How Long Does It Take To Lose 20 Pounds (And Why)?

How Long Does It Take To Lose 20 Pounds (And Why)?

Exact Answer: 2 To 4 Months

With everyone having a busy lifestyle consisting not much of physical activities but just sitting on a chair in front of laptops, eating unhealthy food with irregular breaks, and having mental stress and tension, obesity has become a common thing among people of this generation.

Obesity has a lot of serious effects on not just physical health but mental health and emotional well-being as well.

It can lead to physical health problems like muscle and joint pain and fatigue. Moreover, talking about mental health, obesity can cause anxiety and depression. And it can also result in underconfidence, loss of self-esteem, and other such problems.

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How Long Does It Take To Lose 20 Pounds?

There are many ways one can follow to Lose 20 Pounds, or saying, losing fat. You can lose weight by working out in the gym, doing yoga, eating healthy, and in more and more ways. Moreover, with every different method, the time period in which you will see the results also differs. Here’s a list of all the major and effective methods and how much time will they take for you to lose 20 pounds.

Methods To Lose 20 PoundsTime
Working out2 to 3 months
Eating healthy5 to 6 months
Walking4 to 5 months
Keto diet2 to 4 months

Working out is the most effective way to lose 20 pounds. Because gyms are designed for this purpose only. Doing heavy workouts in the gym will make the body generate heat and thus consequently make you sweat. This will consequently result in an effective loss of weight. With this method, you can lose up to 2 to 4 pounds a week and you would be able to lose 20 pounds in just 2 to 3 months.

Although walking is a not very effective method but is ideal for people who don’t want to spend hours working out or are either too old or too young in age to go to the gym. This method makes the body lose 1 to 2 pounds in 1 week, that is losing 20 pounds in 4 to 5 months.

Keto Diet has been trending for a long time and it has even proved its worth. People are able to lose pounds drastically by just following a keto diet. So, anyone who follows the keto diet responsibly with no breaks, then you can easily lose 2 to 3 pounds in a week. Thus, with this method, you can lose 20 pounds in 2 to 4 months.

Why Does It Take That Long To Lose 20 Pounds?

Generally, according to research and nutritionists, according to the human body, it is healthy to lose 1 to 2 pounds in a week. That means it would normally take for the human body to lose 20 pounds in 2 to 4 months.

However, one can put extra effort to lose weight by working out in the gym, eating healthy, taking proper sleep, and keeping the body active. These activities can help you lose those 20 pounds in a shorter span of time.

But, it is important to make sure not to push yourself too hard to lose those pounds or it can lead to serious problems.

Moreover, it is also important to know that just working out and doing heavy exercise in the gym or by just walking or by just eating healthy is not enough. By this, it is meant that following just one thing and ignoring the other will not help you lose 20 pounds in a span of 2 to 4 months.

If you are trying to lose weight by just eating healthy then it is important to also do some sort of nominal physical exercise to keep the body active.

Conclusion

Losing 20 pounds might sound like an exciting journey to you, or it might haunt you. After all, everything depends on your perspective. But a healthy mind state definitely helps you gain more benefits.

Therefore, it is important to stay motivated during the whole journey, keep surroundings positive, live in a healthy environment and always try to do the best. Moreover, you can even consult a nutritionist to provide you a diet plan according to your body type which would help you lose 20 pounds effectively.

Apart from all this, the time period to lose 20 pounds also depends on your hard work, determination, and consistency towards losing weight.

If you follow all these points then it would definitely take you not more than a span of 2 to 4 months to lose 20 pounds.

References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=7D29BgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT287&dq=lose+20+pounds&ots=Y9pPGKXgGP&sig=s-YWLqh6DDmsZW87kLMj7MjcwUU
  2. https://www.nature.com/articles/0802437
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