Want to loose 4 pounds a week..

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Jp90

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I need to desperately loose 4 pounds a week.
I'm 194 pounds at 5'8 in height.

How can I do this?
Consume 500 calories a day and burn 2500 calories a day, but that seems rather hard.

How does metabolism play a roll in this? I see all these excersise calculators and say how much calories you burn with each excersise in a certain amount of time. Those calculators shouldn't be right because everyones metabolism is different.

Does Metabolism help burn calories faster? Exactly how faster compared to someone with a low metabolism rate?

How do I raise metabolism?
What are the best excerises to burn calories but in a shorter amount of time?
 
Why do you want to lose 4lbs in a week -

what's your total goal to get to and for what purpose?

500 calories a day is not a good way to go... do you expect the weight you take off to stay off?
 
Why this desperate need to lose 4 lbs per week?

In all honesty, you are setting yourself up for failure.
 
I need to desperately loose 4 pounds a week.
I'm 194 pounds at 5'8 in height.

How can I do this?
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Simple. Get as rubber sauna suit and sit in the sauna all weekend.

You'll lose 4 pounds easily.

Wrestlers and other athletes do this all the time to make weight.
 
Good advice.. but wouldkn't that turn most people into a puddle?

How would they be able to effectively compete?

or is the pool of sweat supposed to distract their opponent?
 
How would they be able to effectively compete?
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Dunno.

That's something I've always asked myself.

I enjoy watching that Ultimate Fighter series.

I've seen those guys sitting in the sauna all weekend trying to lose 15 lbs.

Then they have to go out and fight after the weigh in on Monday.

Not something I'd really want to try.

But anyhow, Jp90 said he wanted to lose 4 lbs a week and didn't specify what, so the method I suggested would likely work.
 
4 lbs a week for how long?
I don't think it is healthy to keep up a pace like this. What is the rush? Is there a reason why?
 
Stick to measurements. Depending on your workout methods, they're a lot easier to get results with, and losing 4 pounds a week[or 20 pounds a month] is not healthy. Life is most certainly not The Biggest Loser where every 10 days we step on the scales and voila, 20 pounds gone!
You'd be better off sticking to trying to lose 4-8 pounds a month.
 
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casanova said:
Stick to measurements. Depending on your workout methods, they're a lot easier to get results with, and losing 4 pounds a week[or 20 pounds a month] is not healthy. Life is most certainly The Biggest Loser where every 10 days we step on the scales and voila, 20 pounds gone!
You'd be better off sticking to trying to lose 4-8 pounds a month.
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Spot on advice.
 
Not gonna happen, not at your height and weight, and not for any sustained period. In the long term, eating dramatically under your maintenance will only slow your progress and make sticking to it (and/or success) impossible. Not only that, but you your chances of keeping the weight off will be greatly reduced.

Eat 10-20% less than your maintenance (including your activity level - not just your BMR), exercise regularly, and wait it out. Whatever event you're trying to achieve dramatic weight loss for, accept that it's not gonna happen that fast, but you can at least make some real improvement, and then resolve to make fitness a lifestyle so you won't have to freak out like this in the future. Any other choice will be something you regret later.
 
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