I need help with losing weight, does anyone know a diet that really works and fast too! im a junior this year and i want to look good in my prom dress!!

Whatever you do, DONT QUIT EATING! Your hair will look dull and brittle, you'll have no energy, and when you do start eating again the weight will pile on. The quickest way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you take in. Exercise as much as you can, drink water all day long, and eat several small meals. Don't waste any money on diet pills, they don't work.

OK, it's now Jan 29....that's three months or less. You had better be prepared to only lose 24 lbs or so. Starting NOW, eat lots of fresh greens (buy the lettuce, wash it, cut it, pack it in paper towels and put in fridge in a big tupperware; it will keep for quite a few days and you can grab it anytime, along with other salad fixings and only use two tablespoons of light dressing. It's enough believe me), eat oatmeal with fruit for brekkie (real oatmeal, not the little packets filled with sugar), have another piece of fruit two hours later, keep little lo-sugar applesauce packets handy, get the weight watchers bread which is light and airy and make sammiches with low fat cuts and ONW slice of cheese or no cheese,and load it with lettuce, fresh baby spinach and cucumber slices, with mustard. Or buy those lean cuisines and eat one for lunch with an extra serving of veggies (the frozen bagged ones are the best, easy to heat up in the microwave) another healthy snack after lunch and then dinner and one more snack two hours befor bed. Try, TRY, TRY to get at least 20 mintues of exercise every day. Walk really fast around the block for 20 minute or walk to school if you can. Make sure you are wrapped up warm with gloves and scarf.

KEep doign this, stay away from all sugar if you can help it and don't drink diet soda or booze. It's a lifestyle change so try to keep doing it. It's not hard and you can do it. 2 1/2 to 3 months is short time but you can do it. Don't do anything crazy like crash diets and pills and stuff...that doesn't work. You need to keep eating in order to burn it off.

The best diet ever. Eat healthy, don't care so much what other people think of your looks, exercise on occasion, learn and educate yourself. It's a prom. It's a few hours of your life. If you need anything to focus on, it's the rest of your life.

Diets boil down to a very simple equation ---

Burn more calories than you consume, and you lose weight.

Eat more calories than you burn, and you gain weight.

Exercise, different foods, all diet plans ultimately attempt to simply fine-tune the above equation.

There are plenty of websites that give you your base-load calorie burn, then add your activity, etc, and you can see how many you burn in a typical day.

Thereafter, you need to add up the calories you consume and make sure it is less than that.

You will lose weight based on how many calories you eat less than what you burn.

Don't get caught by all the bullshit -- weight loss is a numbers game in the end. Figure out the numbers and make them work in your favour. Thats all there is to it!

My favorite diet is the "Diet Coke and Camel Lights" diet. Works like a charm!

exercise and low-fat diet

Why would you do that?
Don't buy a dress that's too small just for the prom...
The only healthy way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume... plain and simple.

I heard just recently that diets don't work half as well as keeping track of what you eat. If you could start a journal of what you eat everyday and what time you eat it you will be surprised. This will make you very aware of your eating habits. In order to change something you need to see it.. Good Luck.

Pills, liquids, fads, crash diets do not work! Losing weight "fast" is also not healthy. Healthy weight loss is 1-2 lbs per week. I talked to my doctor first. Everyone's needs are different. I lost all my weight (80 lbs) and kept it off a year and a half now with Weight Watchers. I also got my bp/cholesterol to normal numbers. It's not really a diet so much as a healthier eating lifestyle....something you can also do long term.

Eat healthy foods and exercise.

Diets will only stop you from -gaining- weight, it's very unlikely you'll find a diet that will actively make you loose weight by itself...

Whatever you do, don't 'not eat' as it is very unhealthy. All you need to do to loose weight is eat healthy foods (don't gain weight) and exercise (burn off body fat).

What I do is eat whatever I feel like, but add in healthy items as well to my daily routine. What I DON'T do is over eat. In fact, when I DO eat I have small to very small meals/snacks, all throughout the day (about every three hours or so).

eat healthy and do exercise, drink 2 litres of water a day.

Atkins.

Contrary to popular belief (because most people believe everything they read in magazines), Atkins is NOT a "crash diet". It's a nutritional approach that's designed to help you lose weight and keep it off for life.

It basically works like this; You cut down your carbs to 20g a day, which forces your body into a state called "lipolysis", which basically means that instead of burning glucose (sugar) for energy, you're burning FAT! As you move through the phases of the weight loss portion of Atkins, you gradually add more carbs back to your diet (but never sugar or refined flour!) until you find a number where you aren't losing any more. That's going to be your lifetime maintenance number - the amount of carbs you can eat per day without gaining the weight back!

I've been doing Atkins for two months, and I've lost 30 lbs and feel better than I have since high school.

www.atkins.com

ok i do believe that diet pills donto work like..trim spa..and..whatever..i mean come on. she did take trim spa but she also had about 20,000 dollars worth of physical trainers...and equipment too. there is no diet..that works..i have been dieting since..i was about 10..and im going to be 18..the only way to loose weight..is not eating junk food...even if you friends eat only junk food..you know better than that. drink plenty of water and keep your salt intake to a minimum becasue if you drink alot of water...and eat a lot of salty foods..you will alway have water weight and be bloated..so stay away from salt!..if you are a heavy girl...i would suggest speed walking if jogging is too much for you..i really hate to jog and i have awful hips..so im actually not allowed to which makes it difficult to exercise for me..the best machine i think to use at the gym is the eliptical because its smooth and does not hurt..and i have heard that it is the machine that give the most results..if you need an exercise regime..i would suggest...2 or 3 cardio workouts a week and one workout that tones you...for example..weights and squats...i know you can do it..and the diet pill thing..do not take them......i take a pill for my metablism because im not allowed to exercise very much..so my doctors gave me an herbal pill with green tea extract and caffine that will boost my metabolism so that when i do exercise my metabolism rises and i can loose the weight i need to stay healthy..i am about 194...with about 45 percent body fat... being around my stomach and my goal weight is about 135 i know that beaing healthy is more important than looking sexy..besides..the guys l ike a little something to grab...not just bones and ribs..and toned is always beeter than skinny..HAVE FUN AT PROM

dont go on any stupid diet they dont work in the long run, dont deprive yourself of any food, aslong as you eat in moderation you shouldnt need to diet. women 2000 calories and men 2500 calories a day if you want to lose weight cut down on these calories but dont think oh i cant eat chocolate etc you can aslong as you dont go overboard the best way is to exercise even if its just walking the best is 30 minutes exercise a day and just eat what you feel like aslong as you stick to your calorie amount

eat healthy and start exercising, always works...Don't crash diet and all the little fad diets like Atkins and others usually are not lasting!

1) no junk food at all
2) exercise for a 1/2 hour each day. Alternate between cardio and some weight training
3) stop eating so much meat and make sure to eat more fruits and vegetables. Too much meat makes you bloated and lethargic. Eating more vegetables keeps your internal plumbing moving and you will have less bloating and water weight. It will also improve your skin and hair as you will be getting the vitamins your body desperately needs.

Well basically what the previous writer said was all very true. You must have no candy, sweet drinks (including flavoured milk drinks and orang juice)and keep away from refined carbohydrates like white bread or most breads in particular. Obtain all of your carbohydrates from vegetables and low GI fruits which are high in fiber like apples, pears berries and to a lesser degree bananas. Eat more protein and obtain more of your daily energy needs from eating fats, (which keep you fuller longer as they slow down digestion. This does not include increasing intake of bad fried foods, but healthy fats like those from nuts, dairy and fish oils (essential fatty acids). Start your morning off with a coffee (no milk plus one artificial sweetner) and dont eat breakfast for at least 1-1/2 hours after rising. If possible jam in a fast paced 1/2 hour walk in this time frame, wait 45 minutes to enhance the fat burning affect then eat your first meal for the day. Drink plenty of green teas through out the day (no sugar of course) and keep well hydrated with sufficient amounts of water as even drinking water requires energy by the body to process and will be using calories when doing so. Move as much as you can, walk more, catch the bus, stand rather then sit when possible, what ever it takes to burn more calories. Remember monitor your carb intake (if possile 100 grams or less per day of low gi carbohydrates), exercise reguarly and follow the steps above and you should be well on your way to losing that unwanted body fat.

drink plenty of water and eat lots of fruit... not only are they non-fattening (well maybe apart from bananas - or so i've heard), consuming good portions of them will make you feel (and look) alot healthier and happier. The main thing is you feeling good on your big night, and this should well show on the inside and out if you stick at it :)

forty minutes brisk walks twice a day.
twenty minutes out, twenty minutes back.
it will rev up your metabolism
so you lose weight while you sleep.

1 go buy the book "Eat this,not that" and follow it's recommendations.

2 No sodas, no regular, no diet, just no sodas

3 no sugar, no deserts

4 EAT Breakfast

5 Drink water, lots of water

6 for supper, eat green beans, turnip or collard greens, or salad. Watch the calorie count on the salad dressing, get the real real low fat one. Some are as low as 15 cal per spoon.

7 Exercise, walk a mile a day. Don't just amber along, really walk, almost at a jog pace. But build up to it gradually, 1/2 mile at first, and a little more each week.

8 Stay regular, if you have to, take a fiber capsule every day.

9 After you have done all this, stop worrying about it.
Stress doesn't help things either. Stay happy and upbeat.

You can't beat the Atkins diet for fast weight loss. It is not healthy and not a long term solution but but it works! Don't buy any Atkins food products just eat ONLY fat and protein. Do not eat a single crumb of bread. Do not add anything "healthy" like juice or fruit.

You can eat meat and cheese. You can eat nuts, You can eat fried pork skins if you want something crunchy.

Breakfast - cheese omelet, or bacon, or sausage. NO BREAD.

lunch - hamburger patty. you may have mustard, dill pickles, no ketchup.

Dinner - meat of any kind, lobster, butter, cheese. Do not even eat ONE breaded shrimp. NO bread. NO pasta. NO tomatoes. NOTHING with sugar. NO EXCEPTIONS UNTIL PROM NIGHT.

Take a vitamin and mineral supplement.

Drink plenty of water. You will lose weight. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE HUNGRY! If you are hungry, eat.

Add in aerobic exercise for a better result in the weight loss department.

Add in a rigorous weight lifting routine since you are eating all that protein and your body will look seriously better in three months.

After the prom switch to the South Beach or Zone diet and keep up the excercise for life.

Good luck!

Tell us your weight here every day and we'll cheer you on!!!

Read the book Eat To Live by Joel Furhmen, MD. (you can find in on amazon.com or at your local library probably).

http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Revolutionary-Formula-Sustained/dp/0316735507/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235024541&sr=8-1

It is simple, truly "revolutionary" and so good that my insurance company gives it out for free. (I didn't read it to lose weight, but to learn about eating right).

I will never recommend another diet/food book to people above this one.

Tip: Eat tons of vegitables!


PS: True beauty starts within and radiates outwards. The truth is you ARE beautiful, no matter what your body looks like or what dress you wear (it's the inside that matters and lasts; the heart)--you will always be beautiful before the loving eyes of God, who adores you, loves you, wants you, and died for you just as you are.

I hope you see yourself as the marvelous, beautiful, beloved, adored, cherished, special, desired, pursued masterpiece of God that you are and look to him for passionate and unfailing love and acceptence--instead of looking to the fickle and disappointing love and approval and opinion of others for fulfillment. The bible says that man looks at outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. And it is your heart he desires and adores--*you*, your truest self. What He is after is *you* --your laughter, your tears, your dreams, your fears, your heart of hearts. He wants *you*. And he has moved heaven and earth to get you. (Read The Sacred Romance, by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge)

"The most important truth you will ever discover is that God loves you. He loves you so much that He wants you to spend eternity with Him in heaven."~Billy Graham.

Eat less food in general and cut out junk food in particular. Get more exercise. Every little bit counts. Walk instead of driving. House-cleaning can be a great workout.

The plan I followed is called Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. It focuses not on losing weight, but losing pure fat. So you look much leaner and healthier with a smaller weight loss than other plans (where you lose water weight and muscle along with fat). It's my lifelong fitness plan now and I will have kept off 40 pounds for two years this summer.

burnthefat.com

If you really want to lose weight, i can help you in this regard. Just mail me.. sarah_shaik@yahoo.com

exercise! and respect your body, dont ruin it by being silly trying too hard to get thin for one little event. you need a whole lifestyle change. so dont just do it for prom.