How can l lose 5 lbs. in 5 days?
You should not try to loose 5 pounds of fat in 5 days, it is simply unhealthy, and not realistic. Generally, 2 pounds a week should be your goal. As mentioned by the previous answerer, 5 pounds of fat is about 17,500 calories. That’s 17,500 calories you have to cut from your diet and/or burn through exercise. Assuming you eat 2000 calories a day to maintain your weight, fasting entirely for 5 days would only account for 10,000 calories – and would by no means be health. The remaining 7,500 calories could be burned off through excercise, but that, too, is an unhealthy amount of exercise in that short amount of time. If you chose to walk it off, you’d have to walk about 75 miles! As you can probably figure out, the combination of fasting and heavy exercising would likely send you to the ER. Of course, there are pills and drinks that promise things like “lose 5 lbs in 5 days”. They work as diuretics and laxatives, not as a miraculous way to burn off fat. Thus, the weight loss is very temp
Lose 5 Pounds Fast By Elaine Cooper, RN Consider: Five pounds equals roughly 17,500 calories. Cut those calories out of your diet or do activities that burn those calories up, and you should lose about 5 pounds. That may sound like a lot of calories, but you can melt them away in a month of smart eating and simple exercises. Here are a few suggestions to show you how easy it is. Add your own activities for even more weight-loss benefits: 1. Drink 16 ounces of skim milk each day instead of 2% milk. Calories Lost/Burned: 2,400* 2. Eat an open-faced sandwich every day. Losing that one piece of bread will help you shed almost a pound. Calories Lost/Burned: 3,000* 3. Walk the dog for 15 extra minutes each day, or take a 15-minute walk during your lunch break. Calories Lost/Burned: 2,200* 4. Get your chocolate fix: Eat half a cup of chocolate pudding made with 2% milk, instead of, say, two chocolate sandwich cookies with an 8-ounce glass of whole milk every day. Calories Lost/Burned: 3,300*
