NEED HELP TO RAPIDLY LOSE WEIGHT IN 1 WEEK

[liz]

desparately need to lose weight quickly but have lost operating manual on my concept 2 which I had for years but never used.

Can someone help with an effective plan & how to use the machine?

Many thanks,
Liz

[jamesg]

http://www.concept2.co.uk/weightloss/interactive.php

This is the Big Bang weight loss programme on C2 UK. You'll need to use HR to control work levels. With the Interactives, it's important to put in accurate data.

You won't lose weight quickly, unless by quickly you mean a time measured in months if not years.

If you're completely unfit, take it very easy but do something every day and keep yourself under pressure. Put the accent on learning to row if you've never been afloat. You can't lose weight without doing a lot of hard work, and you can't do this if you're not fit; and getting fit needs good technique.

Technique and Quality indices are sweat, blisters and the distance the "boat" travels each stroke. The more the better.

The C2 sites have complete manuals online too.

[Cazneau]

Don't eat and walk a lot. Sweat to the point of near dehydration. But you will put it all back on the next week. If your goal is long term, permanent weight loss, you should stop thinking in weeks. In fact, in a serious weightloss program you should expect to see little weight loss in the first month, as you shift from fat to muscle.

[johnlvs2run]

I have to disagree completely with not losing any weight for a month.
Depending on how much you have to lose, you should be seeing an ongoing loss, definitely at least week by week.

What is your goal weight, and how much do you have to lose to get there?
The secret is portion control, with plenty of water, supported by aerobic exercise.
Take care with what you eat, how much, and when. Drink plenty of water, before, during, and after your meals.

Weigh yourself the first thing every morning, record your weight, and take your average for each week.
What I do is highlight each day that my weight is lower than the previous week's average in green, otherwise in orange.
I highlight every loss of the previous week average in green, otherwise in orange.
At the end of each week I add up the running total of green days, the total of orange days, and total pounds lost so far.

Anything that helps motivate you to keep losing and most of all to keep healthy is good.
The best book I have found on weight loss is "The Rice Diet Report" by Judy Moskovitz.
This book is out of print but I found a mint condition hardbound for $6 at a local bookstore.
Shop around, and I'm sure you can find it from the internet.

[Ducatista]

Don't eat and walk a lot. Sweat to the point of near dehydration.

Or find a doctor who's willing to prescribe a powerful diuretic. That'll help you shed pounds quickly, but not fat, and not permanently. And it's not a good idea.

Fat loss isn't a quickie process. And I say that having dropped 15 lbs in the past five weeks... but only by averaging just under 12K/day on the erg, usually split up into morning/evening sessions, plus walking for a brisk half hour each weekday, plus tracking everything I ate and generally sticking to 1,000-1,200 net calories per day (net meaning what I consumed minus what I burned walking and erging). And all that came after a month of ramping up the erging volume, during which I lost a measly one pound.

I'll drop back down to a lower exercise volume now that the January challenge is over, and my weight loss will slow accordingly. It's a long, slow slog. Just is.

Cheers,
Ann

[Citroen]

desparately need to lose weight quickly

book yourself in to a doctor for liposuction.

but have lost operating manual on my concept 2 which I had for years but never used.

Start here: http://www.concept2.com/us/support/manu ... Manual.pdf or if a model D/E since 2006 start here: http://www.concept2.com/us/support/manu ... Manual.pdf

[bloomp]

Rowing is the right place to lose weight, but not that fast. I consider myself lucky, my novice season, i dropped 12 pounds the first month of winter/water workouts, and have since then lost another 15 or so. But it will not happen in a week unless you focus and eat little. Losing weight is so much about diet, people think that as long as they burn calories they can eat - and that's only true for those in shape trying to maintain a healthy racing body.

I recommend reading up on 'fullness factor', or the foods that make you feel really full without giving many calories. Things like low-fat or no-fat yogurt, egg whites (lots of them), fruit, beans, legumes. One of the best foods I've found is a smoothie: no fat yogurt, lots of fruit (banana and frozen fruit), egg whites for protein and some ice. Besides that, salads are good, avoid anything processed or packaged.

As for erging, if you want weight loss, the best way to go about it is interval training - do 500m hard, 1000m easy, or 1 minute hard, 3 minutes easy. Once you do that for a few weeks, spending about an hour a day erging, start with more cardiovascular workouts - long distances - to keep weight off and just MAINTAIN A STRICT DIET. You may not think this, but that ONE REWARD is a slippery slope to eating more and more stuff that won't help you reach your goals.

[Nosmo]

Saw this in this morning's paper:

http://tinyurl.com/dd34bo

She has some really good points that may help.

[bsharp5utk]

chicken and salad, eat some cereal in the morning for some carbs. erg with a sweatshirt on for 40+ minutes. I lost 15lbs in one week doing this but my erg time went up 5 seconds because I had no energy ;/

[Bob S.]

chicken and salad, eat some cereal in the morning for some carbs. erg with a sweatshirt on for 40+ minutes. I lost 15lbs in one week doing this but my erg time went up 5 seconds because I had no energy ;/

Of all the ways to try to lose weight, dehydration is probably the most useless and very dangerous as well.

Bob S.

[bloomp]

Yeah, dehydration is very bad. The time spent in a hospital due to electrolyte imbalances leading to heart problems will definitely offset any weight loss.

One thing I forgot to mention is don't worry about muscles if you're just trying to lose weight. Once you get the fat off, then you can go back and build some muscle (hypertrophy) or just tone it with aerobics and circuit style lifting.

[Cazneau]

If you manage to lose a couple of extra pounds by sweating it out, and not rehydrating, you don't look any better than you do when you are hydrated. You are still carrying around the same amount of fat. And you're likely to spend the next 24-48 hours rehydrating, and confronting the depressing reality that those last 4 pounds have magically reappeared.