I am aiming for 4lb a week loss! Is this realistic
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emmydoodles83 wrote: »UltimateRBF wrote: »emmydoodles83 wrote: »UltimateRBF wrote: »emmydoodles83 wrote: »emmydoodles83 wrote: »
Because I want to loose more before my holiday
Then why are you posting questions if you have everything all figured out? :huh:
I never said I had it all figured out, there's no need to be so rude I was just asking a question
Heya, doesn't look like you have been on here long, just ignore people that post crap like this that isn't helpful or informative it will happen a lot. Probably just hangry hungry+angry, or just a rude to feel better, it's easy to be a jerk when you can hide behind the internet. It's better not to feed them with replies.
The others that are telling you it isn't healthy or realistic are correct, slow and steady wins the race.
watch this.......................see what I did there? Ok I'll show you just one more time..............
What are you on about?
Why do you ask? legitimate curiosity? or are you angling for a verbal spar for some reason? Gotta ask cause I can never tell these days.
I mean what's your point. Obviously.
If I have to ask then it's not obvious, it was a legit question since I don't know if you were really curious or just someone trying to be an A-hole. This is the internet after all and I can't tell the tone you are coming off with.......well until you said "obviously" so now I know where you are coming from and to answer your question.....................................
Why do you keep responding to posts you've said you would ignore? You are derailing the thread with your pseudo-silent treatment nonsense.
OP, along with adjusting your expectations in terms of the rate of loss, also realize that when you up your calories you will likely see a temporary gain in scale weight as your body adjusts. Don't let this discourage you. Be diligent with your logging, eat the appropriate amount of food to lose ~1lb/week and you'll be fine.0 -
I started actually losing weight in March (though I've been "dieting" since February). So far, I've lost 52.6 lbs, for an average of 2.63 lbs/week. 2 pounds per week is safe, but 3 per week is like "absolute max" weight loss weekly.
I remember one of my teachers telling me that he went on the grapefruit diet and the acid from the grapefruit ate away his stomach lining so he had to have surgery. Drastic weight loss is usually unsafe and results in weight gain long term, meaning that maybe you lose the last 20 lbs in 5 weeks, but then you gain 40 lbs within the 2 months of quitting "dieting".
While it's true that you cannot outrun your fork, you shouldn't throw your fork away either! I calculated your BMR using the height and weight you provided, but I used my age (22) since I didn't know yours. According to that, you should be consuming 1,627 calories daily just to function properly in like a comatose state. That means you should be eating about 1700 calories daily to lose weight safely. The rest of your calorie deficit should be from exercise. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator
Remember that calories are energy for everything the body does.. breathing, pumping blood, sleeping, twitching your nose, walking... Everything you do requires some energy. For a person your size and my age, you'd need 1,627 calories just to have enough energy for your body to work right.0 -
workout_freak89 wrote: »I dont know why everyone here is being so pessimistic about it.It's very much possible...BUT ON A HIGH CALORIE DIET.
sounds contradictory ??? read along
well, I just lost around 2 kgs this july on a 2100 calorie a day diet..
The thing to keep in mind is you should NEVER go below 1200 cals as someone has already pointed it. You need to lose it MAINLY by creating a deficit through EXERCISE.
Eat a 200 cals above your maintainence and do cario/ HIIT/ weight training to create a 700 deficit.
I had posted my weight loss program of how I lost 2 kg in a month but many people tagged it too drastic and shut it down...Which is the same wave of emotion i'm seeing here..Please losers!!!! if you can't do it doesn't mean you should be pulling others down as well
One method isn't going to work for everyone. You're saying that calorie deficit is created by just exercising more? Yes, that does work, but it's not practical for everyone. You can create that same deficit by just eating less. How you create the deficit DOES NOT MATTER. Not everyone can hit the ground running on a serious exercise and weight lifting plan. I sure as hell couldn't! I still can't, to be honest. Yet I'm losing weight just fine and looking more like myself than I have in years. So you lost weight doing your plan? That's great for you, but don't be calling us losers for not being able to or not wanting to follow what you did. Everyone is different, so everyone has a different method to lose weight. It's a lot of different paths to the same goal; one path isn't more valid than any other just because you're on it.
Although it's true, one method doesn't work for all but the bottom line is still the same, one has to eat less. and normally eating less will create a deficit. Now If the person is 400lbs of course they can create a deficit by eating less. But there is a limit of how low one can really go and still be healthy, has energy and motivated to keep going.
I don't have any friends here that can eat 500 calories for the day, and still have enough energy to burn 2000 calories.0 -
workout_freak89 wrote: »workout_freak89 wrote: »I dont know why everyone here is being so pessimistic about it.It's very much possible...BUT ON A HIGH CALORIE DIET.
sounds contradictory ??? read along
well, I just lost around 2 kgs this july on a 2100 calorie a day diet..
The thing to keep in mind is you should NEVER go below 1200 cals as someone has already pointed it. You need to lose it MAINLY by creating a deficit through EXERCISE.
Eat a 200 cals above your maintainence and do cario/ HIIT/ weight training to create a 700 deficit.
I had posted my weight loss program of how I lost 2 kg in a month but many people tagged it too drastic and shut it down...Which is the same wave of emotion i'm seeing here..Please losers!!!! if you can't do it doesn't mean you should be pulling others down as well
No.
don't listen to us OP. Listen to the facts (which I stated above)
Please tell me you're joking...0 -
Also, remember that the smaller you are and the less weight you have left to lose, generally the slower it will come off. I started out at 270 lbs (or 19 stone 4 pounds) and have gone down to 217.4 pounds (15 stone 7.4 pounds). I am only 5'2, so I am in the obese category, which means that I should generally have an easier time losing the weight (3 pounds per week is still safe for someone my size, generally, though 2 is still better).
Someone your size is possibly slightly overweight, which means 2 pounds a week is plenty, but 1 pound a week is more likely.
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UltimateRBF wrote: »emmydoodles83 wrote: »UltimateRBF wrote: »emmydoodles83 wrote: »UltimateRBF wrote: »emmydoodles83 wrote: »emmydoodles83 wrote: »
Because I want to loose more before my holiday
Then why are you posting questions if you have everything all figured out? :huh:
I never said I had it all figured out, there's no need to be so rude I was just asking a question
Heya, doesn't look like you have been on here long, just ignore people that post crap like this that isn't helpful or informative it will happen a lot. Probably just hangry hungry+angry, or just a rude to feel better, it's easy to be a jerk when you can hide behind the internet. It's better not to feed them with replies.
The others that are telling you it isn't healthy or realistic are correct, slow and steady wins the race.
watch this.......................see what I did there? Ok I'll show you just one more time..............
What are you on about?
Why do you ask? legitimate curiosity? or are you angling for a verbal spar for some reason? Gotta ask cause I can never tell these days.
I mean what's your point. Obviously.
If I have to ask then it's not obvious, it was a legit question since I don't know if you were really curious or just someone trying to be an A-hole. This is the internet after all and I can't tell the tone you are coming off with.......well until you said "obviously" so now I know where you are coming from and to answer your question.....................................
I think you're looking for a fight/drama is what you're doing. Was that plain enough?
Getting tired of the newbies getting railroaded for asking a question. They shouldn't be made to feel stupid or bad for trying to better themselves even if some of the ideas are misguided, I'm sure you wouldn't like to be treated that way. and why did you even ask me in the first place? Pretty sure it wasn't just curiosity by the way you asked the question.
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workout_freak89 wrote: »SconnieCat wrote: »workout_freak89 wrote: »I dont know why everyone here is being so pessimistic about it.It's very much possible...BUT ON A HIGH CALORIE DIET.
sounds contradictory ??? read along
well, I just lost around 2 kgs this july on a 2100 calorie a day diet..
The thing to keep in mind is you should NEVER go below 1200 cals as someone has already pointed it. You need to lose it MAINLY by creating a deficit through EXERCISE.
Eat a 200 cals above your maintainence and do cario/ HIIT/ weight training to create a 700 deficit.
I had posted my weight loss program of how I lost 2 kg in a month but many people tagged it too drastic and shut it down...Which is the same wave of emotion i'm seeing here..Please losers!!!! if you can't do it doesn't mean you should be pulling others down as well
Hard to believe right! exactly my point
It's hard to believe that you have managed to convince yourself that the advice you gave the OP was actually GOOD advice...
OP - ignore him. Please for the love of God do not follow his advice.0 -
It's not realistic sweetheart. Think of it more as a healthy lifestyle for LIFE. It took me 3 years to lose 85 pounds and while that was a lot of seemingly "plateau's" and seemed like an eternity at the time, I've kept it off for 5 years now and that matters more, and I've embraced the "skills" I learned during the fat loss phase to apply for the rest of my life. I'm still learning. I have watched many push too hard and too fast and crash and rebound big time. Slow and steady WINS this race. For real. I wish you the best as you learn.
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workout_freak89 wrote: »workout_freak89 wrote: »I dont know why everyone here is being so pessimistic about it.It's very much possible...BUT ON A HIGH CALORIE DIET.
sounds contradictory ??? read along
well, I just lost around 2 kgs this july on a 2100 calorie a day diet..
The thing to keep in mind is you should NEVER go below 1200 cals as someone has already pointed it. You need to lose it MAINLY by creating a deficit through EXERCISE.
Eat a 200 cals above your maintainence and do cario/ HIIT/ weight training to create a 700 deficit.
I had posted my weight loss program of how I lost 2 kg in a month but many people tagged it too drastic and shut it down...Which is the same wave of emotion i'm seeing here..Please losers!!!! if you can't do it doesn't mean you should be pulling others down as well
No.
don't listen to us OP. Listen to the facts (which I stated above)
there are many ways to eat at a deficit.
but I also second the sentiment of "no"0 -
Most everybody is giving her good advice and she is changing her plans.emmydoodles83 wrote: »UltimateRBF wrote: »emmydoodles83 wrote: »UltimateRBF wrote: »emmydoodles83 wrote: »UltimateRBF wrote: »emmydoodles83 wrote: »emmydoodles83 wrote: »
Because I want to loose more before my holiday
Then why are you posting questions if you have everything all figured out? :huh:
I never said I had it all figured out, there's no need to be so rude I was just asking a question
Heya, doesn't look like you have been on here long, just ignore people that post crap like this that isn't helpful or informative it will happen a lot. Probably just hangry hungry+angry, or just a rude to feel better, it's easy to be a jerk when you can hide behind the internet. It's better not to feed them with replies.
The others that are telling you it isn't healthy or realistic are correct, slow and steady wins the race.
watch this.......................see what I did there? Ok I'll show you just one more time..............
What are you on about?
Why do you ask? legitimate curiosity? or are you angling for a verbal spar for some reason? Gotta ask cause I can never tell these days.
I mean what's your point. Obviously.
If I have to ask then it's not obvious, it was a legit question since I don't know if you were really curious or just someone trying to be an A-hole. This is the internet after all and I can't tell the tone you are coming off with.......well until you said "obviously" so now I know where you are coming from and to answer your question.....................................
I think you're looking for a fight/drama is what you're doing. Was that plain enough?
Getting tired of the newbies getting railroaded for asking a question. They shouldn't be made to feel stupid or bad for trying to better themselves even if some of the ideas are misguided, I'm sure you wouldn't like to be treated that way.
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^^^^^^ This!0
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Tinicia I am a heavery girl so when I dropped myself down to 1200 Calories a week I dropped weight like crazy I mean more than 4+ pounds a week. I believe it was due to my body getting use to lesser calories also I was working out 6 days a week. I understand that you didn't eat a lot but you ate unhealthy eating very little but eating unhealthy can equally add the calories up. So it is possible for people to lose that much weight in the beginning of a journey but it is not healthy for most people.0
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Hi guys
I'm aiming for a 4lb a week weight loss and trying to stick to approx 800 kcal a day but I do have the occasional treat
do you think 4lb a week is realistic? I'm mostly living off fish and veg, fruit and go yoghurt bars any suggestions of fish/sea food recipes would be much helpful.
Thanks for reading x
I found myself not been able to go over a 3 lbs a week for some reason, even with at least an hour of exercise a day. Although, I do eat my full 1200 calories a day and I'm know to have the occasional bar of chocolate and a sugary drink, keeps me going
I figured I'm going to stay eating like this for the rest of my life, so I need to make it doable for myself.
Losing weight to fast can also create some problems though. When I was just starting out, I had a whopping 6 lbs pound loss (which is no surprise given what I used to put in my stomach), but after a week I felt unbelievable sick and my body had serious problems adjusting to my diet. Doing it the "healthy" way (which is debatable, because everyone has his or her own perfect diet), has given me better results. By totally denying myself the foods I enjoy, I fell back into the binge eating.
I don't know how you feel towards what you are eating right now, but as long as you are healthy and not uncomfortable, I don't see any problem why you couldn't lose that amount 0 -
So, it is possible to lose 4lbs a week.. but do you know how much time and effort you would have to put in? You would have to find the time to burn 2,000 calories a day. for 7 days, or you can burn 2800 calories a day for 5 days.
Do you have 8hrs of free time to put in?0
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