28 day diet
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Extreme deficits aren't the ideal way to lose weight. Your body is smart so it will offset the calories taken in by reducing your metabolic rate to a crawl. Then weight loss will slow to a crawl too.
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This diet has proven to be impossible for me!! I can't seem to make it 2 days. I agree with you all this diet just is not healthy at all. I don't qualify yet for a nutritionist. I am over weights by 60 lbs. The idea of it he tells me, is to shrink my stomach, so I don't over eat at meal times. I have changed it more to my liking and what my body likes. I do the breakfast with the eggs and a whole orange.. and water. Lunch I kinda eat what I want..provided it's healthy, and dinner the same. I have lost 6 lbs. Portion control, calorie count, not so much carbs, and no yummy sweets. I have stopped the 28 day diet. I was just starving myself.
A Nutritionist isn't a Dietitian, ask for a referral; to see a Dietitian!0 -
I'm glad to hear you are making modifications but this doctor still sounds like a quack. With 60 lbs to lose you should enter your stats and goal weight into MFP, select a target rate of loss of 1-1.5 lbs/ week, strive to eat w variety of nutrient dense foods, logging everything as accurately as possible using a food scale, and you should still be able to enjoy yummy sweets as you can fit them into your calories. This doesn't have to be torture.This diet has proven to be impossible for me!! I can't seem to make it 2 days. I agree with you all this diet just is not healthy at all. I don't qualify yet for a nutritionist. I am over weights by 60 lbs. The idea of it he tells me, is to shrink my stomach, so I don't over eat at meal times. I have changed it more to my liking and what my body likes. I do the breakfast with the eggs and a whole orange.. and water. Lunch I kinda eat what I want..provided it's healthy, and dinner the same. I have lost 6 lbs. Portion control, calorie count, not so much carbs, and no yummy sweets. I have stopped the 28 day diet. I was just starving myself.
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DeficitDuchess wrote: »This diet has proven to be impossible for me!! I can't seem to make it 2 days. I agree with you all this diet just is not healthy at all. I don't qualify yet for a nutritionist. I am over weights by 60 lbs. The idea of it he tells me, is to shrink my stomach, so I don't over eat at meal times. I have changed it more to my liking and what my body likes. I do the breakfast with the eggs and a whole orange.. and water. Lunch I kinda eat what I want..provided it's healthy, and dinner the same. I have lost 6 lbs. Portion control, calorie count, not so much carbs, and no yummy sweets. I have stopped the 28 day diet. I was just starving myself.
A Nutritionist isn't a Dietitian, ask for a referral; to see a Dietitian!
Yes, the qualifications for calling oneself a Nutritionist can be as little as merely having taken an online weekend course.1 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »DeficitDuchess wrote: »This diet has proven to be impossible for me!! I can't seem to make it 2 days. I agree with you all this diet just is not healthy at all. I don't qualify yet for a nutritionist. I am over weights by 60 lbs. The idea of it he tells me, is to shrink my stomach, so I don't over eat at meal times. I have changed it more to my liking and what my body likes. I do the breakfast with the eggs and a whole orange.. and water. Lunch I kinda eat what I want..provided it's healthy, and dinner the same. I have lost 6 lbs. Portion control, calorie count, not so much carbs, and no yummy sweets. I have stopped the 28 day diet. I was just starving myself.
A Nutritionist isn't a Dietitian, ask for a referral; to see a Dietitian!
Yes, the qualifications for calling oneself a Nutritionist can be as little as merely having taken an online weekend course.
In many states, there is no qualification at all to be a nutritionist because some states don't offer licensing. So you become a "nutritionist" by have some business cards printed.
And being a credentialed Dietitian is no guarantee of quality.
You're better off brushing up on your information literacy skills and doing your own research.
This forum is full of people who know what they're talking about without any formal training, just because they've chosen to educate themselves (unlike OP's doctor).4 -
WinoGelato wrote: »
I'm glad to hear you are making modifications but this doctor still sounds like a quack. With 60 lbs to lose you should enter your stats and goal weight into MFP, select a target rate of loss of 1-1.5 lbs/ week, strive to eat w variety of nutrient dense foods, logging everything as accurately as possible using a food scale, and you should still be able to enjoy yummy sweets as you can fit them into your calories. This doesn't have to be torture.This diet has proven to be impossible for me!! I can't seem to make it 2 days. I agree with you all this diet just is not healthy at all. I don't qualify yet for a nutritionist. I am over weights by 60 lbs. The idea of it he tells me, is to shrink my stomach, so I don't over eat at meal times. I have changed it more to my liking and what my body likes. I do the breakfast with the eggs and a whole orange.. and water. Lunch I kinda eat what I want..provided it's healthy, and dinner the same. I have lost 6 lbs. Portion control, calorie count, not so much carbs, and no yummy sweets. I have stopped the 28 day diet. I was just starving myself.
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Your doctor wants you to shrink your stomach.......this is a crock!
Learn to modify portions for ALL foods, not just diet ones. You can have carbs, you can have sweets.....you just need to limit portions. Imagine getting to goal and having no idea what a portion of ice cream really looks like (hint...it's really small). Elimination diets don't have a good track record for keeping the weight off.1 -
Doctor's thinking they are nutritionists - very common.1
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My doctor is an internal medicine doctor. Not a nutritionist. My insurance will not pay for me to see a nutritionist, because I have no medical issues caused by being over weight...such as diabetes etc. I had asked my doctor help with losing weight. He gave me that printed out diet. He said a few other patients who did it...did very well on it. After the 28 days, you can eat normal... but your body is use to eating smaller amounts. He never said he was a nutritionist. My insurance will not pay for me to see one. Good grief guys!!1
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My doctor is an internal medicine doctor. Not a nutritionist. My insurance will not pay for me to see a nutritionist, because I have no medical issues caused by being over weight...such as diabetes etc. I had asked my doctor help with losing weight. He gave me that printed out diet. He said a few other patients who did it...did very well on it. After the 28 days, you can eat normal... but your body is use to eating smaller amounts. He never said he was a nutritionist. My insurance will not pay for me to see one. Good grief guys!!
You should still really look into getting a new doctor, because anybody that had the nerve to recommend something as harmful as that inane diet to you does not have the knowledge to help you in any way, and in fact it's frightening to think that you go to him for any kind of medical advice.
Glad you modified the diet, keep it up
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My doctor is an internal medicine doctor. Not a nutritionist. My insurance will not pay for me to see a nutritionist, because I have no medical issues caused by being over weight...such as diabetes etc. I had asked my doctor help with losing weight. He gave me that printed out diet. He said a few other patients who did it...did very well on it. After the 28 days, you can eat normal... but your body is use to eating smaller amounts. He never said he was a nutritionist. My insurance will not pay for me to see one. Good grief guys!!
But see all those things your doctor is telling you are not true and/or very concerning. Your stomach doesn't shrink, and recommending a diet that is below 1000 cals/day to someone who has only 60 lbs/lose borders on dangerous. Of your doctor was responsible he would have referred you to a registered dietitian, or admitted he didn't have adequate training in nutrition and stopped there. Not handing you some printed off temporary diet and sent you on your way. Besides, what do you think happens if you make it to 28 days and then suddenly start eating normally again? First, you haven't learned anything about selecting nutrient dense, appropriate portion sized foods for yourself. Second, if this premise that eating less for 28 days shrinks your stomach were true, wouldn't the opposite happen when you start eating normally again?2 -
Lunch is just fruit? Sounds like a recipe for reactive hypoglycemia. Make the one fruit avocado lol.0
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This diet has proven to be impossible for me!! I can't seem to make it 2 days. I agree with you all this diet just is not healthy at all. I don't qualify yet for a nutritionist. I am over weights by 60 lbs. The idea of it he tells me, is to shrink my stomach, so I don't over eat at meal times. I have changed it more to my liking and what my body likes. I do the breakfast with the eggs and a whole orange.. and water. Lunch I kinda eat what I want..provided it's healthy, and dinner the same. I have lost 6 lbs. Portion control, calorie count, not so much carbs, and no yummy sweets. I have stopped the 28 day diet. I was just starving myself.
Awesome!snickerscharlie wrote: »OP: You mention in your profile that your thyroid "stopped working." Are you currently being medicated for hypothyroidism?
Also, I concur with everyone else. Your doctor (if he even *is* one) needs to lose his licence and you as a patient.
Yes! I am on Synthroid. My levels are good now. I have had a few thing going against me and gaining weight. My thyroid, menopause, and just getting older.
For me, I found losing weight during menopause easier than any other time in my life. Probably because I was older and paid more attention to portion control, and chucked all my younger experience of fad diets and friend's advice not to eat certain foods.1 -
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My doctor is an internal medicine doctor. Not a nutritionist. My insurance will not pay for me to see a nutritionist, because I have no medical issues caused by being over weight...such as diabetes etc. I had asked my doctor help with losing weight. He gave me that printed out diet. He said a few other patients who did it...did very well on it. After the 28 days, you can eat normal... but your body is use to eating smaller amounts. He never said he was a nutritionist. My insurance will not pay for me to see one. Good grief guys!!
Ask your doctor for a referral to a Registered Dietician. Nobody's insurance pays for a nutritionist, because anyone can call themselves one.0 -
I can not afford a registered dietitian. My insurance would pay for up to 6 visits, if I had a referral because I was diagnosed with a weight related diagnoses...which I don't have.0
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My general practitioner first went over what a "sensible daily calorie allotment" was with me about 5 years ago, and it wasn't anything special: 1800-2000 calories, and what portions should be fats, proteins, and carbs. It's really disturbing that your doc would put you on this extremely difficult diet. However, it looks like you've lost some weight just doing your own thing; keep at it and you'll do fine
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I can not afford a registered dietitian. My insurance would pay for up to 6 visits, if I had a referral because I was diagnosed with a weight related diagnoses...which I don't have.
The Dietitian won't feed you. They won't be at your house in your kitchen weighing your food. There's no magic bullet.
You have a condition that many of us on here have, it's called "Whenever my elbow bends, my mouth opens". It's up to you and you alone to not shovel too much in when your "disease" happens.
Good luck to you!
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