Oh god scared.
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Ok look at my profile pics. Starting weight 210's last November. By May I was in the low 170's.
So yeah it is possible. But don't be in a rush. Follow a plan but don't get ahead of yourself.
1)start by building an exercise habit. Don't try to lose weight during this period, eat enough to power the exercise. Log all your food and use a food scale to weigh it. No excuses!
2)when exercise starts to relieve stress instead of causing it, you can start cutting calories. Make sure you get enough protein!
3)use your exercise habit to relieve the stress of dieting
4)measure your body fat, not your weight. Very important!
5)ideally you will do 3-4 strength workouts per week, and one cardio workout. Only do more if it helps you pass the time, and then eat more to make up for it.0 -
So using that plan it took u technically 6 months?, damn, I thought I would have to every aching day to loose weight0
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So using that plan it took u technically 6 months?, damn, I thought I would have to every aching day to loose weight
Maybe, or you might need more time. It depends on so many factors.
Big advantage I had: I did not have a job or busy life. I'm a performer and I made it my job to get fit. That's all I did basically for the first 4 months.0 -
I can't find the keto diet idk what it is, pls help0
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Juice fast. that will get you on a roll. Kill cravings, give you time to make a plan. Try a 7 or 10 day fast. You will be amazed.0
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I'm an atheist. I don't get "god scared"
however, 800 cals a day is too little. 1200 is the minimum for a biological reason. You need to function and function well.
You can eat 1200 plus calories a day and still lose 2 pounds a week (on average as weight loss is not linear - by that I mean some weeks it will be more than 2 and others will be less or none at all. but you will see loss)
don't get hung up on a number, that's the quickest way to lose your everluvin mind.0 -
New to this, so scared, I mean I need to loose as much as possible by march 14th. I hope I can do it but it just need help, and a good workout easy to do, aims to loose 2lb a week, which is like 8lb every 4 weeks, which will help me lose 40 lb in 5 months, this seems to hard, so il try minimum 800 cals a day, or 1.5 lb, which is idk how much calorie a day I need to burn (pls tell), and my diets good I think, I eat tuna mayo tomato lettuce and cucumber sammich for lunch and an orange caprison, for diner I eat a small salad with tuna mixed, and that's it, from then on, just water, dunno if good, but this is how I start it, any advvice would be great.
For workout, I do like walking for 3km and an average pace, dunno how much burnt, do that for 3 days, then like for 4 days - 5 I do between 400-700 calorie burn, so I don't exactly know how much lb's I'm actually loosing or burning a week, (someone pls tell would be great). And yeah, I'm like 5'7, around 230-210lb, not exactly sure how much, my scales broke.... Because my little bro threw down staires, don't have to believe it but it's true. So my dream goal would be 150lb, and my short term goal is 190-170 lb
deep breath! and relax!.. not a race.. anyway.. i lost 40 pounds (and 5 pant sizes) my first 4 mo on mfp! went from 234#'s size 18/20 to 194 size 12/14 and with life happening and a boyfriend ive maintained within a few lbs for a year!! and wanna start loosing again.. anyway.. u can do this.. but try not to obsess with a time frame goal.. and i lost wt by tracking on here.. i did the 1200 cals a day (too low kinda but mfp told e to) for a cpl mo and i worked out.. (walking/gym/zumba) and i always ate my exercise cals back or nearly all of em.. i was dedicated and the pounds AND inches fell off! i also did a class at the gym called 'body pump'.. weights/squats/core.. good stuff. after a cpl mo i jumpe dup to 1380 cals then to 1480 and lost more when i bumped up..if you go down to 800 u are gonna wreck your metabolism and long term wt loss...
best wishes!
What I need is a good amd firm workout which is easy and quick to do to burn at least 1.5lbs a week
Pppppppppllllssssss help , thanks so much, and I know it's a cruddy intro from my behalf, but I didn't know what to say0 -
Juice fast. that will get you on a roll. Kill cravings, give you time to make a plan. Try a 7 or 10 day fast. You will be amazed.
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More likely you will lose water weight and come back from it with a binge.
OP -Eat real food. You want about an 800 calorie deficit a day - that doesn't mean you need to burn 800 calories from exercise. It means you need to consume 800 less than your body burns (through RMR, daily activity, and exercise). Go to the scooby calculator (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/), put in all your stats, and set it to sedentary or lightly active. From there it will tell you TDEE (the amount you need to eat to maintain your weight). You can just take 800 less as your daily goal, or you can have it calculate your TDEE -20%, which is often a safe amount with your 55 lbs to lose. Then eat that many calories every day.
Reduced calories for weight loss. Exercise for health and fitness, and to look better. Don't set yourself on the number and time frame. Maybe it will happen, maybe not; either way, don't let it distract you, keep going. Also don't use the scale as your only method of measuring. Take measurements (chest, waist, hips, thighs, neck, etc), before photos for comparison, and bf% if you can. Walking is a good exercise, especially for just starting out, but consider adding in some weight training. It can help your efforts in losing body fat, and make you look better.0 -
What I need is a good amd firm workout which is easy and quick to do to burn at least 1.5lbs a week
Well that part is easy to define, at least. To burn 1.5 pounds a week, you need to burn about 5000 calories a week, or 700 calories a day, on average. At/around your current size, you can do that by:
- run 5 miles a day
- walk 10 miles a day
- swim about a mile a day
- cycle 15 miles a day
Those are all very doable, but I would suggest working up to them first, as it sounds like you're coming from a place of relatively poor fitness.
Things like Fitness Blender are fine, but they don't burn anywhere near the calories people seem to think they burn. Just cut that number in half, as a reasonable starting estimate.
Good luck!
Just to clarify, thIs is the sort of exercise that you could do to lose around 1.5 lbs a week while eating at maintenance. You don't need to do this much (which is a lot) if you are also eating at a deficit. You can use a calorie deficit or exercise to lose weight, or a combination of the two.
Also, please don't be scared. There's nothing to be afraid of, you're just going to be eating slightly less and moving slightly more. Nothing scary.0 -
Oh sorry, what I ment to say was, I burn around - or an trying to burn, utleast 800calories through workout, but what I eat is quite minimal-ish, but besides that, did u truly lose 40lb in 6 months by losing 1lb a week, because that actually sounds too good to be true, say it is true,,,(be honest lol), and if so, how intence were your work outs, also also, lifting weights- is it important cus I'm just trying to loose rather thn gin muscle but is it important?
It was about 6 or 7 months, something like that. I lost quite a bit initially, which is typical of many people when they first cut calories...a lot of that initial loss was water weight, but it was weight loss none-the-less. I had a lot of 2Lb and 1.5Lb per week losses early on, and like I said, even more water weight...a few months into things and they slowed to a more modest rate of about 1 Lb per week. I did not exercise at all early on...I think I was a good 2-3 months into things before I really started working out. I 100% use my diet for weight control and I exercise for fitness. Also, I had lost a good 5 Lbs or so before I really even started trying to diet or anything...it was some winter weight that came off over the summer...so really, I guess I've lost 35 Lbs actually trying to lose weight.
What you really want to focus on is the process of becoming a better you...focus on being more awesome today than you were yesterday and know you're going to be more awesome tomorrow than you were today. Focus on getting your nutrition and getting your fitness on...focus on changing your bad habits to better habit for now and the future. Focus on the new you that will ultimately emerge. In the end, there really is no finish line...if you truly make a lifestyle change you will always be setting goals and higher standards for yourself. When you're over the top focused on the scale, everything and anything can set you back...this stuff isn't by any means linear and you're going to have dissapointing weeks when you weigh in...it's just the nature of the beast.
Focus on the results and you rarely see the change; focus on the change and you always see the results.0 -
Hey, I saw you post
I would suggest to take it easy. From my own personal experience I'll suggest not to plan you weight loss so strctly. When you start you will see you will loose a lot, but then it slows down. Be aware of that and don't let that discourage you.
Excellent advice. I see too many people give up and quit because they put way too much expectation on themselves each week and didn't account for the normal ups and downs of getting healthy. Losing weight is not completely linear.
The good news is, time is on your side and as long as you make the best choices for eating and exercise as often as possible, you will continue to see results over time.0 -
800 calories is too low. Do that, and you'll be cheating within a few days. Try 1200, exercise, and understand that losing weight slowly gives you a much better chance of sticking with your plan and achieving your long term goals.
If you eat less than 1200 calories your body goes into starvation mode and will hold onto calories rather than get rid of them. Think high protien and low carb. Tuna is great, try plain greek yougurt insted of mayo.
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Don't be scared - that goes against having MFP as a support network!
Go to your settings and see what personal information it has stored. By placing the data in there it should state what MFP thinks will be sufficient enough for you to lose week per week if you stick to the calorie tracking and exercise logging (if you want to be sure of how much cals you burn I would suggest getting a heart rate monitor so you know exactly how many cals you are burning - everybody is different).
There are different opinions (you can look through the community boards - but some people can have too much of an opinion on stuff) but I would say to eat back some/most of your cals that you burn off through exercise (if you are hungry obviously) as you have your calorie allowance and once you have logged everything you will see how many cals you still have to spend and it still takes into account weight loss.
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Juice fast. that will get you on a roll. Kill cravings, give you time to make a plan. Try a 7 or 10 day fast. You will be amazed.
Fasting is not a healthy way to start a diet:
Fasting
The Premise: Fasting is a popular method to start a weight loss program and is thought to clean out toxic wastes from our body. Fasting is also thought to rejuvenate and revitalize our systems by "burning-up" old and worn out tissues.
The Truth: Fasting can be dangerous and may kill you. Fasting is the same as starving. it deprives your body of energy and essential vitamins, resulting in weakness, dizziness, and tiredness. Fasting causes your metabolism to slow down to conserve energy, so any weight loss that occurs is from water and lean body mass from organs (like the heart). The misconception that fasting cleans out your body is completely opposite of the truth. fasting produces a build up of ketones that are harmful to the kidneys.0 -
Lots of self love
Hey, he sounds kinda young... he might not know how to take this.0 -
You sound like a 12 year old.0
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A low calorie diet of 800 calories will probably burn you out. Relax, eat healthy and if the loss is slower than you like, so be it, at least you won't burn out and make goal. If you insist on doing this, at least, take vitamins.0
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Hey guys, he didn't say 800 calories intake. He said, as I understand it, an 800 calorie deficit.
When I was 210 I could run a 1000 calorie daily deficit with no problem.0 -
You sound like a 12 year old.
A 12 year old troll0 -
How does that help, every year I fast for 30 days, I see no way how that helps, in lighten me?0
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I am actually quite childish, but I try to make laughs, if you know what I mean.
For the child like behaviour, I apologise but I'm not exactly a person who doesn't know how to have fun, I mean a guy can act young, can't be?0 -
Don't ruin your metabolism! 800 cals a day will not give you results be reasonable just eat healthier than you are now and stick to the calories that it tells you too. Get a food scale log everything and stay on track working out is great don't be tempted to over train an injury can really slow you down0
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not entirely true.800 calories is too low. Do that, and you'll be cheating within a few days. Try 1200, exercise, and understand that losing weight slowly gives you a much better chance of sticking with your plan and achieving your long term goals.
Read the New England Journal of Medicine's study of what the science really shows about some of the diet myths.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1208051#t=articleTop
Or as the Los Angeles Times story on the study said,
"In fact, clinical trials have found that people who jump-start their diets by dropping a lot of weight in the beginning (by consuming only 800 to 1,200 calories per day, for instance) had the best results in long-term studies."0 -
Amazing, but what if I fill my stomach with salads and protien (chicken) which has 800-1200 cals does this still count as healthy?0
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New to this, so scared, I mean I need to loose as much as possible by march 14th. I hope I can do it but it just need help, and a good workout easy to do, aims to loose 2lb a week, which is like 8lb every 4 weeks, which will help me lose 40 lb in 5 months, this seems to hard, so il try minimum 800 cals a day, or 1.5 lb, which is idk how much calorie a day I need to burn (pls tell), and my diets good I think, I eat tuna mayo tomato lettuce and cucumber sammich for lunch and an orange caprison, for diner I eat a small salad with tuna mixed, and that's it, from then on, just water, dunno if good, but this is how I start it, any advvice would be great.
For workout, I do like walking for 3km and an average pace, dunno how much burnt, do that for 3 days, then like for 4 days - 5 I do between 400-700 calorie burn, so I don't exactly know how much lb's I'm actually loosing or burning a week, (someone pls tell would be great). And yeah, I'm like 5'7, around 230-210lb, not exactly sure how much, my scales broke.... Because my little bro threw down staires, don't have to believe it but it's true. So my dream goal would be 150lb, and my short term goal is 190-170 lb
What I need is a good amd firm workout which is easy and quick to do to burn at least 1.5lbs a week
Pppppppppllllssssss help , thanks so much, and I know it's a cruddy intro from my behalf, but I didn't know what to say
You seem so frantic and you sound so very young that I feel I should step back from giving you any kind of advise ( apart from not being crazy and eating 800 calories and maybe sending you to Sparkteens if you are 18 or under) until we know more about you. Please give us some info about yourself and open your food diary. Without that people at best can give you only generic advise. Why is it so important for you to lose 2 pounds a week ?0 -
you might also consider a keto diet considering what you said you are eating. you'd just have to cut out the breads and sugars.
http://www.ketogenic-diet-resource.com/ketogenic-diet-plan.html
you'd still want to count calories but the plan leaves you more satisfied. fats and proteins keep you full longer and you're always burning fat instead of glucogen0 -
Well a guy can act young you know.
The ideal reason for me to loose a minimal of 2lb is because I'm going to get married to a wonderful woman, she is so fit and beautiful, she likes me for who I am but if we're to get married, then you know, I have to change, and I want to look good in that suit for her.
The date I want it done by is 14th march, reason is for my little brothers birthday, and he's soon to get married and I want him to be happy and I want to surprise him with what I've done. We live away from each other, and soon after that il be getting married by June. So yeah an advice0 -
I am actually quite childish, but I try to make laughs, if you know what I mean.
For the child like behaviour, I apologise but I'm not exactly a person who doesn't know how to have fun, I mean a guy can act young, can't be?
Don't worry, they weren't referring to you with the 12 year old comments, they were referring to me. I was trying to crack wise, and apparently, it wasn't funny.
You're getting alot of mixed advice here... keto this, and juice that.... what you need to do, is step back, and take a breath....
Log what you're eating, and the exercise you are doing, and open your diary so people can help. Who could not wanna help you? You're young and in love.
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Also, please don't be scared. There's nothing to be afraid of, you're just going to be eating slightly less and moving slightly more. Nothing scary.
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