Weight loss plateau- Kick start diet
AshComAus
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Hi All,
I just wanted to share where I am currently at with my weight loss/healthy lifestyle journey:
-From mid-March 2016 I have been eating clean/very healthily consistently and walking outdoors 3-4 times per week + toning exercises 3-4 times per week. I am unsure what my start weight was (I’m kind of glad I didn’t know as I would have been mortified- I think it may have been 80kg + which is around 176 pounds).
-13th May 2016 I finally decided to weigh myself to track my progress, I was so disappointed, my weight was 77.7kg (171 pounds), I must have been in major denial with my size as I thought I was lighter than that.
-In June I decided change it up a bit and have a higher protein breakfast (two boiled eggs- 2 egg white, 1 egg yolk wrapped in one piece of rye mountain bread) and removed all other whole rice and whole bread from my diet. Which I surprisingly haven’t struggled with that much. I also started to add jogging to my walks at certain intervals. This change saw the weight make more of an accelerated loss. On the 30th June 2016 I weighed 70.2kg (156 pounds).
-As of 30th June that is kind of where my weight has plateaued. I only weigh myself fortnightly on a Thursday morning to allow fluctuations etc. Currently (as at 4th August I am 69kg-152 pounds) so in 5 weeks I have only lost 1.2kg despite eating healthily and exercising consistently.
So, with all of that said, I have decided to ‘kick start’ my diet again and go on the ‘kick start’ CSIRO diet for 7 days and then return back to same eating routine I have been on. For those unaware, it’s a strict diet that doctors put on heart surgery patients to lose weight quickly before surgery. The recipe is here: http://kickstartdiet.com.au/the-diet/
& the diet plan is as follows:
7 day plan
Day 1: Soup. All fruits except bananas. Melon lovers, this is just the day for you. Water melons and cantaloupes have less calories than most other fruits. Eating only melons increases your chances of losing 3lbs on the first day.
Day 2: Soup. Eat all the vegetables, raw or cooked, that you want but especially eat green leafy vegetables and stay away from vegies such as dry beans, peas and corn, as they are high in calories. You may also have a large baked potato with butter on this day.
Day 3 Soup. Fruit and vegetables, same as Day 1 and 2 but no potato.
Day 4: Soup. Bananas and skim milk. Eat as many as eight bananas and as much skim milk as you want. Bananas and milk are high in calories and carbohydrates, but on this particular day your body will need these essential carbohydrates, proteins and calcium which will lessen any cravings for sweets.
Day 5: Soup. Beef and tomatoes. You may have 10-12 ounces of beef and six tomatoes. Try to drink at least eight glasses of water to wash away acids from your body.
Day 6: Soup. Beef, tomatoes, and vegetables but no potato.
Day 7: Soup. Brown rice, fruit juice (unsweetened) and vegetables.
Also thought I might add that I am 5 ft 2 inches in height and my goal weight is between 55 to 60kgs (121-132 pounds)
Will be updating my progress if anyone is interested or experiencing similar- let me know. It is so discouraging to work so hard and not see results.
Ash
I just wanted to share where I am currently at with my weight loss/healthy lifestyle journey:
-From mid-March 2016 I have been eating clean/very healthily consistently and walking outdoors 3-4 times per week + toning exercises 3-4 times per week. I am unsure what my start weight was (I’m kind of glad I didn’t know as I would have been mortified- I think it may have been 80kg + which is around 176 pounds).
-13th May 2016 I finally decided to weigh myself to track my progress, I was so disappointed, my weight was 77.7kg (171 pounds), I must have been in major denial with my size as I thought I was lighter than that.
-In June I decided change it up a bit and have a higher protein breakfast (two boiled eggs- 2 egg white, 1 egg yolk wrapped in one piece of rye mountain bread) and removed all other whole rice and whole bread from my diet. Which I surprisingly haven’t struggled with that much. I also started to add jogging to my walks at certain intervals. This change saw the weight make more of an accelerated loss. On the 30th June 2016 I weighed 70.2kg (156 pounds).
-As of 30th June that is kind of where my weight has plateaued. I only weigh myself fortnightly on a Thursday morning to allow fluctuations etc. Currently (as at 4th August I am 69kg-152 pounds) so in 5 weeks I have only lost 1.2kg despite eating healthily and exercising consistently.
So, with all of that said, I have decided to ‘kick start’ my diet again and go on the ‘kick start’ CSIRO diet for 7 days and then return back to same eating routine I have been on. For those unaware, it’s a strict diet that doctors put on heart surgery patients to lose weight quickly before surgery. The recipe is here: http://kickstartdiet.com.au/the-diet/
& the diet plan is as follows:
7 day plan
Day 1: Soup. All fruits except bananas. Melon lovers, this is just the day for you. Water melons and cantaloupes have less calories than most other fruits. Eating only melons increases your chances of losing 3lbs on the first day.
Day 2: Soup. Eat all the vegetables, raw or cooked, that you want but especially eat green leafy vegetables and stay away from vegies such as dry beans, peas and corn, as they are high in calories. You may also have a large baked potato with butter on this day.
Day 3 Soup. Fruit and vegetables, same as Day 1 and 2 but no potato.
Day 4: Soup. Bananas and skim milk. Eat as many as eight bananas and as much skim milk as you want. Bananas and milk are high in calories and carbohydrates, but on this particular day your body will need these essential carbohydrates, proteins and calcium which will lessen any cravings for sweets.
Day 5: Soup. Beef and tomatoes. You may have 10-12 ounces of beef and six tomatoes. Try to drink at least eight glasses of water to wash away acids from your body.
Day 6: Soup. Beef, tomatoes, and vegetables but no potato.
Day 7: Soup. Brown rice, fruit juice (unsweetened) and vegetables.
Also thought I might add that I am 5 ft 2 inches in height and my goal weight is between 55 to 60kgs (121-132 pounds)
Will be updating my progress if anyone is interested or experiencing similar- let me know. It is so discouraging to work so hard and not see results.
Ash
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A healthy diet still has calories. I suggest you count them with a good scale4
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Are you preparing for heart surgery?2
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mecoconleche wrote: »A healthy diet still has calories. I suggest you count them with a good scale
Very true I have been sticking to a restrictive calorie diet but I think it has become quite monotonous, hence trying this particular diet. 0 -
Sounds too restrictive and not needed for weight loss.1
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Are you preparing for heart surgery?
No, I'm not This diet was originally created for the purpose of heart surgery patients however has branched out and can be applied to people wanting to recharge or kick start start their weight loss as the results can be quite impressive. It was recommended by my doctor. 1 -
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This is the cabbage soup diet. From what I've read, doctors putting their patients on this diet is a made up internet myth.
OP try it if you want, you'll probably lose weight, the key is keeping it off and not regaining once you go back to eating normally again.1 -
This diet you are considering is no good. No matter how long you can stick to it - when you get off, you'll be so hungry and fed up that you'll eat everything in sight. Even if you could manage 7 days, 7 days won't do anything for you, especially if you are going to go back to what wasn't working anymore. You have lost weight, and so your body needs less fuel. Adjust your daily calorie goal to reflect that.
Eating clean can mean anything, and therefore means nothing. Just eat food. Have an appropriate calorie goal. Log accurately. Log everything. This will get your weight off while keeping your health.
Adding: For your information, clean eating, kick start, plateaus, and washing away acids are not really things. Just eat at a calorie deficit every day until you are at goal weight, then up calories slightly to balance weight permanently.1 -
kommodevaran wrote: »This diet you are considering is no good. No matter how long you can stick to it - when you get off, you'll be so hungry and fed up that you'll eat everything in sight. Even if you could manage 7 days, 7 days won't do anything for you, especially if you are going to go back to what wasn't working anymore. You have lost weight, and so your body needs less fuel. Adjust your daily calorie goal to reflect that.
Eating clean can mean anything, and therefore means nothing. Just eat food. Have an appropriate calorie goal. Log accurately. Log everything. This will get your weight off while keeping your health.
Adding: For your information, clean eating, kick start, plateaus, and washing away acids are not really things. Just eat at a calorie deficit every day until you are at goal weight, then up calories slightly to balance weight permanently.
Thank you- I appreciate your comment. To be honest I'm not quite taking in 1200 calories per day as it is so I'm not sure I should be eating less than that. 90% of my diet currently consists of meat/fish, fruits and vegetables and I am not having any additives/sauces etc to enhance flavours. I also haven't touched any alcohol or non alcoholic drinks other than water since March (although sometimes have an instant coffee). I know that in some cases people need to up calories in order to lose weight but I am not sure I want to do that just yet0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »This is the cabbage soup diet. From what I've read, doctors putting their patients on this diet is a made up internet myth.
OP try it if you want, you'll probably lose weight, the key is keeping it off and not regaining once you go back to eating normally again.
Thanks, Christine. I was told there are lots of variants to this diet (which was funnily enough recommended to me by my doctor0 -
kommodevaran wrote: »This diet you are considering is no good. No matter how long you can stick to it - when you get off, you'll be so hungry and fed up that you'll eat everything in sight. Even if you could manage 7 days, 7 days won't do anything for you, especially if you are going to go back to what wasn't working anymore. You have lost weight, and so your body needs less fuel. Adjust your daily calorie goal to reflect that.
Eating clean can mean anything, and therefore means nothing. Just eat food. Have an appropriate calorie goal. Log accurately. Log everything. This will get your weight off while keeping your health.
Adding: For your information, clean eating, kick start, plateaus, and washing away acids are not really things. Just eat at a calorie deficit every day until you are at goal weight, then up calories slightly to balance weight permanently.
Thank you- I appreciate your comment. To be honest I'm not quite taking in 1200 calories per day as it is so I'm not sure I should be eating less than that. 90% of my diet currently consists of meat/fish, fruits and vegetables and I am not having any additives/sauces etc to enhance flavours. I also haven't touched any alcohol or non alcoholic drinks other than water since March (although sometimes have an instant coffee). I know that in some cases people need to up calories in order to lose weight but I am not sure I want to do that just yet
Sorry, but this is not how it works. If you aren't losing weight, it means you aren't sticking to your calories.
1200 may be adequate for you (you are shorter than me, and I'm short, lol).
But maybe 1200 is so little that you struggle to stick with it, and thus eat more, not necessarily a lot more, just too much to lose weight. Nobody loses more by eating more. You are not necessarily going to up your calories. You just have to stick religiously to your calories.
So you have to set a calorie goal that is 1) small enough to let you lose weight and 2) large enough so you can stick to it.
WHAT you eat is not directly significant when it comes to weight loss. The important thing is that you take in the appropriate amount of calories. You can be as "good" as you like, it still won't make you lose weight. You have to eat smart.0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »This is the cabbage soup diet. From what I've read, doctors putting their patients on this diet is a made up internet myth.
OP try it if you want, you'll probably lose weight, the key is keeping it off and not regaining once you go back to eating normally again.
Thanks, Christine. I was told there are lots of variants to this diet (which was funnily enough recommended to me by my doctor
Is this a real doctor?1 -
I've made the soup before, it is tasty, low cal and filling. I made a big pot and replaced my usual high calorie dinner every 2nd or 3rd night with it, i'd get sick of it quickly eating it every day.
OP i dont want to burst your bubble, but don't expect a huge change in 7 days. Try it if you want, it may help you on your way..
What i meant about the doctor myth was that this diet has many names on the interwebz, i think one of them is the sacred heart (hospital) diet, but none of these hospitals actually use it to help their patients lose weight, this is an internet myth.0
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