how long would it take to lose 50 pounds?
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If you are serious and understand that there is no overnight way to loose the amount you are asking about maybe this will help. At about 5 lbs. a week it will take  about 10 weeks to loose the weight You would be better to set your sights on 2-3 lbs per week. NEVER, EVER eat anything after 5pm. Never eat just before going to bed. Eat only twice a day. Drink water, lots of water, and a glass of warm water before bed. Drinking water helps the body to flush out excess fat wastes and toxic body waste and helps with giving you a full feeling. It also helps with mental mentality. Have a bit of fat in some form early in the day, like REAL butter on a piece of toast, this will make the body feel like it is not being slighted. If you must eat sweets try the sugar-free kind, they cost a bit more but are worth it in the long run, pace yourself with them. Get out of the house every day if only to walk once around the block, don't rush, notice everything around you, think about what you see. Add more blocks as you feel as ease with, change routes. If you are pressed into feeling bad by someone near, start doing a chore, laundry, dishs, vacuuming, taking out the trash (and you can sneak that walk as you drop the trash in the trashcan as you go by), STAY AWAY from the ice box. Binge eating only makes the problem worse and you feel you are less of a person after it is over with. If you get weak when out and hit a fast food place and after ordering you feel you shouldn't be doing that, DON'T !!!!, pay for the food, walk OUTSIDE!, don't sit down, and drop the stuff in the trash can or give it to someone outside or an animal. You will feel odd doing this but then you will feel that you just took control over yourself and it will get you thinking about the other things in your life you should look into taking back control over, and you just proved to yourself that it is not impossible. Try taking yourself out of the circle you focus on all the time and place yourself on the edge and others in the center. When I was losing weight I found that taking Chromium tablets each day curtailed my craving for chocolate. I am a big choc-0-halic. Amino acids also helped for control (all over the counter stuff). Make sure you are not alergic to any of this though. And do not make a big deal of your trying to loose weight to others, keep low key, pretend to be eating so other do not try to keep handing you stuff to stuff in your face. I stopped smoking by not telling anyone and keeping a half pack of ciggs in my shirt pocket so all could see I had it and they did not offer me any. It was worth their bumming them from me to ward off any questions. Nobody near around you will help you if it is not in their best interest to keep you in the position that is more conveient to them. FAKE them out! Depend on yourself, in the end you are the only one who is there for you no matter what is said. O.K. eat more veggies, take them with you, snack on them, unlimited, try all the diffrent veggies at the store, take time out to go to the store just to see what is offered, strange to you or not, try it! And stay out of the other areas of the store. Well, that's what I can tell you for what it is worth. I gained a lot of weight after 3 surgeries and am an older person in my 50's, and now it is so hard to loose, so very hard. Do it now while you can, and like yourself, not what others want you to change into for them, you are not them, you are YOU, and control will come with practice over time.
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the fact is, pinkywinky, the only way you've gotten to being 80 pounds overweight is because of your diet.\n\nit will be pretty impossible to lose 50 pounds, in 5 months or in a year, without changing your diet.\n\ni'm sorry to sound pessimistic, but to maintain an overweight body, you have to feed it enough calories.  if you keep feeding your body the way you've been feeding it, you will continue to gain weight.  it's unfortunately a pretty simple arithmetic.\n\ni agree that exercise can help.  before you start on a vigorous exercise regimen (which you really should), get a doctor to check you out and make sure your heart, your lungs, and your bones can handle it.\n\ni applaud you for wanting to lose the weight.  it's the best decision you'll make.  good luck!
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Okay, you are a teen. OOOOOOOOOOOO BOYYYYY. You girls and your weight loss, for the most part you don't need it like you think you do\n\nYou are not going to lose 50 lbs by april 2nd and if you try it you are INSANE. It's not worth it, you will just end up making yourself very sick. I used to work in a school nurse's office and those dang girls would make me mad. They would come in feeling sick, dizzy, weak, the medics would be called and they admitted that they had not been eating because they were trying to lose weight\n\nMy advice to you, DON'T DO IT!! It's not worth it. You're young, you're engergetic. I am sure you do not need to lose 50 pounds. \n\nYou want to keep weight off and do it sensibly. Excercise, drink a lot of water, and eat sensibly. Don't go eating a lot of junk food. Let me tell you something whenever people go on these starvation diets, they either get addicted and become anorexic and end up looking awful, they go to hospitals where they are forced to eat, how would you like to have a feeding tube jammed up your nose??? Guess what else, IF YOU DO LOSE A LOT OF WEIGHT BY STARVING yourself or by going on some ridiculous diet, you will gain twice as much in return\n\nHey, it's not worth it, give it up , okay?\n\nI don't like to see people get hurt and the outcome of such foolishness can be tragic and at times even fatal. \n\nMaybe you need to seek some counseling. It really sounds like it to me.
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Losing 28 pounds safely and permanently should take at least 3 months (2 pounds/week), and VERY few people can do that without gaining it back. That would be a very unusual pace. \n\nMore common is the 1 pound/week pace, which puts 28 pounds at about 6 months. \n\nOf course, all this depends on how overweight you are. If they're your LAST 28 pounds, it's much more difficult that the first 28 pounds. \n\nBe patient. Do it right. Diet and exercise.
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You can lose it.  I lost over 50 pounds in 3 months.  I stumbled onto a program on the internet that really works.  It's alot of hard work, but if you are disciplined and serious about wanting to lose the weight and keep it off, this program is for you.  If you want it, I will give it to you.
157645
There is no "quick" way to lose weight. Everyone has a different body type and different metabolic speeds so what works for you might not work another. With that in mind, walking or light running combined with a sensible diet should produce results in a matter of weeks.
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ive tried im 14 and i think im fat. losing weight takes maybe a month. just take 30 minutes a day to excercise and dnt eat bad foods ull lose em poinds so fast u wnt believe it
1139449
If you can burn about 500 calories per day (and don't eat more to compensate), you can lose 1 pound per week.
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if you go to school and walk the track and work up to 45 minutes or 3 miles  and do this everyday you will lose  the weight and feel better  do it in the cool of the evening or early am   you can also walk 10 minutes 3 times a day  drink water bedfore you eat during the meal and another 8oz after the meal and you will lose the weight
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Technically, I think the claim is 10 pounds in TWO weeks.  But that is still a lot.\n\nThe thing is, you're talking about replacing two meals a day with bowls of cereal that run about 200 calories each.  To lose 5 pounds in a week, you'd have to create a calorie deficit of 2500 calories a day - something that would be hard to unless you're pretty big to begin with, or exercising 3 or 4 hours a day.\n\nThe only way somebody of average-to-overweight (but not morbidly obese) size could lose this kind of weight in that time frame would be for them to take off some water weight, too.\n\nBTW, good for you that you have enough sense to recognize when something sounds too good to be true!  Many people don't have half as much sense.
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yes it will!  it is recommended to excercise for 30 mins a day.  if you stick with it you can definitly lose 25 lbs in time.  also eating healthy and drinking more water are a big help too.
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no\ncontinue what you are doing, and you will lose weight, i went on a similar program, and lost 50 lbs
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For losing such a large number of pounds there is no asap. This requires a lot of patience (sorry) and change of lifestyle in general. \n\nAlso - you would be more successful if you make your initial target more realistic, like losing 20 pounds, holding them for a few months and then again 20 and so on. \n\nIn general it is really - it less, about 1000- 1200 kcal per day and exercise in a healthy way (increase it slowly if your body is not used to it). \n\nIf you can afford it he best is to do the weight loss under supervision of a doctor or better in a clinic where they also teach you different nutrition. the important thing is that you have to change your whole way to eat and move and all habits associated with that. There is a lot of mental work involved in this change. Like getting used to smaller portions, less "bad" fat and using "good " fats instead. In general eating less and much more veggies and fruit than you did in the past. \n\nOver time you will see the effect and also lose your cravings and your body will adjust to it's new weight. \n\nIf you still think you want to do this asap and this is possible then be careful with how you do this. You need to exercise but start it slowly, you need to eat less but make sure you get all nutrients a body needs. Go at least to weight watcher meetings.
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Are you serious? I mean, really?  You won't lose 55 lbs in 12 days--more like 12-18 weeks. But, you could loose about 4-5 lbs (in a healthy way, anything more would be completly unhealthy) in one week if you overdo it, and I mean really overdo it.  And that's if you're my age (23) at a nice weight (126).  You could work your butt off exercising, and you could also go vegetarian for a while excluding dessert and bread and soft drinks as well.  You'll have lost weight at the end of 12 days...but guess WHAT?  Not 55 lbs!
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3 days usually. Just stay away from all the 'clog-ya-arteries' food items out there. Keeping a well balanced and healthy diet will help you keep that weight off. :) Enjoy and be proud of the hard work you put into get the 33 lbs off. It takes determination to do so. :)
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4 months is plenty of time. Look online for good diets, the main thing is you need to have 50 extra pounds to loose.\n\nEat smaller meals 4 to 5 times a day, work out, but dont work out to hard so you gain weight in muscles, jog, jump rope, swim, go hiking everyday up a mountain side, exercise evertime after you eight, drink pleanty of water. 4 months is plenty of time to loose 50lbs. I lost 20 lbs just quiting drinking soda pop and eating fast food. Get a scale and weigh ur self daily, dont drink pop, or any surgar drinks.\n\nabove answer : only healty to loose up to 12 pounds a month, 4 months that would be 48 pounds. why would 50 be so bad if 48 isnt?
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Yup. Your body hold onto about 5-8 lbs. worth of digested food in your intestine. If you were to stop eating it would take about 2-3 days to empty it out, hence losing about 5-8 pounds. But of course, next meal it will creep back.