Liquid diet for a week?
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aglassmn36
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been on 1500 calorie diet. And hitting gym 5 days s week since January. Ive hit a plateau need to lose 5 more pounds. Thinking of liquid for a week with vitamins and protien?
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Liquid as in water, or liquid as in protein shakes?0
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Meal replacement. And protien0
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How long have you been at the same weight? If it has been less than 6 weeks, I would suggest that you keep going with your current plan. Otherwise, you can consider having the same overall weekly calorie goal but having some days be higher and others lower--sometimes this will encourage your body to get out of a plateau. Also change up your workouts. I would do all of this before considering a liquid diet--you will likely put that weight back on if you lose it unless your goal is a short term loss. If you want those five pounds gone for a special event in a couple weeks, it will likely work just fine.0
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1500 cals of liquid OR
1500 cals of food
Can someone explain the logic of why one would work better than the other?0 -
No, you need to eat more calories. Raise your intake to 1800 a day, give it another two weeks and reevaluate. Eat real food instead of liquid.0
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Thanks guys for the help!0
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You won't hit 1500 calories of liquid. I just came off a 21 day water and clear juice fast. I lost 17 lbs. during the fast. It has been 7 days since breaking the fast and I have gained 2 lbs. back. Fasting accomplishes cleansing of your system and healing of your body. Weight loss is an added benefit but in reality your body's metabolism slows down so you have to be extremely careful of what and how much you eat after coming off a fast. I don't recommend just jumping into liquid diet, you have to prepare your body at least two weeks in advance to be successful in maintaining a liquid diet for any amount of time. Hope this helps.
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I once put a Totinos pizza in the vita-mix with some tomato soup so I could suck it through a straw. My kind of liquid diet.0
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You won't hit 1500 calories of liquid. I just came off a 21 day water and clear juice fast. I lost 17 lbs. during the fast. It has been 7 days since breaking the fast and I have gained 2 lbs. back. Fasting accomplishes cleansing of your system and healing of your body. Weight loss is an added benefit but in reality your body's metabolism slows down so you have to be extremely careful of what and how much you eat after coming off a fast. I don't recommend just jumping into liquid diet, you have to prepare your body at least two weeks in advance to be successful in maintaining a liquid diet for any amount of time. Hope this helps.
OMG why??????
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JessRaddatz wrote: »
You won't hit 1500 calories of liquid. I just came off a 21 day water and clear juice fast. I lost 17 lbs. during the fast. It has been 7 days since breaking the fast and I have gained 2 lbs. back. Fasting accomplishes cleansing of your system and healing of your body. Weight loss is an added benefit but in reality your body's metabolism slows down so you have to be extremely careful of what and how much you eat after coming off a fast. I don't recommend just jumping into liquid diet, you have to prepare your body at least two weeks in advance to be successful in maintaining a liquid diet for any amount of time. Hope this helps.
OMG why??????
This and there is no reason why you can't hit 1500 calories or even more with a liquid diet. You can juice or make shakes with lots of foods that are calorie dense. But I echo, why 1500 calories of liquid instead of food?0 -
JessRaddatz wrote: »
You won't hit 1500 calories of liquid. I just came off a 21 day water and clear juice fast. I lost 17 lbs. during the fast. It has been 7 days since breaking the fast and I have gained 2 lbs. back. Fasting accomplishes cleansing of your system and healing of your body. Weight loss is an added benefit but in reality your body's metabolism slows down so you have to be extremely careful of what and how much you eat after coming off a fast. I don't recommend just jumping into liquid diet, you have to prepare your body at least two weeks in advance to be successful in maintaining a liquid diet for any amount of time. Hope this helps.
OMG why??????
Because instead of taking the "lifestyle change" route, people take the quick route. And then they like to add in the "it cleansed and healed my body" speech to make people think it was a "healthy" idea.
The reason why it "cleansed" her is because all that fat and muscle escaped through her colon so she spent alot of time in the bathroom.
She was pretty lucky to only gain 2lbs back after she was "done". I'm also surprised it didn't give her any issues being she's 50 years old.0
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