How to Healthily Lose Three Pounds in a Week

Some people want to lose weight quickly and often try extreme diets or programs to achieve fast weight loss. If you want to lose weight and keep it off, you should follow a balanced diet and engage in a regular exercise program. It is possible to lose three pounds in a week in a healthy way, you will just need to be focused, disciplined and willing to put the work in to achieve this goal.

Things You'll Need

• Meal replacement smoothies or shakes

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Instructions

How to Healthily Lose Three Pounds in a Week

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  Eat breakfast. Skipping breakfast causes late night binges where people often end up eating junk food and empty calories and putting on more weight. The late night binges compensate for the state of fasting that occurs when people don't break their fast. For example, if you eat dinner at 6 p.m. the night before, go to bed, skip breakfast and eat lunch at noon the next day you have basically gone 18 hours or almost a whole day without eating.

• 2

  Drink more water. Drinking water allows your body to release some of the water it retains. When you are not drinking enough water, your body goes into a state of retention and tries to hold on to as much water as possible, thus giving you that bloated feeling and look. Drinking more water and staying hydrated will help shed some of this weight.

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  Follow an eating schedule where you eat smaller meals more frequently. As busy people we sometimes eat only twice a day and end up eating more than we would like. Eating six smaller meals throughout the day, for instance, allows you to feel fuller and consume normal-sized portions instead of gorging on super sized meals.

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  Exercise regularly. Getting regular exercise daily will help speed up your metabolism, burn excess calories and help you to lose extra weight. It does not have to be an intense workout, like running several miles a day, it could just be a 30 minute bike ride or walk. Also, getting in extra walking, such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator, will also help you burn extra calories.

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  Replace some meals with a protein shake or smoothie. A meal replacement shake or smoothie is a healthy post-workout option. Adding fresh fruit and healthy ingredients helps your body get the proper nutrients it needs and will help curb your appetite.