Lost 6 lbs in 10 days - overweight - here is what I did.

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Anonymous wrote:Good job, OP. I've lost 27 lbs in about 6 months, but I started out a healthy (not overweight) weight. I just wanted to be super skinny and toned.

My advice- increase your workouts. 1 mile is a great start but 3-4 miles 3-4 times a week and weightlifting on off days will really give you some great definition.

Personally, I think you're losing out by cutting coffee. Coffee is very healthy and also suppresses appetite.

PP can you please provide details on your regimen? 27 pounds in 6 months, congrats!

Sure, I aim for 1000-1400 calories per day while losing weight (I do periods of maintenance, for example, through the holidays).

Work out at least every other day very aggressively. For example, run 5-7 miles, kickboxing, orangetheory once a week, and weightlifting at least once a week.

Sleep at least 8 hours.

Key to my diet is eating 600 calories or less during the morning and workday.

This is disordered. Eating 1000 cal a day while running 5 to 7 miles is not healthy by any stretch.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good job, OP. I've lost 27 lbs in about 6 months, but I started out a healthy (not overweight) weight. I just wanted to be super skinny and toned.

My advice- increase your workouts. 1 mile is a great start but 3-4 miles 3-4 times a week and weightlifting on off days will really give you some great definition.

Personally, I think you're losing out by cutting coffee. Coffee is very healthy and also suppresses appetite.

PP can you please provide details on your regimen? 27 pounds in 6 months, congrats!

Sure, I aim for 1000-1400 calories per day while losing weight (I do periods of maintenance, for example, through the holidays).

Work out at least every other day very aggressively. For example, run 5-7 miles, kickboxing, orangetheory once a week, and weightlifting at least once a week.

Sleep at least 8 hours.

Key to my diet is eating 600 calories or less during the morning and workday.

This is disordered. Eating 1000 cal a day while running 5 to 7 miles is not healthy by any stretch.

I agree 1000 to 1400 calories is a diet for skinny models. No idea what this person is trying to do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op here, one thing I forgot to add. I have started typing in an Excel for the last two days. I log weight, daily food I eat and a general comment for the day. I seriously think that a daily journal ? is a big part of weight loss and it continues to motivate.

I agree I feel less bloated now. 20 years ago I used to go to Gym and weighed in 137 to 150 range. So it’s not a great feeling being over weight.

PP, Thank you for your kind encouragement. PP, I agree going to Gym is next. Very much agree that Cheese while it has protein it also has too much salt and I am ready to give up.

I’m confused, what’s your gender??

Op here, 40 Male. LOL. I know it feels confusing when you notice that I am tracking calories the way women do. I am really trying to lose an additional 25lb. So, this is going to be a long journey and I am happy to do whatever is practically possible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good job, OP. I've lost 27 lbs in about 6 months, but I started out a healthy (not overweight) weight. I just wanted to be super skinny and toned.

My advice- increase your workouts. 1 mile is a great start but 3-4 miles 3-4 times a week and weightlifting on off days will really give you some great definition.

Personally, I think you're losing out by cutting coffee. Coffee is very healthy and also suppresses appetite.

PP can you please provide details on your regimen? 27 pounds in 6 months, congrats!

Sure, I aim for 1000-1400 calories per day while losing weight (I do periods of maintenance, for example, through the holidays).

Work out at least every other day very aggressively. For example, run 5-7 miles, kickboxing, orangetheory once a week, and weightlifting at least once a week.

Sleep at least 8 hours.

Key to my diet is eating 600 calories or less during the morning and workday.

This is disordered. Eating 1000 cal a day while running 5 to 7 miles is not healthy by any stretch.

I agree 1000 to 1400 calories is a diet for skinny models. No idea what this person is trying to do.

Read the bolded.

This person is not healthy & I would not follow his/her advice unless you want to look sick (& quite possibly end up in the ER).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good job, OP. I've lost 27 lbs in about 6 months, but I started out a healthy (not overweight) weight. I just wanted to be super skinny and toned.

My advice- increase your workouts. 1 mile is a great start but 3-4 miles 3-4 times a week and weightlifting on off days will really give you some great definition.

Personally, I think you're losing out by cutting coffee. Coffee is very healthy and also suppresses appetite.

PP can you please provide details on your regimen? 27 pounds in 6 months, congrats!

Sure, I aim for 1000-1400 calories per day while losing weight (I do periods of maintenance, for example, through the holidays).

Work out at least every other day very aggressively. For example, run 5-7 miles, kickboxing, orangetheory once a week, and weightlifting at least once a week.

Sleep at least 8 hours.

Key to my diet is eating 600 calories or less during the morning and workday.

This is disordered. Eating 1000 cal a day while running 5 to 7 miles is not healthy by any stretch.

I agree 1000 to 1400 calories is a diet for skinny models. No idea what this person is trying to do.

Read the bolded.

This person is not healthy & I would not follow his/her advice unless you want to look sick (& quite possibly end up in the ER).

I'm the person that posted that regimen. You all are overreacting. I don't restrict all the time. I restrict for a period of 2-4 weeks and then am normal again. As for what I'm trying to do, I am trying to be a size 2 with 17% body fat. It's working.

[Anonymous]

Keto until you lose all the weight. Then cut out carbs as much as possible and cut out all sugar except like 4x/year. Depending on when you got fat and how long you've been fat, it might be impossible to maintain the weight loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keto until you lose all the weight. Then cut out carbs as much as possible and cut out all sugar except like 4x/year. Depending on when you got fat and how long you've been fat, it might be impossible to maintain the weight loss.

And ya'll call me disordered. Sugar 4x per year? Ok.

[Anonymous]

I find that one 36 hour fast, along with 16/8 intermittent fasting and Keto allows me a little room to cheat on the weekends. This is how this diet is going to be sustainable for me long term. Perfectly, rigid adherence isn't required. Although I'm sure that there are plenty of people who wouldn't hesitate to point out how I'm doing it all "wrong".

The pp who said what her weight loss regimen is and was told that she is not healthy is only doing that regimen 2 to 4 weeks at a time. She then takes a break from it.

No. We aren't doing it wrong, the results clearly show that we are doing something right.

You want to know what people are doing to take off the weight but if it's not what you want to hear you call them unhealthy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good job, OP. I've lost 27 lbs in about 6 months, but I started out a healthy (not overweight) weight. I just wanted to be super skinny and toned.

My advice- increase your workouts. 1 mile is a great start but 3-4 miles 3-4 times a week and weightlifting on off days will really give you some great definition.

Personally, I think you're losing out by cutting coffee. Coffee is very healthy and also suppresses appetite.

PP can you please provide details on your regimen? 27 pounds in 6 months, congrats!

Sure, I aim for 1000-1400 calories per day while losing weight (I do periods of maintenance, for example, through the holidays).

Work out at least every other day very aggressively. For example, run 5-7 miles, kickboxing, orangetheory once a week, and weightlifting at least once a week.

Sleep at least 8 hours.

Key to my diet is eating 600 calories or less during the morning and workday.

This is disordered. Eating 1000 cal a day while running 5 to 7 miles is not healthy by any stretch.

I agree 1000 to 1400 calories is a diet for skinny models. No idea what this person is trying to do.

Read the bolded.

This person is not healthy & I would not follow his/her advice unless you want to look sick (& quite possibly end up in the ER).

I'm the person that posted that regimen. You all are overreacting. I don't restrict all the time. I restrict for a period of 2-4 weeks and then am normal again. As for what I'm trying to do, I am trying to be a size 2 with 17% body fat. It's working.

New poster here...you are going to get pilored PP ... the comments above make me think about 2 other threads 1/ how gen X and millennial see a perfect body. And how people now see skinny as unhealthy and stronger as the new ideal; 2/ the comments about french and Japanese women. And the regular misunderstanding I see about the amount thin french or Japanese women eat (yeah, closer to 1000 cal each time they see themselves going above a size 2 _ I am the french woman who keeps trying to tell dcum that cigarettes is not the key reason why french women are skinnier, it is that they really onteat much)

Anyway, was just chiming in to say that I hear you PP, if you want to be a size 0-2 you need to have regular 1000-1400 calories days... no mistery..andthats not necessarily a good idea for certain body types

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good job, OP. I've lost 27 lbs in about 6 months, but I started out a healthy (not overweight) weight. I just wanted to be super skinny and toned.

My advice- increase your workouts. 1 mile is a great start but 3-4 miles 3-4 times a week and weightlifting on off days will really give you some great definition.

Personally, I think you're losing out by cutting coffee. Coffee is very healthy and also suppresses appetite.

PP can you please provide details on your regimen? 27 pounds in 6 months, congrats!

Sure, I aim for 1000-1400 calories per day while losing weight (I do periods of maintenance, for example, through the holidays).

Work out at least every other day very aggressively. For example, run 5-7 miles, kickboxing, orangetheory once a week, and weightlifting at least once a week.

Sleep at least 8 hours.

Key to my diet is eating 600 calories or less during the morning and workday.

This is disordered. Eating 1000 cal a day while running 5 to 7 miles is not healthy by any stretch.

I agree 1000 to 1400 calories is a diet for skinny models. No idea what this person is trying to do.

Read the bolded.

This person is not healthy & I would not follow his/her advice unless you want to look sick (& quite possibly end up in the ER).

I'm the person that posted that regimen. You all are overreacting. I don't restrict all the time. I restrict for a period of 2-4 weeks and then am normal again. As for what I'm trying to do, I am trying to be a size 2 with 17% body fat. It's working.

New poster here...you are going to get pilored PP ... the comments above make me think about 2 other threads 1/ how gen X and millennial see a perfect body. And how people now see skinny as unhealthy and stronger as the new ideal; 2/ the comments about french and Japanese women. And the regular misunderstanding I see about the amount thin french or Japanese women eat (yeah, closer to 1000 cal each time they see themselves going above a size 2 _ I am the french woman who keeps trying to tell dcum that cigarettes is not the key reason why french women are skinnier, it is that they really onteat much)

Anyway, was just chiming in to say that I hear you PP, if you want to be a size 0-2 you need to have regular 1000-1400 calories days... no mistery..andthats not necessarily a good idea for certain body types

But to be treanpsarent, adding to my previous post : that s exactly what I am doing.. going through regular1200-1400 cal a day for 1-2 weeks whenever I go above my goal weight of 116.. and it works.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like carb cycling. It’s supposed to help keep the metabolic rate up, thus avoiding plateaus and regain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find that one 36 hour fast, along with 16/8 intermittent fasting and Keto allows me a little room to cheat on the weekends. This is how this diet is going to be sustainable for me long term. Perfectly, rigid adherence isn't required. Although I'm sure that there are plenty of people who wouldn't hesitate to point out how I'm doing it all "wrong".

The pp who said what her weight loss regimen is and was told that she is not healthy is only doing that regimen 2 to 4 weeks at a time. She then takes a break from it.

No. We aren't doing it wrong, the results clearly show that we are doing something right.

You want to know what people are doing to take off the weight but if it's not what you want to hear you call them unhealthy.

Hi during the 36 hour fast, you only drink water or do you also drink juice etc?

[Anonymous]

To 1200 to 1400 pp. while I hate your approach, I have to fully agree with you. Your approach makes sense for those who can’t maintain their weight consistently. In my 20s I had lost 25 lbs in 3 months. I used to maintain weight by going through low calorie days. It actually feels better than fasting because you are not fooling around your body’s metabolism.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I find that one 36 hour fast, along with 16/8 intermittent fasting and Keto allows me a little room to cheat on the weekends. This is how this diet is going to be sustainable for me long term. Perfectly, rigid adherence isn't required. Although I'm sure that there are plenty of people who wouldn't hesitate to point out how I'm doing it all "wrong".

The pp who said what her weight loss regimen is and was told that she is not healthy is only doing that regimen 2 to 4 weeks at a time. She then takes a break from it.

No. We aren't doing it wrong, the results clearly show that we are doing something right.

You want to know what people are doing to take off the weight but if it's not what you want to hear you call them unhealthy.

Hi during the 36 hour fast, you only drink water or do you also drink juice etc?

I drink water, club soda, tea and bone broth. So far, so good. Some folks prefer to go without the bone broth during a fast, I just can't see where it's hurting my progress at all so I allow it.

[Anonymous]

OP, that's fantastic.

Another easy thing to do is drink 1/2 tsp of inulin in water, thrice a day, 30 minutes before meals. I have been able to shed 10 lbs in 5 months by doing just this small change. It is a prebiotic fiber that also stabilizes blood sugar.

Start with small quantities of inulin and build it up. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318593.php