 [ Symptoms ] is there any way to speed up a cold once you feel one coming on [ Disease ] personally you should not be trying to lose any weight    you are at an appropriate weight for your height and five pounds less is not going to change how you look or how your clothes feel it would be more beneficial for you to exercise tone up what you have this way you will look thinner feel better and it will appear that you have lost weight do not let the scale tell you what to do