Can i lose 40 lbs in 4months?
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courtneyfabulous wrote: »courtneyfabulous wrote: »The max you can probably lose 8 pounds a month, and that's with a deep deficit and very good adherence. So 40 in 4 months is probably not doable. You could lose faster than your current rate though which is an average of 1.5 lbs a month.
Personally I think you should try for 1 pound a week (4 pounds a month) at the most and see how you do. I can understand wanting to lose faster than you are now, but trying to lose too fast doesn't work well either.
She's lost 11 pounds in 7 months. That's not 1.5 pounds per week. Where did you come up with that number?
I said her current rate of loss is 1.5 pounds a month.
Please read before commenting.
Courtney, my apologies asking for clarification on a misread, but there is no need to be snarky abut it.
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You absolutely CAN lose forty pounds in four months. It really depends on how badly you want it, and how much you're willing to sacrifice to get it. Thus far I've lost just shy of 100 pounds since last Christmas, and admittedly, I've been stale for the last two to three months. I'm 33 years old, and was sitting at between 800-1000 calories per day. With that, I was hitting the gym twice per day, five days per week.
The only slight caveat I would have is that you might want to check with a medical professional if you're not 100% healthy. My weight loss was supervised by my doctor. I asked him what his thoughts were about eating as few as 1000 or less calories, and he essentially explained to me that you essentially can't starve to death if you have stored fat. In fact, for morbidly obese patients he puts then on 800-1000 calorie per day diets.
It doesn't seem like it, but 1000 calories can actually be a lot of food if you're eating the right kind of foods. Almost any veggies are great, fruits can be a little tricky as they can be higher in sugars and carbs. Fish, chicken and some beef are good. I say some beef, I mean, in moderation as its a little more fatty and calorie rich than chicken and fish.
At the end of the day don't let anyone tell you that you can't lose it, you absolutely can. I'm going back on this plan starting tomorrow (just finished making all my meals for tomorrow). My goal is to lose another 25 pounds on the next 45 days.
You can dice this up how ever you want, but recommending a weight loss of this magnitude unsupervised by a medical team to someone that only has 40 pounds to lose (and this is per OP) is bad advice and I hope anyone that lurks into this thread will ignore this advice..
And you plan to do this again with only 25 more to lose.. this too is irresponsible even to do this to yourself.
Its like saying go on ahead and do a medically supervised diet unsupervised with any number of pounds you want to lose rather that is 5 - 10- 25 - 100..
OP am not sure the reason for the time frame of 4 months to lose 40 pounds, just keep following the method you are doing, it will add additional time but doing this in a healthy and sustainable is the best method. Plus instead of losing so aggressively you can preserve as much of your muscle mass as you can so that you lose as much fat as possible and not both muscle and fat.7 -
How have you lost 11lbs in 7 months?
Weigh and log your food accurately
Move more
Do this consistently over time
Set yourself whatever target you like ...but really 1% bodyweight per week is a healthy and sustainable guideline ...
^^^ This
Also congratulations on your loss so far. 5 -
What I don't get is why you want to swing from one extreme to the other. Your previous rate of loss was slow, fine, you want to speed it up, that's understandable, but why not speed it up to 1lb a week? Most people find that rate of loss pretty achievable and sustainable over the long term. 10lb a month, though, is a very big deficit, extremely hard to maintain and probably setting yourself up for failure, or at best for a miserable few months. Why? What's the advantage? At 1lb a week you can see the results as the scale ticks down, but you're still eating enough to enjoy life, have the odd cupcake or Starbuck's trip, not have to turn down birthday cake or free cookies at work - what's the advantage of rushing?5
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Also we're coming up on Christmas, do you really want to have to maintain a crazy deficit when all the world is full of goodies? I certainly wouldn't.0
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I'm thinking about your numbers. Your sedentary TDEE might be around 1800 or so. You want to lose about 2.3lb a week. Given that you need about a 3500 calorie deficit for each pound, that would be 8050 a week, or 1150 a day. So, if sedentary, you'd be eating about 650 calories a day to lose at that rate. And that's to start with. As your TDEE dropped, you'd have to drop the calories to lose at the same rate. By the time you'd lost the 40lb, your sedentary TDEE would be closer to 1600 than 1800 and so your daily calories would be 450. To me, that's getting into the realms of a crash diet that should be medically supervised.
I think there are ways to lose weight a bit more quickly (low carb seems to drop some weight quickly initially), but 40 pounds in four months does seem ambitious for somebody with your stats. Well done on the 11 pound lost, and good luck with the rest!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 helps9 -
I think the question is the wrong one. The answer to your question is "yes" but the two questions you should really be asking, and asking yourself, are 1) "is it necessary to lose that much so quickly" 2) "can I sustain my weight for the long haul". If you can answer yes to both then sure, but if no to either one then try a slower approach. Good luck to you.5
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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
How FUN that you'll be going on a trip with your hubby soon!
20 pounds is more doable, but you first need to find out were you inaccuracies in calories in/calories out are.
Did you consider the questions I asked in my initial response?What did you set your goals to lose? If you are losing it slower than you anticipated, you might be eating a little more than you realize. Do you weigh your solid food and measure your liquids? Log everything you eat?
Do you exercise and count those calories? Eat any of them back? If so, where do you get your numbers from?
It's important to find out where your inaccuracies are so that you can eat the amount of food for a quicker weight loss of 1 pound per week, or even a half pound a week. But, you need to be diligent in making sure your intake/output is accurate.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
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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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