Is it possible to lose weight this fast?

The answer is no.

Is it possible? Yes, but, you will likely lose lots of muscle with the fat, more than you would if you set a more reasonable goal, and that will result in you 1) Not looking leaner, but simply looking like a smaller version of what you look like now. 2) It will set you up to have your weight rebound to something even higher than the 161 you are at right now. It is because of that you are receiving the responses you are receiving. Losing weight on a time table unless you have to do so for say a surgery or the like, is rarely a good idea.

This is just a general statement and nothing specific, but the most effective way would be to not try to rush it. I get there is only a short time left and you want to look great for that day.

My advice would be not to focus on the actual weight. In my opinion, tracking your weight is one of the least productive ways of measuring your progress. There are many better ways. Like body measurements and reaching new personal bests across your workouts. Both of those things can and will improve (if you're putting in the right work) even if the scale isn't showing you an ideal number.

To summarize: Forget the number on the scale. Focus on making the most out of your workouts and eating right (and enough!). You don't have to eat the bare minimum amount of calories to lose weight, for some people eating that low can actually be counterproductive as it can really slow up your metabolism among a few other things. Good luck, and don't rush it. This does not happen overnight.

Sophsmother wrote: »

Yes, you can totally lose the weight by prom. And that is not crash dieting. People on here get so fussy about the oddest things.

Put your stats in MFP and pick 2 lbs a week and eat the calories it tells you to. Just don't post about it. A lot of people in this community think that only the slowest method is the best, which is just so wrong. Just keep it healthy and you'll be fine.

OMFG Sophsmother!

So you think that the correct advice to give to a 19 yo female with a sedentary TDEE of about 1800 calories and who appears to have already yo yo dieted once (and who is asking if 1200 calories a day is too much), is to tell her to try and achieve a 1000 calorie a day deficit?

And the "people in the community think that only the slowest methods are best, but if you keep it healthy you'll be fine"?
How exactly is losing weight FAST keeping it healthy? Or are you talking about some magical healthy foods?

OP:
http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/
Go. Calculate.

About the only thing that is not self explanatory is the level of exercise you should pick. I would think that anything that makes you short of breath for an hour is "exercise" for that day.

If I walk briskly for 2+ hours a day, my TDEE ends up being slightly above "every day intense or twice daily". Open to other people helping define "exercise level" better.

You see near the bottom where it says "suggested", "aggressive", and "reckless"? Pick one.

It's you body!

[hint: 1200 calories is "beyond aggressive" for a person of your stats if that person were to do no more than walk from her bed to her car to her desk at work to her couch and back to her bed, logging less than about 5,000 steps a day--maybe hitting a bathroom and a restaurant along the way]

BTW the effect of yo yo dieting is to keep making it easier to gain weight and harder to lose it. A few cycles of that and you will be nicely set for the rest of your life-but, hey, what are a few dozen years compared to the 3 hours of your prom!

Hey Sophsmother, how many of the people you were with at your prom have you actually seen IRL in 2015?