any tips on how to lose 15 -20 pounds in 45 days please

I looked up the BMR based on the information you gave me. It calculates how much calories you can consume to maintain your weight which is 2138. This is based on being really active. To lose 2 lbs a week, you have to cut your calorie intake to 1529. So in 6 weeks if you cut your calories to 1529, you would lose about 12 lbs. You would have to eat 1200 calories to lose 3 lbs a week, which is about 15 - 18lbs. Anymore weight lost than that would be too fast. Also make sure you are drinking enough water, and getting electrolytes in your body from the sweating and working out. If you are dehydrated, it hinders your weight lose because you end up losing water weight and not body fat weight. I take a packet of Emergen-C per day and that makes sure I'm not dehydrated and I have the electrolyte in my body. You can also used pedialyte or something that has all the electrolytes in it. If you can cut out the bread and pasta and rice to a smaller serving or non-existent serving. Keep a bowl of apples near you for those moments when you want to munch on something. The apple helps you reach for it instead of a bag of potato chip.

There are BMR calculators all over the internet and exercise calorie counters to help you determine how much energy you are burning. Look them up to help you manage your weight lose.

Feel free to add me if you need a partner to help get past the plateau and keep moving.

Jenna

You might want to lok into a Program called Whole 30, Their web site is www.whole9.com Essentially it eliminates Grains and dairy for 30 days and then you re introduce them, If you want to check further on it they have a book titled "It Starts With Food" Might want to look into it; its pretty effective coupled with exercise.

There is more then one way to lose weight people...geez. My suggestion....Two days a week of cardio and a 2000 calorie diet isn't going to do much. Like others said - cut back to at least 1500-1800 and up your protein intake to anywhere from 150g-200g per day. You are going to need to train ALOT. Meaning, cardio everyday (at least 45 min) and weights every other day (if not everyday). Weights will not make you bulky..lean muscle mass=more calories burned daily. I usually do two a days - morning is weights (different muscle group everyday) and then night is cardio (at least 45 min HIIT or plyo). Yes it's hard but our bodies did not evolve for this sedentary lifestyle we have taken on as a species..you can do it...but it's super discipline time and up, up, up for cardio and add weights!

Lol what? This is such terrible advice.

Liposuction.

Its Vegas. Whatever you look like, I guarantee you won't be the biggest mess there.

Just eat at a moderate deficit and exercise. Maybe you can lose 10lbs safely by then, and keep it off after.

Based on your stats,I would say that you are eating at maintanence. You need to cut back a little.1500-1600 should do it.

a pound of week is a good pace so you can't go wrong with that.

what i've done is up the protein, only do carbs in the morning and none within 3 hours of going to sleep. i also had 5 meals a day, no more than 300 calories per meal within my caloric goals, and keep the protein:carb ratio to 1:4 as much as possible.

i would also do more than 2 days a week doing some kind of workout. did you know that leg workouts burn more calories? if you do squats and lunges mixed with jumping jacks and burpees or mountain climbers and pushups/planks you can do this at home on your own without a class.

if you have a goal like a reunion or event (vegas?), cut out salt the last few days before the event, but make sure you get lots of water.

whatever it is, make sure it's healthy!

I see time travel and limb removal has been covered already, as well as low carbing it for that whoosh of water weight.

Well. I got nothing.

People always forget organ removal.

I once lost 20 lbs per month but I ate very little and worked out 2.5 hours per day. I was starving and tired all the time. I also ended up losing a lot of hair. This time around I'm doing it sensibly. I started at the end of November and have lost 10 lbs. I'm not starving or tired and as long as the scale keeps moving in a downward direction I'll be happy. You might be able to do 10 lbs if you work really hard.

Cut out sugar.
Any kind of sugar: white table sugar, "organic cane juice", "pure cane juice", brown sugar, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup. Cut out fruit juice and soda.

Increase your fat intake. Yes, you heard me right. Increase your fat intake, get rid of all low-fat or non-fat foods (loaded with sugar), and eat real food with real fat.

I cut out sugar and lost 25 pounds without dieting or exercising. No joke.

You cut out sugar...without dieting...







Also, sugar is clearly the debil.

I suggest picking the limb you like the least.

in all seriousness though, please reconsider that short deadline.

As I start thinking this is an option I realize I should stop worrying about the numbers so much

I say don't go crazy and try to lose so much by your deadline. Start changing your lifestyle, eat better, do more cardio, and tone with weights. This sucks as an answer for this trip, but youll benefit from following a healthy lifestyle for this time next year.

I suggest picking the limb you like the least.

in all seriousness though, please reconsider that short deadline.

As I start thinking this is an option I realize I should stop worrying about the numbers so much

I say don't go crazy and try to lose so much by your deadline. Start changing your lifestyle, eat better, do more cardio, and tone with weights. This sucks as an answer for this trip, but youll benefit from following a healthy lifestyle for this time next year.

As I said this jokingly I remembered just earlier I said to my mom (again jokingly) I wish I had bladder stones so they could be taken out and I'd weigh less. Our dog is having her surgery for that tomorrow, its on my mind