Lost 50 lbs in 3 months

smotheredincheese

This is confusing...in your other thread you say how unhappy you are with your body despite your weight loss, because of all the excess skin and that you'll never be happy with your body. But here you're advocating that same method of weight loss - cutting out a lot of foods and losing rapidly.
You've lost an incredible amount of weight but the result doesn't seem to have made you very happy.

Nuke_64

3 months=13 weeks.

Average weight lost per a week=3.8 lbs

This is an unhealthy way to lose weight. I'm not a hater I just want other who read this is not in line with MFP or medical advice for most people.

Nuke_64

If your other post, you claim you went from 222 to 155 (67 lbs) and have gained back "20lbs and all cellulite."

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10306902/222-down-to-155

I wish you the best but you have a yo yo approach to your eating and exercise and that is is not healthy.

tristen_leigh

Just thinking of no butter or bread makes me sad. Weight loss is possible without depriving yourself. Sounds like a VLCD to me. No thanks.

flaminica

The OP doesn't list her height or starting weight, but at a starting size of 2XL, 3.8lbs per week is a bit high but within normal loss for her activity level. When I was a 2XL a year ago I lost 2.5-3 lbs a week for several months with no added exercise at all, and I'm more than twice her age. At that size, numbers drop fast.

OP: That's a good sprint and well done. The trick now will be to find a healthy balance so it stays off. You can sprint through loss but maintenance is a marathon. Start using those calorie counting tools. You don't want to end up as another yo-yo.

Nuke_64

flaminica wrote: »

The OP doesn't list her height or starting weight, but at a starting size of 2XL, 3.8lbs per week is a bit high but within normal loss for her activity level

I agree for the first part of her weight loss, maybe the first 20lbs. What she said she did is replace meals with juicing and work out a lot. That likely means her daily net calories was severely low throughout her weight. She has now stopped working out for four months and ate whatever she wanted over the holidays and has put on 20 lbs.

lnrussell195

I eat what I want now in moderation. Honestly, bread makes my body ache so I don't eat it much. This diet helped me lose tatse for breads and sugary food. I enjoy nature's sugar in fruit. My palate is more refined and I eat a wide variety of healthy foods.

jkwolly

Typical MFP, all the reasonable responses are getting flagged, because you know, they're just all haters. So negative and condescending.

Seriously OP, good luck on your medical doctorate. You have a lot to learn.

jusbar71

You did great. Well done.

Will210

_Figgzie_ wrote: »

jennifer_417 wrote: »

lnrussell195 wrote: »

Active lifestyle, and healthy eating is super unhealthy? I couldn't help I lost weight that fast. I'm in school to be a doctor. Nothing I did was wrong.

To go from a 2X to a size small in 3 months, you would've had to have been vastly undereating. VLCDs (very low calorie diets) are not permitted to be promoted in these forums. You absolutely could help what how fast you lost by eating more, that was totally within your control.

Because of Fat Availability, it is very easy to lose weight/fat when you start out very overweight. Now that you are at a healthy size you will have to tweak your calories to find your maintenance and also up your protein to spare muscle since you have far less fat available. Well done, don't let anyone make you feel guilty about eating low calories. I have read studies about folks eating as little as 800 calories a day for up to 12 weeks with no ill effects. Instead of people lashing out at you in regards to your success, perhaps a more constructive approach would work better?

I agree with this - great post. And - low calorie diet probably had more nutritional value than the original higher calorie diet. There seems to be a lot of black and white thought processes here on calories. I think there is a lot of grey area there. How much body fat the person is carrying, how much/what exercise the person is doing, the macros that make up the calories...etc..etc.