Unless you’re a super obese individual who happens to be living at The Biggest Loser ranch, losing ten pounds each week is quite unrealistic. However, there are some tricks you can lose to drop a lot of water weight in a 7 day period, and appear much trimmer for the effort. If you remember from elementary school, the human body is nearly 60% water (for men, 55% for women). Babies are actually made up of an astounding 78% water.

What this means is that there are steps you can take to…

1. Eliminate the fat loss "roadblocks" in your diet -- Most processed foods will keep you from losing weight. These include anything made with refined sugars, refined flours, and trans fats. Obviously avoid all fried foods. During the first week or two you should also avoid all grain products (even those made from 100% whole grains) as well as most other "starchy" carbohydrate foods (e.g. potatoes and bananas).

2. Eat very cleanly -- Pretty much all of your calories should come from…