5'10 girl..is it possible to lose 20 lb in a month!?

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  • Mtleiker
    Mtleiker Posts: 160
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    How long did it take you to lose the last 20lbs? Take that and add a little more time and you've got how long it will take to lose the next 20lbs.
    hmmm that makes a lot of sense didnt think about it like tht.
  • epie2098
    epie2098 Posts: 224 Member
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    Possible, yes. Sensible? No.

    Take your weight loss slow and be mindful of the ultimate goal of creating healthy habits for the rest of your lifetime.
  • Faye_Anderson
    Faye_Anderson Posts: 1,495 Member
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    wow what real gremlins here. if you dont wanna be kind in the advice you offer than get lost. thats what this program is for.... Ever heard of cyber bullying... yall be nice. yeah it may be unrealistic but still offer good advice not judgement.

    "Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet and related technologies to harm other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner." As far as I can see disagreeing with someone and offering advice with the intent to HELP rather than harm is not cyberbullying :flowerforyou:
  • CrankMeUp
    CrankMeUp Posts: 2,860 Member
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    wow what real gremlins here. if you dont wanna be kind in the advice you offer than get lost. thats what this program is for.... Ever heard of cyber bullying... yall be nice. yeah it may be unrealistic but still offer good advice not judgement.

    cyber bullying?

    okkkkkk then

    i see people mainly telling the OP what a terrible idea it is to do this to her body.

    call me crazy, but i think that is tough love.
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
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    No and you shouldn't try.

    No possible healthy way to do this.
  • rmkramer003
    rmkramer003 Posts: 115 Member
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    My daughter got depressed and lost about 20 lbs in 4 weeks (and she was already small). She ended up needing to see a physical therapist, cardiologist, nutritionist, ENT, and psychiatrist. She couldn't stand for longer than 5 minutes a day because of vertigo and nausea. Not something anyone would want to do to themselves on purpose. What fun would it be to lose all that weight and be stuck in a bed because you're too sick to move.
  • _SABOTEUR_
    _SABOTEUR_ Posts: 6,833 Member
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    wow what real gremlins here. if you dont wanna be kind in the advice you offer than get lost. thats what this program is for.... Ever heard of cyber bullying... yall be nice. yeah it may be unrealistic but still offer good advice not judgement.

    I apologise on behalf of others. I wonder what advising someone to damage their health and wellbeing over the internet should be called cyber bodily harm/cbh?
  • veronicad68
    veronicad68 Posts: 4
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    Hi there! It's really not healthy to lose that much in a month. It would be much better to allow your body to lose weight little by little. I can tell you from personal experience that long-lasting permanent results are achieved slowly.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
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    to lose 20lbs in 1 month, you need a deficit of 20* 3500 = 70,000 calories.

    that means you need a daily deficit of 70000 / 30 = 2333 per day.

    almost certainly, you'll need to eat 1200 or more calories to get the proper amount of nutrition for yourself. you'll have to be really diligent about your food choices for the whole month, making sure to meet your daily protein and fat requirements. 1200 is a bare minimum and 1400-1600 is much more realistic. i would never recommend that anyone eat at 1200 or below. but for the sake of argument, let's assume that you can eat 1200 every day and meet your nutritional needs.

    that means you'll need a TDEE of 1200 + 2333 = 3533 every day for a month.

    once you determine your BMR and multiply by your activity level (usually 1.2x for sedentary), you'll have to add in enough exercise EVERY SINGLE DAY to get yourself to that 3533 total calorie burn. that's likely a lot of cardio for you every day. probably 2-3 hours or more... every day.

    if you did this for 1 month, you'd lose 20lbs of muscle and fat in some proportion that we can't predict based on the given information. at the end of the month, you may start to see some hormonal changes that affect your appetite and your rate of weight loss.

    you'd also likely end up dehydrating yourself a bit during this whole process and might see additional water weight lbs gone on the scale, although they will return after you return to normal habits. BTW, this is how those 2-3 week fad diets get their "results". most of what is lost is water weight and returns at the end of the fad diet.

    does that sound like how you want to spend the next month?

    This.


    There's no healthy way to do what you're wanting. Instead, focus on eating at a moderate deficit and incorporating strength training. You'll look and feel much better. No one is going to see the number on the scale, they're just going to see how healthy, happy, and confident you are.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
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    wow what real gremlins here. if you dont wanna be kind in the advice you offer than get lost. thats what this program is for.... Ever heard of cyber bullying... yall be nice. yeah it may be unrealistic but still offer good advice not judgement.

    People DID offer good advice. No one was "cyber bullying", for heaven's sake.

    OP, it is a terrible idea, and you will be setting yourself up to fail and be disappointed. Why not do what is already working, and just be happy with the results you ARE getting?
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
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    you should only do this if there is a lot of money on the line. otherwise just lose the weight slowly and healthily.
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
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    wow what real gremlins here. if you dont wanna be kind in the advice you offer than get lost. thats what this program is for.... Ever heard of cyber bullying... yall be nice. yeah it may be unrealistic but still offer good advice not judgement.

    You have NO idea what cyber bullying is if this in any way makes it into your definition of it. Stop using this word and watering it down into something that is meaningless. Using it like this demeans everyone that has been through real, stressful and damaging cyber bullying.

    Telling someone not to do something stupid, is not cyber bullying.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
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    wow what real gremlins here. if you dont wanna be kind in the advice you offer than get lost. thats what this program is for.... Ever heard of cyber bullying... yall be nice. yeah it may be unrealistic but still offer good advice not judgement.

    You have NO idea what cyber bullying is if this in any way makes it into your definition of it. Stop using this word and watering it down into something that is meaningless. Using it like this demeans everyone that has been through real, stressful and damaging cyber bullying.

    Telling someone not to do something stupid, is not cyber bullying.

    QFT
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
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    OP, if you have an extra 6k sitting around, you can get lipo and suck out those 20 lbs you want to lose. Otherwise, without going down an incredibly unhealthy path, no, you cannot lose 20 lbs in a month at your current height and weight.

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