Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 09:59     Subject: Re:I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
"VLCDs appear to be more effective than behavioral weight loss programs or other diets, achieving approximately 4 kilograms (8.8 lb) more weight loss at 1 year and greater sustained weight loss after several years.[10][18] When used in routine care, there is evidence that VLCDs achieve average weight loss at 1 year around 10 kilograms (22 lb)[19] or about 4% more weight loss over the short term.[20] VLCDs can achieve higher short-term weight loss compared to other more modest or gradual calorie restricted diets, and the maintained long-term weight loss is similar or greater"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-low-calorie_diet#cite_note-29

Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 09:55     Subject: Re:I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Anonymous wrote:Would you recommend this same diet for someone who isn't grossly obese but just overweight? I am 5'7" and 150 pounds. I would like to lose 20ish pounds. Would eating 700 calories and walking 30,000 steps a day be recommended? I don't actually think I have time to walk 30,000 steps. Right now I am about 15,000 and that is walking the dog a few times and running around after my kids. But I could certainly do 700 calories. Or should I decrease it even more because I can't walk 30,000 steps?


Please. please, don’t take advice from the crazy lazy who did/is doing this. She clearly did not “talk to her doctor” and the amount of bone loss she probably has will be apparent soon enough. 700 calories doesn’t sustain a person. And certainly with any type of activity being added to the mix you are basically depleting your body of all nutrients. This woman thinks she is “healthy” now because she is skinny. But I would bet her labs tell a very different story. Don’t do this to yourself. Also 5’7 at 150 is not even overweight.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 09:42     Subject: Re:I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Anonymous wrote:Would you recommend this same diet for someone who isn't grossly obese but just overweight? I am 5'7" and 150 pounds. I would like to lose 20ish pounds. Would eating 700 calories and walking 30,000 steps a day be recommended? I don't actually think I have time to walk 30,000 steps. Right now I am about 15,000 and that is walking the dog a few times and running around after my kids. But I could certainly do 700 calories. Or should I decrease it even more because I can't walk 30,000 steps?


I mean, you know, talk to your doctor.

Personally I think it would work and you would lose those pounds fairly quickly. from my experience once you drop below 700 you can "eat as much as you want" and that is often just 500 calories because you don't feel like it. I say this as a person who struggled mightily to stay below 1500. I was obese for 15 years, growing every year. You just need to power through the first few days. a few months ago I was looking at research papers on VLCD (very low calories diets - 800 calories or les; it's a recognized weight loss approach) and I found some evidence it was more effective than low calories diets. Paradoxically, it's more sustainable. You just kind of give up on food. It's not teasing you every day.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 08:22     Subject: Re:I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Would you recommend this same diet for someone who isn't grossly obese but just overweight? I am 5'7" and 150 pounds. I would like to lose 20ish pounds. Would eating 700 calories and walking 30,000 steps a day be recommended? I don't actually think I have time to walk 30,000 steps. Right now I am about 15,000 and that is walking the dog a few times and running around after my kids. But I could certainly do 700 calories. Or should I decrease it even more because I can't walk 30,000 steps?
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2025 12:53     Subject: I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:op do you snack at all? like when you watch a show or read a book and just want to munch? or do you only binge eat when hungry?


I started sucking on lollipops. They take a lot of time to eat.


interesting idea! any particular kinds you like?


Chips chups

I like cola, strawberries and strawberries and cream
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2025 11:02     Subject: I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:op do you snack at all? like when you watch a show or read a book and just want to munch? or do you only binge eat when hungry?


I started sucking on lollipops. They take a lot of time to eat.


interesting idea! any particular kinds you like?
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2025 10:43     Subject: Re:I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I ate around 700 calories per day and walked 30k steps most days. eating so little made me lose interest in food. I am a binger and I was trying to lose weight for years. instead it was just creeping up.


Most people who develop eating disorders like this will lose a ton of weight.


I already had an eating disorder. I was over 200 lbs!
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2025 09:31     Subject: Re:I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Anonymous wrote:I ate around 700 calories per day and walked 30k steps most days. eating so little made me lose interest in food. I am a binger and I was trying to lose weight for years. instead it was just creeping up.


Most people who develop eating disorders like this will lose a ton of weight.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2025 05:38     Subject: I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There is no nutritionist in the world who would advise someone to eat 700 calories a day. And walking 30k steps a day burns way more than that so you would be losing several pounds a week at that rate which is also not healthy (unless of course you are like 600 pounds at the start).

I’m talking from a place of also starting a health journey several years ago so I know how long certain steps take etc… Walking 30k steps takes more hours a day than a typical person has. So you definitely don’t have a job or don’t have kids etc…I would bet you are lying about multiple things but the bigger issue is what you are doing is very disordered. And sure-you will be thin but you will also end up in the hospital. Good luck.

Taking control of your health is admirable but lying about it or even worse-advocating for extremely unhealthy ways of losing weight is definitely not.


I am just telling my story not advocating for anything. Yes I have a job (which requires a phd, which I also happen to have) and 3 kids. I was losing maybe 3-4 lbs per week initially but obviously that has slowed down quite a bit now. I was afraid to weigh myself on day 1 but at some point in a recent past I was 208 in the doctor's office. That was my highest official weight.


And your story is about disordered eating. 3-4 pounds a week is not healthy or normal.





getting obese through eating is disordered eating also. pumping yourself full of drugs so that you don't eat and overeating when you stop is disordered as well.


of course it is-nobody has said otherwise.


What's your point, then? Most people have disordered eating. I would rather be slim disordered than obese disordered.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2025 04:07     Subject: I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Anonymous wrote:op do you snack at all? like when you watch a show or read a book and just want to munch? or do you only binge eat when hungry?


I started sucking on lollipops. They take a lot of time to eat.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2025 00:17     Subject: I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
op do you snack at all? like when you watch a show or read a book and just want to munch? or do you only binge eat when hungry?
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 12:56     Subject: I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There is no nutritionist in the world who would advise someone to eat 700 calories a day. And walking 30k steps a day burns way more than that so you would be losing several pounds a week at that rate which is also not healthy (unless of course you are like 600 pounds at the start).

I’m talking from a place of also starting a health journey several years ago so I know how long certain steps take etc… Walking 30k steps takes more hours a day than a typical person has. So you definitely don’t have a job or don’t have kids etc…I would bet you are lying about multiple things but the bigger issue is what you are doing is very disordered. And sure-you will be thin but you will also end up in the hospital. Good luck.

Taking control of your health is admirable but lying about it or even worse-advocating for extremely unhealthy ways of losing weight is definitely not.


I am just telling my story not advocating for anything. Yes I have a job (which requires a phd, which I also happen to have) and 3 kids. I was losing maybe 3-4 lbs per week initially but obviously that has slowed down quite a bit now. I was afraid to weigh myself on day 1 but at some point in a recent past I was 208 in the doctor's office. That was my highest official weight.


And your story is about disordered eating. 3-4 pounds a week is not healthy or normal.





getting obese through eating is disordered eating also. pumping yourself full of drugs so that you don't eat and overeating when you stop is disordered as well.


of course it is-nobody has said otherwise.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 12:31     Subject: I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There is no nutritionist in the world who would advise someone to eat 700 calories a day. And walking 30k steps a day burns way more than that so you would be losing several pounds a week at that rate which is also not healthy (unless of course you are like 600 pounds at the start).

I’m talking from a place of also starting a health journey several years ago so I know how long certain steps take etc… Walking 30k steps takes more hours a day than a typical person has. So you definitely don’t have a job or don’t have kids etc…I would bet you are lying about multiple things but the bigger issue is what you are doing is very disordered. And sure-you will be thin but you will also end up in the hospital. Good luck.

Taking control of your health is admirable but lying about it or even worse-advocating for extremely unhealthy ways of losing weight is definitely not.


I am just telling my story not advocating for anything. Yes I have a job (which requires a phd, which I also happen to have) and 3 kids. I was losing maybe 3-4 lbs per week initially but obviously that has slowed down quite a bit now. I was afraid to weigh myself on day 1 but at some point in a recent past I was 208 in the doctor's office. That was my highest official weight.


And your story is about disordered eating. 3-4 pounds a week is not healthy or normal.





getting obese through eating is disordered eating also. pumping yourself full of drugs so that you don't eat and overeating when you stop is disordered as well.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 12:24     Subject: I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There is no nutritionist in the world who would advise someone to eat 700 calories a day. And walking 30k steps a day burns way more than that so you would be losing several pounds a week at that rate which is also not healthy (unless of course you are like 600 pounds at the start).

I’m talking from a place of also starting a health journey several years ago so I know how long certain steps take etc… Walking 30k steps takes more hours a day than a typical person has. So you definitely don’t have a job or don’t have kids etc…I would bet you are lying about multiple things but the bigger issue is what you are doing is very disordered. And sure-you will be thin but you will also end up in the hospital. Good luck.

Taking control of your health is admirable but lying about it or even worse-advocating for extremely unhealthy ways of losing weight is definitely not.


I am just telling my story not advocating for anything. Yes I have a job (which requires a phd, which I also happen to have) and 3 kids. I was losing maybe 3-4 lbs per week initially but obviously that has slowed down quite a bit now. I was afraid to weigh myself on day 1 but at some point in a recent past I was 208 in the doctor's office. That was my highest official weight.


And your story is about disordered eating. 3-4 pounds a week is not healthy or normal.

Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 12:02     Subject: I lost 60 pounds in 5 months without using GLP-1.
Anonymous wrote:There is no nutritionist in the world who would advise someone to eat 700 calories a day. And walking 30k steps a day burns way more than that so you would be losing several pounds a week at that rate which is also not healthy (unless of course you are like 600 pounds at the start).

I’m talking from a place of also starting a health journey several years ago so I know how long certain steps take etc… Walking 30k steps takes more hours a day than a typical person has. So you definitely don’t have a job or don’t have kids etc…I would bet you are lying about multiple things but the bigger issue is what you are doing is very disordered. And sure-you will be thin but you will also end up in the hospital. Good luck.

Taking control of your health is admirable but lying about it or even worse-advocating for extremely unhealthy ways of losing weight is definitely not.


I am just telling my story not advocating for anything. Yes I have a job (which requires a phd, which I also happen to have) and 3 kids. I was losing maybe 3-4 lbs per week initially but obviously that has slowed down quite a bit now. I was afraid to weigh myself on day 1 but at some point in a recent past I was 208 in the doctor's office. That was my highest official weight.