Most weight loss in one month...
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gerard54
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What is the most amount of weight you have lost in a month and how did you do it...
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in my first month i lost somewhere in the neighbourhood of 20-25 lbs. but i was eating dangerously low amounts, working out every day, and took caffeine pills to curb appetite and help keep energy up. ive smartened up since then0
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Nothing big or impressive. 8 lbs, the first month I started. Followed the MFP plan, but no exercise.0
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30 pounds, my starting weight was 105 and after a month was 75 pounds, nothing like dysentria for quick weight loss and the feeling you will die from it. I looked like a cadavre and felt like one. :0)
in normal circomstances it would be 10 pounds at begining of a diet and then it will slow to 4 to 6 pounds.0 -
40lbs
but all I ate was carrots and rice cakes... throw in a lean quisine randomly
it also made me super sick i was dizzy 24/7 was seeing spots couldnt think straight
but losing a healthy way about 20lbs and thats eating things like chicken fish veggies fruits etc0 -
I lost 23 pounds in 3 weeks following an 1800 calorie diabetic exchange diet. I couldn't stick with it though because no one puts food exchanges on packages anymore and it made it a pain to stick to unlike calorie or carb counting. Neither of which has been anywhere near as effective. I think since the exchange diet provided balanced nutrition it kept my body primed for fat burning. That's the problem I think with calorie and carb counting. If you eat fat all day it's gonna make you slow, tired, and lethargic. If you eat sugar all day, your gonna crash at times and not have the energy to do a thing. But you can actually have low carb or calorie counts despite that bad energy level.0
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Eight pounds, in my first month using MFP, which I think included at least 5 pounds of water weight!0
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20 lbs and I put on 2 lbs of muscle as well.
20 minutes of cardio 2x daily, in the morning after waking up pre-breakfast, and night time.
Lifting roughly 5 days a week, with mostly drop sets and supersets for aesthetics and high heart rate.
Very precise diet of chicken, egg whites, plain oats, brown rice, sweet potato, steak, broccoli, and tilapia.
No carbs before bedtime or for dinner. No food portions bigger than a fist size. 7 meals a day (1 protein shake)
Also took green tea pills for energy and mood, as well as L-Carnitine / glutamine and BCAA's to help ensure that the weight loss was mostly fat and not muscle.0 -
9 pounds when i did the 24 day challenge via ADVOCARE. Since then I've been using MFP and the weight loss has slowed quite a bit - but slow and steady wins the race!! I mean... really as fast as possible wins any race - but I'm trying to maintain a positive outlook and have told myself that in one year I will be happy with how I look and feel!0
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20 lbs and I put on 2 lbs of muscle as well.
20 minutes of cardio 2x daily, in the morning after waking up pre-breakfast, and night time.
Lifting roughly 5 days a week, with mostly drop sets and supersets for aesthetics and high heart rate.
Very precise diet of chicken, egg whites, plain oats, brown rice, sweet potato, steak, broccoli, and tilapia.
No carbs before bedtime or for dinner. No food portions bigger than a fist size. 7 meals a day (1 protein shake)
Also took green tea pills for energy and mood, as well as L-Carnitine / glutamine and BCAA's to help ensure that the weight loss was mostly fat and not muscle.0 -
Following a healthy eating plan and exercise the first month was 9 lbs and now about 1 lb a week or so, I was stuck for two weeks but that seems to have ended so I will see what this week brings. Slow and steady wins the race.0
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20 lbs and I put on 2 lbs of muscle as well.
20 minutes of cardio 2x daily, in the morning after waking up pre-breakfast, and night time.
Lifting roughly 5 days a week, with mostly drop sets and supersets for aesthetics and high heart rate.
Very precise diet of chicken, egg whites, plain oats, brown rice, sweet potato, steak, broccoli, and tilapia.
No carbs before bedtime or for dinner. No food portions bigger than a fist size. 7 meals a day (1 protein shake)
Also took green tea pills for energy and mood, as well as L-Carnitine / glutamine and BCAA's to help ensure that the weight loss was mostly fat and not muscle.
I understand where you're coming from and many people think the same way. You're right it is EXTREMELY hard to lose weight and gain msucle. I did it through Kris Gethin's 12 week trainer and many many people have had similiar results (when taken seriously). My first four weeks were crazy and then it slowed down quite a bit. I went into this weighing 296 lbs at 6'5 though so it was easier to drop a lot at first. You need to be extremely meticulous about your diet, your supplements, and your lifting days. But rather than discuss I'll just show you - http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/kris-gethin-12-week-daily-trainer.html0 -
0 because I didn't research or understand but the 1st month I did it properly 5lbs but I only had about 27lbs to lose only 7lbs overall left0
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20 lbs and I put on 2 lbs of muscle as well.
20 minutes of cardio 2x daily, in the morning after waking up pre-breakfast, and night time.
Lifting roughly 5 days a week, with mostly drop sets and supersets for aesthetics and high heart rate.
Very precise diet of chicken, egg whites, plain oats, brown rice, sweet potato, steak, broccoli, and tilapia.
No carbs before bedtime or for dinner. No food portions bigger than a fist size. 7 meals a day (1 protein shake)
Also took green tea pills for energy and mood, as well as L-Carnitine / glutamine and BCAA's to help ensure that the weight loss was mostly fat and not muscle.
I understand where you're coming from and many people think the same way. You're right it is EXTREMELY hard to lose weight and gain msucle. I did it through Kris Gethin's 12 week trainer and many many people have had similiar results (when taken seriously). My first four weeks were crazy and then it slowed down quite a bit. I went into this weighing 296 lbs at 6'5 though so it was easier to drop a lot at first. You need to be extremely meticulous about your diet, your supplements, and your lifting days. But rather than discuss I'll just show you - http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/kris-gethin-12-week-daily-trainer.html
and how do you know you gained exactly 2 lbs of muscle did you get a dexa scan or something0 -
10lbs my first month of starting MFP, I've slowed down with my weightloss now but I also changed my goal to loose 0.5 per week as I was starving all the time0
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looks like a solid routine but im still doubting a muscle gain like that in a month while still losing weight. were you eating at a deficit for the entirety of the first month?
and how do you know you gained exactly 2 lbs of muscle did you get a dexa scan or something
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Honestly the 2 lbs is an estimation, I know I gained at least a lb of muscle just through the BMI change and radical strength increase. I wouldn't necessarily say I was eating at a deficit even though it's only around 2200-2600 cals consumed daily. I burn between 3900-4700 between my jobs and the routine / cardio. I use a fitbit watch to track that. The high protein and careful carb ratio of my diet was a big key to those results. It's all about eating non-processed foods, lean meats, e.t.c. To me a deficit would be 1600 calories - 2000 calories but I don't have the willpower to lower my consumption that drastically. Starvation mode would be kicking in for me.0 -
looks like a solid routine but im still doubting a muscle gain like that in a month while still losing weight. were you eating at a deficit for the entirety of the first month?
and how do you know you gained exactly 2 lbs of muscle did you get a dexa scan or something
Honestly the 2 lbs is an estimation, I know I gained at least a lb of muscle just through the BMI change and radical strength increase. I wouldn't necessarily say I was eating at a deficit even though it's only around 2200-2600 cals consumed daily. I burn between 3900-4700 between my jobs and the routine / cardio. I use a fitbit watch to track that. The high protein and careful carb ratio of my diet was a big key to those results. It's all about eating non-processed foods, lean meats, e.t.c. To me a deficit would be 1600 calories - 2000 calories but I don't have the willpower to lower my consumption that drastically. Starvation mode would be kicking in for me.
not trying to demean your progress, obviously you've done very well, but a muscle gain with those numbers just isnt feasible0 -
Thanks for the input mi hombres...0
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13 lbs in my first month with MFP by following my calorie goal and doing 30-60 mins of walk/run every day. Keep in mind that it was the first month so a large amount of that was water weight. It's not sustainable or normal to consistently lose that much in a month. In the following month I lost 8 lbs (2 lbs per week) so that's much more reasonable (still high though). YMMV0
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I lost a total of 28 pounds in 3 weeks by having a baby. I don't suggest it unless you want a baby.0
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I think I lost about 12 pounds the first month I started MFP. I was over 340 pounds, and I probably should have put myself as lightly active instead of sedentary, but for the first month of a morbidly obese person losing weight it was nothing alarming. I wish I could say it was because I exercised my butt off, but I started off essentially not exercising and the weight still fell off. I've averaged out since then to 1-2 pounds a week.0
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