We want to focus on healthy weight loss in this contest. Please do not resort to things like diet pills, laxatives, dehydration, starvation or other extreme measures.
Healthy weight loss is 1% of body weight per week, a little higher in the beginning. So for most people that is about 1 to 2 pounds per week. Losing anything higher than this will make it difficult to keep off, so please don't be discouraged by losing "only" 1 or 2 pounds per week, because that is a safe amount to lose that you will be able to keep off.
Here is a funny example of what NOT to do. Season 5 of The Office started with the gang in a weight loss competition. Whichever field office lost the most weight would get 3 extra vacation days. Here are some quotes, that while funny, are not healthy.
Oscar: "All I've eaten today is a chicken breast and a case of diet coke"
Andy: "I have eaten since noon on Friday".
Kelly: (sweating and noticeably irritable) I'm on the third day of my cleanse diet. All I have to do is drink maple syrup, lemon juice, cayenne pepper and water for all 3 meals. I just bought 2 bikinis online.... I look amazing" (uttered with a distressed voice).
Kelly: I swallowed a tapeworm last night. It's going to grow to 3 feet inside me and eat all my food so I don't get fat. Then after 3 months I take some medicine and I pass it. I think it's from Mexico... Creed sold it to me.
Creed: That was no tapeworm.
Michael: I can't do this by myself people! Kelly and I are the only ones who have passed out or almost passed out.
Dwight: Here's what I'm going to do - I'm going to randomly select 3 people for liposuction. Let's see... Stanley, Phyllis and Kevin.
Phyllis: Are you insane!!! There was no client! Dwight drove me to an abandoned warehouse 5 miles away and pushed me out of the car.... I had to walk home with no purse and no money.
Dwight: And you burned a thousand calories!
May
24
2011
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