How to lose weight in a short time? According to experts, healthy weight loss, that is, a sustainable weight loss for the body and which allows us not to lose too much lean mass but also affect fat is in the order of half a kilo / a kilo per week. Sometimes the right weight loss can be even less than this, especially in the presence of these two substantial problems:
– metabolism slowed by previous diets and previous loss of lean mass
– age
– percentage of fat mass but also type of fat mass
– gender

If it is the first time you try to lose weight, and for example you have a high percentage of visceral fat mass, the weight loss in the first weeks of the diet is greater. If it’s not your first time trying to lose weight, even the same diet you did before will work less now, and it will always be easier to plateau or gain weight again after stopping the diet.

If we are looking for how to lose weight in a short time, that is, if we try to force weight loss with some restrictive regimen (i.e. we take in even fewer calories than our basal metabolism: classic situation of a thousand-calorie diet for most people) we must realize that the weight will go down, but that big part of that weight will be water and loss of amino acids and muscle glycogen.

Thinking of losing five pounds in a week and then maintaining the weight loss is quite far-fetched, and can be counterproductive every time we try this trick again. On Dcomedieta you will find many drastic diets to lose weight quickly, if you want it, such as the Plank or short ketogenic diets. But don’t be fooled: one thing is to do them to look your best in a given circumstance (an important event), another is to believe that in the following weeks you will not regain a large part of the weight lost.

If you are looking for how to lose weight in a short time, the answer is: eat a reduced carbohydrate diet (ketogenic diet) , trying not to exceed the month or six weeks, and then introduce carbohydrates little by little to not gain weight and restore a good affinity of the body with its carbohydrate metabolism. If the diet is low-calorie, it slightly increases the maintenance calories.
The carbohydrate / calorie reintroduction phase is necessary and you can read how to do it in this reverse diet article.
Instead, don’t try to eat a too restrictive or carbohydrate -free diet without knowing how to properly reintroduce them afterwards. 

In general, we evaluate the consequences for our health if we are trying to lose weight as quickly as possible and to do so we rely on the first crash diet:  and if it is not better, especially if it is the first time we go on a diet, lose weight with a more sustainable diet (therefore with a lower calorie deficit) combined with a physical activity that tones the muscle mass.
In this case it is true that we will lose weight in more time, but it will be less stress for the body and above all the risk of regaining weight will be lower.