This is what I’ve accomplished in week 1 of this weight loss challenge:

• Initial weight: 143 pounds
• Weight after one week: 140 pounds

Weight loss in seven days: 3 pounds

I feel good about this start, so I’m going to keep the exercise going on at the same pace for the second week. If the weight loss will maintain this rate, I’ll be getting rid of the 20 pounds weight that bothers me so much in about seven weeks, which is less than two months, thus reasonable. I’ll be just ready for the summer vacation, and I’ll probably have to buy myself a new bathing suit, as the old one will have been too big for my size by then. Can’t wait to see that wonder happening!

Lose 20 pounds out of how many?

I’m currently at 143 pounds, at a height of 5.4 feet, at the age of 41. I wish to lose 20 pounds. We are going to see how much time is needed for that, if I ever manage to reach my slimming goal.

I’m not following any diet, I eat whatever I want, I don’t move too much. None of my habits will change during this weight loss trial. I’ll only add the following elliptical bike routine in my daily schedule, for 5 days a week.

Elliptical Bike Weight Loss Routine

For the first week, I’ll do three rounds of 10 minutes each. I’ll try to keep an alert pace, so I can feel the pulse and the heart bit rate going up, without getting exhausted. I’ll also make notes on how many calories I’ve burnt and what distance I’ve run each day. All these will be put into a table and published here every Monday, together with my weight and how much weight I lost over the past week. I’ll always weight myself on Monday morning, on the same bathroom scale.

If I’m happy with the progress, I’ll stick to this schedule for three more weeks. If it’s too slow, I’ll try a progressive increase in effort. Maybe I’m going to discover a convenient weight loss program that works. Moreover, I might consider combining this effort with a home delivery diet meals plan, because I suspect I’m not eating what I should and that’s why my weight is getting out of control.

My honest answer is that I don’t know. Losing such and such weight depends mostly on one’s determination and not solely on the gym equipment used. You can lose 20 pounds on the treadmill as well as on the elliptical bike, if you follow a consistent program of fitness routines. It is preferably to set the exercises together with a personal gym trainer, but if you can’t afford that, you can try to make your own fitness schedule that works.

This is how you could proceed: for about one or two weeks, try to allocate daily time for your fitness training. Usually, treadmills come with that personal computer which monitors several important parameters such as your heart rate, the number of calories burnt in a workout session, the distance you’ve run, according to the difficulty level your machine is set up to function.

In your program, let’s assume you want to start with ten minutes of running, on the easiest level of the treadmill. Do this for two-three days, then increase either the time or the difficulty of the exercise. After two more days, increase again. After two weeks, weigh yourself and write down your result. If it is not satisfactory, then you are doing something wrong. Adjust your exercise: increase the treadmill speed and observe your body functions while you exercise: you should feel your heart rate increasing, your heart pumping more blood and faster through your blood vessels, and when you’re done, you need to feel your muscles a bit sore. Make sure not to exhaust yourself, because in that case the exercise will have negative effects instead of helping you get rid of your 10 or 20 pounds.

After two more weeks of cardio exercise, weigh yourself again. This time you should notice improvements. If not, you should probably seek for personal fitness training advice, in order to be able to execute the routines correctly and start burning fat and not only accumulate muscles under the fat layer. My advice would be to buy a gym subscription for one-two months, get yourself a fitness trainer and discuss with him what you did and what your results were. He would probably be able to spot your mistakes and correct them, so you can go back to your home gym and exercise daily for good weight loss results.

It is not advisable to try losing weight fast, because of many considerations:

• Your skin would just hang, making you look several years older than your real age
• Your metabolism would change, making you get fatter in the moment you quit your weight loss plan and get back to your regular way of eating and to your sedentary lifestyle
• Your liver and your kidneys may suffer. For example, in the case of high-protein diets, kidneys need to do extra-work in processing the big amount of urea that results from the proteins digestion process

How Much Do You Want To Lose 20 Pounds?

Weight loss motivation is another factor that should be considered: why do you want to lose your extra 20 pounds? Are you sick and your health is at risk if you don’t lose weight? Are you healthy but feeling like people don’t appreciate you at your real value because you are fat? Are you willing to lose weight only because all your friends do and you don’t know how to get accepted into their group?

Try to think at your objectives, then set up a viable weight loss plan that would fit your habits, your lifestyle and your daily routine.

Healthy Way of Getting Rid of 20 pounds in 3 Weeks

First, don’t think that you’re on a diet. Just try to change a bit your daily habits in these directions:

1. Eat all your favorite foods, but keep the quantities small. It’s better to eat 5-6 times a day small portions, rather than the whole fridge once a day.
2. Fix hours for your meals and respect them. Your body would obey, and you’ll end up by being hungry only at those times, and not all day long.
3. Drink a lot of water. You can start your day with a big glass of still water, then you can have breakfast, and after a while, drink again a large glass of water, then, in about 2 hours you can have a snack, and so on.
4. Try to avoid eating at night. Don’t fix your last meal of the day too late. An appropriate time would be around 19:00-19:30. In case you like to go to sleep very late, you can have the last meal by 20:30.
5. Exercise daily. You don’t have to waste a lot of time and to pay for expensive subscriptions to the gym. Workouts for the belly can be done at home, with no devices required. Walking in the park is also free of charge. Go every day for a 15 minutes walk, or if you are healthy, you can try to run. A good idea is to get yourself a pair of roller blades and have an hour of skating every day. Skating movements are great for your buttocks and thighs.
6. Count your calories and monitor your metabolism. For tracking your daily calorie intake over a longer period of time, you could either keep a spreadsheet if you know how to do it, or use a special food diary. This is a computer software that helps you counting the calories. It’s not free, but you can try DietPower FREE for 15 Days, then buy it only in case you considered it useful. Even if you decide to buy DietPower and then change your mind, you have one year full 100% money back guarantee, so you don’t risk anything.

Do this for 3 weeks, and you’ll see that you’ll need a new wardrobe, because you can shrink from a size 14 to a 10 without joining any expensive weight loss program, without buying expensive foods, just by being yourself and by committing to a less flexible daily schedule.