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Grace Walsh

How to lose weight in a week - 12 expert tips to get started

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If you want to learn how to lose weight in a week, it's natural to think fast diets and high-intensity workouts will be the way forward. They've been sold to us as effective and worthwhile so well over the years that many people don't know they can do more harm than good. 

These plans tend to contain far fewer calories than adults need to function and aim to burn many more calories than needed, leading to short-term problems like hunger, fatigue, and feeling worn out, and some longer-term conditions that may make healthy weight loss harder in the future. 

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