My mission: lose 20lbs in 52 days!!!

[Anonymous]

my 21st birthday is in less than 52 DAYS and I want to look PERFECT for my day. 25 of my friends and I are getting a limo, going to dinner, and then we're all going to a bar/club to celebrate. for this event I am wearing a tight fitting strapless dress and I want to look really really good.

how can I lose 20 pounds in 52 days? I have no equipment and we have like 7 inches of snow so I can't exactly run outside or exercise with no equipment.and I have no $ for a gym membership.please help. oh and what should I eat? I know I need to diet, but what should I eat? mostly I eat ramen noodles, salads, sandwiches, toast, etc. I weigh about 160, and I want to weigh around 140. please help me! :D thanks.

[Anonymous]

I lost 30 pounds in about 2.5 months recently. Follow what I say and you may be able to pull this off too!

First, sign up at blogger or somewhere that you can keep a blog (keep it private if you want). For your height/weight/age, you are going to need to eat 1200 calories or less a day and work out a decent amount to hit this goal. So here's what you do

NEVER SKIP BREAKFAST. If you do you will screw yourself, your body will sense the long period between night food and skipped breakfast and you will find it much harder to lose weight.



Write down how many calories you have at each snack and meal on your blog. This will do more that the exercise to get your weight down.

Drink a ton of water... diet green tea is good too. cut out all sugary soft drinks (and diet ones if you can- they fool your body into taking in more sugar at other times.

If I were you I would do something like this

8am 250 calorie breakfast

10am 100 calorie snack (light yogurt or something)

noon 300 calorie lunch

2:30pm 100 calorie snack

5:30/6:30 300 calorie dinner

8pm 150 calorie snack

That gives you 1200 for the day. You can look up calories of food on google. If you can fit all of your food in before 6:30 pm and not eat until breakfast, it may be more effective. If this makes you want to snack, then do as I've done above.

Also, weigh yourself every single morning first thing out of bed (after peeing, though). Record your weight on your blog, or better put it in at weightchart.com . This does a ton to keep you on track too.

Figure out what kind of exercise you can do in your house that burns about 200-300 calories 3 or 4 times a week minimum. To lose your weight, you are going to need to do a little more than this or drop your calories to 1000 a day while still getting in some exercise.

Again... write down everything you eat, eat 1000-1200 calories daily, exercise. weigh your self every morning (other times a day will be innaccurate by as much as 5 pounds). write down everything. weigh yourself every morning. write it all down. eat 1000-1200 calories daily. exercise. write everything down. use blogger or blogspot and weightchart.com ... 52 days is a short period of time. You can stay motivated that long by following what I said. I'm a somewhat muscular/athletic framed guy (like I'm 5'10" and at 210 have a 34" waist). I dropped from 240 to 210 in about 2 months doing what I just told you above. I did 1600-1700 calories but that is because of my bigger size and my exercise was running or walking an average of a mile a day.

[Opinion Owner]

Forgot to mention... I said 1200 or less... don't go to far below because this will also cause your metabolism to slow and you will lose no weight or little weight. keep it between 1000 and 1200. Exercise. Every 3,500 calories you burn or don't eat = one pound of fat. It is pretty straight forward math. You need to run a 'calorie deficit', that is consume and burn an amount of calories that is less than what your body needs to maintain its weight. Eat 2000 a day to stay at 160 forever.

[Asker]

Thanks for allllllll of the info. :D

[sephaniecamborne]

I was thinking this plan looks great except the weighing yourself every morning. sometimes it takes more than a day to burn anything off so you might feel like it is a waist of your time and give up... so I would either weigh myself every 3 days or at the end of each week.

[Opinion Owner]

Sephanie... true, but if you enter the weight every morning on weightchart it will graph the weight and throw a daily average line on too. This makes you realize that you will have a little up and down all the time. My concern about weighing in only weekly is that you'll catch the your weight on a day that is a peak or valley. If I've had a few drinks one night and then weigh myself in the morning I tend to be 3 to 6 pounds light. It is water weight and will return over the next day or two.

[Smokeytehbear]

I guess its not too bad a routine what Anonymous User said. One thing you gotta keep in mind tho is the TYPE of food your eating. For example, the 250 calories of breakfast you have to consume, you gotta choose correctly what to eat that will equal 250 calories. If you eat 5 tortillas for example, that's 250 calories, but its all pure starch, no nutrition. You won't maximize your benefits from the calorie deficit routine described here with just breads and cereals (food group tortilla belongs to).

[blah52]

If you have a snow shovel you have workout equipment, just start digging. You can do push ups, sit ups, ext. Also, stop eating noodles and breads. Switch to proteins, vegetables, and fruits. Don't drink pop or juice, stick to water as much as possible. Its not complicated, its can just be hard to stick to.

[Anonymous]

Eat anything but within your calories limit. Go to

link to calculate it.

[KERMlT]

160 is a nice weight. :)

[Asker]

Um no its not.im 5'7 and 160 lbs.i want to be at most 145 lbs.then I'm in a good weight range.with no muffin top or back fat.