Can i lose 40 lbs in 4months?
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I have lost 32lbs in 5 months. found it quite easy, summer time meant i could get outdoors and do a LOT of exercise. 8hrs a week on average riding a bike really helped. some days i was burning 4500 calories.
Eat less than you use its really is that simple0 -
At 47 weighed 270, 6'3 Doc said here's your pills, bad cholesterol hi BP. I was either gonna lose the weight or die trying. Had 4 egg whites in the morning, grilled chicken and spinach at lunch and dinner. Cut out sodas, just drank water. No salad dressing. Everyday I walked 3 miles, everyday I tried to go a little faster. By the fourth month I was running a mile in 7 minutes, 5k in 29 minutes. I lost 50 pounds in 4 months. Yes you can do it. I looked sickly though. All cholesterol levels were great, BP was great. All blood work was fine. Can it be done sure, but would you want to that fast? I'm at 250 now with a lot more muscle. Medically did I take an unsafe chance or guess that nothing bad would happen, yes.1
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So, I am just going to throw this out there... went vegan 7 weeks ago, and I am down 22 pounds.. I have never felt better, skin is losing all traces of acne, I have exercised TWICE and I eat All....Day....Long.... I am happy and content, dont miss meat and dairy, and pretty sure I can lose another 20 by Christmas at LEAST...0
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Let's get real....I am not trying to start an argument, but.....you have only lost 11 pounds in 7 months. Why haven't you lost the weight already?
I've been debating for a while on whether or not to respond to what you wrote. I decided that for the sake of OP, I needed to. What you wrote is extremely rude and incredibly insensitive. She has lost weight, and that is the important part regardless of the road she has ahead of her. Didn't your mother ever tell you if you didn't have anything nice to say not to say anything at all? Shame on you. Losing weight is one of the most difficult things a person can do. They certainly don't need snarky remarks from somebody they don't even know. I was asking for advice, not insults.
OP- just keep plugging along. Losing it slowly is the way to go, trust me.
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There's a LOT of middle ground between 11 lbs in 7 months and 40 lbs in 4 months.
First things first, I would suggest you tighten up your logging. Buy a food scale and weigh all of your solid food and measure all of your caloric liquids, as much as possible. (I know life happens). If you can, consider an activity tracker and sync it with MFP. (MFP is notoriously inaccurate when it comes to calories burnt through exercise).
If these things don't get better results, then consider upping your calorie deficit a little-not drastically.5 -
jennifer_417 wrote: »There's a LOT of middle ground between 11 lbs in 7 months and 40 lbs in 4 months.
First things first, I would suggest you tighten up your logging. Buy a food scale and weigh all of your solid food and measure all of your caloric liquids, as much as possible. (I know life happens). If you can, consider an activity tracker and sync it with MFP. (MFP is notoriously inaccurate when it comes to calories burnt through exercise).
If these things don't get better results, then consider upping your calorie deficit a little-not drastically.
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I am in my 33 years old and i am 5"2 and i am 188 lbs right now. I am lossing wight but is very slow and i would like to speed it up. I have loset 11lbs in 7 months. Any help may help me
Thanks
Well, you've lost 11 pounds in 7 months so losing 40 in 4 seems unrealistic to me. Also 40 in 4 months is more than 2 pounds a week which is also unrealistic considering that you aren't morbidly obese.
Why 4 months out of curiosity, seems kind of arbitrary. If you are losing weight doing what you are doing then I'd say keep doing it. If you truly want to lose faster then either cut out a few more calories or add in some more activity/exercise.1 -
So every one know i would like to do the 40lbs but i would be very happy with 20lbs lose too. I have been married for 12 year and have 3 kids and me and my husband are going on our first trip alown together end of February and i was hope to be as close to my goal as possible of 150lbs.
Buy the way every one i do what to do this as healthy as possible.
Thanks for everyone helps
You know what I'd do ...(married for 16 years, 2 kids and a dog ... ok the dog didn't affect my body )
Alongside eating at a defecit to lose weight
I'd join a gym and start a progressive heavy lifting programme..it will be hard, it will hurt (DOMS are virtually inescapable) but it will work muscles you didn't remember you have, it will balance your hormones, protect your bones from osteoporosis, make you feel strong and fierce and give you a spring in your step, what it will do to your body once you have reduced your body fat to the right level is help set back the clock, or even make it better (that's what they laughingly call tone)
Also new lingerie
Also no pressure that first trip out of town is important in that way ...just nice to reconnect ...too much pressure can stifle ...things
Great advice.
You've done well so far, OP. Keep it up and add lifting and you will see a really nice change in physique, even at a higher weight. It makes a great difference.2 -
You were morbidly obese and lost 10lbs a month over 10 months
So you have been eating at an 1100 calorie per day defecit
Don't know your stats but let's pretend you're a moderately active 200lb, 35 year old male at around 5'8 ...your TDEE would be around 3000 calories a day
You were not ingesting 800- 1000 cals and working out twice a day that would have put you in net negative and over 10 months you would have lost a damn sight more weight
This.
This is also true with some of those "VLCD is better" studies too -- the "better" rate at the VLCD suggests that the person lost LESS than I did at a normal, MFP-type deficit. So people were just not logging/tracking well or were "cheating" and eating more than the supposed deficit.
OP's issue is not 40 lbs in 4 months; it's that she's been losing far more slowly than necessary. I'd say focus on getting a consistent 1.5 lb per week for now, OP, and you won't end up caring about 40 lbs in 4 months. Plus, it's more likely to feel sustainable enough that you keep it up for 4 or 6 or 8 months or a year (to get to whatever the actual goal is) and that it's something you can transition to maintenance with!1 -
If I were you I'd just get on track to lose 1lb a week, don't pressurise yourself by setting a specific goal for how much you'll lose by the trip, just get started. Best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, they say - next best time is today.0
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rchlthompson wrote: »Let's get real....I am not trying to start an argument, but.....you have only lost 11 pounds in 7 months. Why haven't you lost the weight already?
I've been debating for a while on whether or not to respond to what you wrote. I decided that for the sake of OP, I needed to. What you wrote is extremely rude and incredibly insensitive. She has lost weight, and that is the important part regardless of the road she has ahead of her. Didn't your mother ever tell you if you didn't have anything nice to say not to say anything at all? Shame on you. Losing weight is one of the most difficult things a person can do. They certainly don't need snarky remarks from somebody they don't even know. I was asking for advice, not insults.
OP- just keep plugging along. Losing it slowly is the way to go, trust me.
there are two viewpoints on this to be honest.
one is yes, it was rude.
the other is, 11lbs in 7 months is not really trying hard at all.
sometimes people just need to hear the truth
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I want to say thank you to everyone giving me positive feedback. I want to let everybody know that although my goal is 150 that is my ultimate goal I'm going on vacation with my husband the first time ever in 12 years never had a honeymoon I've always struggled with my weight and for once I want to feel good in my skin so yes I am putting myself under a lot of pressure to be at my goal by the time we go on vacation. Butt I would be happy just being closer to my goal I would like to lose a pound a week I seem to be struggling. I'm going to go back to weighing and measuring all my food and gotten away from it and I'm going to try and increasing my exercise.
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shredcamps wrote: »rchlthompson wrote: »Let's get real....I am not trying to start an argument, but.....you have only lost 11 pounds in 7 months. Why haven't you lost the weight already?
I've been debating for a while on whether or not to respond to what you wrote. I decided that for the sake of OP, I needed to. What you wrote is extremely rude and incredibly insensitive. She has lost weight, and that is the important part regardless of the road she has ahead of her. Didn't your mother ever tell you if you didn't have anything nice to say not to say anything at all? Shame on you. Losing weight is one of the most difficult things a person can do. They certainly don't need snarky remarks from somebody they don't even know. I was asking for advice, not insults.
OP- just keep plugging along. Losing it slowly is the way to go, trust me.
there are two viewpoints on this to be honest.
one is yes, it was rude.
the other is, 11lbs in 7 months is not really trying hard at all.
sometimes people just need to hear the truth
Not trying hard isn't the only explanation. Lack of information, is one of the biggest reasons people lose slowly or not at all. The diet industry makes a lot of money off keeping people confused. Now that the OP is learning more about tracking accurately, she can make the adjustments she sees as appropriate. Rarely, there are medical conditions which can also slow the losses. I think you're jumping to conclusions which are not substantiated at this point.6 -
I want to say thank you to everyone giving me positive feedback. I want to let everybody know that although my goal is 150 that is my ultimate goal I'm going on vacation with my husband the first time ever in 12 years never had a honeymoon I've always struggled with my weight and for once I want to feel good in my skin so yes I am putting myself under a lot of pressure to be at my goal by the time we go on vacation. Butt I would be happy just being closer to my goal I would like to lose a pound a week I seem to be struggling. I'm going to go back to weighing and measuring all my food and gotten away from it and I'm going to try and increasing my exercise.
Thanks a lot to everyone
Great! Even if you don't get there, you can be considerably closer. The time will pass either way, so be a little kinder to yourself. No point in being miserable for the next four months just to be frustrated with yourself once you get there. Congratulations on the honeymoon! After all these years, sounds like a great time to get away and spend time together.1 -
You were morbidly obese and lost 10lbs a month over 10 months
So you have been eating at an 1100 calorie per day defecit
Don't know your stats but let's pretend you're a moderately active 200lb, 35 year old male at around 5'8 ...your TDEE would be around 3000 calories a day
You were not ingesting 800- 1000 cals and working out twice a day that would have put you in net negative and over 10 months you would have lost a damn sight more weight
I was 318, I'm 33 and I'm 5'10". You also have zero way of knowing my metabolism. My doctor suggested we do 800 - 1000 after 1500-1800 maintained. With my physiology I started gaining at about 2000 calories per day.
The silly part of all of your math is that it doesn't take into consideration anything personal about whomever it's being applied to.
It's really common for doctors to just suggest that people eat less (even really low amounts like 1000 or 1200) if they aren't having success at a higher number. That's because doctors tend to assume people don't count well and are really eating lots more than they think.2 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »You were morbidly obese and lost 10lbs a month over 10 months
So you have been eating at an 1100 calorie per day defecit
Don't know your stats but let's pretend you're a moderately active 200lb, 35 year old male at around 5'8 ...your TDEE would be around 3000 calories a day
You were not ingesting 800- 1000 cals and working out twice a day that would have put you in net negative and over 10 months you would have lost a damn sight more weight
I was 318, I'm 33 and I'm 5'10". You also have zero way of knowing my metabolism. My doctor suggested we do 800 - 1000 after 1500-1800 maintained. With my physiology I started gaining at about 2000 calories per day.
The silly part of all of your math is that it doesn't take into consideration anything personal about whomever it's being applied to.
It's really common for doctors to just suggest that people eat less (even really low amounts like 1000 or 1200) if they aren't having success at a higher number. That's because doctors tend to assume people don't count well and are really eating lots more than they think.
This.
If I read a thread and see signs that the OP is not logging properly, I will say yes go ahead and cut calories even if the calorie level the OP thinks/says he is eating is lower than I would normally suggest. (And keep in mind that I am an "eat as much as possible while losing weight" kind of person.) It doesn't matter how much you think you are eating because your body operates based on actual biology/physics, not fantasy/wishing/hoping/thinking, and your fat loss will follow accordingly.0 -
Is 11 pounds in 7 months slow? That would be 0.4 pounds lost per week. That is slow-ish but its not glacial. If OP is 188 pounds and wants to get to 150 that isn't THAT much to lose. Could she reasonable lose another 15 pounds in 4 months...yeah, definately. 40 in 4 months...no. Is the added stress of pushing herself past her natural limit worth "speeding up" the weight loss when right now she is losing weight? Well, not sure it is really. She isn't in a weight category where her health is in immediate jepordy so there is no need to lose the weight NOW. What is more important is the weight eventually comes off and if its more likely to come of doing what she has been doing rather than risk burning out from stress trying to push herself harder than she naturally will do is that really the best advice?5
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I didnt intend on being rude but cico is the only way.
the maths is simple. if someone is on a daily deficit of 50c or 100c their weight loss will be very very slow.0 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »Is 11 pounds in 7 months slow? That would be 0.4 pounds lost per week. That is slow-ish but its not glacial. If OP is 188 pounds and wants to get to 150 that isn't THAT much to lose. Could she reasonable lose another 15 pounds in 4 months...yeah, definately. 40 in 4 months...no. Is the added stress of pushing herself past her natural limit worth "speeding up" the weight loss when right now she is losing weight? Well, not sure it is really. She isn't in a weight category where her health is in immediate jepordy so there is no need to lose the weight NOW. What is more important is the weight eventually comes off and if its more likely to come of doing what she has been doing rather than risk burning out from stress trying to push herself harder than she naturally will do is that really the best advice?
Agreed. 11 pounds in 7 months seems like a nice sustainable rate to me.2 -
shredcamps wrote: »I didnt intend on being rude but cico is the only way.
the maths is simple. if someone is on a daily deficit of 50c or 100c their weight loss will be very very slow.
Not arguing with you about the math, just that laziness isn't the only reason someone may experience slower than desired/expected losses. 0 -
Wow, this is why I don't post for this kind of advice. There is so much snark, bad attitude, and poor information to weed through it is hard to find a useful nugget of recommendation(s).
I disagree. There has been a tremendous amount of helpful information here... with just a couple of pieces of bad advice and some negativity.
OP I think it is great you have lost some weight so far and want to continue losing because you are excited about a trip with your spouse. I'm generally not a fan of deadline based weight loss goals because they tend to put undue pressure on a person, and often lead to taking drastic, unsustainable measures. That said, I think with increased attention on your logging, setting a goal of losing 1 lb/week, and some focus on strength training - you would likely see great results that would make you (and hubby) very happy without making the next four months miserable. Because let's be honest, you want to spend the next four months looking forward to your big trip, not stressing about what you are going to weigh, cutting back calories too aggressively so that you are crabby, tired and miserable in the mean time.
Good luck!3 -
shredcamps wrote: »rchlthompson wrote: »Let's get real....I am not trying to start an argument, but.....you have only lost 11 pounds in 7 months. Why haven't you lost the weight already?
I've been debating for a while on whether or not to respond to what you wrote. I decided that for the sake of OP, I needed to. What you wrote is extremely rude and incredibly insensitive. She has lost weight, and that is the important part regardless of the road she has ahead of her. Didn't your mother ever tell you if you didn't have anything nice to say not to say anything at all? Shame on you. Losing weight is one of the most difficult things a person can do. They certainly don't need snarky remarks from somebody they don't even know. I was asking for advice, not insults.
OP- just keep plugging along. Losing it slowly is the way to go, trust me.
there are two viewpoints on this to be honest.
one is yes, it was rude.
the other is, 11lbs in 7 months is not really trying hard at all.
sometimes people just need to hear the truth
Yeah that was rude you don't know me you don't know my story you don't have the right to say something like that!!!!5 -
Personally I feel when someone has a plan they are currently executing that has them losing weight in a sustainable way there has to be a VERY good reason to suggest or advise that they change what they are doing. If it ain't broke, why fix it. Sustained wieghtloss is whats important, speed of loss is what gets people tripped up and causes them to abandon completely.8
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Wow, this is why I don't post for this kind of advice. There is so much snark, bad attitude, and poor information to weed through it is hard to find a useful nugget of recommendation(s).
There is some of that but most of the posts are pretty informative if you read them. The discussions can be rather tangled at times but most are pretty much in agreement that it's not worth pushing it that hard. If you are looking for diverse opinions it's not bad but if you want bias confirmation/permission and are just cherry picking for those that tell you what you want to hear than their isn't any point in posting here anyway. The OP got a lot of useful advise and understands that, but unfortunately she did get some rude/snarky answers and that's just the way it always is on a large public forum.
I wish you the best in your weight loss.
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shredcamps wrote: »rchlthompson wrote: »Let's get real....I am not trying to start an argument, but.....you have only lost 11 pounds in 7 months. Why haven't you lost the weight already?
I've been debating for a while on whether or not to respond to what you wrote. I decided that for the sake of OP, I needed to. What you wrote is extremely rude and incredibly insensitive. She has lost weight, and that is the important part regardless of the road she has ahead of her. Didn't your mother ever tell you if you didn't have anything nice to say not to say anything at all? Shame on you. Losing weight is one of the most difficult things a person can do. They certainly don't need snarky remarks from somebody they don't even know. I was asking for advice, not insults.
OP- just keep plugging along. Losing it slowly is the way to go, trust me.
there are two viewpoints on this to be honest.
one is yes, it was rude.
the other is, 11lbs in 7 months is not really trying hard at all.
sometimes people just need to hear the truth
Yeah that was rude you don't know me you don't know my story you don't have the right to say something like that!!!!
When people post online why do they only want to see happy replies?
if you dont like the answers, dont ask the questions.0 -
I rally think half the battle is caring about what you weigh .. at least for me when I gained I did not care and just ate how ever much I felt like .. unfortunately
TO OP ... keep caring and you will get where your going ..
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shredcamps wrote: »shredcamps wrote: »rchlthompson wrote: »Let's get real....I am not trying to start an argument, but.....you have only lost 11 pounds in 7 months. Why haven't you lost the weight already?
I've been debating for a while on whether or not to respond to what you wrote. I decided that for the sake of OP, I needed to. What you wrote is extremely rude and incredibly insensitive. She has lost weight, and that is the important part regardless of the road she has ahead of her. Didn't your mother ever tell you if you didn't have anything nice to say not to say anything at all? Shame on you. Losing weight is one of the most difficult things a person can do. They certainly don't need snarky remarks from somebody they don't even know. I was asking for advice, not insults.
OP- just keep plugging along. Losing it slowly is the way to go, trust me.
there are two viewpoints on this to be honest.
one is yes, it was rude.
the other is, 11lbs in 7 months is not really trying hard at all.
sometimes people just need to hear the truth
Yeah that was rude you don't know me you don't know my story you don't have the right to say something like that!!!!
When people post online why do they only want to see happy replies?
if you dont like the answers, dont ask the questions.
Although I don't feel the need to really get into it I do agree with this sentiment. If you ask the general public for their opinion on something just because there is an opinion that is voiced that you don't like doesn't make that person rude...you asked them for their opinion and they gave it...there is no rule that says one can only give opinions others like. You can ignore it, nothing says you have to acknowledge everyones opinion.5 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »When I was reading your post I thought to myself "this guy sounds like an infomercial"...then I got to the end of your post and realized I was reading an infomercial.
When you boot this guy's post MFP feel free to boot my response as well.
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