Hello-

How do you choose the best diet plan to help you lose 20 pounds fast?

If you want to lose weight, gain muscle, get a firmer butt or belly, etc., you have plenty of options to choose from. There is no easy answer.

There’s meal replacement programs, workout programs, diet pills, weight loss surgeries, diet plans, fad diets and tons of other weight loss programs. Oh yeah, there’s even the Jared Subway diet plan where you eat Subway sandwiches everyday. :o)

Many diet plans have tons of successful testimonials from people who have used those programs and gotten rid of all the weight they’ve wanted.

So how do you choose which one will work for you?

And then how do you know it will for you even though it has worked for someone else?

Let’s take a look at some of your diet plan choices and then we’ll talk about choosing the right program for you.

Best ways to lose 20 pounds fast:

Weight loss program               Cost

The Zone Diet               $3599.10-$4798.80 including food

Nutrisystem               $1174.88 including all food except fresh greens and dairy (Get 3 free weeks of food)

LA Weight Loss               $685 not including food

Jenny Craig               $358-$399 not including food

Weight Watchers               $214-$299 not including food

YayFood               $239.40 per year not including food

7 Minute Muscle               $77 not including food

Fat Loss 4 Idiots               $39 (50% Off for limited time)

As you can see, there are some cheaper options and then there are some not so cheaper options. Now choosing a program might be easier if you know what your budget is and how much time you have to shop for food or not.

You can go with a program like Fat Loss 4 Idiots or YayFood if you plan on doing your own shopping once you know which foods you can eat. If you are too busy to shop, you can go with a program like Nutrisystem which delivers all the food to you at a much higher cost - about $300 a month.

There are several other choices available to you, these are just some of the more popular diet programs out there that have several positive reviews.

Have a great day! Feel free to post a comment and let me know your thoughts or reviews of some of the programs above.

Thanks,

-Adam

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Hello-

Many people want to know how to lose 20 pounds in 20 days or in 30 days.

There is no secret method to losing a pound a day.

You have to burn 3500 calories more than you take in per day.

So let’s say you have to consume 1500 calories per day just to maintain your body’s normal functioning.  You would then need to burn off 5000 calories in 24 hours to lose a pound.

First, you need to know how many calories your body needs per day.  Here’s a free BMR calculator.  This tells you how many calories your body needs per day.

Then you need to find some activities to burn off your calories.  Here’s an activity calculator to calculate how many calories you burn per hour doing certain activities.

Once you have those numbers, you need to have a net deficit of 3500 calories to lose 1 pound a day and 20 pounds in 20 days.

Good luck!

-Adam

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Hello-

Have you seen the ads that claim you can “lose 20 pounds in a week”?

Do you believe them?

Shame on you!

You CANNOT lose 20 pounds in a week.  Each pound of fat consists of 3500 calories.  You would need to burn 70,000 calories MORE than you take in in one week to burn off 20 pounds of fat.  Your body needs a certain number of calories just to keep you alive each day, and if you try and burn significantly more than that, you’re going to do some damage to your body.

I’ve read numerous articles or questions on Yahoo Answers about many people wanting to try and lose 20 pounds in a week or sometimes even more than that in a very short period of time, usually to get ready for school or prom or some other activity where they want to look their best.

You will do more harm to your body than good by trying to drastically drop your weight by that much in such a short period of time.

Get out of thinking that you can lose 10, 20, 30 pounds or more in less than a month.

It’s not healthy.

More than likely you did not gain all those pounds in a short period of time so why would you expect to drop them so fast?

Aim for a more gradual approach to weight loss and you’ll be much happier with the results and you’ll be able to maintain them as well.

Because what good is losing 20 pounds in a week and looking good for one date when the next month you’ll be back to your regular weight if not weighing more and looking worse?

Will they still like you then?

Let me know what you think.

-Adam

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Hello-

If you want to lose 20 pounds in the 6 months or in the next year, you will have a better chance of success if you do not go on a diet.

Sure, you can go on a diet and lose a few pounds here and there but then once you grow tired of your diet and restricting which foods you can and cannot eat, you will go off the diet and the weight will come back.

Losing weight and keeping it off takes time, effort and commitment.  You can get skinnier without the hunger pangs most dieters encounter.

I don’t know about you but I love food.  I cannot imagine cutting out my favorite foods for the rest of my life because my ‘diet’ says I cannot have them.

I’d rather die 5-10 pounds heavier if it means I can enjoy some of the fine delicacies of the world than cutting them all out from my diet.

That’s not something I should be writing on a weight loss blog but so be it.

If you want to lose 20 pounds, you can do other things besides dieting to get the weight off.

The biggest thing would be adding exercise to your life.

It’s probably also the hardest thing to do.

We are all creatures of habit and if we are not in the habit of exercising, starting an exercise program is going to be extremely hard.

It’s just like quiting smoking, usually you need help to do it.

Enlist the help of a friend of group of friends to start working out regularly.

Join a health club together, make a weight loss bet with each other, something to keep each other motivated to stick to working out.

Dieting to lose 20 pounds is almost guaranteed long term failure so I would advise against it.

If all you want is a short term solution - such as to get slim before a big event, wedding, reunion, dance, etc. then you can diet for the short term.  You can restrict your calorie intake to 1200-1800 calories and drop pounds fast.

You probably don’t want to add exercise to this type of diet because you’ll be burning much more calories than you need to and your body needs a minimum amount of calories each day just to keep your body functioning properly.  Consuming 1200-1800 calories a day is the minimum you want to be consuming.

Let me know what you think.

-Adam

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Hello-

When it comes to losing 10, 20, or 30 pounds, there is no shortage of ways to do it - you have so many choices of diets to choose from, workout programs to choose from, diet pills to choose from, and the list goes on and on.

It seems like there’s a new crazy diet plan everyday.

It would be impossible to keep up with them all.

There is no one “best way to lose 20 pounds” out there. There are hundreds of ways to lose weight.

We are all unique and there are many factors that go into losing weight and keeping it off.  What works for me may not work for you.

All that being said, there are a few common denominators that must be included in any effort to shed some flab.

You have to have the right mindset going in.  You must make a firm commitment to yourself that no matter what happens throughout your daily life, you will stick to your plan.

You have to be mentally tough and resolved to do what you need to do to and avoid doing things that add weight - such as overeating.

Losing weight is easier than keeping it off.  That’s why there are so many popular diet pills out there.  They can help you drop 20 pounds in a month but once you stop taking them, the weight will slowly start to come back on and then it’s on to the next new diet pill.

What does it take to lose 20 pounds fast?

You have to set a goal that is realistic.  You cannot lose 20 pounds in 10 days.  For one, that works out to 2 pounds a day and that is too much strain on your body too fast.  Whatever method you chose to drop that much weight that fast is not maintainable.  The weight WILL come back.

You have to modify your lifestyle for the longterm.  Most people don’t like the word change.  Well screw that.  In order to go from fat to thin, you are going to have to change some, if not most, of the things you do.

Some of the lifestyle changes you will need to make are eating less, eating smaller meals more often, not drinking sodas, and adding some activity (walking, running, resistance training, yoga).

If you’re still reading this then you’re off to a good start.

Now stop reading and take a walk.

-Adam

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