Advice on losing 8-10 lb by July 25th

[Anonymous]

Cut carbs
Soups, tea, water, eggs all great
Eat only 1/2 of any meal ordered out anywhere
Get more movement in every day every chance you can
Don’t juice or do a fast like that - juicing actually makes me hold on to weight

[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.

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.

I walk 3-4 miles a day, 6 days a week. Winter, summer, rain or shine (if raining really bad, walk a parking garage with friends at 6:30am - we decided we're too young for mall walking), we walk. Get friends to go with you so that you feel accountable. Plus your chatting, so the time flies

[Anonymous]

Try the Mayo Clinic Diet. With exercise, you can lose 10 pounds.

[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.

Jesus the amount of misinformation, fake news, and myths on this forum is laughable! Losing 2lbs a week is NOT unhealthy and quite achievable. You're losing 1lb a week, use common sense and critical thinking skills. Do you really think that losing that extra 1lb a week somehow puts you in the danger zone and is unhealthy? Come on! it's a 1lb per week difference. Do you hear yourself?

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/weight-loss/in-depth/weight-loss/art-20047752#:~:text=Over%20the%20long%20term%2C%20it's,diet%20and%20regular%20physical%20activity.

[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.

+2

I am an AA 5’3 woman and extremely muscular. If I weighed 110 pounds I would look emaciated. I am a size 6 at 150 pounds (with accompanying measurements - not a “vanity size” size 6).