How much did you lose your first month?

JJS1979 wrote: »

Based on your question your mindset appears to want to lose weight as fast as possible. In my opinion this is not the right mindset. Whatever you do in terms of exercise and nutrition, you need to make sure you can do that forever. So if you are going to the gym 3 hours a day, 7 days a week and eating 1200 calories a day, you will lose a lot of weight but you will never be able to maintain that and will ultimately gain all your weight back and probably more.

Start out slow, and work your way up to more exercise and controlling calories, I would use one of the many TDEE calculators and subtract 10-15% from that number and adjust from there but never to the point you are starving yourself. As for exercise, start by walking 2-3 times a week and then add in the gym 1-2 times a week and increase from there.

To answer your question, I lost 3 lbs my first week (1.5% of starting bodyfat) and over the next 18 months I lost another 33lbs and live a healthy lifestyle, one that i can maintain forever.

One thing I said to myself was that if I am going to do this for the rest of my life, why does it matter how fast the results come, as long as they are achieved. Goodluck!

JJS1979 wrote: »

Based on your question your mindset appears to want to lose weight as fast as possible. In my opinion this is not the right mindset. Whatever you do in terms of exercise and nutrition, you need to make sure you can do that forever. So if you are going to the gym 3 hours a day, 7 days a week and eating 1200 calories a day, you will lose a lot of weight but you will never be able to maintain that and will ultimately gain all your weight back and probably more.

Start out slow, and work your way up to more exercise and controlling calories, I would use one of the many TDEE calculators and subtract 10-15% from that number and adjust from there but never to the point you are starving yourself. As for exercise, start by walking 2-3 times a week and then add in the gym 1-2 times a week and increase from there.

To answer your question, I lost 3 lbs my first week (1.5% of starting bodyfat) and over the next 18 months I lost another 33lbs and live a healthy lifestyle, one that i can maintain forever.

One thing I said to myself was that if I am going to do this for the rest of my life, why does it matter how fast the results come, as long as they are achieved. Goodluck!