I NEED to lose a stone in 3 weeks

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I am due to enter a competition in 3 weeks which requires me to weight under 65kilos. (10st 3lbs)

I have always weighed around this mark but got on the scales this morning - after a few weeks of indulanges with take-aways and lagers and I've shot up to 11st 3!!

How the hell am I going to lose a stone in 3 weeks? I can't starve myself as I need to keep active.

Is it completely impossible? if so I'll have to pull out

Any help or advice appreciated.

do an atkins low carb diet for 3 weeks
no fruit/wheat/dairy
make it low fat as well

bloody hard but you should lose loads

I'm not sure if it's impossible, but it would certainly be difficult, not very safe and would probably not be sustainable. There isn't a healthy way to lost a stone that quickly, it would probably involve doing something very unhealthy like starving yourself or only eating cabbage soup.

I've just done a bit of google-ing and something called the "hollywood" diet keeps coming up.

Its basically a load of fruit, yogurt, milk etc mixed together and split into 2 portions and that's all you can eat/drink over 2 days.

Apparantly its guaranteed to knock at least 5lbs off in 2 days.

As you only do this for 2 days, would it be safe?

I've done Lighter Life Light for 3 weeks, felt fine after the first couple of days, and lost loads.

It's basically 3 food replacements and one proper meal per day, and same principles as Atkins, so no almost no carbohydrates (you're in ketosis, so don't feel so hungry).

I stopped it as too busy at work at the moment so can't be bothered with diets right now, but I'd recommend it for your situation.

Costs a lot (£50 per week), but you only have to buy ingredients for one meal per day, so I guess you save on that. Oh, and the meal replacements mean you get all your vitamins and minerals for the day.

I wouldn't do the Hollywood diet you've mentioned above - no way could you get all your requirements, and no point entering this competition, whatever it is, if you're feeling ill as a result. (Going on the basis that you won't just do a 2-day once-off.)