Weight loss 8 kgs

8-10 kg in two months is a punitively unhealthful plan - probably unachievable or unsustainable unless you weigh well over (say) 200 kg. You'd need to be losing 2kg+ per week, which means eating around 2200-3000 calories fewer than you burn. Unless you're severely obese or very active athletically or both, that would likely mean eating (net) only a few hundred calories per day on average for two months. Not healthy, not sustainable, probably not even doable. Calories are the foundation of healthy eating, plus there's no way to get adequate nutrition on severely low calories.

When it comes to vegetarianism, there's nothing special about vegetarianism and weight loss, other than it's harder for vegetarians than omnivores to get enough protein and certain other nutrition on greatly reduced calories. (I'm not a pro-meat bigot when I say this; I've been vegetarian for more than 50 years. I'm being real.)

I could give you tips on reduced-calorie vegetarian eating, but there's no way for me to do that within a calorie plan that doesn't sound reasonable or achievable to me, I'm sorry to say.

What's the rush? I'd say, give it a re-think, come back with a more achievable goal . . . say, 0.5% of current weight lost per week, maybe up to 1% if you're so severely obese that your weight is an acute health threat AND you're under close medical supervision for deficiencies or complications.

I'm not trying to be harsh or mean here, honestly. Think of me as your concerned old internet surrogate auntie who wants you to stay healthy and thriving while you meet your weight loss goals. That's 100% where I'm coming from. Reaching a healthy weight has been a huge boon for my quality of life: I want that for everyone. A healthy, realistic plan is the route to get there, IME.

Best wishes!

stevesc1 wrote: »

8 kg equals 17.6 lbs If you assume that with a significant change in your diet you can drop 3.6 lbs of water/waste in transit type of weight then that would leave 14 lbs to lose in 2months. 2 months is 8.6 weeks, so 14/8.6 is approximately 1.63 lbs per week. If you are significantly overweight or obese this is a reasonable weight loss pace that could easily be achieved with some discipline.

Anytime these types of questions come up relating to wanting to lose x amount of weight in y time frame people often fail to account for the initial water/waste etc in the calculation.

1. You can't count on that water/waste change, and
2. Almost all of that will come back as soon as the person returns to maintenance calories.

That would be why I wouldn't include it in the thought process: I'm assuming people are aiming for X amount of fat loss, ideally permanent fat loss, in the give time period.

That's in addition to my admittedly curmudgeonly opinion that the calendar, used in that fashion, is a poor weight loss tool.