Light bulb finally on!!

suenewberry81
suenewberry81 Posts: 241 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Just been reading some posts on here and someone posted
Week1 their drinking more water and no fast food, week2 eat at least one fruit or veg with every meal week 2 more exercise etc... Little changes to keep her going, my problem is I try and do everything all in one go and I want to see 5lb weight losses a week, not possible for someone like me!!

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  • scolaris
    scolaris Posts: 2,145 Member
    No, small sustainable changes are where it's at. Do you drive a stick shift? If you do, you'll know you go through ALL the gears to get up to full speed. This can be similar. Make a few changes; when that feels comfortable, make a few more. Keep building on each success.
    xo
  • ultrahoon
    ultrahoon Posts: 467 Member
    edited November 2015
    5lbs a week is a gigantic loss. Your profile says you only have 20lbs to go, if you were able to actually lose that in 4 weeks, chances are you'd feel like crap, or maybe even damage your health.

    Also, that week 1 plan in your first post isn't really doing anything to lose body fat over doing it without gimmicks, the drinking more water and cutting out fast food will just make you lose water weight.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    5lbs a week is unhealthy

    You will rip through your LBM (muscle wastage)
    You will store up potential long term health issues

    Please be sensible

    If on the one hand you are talking about small changes, don't then have wild expectations

    The minor change you should make is to weigh and log everything accurately to your calorie allowance

    That's it


    You didn't put the weight on quickly ...1-2lbs a week is where you should aim
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    scolaris wrote: »
    No, small sustainable changes are where it's at. Do you drive a stick shift? If you do, you'll know you go through ALL the gears to get up to full speed. This can be similar. Make a few changes; when that feels comfortable, make a few more. Keep building on each success.
    xo

    This also depends on the person

    I went for it ..personal trainer booked, food logging started...learning curve started

    The minor changes I made were to throw away everything I thought I knew about losing weight and just focus on calories

    The moving more I saw as separate I think
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    You have the right idea -- it is not all or nothing. Find a comfortable place in between that fits into your life and that allows you to lose weight.
    Instead of thinking about what kinds of foods, pay very close attention to the amount /weight of the foods.
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