Help Please- Need to burn fat quickly

Sadly, there is no fast, shortcut way to lose weight and fat. What you can do is plug your stats into this site and eat the calories alotted to you based on your weight loss goal.

If you have a good amount of weight to lose, you can select the 2lbs a week goal and eat accordingly. Unfortunately 1 month doesn't give you much time to lose 10 lbs, but all you can do is try your best, but please don't be too aggressive and try to lose the weight too fast. It can burn you out and hurt your body. My suggestion to you is to eat all your alotted calories because it's important to fuel your body as you exercise.

Good luck on your weight loss/health journey!

^^^This! I agree with Snipsa!

paigeharman66 wrote: »

I actually play soccer in college and overweight doesn't hurt you as a player exactly. It is always to have size in a contact sport, especially if you are trying to shield the ball from other players or to stand your ground when opponents try to knock you off the ball. The best advice I would give is to switch it to 2 pounds a week and do workouts that deal with speed. I think your coach wants you to loose weight because they believe it will make you faster and this could be very true. Try to eat more protein packed meals because it will keep you full longer and do more crossfit/cone drills to help with the speed. Best of luck to you on your weight loss goals and in soccer!

Agreed with this. My feeling is if you focus more on fitness goals than weightloss goals (whilst still maintaining a manageable deficit) you will be able to impress your coach by the end of April much more than a loss of 15 pounds (with a very likely loss of lean muscle and energy levels) would do...

I agree that eating at a huge caloric deficit for a month might not help you to play soccer.

Ultimately you'll do what you want, but since your goal is to play soccer, make sure you keep up the training during your diet period. If you notice your performance (speed, endurance) deteriorating over time, you need to up the calories. Losing the 10lbs is supposed to improve your performance after all.

Does anyone not find it odd that only 10 pounds is at stake here? 10 pounds is going to make the difference between you now and being "match fit"? I would think endurance would be a more important factor.

MommyL2015 wrote: »

Does anyone not find it odd that only 10 pounds is at stake here? 10 pounds is going to make the difference between you now and being "match fit"? I would think endurance would be a more important factor.

I find it weird. Also, I've never joined a sport where they demanded "match fitness" before I could play, after I gave them my hard-earned cash - and I was a lot more than 10lbs overweight when I was playing cricket.

OP, do you REALLY want to play at a club where they are not going to let you play because you're 10lbs overweight? Or is the problem simply that you don't have stamina?

As for the "spec ops guy" - he must know by now that we know he's lying. Spec ops soldiers are smart. They kind of need to be. Although perhaps I'm judging by Australian SAS, all of whom would laugh in your face if you suggested eating 900 calories...

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that_fat_guy_5 wrote: »

My coach is a firm believer that fitness wins games, not skills, and unfortunately he has been proven correct this season. My main issue is endurance, as i am more than 10 seconds behind the rest of the team in wind sprints. I was told that the best way to improve endurance is to lose weight, which is why I have set my goals at losing 10 pounds.

I disagree....
I had great endurance at 200lbs before I got ill. After a looooong break, and more than 20lbs lighter, I don't have that same endurance. It's more about increasing your activity in general, not the weight itself.

Endurance is not amount of losing weight, that just makes it easy on your body to do physical activity. Endurance is a mental concept... you can do anything you put your mind to if you believe you can and have a positive attitude. I was told I wouldn't run 3 miles in less than 25 minutes because I wasn't fit enough and also hadn't been training for it. That day I ran 3 miles in 22 minutes because I wanted to prove myself... did everything hurt yes. I wanted to give up after a mile in, but I had the endurance to push past the thoughts. I think you need to train your mind on that you are in shape, but need to push yourself harder in the workouts.