Is there any hope for me loosing 100lbs!

A doctor so adamant that you must lose 45 pounds in 11 weeks must surely have made some nutritional recommendations? It's generally not possible to lose 4 pounds a week consistently because that would require a draconian deficit, but base your food on lots of veggies, fruit, lean meat, eggs, carefully measured nuts, some dairy, some whole grains. Bulky foods fill you up. Save room for special treats. You should not to 1000 a day. That is way to low for your weight. Just follow the calorie recommendations given here on MFP after you get all of your stats in correctly. If you haven't been an exerciser, start with walks, as long as you have time for.

Yes!

Theres no need or benefit to dropping to 1000 cals.
I started on 1400 cals a day to start and as my fitness endurance started improving, i upped my cals to 1600. You really can knock your body out of order going so low.
If you need motivation, go on instagram. Thats where i get it.
There are SO many girls there who have lost over 100 lbs and they post each day since the starr. Its amazing.

The 1400 cal diet was given to me by a bariatric surgeon. You have to lose 30 lbs in a month to shrink ur liver for weight loss surgery.
I ended up losing 24 lbs and cancelled the surgery because it proved i can do it myself.

Rom3oJuli3tt wrote: »

If you want something bad enough, you can do it. You just have to want it more than anything!

I TOTALLY agree. Anything is possible if you want it bad enough. My start weight was 249 and I am now 163. 14 pounds to go. I never thought I would make it this far! Just take it one pound at a time.

All of the above is great advice. Start with diet, slowly add exercise and the progress you make will motivate you to keep going.

Just remember...if it's important you will find a way, if not you will find an excuse. Stay strong!

That much weight by that date is pretty steep.. That's like double nearly what's generally recommended? And 1000 calories is a sure fire way to make yourself miserable. I'm only 5'4 a shorty too and very overweight (435 pounds) and I wouldn't dream of doing 1000 calories a day. Mine generally sits between 1700-2200 and I have a pretty decent deficit due to incorporating more walking. Not saying what you should do, but I really don't think what your doctor told you is feasible. Eat more lean proteins (chicken, fish) vegetables, fruits, drink more water and try to fit in some exercise even walking helps.

You can certainly lose 100 pounds. There are many, many people who have done it and kept it off which is the ultimate goal. But 45 pounds in less than 3 months? No. Just no. Any weight you lose between now and then will benefit your health and there's nothing good that will come of losing weight too quickly. You don't want to drop a bunch of weight that way only to gain it all back later. Instead of focusing on speed, focus on losing weight in a way that you can maintain once you reach your goal; a way that will be sustainable for the rest of your life.

Losing weight on a very low calorie diet will result in a greater loss of lean muscle mass, something you want to keep as much of as possible. In fact, I highly suggest strength training as soon as you can start. Being significantly overweight actually has some advantages when it comes to strength training. I'll explain....

When we lose "weight" the pounds we lose are made up of a combination of water, fat and muscle. The faster you lose weight, the more of that lost weight will be from lean muscle mass. This is because our bodies are looking to preserve as much stored energy as possible against a prolonged starvation period (and when you eat far too little that's exactly what it thinks is happening!) and unused lean muscle mass is an easy target. As you shed pounds, you need less muscle to move your mass around so your body will break it down and it'll be gone. Forever.

Strength training forces us to use our muscles in such a way as to signal to the body that we need them. This limits muscle breakdown for energy and helps to retain the muscle you already have. It's also much easier to maintain your current muscle mass than it is to build new muscle (just for starters, building new muscle involves gaining weight!) and here is where those advantages I mentioned come in. As I said earlier, when we lose weight it's a combination of muscle, fat and water. The opposite is true, too! Your current muscle mass is significantly greater than someone who is smaller because while you've been gaining weight over the years some of what you gained was extra muscle so that you could simply move around your extra weight. That's a huge advantage if you're willing to capitalize on it.

Strength training now will allow you to keep a lot of that extra muscle rather than losing it along with the fat and water. This means more of your weight loss will be from fat and that's what you really want to lose. It also means that when you reach the weight you want to be that your body fat percentage will be much lower and you'll be much firmer at that weight than you would have been if you simply lost weight quickly to get there.

ninerbuff wrote: »

There's always hope. For most, it's the mindset that it is attainable that has to be instituted. Problem is, many people give up before they even start.
Have a specific and concise plan to lose weight safely, follow it consistently, have a back up plan for "bad" days (over eating), and NEVER quit.

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This. I started at 26, 5'2", and 290 pounds, and have lost 100 pounds. That said: it's taken me close to three years, because of how I choose to eat and prioritize.

I think telling you to drop 45 pounds by July and only consume 1,000 calories per day is setting you up for failure. I think you find the vast majority of people who lost a large amount and maintained that loss did so by finding a way of eating that's sustainable to their life and sticking with it, even if it was slow. There's no way 1,000 calories a day is sustainable.

You can do it.
I'm 49 yrs old F weighing in at 240 today, committing to a very easy exercise goal of 15 min 4 days a week.
(I very often exceed the goal I set)
Based on the goal my calorie intake is set at 1400 pr day. I started April 1st and I'm down 10 lb.

It will take a while to loos 100 lb so don't push yourself with to much exercise to soon and definitely don't under eat @ 1000 calorie a day diet.. You will just be hungry all the time and that will be your undoing.

Best of luck, eat healthy, move around a short walk even if you only start at a 5 minutes you will work your way up to longer amounts of time.

You can lose 100lb, I have done it before and slowly found it again , now losing it again.