I need to lose 18lbs by January

Couuurts
Couuurts Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
help?

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  • ultrahoon
    ultrahoon Posts: 467 Member
    edited December 2015
    18lbs in just over 3 weeks is pretty steep, you'd need to be extremely obese to lose that much that fast. We need your stats to offer advice, current height, weight, age, gender, and then goal weight would be ideal. Opening up your diary will also lead to good feedback,
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Why? What's the rush? Is this you in your pic?
  • melonaulait
    melonaulait Posts: 769 Member
    Ah, yes, wouldn't I be excited to see the scale go down 18lbs by January, too... But I'm afraid <2lbs a week is more likely, and the less you have to lose the slower you're likely to lose it.
  • Lucille4444
    Lucille4444 Posts: 284 Member
    In some diets you lose a lot of water weight at startup, as well as a little fat, so maybe you could lose 10.
  • soapsandropes
    soapsandropes Posts: 269 Member
    I think that by setting your goal to be that much so fast you might be setting yourself up for failure.
  • joycekpaul
    joycekpaul Posts: 1 Member
    Ideal Protein is the way to go for such quick results. Their expectation is 1 to 2 pounds a week
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    In under four weeks? Unless you're currently over 450 pounds, you aren't going to lose that much fat that fast, your body couldn't even do it.

    As a rough rule of thumb, you can't lose faster than about 1% total body weight or about 4% of total body fat in a week; your fat cells biologically can't supply fat faster than that.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    Why? What's the rush? Is this you in your pic?

    This.

    If that is you in the picture, you look very underweight.
  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    Couuurts wrote: »
    help?

    Why so fast?

    By the first of January or the end?

    What is your current height and weight?
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    joycekpaul wrote: »
    Ideal Protein is the way to go for such quick results. Their expectation is 1 to 2 pounds a week

    Diet type has nothing to do with weight loss. A deficit is absolute to lose weight.
  • riffraff2112
    riffraff2112 Posts: 1,756 Member
    Why do you NEED to lose 18lbs?
    Why the time frame?
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    If you really need to lose it by January, you should have started in June.
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    If that's you in your profile picture, I don't think losing 18 lbs by January is a good goal.

    If you where extremely obese then it may be a reasonable yet but you'd have to be very over weight . losing weight too fast isn't the most responsible way to go about this. I would reevaluate your goals and set up something more reasonable.
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    joycekpaul wrote: »
    Ideal Protein is the way to go for such quick results. Their expectation is 1 to 2 pounds a week

    For weight loss, all that's needed is a calorie deficit . ideal protein is a good idea but has nothing to do with fast weight loss results .
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