Losing weight in 2-3 weeks. possible?

[Anonymous]

I'm 5'4 and 130 lbs. I feel fat and wanna get down to 120 ish. Any tips on how to lose this fat fast? I'm gonna start eating healthier for one. But what exercises can I do?

[madmisskelly]

When you have so few pounds to lose, just eating healthy won't do much. You aren't obese, so making small tweaks to your diet and fine tuning it along with pairing it with weight lifting and toning is your best bet.

I would aim for about 1500 calories per day. Cut out any junk food, added sugar, bread, fried food, and sweets for now.

Focus on lean meats, fruits and veggies. Aim for about 4oz for lunch and dinner, 6 oz of veggies at fruit and dinner, 1 piece of fruit at lunch, and a salad at dinner. For breakfast go for a high fiber cereal (eat the serving size) with skim of 1% milk and a piece of fruit.

1. Cardio, shoulders, chest, abs

2. cardio, back, bicep

3. cardio, legs, tricep, abs

3. rest

4. repeat day 1

5. repeat day 2

6 repeat day 3

7. rest.

That is a lot of working out, and it will be tough- you could do a little less, like 3-4 times, but, you will see results quicker this way.

If you want to give yourself more of a rest, you can space the days out so that you are working out every other day. In this case, you can probably still work your abs each time (the more I read, the more I'm learning to NOT work abs every day, but at most every other day.)

The trick for abs, is 1) diet. 2) stabilizing exercises. Hold plank positions while holding your stomach in, use the balance ball, set your legs up on a weight bench and lift yourself up and keep your stomach tight.

[12elizabeth]

Aerobic exercises as these kinds of workouts will strengthen your lungs,heart and make your blood vessels stronger,...in this case aerobic will be better than anaerobic, so you should try doing dancing, cardio (running maybe) basketball, etc. And you need to keep a healthy diet, and maybe you need to modify your behavior also (because you might just crave so many things and break your diet) so you must obey. And also remember to drink lots of water!

[glamphotog]

Eating healthier alone won't help you lose weight. There's a difference between eating healthier and dieting. If you want to lose weight, you need to diet.

You just need to burn more calories than you consume. So your goal should be to maintain a caloric deficit every day. This means you can eat the same like before but exercise more to burn more calories. Or you can eat less than you used to before. Ideally, you want to find a healthy balance in between eating less and exercising more because it's not good for your body to choose either extreme.

Don't get me wrong, it's good to eat healthy in terms of getting the nutrients and vitamins your body needs and eating healthier sometimes can also mean losing weight because the healthier foods like vegetables generally have less calories but can still make you feel full.

[BeerME]

I'd do some light cardio. You don't need to go too crazy with it given that your goal is only about 10 pounds, just do something fun that gets your heart rate up like running or swimming or biking. Between eating healthier and burning a few extra calories you should have no trouble losing a bit of weight.

[ilyurbella]

It's possible. If you have a smart phone, get the app "MyFitnessPal" and just put all your information in that. It will help a lot and tell you have many calories a day you should it in order to lose the weight. Just do exercises, like swimming, running, walking, etc. It will help. Also, cutting down on gluten products can help too.

[beerY33]

that's a healthy weight. don't worry about losing weight, just focus on eating healthy and exercising regularly.

[AshBrown]

I agree. 130 lbs for 5'4" is not at all over any acceptable limit. You are fine. Just don't go careless from here.

[OneLove404]

I couldn't agree more with madmisskelly.

Make sure you do cardio , abbs and if you have acess to a local gym go there!

[charizzle]

running tends to help shed the most weight