losing 3-5 lbs a week

Dnarules

mph323 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

technicalman wrote: »

all that stuff above about slower metabolism is just bunk. everybody's metabolism slows down when you lose weight. there's less of you so there's less metabolism. if you're body goes into starvation mode, the slowest your metabolism can slow down is about 10% of what it currently is. if it slows down more, it means you're dead. organs need to run which requires metabolism. women probably shouldn't go below 1000 calories per day in food. men shouldn't go below 1200 calories a day in food. 500 calories deficit from what you burn is a lb. a week. so 1500 calories deficit per day is 3 lbs a week. if eating the minimum calories won't give you the 1500 calorie deficit, you have to make it up in exercise. use an app and a smartphone/watch to figure out the calories burned during exercise.

2014 thread, this time. Still a zombie.

I didn't read this whole thread, but often very old threads contain bad, outdated information.

There's no point in bringing them back just to disagree with them: It just makes new people here read the bad, old stuff.

Please don't wake up old threads. There are plenty of newer threads to post on. Or, start one of your own.

If you like disputing things, maybe start one over in the Debate area?

As an aside, in suggesting 1000 as a minimum for women, 1200 for men, you're suggesting minimums below what MFP itself recommends.

Well, maybe the Alli one as a cautionary tale. And I really hope the wolf spider one never dies

I absolutely agree with this, especially waking up threads just to disagree. I think sometimes though people type a question into google, a thread from MFP comes up and they create an account so they can comment. That's happened to me a couple of times trying to google nutrition information, though of course I don't create an account and start an argument So many of these threads are revived by people with one or two comments who never post again.

There's a wolf spider thread?

kshama2001

mph323 wrote: »

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10263365/wolf-spiders-and-weight-loss/p1

PAV8888

I would be interested to find out how it went for the OP.

A quick glance showed the main portion of the thread around 2014, which is just about the time I found MFP. Counting the 2.5 years before and after that November 2014 date, I dropped about 125lbs. Which is close to the OP's 110lb goal.

However instead of doing it at 5lbs a week, after a lot of reading on mfp (which I discovered when ready to give up on weight loss because what I was doing was unsustainable) I did it at just under 1.5lbs a week. In fact had I known then what I know now I would have aimed for a deficit of no more than 25% while obese and less than 20% when overweight.

Anyway... still here in 2021... still between 150 and 160lbs since 2016 (and no longer well over 280)... and I can guarantee I would have failed had I been aiming for 3-5lbs a week.