Advice on losing 8-10 lb by July 25th

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Maybe not in suburban America, but I’d be willing to bet she’s far from thin, has a roll around her midsection and is a good 25 pounds heavier than her HS weight.

[Anonymous]

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

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Thanks. Will look it up.

[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.

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:

Yep. He told me in January. It’s my fault really.

[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.

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Maybe not in suburban America, but I’d be willing to bet she’s far from thin, has a roll around her midsection and is a good 25 pounds heavier than her HS weight.

Yes I’m definitely within normal range but on the higher end of it. I look thin from behind and carry all my weight in my midsection, especially the flanks. I look pregnant hence the surgery. A lot of it is the diastasis but it’s also where I carry excess fat.

[Anonymous]

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

Yeah, I was going to say that I lost that much when I had a respiratory infection earlier this year and was too drained to chew.

[Anonymous]

NP - my metabolism is always a little sluggish to respond to dietary changes. So weight loss is slow at first but then around the 2nd month I get a big "whoosh" and will drop 5 lbs seemingly overnight. Not sure why that happens. So for me losing 10 lbs in a month is not 'impossible' but it wouldn't happen in the first month I started making changes.

[Anonymous]

Breakfast- 5 egg whites omelet plus very small bowl of oatmeal cooked in water. Add small handful of blueberries to it.
Lunch- Chicken, fish or turkey (120-150g) plus 50-60g of rice, side salad with lemon juice as dressing
Snack- protein shake
Dinner- protein plus vegetables, no carbs

You will lose a good percentage of body fat in one month if you do this consistently.

[Anonymous]

OP I'm the person who mentioned juice which is kind of a disordered way to lose weight but I feel like some of the people who came after me seem even MORE disordered.

I wanted to add one other piece of advice, after the surgery, eat a lot of meat. Eat protein, eat more protein than you think you should. You need protein and calories to heal. I understand the losing weight before the TT because then they can get it tighter, but once you're in recovery, eat. At least for the first 2-3 months. People who try to diet post surgery end up with wounds that don't close because they don't have enough calories to heal.

source - I had a TT with muscle repair in September

[Anonymous]

Maybe a dumb question but isn’t part of a tummy tuck liposuction? Esp if you carry it all in your mid section?

Anyway low carb high protein and moderate exercise.

[Anonymous]

Sign up for the Faster Way with coach Ann Schulte. It's a program that combines intermittent fasting with macro counting. I lost 10 pounds in 10 weeks without adjusting my exercise (mainly walking my dog about 10k steps a day). I would probably lose more if I did more exercising.

[Anonymous]

A thigh weighs about 14 pounds. Cut one off?

[Anonymous]

PP again. At least do Intermittent Fasting - try a 14-15 hour fasting window (so, stop eating at 7pm and start eating at 10am). You can have 50 calories in the morning without breaking the "fast" (so I have creamer with my coffee). Then really focus on eating more protein and whole grains. No alcohol. Limit processed foods, limit sugar.

[Anonymous]

I'd say it depends on where OP is starting from, especially her diet. Exercise won't do much in a month, and she may not have time for it.

Unless OP already has a restrictive diet, pounds will drop if she nearly eliminates carbs, sugar, and alcohol for a month. Live on veggies, protein, beans, nuts, and dairy. Don't starve yourself, just really clean it up.