need to loose 10lbs in two weeks

[provi]

I must loose 10 lbs in the next two weeks....I will try to do it the healthy way but am open for  all and any suggestions

[trainer]

Depending on how close your body is to its 'ideal' weight will depend on how easy this is. It is very likely that about 5lb of this weight is water. Eating foods that are diuretic in nature might help. In this case you would wait until the last minute, eat these foods, drop 5lb of water for one day and then gain it all back once you go back to eating properly. While this isn't the smartest way to lose weight, it _does_ work. My mom, for example, did this before every dr visit while preg with me 😛 Just google foods that are natural diuretics and pick a few. Watermelon comes to mind... If you are almost at your goal weight losing any amount is going to be tough and there is no easy way to know if you have a spare 5lb of water weight on you. In this case, my above suggestion won't work at all.

[Heybales]

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@provi wrote:

I must loose 10 lbs in the next two weeks....I will try to do it the healthy way but am open for  all and any suggestions

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Ya - the words healthy and lose 10 in 2 weeks don't go together.

If this is for an event you will be dressed up for and you will be seen - I strongly suggest you do not wear a scale on your back displaying your current weight with a sign of desired goal weight.

Nor go blabbing to everyone how you missed your goal weight.

People will SEE you, therefore inches are important, and you can effect that, sadly not where, but fat does take up a lot of space - even though you cannot lose 10 lbs of fat in 2 weeks.

If this is for sporting event weigh-in to hit a certain class, and your actualy athletic ability doesn't matter because your body is hosed up, then there is a method.

As intense cardio as you can make it for at least 60 min daily. Intervals is out, that's for actual body improvement and fat burn, not weight loss.

You want to burn as many carbs out of your muscles as possible, so you need to be right at your anaerobic level.

You could switch that to heavy circuit training too. 3-4 circuits of 7-9 lifts with dumbbells at 20 reps (barely getting 20 with good form) and 60 sec max rest between. Compound lifts as majority of lifts, no bicep curl time wasters.

Next eating, 1200 daily, with no more than 50 g of carbs in the diet, split the rest between protein and fat.

Make sure you eat as much after that workout as possible.

The net effect here is you'll drop a bunch of water weight from much less stored carbs.

Your performance will suffer big time. So keep track of your pace done on cardio, because even though it'll feel like you are pushing hard, you should see pace or effort go down. Same with weights on circuit training, strenght should diminish.

Other effect that should help lessen carb storage and lose weight is burning off some muscle mass.

Fat as energy supplies 3500 cal per lb, muscle as energy is only 600 cal per lb - much easier to lose a lb of muscle than fat.

Obviously that effects performance too.

Now, the fun drawback to this is getting to do it again, because weight gain should be super simple, and it'll be harder next time to lose - so suggest you give it 3 weeks to go time at that point.

And please report back if you can on results. I've either had no one take me up on this program, or they couldn't report back.