All people have the ability to lose 10 pounds fast by doing two simple things; cut 500 calories from your diet, and burn an extra 500 calories through exercise. If you do this you’ll be shedding about 2 pounds of fat a week, and it will take just over a month to lose 10 pounds.
Cut Out 500 Calories A Day
- Skip the latte, get a coffee – Most people don’t recognize just how many unnecessary calories you are consuming at Starbucks and other local coffee shops. A Grande Caffe Latte at Starbucks will cost you 190 calories. The calories and fat in the milk all add up quickly! Skip the latte and get a coffee. A Grande coffee only has 5 calories. If you don’t add sugar or milk and you just saved 185 calories. A Grande Mocha w/ whip cream has 330 calories so if you like the really sweet and chocolaty drinks you just saved 325 calories by switching to coffee.
- Cut the carbonated drinks – Similar to lattes, carbonated drinks like Pepsi and Coca-Cola can contain serious amounts of sugar and calories. According to Pepsi, 12 fluid ounces of its product contains 150 calories. Alternatively, you can choose Diet Pepsi or another diet soda and save 150 calories. If you are really responsible, you’ll cut just go straight for plain old water.
- Substitute healthy snacks for poor ones – A Snickers bar is a whopping 280 calories and 1 ounce of Cheetos is 160 calories (assuming you don’t shove the whole bag in your mouth, which in a 3.25 ounce bag would be a spectacular 520 calories). Instead of getting these quick fixes you can opt for 3 ounces of raw carrots for 35 calories and/or a half cup of grapes for roughly 60 calories. If you had the Snickers bar, you just saved 185 calories. If you scarfed down that bag of Cheetos you saved 425 calories!
Burning 500 Calories
- Get off the couch at night. Don’t just plop down after you’ve had a long day at work. Sure television may make you feel good, but it isn’t helping to drop those extra pounds. If you take 30 minutes of your time immediately after work and pick up around the house you can burn an extra 100 calories.
- Take the stairs – Don’t cram in that elevator with all those other sheep at your work, be a leader and take the stairs. The amount of calories that you spend performing an exercise varies by your weight since you need to exert more energy to move heavier objects. Be that as it may, for a person weighing 145 pounds walking up and down the stairs will burn approximately 530 calories per hour. If you take the stairs for a minimum of 15 minutes a day and weight 145 pound than you just burned an extra 133 calories.
- Take a morning walk – now that you’ve got that extra energy from the extra sleep, you should get up and take a brisk walk in the morning! For a person weighing 145 pounds, you can burn 169 calories in the morning by taking a brisk 4.0 mph walk for 30 minutes.
Losing weight fast doesn’t always require drastic lifestyle changes. Remember a lot of little changes can add up to some very significant weight loss, and these little things are easy to incorporate into your life unlike the drastic changes put forth by most commercial diets.
If you have any easy weight loss tips please share them in the comments section.
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See, I hate advice like this. I treat myself to a mocha twice a week tops, don’t drink anything but water, and I don’t snack. What about people who aren’t indulging like crazy?
Hi, I started today the 10 day master cleanse . I am okay with everything except the caynne pepper. It is too hot!! Also taking that much caynne pepper is it going to affect my heart. before I had problems with cloging of the arteries so I have 2 stints and 1 balloon placed in my arteries.
Also Why do I feel like throwing up?
I am about to start the Master Cleanse and am curious if it is advisable to juice the lemons with my juicer (rind and all).
The lemons are organic, so I wouldn’t see why this would be an issue, but I just wanted to get some reassurance.
Thanks,
Patrick
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I am starting the MC Tuesday. My goal is to do it for 20 days, but I definitely plan to complete 10. The various questions and responses have been enlightening and helpful. Thanks for all the tips. I will keep you posted. Happy detoxing!
Ive been on the master cleanse for two days now. I’m starving and I’m not going bathroom nemore than usual n I haven’t lost any weight !!!
I started the master cleanse Monday 11-8-09. And stopped 11-8-09. I started again today. I really want to do this clease. I need to do this. I’m afraid something might affect my heart. I have a leaky heart valve. Will this cleanse affect my heart?
I stop smoking nine months ago, and I have gained at least 17 lbs. Somebody help me PLEASE!
I want to make it work, but I am having a hard time.
Dear Sophie
When I gave up smoking I too gained 17kgs(around 34lbs)and carried that weight around with me, having to wear larger and larger size clothes. One morning when I awoke I decided enough was enough, so I checked out my local Weight Watchers and arranged to attend a meeting. I stayed with them until I reached my goal weight of 71kgs(around 142lbs)and have managed to control my weight over the last 9 years.
It is so good to be able to get into nice modern clothes, so although the thought of losing so much weight is daunting, it is so worth it. It is life changing. I think the first few days are the hardest after that it becomes a habit.
Good luck
Sarah
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I am on cleanse day #12…I feel great, and have lost 11lbs. If you can stick to it, the benefits are awsome.