I CONTINUING LEARNING HOW TO LOSE 100 LB.

Abbycesar

My weigth is 265 Lb and I Like lose 115 Lb.
Losing weight is never easy, especially when you are facing a large goal.
 I think I need concentrate on developing and sticking to a weight-loss plan.
I like to keep a journal of what I ate, how much I exercised, and my thoughts and feelings at those times, and limit myself to one weekly weigh-in to avoid focusing too much on the scale.


Eating good carbs (veggies and fruts) 4 time a day with me meals
Eating good fats

Avoiding sodas and unnecessary sweets

I WILL CONTINUING LEARNING!

love to have my fitness pal beside my and the support grup,  thank you!

snowflake954

Not a good idea--better to stay healthy.

janejellyroll

Your goal is not realistic and potentially dangerous.

leanjogreen18

Sounds like you are very motivated! That's awesome!!

May I suggest working on a way of eating that is sustainable so that you can maintain your weight loss. It is the end goal right?

Being too aggressive sometimes is counterproductive.

Best!!

Afura

2lb/week is considered a healthy loss (depending on current weight) by most health professionals, and by MFP (hence why 2lb/week is the highest you get). On a 4 week month that nets you 8lb/month.
If you are determined to lose 20lb/month, please make sure that you are being monitored by a doctor.

You do not need to eat 'healthy' foods as long as you stay in a calorie deficit. You definitely do get more nutritional bang for your buck (better nutrients from fruits, and veg than from a french frie or shake) that way usually, but it can cause people to binge eat the foods they've completely taken out of their lives because they crave it so fiercely.

Abbycesar

I am new here, I put the wrong tittle. .
My tittle is
I CONTINUING LEARNING HOW TO LOSE 100 LB.
SORRY ABOUT THE MISTAKE

VintageFeline

You already had one thread closed down because this is an unhealthy goal. Posting again isn't going to yield a different result.

try2again

Welcome

You can eat in whatever way you think will be most sustainable for you to achieve your weight loss, but your goal is simply unrealistic. Perhaps 10 lbs/ month is doable for the first couple of months, but you will likely need to scale it back the more you lose. Set up your profile on MFP with a 2lb/week goal and your accurate activity level (not including exercise) and just go with the calorie allowance it gives you. With patience and consistency you can achieve your goal.

jemhh

VintageFeline wrote: »

You already had one thread closed down because this is an unhealthy goal. Posting again isn't going to yield a different result.

You beat me to it but, yes, this.

elphie754

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10518412/my-gold-is-lose-20-lb-a-month-very-determined#latest



Not a realistic goal at all.

Tacklewasher

Abbycesar wrote: »

I am new here, I put the wrong tittle. .
My tittle is
I CONTINUING LEARNING HOW TO LOSE 100 LB.
SORRY ABOUT THE MISTAKE

Some advice I was given.

Max 2 lbs a week. To start.
1.5 will be good for between 75-50lbs to lose.
Move to 1 lbs a week once you are down to the last 50lbs to lose.
Once you hit the last 20 look at changing to .5.

TimothyFish

I wish I could afford to lose 20 pounds of gold per month.

buddytalley

I think that is an awesome goal, but don't set yourself up for failure to begin with. I have been a yoyo dieter all my life. In the last 12 years I have stayed approximately the same weight because every time I lost 50 lbs or so I would gain that back plus another 20. I too weigh 250+ lbs but am trying to lose my weight slowly as I don't want it to come off and then right back on. I am eating healthy, keeping my blood sugar in control and feeling better than I have in a long time. I just need to stay focused. My weight didn't come on over night so I can't expect it to come off that way.

snowflake954

OP--you need patience to be successful.

leanjogreen18

Abbycesar wrote: »

I am new here, I put the wrong tittle. .
My tittle is
I CONTINUING LEARNING HOW TO LOSE 100 LB.
SORRY ABOUT THE MISTAKE

Then I recommend reading through the forums. A lot of folks have lost weight and more importantly have maintained their weight loss. A ton of valuable information that I know I continue to learn from.

I totally get wanting to lose fast, sometimes I want to also. But you can do some damage like hair loss, muscle loss and gallstones to name a few.

Keep that determination but maybe direct it to a more sustainable plan!

CSARdiver

Slow down. Congrats on making the decision to improve your life, but step into this gradually. Start logging and begin to identify the bad habits that got you to this point. Tackle 1 bad habit at a time and replace this with a good habit. Write this stuff down on a calendar and celebrate the victories.

Think marathon over sprint - you are making small changes that will have dramatic impact over time. Don't make drastic changes - these almost never go well.

TeaBea

Abbycesar wrote: »

My weigth is 265 Lb and I Like lose 115 Lb.
Losing weight is never easy, especially when you are facing a large goal.
 I think I need concentrate on developing and sticking to a weight-loss plan.
I like to keep a journal of what I ate, how much I exercised, and my thoughts and feelings at those times, and limit myself to one weekly weigh-in to avoid focusing too much on the scale.


Eating good carbs (veggies and fruts) 4 time a day with me meals
Eating good fats

Avoiding sodas and unnecessary sweets

I WILL CONTINUING LEARNING!

love to have my fitness pal beside my and the support grup,  thank you!

Continuing & learning - that's a great attitude.

However, an unrealistic weight loss goal (20 pounds in a month) won't help you continue OR help you learn. Weight loss doesn't have to be a painful punishment (as a very low calorie diet to achieve this goal will almost certainly be). Continuing when you have failed at an unrealistic goal is not something most people do.

Avoiding and eliminating foods are very often temporary changes. If you want a permanent result then look for permanent changes.......ONE sweet treat (try for moderation) and a diet soda every day. Permanent changes will help you keep the weight off.

Demonizing foods by labeling them good of "bad." Doesn't really teach you lifestyle changes. Carbs aren't the thing you need to manage....calories are, unless of course you have medical issues.

birdtobe

I understand how you feel. When I started this, I was so determined to shed the extra weight that anything less than immediate success felt like failure. But, three months in, I'm 25 pounds lighter and I feel like I have finally learned to eat in a realistic, healthy way that I can sustain long-term. Do I wish the extra 50 I still need to lose would melt away in two months? Heck, yes! But I know that I have to be patient with my body and understand that it's not going to happen overnight (unfortunately!). Sounds like you've made some really positive resolutions about your health. Don't put a number on what you have to lose each week or each month. Instead, focus on making the positive changes the measure of your success each day. Did you drink enough water? Avoid overeating? Move your body? It's the most boring diet advice in the world, but it's the most true: small changes add up to big success. Good luck to you!

PAV8888

Abbycesar wrote: »

My weigth is 265 Lb and I Like lose 115 Lb.
Losing weight is never easy, especially when you are facing a large goal.
 I think I need concentrate on developing and sticking to a weight-loss plan.
I like to keep a journal of what I ate, how much I exercised, and my thoughts and feelings at those times, and limit myself to one weekly weigh-in to avoid focusing too much on the scale.

Eating good carbs (veggies and fruits) 4 time a day with me meals
Eating good fats
Avoiding sodas and unnecessary sweets
I WILL CONTINUING LEARNING!
love to have my fitness pal beside my and the support grup,  thank you!

I love a lot of things about your post. Why? Because on a way you're already ahead of where I was when I was slightly more than your weight, just starting out.

AND because you're thinking and learning. Which are both good.

You sound very motivated. So I have little doubt that you will succeed and lose weight.

But your goal is not JUST losing weight, or JUST losing fat. All of which can be accomplished by "guts and glory".
Losing FAT is only your BUY IN to a much longer period of time called maintenance.

So your REAL goal is to both to lose fat AND to set yourself up so that you can maintain that loss.

Do you have a multi-disciplinary weight loss team standing by behind you? A doctor who can order blood tests, a nutritional support and coaching team that will educate and re-educate you and home visit and supervise your loss?

If you do, you're one of the lucky few; but, most of us don't.

So for most of us a lot of things have to happen during weight loss.
We have to learn new ways of moving, and of living our daily lives (some of us incorporate exercise, some don't)
We have to work on how we look at ourselves, our food, and the people around us.
We have to develop ways of eating that work for us and help us meet our goals.
With a large change of focus (which a large weight loss sometimes entails), we may also end up making more changes in our lives, work for example.

And these things have to both help us lose weight AND set us up for maintenance. What we don't want is changes that promote weight loss; but, set us up for weight regain!

So you're doing a lot of things right.

But in your zeal to get going and reach success you are also picking a weight loss rate target that is more than twice as fast as the maximum you should be picking.

The result of that would not only be to make things too hard for you, increasing the risk of you giving up, but it would also set you up to lose more lean mass than you should (you don't just lose fat when you diet), it would set you up for rebound weight regain, and it would deny you the very long period of experimentation and self discovery you need to go through in order to develop the unique way of eating and moving that will work for you long term, and which might help you fight off weight regain at maintenance.

Do not set yourself up for 2lb a week and 1200 Cal. You have a LONG way to go. Lose weight while eating the most that you can.

A 25% deficit off your total daily energy expenditure makes sense right now. Unless your TDEE exceeds 3000 Cal a day, this will either be 500 Cal a day or 750 Cal a day, i.e. 1 to 1.5lbs a week.

Use a trending weight app or web site to judge your weight level.

Eat a variety of foods and aim to discover what helps you stay satiated.

Best of luck.