What do you think is the quickest way to lose weight?

km_scott242

Tell me what you think is the quickest way to lose weight

Teabythesea_

Cutting off one of your extremities. However if you'd like to avoid the other effects of that then looks like eating in a calorie deficit is your next best thing.

Cassandraw3

Chop off a limb.

There are no short cuts to losing weight. It is all about eating less calories than you burn. One pound of fat is ~3500 calories. Eat 500 less calories per day than you burn to lose ~1 lb a week.

Mouse_Potato

I lost ten pounds in ten days when I went through my divorce!

There were some nasty side effects, though...

estherdragonbat

Pick a deficit and way of eating you can live with that doesn't make you want to gnaw off your own arm or have you craving forbidden food. Make small changes and discipline yourself to stick with it. It's not a shortcut, but it'll help minimize binging and calorie blowouts that might set you back.

bigbandjohn

Quick: takes 2 things.

1) less calories in to create a caloric deficit at rest
2) more exercise

Increase the calories you burn, and it increases the effect of the deficit. Ultimately, an expert would have to say with exercise what is the maximum safe deficit, since there are minimum intakes you need for your body to be healthy.

However, quick isn't always better. Most long term success comes from slower losses. Consider that.

MarieRosekenji85

Drink more water, eat less junk food and move more.

guitargirl55

Eat nothing, and do tons of exercise.

Obviously DO NOT TRY THAT METHOD - completely not healthy for your body and has bad mental and physical side effects and can actually kill you - but if you are just curious what the actual "fastest" way to lose weight, I think that is probably it.

That being said - if you are looking for tips on quick, non damaging to your body ways to lose weight fast, I think the information about caloric deficit some other MFP members posted above is the way to go.

paixien

Meth. NO, DON’T, JUST KIDDING. It’s fast, but sometimes speed kills.
Seriously, starvation diets may make you lose a lot right away, but you pay for it by slowing your metabolism (because your body thinks “uh oh, food is scarce, better try to minimize energy use and maximize fat storage to get us through the famine” because for millennia, famine was the only reason anyone didn’t eat, and only people whose bodies adapted this way survived long enough to pass on their genes.
(Btw, the reason meth works to get you really skinny when other starvation diets don’t, is that it ramps UP your metabolism at the same time it makes you not hungry, so you actually burn more calories just sitting there tweaking, and consume less. However, when you come down you may be (a) ravenously hungry with a tendency to wolf several candy bars and forget to brush, thereby eliminating any weight loss (or good teeth) you had, and (b) insane and in really bad health. Just like any other starvation diet, it’s not really sustainable).
Yeah, basically, 1-2 pounds/week is probably the best you can hope for over time, and it can be done with, as someone noted, a 500-calorie per day deficit; whether you create that deficit with added activity or less consumption or some mix thereof is up to you. If you are *very overweight* (think My 600-lb Life) and radically change your calorie intake and activity level to what is “normal” for much thinner people, your initial losses will be more dramatic, but that’s largely because moving a very heavy body actually uses a lot of calories, and many seriously overweight people have gotten to a point where they hardly move at all, so even minimal activity plus a *reasonable* (1500-2000 calorie/day) diet will yield much higher absolute numbers of pounds lost — 60 pounds in a month is not unusual in such cases. And when *anyone* first starts a diet, particularly if they add exercise to a previously very sedentary life, they may drop 3-5 lbs a week for the first few weeks, and be disappointed it doesn’t continue like that. But even that rate is probably not sustainable for more than a month for most people. And remember, as you lose weight, you will start to use fewer calories just to move your body through space in daily life because it takes less energy to propel 160 pounds a given distance than to propel 200 pounds the same distance. That’s why we slow down weight loss and hit plateaus — at that point we either need to reduce intake further or increase activity time or intensity, add wrist and ankle weights or other resistance, stuff like that.

Liamsm0m

I do low carb. I eat a lot of veggies, great sources of protein and healthy fats. Few fruits. I feel happy, not deprived. I exercise when I want/can but my life doesn’t revolve around it. I’m trying to understand good better and treat myself better though it.
I’ve been happy with my results so far... no complaints. I have a very easy time cooking for my family, too. Best of luck.

mdreddie

just_Tomek wrote: »

Eat less calories.

What he said.

TexasLadyCop1

PAIXIEN!!!

Really!!!! talking about Meth (speed), is really inappropriate because someone who is desperate to lose weight just might say “to hell with it, I’ll use it till I lose a good amount of weight and then I’ll just stop!”

Some people are in dire situations and not thinking about the long-term toll that it will take on your body or their health and worst of all...addicted to it. You have no idea of the women especially who started talking just to lose weight.

PAIXIEN have made Meth look like it’s a possible option to someone whos despairing. Please think before you say such things. Just worried I’ve seen it done lots of times.