If you want to how to lose 5 pounds in 2 weeks then you are looking at losing 17,500 calories. Now take into consideration that a pound is 3,500 and that most people find it really hard to lose more than 500 calories in a single workout of running steadily for one hour on a treadmill or elliptical trainer. This means that in order to lose just one pound you would likely have to be in that gym 7 days in a row and working out for one hour on a treadmill and that is just to lose one pound in a week!
Your option is to double up on your workout in the gym and make it two hours long or to take things even further along and support all this working out with a diet. The only way to do this is drastically reduce your calorie intake. You might have to cut your food intake to almost zero if this is going to work. This of course brings up the challenge of how you are going to continue fuel yourself while you are doing these vigorous workouts.
Most people do manage to get the weight off by doing the following –
• Drinking more than eight glasses of water a day to flush out their systems.
• Eating a high protein low carb diet.
• Eating as many organic vegetables and fruit as you can afford and make sure you scrub all produce that you buy so that it is free of toxins.
• Staying away from drinking colas that contain high amount of carbohydrates.
• Stay away from all carbonated drinks including soda water and diet drinks as it is the carbonation that is causing weight gain in many people.
• Never eating past six at night and never ever past midnight!
• Don’t eat anything white, including pasta, bread or rice and stay away from potatoes as well.
• Don’t eat potato chips; if you crave something salty try eating salted cucumbers instead – they are Nature’s potato chips.
• Practice HALT with the SALT to reduce your sodium intake; this can keep you very fat
• Avoid eating white sugar at any cost.
• Practice portion control and never overeat or binge eat at one meal.
• Avoid grabbing for comfort foods to make yourself feel better whenever you feel upset or stressed.
• Drink your coffee black or buy caffeine pills to keep you going and then wear water.
• Beware of adding extra fat to smoothies in the form of powders made with whey protein, whipped cream, high fat milk or ice cream.
• Dilute fruit juices to avoid blood sugar spikes that can make it difficult to stick to a diet.
There is no clear answer to the question of how much exercise you will have to participate in to personally lose 5 lbs in two weeks as each of us is different. A lot of it has to do with your build, your metabolism, your stamina and your general health. A person would be required to workout long enough to burn off 17,500 calories.
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