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lose 200lbs in less then a year ?
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I'm now at 479 lbs and i should be happy with with a total of 10 lbs lost so far but i feel I'm not losing enough fast enough if i am to reach my goal i need to lose 16.67 pounds a month and only losing 10 just won't cut it so I'm going to have to find a way to kick it up a lvl.
I think 10lbs is great, well done .. onto the next 10 and the next and the next..
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I’m also kind of invested in your story now, I’m glad so many people are cheering you on. 10 pounds in a month is awesome! You can do this! Keep up the great work!4
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cmriverside wrote: »Hasn't quite been a month yet, right? And you haven't had that fancy body-weight scale for that whole time either.
I'd say WOOT on the ten pounds lost, my friend. :flowerforyou: Really well done!
Agreed! Ten pounds a month is better than zero!5 -
I'm now at 479 lbs and i should be happy with with a total of 10 lbs lost so far but i feel I'm not losing enough fast enough if i am to reach my goal i need to lose 16.67 pounds a month and only losing 10 just won't cut it so I'm going to have to find a way to kick it up a lvl.
Dude! 10 lbs in a month is amazing!
Be patient with this process. Pushing too hard may result in some short term gains, but won't matter in the long run. 2 lbs a week is a massive amount for your body to adjust to, especially when you want to focus on lowering your body fat % and minimize muscle loss.11 -
Yes...the body sure aches with extra weight on..I have 100-125 to lose. My feet and knees ache a lot. I try to do things that help with inflammation. Ice the joints...stretch...every 5 lbs you lose will be 15lbs of impact off your joints. You can do this. Be gentle with yourself and just focus on the food part right now and logging it in. Stretch...ice swollen joints throughout the day....as you lose weight...you can pick up walking a bit...0
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just to say, I think you've done great so far. I understand you are eager to see the scales drop, but 10lbs is nothing to be disappointed about. You've got this, and all these people rooting for you!2
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Now down to 477 so 12lbs lost this month so far43
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Actually 12 pound loss for the month is fantastic. Keep up the good work.4
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Way to go. Look for how you are succeeding and not for reasons your success is not good enough. Remember every time you feel like progress is to slow, that Sept. 26th, 2017 @ 489 is the highest weight you are ever going to be for the whole rest of your life as long as you decide to not give up.
FYI - You can "be able to start training for a spartan race next year" no matter how much you lose. In fact, you can start now by walking.12 -
Cheering you on from Maryland!2
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I stumbled across this guy's thread the other day. He went from 511 pounds to 175 pounds over the course of 5 years. Possibly an inspiring thread to browse for motivation, or a source of insight from a new potential MFP contact? http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10121458/from-511-to-175-a-336-lb-loss-over-5-years/p1. There are actually several such threads on the MFP forums so if this one inspires maybe you can find some others as well?
Best of luck to you; it seems you're off to a great start!4 -
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12. Excellent. 1
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476lbs19
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Good! Looked up Spartan races. That looks super hard!1
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What she said (Sephira Allen)! Your goal of 200 lbs in 365 days =1.825 lbs a day. That level of weight loss can be achieved 3 ways: Strategic regular fasting using specific nutrients. A stomach band placed in surgery. A medical diet with a physical therapy program. All 3 must be supervised by physicians due to potentially catastrophic effects that cannot be known or predicted. Speak to an obesity clinic. They can direct you. While you work on accessing that, start on your own: Tell all your people-network what you are doing. Ask them to help by doing it with you, or not bringing to you or to your face anything you won't eat. We are not fat alone, someone, or many someones are helping. Tell them to stop. Don't be proud.
Get Tim Ferris' book, The 4 Hour Body. Go on YouTube and play his videos. Go look at Tom DeLauer's too, and pay attention. The first step is learning how your body and mind works, how we gain or lose weight, what's good to eat and what is not, what nutrients do what inside you.
Next, return, trade, donate all junk in your pantry. That is cruel but necessary. Remove all sweets, sodas, juices, alcohols, breads, flours, rice, starchy veggies, dips, ice cream, and GMOs. Replace with fresh foods, leafy greens, cauliflower, broccoli, brussels, asparagus. Boil, Bake and Broil, do not fry anything. Delete sauces, gravies, ketchup, and read all labels. Never buy or eat that stuff again as they are like poison to your system, raising your weight. Stick to lean meats, fish, etc.. You will save a ton of money too, while losing weight.
Follow this fitness app logging everything, even water and spices. You don't need a much cash to get scales. My food scale was 35 bucks. My home scale was 60. A higher weight one may be double that, but sometimes a doctor or hospital may have a used one for sale. Even an insurance company can help you get one. Call your insurance benefits people, tell them what you want. It's important or you are guessing wrong. You will have no beginning, no progress and no end that's visible. That will destroy all motivation. Your weight and your food's weight are crucial intelligence that keep you aware of intake amount and results.
A lot depends on where you live too, so that info would be useful for us to better guide and help you. Let us know. Good luck, post soon.31 -
No, 200lb in 365 days is not 1.8 lb per day - it is less than 1 lb per day.
However it is still probably too aggressive - I think OP needs to aim for a loss rate of around 2lb per week, maybe bit more - so 8 -10 lb per month, 120ish lb per year in the first year, maybe 80 in the second year.
So 2 year total would be a good goal.
There is also no need to throw out all sweets, sodas, juices alcohols, breads, flours, rice, starchy vegetables, dips, ice cream,GMOs, sauces gravies ,ketchups.
They are not poison to your system- that is just silly hyper bole.
That would be a very drastic and restrictive diet - and most people do better making tweaks to their diet and reducing portions sizes rather than such a drastic over haul
I see no need to log water or spices either - since they have no calories why would one need to do that?
OP - make the process as easy for yourself as possible - you in are in this for the long haul and are much more likely to succeed long term if you do not make it unneccesarily difficult.17 -
great work! keep working hard! set aside some $$ for new clothes.. you could save a dollar a pound lost .4
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What she said (Sephira Allen)! Your goal of 200 lbs in 365 days =1.825 lbs a day. That level of weight loss can be achieved 3 ways: Strategic regular fasting using specific nutrients. A stomach band placed in surgery. A medical diet with a physical therapy program. All 3 must be supervised by physicians due to potentially catastrophic effects that cannot be known or predicted. Speak to an obesity clinic. They can direct you. While you work on accessing that, start on your own: Tell all your people-network what you are doing. Ask them to help by doing it with you, or not bringing to you or to your face anything you won't eat. We are not fat alone, someone, or many someones are helping. Tell them to stop. Don't be proud.
Get Tim Ferris' book, The 4 Hour Body. Go on YouTube and play his videos. Go look at Tom DeLauer's too, and pay attention. The first step is learning how your body and mind works, how we gain or lose weight, what's good to eat and what is not, what nutrients do what inside you.
Next, return, trade, donate all junk in your pantry. That is cruel but necessary. Remove all sweets, sodas, juices, alcohols, breads, flours, rice, starchy veggies, dips, ice cream, and GMOs. Replace with fresh foods, leafy greens, cauliflower, broccoli, brussels, asparagus. Boil, Bake and Broil, do not fry anything. Delete sauces, gravies, ketchup, and read all labels. Never buy or eat that stuff again as they are like poison to your system, raising your weight. Stick to lean meats, fish, etc.. You will save a ton of money too, while losing weight.
Follow this fitness app logging everything, even water and spices. You don't need a much cash to get scales. My food scale was 35 bucks. My home scale was 60. A higher weight one may be double that, but sometimes a doctor or hospital may have a used one for sale. Even an insurance company can help you get one. Call your insurance benefits people, tell them what you want. It's important or you are guessing wrong. You will have no beginning, no progress and no end that's visible. That will destroy all motivation. Your weight and your food's weight are crucial intelligence that keep you aware of intake amount and results.
A lot depends on where you live too, so that info would be useful for us to better guide and help you. Let us know. Good luck, post soon.
Seriously friend, he does NOT HAVE TO DO ALL THIS *kitten* in order to lose weight.
He REALLY REALLY DOESN'T.
Don't
make
this
HARDER
than
it
has
to
be
And 10lbs - 12lbs a month is PERFECTLY FINE.
in fact a 25% deficit off of TDEE while obese is fine.
The higher deficits you're implicitly advocating for are against the TOS of this site... with good reason. Because they DO require medical supervision to be done "safely".
And, they are NOT **NECESSARY** in order for the guy to lose the weight he needs to and to keep it off.
In case it is not clear OP: a) you're doing fine b) don't drop your calories sooner or more than you have to in order to get reasonably good results c) you don't have to do it all in a year, nor should you want to.*
*because for people who start out morbidly obese weight management is not something that will ever stop. So you HAVE to find a way that works for you... LONG term.30 -
Seriously friend, he does NOT HAVE TO DO ALL THIS *kitten* in order to lose weight.
He REALLY REALLY DOESN'T.
Don't
make
this
HARDER
than
it
has
to
be
And 10lbs - 12lbs a month is PERFECTLY FINE.
in fact a 25% deficit off of TDEE while obese is fine.
The higher deficits you're implicitly advocating for are against the TOS of this site... with good reason. Because they DO require medical supervision to be done "safely".
And, they are NOT **NECESSARY** in order for the guy to lose the weight he needs to and to keep it off.
In case it is not clear OP: a) you're doing fine b) don't drop your calories sooner or more than you have to in order to get reasonably good results c) you don't have to do it all in a year, nor should you want to.*
*because for people who start out morbidly obese weight management is not something that will ever stop. So you HAVE to find a way that works for you... LONG term.
Yes. Good God YES to all of this. You don't need anyone to tell you what you have to do, especially when you're enjoying reasonable success. Sure, you should have the blessing of a doctor. And doctors will throw out advice sometimes but it usually boils down to avoid fats/carbs/whatever, which you only actually have to do if you have a medical condition that warrants it. Or they might insist on a 1,000 or 800 calorie goal, which is extreme and not entirely necessary.
Right now, you're doing you and it's working. I'm sure if you get stuck, you'll ask for advice.12 -
mygrl4meee wrote: »great work! keep working hard! set aside some $$ for new clothes.. you could save a dollar a pound lost .
Yeah. I never considered the cost of clothes. Sometimes I wish I had. Goodwill has not been kind to me, either.3 -
I agree with the posters above. Not everything that's been said about removing 'poisons' from your food supplies, etc. was strictly wrong, but I'm not sure it's the best way to start a life change. If this is going to be sustainable for you for the long haul it needs to be evolution rather than revolution. And one of the most effective ways to break down this process into mentally manageable parts is to separate 'weight loss' from 'nutrition'—at least at first, then add more steps gradually. It's obviously important to consider nutrition, but at this early stage that can overcomplicate your goal-setting, in part because it's an issue that has become subjective (low carb or not, what does 'clean' eating mean, which supplements to take, etc.). In contrast, weight loss is straight-up thermodynamics. There is nothing subjective or ambiguous about the formula of 3500-calorie deficit = 1 pound of fat 'burned'.***
In theory, even if you are nothing but junk food within your calorie limit, you'd still lose. This is problematic in other ways, including that highly processed foods tend not to sate and nourish; this means, if nothing else, that you could find it harder to keep within your calorie limit because you might get hungry again quickly between meals. So if you use the early weeks or months of this process to experiment with what combination of protein/fat/carbs seems to best keep you comfortably sated, that's a step toward helping you stay in the right thermodynamic zone for your CICO goals long term. When you've got that then maybe start strategically Googling meal ideas (if not to follow recipes then even just to look at pictures that give you ideas for other meals you might like—I do it to help me not get stuck in a rut).
Nutrition-related stuff can then be gradually worked in without a calorie shift for different types of dietary improvement; for example, if you were to exchange a 500-calorie serving of (store/restaurant) french fries with a 500-calorie serving of baked potato + plenty of butter you might be keeping your calories and even macros the same while making a nutritional shift in a way your body will thank you for later. And then maybe incorporate a bit more in the way of green leafy vegetables or whatever seems like a practical next step. And so on from there.
You're off to a great start, now I think 13 pounds down? Keep it up!
***Note: When fat is 'burned' it doesn't disappear in a puff of smoke, it's converted into a combination of carbon dioxide and water that we then pee, sweat, and breathe out with our daily activity (another good reason to keep one's body moving). This may be why some people believe that they can't lose weight when they eat a lot of carboHYDRATES and sodium, because the fat is converted but the cells keep trying to hold onto the water.
EDITED with apologies at the request of a wrongly named party in the original version of this post.3 -
I have only had time to read the first 4 pages of this thread but I didn't want to read and run without saying well done on such a great start!2
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Hay guys i doing to need some advice doctor told me today that i have to lose 50lbs or more in 2 months so i am that i can get surgery that i really needs that he would like to do as soon as tomorrow but its to high risk and needs to lose 50lbs. So he said i need to cut out carbs like almost altogether.
Anyone have any meal ideas low on carbs and high in protein?
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suzannesimmons3 wrote: »
im struggling to believe a doctor would demand such a dangerous loss in such a small timeframe
Yep tell me about it but it said its fine and will be ok i even tryed to tell him it's unhealthy to lose more then 2 lbs a weeks with out doctors supervision but he said it is fine for me to do this.0 -
That is very typical for bariatric surgery. They like you to lose 10% of your weight. The loss will help your liver to shrink some which makes the surgery easier and possible in heavier patients. They also use it to guage the commitment you can put towards such a drastic surgery and change of life. BJ I am six weeks out from a bariatric surgery and the more you can lose before surgery the better it will be for you. Transition to eating more meat and the carbs you get should be from vegetables and fruits. Also after you have the surgery that is how you will be eating. Protein first then to balance the meal with vegetables and fruits.0
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The sergery is to remove my tyroides and parathyroids and the tumors on them. Not a bypass surgery.1
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