Best fat loss plan to follow for a 6 week challenge

slimbettie
slimbettie Posts: 686 Member
edited December 2 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi there,
Instead of doing random Google searches, I thought it best to ask you guys what you suggest as the best plan to lose as much fat as possible during a 6 week weight loss challenge. I am about 70lbs overweight, so do have a lot to work with :D
I don't like cutting out entire food groups and be too drastic, BUT for the sake of this challenge I can do ANYTHING for 6 weeks right? It is only 6 weeks, and not my entire life.
Thanks very much for all your input.
(I will post this question in a few categories).

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  • slimbettie
    slimbettie Posts: 686 Member
    Cool! Thanks Dianne.
  • slimbettie
    slimbettie Posts: 686 Member
    @2011 Thanks for your reply. I've been on MFP for 3 years now and have lost 110lbs so far. Since January I've been stalling though and actually gained some of my weight back. I joined the challenge to kick my butt back into gear of some sorts... I just could not master up the motivation to get myself back on the right path with my eating and exercising. But I agree with you whole heartedly. I've manged to lose 110lbs because I did not cut out any food groups and just sticked to my calories and moving more.
  • slimbettie
    slimbettie Posts: 686 Member
    @Sidesteel thanks very much for a very detailed response. As I read through your reply I was nodding my head and thinking - yeah all practical and makes perfect sense. Sound advice and really do-able. Thanks so very much!!
  • slimbettie
    slimbettie Posts: 686 Member
    I don't want to crash diet for 6 weeks and then just gain it all back.. what's the point in that? Naaah, pass...
  • Seffell
    Seffell Posts: 2,244 Member
    slimbettie wrote: »
    BUT for the sake of this challenge I can do ANYTHING for 6 weeks right? It is only 6 weeks, and not my entire life.

    It's great that you decided to make a change and lose some weight. However I don't agree with HOW you want to go about your changes. 6 months is in fact a lot of time and is quite enough for your hair to start falling for example from malnutrition if you start eating too little for the sake of the challenge.
    Also what you'd want to do is LEARN how to sustain your new weight after you lose some.

    The best thing to do is use MFP as it is supposed to be used and as most of us use it successfully. Set a goal of 1lbs/week (1.5lbs/week at most) - this is what most people here do if they have around 70lbs to lose. Then start measuring all your food with a digital scale and logging it in the diary here and make sure you don't eat more than the goal MFP has set for you for each day.
    This is all you can do and all you have to do to lose weight. You can eat everything you want so long as it totals less than your daily goal.

    In 6 weeks you can't expect to healthily lose more than 6-10lbs at most. Maybe a bit more from the initial water weight loss the first week or so.

    For example I've started a bit overweight 4 months ago and for the last 6 weeks I have lost 3.5lbs while eating 1400cals/day on average. You have a bit more to lose so you can lose a bit more than that in the same amount of time. But not MUCH more.

    Anyway, don't give up whatever happens :) . Just make sure you set your mind for a realistic goal as otherwise you might feel like quitting too soon.

  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    slimbettie wrote: »
    It is only 6 weeks, and not my entire life.

    Er... well, it kind of IS your entire life.

    Anything you do has to be sustainable or it's going to be a crash diet, which you've already said you don't want. So I'm not exactly sure what it is you're looking for.

  • slimbettie
    slimbettie Posts: 686 Member
    @emdeesea. thanks for your input. to answer your question I am looking for advice. And I am getting it, Thanks! :)
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Congrats on your 110 loss! I suggest that you continue doing what you did to achieve that. Obviously, it worked well for you. Reenter your stats into MFP to make sure you're targeting the correct calorie goal. Keep it going!
  • Seffell
    Seffell Posts: 2,244 Member
    I think I'm starting to understand what you're looking for. A challenge, like you said at first. Maybe to lift your spirits again I suppose. To spice things up?
    How about you set a workout challenge instead of a diet one? Eat by the MFP rules (i.e. at the limit it gives you) and increase your energy burns? Does your health allow for this?
    There are a lot of groups here in MFP for different monthly challenges. Have you tried these yet? :)

  • slimbettie
    slimbettie Posts: 686 Member
    @lorrpb Thanks for the kind words. I do intend to stick to what I've been doing to lose the 110lbs for the rest of my life. Otherwise I KNOW I will simply just regain it all back...and that I don't want.
    The reason why I asked here for the best plan for fat loss was to get different perspectives from people who did something similar.
    The internet can be a nightmare when you try to research these kind of things. One says High Fat, the one says only whole foods plants based, the other says 900 calories a day.
  • slimbettie
    slimbettie Posts: 686 Member
    @Gebeziseva YES!! That is exactly it! I will look into the groups challenges. Thanks for your advice.
  • DaniCanadian
    DaniCanadian Posts: 261 Member
    Slim, do you do much strength training? I stalled at 155 lbs (down from 185) after my first baby but then changed my goal to fitness goals rather than weight. I started doing mainly strength training (I do body weight stuff cause I hate weight lifting so push ups, squats, etc). My goals would be to do a full push up, then 5, then 10, and so on. The scale wasn't moving but my friends were commenting that it looked like I was losing weight.
    If you're stuck right now, that might be a good boost to get yourself going again.
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