45 Easy Ways to Lose One Pound a Week

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Registered: 12-04-2003
45 Easy Ways to Lose One Pound a Week
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Mon, 03-20-2006 - 4:57pm

45 Easy Ways to Lose One Pound a Week


Customize your perfect weight-loss plan with our mix-and-match diet and exercise tips.






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Here are a few quick facts about losing a pound: It will make your jeans feel a smidge looser, it's the equivalent of four sticks of butter (picture that for a second!), and it requires that you burn and/or cut a total of 3,500 calories. Sound like a lot? It adds up faster than you think.


To lose one pound in seven days you need to reduce your net calories by 500 every day. The easiest way to do that is a 250 split: Cut half from your diet and burn the other half through exercise. To come up with easy ways to do this, we enlisted trainer Heather Rider, founder and director of Rider Fitness Consulting in Los Angeles, and nutritionist Lauren Slayton, RD, of Foodtrainers in New York City. Choose one strategy from the diet and exercise columns each day (feel free to mix and match) and after seven days you will have cut out 3,500 calories. Losing four sticks of butter has never been such a cinch!






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Registered: 02-05-2006
Mon, 03-20-2006 - 5:43pm

Hi Miranda

OMG!!!! these are such great tips...thank you

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 03-20-2006 - 7:15pm

....alright, to confirm. Each of the exercise things equates to losing that pound?? Or doing them ALL?


Kidding aside, great ideas and tips, thanks Miranda!

~IslandGirl


Every achievement starts with a little legwork!

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Registered: 12-04-2003
Mon, 03-20-2006 - 10:03pm

Yeah, I've done 30 so far so that should make me around 100 pounds right??? LOL


That would be awesome!!!


I think you are supposed to print them off, and pick one from each column for each day of the week and by the end of the week you "should have" lost a pound.