<p>Here's the deal:
Have to lose 10kg in 1 month.
Will consume 2000 kilo calories a day (i require around 2700)
Running for 1 hour, weight for 30 min.</p>
<p>Possible???</p>
<p>anything is possible...but weight training will probably cause you to gain weight. if it's just the weight you have to lose, i'd just stick with running and diet. if you want to tone, you should do the weights.</p>
<p>ah metric system...must convert, must convert!!!!</p>
<p>I don't think so. 10 kgs is a lot and 2000 calories is a lot. I don't trust the whole high number when it comes to calories, it says that I need 2500, but I only eat about 1100. A month is not that much time too.</p>
<p>Oops!
10kg = 22 pounds</p>
<p>lol, i was kidding</p>
<p>"anything is possible...but weight training will probably cause you to gain weight. if it's just the weight you have to lose, i'd just stick with running and diet. if you want to tone, you should do the weights."</p>
<p>LOL! you won't gain weight if you weight train. you only gain weight if you consume more calories than you take in. when you weight train, you tear muscle fibers. then you take in a urplus of calories and your body repairs the fibers and makes them bigger with the excess energy from the calories.</p>
<p>thisSHHHisBANANAs:
You're thinking only in terms of fat gain. You most definately gain weight when you weight train, haven't you ever heard the term muscle weighs more than fat.
I would agree with jimbob, if you want to stand a chance at loosing 10 kg or 22 lbs in a month you should drop the weight training and just do the cardio and dieting.</p>
<p>i need to tone a lot. i don't need to lose too much weight. will running on the elliptical trainer for 30 mins a day for 2 months help? or is running outside more effective?</p>
<p>I've lost 17 pounds in the last 19 days by cutting out heavy carbohydrates like bread and pasta, as well as junk food/fast food, from my diet and doing more daily walking. For a hardcore carb-monger like myself the diet adjustment has been remarkably easy, and the results thus far a great motivation to continue.</p>
<p>u burn more fat if you walk at at a high pace then running or jogging.. When u start running or jogging.. ur body starts to burn carbs..but at a high paced walk u tend to burn more calories and raise ur metabolism..</p>
<p>so i would suggest walking for 45 mins a day instead of running for 30 mins.. if ur looking to lose weight..</p>
<p>"thisSHHHisBANANAs:
You're thinking only in terms of fat gain. You most definately gain weight when you weight train, haven't you ever heard the term muscle weighs more than fat.
I would agree with jimbob, if you want to stand a chance at loosing 10 kg or 22 lbs in a month you should drop the weight training and just do the cardio and dieting."</p>
<p>you're right. muscle does weigh more than fat, but you're not going to weigh more just from weight training. you weigh more by weight training AND eating more. you only gain weight if you take in more calories. it's physically impossible to gain weight wihtout eating more. the OP is talking about eating LESS. you can however change your body composition wihtout changing your weight. if you're 180 pounds and you weight train, you can lose a lot of fat and still be 180 pounds with no change in diet.</p>
<p>yea..ur right..lifting weights while dieting will tone the body not make u gain weight..</p>
<p>ive been trying to gain muscle weight this past yr..and the amount of extra calories and protein u have to take in to sufficiently gain musicle weight is crazzy lol.</p>
<p>so i would recommend weight training throughout ur diet.
stick to lighter weights with more reps.</p>
<p>You've all given me hope!</p>
<p>Well, weight training will also raise your metabolism, because muscles require more energy than fat cells. Thus, you will end up losing more fat.</p>
<p>Listen to thisSHHHisBANANAs he knows what he's talking about.</p>
<p>Don't drop weight training, it will help burn the fat.</p>
<p>i heard if you do a lot of reps (like 24) it becomes an aerobic excercise as opposed to bulking you up</p>
<p>A couple of things:</p>
<p>When you do weight training, go high weight, low rep...more calories burn this way.
ALWAYS do your cardio in the morning, it will up your metabolism for the rest of the day, if you want to do 15 mins of HIIT after your weight training, thats fine too.
Id drop your calories down to about 1700, depending on your weight. You dont want too many calories so you can burn fat, but you also dont want to cause catabolism.
Eat constantly, never go more than 2 hrs without eating, this also raises metabolism. Ice cold water helps too...try to get in about 8 liters of ice cold water.</p>
<p>Finally...22lbs in a month is possible but your gonna risk losing muscle tissue and water. Aim for 2-3 lbs a week. If you lose anything more than that it suggests your losing more than fat. Make sure you do weight training when you run too...cuz if you dont use it, you lose it.</p>
<p>Oh, and a thing about this toning business. More reps doesnt mean you get toned. More reps causes your muscles to work farther than they should...resulting in overtraining, which if you dont know already, is not good. It will also cause catabolism, breakdown of muscle tissue, actually hindering you from obtaining your goal. Heavy weight training, diet, and cardio are the way to get toned.</p>
<p>You also want to carb up every five days or so...your body will adapt to the low carb situation and begin to lose less fat, i believe muscle leptin drops also...so every 4-5 days eat carbs...it will raise leptin levels and youll lose more this way</p>
<p>FerstAmmendment and thisSHHHisBANANAs know their stuff. I have to second the high weight, low rep way, cause you won't gain weight as long as you don't take in more calories than you should. The more muscle you have, the faster your body metabolizes. So definitely keep the weight training as Thaitan said.</p>
<p>I followed a similar regimen to what FerstAmmendment mentioned (though I've been on and off with cardio), and went from 180 to 145 in about a year (yeah, took a while, but I didn't seem to lose any muscle in the process).</p>
<p>It's very possible, but that doesn't mean it is easy or healthy.</p>