Lean cuisine to lose 5lbs?

Question

So how about this:

Breakfast: cereal and milk (I eat the healthy kind :)

Lunch and dinners: Lean cuisine meals with salad or veggies

Snacks: fresh fruits

Exercise: Gazelle (500 calories)

Will it work? Will I lose the 5lbs?

Thanks!!!!

Answer 1

Yes.  Drink water too

Answer 2

you'll lose weight, but this is not a healthy diet because you are getting waay too much sodium. lean cuisine meals are loaded with sodium, as is the salt you put on your veggies. eating 2 lean cuisine's a day is too much sodium. it can lead to high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, etc etc

Answer 3

That should do it. For breakfast try using skim milk and drink lots of water. Bananas are supposed to be particulary good for weight loss.

Answer 4

Honestly you will loose 5 or more within the last month of the wedding from nerves and anxiety. I lost about 7

~MLF~

Answer 5

I have lost 25 lbs in three months so far by doing something close to that with WW. For me the biggest loss however was just switching to skin milk and a packet of plain instant grits in the morning with a banana or other fruit. Then for lunch I did fish with veggies or chicken breast with veggies and only once a day I had a serving of brown rice or whole wheat pasta with veggies and a lean protein.

Answer 6

It depends a lot on your height and weight. It also depends on how much cereal and milk you are eating. Is there dressing on your salad with a high caloric content? What about butter on the veggies?

You must burn more calories in a day than you consume to lose weight.

1. Look up some calculators online where you can figure out how many calories your body burns a day. (This doesn't count exerices, this only refers to the ammount of calories you burn by waking up in the morning and going about your day).

2. Then add 500 calories to that number and you get the amount of calories you are burning all together that day.

3. There are 3,500 calories in a lb, which means to lose five lbs, you must burn 17,500 extra calories.

4. How long it takes you to lose the five lbs depends on how drastically you cut calories. If you consume 500 less than you burn in a day (very do-able), it should only take you about a month to lose 5 lbs.

Answer 7

The key to losing weight is that you burn more calories than you consume. The average person burns between 1500-2000 calories per day just by doing daily activities (to find out your own metabolic rate, google "metabolic rate" and find a calculator that allows you to enter your height, weight, gender, and energy level). For every 3500 calories burnt ABOVE calories consumed, you lose a pound (so, if you burn 15,000 calories in one week, but you only consume 11,500 calories, you'll lose a pound).

The truth is, as far as weight loss goes, it doesn't actually matter WHAT you eat, as long as you're eating less calories than you're using. You could eat 1,000 of Lean Cuisines a day, or 1,000 calories of chocolate and pie a day, and you'd still lose weight (you'd just feel fuller on lean cuisines than on pie and chocolate). The problem with limiting yourself to a strict diet of veggies, cereal, and lean cuisines is that you're going to get bored very quickly, and you'll find yourself craving things that are bad for you. Instead, count your calories, make sure you're burning more than you're consuming, eat a lot of fruits and veggies (they have more volume with less calories and are very good for you), and also eat the foods you want and crave IN MODERATION.

Answer 8

Your body needs variety in nutrition in order to get all the nutrients it needs to function properly. If you put yourself into starvation mode, whether it be from overall lack of calories or from the wrong kind or a limited kind, you will not lose weight because your body will hold onto fat stores to know that it can get fuel from a regular source in case of starvation. (i,e, your metabolism slows down drastically).

So you're going to be in a wedding and you want to lose 5 pounds. How far off is the wedding? The above poster mentioned about the 3500 calorie deficit per week (a pound or 2 a week is safe). Merely cutting out 500 calories out of your diet per day is not the answer. Because not all calories are created equal.

When you're cutting back calories, stay away from refined flour carbs like regular pasta and breads and baked stuff. Switch out with higher protein carbs, millet, brown rice, quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat, non white/refined flour things using rice flour, etc, I'm in no way condoning any low-carb diets like Atkins -radical changes in food are not safe or healthy for your body. To lose a mere 5 pounds is it really worth damaging kidneys and other organs in the long run? No.

Your body needs to be cleaned out constantly to function properly, keep energy up so you don't stray for quick fix empty calorie snacks (when you get a balanced nutrition in your diet, you won't have cravings  because your body is getting what it needs). Drink lots of water and eat lots of roughage (fresh fruits and colourful assortment of vegetables to help keep things moving through your system. Also, fresh fruits and vegetables are bulk and fill you up more. And most importantly start off with a breakfast that will give you energy for a few hours- that means protein- because protein is a longer supply of energy. If you have cereal, make sure, as you said its' healthy, but make sure it is high in protein, add fruit and yogurt and nuts and seeds. This will make it a power cereal. Or a cheese omelet with leftover broccoli/carrots or whatever from cooked veg from the night before, and some fruit, or yogurt. Snacks of fresh fruit and veg are fine but you need energy throughout your day so make it an apple and some sunflower seeds, or  a banana and some peanut butter. Or pear and a piece of cheese.

If you get this natural variety throughout your day, you don't need to resort to packaged dinners that claim to help with weight loss. (Plus you save money and you know exactly what is going onto your plate-ie no preservatives)

Working out is key: not just a basic 500 calories worth of Gazelle. Again, I don't know how long until this big day of yours, but you need a good variety and balance of cardiovascular exercise- walking, jogging, biking, go for hikes on the weekend, walk to the store, go for a brisk walk in the morning or evening, and then do anaerobic exercises as well (this is key for burning more and boosting metabolism- the more muscle you have the better the fat burn-

notice I did not say weight loss- the pounds on the scale are not as significant as inches lost: a pound of fat takes up more room than a pound of muscles. Thus if you burn that pound of fat and replace it with a pound of muscle, you will have lost inches. The scale of course won't register this loss, as muscle weighs more than fat. That doesn't mean you have to go to the gym and bulk up, it just means you need to do things like sit ups, squats, pushups, leg and arm exercises.

(Rowing machine by the way or rowing itself, is a great overall cardio/anaerobic workout- you get a really good core workout that way),

Most importantly? Don't stress about a mere 5 pounds to lose for a wedding, whether you're the bride or an attendant, make alterations on the dress if you have to so it fits comfortably, and focus on the party and having a good time, and not on a couple of pounds that nobody cares about - they're there for the wedding, not to see who weighs what (who is going to arrive at the wedding with a bathroom scale in hand and spend the next 4 hours tsk tsking someone for being 5 pounds too heavy? Really now ;) )

Answer 9

whats your height, your weight, your age?

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