Not hitting target - Stuck :(
Hey everyone:)
So I started off as 76kg in let's say in about +-2 ish months I've lost weight and am now at 68kg. Before the month of October is done I want to atleast lose another 2-3kg but I can't shake it off. I eat about 500-800 calories, I do weight training and cardio 4x a week and have recently (2 weeks) started walking 10k steps. What else can I do to hit my target better? I've gained a lot of weight and I'm trying to get to my "original" weight of 60kg before my wedding in December. Any ideas/suggestions or comments from anyone would be greatly appreciated 🙂
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I would throw away that December deadline. If your finance loves you, then it should not matter what the scale says. This rapid weight loss journey you are currently on is not sustainable and will, more likely than not, put your short term and potentially longer term health at risk.
You are better off living a healthy lifestyle to set yourself and your future husband up for a successful, healthy life together.3
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500 to 800 calories? Do you mean you are only eating 500-800 calories, or that you're eating in a 500-800 calorie deficit? There's a big difference.
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She is probably eating that.
Her net deficit exceeds 1033 Cal assuming that the two-ish months are two full months and not sometime in September to sometime in October which is probably what they are, which would make the actual deficits higher.And walking 10K steps (very active).
And weight training.
And cardio.
And a wedding.
And she wants to be down another 8kg in a month and a bit—because preparing for a wedding is just not stressful enough all by itself.Reasonable deficits applied in a reasonable manner have some chance to bring about reasonable results.
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If you're truly only eating 500-800 calories a day AND doing all that exercise, I'd suggest you start preparing for your funeral rather than a wedding. Your net intake is in minus figures and it's really not going to be good for you. I don't know the science to know how quickly your nails, hair etc will start being affected by eating so little but they'll be the first to be impacted. If you want to look good on your wedding day you need to be eating healthily and getting sufficient nutrients from a balanced diet. 500-800 calories a day and exercising on top is not healthy.
Put your stats into the Goals - Guided Set Up page and then eat the number of calories that MFP allocates to you. If you exercise, log that too and eat at least 75% of the additional calories allocated. There's a recommended minimum for a reason and it'll only assign that if you're particularly petite.
Please look afetr yourself so that you're healthy and well and can enjoy your wedding.
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Whether they love each other or not. Whether it's the honor of the flag or not. The difference is between bridezilla spending wedding in a hospital (a scenario one cannot exclude given the current attempt) and a relatively radiant bride getting married and having meaningful memories of them event.
Keep to a reasonable actual deficit (which would be less than half of what you've done so far).
By all means exercise.... at some approximation of the time you intend to put into it in the future (say 1:1? 2:1? 3:1? But not 4:1 or 5:1!)
And try to give yourself some time for yourself without being on a mission.
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Hey everyone :)
So just to answer a few questions and concerns. I'm genuinely someone that doesn't get hungry during the day I just need water, literally (im a law student, getting a degree, eating is a distraction). I picked up weight really fast in 2 years because you know, happy relationship weight, always eating the worst foods together :) and I just wanted to feel a bit more confident on my wedding day. My fiancé is very pro-healthy lifestyle but doesn't approve of my pre-wedding regiment that im going through right now but supports me, and trust me I'm in now way a brideziller 🥲 just a little chunky girl that wants to look her best on her wedding day. Also I haven't had hair loss or anything negative side effects from my diet/eating lifestyle. And I'm not on any medication whatsoever.
Ok, so everyone tells me what to do eg; medical staff, trainers, coaches that I chit chat to basically all tell me to either do the "one meal a day" thing (which I basically do) gym 4x a week, 10k steps everyday and eat between 500-800 calories a day and I'll get to my goal. Also this is just a shorter period of time, next year my fiancé said I need to change my eating habits (have more meals basically) and have a more relaxed gym regiment and mindset to sustain my body for the long run.
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Several knowledgeable people have already explained that what you are doing is unsustainable and unrealistic. I'm a little confused what advice you are expecting? And yes, your fiance is most likely correct.
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I'll let the ladies, hopefully, take the lead and answer!
But you're a smart person. How far do you think most cars will manage to coast on empty.... even if they've started up with a full battery and even a spare?
It's great that you have a plan to NEXT year do something more reasonable and measured and sustainable.
Your body couldn't care less about your plans.
It cares about inputs, outputs, stresses, inflows and outflows and it adjusts your hormones/chemistry/and health based on the cumulative effect of these inputs.
There's no way you haven't noticed an extra spring on your step from the loss of weight. And if you haven't it is because you're over-pushing.
Take the wins you've achieved so far and adjust towards sustainability.
I also beg to differ with this statement: "everyone tells me what to do eg; medical staff, trainers, coaches that I chit chat to basically all tell me to either do the "one meal a day" thing (which I basically do) gym 4x a week, 10k steps everyday and eat between 500-800 calories a day and I'll get to my goal"
If everyone tells you all that and you believe it is such good advice given to you after taking everything into consideration then why are we all wasting your time here?Maximum reasonable weight loss for a morbidly obese person would be at about 1% of body weight per week. Are you a morbidly obese person with a BMI well above 30?
Your maximum reasonable rate starts falling beyond that. Many people will find success in the 0.5% of body weight per week or lower. That would be an effective deficit (as evidenced by your long term weight changes) of a bit less than 400 Cal per day. Which probably means you would aim for 500 Cal per day. Which totally un-surprisingly, is near the max that most people who don't have a LOT of extra reserves, can successfully aim for and achieve. Conversely you would consider that in order to have a maximum of 20% caloric deficit, a 500 Cal deficit requires a 2,500 Cal TDEE. Check and double check.So… spend 2500. Eat 2000. Lose about a 1lb (about 453.6g) per week or 23.6kg per year. There is a chance you might end up somewhere positive.
Spend 2500. Eat 500… good luck to you…. and you do you boo!
PS. at a TRUE multi-week 500 to 800 Cal per day intake you may want to look up the following items: 1- refeeding syndrome and 2- death during VLCDs that do not achieve a sufficiency of protein intake0 -
Correction to typo: BMI 40 not 30. Class I obesity is 30-35 class ii 35-40 class III is 40 and up. Starting above 40 you could go even faster than 1% per week. And with medical supervision many in that position would, because other health problems would be more immediate and important. But by the time you're in the overweight range multi week deficits are not unlimited and deficits of 20 to 25% of actual TDEE based on results are very aggressive already.
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I'm probably not a lady, but I am a woman.
I think PAV said it pretty well up there.
I think you're sacrificing health and well-being to be thinner for your wedding. You may even be compromising your health long term through things like compromising muscle/bone retention and risking depressed immune system potentially leading to illness. Personally, I don't think that's a good plan. Sounds like your future husband agrees that it isn't a good plan, but is supporting you anyway.
BTW, it's nice that you haven't experienced hair loss. But I'll point out that that's often a delayed effect after a few weeks, and if it does kick in it's too late to go backwards and prevent it. You're also risking looking sallow and listless at the wedding rather than blooming and vivacious, but that's a risk/probabilities question, too. You might luck out, if you are very healthy, well-nourished, and robust to start, plus have a low-stress life in other respects. (Law student doesn't seem low stress to me, but I've never been a law student, so . . . .).
This might be a good thing to read, noting that she did eat more, but also exercised more:
Are bad things sure to happen to you? Of course not, and I hope they won't. But you're definitely increasing risks.
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i didn't read the comments however i can guarantee you are taking in a LOT more than 500-800 calories every day of the week, every week.
You need to get a handle on your counting and tracking otherwise you'll never get a firm handle on where you stand calorie wise.
The bottom line is if there is no loss or very little loss after 4-6 weeks at a certain weekly calorie amount then you're simply just taking in too many calories in relation to your activity level, both NEAT burn and exercise burn.
Your body doesn't know numbers. It only knows if it's being given energy to either lose mass, gain mass or maintain mass.
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For what it’s worth, the hair loss doesn’t necessarily happen now. Sometimes it’s after you return to eating more.
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Reread the opening post... She's lost 8 kg (more than 17lbs) in 2 months and wants to list another 8kg by December. Potentially underestimating her calorie intake really isn't her biggest problem.
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Yeah... the title was a bit misleading as to the actual situation.
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