Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 6 Days:

Although not physically healthy, sometimes for your mental well-being you have to lose weight fast to maintain your weight-loss goals.

If there are only 6 days left in a given month, and you are within 10 pounds of reaching your monthly goal weight, the following outline will get you there before the month changes over.

If less than 10 pounds over, you can scale these extremes back accordingly:

6 days until month end or weigh in:

Measure out two full gallons of water, and ration it out to yourself throughout the day.

As far as eating, count calories, and eat ½ of your maintenance number.

Maintenance number is defined as the amount of caloric intake which would cause you to neither gain, nor lose weight.

This is how you calculate that number:
Males: Body weight x 15
Females: Body weight X 14

So, for instance, you are a 170 pound male, you multiply 170 times 15 = 2,550.

Then divide by 2, so you'll eat 1275 calories.

5 days until month end or weigh in:

Measure out two full gallons of water, and ration it out to yourself throughout the day.

As far as eating, count calories, and eat ½ of your maintenance number.

4 days until month end or weigh in:

Measure out two full gallons of water, and ration it out to yourself throughout the day.

As far as eating, count calories, and eat ½ of your maintenance number.

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3 days until month end or weigh in:

Measure out one gallon of water, and ration it out to yourself throughout the day.

Eat very few calories, and avoid sodium as much as possible.


Day before month end or weigh in:

Drink nothing at all for a full 24 hours exactly before weigh-in.

Eat minimal calories, and shoot for zero sodium.

Exercise only at moderate ( not hard ) intensity, but try to workout as long as reasonable.

Take a hot bath, or shower, the longer, the better.

Measure your weight every 15 minutes if you have to in order to see how you are doing.

If you have access to a sauna, this would be ideal.

Sleep with your body wrapped in Saran wrap, in a warm room.

If you wake up to a seemingly intolerable situation, remove some Saran wrap or turn your heater down.


Last day of month ( weigh in day ):

Weigh in. If under, congratulations, and re-hydrate as needed, and resume normal eating patterns slowly.

If overweight, exercise, take a hot bath, or shower and keep re-weighing until under, then rehydrate and resume normal activities, but try not to pig out all at once.

If you are really lucky, you may even reach your goal weight before the last day utilizing this method.

Of course this is almost all water weight, which you will re-gain quickly, but you will feel like you accomplished something.

This is a popular method used by athletes who compete in weight-class related sports, ( such as boxing ) so they can weigh in light and meet the lower weight class requirements, then regain the weight and fight, usually the next day.

*Note: This method should not be used by people who are not risk-takers, or who have existing health issues as there is a minor chance of medical complications.

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