I recently lost 15 lbs in just a month of dieting. The past month, I have only lost 2 lbs and it's bothering me since I've been doing the same thing I always have. I tend to think maybe it slowed down since I lost so much the first month. Is there anything I can do to kick start the weight loss again?

When you first start dieting and working out. Before you start burning fat you must first use up the Fast burning Sugar stored up, (your Water Weight). This is the easiest to burn which is why its harder now to lose any more weight. drink a lot of water at this point to get rehydrated. 2 pounds in a month isn't bad, depending on how much you weigh. Drinking a lot of water will help your body rid itself of toxins. Normally you don't want to lose more than 1 pound a week. If you lose weight too fast you might endup with extra skin that didn't have time to shrink down. Try hitting the gym when you can. check out my sourse for more ways of losing fat pounds fast and safe.

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Congratulations on your success so far. Here are some ideas on how to achieve further gains in fitness.
First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.
On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.
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.
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The forst ten pounds you lost was just water weight. It won't continue to go as fast as it did the first moneht. And if it does, go to your doctor.

Well that's great can i ask how you lost 15 in a month please let me know at cjjenna02@yahoo.com You probably hit a plateau just keep going and it will come off.

Try mixing up your workout. Do different cardio activities and train different muscles when strength training (if you haven't been working out, then there's your problem). Also, try drinking at least 8 cups of water a day. Plateaus can usually be broken by drinking tons of water. Good luck!

Sounds like you body thought it was in starvation and dropped your metabolism.Try eating really good one day then dieting for 3 days. then go back to eating good for 1 day. By alternating like this, you are reducing the total caloric intake over a week and your body will not stay in a state of lower metabolism. The 15 pounds initially lost was just excess fluids in the tissues.

Reduce your junk food intake and stick to wholesome foods such as fruits and vegetables. Imagine your body as the machine to burn your weight and actually perform the workouts.
Do not plan dieting because it is not a solution for a longer duration. You can easily feel tired by following a particular diet pattern for a shorter duration. It reduces your rate of metabolism by draining away the water content and retaining the fat content.
Schedule an exercise program almost daily and gradually increase your workout. Reduce one spicy meal in a week and work towards healthy meal consumption.
Think in realistic terms and decide to lose about one to two pounds per week. Even if you lose weight rapidly you will revert back to the original weight soon. Contact people who have successfully lost weight and follow the same procedures they have tried out.
So if you follow these tips you are sure to achieve your targeted goal and lose weight consistently.