The most enjoyable plan to lose 20 pounds:
Skate and lose weight

Would you like to lose twenty pounds in three to six months through a most enjoyable plan that doesn’t demand that you change any of your habits? It involves the use of skates. Losing twenty pounds is not a big deal, but how you go about losing them can be a problem.

You can follow a strong diet and starve yourself for a while; you’ll eventually lose twenty pounds after three months, but you will suffer immensely during that time.
Can you imagine yourself skating and losing weight at the same time? Unbelievable? Follow me.
To lose one pound of body weight, about 3,500 calories must be burned. If you weigh one hundred fifty pounds, by skating eleven miles per hour, you will be burning about ten calories per minute. This means that you have to skate for six hours to lose one pound (3500 calories / 10 calories = 350 minutes = 6 hours).
Moreover, in order to lose twenty pounds, you will have to skate long enough to burn an extra 800 calories daily for three months. To lose twenty pounds in six months, burn 400 calories daily for six months. This can be calculated as follows: You need to lose twenty pounds; each requires 3,500 calories to be burned (3,500 * 20 = 70,000 extra calories).
Now, a total of 70,000 calories must be burned to lose twenty pounds. Three months equals thirteen weeks; so, 70,000 / 13 = about 5,400 calories per week = 800 calories per day.
However, how do you judge the amount of skating? Well, this varies a lot from one to another, depending on your body and skating speed.
As you can see in this table, these are the calories burned per hour if you weigh between 120 and 200 pounds, depending on your skating speed. If your weight is outside the 120 to 200 pound range, use the table to estimate your own rate, or view a calories-burned chart on the web.

The 3 months plan
By following table below, you won’t need to alter your eating behavior or habits. For example, if you weigh one hundred twenty pounds, and your skating rate is eight mph, you will have to skate for three hours daily for three months. By increasing your rate to fourteen mph, you will only have to skate one hour a day.

The 6 month plan
Losing twenty pounds in six months is very easy for a skater. If your skating rate is fourteen mph, you will have to skate only half an hour daily. See? It’s easy, and without a hectic diet or complicated program of strenuous exercises. Skate well to lose twenty pounds.

	Skating speed  (mph = miles per hour)
Your weight	8 mph	10 mph	12 mph	14 mph	16 mph
120 lbs	1.6 hrs	0.9 hrs	0.6 hrs	0.5 hrs	0.4 hrs
200 lbs	0.9 hrs	0.6 hrs	0.5 hrs	0.4 hrs	0.3 hrs

Health & Fitness Specialist Dr. Manson Kay

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