How quickly can I lose 10 pounds ....

If you lose 10 lbs in two weeks most of it will be water weight. A low-carb diet yields rapid initial weight loss since water is bound up with stored glycogen in your muscles. As you consume the glycogen and don't replace it, the water is eliminated. As soon as you replenish the carbs, the water weight returns.

It took awhile to gain the weight. Face the fact that there aren't any more short-cuts in weight loss than there are in distance running.

If you starve yourself, your body will go into a defensive mode where it's more likely to store fat than if you just eat smaller amounts in regular intervals.

Use carb2 blockers. They block upto 500 calories per intake.

SonNative wrote:

Use carb2 blockers. They block upto 500 calories per intake.

Worst advice ever.

Now really that just is not healthy, what you really need to do is go to mexico and drink the water. Or make some exlax smores.

It is not reckless.

Your body requires about 2000 calories daily. Anything above this is unused and what does the body do? convert it into sugar and deposit it as fat. For a guy who eats two doughnuts and a coke in the morning, lunch, snacks in between and supper, he ends up consuming about 3000 calories. That is the tragedy. That is why America is fat.

so skip the "calorie blockers" and the doughnuts too.

I'm pretty sure you could lose it in 30 seconds. Continue to eat normally, but stop shitting. This will take some mental toughness, but you can do it. After you've been holding it in for about a week, eat 5 apples and then walk across the street to the gas station (you don't want to do this at home). Once you're safely in the stall, start thinking about how painful your next race is going to be. You should be able to easily squeeze out 10 lbs of horribly smelly crap.

twice a runner wrote:

so skip the "calorie blockers" and the doughnuts too.

Are you telling Americans to skip doughnuts??

Think again. It's like asking a squirrel not to eat nuts.

no

Did you know that Canadians eat the most doughnuts per capita. What aboot that, eh?

If you drive over the bump in the street the next time you are downtown, the solution will surely spark a transient memory into action.

My perfect diet (I lost 25 pounds), in 7 months though.

BRUNCH

1. 2 servings of Oatmeal

2. Pound of Watermelon

DINNER

1. Subway meal or small cooked meal at home.

Thanks Jarod.

foooood wrote:

My perfect diet (I lost 25 pounds), in 7 months though.

BRUNCH

1. 2 servings of Oatmeal

2. Pound of Watermelon

DINNER

1. Subway meal or small cooked meal at home.

SonNative wrote:

twice a runner wrote:

so skip the "calorie blockers" and the doughnuts too.

Are you telling Americans to skip doughnuts??

Think again. It's like asking a squirrel not to eat nuts.

I haven't had a donut in about 5 years.

Ripped Fuel, and long runs at really slow pace

You could lose a HEALTHY 10 pounds in about a month, maybe three weeks if you run a lot. Reduce calorie intake by about 500 a day and that's a pound a week. If you're also running 70 miles a week that's another 2 pounds a week for a total of 3 pounds a week. So about 3 weeks.

Alan

FW,

You are quite a rare breed.

In this site is a topic; "Who makes the best doughnuts?"

I thought this explains everything.

Flagpole Willy wrote:

I haven't had a donut in about 5 years.

s#%ks to be you.

SonNative wrote:

FW,

You are quite a rare breed.

In this site is a topic; "Who makes the best doughnuts?"

I thought this explains everything.

You've completely confused me with that brother.

runningart2004 wrote:

You could lose a HEALTHY 10 pounds in about a month, maybe three weeks if you run a lot. Reduce calorie intake by about 500 a day and that's a pound a week. If you're also running 70 miles a week that's another 2 pounds a week for a total of 3 pounds a week. So about 3 weeks.

Alan

Alan! This is EXACTLY correct! You know the whole deal EXACTLY as I do. Wonder if someone will rip you a new one and tell you that you're promoting eating disorders?

Now, you do also need to tell this person that the above is true ONLY if they eat in those three weeks what their body would use (less the 500 calories you mentioned each day) when AT REST. For example, at 10 miles a day running, the person will burn an APPROXIMATE 1000 calories a dy more. The person can't just then suddenly eat 1000 more calories a day than they were before doing the running and expect to lose 10 pounds in 3 weeks.

But, you are right nonetheless (although I would suggest they take a little longer than 3 weeks to lose 10 pounds, and I'm pretty sure you'd agree with that).

- Stevie Ray