Advice on losing 8-10 lb by July 25th

[Anonymous]

I am scheduled a tummy tuck with muscle repair on July 25th to repair a large post partum diastasis. My surgeon recommended I lose 8-10 lbs per surgery, even if I can’t keep it on after, for a better result. I am 5 ft 3” and currently weigh 135 lb. I carry most of my weight in my stomach. I eat healthy generally but rarely exercise post kids due to back pain and urinary incontinence issues post partum. Can someone recommend a diet and exercise program that will help me lose weight before my surgery that doesn’t involve starving myself. Running is out of the question but I can bike, walk etc. Thanks so much.

[Anonymous]

I mean at that weight I wouldn't worry too much about it but if you did a couple days of juice during the week you'd be able to drop a few I think.

[Anonymous]

8-10 pounds in a month is not possible to do in a healthy way, and I cannot believe a doc asked you to do this.

I am your height, but started out weighing 10 pounds more, and have been trying to lose 15. I try to eat protein at every meal: cottage cheese or yogurt for breakfast, salad (lettuce, carrots, mushrooms, tomato, cucumber, anything else in the house) with chic peas or grilled chicken for lunch, dinner is veggies and lean protein, sometimes a high fiber carb (small sweet potato, quinoa), and if I am hungry later, air popped popcorn or an apple with 2 tablespoons of natural peanut butter. I am losing about 1 pound per week.

[Anonymous]

The only way I could lose weight that fast is norovirus.

[Anonymous]

If you can, I would walk 90 minutes each day and restrict carbs as much as possible.

[Anonymous]

Walking and cutting out all caloric beverages (including alcohol). Stick to water, coffee (actual coffee, not frappuccinos), and tea (actual tea, not bubble tea).

I don't know if you will lose 8-10 pounds (that seems like a lot for someone your size in such a short time period), but you will feel better and recover more quickly if you develop some healthy habits now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8-10 pounds in a month is not possible to do in a healthy way, and I cannot believe a doc asked you to do this.

I am your height, but started out weighing 10 pounds more, and have been trying to lose 15. I try to eat protein at every meal: cottage cheese or yogurt for breakfast, salad (lettuce, carrots, mushrooms, tomato, cucumber, anything else in the house) with chic peas or grilled chicken for lunch, dinner is veggies and lean protein, sometimes a high fiber carb (small sweet potato, quinoa), and if I am hungry later, air popped popcorn or an apple with 2 tablespoons of natural peanut butter. I am losing about 1 pound per week.

Thanks for the tips. Do you exercise? If so what do you do?. He told me to try to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight which was 125 lb in January during my consult. I was 141 back then and 135 now. But I didn’t do much - just went back to some healthier eating habits and stopped skipping meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Walking and cutting out all caloric beverages (including alcohol). Stick to water, coffee (actual coffee, not frappuccinos), and tea (actual tea, not bubble tea).

I don't know if you will lose 8-10 pounds (that seems like a lot for someone your size in such a short time period), but you will feel better and recover more quickly if you develop some healthy habits now.

Thanks so much. Yeah I don’t think it’s a realistic goal but he told me to get as close as I can to my pre-pregnancy weight. I did manage to lose a couple of pounds since I last saw him in January but was slacking off especially exercise wise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you can, I would walk 90 minutes each day and restrict carbs as much as possible.

Thanks. Normal or brisk pace? Or it doesn’t matter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean at that weight I wouldn't worry too much about it but if you did a couple days of juice during the week you'd be able to drop a few I think.

Thanks… may end up doing something like that closer to the surgery.

[Anonymous]

Low carb, no snacks, high protein, lots of water, don’t drink any calories, no alcohol. That will make a bigger difference than exercise.

[Anonymous]

Check out the Standard Process 21 Day Cleanse. I do it twice a year for a reset to keep my weight where I want it to be. It's fairly restrictive, shakes, tons of vegetables, protein like quinoa and lentils, and small amounts of chicken and fish after 10 days. There's nothing janky in the supplements, all super healthy. You will lose weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8-10 pounds in a month is not possible to do in a healthy way, and I cannot believe a doc asked you to do this.

I am your height, but started out weighing 10 pounds more, and have been trying to lose 15. I try to eat protein at every meal: cottage cheese or yogurt for breakfast, salad (lettuce, carrots, mushrooms, tomato, cucumber, anything else in the house) with chic peas or grilled chicken for lunch, dinner is veggies and lean protein, sometimes a high fiber carb (small sweet potato, quinoa), and if I am hungry later, air popped popcorn or an apple with 2 tablespoons of natural peanut butter. I am losing about 1 pound per week.

The doctor definitely told her to do this months ago, she just waited til now. No doctor told her to lose 10 lbs in a month:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8-10 pounds in a month is not possible to do in a healthy way, and I cannot believe a doc asked you to do this.

I am your height, but started out weighing 10 pounds more, and have been trying to lose 15. I try to eat protein at every meal: cottage cheese or yogurt for breakfast, salad (lettuce, carrots, mushrooms, tomato, cucumber, anything else in the house) with chic peas or grilled chicken for lunch, dinner is veggies and lean protein, sometimes a high fiber carb (small sweet potato, quinoa), and if I am hungry later, air popped popcorn or an apple with 2 tablespoons of natural peanut butter. I am losing about 1 pound per week.

I disagree. 135 at 5’3 should make it easy to drop weight quickly. OP has a lot of weight to lose. She could probably stand to lose 25 pounds. This isn’t the last 5 pounds kind of things.

OP - cut carbs, walk 5 miles a day, no refined sugar or alcohol, don’t eat dinner after 7 PM, no snacks of any kind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8-10 pounds in a month is not possible to do in a healthy way, and I cannot believe a doc asked you to do this.

I am your height, but started out weighing 10 pounds more, and have been trying to lose 15. I try to eat protein at every meal: cottage cheese or yogurt for breakfast, salad (lettuce, carrots, mushrooms, tomato, cucumber, anything else in the house) with chic peas or grilled chicken for lunch, dinner is veggies and lean protein, sometimes a high fiber carb (small sweet potato, quinoa), and if I am hungry later, air popped popcorn or an apple with 2 tablespoons of natural peanut butter. I am losing about 1 pound per week.

I disagree. 135 at 5’3 should make it easy to drop weight quickly. OP has a lot of weight to lose. She could probably stand to lose 25 pounds. This isn’t the last 5 pounds kind of things.

OP - cut carbs, walk 5 miles a day, no refined sugar or alcohol, don’t eat dinner after 7 PM, no snacks of any kind.

Please ignore this ridiculous post. OP’s weight at 135 is well within the healthy BMI range. OP does NOT have “a lot of weight to lose.” Actually it wouldn’t be that easy to lose because OP is already at a healthy weight. It’s not impossible, but it’s not a cakewalk.