keeping up metabolism and losing 5 lbs a week?

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  • thistimeismytime
    thistimeismytime Posts: 711 Member
    edit: And eating back calories is the most counter productive thing if you are trying to lose weight (NOT bodybuilding). You might as well not exercise.

    Please stop.

    Yes. Please. Stop.

    OP, it depends on if you just want to lose "weight", and you don't care if that weight is fat, water, or muscle. If you want to lose lean body mass, you can eat as little as you want.

    If you want to preserve your lean body mass, firm up your body, and lose FAT, you have to fuel your body appropriately. So yeah, you gotta eat most of your exercise calories. Strength training will do more for your body than just losing X amount of weight anyway. Do the things that will make a VISIBLE difference--no one but you sees the scale, but everyone will see if you lose inches and tighten up.
  • cherrytulips
    cherrytulips Posts: 109
    it's not like you'll die if you eat about 1200 calories a day. i've eaten anywhere from 1000 to 1500 for years and i am perfectly fine...
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    That sounds like a really terrible idea. Even if you managed to do it, I suspect you'd lose 1-2 LBS a week regardless.
  • zechks
    zechks Posts: 224
    Unless you are morbidly obese, like the ones you see in the Biggest Loser show, then yes losing 5lbs or more is possible in a week and it's not a problem. But if you're at a pretty normal state, then NO way. Crash dieitng is unhealthy, you'll lose a lot of muscle mass and you'll starve yourself to death. And once you eat again you will get even fatter. So take it slow, try to make it a lifestyle, and your body will benefit in the long run.
  • rueyaroo
    rueyaroo Posts: 35
    I was doing 1200 this past summer and it destroyed my metabolism (I trained 5-6 days a week too, I lost around 15 pounds). I hit plateau, and I started eating 1400 with some different added moves in strength training, I did break it and go down 3 pounds. Then I moved to Chicago, and gained like 5 pounds and now I'm working with a personal trainer who has told me to eat around 2000 calories. I tried eating 2550 for 2 weeks and now I'm eating around 2000, since my body was in starvation mode. I think it's still adjusting, and believe me..adjustments phases SUCK.
  • alpine1994
    alpine1994 Posts: 1,915 Member
    I know it's tempting to do something like that for a beach vaca, but honestly you'd be much better off concentrating on some strength training. All I've been doing is 30 Day Shred (so 3 or 5lb weights depending on exercise) and eating around 1400-1600 cals a day and I lost 2 sizes, but only like 3 lbs. I look a lot better in a bikini than I did a month ago, and it's seriously making me reconsider my goal weight because I feel like I'm almost there, even though I still have 20 lbs to lose to get to my original goal.

    I would do something like this, can even do it twice a day or incorporate another workout with it (like running, which will also really thin you out) until your vacation. Then, strut your stuff on the beach woman!!! :)

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