lose 20lbs in a month?

ndj1979 wrote: »

brianpperkins wrote: »

So you "successfully completed" a fad diet that lies about its association with General Motors and now want to find another crash diet plan? (I hope you realilze all you lost on that was water weight ... not really a successful completion of anything)

That is a completely unhealthy plan. Reconsider, set realistic goals, then come back to us.

what is the GM diet? Eat nothing but chryslers????

rabbitjb wrote: »

Dichotomy1976 wrote: »

rabbitjb wrote: »

Dichotomy1976 wrote: »

I'm going to disagree with some of the people here and say it is possible and maybe not even that unhealthy depending on your weight to start with (a 400lb person losing a little over 1% body weight a week would manage 20lbs in a month). I still wouldn't advise it though unless you have a great deal of weight to lose (1% of your body weight per week is a decent rule of thumb, but you still should consult your doctor before trying anything that could be considered extreme.)

Doesn't matter what diet you are on, the only way to do it is to take in a significantly lower amount of calories a day than you expend. Since 1lb = 3500kcal that means you must be at a deficit of 70000kcal in a monthly period. Assuming 30 days in a month that means a deficit of 2333kcal per day which you can see is a large deficit when a lot of us would find that many calories would maintain our day to day weights so we would either have to workout for several hours a day if we wanted to eat and hit that goal (not advisable without replacing at least some of those calories from exercise), or starve ourselves which is also obviously bad. It is best to try to get in to a sustainable healthy routine rather than focusing on short term gains (losses?) that are usually put back on once the person doing them realises they can't maintain that level of loss. As others have said, your first week losses will be partially from losing water stored in your muscles so don't get disheartened when you don't see those numbers again from doing the same level of diet/exercise.

morbidly obese more prone to developing gallstones due to rapid weight loss (eg above 3.3lbs per week)

but medics would weigh that against other risk factors

I was pretty careful in my wording as I knew it is the type of thing people will jump on if I'm not. I never said it was healthy to lose that much weight, just that it might not be that unhealthy. I also said to check with a doctor before trying anything that could be considered extreme (which I'm assuming the op would consider 20lbs/month extreme based on the replies and their own post and my following paragraph). To make half of one of my sentences bold seems a little disingenuous to me.

not disingenuous (you do know what that word means right?)

I was referencing that part only, which is how it works, not picking up on your entire post and giving further information to that specific point not discounting what you said

I also was pretty careful in my wording