've started getting into rock climb recently and I find it's such an amazing work out. In the summer I do a lot of hiking but the season is pretty much over now. Do ab work outs as well. Whatever you do, don't do starvation diets they never work.

[Opinion Owner]

Or I might add they do in a way, but you'll gain it all back and you'll make yourself sick. It's not the way to go.

[xxyz123]

Cut out white sugar and flour, limit calorie intake and limit the starches you eat. And run.

[BertMacklinFBI]

proper diet and daily exercise/working out

[Amagi82]

"proper diet" is a meaningless term. Also, there is very little evidence connecting exercise with weight loss.

[BertMacklinFBI]

@Amagi82 okay lol

[ASOIAF]

Read Amagi82's comment then instinctively hit down vote, sorry for that lol.

[BertMacklinFBI]

@ASOIAF hahaa its all good man. my opinion was very general until the Asker asks for my input.

[Anon-ee-mous]

Just for the QA's reference, ignore Amagi's comment here and answer below. Maybe he's trolling, or maybe he's just disconnected with reality. Exercise certainly does play a role in your body build, and counting calories tends to be an efficient way to lose/gain weight fast, assuming you're taking in what you need to be in your diet. Just his own comment below assuming that "counting calories" and weight loss are automatically mutually exclusive is a good example showing the typical assumptions people have about diet/exercise terms and their misuse.

[Amagi82]

Not trolling at all, and I resent your opinion that I'm disconnected with reality. When you exercise more, your body makes you eat more to compensate. I'm not saying exercise is bad- it has many tremendous benefits for health and general fitness, but anyone who claims exercise is the gateway to weight loss hasn't done their research.

Here's an article covering the subject matter pretty fairly: www.huffingtonpost.com/.../...efits_b_1777630.html

[ASOIAF]

Use more calories than you consume. A deficit of 500 calories a day equates to roughly a 1lb of body fat a week. Don't try to lose too much too fast, as this likely won't work in the long term.

Make sure you get regular exercise, plenty of sleep and eat sufficient protein and fat, else you will probably just keep losing muscle rather than fat.

I'd advice against setting a target date as you did in your question, better to just gradually lose it until you reach where you want to be. Its very hard to predict how long it will take to lose how much, since there are so many factors. Think of it as a gradual positive change for the rest of your life, rather than to look like x by y.

[BlackAthlete]

You won't loose it by Christmas. You know why? Because your not dedicated. People like you are lazy and think you can achieve great accomplishments the quick an easy way. For centuries people like you who don't succeed at a particular goal they want to achieve such as a good body do so because their try to do things their own way. Listen there is only ONE way to be successful at anything: Its HARD work. Consistent dedication. You will never achieve those results in one month. It takes time, commitment, determination, consistency. You'll never succeed doing last minute shit like this. You wanted to look lean by Christmas? You should started 6 months ago.

[MyNameIsJonas]

The best way is prolonged cardiovascular activity. (running, swimming, biking elliptical) For a contentious 45 minutes along with some aerobic work. Do this at least 3 to 5 times a week.

Abdominal pronunciation is more about low body fat % then a bunch of ab workouts. You need to get your body fat % low.

[olipop2013]

there isn't a quick way its literally a long term lifestyle change

[Klaatu51]

one way... eat less food LOL

[Anonymous]

hahaha by Christmas you're dreaming takes way longer than that. girls with abs are a turn off anyway

[Amagi82]

Let's see... Christmas is about 7 weeks away. You can safely lose about 15lbs of fat by then.

And abs are great!

[Opinion Owner]

15 lbs is not going to get you abs man you're fooling yourself. I work in a gym mate

[Anonymous]

Vegetarian diet and going to the Gym ;)

[ZepFan16]

What if you can't afford a gym membership like me?

[Opinion Owner]

You can exercise at home - push-ups, squats, crunches, sit-ups etc.

[MaskedSanity]

A vegetarian diet will not guarantee weight loss at all.
You can stop eating meat, but you'll still stay at the same weight, if you carry on eating massive portion sizes and the rest of the bad salty sugary shit. Carbs make you fat, not fat itself.

Nutrition 101.

[Amagi82]

MaskedSanity is right. Meat is not the enemy. Sugar is.

[Opinion Owner]

Fat, meat and sugar are the enemies. I know lots of girls who lost weight after they became vegetarians. You don't need to eat massive portions of food, unless you are very voracious :P