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billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »I'm 8 weeks in and losing about 6.5lbs per week.
8 weeks is enough time to provide you with actionable information about your deficit.
Unless you started at ~650lbs, or are participating in a TV show, your rate of deficit is excessive and long-term counterproductive.
If you're trying to lose weight for life participating in, or imitating, a TV show is also counterproductive in the longer term.
You may want to ask yourself: "do I see myself doing this long term"? It is a good question to ask if you want to maintain any weight loss you achieve.
Although I don't feel like its much of an accomplishment. Once I'm down under 200, I'll feel better about it.
Once both of us maintain a 60+lb weight loss for 5+ years we will both have every right to feel an even greater sense of accomplishment.
Set yourself up for maintenance.
People who yo-yo diet are good at losing weight.
You're currently acquiring food restriction and dieting skills NOT maintenance skills.
You're soon going to pass from obese levels of fat to overweight levels of fat.
Your fat to lean mass loss ratio will change and it will change even more so because of the large restriction.
While a re-feed or diet break may become necessary for you as you reduce to below 200, I don't know how you will cope with it given that you're not giving yourself time to learn how to eat and how to move over the next 5+ years, but are just trying to move from obese to normal weight instanly and then magically maintain.
What happens the first time the scale doesn't reflect your hard work?
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billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »I'm 8 weeks in and losing about 6.5lbs per week.
8 weeks is enough time to provide you with actionable information about your deficit.
Unless you started at ~650lbs, or are participating in a TV show, your rate of deficit is excessive and long-term counterproductive.
If you're trying to lose weight for life participating in, or imitating, a TV show is also counterproductive in the longer term.
You may want to ask yourself: "do I see myself doing this long term"? It is a good question to ask if you want to maintain any weight loss you achieve.
None of the above. Just working hard and eating right. Started at 270 mid July and now 217 as of Sunday.
IMO, that's not "eating right". That's risk-your-health-and-muscle-mass undereating. JMO, though - it's your body. It's just that I wouldn't want to contribute to 3rd party readers thinking this is anything like a good plan.10 -
billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »I'm 8 weeks in and losing about 6.5lbs per week.
If you are taking all the weight you have lost and dividing it by 8 to get your average that can be misleading because in the beginning you might have lost a large amount of water weight. What has your rate of loss been in the last 3 weeks?
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1lb per week average for about 20-22lb then shifted to 0.25-0.5lb per week.
I took a break to maintain whenI hit 25lb but decided to try and cut 5-10 more. It’s slow going2 -
Coming up on my 1 year anniversary in a week or so, and I've lost 130 lbs so far (285 lbs - 155 lbs), so that comes to 2.5 lbs a week on average, but it's been not at all linear -- some weeks I lose five lbs, other weeks I gain three, and anything in between!1
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billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »I'm 8 weeks in and losing about 6.5lbs per week.
If you are taking all the weight you have lost and dividing it by 8 to get your average that can be misleading because in the beginning you might have lost a large amount of water weight. What has your rate of loss been in the last 3 weeks?
Correct. Last 3 weeks has been 7lbs.
I am assuming you mean 7lbs total or 2.3ish pounds per week. At 217 you are really at risk of having your body eat away at your muscle instead of just fat to sustain that rate of loss. You should strongly consider reducing your RoL to 1.5lbs per week to preserve as much muscle as you can. You don't want to end up "skinny fat" when you are done.
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I'm losing around 0.5lb per week, I don't have a lot to lose and more working on lowering my bodyfat. I find weight loss is easier as I age, mostly because I am more knowledgeable and aware of how to do it. In the past I thought I had to eat 100% healthy and do lots of cardio. Now I know it's about being in a deficit over time, with exercise for fun, fitness and body composition.8
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I'm losing around 0.5lb per week, I don't have a lot to lose and more working on lowering my bodyfat. I find weight loss is easier as I age, mostly because I am more knowledgeable and aware of how to do it. In the past I thought I had to eat 100% healthy and do lots of cardio. Now I know it's about being in a deficit over time, with exercise for fun, fitness and body composition.
I'll actually ditto all of this. Adding I am much older (50 yrs old) and losing weight as I get older has been no problem at all.1 -
billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »I'm 8 weeks in and losing about 6.5lbs per week.
If you are taking all the weight you have lost and dividing it by 8 to get your average that can be misleading because in the beginning you might have lost a large amount of water weight. What has your rate of loss been in the last 3 weeks?
Correct. Last 3 weeks has been 7lbs.
I am assuming you mean 7lbs total or 2.3ish pounds per week. At 217 you are really at risk of having your body eat away at your muscle instead of just fat to sustain that rate of loss. You should strongly consider reducing your RoL to 1.5lbs per week to preserve as much muscle as you can. You don't want to end up "skinny fat" when you are done.
My biggest issue is eating up to my calories. I have always only ate once a day but now its 800 calories instead of 4000. I'm never hungry either so getting to 1.5 each week would be a challenge. I've just introduced strength training into my routine with 30 min of cardio 7 days a week, 2 mile walks every day and basketball on weekends. Need some tips to figure that out, but no I'm not getting a food scale. Ain't nobody got time for dat.
That is nonsense. If you were able to eat 4000 calories you are able to eat more than 800. You need to be eating higher calorie food so that you lose at a healthy rate. 800 or thereabouts is definitely a recipe for increased muscle loss. If you stay at 800 you can look forward to much worse health problems in the future.
ETA: Read this:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10569458/why-eating-too-little-calories-is-a-bad-idea/p19 -
billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »I'm 8 weeks in and losing about 6.5lbs per week.
If you are taking all the weight you have lost and dividing it by 8 to get your average that can be misleading because in the beginning you might have lost a large amount of water weight. What has your rate of loss been in the last 3 weeks?
Correct. Last 3 weeks has been 7lbs.
I am assuming you mean 7lbs total or 2.3ish pounds per week. At 217 you are really at risk of having your body eat away at your muscle instead of just fat to sustain that rate of loss. You should strongly consider reducing your RoL to 1.5lbs per week to preserve as much muscle as you can. You don't want to end up "skinny fat" when you are done.
My biggest issue is eating up to my calories. I have always only ate once a day but now its 800 calories instead of 4000. I'm never hungry either so getting to 1.5 each week would be a challenge. I've just introduced strength training into my routine with 30 min of cardio 7 days a week, 2 mile walks every day and basketball on weekends. Need some tips to figure that out, but no I'm not getting a food scale. Ain't nobody got time for dat.
I have time for that, and I was up at 5.40 am and had done two hours of working out by lunch. Most of the people here have time for that. If you have time to post weak excuses on message boards, you have time to log properly.
You are also not ‘eating right’. You are eating way too little; burning muscle (including heart) is not ‘right’. You undoubtedly feel fine now, but by the time it stops feeling good it may be too late to fix.8 -
billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »billbobagzdathird1 wrote: »I'm 8 weeks in and losing about 6.5lbs per week.
If you are taking all the weight you have lost and dividing it by 8 to get your average that can be misleading because in the beginning you might have lost a large amount of water weight. What has your rate of loss been in the last 3 weeks?
Correct. Last 3 weeks has been 7lbs.
I am assuming you mean 7lbs total or 2.3ish pounds per week. At 217 you are really at risk of having your body eat away at your muscle instead of just fat to sustain that rate of loss. You should strongly consider reducing your RoL to 1.5lbs per week to preserve as much muscle as you can. You don't want to end up "skinny fat" when you are done.
My biggest issue is eating up to my calories. I have always only ate once a day but now its 800 calories instead of 4000. I'm never hungry either so getting to 1.5 each week would be a challenge. I've just introduced strength training into my routine with 30 min of cardio 7 days a week, 2 mile walks every day and basketball on weekends. Need some tips to figure that out, but no I'm not getting a food scale. Ain't nobody got time for dat.
That is nonsense. If you were able to eat 4000 calories you are able to eat more than 800. You need to be eating higher calorie food so that you lose at a healthy rate. 800 or thereabouts is definitely a recipe for increased muscle loss. If you stay at 800 you can look forward to much worse health problems in the future.
ETA: Read this:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10569458/why-eating-too-little-calories-is-a-bad-idea/p1
So what are higher calorie foods? That's the type of info I'm looking for not how awful of a person I am. Keep in mind I won't eat any kind of Fish and very select veggies. (Salad, raw carrots, peppers and onions).
No one is saying you are awful. I can be a bit abrupt when I am concerned about someone's health. I don't really apologize for it though.
Full fat anything is a place to start. Fatty cuts of meat. Caloric beverages. I mean it really isn't that hard to eat loads of calories or else I and the rest of the obese world wouldn't have weight to lose. What were you eating when you were getting to 4k? Eat less of that.
You don't need to eat a certain type of food to lose weight. That is a common myth. You just need to eat less calories than you burn. In your case you are eating too little. You need to make sure you hit your protein macros each day but if you have no other medical issues (like diabetes) you don't need to worry about fat or carbs.
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You need to get over your food prejudices. It is MUCH healthier to eat pizza and hit your calorie goals for the day than it is to eat too little.10
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