How To Lose 10lbs In 12 Days

Do the math: When you set a goal, it's important to know how to achieve the goal. To lose 10lbs in one week, you will need to know exactly how many calories you need to stick to. However, the formula should not calculate calories alone, you should also incorporate exercise and the caloric burn within your calorie intake. Please review the information below before beginning. Sticking with this simple formula will help to insure your success.

1 pound is 3,500 calories. You have 7 or 12 days to lose ten.

3,500 x 10 = 35,000 calories to be lost

35,000 / 7 = 5,000 lost per day

5,000 - 2,000 cal per day = 3,000 calories per day to cut out.

**Please note** Exercising is a great way to reduce the amount of calories that stay within your system.

This may seem like an impossible task, however, sticking to a strict diet, with exercise, your goal is definitely achievable. Also, you will need to factor in water loss, which will prove to be a large amount of weight loss in the beginning and will taper off. However, sticking to your diet with great consistency, not only will you lose 10lbs in 12 days, you will find sooner than later that many pounds have disappeared as time goes on. Don't get discouraged if you see a fluctuation of about 2lbs per day, this is normal as you have to factor in variables such as sodium intake.

Don't focus so much on the scale, weigh yourself at the beginning of the week and then again at the beginning of the next week. This will insure the highest amount of accuracy, and will help you to not become discouraged.

Keep a journal: When you write things down to track your progress, there tends to be more success. The reason? Simply put, you have to face what is going into your mouth and the exercise challenges to your body. You will be able to set realistic goals and track yourself. As in any success, you will want to track those results and find out how and why they are working. This will help you to learn your body and its tolerances and intolerances.

A journal will also keep you accountable to yourself. Think of it as a GPS for a road trip, if you put in all the proper instructions and follow them, then you will reach your destination in the allotted amount of time with few detours. Also, show your journal to someone that you know will help to keep you accountable. Above all, be honest in your entries, after all, the person you are affecting is YOU!

Food and Exercise: Some simple tips for nutrition is to cut out processed, high starch and sugary content foods. Just those 3 simple steps will prove to be invaluable. Engage a friend to come along side of you. Most times when someone is working with you, you encourage each other thus causing greater success. This is very important when it comes to exercise. Having a workout buddy helps exercising to become fun, maybe even a little competitive, and accountable, as well as making the time seem to go by fast.

There are so many benefits to exercising, stress relief, strong heart and muscles, stamina, energy and the list goes on. Something as simple as power walking or running can improve your overall mentality. It gets the cobwebs out of your mind, (so to speak), and causes clarity of thinking.
So many times we read about a new diet, and we become overwhelmed, or feel defeated. Don't let this happen to you, just take it one step at a time. Get in the game, knowing that small changes ultimately become big changes. Your success is closer than you think!