Lose 10-15lbs before 4th of July

leggup wrote: »

kikomansauce wrote: »

I believe that it can be done, 4 lbs a week seems manageable, it's all just about taking out the wrong things and putting in the right things. Perhaps figuring out what makes you bloat too could be helpful.

So I'm IN! What's the plan you're doing?? I have a 20-something day work out plan set up too, and I might add a diet plan to that, not just keeping to the calories & carbs.

4 lbs a week means losing .57 lbs per DAY. One lb is approximately 3,500 calories. As in, if you net 3,500 calories under maintenance for a week, you lose 1 lb. So you want to lose .57 lbs per day? That means you need to eat .57*3500 cals = 1995 calories under maintenance every day. So if you maintain at 2,000 calories, You need to eat 2,000 calories - 1995 calories every day. Yes, that's 5 calories. My maintenance calories are 1,900 calories. I would have to eat zero calories and burn off 95 calories EVERY DAY to lose 4 lbs per week.

Take your maintenance calories. Subtract 1,995 calories. That's all you can eat to lose 4 lbs per week.

Well, not really. You also forget:

About a third of that weight loss is water weight.
It also has an significant increase in activity for about 400-600 calls per day.

It corresponds to a 1000 calorie deficit, a high protein replacement meal. So for you it would be a diet of 1200-1400 cals. 700 cals less food and say 300 from exercise.

It might work if you experience no swelling or water retention.
But, you'll gain the water loss as soon as you eat normal again.

Yeah, gotta pay for those shakes doe. OP you selling?

EvgeniZyntx wrote: »

leggup wrote: »

kikomansauce wrote: »

I believe that it can be done, 4 lbs a week seems manageable, it's all just about taking out the wrong things and putting in the right things. Perhaps figuring out what makes you bloat too could be helpful.

So I'm IN! What's the plan you're doing?? I have a 20-something day work out plan set up too, and I might add a diet plan to that, not just keeping to the calories & carbs.

4 lbs a week means losing .57 lbs per DAY. One lb is approximately 3,500 calories. As in, if you net 3,500 calories under maintenance for a week, you lose 1 lb. So you want to lose .57 lbs per day? That means you need to eat .57*3500 cals = 1995 calories under maintenance every day. So if you maintain at 2,000 calories, You need to eat 2,000 calories - 1995 calories every day. Yes, that's 5 calories. My maintenance calories are 1,900 calories. I would have to eat zero calories and burn off 95 calories EVERY DAY to lose 4 lbs per week.

Take your maintenance calories. Subtract 1,995 calories. That's all you can eat to lose 4 lbs per week.

Well, not really. You also forget:

About a third of that weight loss is water weight.
It also has an significant increase in activity for about 400-600 calls per day.

It corresponds to a 1000 calorie deficit, a high protein replacement meal. So for you it would be a diet of 1200-1400 cals. 700 cals less food and say 300 from exercise.

It might work if you experience no swelling or water retention.
But, you'll gain the water loss as soon as you eat normal again.

Yeah, gotta pay for those shakes doe. OP you selling?

Since OP has already lost 6 lbs on her profile, I assume she's already lost the initial water weight we all lose in the beginning. You still have to net a VLCD level of calories to hit the deficit needed for 4 lbs lost/week.

draznyth wrote: »

Teisha21 wrote: »

Thank you for the concern but I've done the program and lost 10lbs in the 3 weeks. I eat the right amount of food and I workout everyday. So no I'm not starving myself nor am I working out hours at a time.

lol oh, ok then

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Ayyyy yikes.

leggup wrote: »

Teisha21 wrote: »

Thank you for the concern but I've done the program and lost 10lbs in the 3 weeks. I eat the right amount of food and I workout everyday. So no I'm not starving myself nor am I working out hours at a time.

What's the net calories # required for the plan?

I'm guessing that the first time through you had water weight (5-6 lbs) to lose. If you've been going steady since, fat loss won't come as easily.

10 lbs in 3 weeks = -3.3 lbs per week
15 lbs in 3 weeks = -5.0 lbs per week

To lose 5 lbs/week for 3 weeks you must be morbidly obese and even then, a huge deficit.

Why is it easy/ normal for someone who is obese to lose fat a lot faster?

Jonestiarra2013 wrote: »

leggup wrote: »

Teisha21 wrote: »

Thank you for the concern but I've done the program and lost 10lbs in the 3 weeks. I eat the right amount of food and I workout everyday. So no I'm not starving myself nor am I working out hours at a time.

What's the net calories # required for the plan?

I'm guessing that the first time through you had water weight (5-6 lbs) to lose. If you've been going steady since, fat loss won't come as easily.

10 lbs in 3 weeks = -3.3 lbs per week
15 lbs in 3 weeks = -5.0 lbs per week

To lose 5 lbs/week for 3 weeks you must be morbidly obese and even then, a huge deficit.

Why is it easy/ normal for someone who is obese to lose fat a lot faster?

Two reasons:

One - someone who is morbidly obese has more water weight to lose, which makes their rate of loss in the initial weeks look huge. Depending on how big someone is, you could be talking up to 5 pounds or more per week just of water for the first 1-3 week or so. For the super morbidly obese (think 500-600+ pounds) it can even be more than that - 10-12 lbs per week.

Two - someone who is morbidly obese naturally burns more calories per day. The bigger you are, the more your maintenance calories are. It's just science. So, it's a lot easier to create a big daily deficit. If someone who is 150lbs cuts down to 1500 calories per day, that's probably a 250-500 calorie per day deficit, maybe a little more if they're REALLY active. If someone who is 350lbs cuts down to 1500 calories per day, that's probably a 1500 or more per day deficit. You know?

It all slows down as people lose, though.

bennettinfinity wrote: »

So much wrong with this thread... I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

There are no quick fixes - just do the work...

I came across this gem today - it seems apropos...

Focus on results and you'll get no change;
Focus on change and you'll get results.

Why not both?
I'd hate to have a pilot that doesn't know the destination.