PRETTY PLEASE READ THIS and help it wont take long :(

*squinting* don't know if troll or 15 year old with eating disorder.....

It really depends on how much of your body weight 43 lbs is. If it's 15-20%, it's possible; if it's 25-30%, it's probably not.

*squinting* don't know if troll or 15 year old with eating disorder.....

I'd laugh if it weren't so sad. :frown:

That's 40 pounds in about 12 weeks. I think you're being very unrealistic. What's the rush? Why 97 pounds as your goal? That seems low to me, unless you are considerably shorter than me. If you try, I think you'll make yourself sick.

Why don't you set a more achievable immediate goal, like the 22 pounds your profile says you recently gained? That's still a lot to lose in 12 weeks though - about 2 pounds a week. I've been very dedicated to my exercise and keeping to my calorie goals as much as I can and I see at best a consistent loss of about 1.5 lbs a week.

My best suggestion for you is to spend some time reading here and see how other people are successfully losing. Maybe find someone with similar goals to your own.

i know it is low for my height 5'3 , but i wanna be skinny as my favourite singer and her weight is 97lbs... and i also know it is a short amount of time for 40lbs to come off, but i just want to try my best and after i reach my goal in 12 weeks im going to start eating healthy again.. thats my plan and i want it to be quick because summer is coming

Uhhh. Wait.. What...? *rolls eyes* good luck with that *sarcasm*...... Oh, psssstt ... Fyi, Summer is ENDING.

omg kk ill change my goal weight then missy -_- and nah summer is just starting i live in australia hahah

Ha! K I forget that not everybody seasons are the same as mine lol so forget that comment lol

*squinting* don't know if troll or 15 year old with eating disorder.....

I'd laugh if it weren't so sad. :frown:

hows it sad though ??

That you obviously just don't know any better. At 5'3", there's a miniscule chance that 97 lbs is a healthy weight for you. I'm your height and have a small frame, so I know how unreasonable that goal is. Why don't you take it slower and pick a healthier weight to shoot for first, and then lower it later if you feel it's necessary? Even your starting weight is healthy for your height, so I would focus on your fitness and health more than anything. At only 18, you could still be growing as well. That pesky number on the scale is not all that matters.

You can loose that weight but you have to be very careful, when you loose weight that fast it can really create a lot of health problems. A few years ago I went of the Dr,Poon diet I lost 67 lbs in four months only to gain all and some back,but the worst part is that I ended up with a bowel obstruction. Five other people I knew were hospitalized for Gall Bladder Stones, if you loose weight too quickly it is known to create gall stones. You can do anything you put your mind to , I know you will get there the most important part is that you have already taken the initiative and you have started to loose weight already. Good for You you will do it!

*squinting* don't know if troll or 15 year old with eating disorder.....

I'd laugh if it weren't so sad. :frown:

hows it sad though ??

That you obviously just don't know any better. At 5'3", there's a miniscule chance that 97 lbs is a healthy weight for you. I'm your height and have a small frame, so I know how unreasonable that goal is. Why don't you take it slower and pick a healthier weight to shoot for first, and then lower it later if you feel it's necessary? Even your starting weight is healthy for your height, so I would focus on your fitness and health more than anything. At only 18, you could still be growing as well. That pesky number on the scale is not all that matters.

age does not matter. and i have been always 110-112lbs and i still thought i needed to lose weight so yeah i think around 100pounds is good

It can if you're still growing. I grew an inch when I was 20. I think your self-perception needs to be readjusted if you thought you needed to lose weight at what is considered the lowest healthy weight for your height. I'm just trying to help you.

Hi,

I'm glad you are hearing the concerns of the people responding. You are wise to reconsider the goal you originally set!

according to the BMI (Body Mass Index) on this site, a healthy range for someone who is 5' 3" is between 104.4-141.1 lbs.

So, your weight actually falls within the healthy range for your height. That being said, you do have some room to lose some weight if you feel the need to do so.

It sounds like more than losing weight, you may actually benefit more from toning your muscles and making them more defined. Check into exercising and doing strength training to tone your body (this will remove inches from your waist, etc.) and it will define your muscles more to give the look I'm guessing you are actually interested in.

Please be careful and wise in your pursuit.

That's 40 pounds in about 12 weeks. I think you're being very unrealistic. What's the rush? Why 97 pounds as your goal? That seems low to me, unless you are considerably shorter than me. If you try, I think you'll make yourself sick.

Why don't you set a more achievable immediate goal, like the 22 pounds your profile says you recently gained? That's still a lot to lose in 12 weeks though - about 2 pounds a week. I've been very dedicated to my exercise and keeping to my calorie goals as much as I can and I see at best a consistent loss of about 1.5 lbs a week.

My best suggestion for you is to spend some time reading here and see how other people are successfully losing. Maybe find someone with similar goals to your own.

i know it is low for my height 5'3 , but i wanna be skinny as my favourite singer and her weight is 97lbs... and i also know it is a short amount of time for 40lbs to come off, but i just want to try my best and after i reach my goal in 12 weeks im going to start eating healthy again.. thats my plan and i want it to be quick because summer is coming

So you can gain it all back? Not to be rude it is the truth. Why not just eat healthy and adequately for the whole process, which should be a lifetime, not 'until summer gets here'.....good luck

Im planning to lose 40 pounds by doing turbo fire and chalean extreme in 85 days.. 134.9 to 97lbs

do you think i can achieve this ? any experiences

also add me if your trying to lose weight aswell, i need motivation and someone to talk to about weightloss stuff.. i dont want to do my skinny friends heads in at school heh(a)

Almost 1/2 lb per day of what lost exactly?

And you are going to be doing a workout that is asking your body to try to make improvements? Ya, good luck with that.

If you just want to lose weight and don't care it's muscle mass, then there are easier ways without fooling yourself that you are doing anything beneficial to your body.
Since muscle can only provide 600 calories of energy per lb, much easier to lose a lb of muscle than 3500 calories in fat.

Obviously at the end of this you'll miss that muscle and whatever fat you do burn.

So here is recipe to lose a bunch of weight fast, and start or continue your yo-yo dieting journey.

1 hr of intense cardio 5 days a week, as intense as you can make it.
2 days per week, spread out as kind of rest days, 2 hrs of fast walking. (you do need some rest or you'll get sick and ruin the whole attempt.)
Don't eat more than 1200 calories each day.
Don't eat more than 100 g, or 400 calories, of carbs each day.
Don't eat more than 50 g, or 200 calories, of protein each day. (yes, the other 600 calories is fat, very satisfying)

Drink your water. Meal frequency doesn't matter, whatever allows you to make it to the next meal.

With this arrangement, you should always have depleted glucose stores.
All that intense cardio should be digging into muscle for breakdown to convert to glucose.
And with little protein, it'll aid it not getting rebuilt.

Since muscle also holds glucose and water, not only less muscle mass that weighs something, but also the less glucose/water stores that weigh something.

With less glucose now, this will further accelerate the muscle burnoff.

You should be able to burn off good 45-50 lbs of muscle this way, of course the rest fat.

Edit: Well shoot, just saw the post that common sense has overtaken yet another foolish goal. I still want someone that said they would go through with the foolishness to report back in - but no one every does! Huh, wonder if they lived?