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How to Lose Weight in 30 Days

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How to Lose Weight in 30 Days
How to Lose Weight in 30 Days

It is possible to lose weight in 30 days. You have to put in the effort and be willing to sacrifice. Losing weight will better your lifestyle and your self confidence.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
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  1. Step 1

    The first step to lose weight in 30 days is to not focus on a fad diet. Fad diets may make you lose weight fast but you will only put it back on shortly after you quit the diet. Most of these diets are designed to lose weight quickly but not keep the weight off.

  2. Step 2

    To lose weight in 30 days you need to DRINK WATER. Don't count the water that you drink in coffee and soda either. I'm talking about pure H2O. Try to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. The key to making water a useful tool is to drink a glass before any meal. The glass of water in your stomach will make you eat less at every meal.

  3. Step 3

    Next, you need to eat a balanced meal. Try to eat the major food groups throughout the day. At a bare minimum, your meal should contain protein and carbohydrates. Carbohrydrates are our bodies main source of energy and proteins burn fat. This is the key to losing weight in 30 days.

  4. Step 4

    Do not skip any meals. Skipping a meal is by far the worst thing you can do to your body. Our metabolism is like a clock. If you jump forward or backwards an hour or two then the clock is useless. Our metabolism needs to have a steady pace throughout the entire day. If you skip a meal then you body will think its starving. When you finally eat a meal it will store all of the fat in the meal to be used as energy. If you eat on a schedule your body will not do this and will not store the fat.

  5. Step 5

    Last but not least, you have to exercise. No, you don't have to spend hours in the gym but you need to at least exercise 30 minutes a day. Exercising will help burn off calories and fat. Walking, jogging, swimming, and jumping rope are all easy exercises that we can fit in our day. You can even exercise sitting in your computer chair. Simply tighten your abs, hold for 5 seconds, and release. You will feel it the next day if you do it for 30 minutes!

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ruf1950 said

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on 7/2/2009 How3 to lose weight in 30 days with balanced meals and exercise sounds like good common sense to me ;)! 5*'s

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