Re: crash course diet
Unbelievable how many people think that dieting by a sudden cessation of eating is an effective and healthy thing to do !
It has the opposite effect of what you are looking for. It puts your body into starvation mode so anything you do eat will be stored away as fat.
You need to do the opposite. Eat lots of food, esp protein which will switch up your metabolic rate. You'll have a ton of energy from the food which you then need to burn off via some form of exercise. Simple walking will do the trick.
There is no quick solution to losing weight. There just isn't so don't even think in those terms. People who crash diet are harming themselves and invariably end up putting the weight back on and more besides.
It takes years to put on lots of weight, it will take a similarly long time to get rid of it again. That's PERMANENT weight loss I am talking about.
Eat more, eat good food, boost your metabolism and then burn off the energy with some form of exercise. Under no circumstances starve or deprive the body of the energy it needs.