Kickstart

alanlmarshall

I've been struck lately with how often I am reading the word "kickstart" on the forum. As in, "I'm going to kickstart my weight loss with a 3 week cayenne enema cleanse," or, more reasonably, "I can't seem to kickstart my fat loss." and the like.

This seems like an unhelpful word to be using and thinking to me, setting up an unrealistic expectation of extreme, fad diet results. Is there any evidence based, legitimate way to kickstart one's initial fat loss? If there is, would that be a good thing?

It seems to amount to, at best, a trick to overcome the lag in measuring initial progress that results from water retention or scale fluctuation. But this could easily encourage the kind of extreme thinking that has made many of us who struggle with food overweight in the first place.

Sarauk2sf

I meant to respond to this...so tagging so I do!

taso42

A few weeks ago I kickstarted my metabolism after 4 months off the fitness wagon.
Here is how I did it:






























I start training again.

SideSteel

I've been struck lately with how often I am reading the word "kickstart" on the forum. As in, "I'm going to kickstart my weight loss with a 3 week cayenne enema cleanse," or, more reasonably, "I can't seem to kickstart my fat loss." and the like.

This seems like an unhelpful word to be using and thinking to me, setting up an unrealistic expectation of extreme, fad diet results. Is there any evidence based, legitimate way to kickstart one's initial fat loss? If there is, would that be a good thing?

It seems to amount to, at best, a trick to overcome the lag in measuring initial progress that results from water retention or scale fluctuation. But this could easily encourage the kind of extreme thinking that has made many of us who struggle with food overweight in the first place.

I hate the word kickstart in general since it's usually attached to some stupid method.

That being said (this may be an aside to the discussion) I do think that there may be merit in short term aggressive diets for motivational purposes in some people.

darkguardian419

I've been struck lately with how often I am reading the word "kickstart" on the forum. As in, "I'm going to kickstart my weight loss with a 3 week cayenne enema cleanse," or, more reasonably, "I can't seem to kickstart my fat loss." and the like.

This seems like an unhelpful word to be using and thinking to me, setting up an unrealistic expectation of extreme, fad diet results. Is there any evidence based, legitimate way to kickstart one's initial fat loss? If there is, would that be a good thing?

It seems to amount to, at best, a trick to overcome the lag in measuring initial progress that results from water retention or scale fluctuation. But this could easily encourage the kind of extreme thinking that has made many of us who struggle with food overweight in the first place.

I hate the word kickstart in general since it's usually attached to some stupid method.

That being said (this may be an aside to the discussion) I do think that there may be merit in short term aggressive diets for motivational purposes in some people.

I can attest to short term aggressive diets being motivational.... I saw the scale finally drop below 260 and it motivated me to move more, I saw it drop below 250 and it did it again. Unfortunately, now I'm at the point that working out twice a day would be cutting back... so... yeah, there's the positive and the negative I guess huh?