Do anyone know how I can loose about 50 pounds in 4 months? If anyone has diet meal menu/ plans, let me know.?

I lost 60 lbs in 5 months without exersicing ( of course the last month slowed down the most, the first month was the fastest.)

Rules: Limit your caloric intake. If it goes in your mouth, it goes down in your diet book. ( a small portable notebook )

If you're bored, find something to do. Only eat if you are hungry, and stop when you are full. Burn that into your brain. Stop When You Are Full. It's too easy to want to finish everything on your plate.

I figured 1400 calories a day ( started a little higher and decreasing in the first two weeks to avoid feeling too hungry)

Don't go below 1200 calories a day when you average it out over the week. Too low and your metabolism screeches to a halt!

If you know the weight you want to be at, you can figure out approximatly how many calories are good to maintain that weight. Let's say I want to be 125lbs. I'll multiply 125 x 14 = 1750 calories per day. I could do nothing else but make sure I stay within 1750 calories and eventually I would get to my goal weight of 125. Of course it would take much longer. If you are very lazy like me, multiply your goal weight by 13. If you are more active multiply it by 15. this is the number you are going to want for maintence afterward, It also helps if you have a bad day here or there, to know you are still under the calories you need just to maintain your goal weight ( if you have a really bad day, multiply your current weight by either 13,14 or 15 whichever you chose - mindset can often make or break a diet.

8-10 glasses of water a day Less isn't enough, more than ten creates water retention.

Limit coffee and caffine - I did 3 cups of coffee a day, and no soda, actually, I stopped losing weight even with diet soda.

No alcohol, or very little once in a great while, if you figure that even the light beers have about 100 calories, and you have 4, that's 400 calories wasted that could have been used on a good meal. Plus alcohol usually gives you more of an appetite, and usually for high calorie foods.

Breakfast is a must - I am not a breakfast person, so I would have one packet of Quaker instant apples and cinnamon oatmeal. Quick, easy and only 130 calories. *Also, it's best if you eat before drinking, fluids wash away alot of the saliva that helps you digest your food most efficiently.

Don't pick!!!! A waistlines biggest enemy is picking. Again, if it goes in your mouth, it goes on paper. It helps if you portion things out ahead of time. You can eat whatever you want. Just keep every thing in moderate portions.

Use a smaller plate. It is much more pleasing to the eye ( and psyche) to see a full plate. Our bodies really don't require the amount of food that takes up a normal dinner plate. That is why we have problems with our weight. Another good thing to use is custard cups, those little glass bowls that come 4 in a package for a few bucks- in the baking section. they are already your most common portion size - a half cup, easy breezy, and looks nice and full ( even a half cup of popcorn looks sad in a normal bowl)

No matter what diet you choose (as long as it's healthy and not one of those cabbage soup or grapefruit jobs) is going to take some adjustment, and some measuring and figuring. A food scale is ideal. Measuring cups and measuring spoons ( don't forget to count the butter! )

Try to make simple changes, like saying no thanks to the cheese and using mustard instead of mayo. Never just sit down with a bag of chips, or cheezits or whatever. You can have them, but if the bag says 16 chips or whatever, count them out, don't just eat them in front of the t.v. enjoy them, it's as it's meant to be, a snack.

The biggest thing to remember is eating the way you have been is what most likely got you to the weight your are unhappy with now. Don't think of it so much as dieting, as relearning how to eat properly. You can't just diet, then go back to what you were doing if you don't want to go back to the weight you were at.

I can also tell you after losing the amount you're looking to lose, it's not really all that great for the skin, if I were to do it again, I would do it much slower.

Try to lose weight steadily. Long term you will benefit more out of it and the results will be better. Fast weight loss can mean fast weight gain at the end.

1) Keep it simple first

here's an article on eating healthy -

http://lose-quick-weight.blogspot.com/2007/08/lose...

2) Eat steam food, vegetables, fruits

3) drink plenty of water and green tea

4) Avoid junk food, snacks and soda drinks

5) have 5-6 healthy meals a day (1 plate size only) to keep the tummy satisfied

6) exercise - combine weights and cardio. For stomach exercises look at situps, side planks.

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7) Plan for long term results! with small goals, it is easier to achieve and easier to stay motivated!

The Sacred Heart Diet is a fad diet that has been circulating for many years. The diet was supposedly thought to come from the cardiology department at Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital where it was used for overweight heart patients. However, like most of these diets - this is an urban myth.

The Sacred Heart Diet has been called a number of different names (such as the Spokane Heart Diet, the Cleveland Clinic Diet, Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital Diet and the Miami Heart Institute Diet). The diet also bears a striking resemblance to the cabbage soup diet.

Background of the Diet

The Sacred Heart diet is a soup-based diet, and claims that you will lose 10-17 pounds in the first week. This may be true, but most of the weight will tend to be water - and will be gained right back very soon after the diet.

This diet is very clearly an unsustainable fad diet, but is not as nutritionally unsound as similar diets. Most of these diets claim some magical fat-burning science is involved, or that there is something special about the combination of foods. This is simply untrue - it is nothing more complex than a reduction in calories!

7 Day Diet Plan

This diet is not recommended

The Sacred Heart Hospital in Montreal Canada (Hôpital Sacre Coeur) issued a press release in 2004 stating that "no nutritionist at the Hospital took part in the development of this diet" (ref - French).

The American Heart Association have claimed that the diet is phony (ref).

The Sacred Heart Medical Center also disclaim any association with the diet (ref).

Day 1

Any fruit (except bananas). Cantaloupes and watermelon are lower in calories than most other fruits. Eat only soup and fruit today.

Day 2

All vegetables. Eat until you are full with fresh raw, cooked or canned veggies. Try to eat green leafy veggies and stay away from dry beans, peas or corn.

Eat veggies along with the soup.

A baked potato and dinner time with butter.

Don't eat any fruits through today.

Day 3

Eat all the soup, fruit and veggies you want. Do not have a baked potato.

Day 4

Bananas and skim milk: Eat at least 3 bananas and drink as much milk as you can today, along with the soup.

Day 5

Beef and tomatoes: you may have 10 to 20 ounces of beef and a can of tomatoes, or as many as 6 tomatoes on this day. Eat the soup at least once today.

Day 6

Beef and veggies, eat to your heart's content of the beef and veggies today. You can even have 2-3 steaks if you like with green leafy veggies but no baked potato. Be sure to eat the soup at least once today.

Day 7

Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juice and veggies, until full (and eat the soup).

You can add cooked veggies to your rice if you wish.

Drinks Allowed

Unsweetened juices

Tea (also herbal)

Coffee

Cranberry juice

Skim milk

Lots of water

Soup Recipe

1 or 2 cans of stewed tomatoes

3 plus large green onions

1 large can of beef broth (no fat)

1 pkg. Lipton Soup mix (chicken noodle)

1 bunch of celery

2 cans green beans

2 lbs. Carrots

2 Green Peppers

Season with salt, pepper curry, parsley, if desired, or bouillon, hot or Worcestershire sauce. Cut veggies in small to medium pieces. Cover with water. Boil fast for 10 minutes. Reduce to simmer and continue to cook until vegetables are tender.

The soup can be eaten at any time.

The more you eat this soup the more you will loose, give a break to this diet once in 10 days for 2 days and start again, Good luck,

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Try low carb, low fat, high fibre, high protein, and exercise. The foods are low caloried, and yet filling and healthy. Brisk walking is great for burning body fats.

It is my lifestyle now. I am on low carb, low fat, high fibre, high protein and a hour brisk walk 5 times a week, and I have lost 31lbs/14kg and gained better health. I am now maintaining my 108lbs/49kg for more than a year, with more fruits and complex carbs.

Details such as my experience, meals, snacks, recipes, foods to buy, reading labels, walking as an exercise and to shape the body etc etc, are in my blog

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GOOD LUCK & GOD BLESS!!!!!