Metabolic rates can be changed with the correct diet.
I just want to know if I can reduce from 36 to 32 inch trousers in two months.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 15:43, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

You can
but you won't fit into them
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 15:44, Reply)

Ok, re-phrase
Will I be able to reduce my waist size by four inches in two months.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 15:44, Reply)

No
Actually, you can do. I lost over 3 st in about a year by doing the following:

a. Eating less
b. Drinking less
c. Running more

Simple really
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 15:45, Reply)

^This
It is a simple equation* - burn more calories than you consume.

*not necessarily an equation
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 15:49, Reply)

Or in layman's terms
STOP EATING CAKE
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 15:49, Reply)

4 inches is quite a lot.
a pound of fat equates to about 1/4 an inch on your waist so you need to lose just over a stone.

36" waist is hardly fat unless you're a slightly-built dwarf, though..
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 15:49, Reply)

I must admit to GLESSing when I got to 32" waist

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 15:50, Reply)

like fuck they can.
Or, rather, they can, but a variation in basal metabolic rate between "dead" and "Iggy pop" is probably going to account for a hundred or so calories a day. The rest is just not shovelling cake into you trap every chance you get and actually doing some exercise.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 15:47, Reply)