Losing 10 pounds in one week

Please tell me this is a lame trolling attempt. This is one of the worst ideas I've ever seen posted on this board.

3,500 calories = one pound.

you'll need to have a deficit of 5,000 calories a day to lose 10lbs in a week. it's impossible, unless you're dehydrated next time you weight yourself.

-STS

1 pound of fat = roughly 3600 Calories. A good goal to shoot for when losing weight is 1 pound a week after the first week. To do this you will need to burn roughly 500 calories more than you consume each day of the week. You will lose probably 5 pounds the first week due to loss of water weight etc, but it isn't actual body weight.

I know it sucks, but you have to be patient when losing weight. It can take 3 months to lose 10 pounds.

There have been a lot of threads on weight loss with good advice. Use the search function.

cut out most all carbs...eat only chicken, fish, vegetables, a vitamin and lots of water.

Run/Hike Triples

15 mi in a.m.

10 mi in the afternoon

5 mi in the evening

3,500 calories burned, plus raised metabolic rate the rest of the day so say you are burning 6,000 a day. Eat 1500 and you've got a 4500 a day deficit and you are on your way. It may take 8 days but you are there. Good luck.

it can be done wrote:

Run/Hike Triples

15 mi in a.m.

10 mi in the afternoon

5 mi in the evening

Great advice to a guy who can't run as he said in his post.

If it takes you 3 months to lose 10lbs then you must not have much to lose or if you're obese then your diet and exercise routine ain't working.

Want to lose 10lbs in a week? Don't eat carbs. Minimize water intake. Same thing people do to cut weight for fights.

Want to look good and ripped on a particular day:

http://tnation.tmuscle.com/free_online_forum/sports_body_training_performance_bodybuilding_article/shredded_in_6_days_1

Alan

Come on Alan. Of course it's possible to lose 10 lbs of water weight in a week. But it won't be healthy or permanent; at the end of the week he will feel like shit, will start underperforming in workouts. 1 lb/week is pretty universally accepted as sustainable. Of course you can push that, but you will always get better results by a long-term routine than by some ridiculous purge. That's the first step towards an eating disorder.

more superlative wrote:

Come on Alan. Of course it's possible to lose 10 lbs of water weight in a week. But it won't be healthy or permanent; at the end of the week he will feel like shit, will start underperforming in workouts. 1 lb/week is pretty universally accepted as sustainable. Of course you can push that, but you will always get better results by a long-term routine than by some ridiculous purge. That's the first step towards an eating disorder.

Correct, x 10.

this is a trolling attempt, mostly becuase no one would notice a 10 lb weight gain anyway becuase your online playing WOW for 22 hours a day

lemons4u wrote:

this is a trolling attempt, mostly becuase no one would notice a 10 lb weight gain anyway becuase your online playing WOW for 22 hours a day

And "your" skipping your Spelling and Grammar 101 lecture.

couldn't care less about grammar and spelling on letsrun. whoever started this trend of correcting peoples grammar should be shot.

remember the fastest people alive can barely speak English, and everyone on here thinks Correlation implies causation so my grammer and spelling is clearly a sign of pure aerobic fitness and speed.

Alan, from other posts I've read you seem to know the most about this subject.

I agree now that 10 pounds in a week is too much, but maybe a month?

Right now I am 5'7 148 pounds. I used to be very ripped, and have a decent muscle definition, but once I got my surgery, I literally stayed on the couch for one month and ate. Before the surgery I am assuming I was around 135-138 pounds.

So to Alan: What should I eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and how should I workout ( I can not run yet)

You should care about it. It makes you look like an unintelligent punk. But, that's exactly what you are, right?

lemons4u wrote:

couldn't care less about grammar and spelling on letsrun. whoever started this trend of correcting peoples grammar should be shot.

remember the fastest people alive can barely speak English, and everyone on here thinks Correlation implies causation so my grammer and spelling is clearly a sign of pure aerobic fitness and speed.

I hate how dumb people learn about things like "correlation implies causation" in their intro to statistics class and then throw it around in completely unwarranted situations just to appear intelligent.

Also, how did you manage to spell grammar correctly in the first sentence and then incorrectly in the 3rd?

You're stupid, and normally I wouldn't care but your justification was pretty damn dumb so I had to call you out. Hit the books after you hit the track and you'll be a better person, trust me.

Seriously, there is a much easier and slightly healthier way:

Eat nothing but fruit and vegetables for the entire week. (No meat, dairy, bread, beer, etc.) Do not eat after your evening meal. Do this for an entire week and you will lose 9 pounds. Mix in some exercise and you will exceed you short term 10-pound goal.

It's a cleanse, and it works.

headhunter wrote:

I hate how dumb people learn about things like "correlation implies causation" in their intro to statistics class and then throw it around in completely unwarranted situations just to appear intelligent.

Also, how did you manage to spell grammar correctly in the first sentence and then incorrectly in the 3rd?

You're stupid, and normally I wouldn't care but your justification was pretty damn dumb so I had to call you out. Hit the books after you hit the track and you'll be a better person, trust me.

If you had a sense of humor, your question would answer itself. And for the record, no worthwhile stats class would teach that correlation implies causation.

New to the Board wrote:

Seriously, there is a much easier and slightly healthier way:

Eat nothing but fruit and vegetables for the entire week. (No meat, dairy, bread, beer, etc.) Do not eat after your evening meal. Do this for an entire week and you will lose 9 pounds. Mix in some exercise and you will exceed you short term 10-pound goal.

It's a cleanse, and it works.

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Hey

I was in a similar situation. Coming off of a long injury, needed to lose weight to get back to running weight. It took a week and a half to lose ten pounds, and I did a half hour on the bike every other morning and a hour in the gym every other evening (if you don't have gym access a strenuous core routine that gets your heart rate up will do).

The big key was that I went on a raw foods diet (no processed food, nothing heated over 118 degrees which pretty much rules out meat and dairy) for those two weeks. I was putting down well over 2500 cals a day and really eating as much as I wanted, but I lost weight every day. Based on articles I read I went pretty strict and eliminated most fancy raw food stuff. The staples were bananas, apples, tangerines/clementines, celery, cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, spinach, kale, and avocados and tahini (sesame seed paste, kind of like bitter peanut butter) for fats/protiens (these are essential, but it's best to eat them at the end of the day for digestion). A little salt on a salad every couple of days was as far as it went for processed foods.

I recommend starting the day off with a smoothie like this: 1 cup water, 2 bananas, a cup of kale or spinach or both, and half of a little carton of blueberries. Once you get used to the lack of sugar you actually start to like this stuff. Other than that I'd usually have some assorted melons and grapes at lunch with a garden salad, and then eat celery, carrots, and tomatoes with tahini in the evenings, or make another smoothie, but with avocado instead of the blueberries. Bananas, apples, and oranges will keep you going throughout the day, and bananas have hella calories and thus hella energy. Watch out though, because if you eat too many bananas you'll get constipated. To keep things "normal" every couple of days I'd eat a few plums or a mango (just the flesh, not the skin) to keep things flowing.

I'm a Marine, so I did have access to the chow hall which helped with the lunchtime meal, but everything else I was able to buy pretty cheap, and I'm out in Hawaii where the cost of living is pretty high. If you budget right it's doable. It varies person to person, but there's often a detox period associated with going off of processed foods. I don't think I ate particularly healthy before I started the diet, but I actually didn't really have too many side effects. Definitely would read up on it though if you decide to go that route, just so you know what to possibly expect.

Now, I fully expect to get railed by someone for this post, so I'm throwing out a preemptive caveat that this worked for me and that's the only reason I'm recommending it. I love meat. When I was on this diet I had wet dreams involving me buried under a mountain of Kobe steaks (not really, but...). However, I cannot argue with the fact that the diet did the job I wanted it to and that I actually felt effing amazing while I was on it. I am strongly considering going on it for a longer amount of time. Also, if anyone considers this as a viable option, try to maintain at least a 20% fat/protein ratio to the diet, when I dropped below that I started feeling not so hot, and if you get sick for more than three days in a row and are showing no signs of improvement cut the diet, no matter what the weight-loss results are.