Want to lose 10 pounds in a week? Want the weight loss to be more than just water weight? Would you like for it to be healthy as well? Then follow the tips below and you'll be well on your way to losing those pounds.

Select your Food.

To burn away that weight, you need to eat food that has a high thermic effect, i.e. fat burning foods. This consist of low-glycemic carbohydrates such as lentils, apples and adequate servings of leans meat.

You want to do away with any type of process food: white breads, bleached rice and potato chips. You also need to cut out all soda's and that includes diet sodas. Even though they don't have calories, they don't help your digestive process like water does. In fact, they can leave you feeling hungry even though you just ate.

Also, you want to eat only lean meats such as chicken or turkey breast and tuna. Stay away from so-called lean beef. Even the leanest cut of beef has significant fat when compared to chicken or turkey.

Prepared all your meals before hand.

This is the secret of the plan to get you body burning calories like a furnace. You're going to eat 12 meals a day. Why 12? When you eat, the stored fat on your body is used as the energy source to consume, digest and process your food. This is know as the thermic effect of food.

By eating 12 meals a day, you body has to constantly work to process the food and thus you're constantly burning fat.

And make sure that you prepare all your meals well in advance. If you don't, then this is the part that can break you. Foregoing this step by telling yourself that you'll prepare them before you're ready to eat will probably lead to you not completing the plan.

Why? Because you're a busy person. When you're at work, you have deadlines to meet, tasks that should have been finished yesterday and a demanding boss. And if your work requires you to travel during the day, how are you going to be able to prepare every meal before you eat?

So you see it's critical that you prepare all your meal at least the day before. And if you have the time, prepare your meals for the whole week. Just having to pack and go saves a lot of time.

Use plastic sandwich bags to store them. Because the meals are so small you'll have no problem putting enough food in them to eat. Once prepared, place the meals that you're going to eat the next day in the refrigerator and the rest in the freezer.

And buy yourself a small plastic container to heat the food in. When you're ready to eat, just unzip the sandwich bag, drop it in the container, set the microwave and then eat.

If you're really busy, forget the microwave and eat it cold. It may not be as appetizing, but since you want to lose those 10 pounds, it beats skipping a meal. Plus, since the food is cold, your body will have to warm it up before it can be processed, which means more fat calories burned.

Make a schedule and stick to it.

Now that you have your food prepared, you need to make a schedule when to eat. This means writing it down. Even though I'm sure you have a great mind, let's not rely on it to keep you on track. The more structured you become at eating, the better your chances for success. Just remember the saying, "Chance favors the well prepared" or something like that. You get the picture.;

Remember, for one week you're turning your body into a super-charged fat burning furnace. The key to making this plan work for you is to prepare.

And keep this in mind. Your best ally in losing weight begins with knowledge. So keep learning so you can keep losing. :)