Lose 30lbs in 30 days??
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Really?!? What kind of question is this?0
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You are looking for a temporary fix, which will not work. As a previous MFP said, get a different dress. Your health is more important than fitting into a dress. Our health is a gift and we should not play with it. Dont mean to be hard on you!0
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The disturbing thing is you know this is unhealthy and you said you "don't care"? Please care. You only have 1 life, 1 body. Fitting into a dress is nothing to sacrifice your health for. You can do real damage by starving yourself. I really hope these responces have helped you and if not, go to your doctor and maybe he or she can help you.0
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Even though it seems virtually impossible to do - the dangers far outweigh the benefits. It is important to choose a healthy lifestyle and stick with it. I'm sure there's been a time or two that we've all wished we were 30 pounds lighter for the holidays. It is important to realize that you will get 30 pounds lighter, if you work on it. However, it is not healthy nor safe to do so in a month.0
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The word that comes to my mind is "anorexia"...seriously, go talk to a doctor! This "diet" at best is only going to leave you ravenous at the end of the day and more prone to "fail"; at worst, you'll end up in the hospital. Don't kill yourself just to fit into a dress.0
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If you wanted to lose 30lbs to fit into a dress by Christmas you should have started in August at the latest--I started in August at close you your current weight, and have lost 28 lbs to date...that's losing between 1-4 lbs a week which a lot was likely water...
30lbs in 30days is not only ridiculous but impossible. Especially if you want to continue to live your normal daily life ie: working, studying etc. because even if it were possible to limit your calories and then burn additional calories to that extreme...you would be so flippin tired that you couldn't function.
Seriously, buy a new dress-I'm sure there will be lots of gorgeous dresses on sale this time of year---take your pick!0 -
You don't necessarily have to lose pounds to fit into the dress, do you? If you were to experience a significant loss in inches while maintaining the same weight, I think the results would be similar. Either way, you're not going to reach your goal if you can't exercise during the week. Try something short like Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred or Ripped in 30... people usually have pretty good inch loss results with those, and it's only 20 minutes so I'm sure you could find a way to fit it in if you really tried. Maybe you won't fit into the dress in time for Christmas, so buy a new dress... but you'll feel better than you do now at least.0
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Wow ...
Why has losing 30 lbs become such an urgent priority on Nov 29, 2011? I see you have been a MFP member since 2010,
Have you ever in your whole life been able to lose 30 lbs in 30 days and keep it off? What makes you believe you could do it between Thanksgiving and Christmas when the food and wine is flowing and temptation is around every corner?
The notion of losing 30lbs in 30 days seems unobtainable and doomed for failure from the start. Talk about setting yourself up for a season of self-loathing, regret and personal recrimination.
With your busy schedule and the added stress of the holidays why burden yourself with more pressure and stress. While goal setting is admirable it needs to be grounded in reality.
Perhaps you could somehow jolt yourself back to the here and now and reassess your goals and priorities. Set some goals that will make you feel good about yourself now and in the future. Would you consider re-evaluating your short term goals and setting some realistic, sustainable and noticeable goals for December 2012.
For instance, your short term goal could be to lose one pound per week between now and January 2, 2012 (no small feat with the food and wine flowing). Have your holiday outfit altered or consider a smashing new a holiday outfit you look terrific in now.
Your long term goal could be to sustain a weight loss of 5lbs per month for all of 2012.
PS if you weigh 275 lbs whose picture are you using in your profile? Another goal could be to post a current picture on the first day of each month.0 -
I'm going to go against the grain here and say that it's perfectly possible to lose close to 30 pounds in a month given your starting weight if you cut out all processed food, sugar, starchy carbs, reduce your sodium and increase your protein to about 150g a day. Your diet would have to consist of lean protein like fish, lean meat, eggs and low fat dairy along with low carb veg such as celeriac, broccoli, cauliflower and babycorn - eat as much as you need of these foods in order to not feel hungry all the time. Before everyone starts arguing with me over this, a lot of the weight will be water weight so the 30 x 3500 calorie deficit doesn't hold.0
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Didn't work for Karen Carpenter very well.
Pretty much.
When I ate half a granola bar (45calories) a day, walked 5+ miles a day and took 4-6 ephedra pills a day, I still didn't lose 30lb in 30days so it's literally unachievable. Also, whether you have this goal for the month and think it'll jsut be a crash diet or not, if you don't reach it (which you 99.9% probably will not) you will have given yourself an unhealthy mindset and beat the **** out of yourself mentally. Just stating probable cause...
Be careful, you only get one body and one life to live. You don't want to be in the hospital for Christmas/New Year.0 -
If it was possible, wouldn't we all be doing it?0
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My Dad lost 30 in 6 weeks (men tend to lose faster than women), learned new healthy habits through his program and has been maintaining a healthy weight for months now. He didn't exercise more than the activity he does for work (he's a custodian). It was healthy and highly praised by the doctor. It is possible to lose 2-5 pounds a week healthy and learn how to keep it off for life. My mother has lost it slower, 50 pounds since June on the same program. My friend's mom 40 pounds since September and has also learned how to change her lifestyle to maintain her loss for the rest of her life. Is 30 pounds in 30 days possible? Probably not. The fastest results I have seen for a woman is 2-4 pounds a week.
Have you talked to your doctor and asked him/her if you even need to lose 30 pounds? I definitely advocate talking to a doctor before trying to lose any weight.0 -
I don't mean to doubt all the good advice on here but I lost 33 lbs in 37 days I . I went from 325 to 291.5. I am feeling great I am able to workout 3 or 4 times a week. I watch my carbs and fats and I seem to be doling really well. I have tried to start running a little but only very short distances and I am looking to join a gym.( workouts so far have been at home )"I appear more muscular and I feel energetic. I feel as if I did go rather extreme and I wouldn't recommend trying my methods with out doctors approval. I just wanted to let people know that you can lose or more in 30 and still be healthy. To the naysayers out there I do have it recorded on my fitness pal. And the testimony of my at work weight lose buddies. I plan to drop to 198 by December 2013. I will settle for 210 at 6ft 1 but over goal is 198.0
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I don't think it's possible. Unless you were eating nothing and exercising continuously 8 hours a day (which is a recipe for disaster in and of itself), it's not possible. Just focus on eating healthy, staying in control through the holidays and find a dress that fits you now and that you feel good in.0
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I don't think it's possible. Unless you were eating nothing and exercising continuously 8 hours a day (which is a recipe for disaster in and of itself), it's not possible. Just focus on eating healthy, staying in control through the holidays and find a dress that fits you now and that you feel good in.
Gah. I just realized this silly post started in 2011!!! I should start looking at the dates on the original post before I bother to reply...0 -
I know I can't probably do it healthily and it may not stay off. I don't care. I need to do this. Please help me.
No one is going to help you do something stupid. Sorry. This is a site that is dedicated to HEALTHY weight loss, not crash diets.
AND WHO KEEPS DIGGING UP ZOMBIE THREADS! STOP RAISING THE DEAD!0 -
Soooo Helenuh...it's two years later, how'd the 30 pounds/30 days go?
Seriously, I hope you were able to find a healthy medium. 2 years is a good amount of time to put in some healthy habits. I see you haven't deleted your profile and hope that means you haven't given up on a healthier lifestyle, even if you had to postpone it a bit.0 -
The only way to lose weight is to do so in small amounts. Lose 1 pound per day for two weeks and your body will be so starved that it will replace all the weight and then some over the next two weeks. So not only will have been terribly unhealthy, but you'll actually put weight on before Christmas, rather than losing it.0
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I don't think that's a good idea.0
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You can be the skinniest girl in the hospital when they take you in for malnutrition! On the upside, you won't have to cut your hair in January.. not only will it not grow, some of it will probably fall out!0
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Impossible to do unless you weigh 800 lbs, do something realistic.0
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I would aim for about a pound or two a week and buy Spanx if it really bothers you that much.0
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The must be one hell of a dress. Why can't you just wear something else?0
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Well i just watches extreme weight loss on tv and on this particular one the girl lost 90 lbs in 90 days of course she was working out regularly and she was with a trainer......so i think it's possible with the right diet and exercise plan0
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I say lose half that...get a new dress, and save the skinny dress for next year. You really don't want to be the uber grump during the holidays just for one night, do you? You may look good, but nobody will want to be around you. Is that worth it?0
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I know I can't probably do it healthily and it may not stay off. I don't care. I need to do this. Please help me.
No one is going to help you do something stupid. Sorry. This is a site that is dedicated to HEALTHY weight loss, not crash diets.
AND WHO KEEPS DIGGING UP ZOMBIE THREADS! STOP RAISING THE DEAD!
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Is it possible to lose 30 pounds in 30 days?
I would really like to be able to fit into my Christmas dress. I'm 5'9.5" and 275.5 pounds. I'm willing to do anything aside from surgery or chopping off a limb. I work 2 jobs and go to school and when I'm not doing that, I'm studying or sleeping... Working out is really hard to fit into my schedule, but I could probably manage doing 4 hours on the weekends.
Is there anything I can do to reach this goal???
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I know I can't probably do it healthily and it may not stay off. I don't care. I need to do this. Please help me.
ETA: Oh damnit! The zombie thread resurrector got me!!0 -
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