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how many calories do I have to burn to lose 30 pounds by August 10th?

How many calories should I burn a day...from working out and all that jazz so I can lose 30 pounds by that day? I weight 195 right now, and I am 5'4. PLEASE HELP. Thankk you.

Public Comments

1. trust me you can lose about 10 pounds if you work your ass off but 30 pounds is not gunna happen, some people dont even lose 30 pounds in a year.
2. I have lost 18 lbs in 4 weeks. But it has been alot of working out. Approx. 1 hour per day of hardore excercise.
3. Losing thirty pounds in one month would be dangerous. It is not possible to lose more than two pounds of body fat a month. If you lose weight faster than that, you are not losing fat. Either you're dehydrating yourself, or you're losing muscle. Bad news either way. If you lose muscle, your metabolism will get slower, and that will make it hard to lose more weight, or to keep off the weight you lost.
4. The amount of calories you have to burn to lose X number of pounds is the same regardless of the time frame. If you burn 3500 calories more than you ingest, that's 1 pound, so your formula is 3500 x 30 or 105,000 calories burned - calories ingested is how long it takes you to lose it. To go from now to August 10th, you have about 32 days. That number of calories burned without even factoring in what you eat is 3281.25 calories per day. You would have to eat a strict 1000 calorie per day diet, which I don't recommend, and literally live at the gym. This is next to impossible, and even if it were possible, I wouldn't recommend it. To give you some perspective, an hour of spinning class, the most intense fat burner I'm aware of, burns about 700 calories per hour. Good luck doing that for four and a half hours. If you buy a book called "The Fat Flush Diet," by Ann Louise Gittleman, read it quickly, implement it, and do phase 1 for 8 weeks instead of the 2-4 it recommends, you can possibly achieve your goal by September 10th. Sooner than that is virtually impossible and I wouldn't recommend it. Incidentally, yes, it is possible to lose more than 2 pounds of fat per month.