20 Simple Ways to Lose 10 Pounds In a Week

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            Losing weight seems an uphill task to many, especially when you need to lose weight in a couple of days. And especially when you need to look good for an upcoming occasion or event. For achieving quick weight loss like ten pounds in a week, people often resort to crash dieting or spend hours sweating out in the gym. In fact, there are countless fad diets that enable you to shed pounds in a couple of days, but they have detrimental effects on your body and health, leaving you sick, hungry and nutrition deprived.

Of course, there are other painless ways to achieve this goal without dieting. All you need to do is maintain a healthy lifestyle comprising of nutrition, fitness, proper sleep and hydration. The best part is that these strategies not only enable you to lose ten pounds in a week’s time, but also help you to maintain a healthy weight in the long run.Nutrition is one of the most important parameters that should be kept in mind while following a weight loss regime. Having a balanced diet is important to ensure that you don’t feel nutrition deprived. If you want to lose ten pounds in a week, you need to take care of the following things in terms of nutrition.Watching your calories is of prime importance when you are trying to lose weight. In fact, the secret to weight loss is to consume fewer calories than you burn. It should be kept in mind that one pound of fat is equivalent to 3500 calories. Thus, you need to burn 3500 calories more than you take in with food. But this does not mean that you go into starvation mode. All you need to do is shave off 500 calories in a day through dietary changes and exercise to avoid gaining 1 to 2 pounds each year. Instead of resorting to crash dieting, it is advisable to consume about 1200 to 1600 calories daily and keep a food journal to count your calorie consumption.

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