To anwer the orginal question: The people advocating the low carb diet (Atkin's) are correct. ITas the no-brainer approach to fat loss and you should be able to lose your goal weight rather handily.
Make sure you excercise, but honestly, if you are a couch potato almost anything is going to work for you. Even on days you work out try and walk for a couple miles in the evening. ITs a nice low impact extra.
For your diet: Plan out the same meal at the same times for the next two weeks. Also your diet should be 3-1 fat calories to protein calories. The diet works much better if your fat intake is pretty high.
To give you an idea, a 4oz piece of chicken has 80 calories of protein (20 grams). You would want to eat 240 more calories of fat with it. Some diets recomend 4-1 fat to protein.
Try and keep your calories around 1800, divided into 3-5 meals. If you have more meals you can squeeze in some extra calories.
Did I mention working out? If you do some cardio and some weights you will have no problem at all.
Oh and a word to the wise. Loose ten to fifteen pounds more than you think you need to, because you will always rebound at least that much coming off any diet program. Especially a low carb diet where a lot of the weight loss is water.
If you have any more specific questions we could work on a diet and excercise program to fit your lifestyle.
I have coached litterally hundreds of people to significant fat loss or muscle gain.
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Originally posted by DeltaSigStan
I have two weeks before school starts, and I need to go from sumo to pudgy. Any suggestions to drop a quick 10-15 lbs?
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