need to lose 35 pounds by Aug 1...any tips?

Lop off a leg.

My best advice - revise your goal to a healthy weight loss of 1 to 2 pounds a week. You want to keep it off after you take it off.

Seriously, there may be ways to do this but there are NO healthy ways! And yes, you will find someone who's done it. It's still not healthy and not safe! Is there a particular reason for that weight on that day? I can't imagine anything important enough for that kind of risk!

i guess i always feel the total opposite of everyone else when it comes to the whole 1-2 pounds a week thing. it's like, if i'm loosing 3 or more pounds a week i should stop exercising to slow it down? if you're truly eating healthy and exercising then sometimes you do loose more than the "recommended 1-2 lbs per week". but with that being said, i wouldn't say go overboard with what your body can handle and do some type of fad diet.


and for the record.. i also think that just because you loose more than 1-2 lbs a week doesn't mean you can't successfully keep the weight off. there's usually a lot more behind gaining the weight back other than just loosing more lbs a week than that.

ultimately i saw listen to your body, that's the only true judge of how you feel!

I agree with you completely! How much you lose has absolutely nothing to do with keeping it off! However, losing 5 to 6 pounds a week for 6 or 7 weeks straight simply can not be done in any healthy way unless you're at the Biggest Loser Ranch with your own trainer, nutritionist, doctors......

I think the important thing here is you have said if you go by the "what you will weigh in 5 weeks" path and that is pretty dangerous because you may just be tempted to starve and exercise just to see that figure.
After a few days of this, you will probably binge as your body is crying out for food. The other way I see this is all the little men in your body that are involved in your digestive system start putting the food that you finally do eat into little cupboards to store away as they don't know when they are next going to get some. This then works against your body.
In Conclusion (sorry about waffling on!) eating 3-6 average size meals a day and doing half hour of exercise 5 days a week will see you lose approx 1-3 pounds a week depending on your original weight. You're right if you weigh more there is a chance of losing more. Do it this way and you will get results and maybe lose 20 pounds. The other 15 is all about how you dress baby!!!

sorry I meant to add my Dad used to try eating little and he just kept putting on weight as he would binge on high calorie stuff. He started this with me 9 weeks ago and has almost lost 2 stone. He has kept to his calories and done exercise (something which was strange to him!). He's the best advertisement for eating healthy and exercising

that is most likely not going to be possible. I don't believe in setting yourself up to fail. you are talking at least 5lbs a week, every week for 7 weeks, yes? I would recommend that you concentrate on toning exercises and weight lifting, you can make an appreciable difference in your body shape in 6-7 weeks and if you couple that with a good diet that hits your calorie mark, you could lose 20 lbs in that time and end up looking a lot better than if you starve off 35lbs and you will feel better too. I know it helps people to be able to write down goals and say I am going to lose x amount of weight by x day and then break it down into weeks and have a number to look at like June 24- 230, July1-225, July8- 220 but when those dates come and you haven't made those goals it can be very disappointing and send you into a meltdown.

not only that... he decided to celebrate fathers day by going for a five mile walk and treated him to a pint of beer. I bought him new clothes! He said it was the best fathers day ever!!!
I promptly cried

not only that... he decided to celebrate fathers day by going for a five mile walk and treated him to a pint of beer. I bought him new clothes! He said it was the best fathers day ever!!!
I promptly cried

This weight loss thing is making me soft! As I read this I started to cry! Dang emotional stuff!!! I am officially sending a big hug to your dad!!!

Um - if my maths are right, you have 6 or 7 weeks (let's round up and say 50 days), and if to lose 1lb takes a deficit of 3,500 calories, then to lose 35lb you'd need a total deficit of 122,500 calories which divided by 50 means you'd need to have a daily deficit of 2,450 calories. To me, that sounds like a Bad Idea. You've done so well already - don't undermine yourself by trying something so extreme! You'll get to where you want to be, and stay there, by doing things sensibly.

That is a lot of weight to lose! But all you can do is give your best shot. I am not sure what your diet is like, but foods with lots of fiber would be good for you. Fiber is not digested into the body. So you are consuming calories and feel full but doesn't get stored as fat. Your body uses up the vitamins and minerals in fiber but doesn't store the fat. So whole grains, vegetables, and fruits. Baked fish and baked chicken are very good sources of protein for you. When you eat protein it makes you feel fuller for longer just like Fiber. Protein automatically burns 27% of those calories just digesting the food where as carbs burn 7% for digestion and fat 3%. The Omega 3's in tuna fish and fish help speed up your metabolism. The calcium and vitamin D in lowfat milk helps speed up your matabolism too. I don't know if you know but people who eat breakfast lose more weight than others. So for breakfast you could eat oatmeal one day, eggs with wheat toast another day, or a bowl of high fiber whole grain cereal. These foods I just listed make you feel fuller longer than other breakfast foods and are very healthy. Eat 5 small meals and not 3 larger meals. The small meals keeps your metabolism ribbed up. If you eat at night eat protein and not carbs or fat. Drink 8 glasses of water a day, this helps boost your metabolism. You can't drink soda's, eat sweets, red meat, greasy foods. For exercise you should do cardio at least 4 to 7 days out of the week and when you do cardio do it for 60 minutes at a time. The first 30 minutes of cardio you are only burning carbs, after 30 minutes your body starts using fat as an energy source, so that is when you are burning fat. Make sure you do weight training at least 3 days a week and hit up every body part. 67% of the calories burned in a day is when you are sitting there and those calories are burned faster if you do weight training. It increases your resting metabolic rate. So you need a good diet, longer bouts of cardio and weight trianing!! If you take vitamins, go to GNC or Vitamin world and get the mega men sport in the botttle, not the vitapack. These vitamins speed up your metabolism, don't get the one a day or centrium, you are thowing your money away... not enough vitamins in there. If you have any more questions just ask!!