I safely lost a stone in about two weeks when I realised I topped 16 stone.
What did I do??
Simply ate salads and fish and cut out the booze. simple as that.
In your predicament, you don't want to lose muscle mass and the first 1/4 of a stone will be water retention only. So aim for 1 1/4 stone. (about 18llbs)
Therefore 18lbs equals 63000 kcals.
divided by 56 days equals 1125 negative kcals per day.
So.............................................
You should be eating 2000 kcals a day if you are a normal woman.
Follow these tips and the weight will fall off no probs in 8 weeks.
1) Drink an extra litre of water a day (net loss 100 kcals a day)
2) Replace ONE meal with three pieces of ANY fruit. (net loss 300 kcals a day)
3) Cut out ALL booze and drink diet pop. (depends on your intake, but say one glass of wine = 150 kcals).
4) If you can hack it replace ALL spuds with green veg (net loss 200 kcals a day)
5) Eat fish or chicken (without skin) instead of all red meat (net loss 100-150 kcals per day).
6) Have a treat (crisps, choc etc only every other day (net loss 250 kcals a day)
7) Exercise, exercise exercise. Even housework, simple walking, diy, ANYTHING and in 8 weeks you will lose ALL the weight you require, maybe even more. Dead easy really, no?