How to lose 4 pounds in one week?

[Anonymous]

I m 5'4 and 119 pounds and feel like it's too much for a small framed 19 year old girl. I ve been eating 1200 calories for a week and nothing's been happening. I'm still the same weight. I also try to do 30 minutes of cardio per day and am drinking more water than ever. I used to weigh 115 pounds a few weeks ago. What gives?

[aamy811]

Unless your extremely overweight you probably won't lose 4lbs in a week. The average person looses.5-2ls a week.
Everyone needs to eat at least 2000 calories a day. The FDA states that anything less is a famine and that your starving yourself. Essena oniell the vegan and freelee the banana girl eat more than 2000 a lories a day, and here's what essena looks like
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losing weight is extremely simple. Exercise at least three times a week for an hour and eat balanced meals. A proper plate should consist of 1/2 veggies or fruit, 1/4 complex carb (such as brown rice, quinoa or wheat bread, etc), and your protein should be the size of your palm.
For exercise I think weight lifting is most effective (don't worry about getting bulky, women lack the necessary hormones to get muscles like men), I think it's more effective because it burns calories long, and build lean muscle which burns calories by just existing. If you want bigger muscles (example, larger butt or arms) then do heavy weighted exercises with low reps (low weight high rep) and if you want smaller leaner muscle do low weights high rep (this basically toned preexisting muscle. And add about 20mins of cardio of your choice. This is what I find most affective but great at home workouts like blogilates or tone it up on YouTube are great and free.
Staying motivated us hard, but I suggest making a vision board. It sound stupid but it works (mine has a picture if my setting or before body and next to it are a bunch of pictures of my dream body) seeing how far I had come or was going really set the tone of my day and reminded me what I was working for. I also keep one picture of my dream body on the fridge so that it reminds me to make smart choices about what I'm eating

Benefits of strength training

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[Climber]

Very good opinion. Loosing that amount in one week with the asker's weight will only happen if she has a terrible desease, so not healthy. And most diets have a yoyo effect. Its better to loose weight in a controlled way

[Silverware]

I wouldn't lose any more weight. You're at a healthyish weight (borderline underweight) for your height. The scale only shows a number and at your age you are still growing, so muscle mass is still increasing. Try and focus on being healthy and listen to your body. Forget about what the scale says.

[Redstang88]

Its normal for weight to fluctuate a few pound week to week. Unless you notice a real difference dont worry about it, its just a number. You could very easily gain 4 lbs from water weight and/or muscle gain.
Lots of hard exercise (sprinting, calisthetics) could help get rid of this weight.

[BertMacklinFBI]

if you mean 4 lbs of fat? that's near impossible unless you have surgery.

4 lbs in general? water weight mostly, its easy. eat less, eat clean, exercise and hit the steam room. go to sleep, don't drink or eat, take a shit in the morning and do a weigh in, you should be 4 lbs lighter.

[Your_boss960]

Nothing's happening because your starving yourself only eating 1200 a day.

I think you should eat 1300-1400 a day, and loose 1lb a week, that way you won't have loose skin.

Excersize everyday for about an hour and eat 1300-1400 calories a day.

[ButterSauce]

Be careful when you count calories. Your brain burns about 900 when you are sleeping. Make sure you get enough healthy oils in your diet or use supplements.

[Chick180]

Lose 2 pounds a week. It's better and it'll stay off.

[NYkid27]

To lose 1 pound you have to burn 3500 calories so you'd have to burn 2000 calories per day to lose 4 pounds in a week

[Prof_Don]

Start lifting weights... the metabolic burn of muscles recovery will accelerate your efforts. :)

[DisastrousQu33n]

Go low fat, high carb vegan for a week. I lost five pounds in four days permanently on it

[Anonymous]

your weight's normal basically... butv4 pounds in just 1 week isn't it 2 much basially?

[523206720]

Go on a low carb diet and exercise.

[Liberatedguy2]

nice height...