Vegetarian Daily Diet

What is the best diet when I only have 13 weeks?

I have 13 weeks to diet before Spring Break and I want to look good! Is it possible to loose 20 lbs by then? What would be the most effective diet? I am vegetarian so nothing where I would have to eat all meat. I am going to the gym starting now, how much would you recommend I excercise daily? I can't go to the gym on weekends but weekdays I can. Any websites or anything would help! Thank you all so much for your replies! I don't want to sound rude because I appreciate everyone's advice, but I know eating right and exercising can work, but obviously I need a little more guidance than that! So any programs or anything like that would be helpful. Thanks again!

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1. Work out and eat healthy!
2. Weightwatchers.
3. Power 90 is a comprehensive 12 week program (90 days) that lets you work out in the comfort of your own home. http://www.power90.com by Beachbody. I'm currently doing it and it's very good. I've lost 13 pounds in 3 weeks so far and it's healthy weight loss (regular exercise, great nutrition, regular sleep).
4. the liquid diet
5. Try to fast for about 3-4 days (this is very hard to do), it should shrink your stomach slightly so this will keep you down on your appetite. Then from there on, just make sure you don't eat too many fatty foods, and exercise occasionally. But remember to not make too big of a commitment, because that's when you'll end up breaking it. Small steps at a time. Oh! Also do ALOT of stretching, become very flexible. And you might want to try meditation as well, just download a guided meditation off of limewire. peace and love, rob
6. I thought before die.
7. Gym is good start. As far as diet is concerned: Take all you will eat in a day. I assume you eat 3 meals. Bring a portion of your dinner to your breakfast. Also take a portion of the lunch and schedule that in between breakfast and lunch. Also take a portion of your dinner and schedule that between your lunch and dinner. Now eat your dinner earlier and go out for a walk instead of watching TV. Do not eat right before you go to bed NEVER GO ON LONGER FASTING, IT COULD PUT YOU IN COMA.
8. Eat Soup for lunch and dinner, best way to loose some weight, with heaps of vegies and walking an hour a day and doing arm weights once a day for 6 days.
9. The first thing is be smart. Don't try to starve yourself or subscribe to some fad diet that promises to drop you 30 pounds in 30 days. Sure, your goal is Spring Break, but don't compromise your health for it; let Spring Break be a motivator for you to start a fit lifestyle that continues afterwards. Secondly, take a look and decide if you really need to drop 20 pounds. A *lot* of people (women especially) think they weigh too much when in reality they have a normal, healthy weight, and dropping weight would be a bad idea. Do a Body Mass Index calculation or see a doctor or something. If those two things are in place, here's a good way to lose weight. First, figure out how much you're eating and how much you're exercising on average right now. Then, take 250 or so calories and drop that from your daily diet (so eat a bit less). Then, add 250 calories to the amount you burn each day in exercise. This will result in you storing 500 calories less each day, and it'll add up to about a pound per week weight loss (although you will of course have some times when the body hovers at a weight for a few weeks before it continues dropping.) This weight loss is healthy, and it's sustainable, and it's really pretty simple to do. You can gradually add to the number of calories you don't eat/burn off, but gradually is the key; if you try to go too fast, the body will resist and you'll feel tired, irritable and unhappy.
10. Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful. There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below. The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode. Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy. To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine. For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet. Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further. There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive. If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets. Aloha
11. There is a natural and healthy weight loss plan (not a diet plan) that I am currently on and I have had good results. I have lost 30 pounds in just over 40 days by simply adding this plan to my life. I have not skipped meals and i did not have to eat or buy special foods. I love the ice cream vanilla shakes that come with the plan and it is very easy to use. The products are healthy and natural and they do contain Hoodia Gordonii to help suppress the appetite. I am also drinking a natural and healthy energy drink that has vastly improved my energy level and also my health. Best of luck to you and I know that you can do it as I am doing it and I am 45 years old