How To Lose 10 Pounds Fast

I am not going to sell you anything, I won’t ask for your email or tell you to take some pills that are sure to get pulled off the market in a couple of months from now (remember Hydroxycut getting pulled off the shelves back in 2009? It’s back but I wouldn’t trust it with my life); instead I would like to show you how you can come up with your own fool-proof plan to lose 10 pounds fast.

We must determine your daily caloric expenditure (this spreadsheet will do all the calculations for you); this number will tell us how many calories your body needs every day to do things such

as walking, doing the dishes, watching TV, exercising, etc.

Once you know your daily caloric expenditure we are going to create a calorie deficiency, in other words, you will be feeding your body fewer calories than what your body actually burns during a given day. If you are overweight, and do this for a short period of time, your body will not starve, it will continue to use the same number of calories it was used to burning, but the calories will be coming from stored fat instead of excess foods.

This brings us to another important point; in order to lose weight you must either eat less or burn more calories. Perhaps you could do both and speed up the process!

How To Lose 10 Pounds Fast, rules

Cut the junk food; get rid of sugars, sodas, processed foods and absolutely no fast food. Start eating healthy (if you aren’t yet), incorporate whole grains, whole wheat breads, brown or wild rice, a lot of veggies too.

Start exercising; this like eating right is just something that will change your life in more than one way, you will not only look better, you will also feel better. There is no need for you to do something crazy like lifting heavy weights at the gym biggest loser style. Just get your body moving, jump on a treadmill, bike, do what you can, sweat a bit.

So, how many fewer calories should I be consuming to lose weight fast?

Ok, now that we know our daily caloric intake we are going to create the calorie deficiency we talked about before. How?

To lose 1 pound of body weight we need to be consume 3,500 fewer calories. A healthy weight loss program would include a plan where you aim to lose about 1 pound a week by cutting 500 calories of your diet every day.

500 calories is a very reasonable number if your goal is to lose one pound in a week; to lose more than just one pound in a week you would have to cut more than 500 calories off your diet every day, and you would have to burn more calories than before by doing more exercise.

I do not recommend going on a program where you cut a huge number of calories off your diet for a long period; for a week, it may be ok,

To attain your goal of losing 10 pounds fast you should say no to TV, walk more, snack wisely, and chew some gum; these simple things could help you lose an additional 5,000 calories in a week, which translates to more than one pound! (see my article “5 tiny changes that can transform the body you have into the body you want”).

Just by becoming more active, cutting calories and watching your diet you will be able to lose the 10 pounds you want to shed.

If your goal is permanent weight loss then the more conservative approach will yield the best results, cut a small number of calories off your diet, get moving and see your body change weekly.  If on the other hand you must fit on that one size too small dress you got by next Saturday, then be warned that unless you make some major changes the weight will surely come back as fast as you lost it.

Thanks for the pic above Svadilfari. CCL.