How to Lose 10lbs

2009-03-09T03:33:00.000-07:00

How to Lose 10lbs

So you want to Lose 10lbs? Doesn't everybody?

Truth be told, there's the good way to go about reaching your 10lb weight loss goals, and there's the bad way to go about reaching your 10lb weight loss goals. If done right, you can lose 10lbs in 30 days!

First, we'll talk about the good ways to lose 10lbs (or pounds).

1 - Exercise

Exercise is a great way to lose weight. With the right exercise program you can drop anywhere from 1lb to 5lbs a week. Hard work in the gym, on the street, or at home can help you reach your weight loss goals in record time.

2 - Eating Right/Cleaning Up Your Diet

If you're not eating right, you should be. Removing all forms of junk food and high calorie fatty foods will have you dropping pounds with little to no effort. By replacing junk food with healthy alternatives, you remove thousands of unnecessary calories from your diet. To lose a pound a week, you have to burn 2,500 more calories than you eat. If you swap junk food for healthy snacks, you can reach that 2,500 goal with ease.

3 - Combine Diet and Exercise

This is the how you reach your 10lb weight loss goal in the least amount of time possible. Clean up your diet and combine it with a solid workout problem and you'll be dropping more pounds than you know what to do with. Exercising 4 times a week combined with a balanced diet program is the best way to go about losing those 10lbs. If you do it right, you can lose 10lbs in a single month!

Now, the wrong ways to go about losing 10lbs.

1- Starving yourself

It might seem like a good idea, but starving yourself never works. It will work over a short period of time, but you'll either get sick or gain the weight back when you start eating again. Chances are, you'll end up losing valuable muscle instead of body fat, and that's asking for trouble. Following a balanced diet is essential for losing 10 lbs, avoiding food in general is a big no-no.

2 - Following Fad Diets

This is the biggest waste of time ever. Sure, fad diets work for people, they work well, but most people grow tired of eating 6 grapefruits a day or drinking 12 cups of chicken broth. The truth about fad diets is simple, they're fad diets for a reason, they come and go because they don't have any staying power. Some of them do offer a quick fix, but you're doing yourself a disservice by following them, you're not training your body to eat follow a balanced diet, what happens when you go off the diet? You go back to your old habits, so avoid fad diets and learn to eat right all the time.

3 - Not doing anything

Pretty straight forward, sitting around doing the same thing day in and day out will not help you lose 10lbs. You'll probably end up gaining weight, so get off your behind and get to work, those 10lbs aren't going to lose themselves. Doing nothing isn't going to help you lose 10lbs in 30 days.

I hope the above has helped you get handle on what you can do to lose 10lbs, there's a whole lot more I can go into, but this is a simple outline to prepare you for the hard work that is going to help you lose 10lbs.