Need advice, trying to lose 10 pounds in a month and need help with my nutrition.
plasmadoku
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Hey I am new to this. I'm doing trying to lose about 10 pounds in around a month. I've started to change my diet yesterday. I've been mainly eating, Eggs and protein and not much else.
I need advice to incorporate more nutritious food. I'm not too much cook savy.
I weigh 173 and trying to get to 163.
For Calories it's about 1,084 per day.
For workouts usually I run a half a mile to a mile 6 times a day, doing more weight work outs and core workouts 6 days a week. But usually in a total of 30-45 min
I need advice to incorporate more nutritious food. I'm not too much cook savy.
I weigh 173 and trying to get to 163.
For Calories it's about 1,084 per day.
For workouts usually I run a half a mile to a mile 6 times a day, doing more weight work outs and core workouts 6 days a week. But usually in a total of 30-45 min
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I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but 10lbs in a month won't happen. You are not very heavy to start with. You're not saying whether you're male or female, but males should not eat less than 1500 calories per day, and females not less than 1200. MFP won't allow you a lower number anyway. Your body needs this minimum amount of food to function, to get all necessary nutrition and to preserve muscles. The risk of eating so little, even if it's just for a month is that you'll look haggard, sick, lose hair and muscle along the way. Or you give up or binge. Why not eat a sustainable amount of calories and do things a bit slower? There's just no need to punish yourself. Make it as enjoyable as possible, reach your goal and keep the weight off.4
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Yeah, don't do it.
Your MFP profile says you're male. Even if you're shorter than average, 1084 calories daily, and in addition running 3-6 miles a day, plus 6 days of weights and core workouts . . . that's extremely unhealthy. Major health risk territory!
At one point, I weighed what you do now, and lost down to the 163 and below (because I'm likely a smaller human, plus female). If I could've done 10 pounds in a month, it would've lead to terrible outcomes. I had some bad outcomes when accidentally losing faster than intended, but slower than that. Don't do it. Don't even try it. That's my advice. Do something more sensible.
Eating at 1084 calories, you may even be at zero or fewer net calories, i.e., as if you were eating nothing, or below. You can't get reasonable nutrition on 1084 calories, and some basic number of net calories is the absolute foundation of health (and good appearance, if that's among your goals.)
A sensible loss rate IMO is in the range of 0.5-1% of current weight per week as a loss rate, with a bias toward the lower end of that unless severely obese and under close medical supervision for deficiencies or health complications. For you, that would be around .8 to 1.7 pounds a week, or around a 400-850 calorie daily deficit, preferably more toward the 400. A pound a week is probably OK, 500 calories daily.
Other people use a rule of thumb of cutting no more than 20-25% off current total calorie needs. We don't know enough about you to know what number that is, but it's for sure above 1084.
Eat more. I'd say eat some veggies and fruits, in addition to your eggs and protein. We need protein and fats, but we also can benefit if we get adequate fiber, micronutrients like vitamins and minerals (pills/powders aren't a great substitute), pre- and pro-biotics, beneficial phytochemicals, and more. Eat some fatty cold-water fish for Omega-3s, too, if you eat fish.
Fancy cooking isn't necessary. Cook some meat/fish in a simple way, fry some eggs in a small amount of good fats or hard-boil/poach them, microwave some frozen vegetables or roast some fresh ones, eat raw whole fresh fruit. The internet will tell you how to do basic cooking like that. It's easy, I promise.
Best wishes!
P.S. The real prize here isn't reaching X pounds, it's finding a way to reach a healthy weight while well-nourished, healthfully active, enjoying our eating routine, then stay at that healthy weight long term, ideally permanently, relying on the new happy habits we learned.
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If you were obese it would be potentially doable however at your stats it wont happen from a fat loss standpoint. No carbs. Sweat suit and diuretics will lose 10 lbs of water however that accomplishes nothing except stressing the body in a very negative way.
Take it slower and in a sensible way.2
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