No Bread, Beer or Biscuits: How I Lost 63lbs in 100 Days
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Re: No Bread, Beer or Biscuits: How I Lost 63lbs in 100 Days
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you start rapidly losing (or gaining) weight with no obvious explanation that is a cause for concern. If you start eating much less, and exercising much more, you probably don't need to ask a doctor why you're losing weight.
I believe that the healthy rate is around 1 lbs per week with 2 lbs pushing it.
Not when you are morbidly obese like the author was. When you are that big( pushing 300lbs) it's not uncommon to loose 5lbs a week at the start.
Re: No Bread, Beer or Biscuits: How I Lost 63lbs in 100 Days
#13I dropped around 60lbs (5'10" SW: 285) in first half of 2012 and have roughly maintained since (crept back to 235 - down to 230 again, still aiming for 200!).
I made two small habit changes that I feel made a drastic difference:
* Bring lunch to work everyday (brown bag, leftovers)
* If I want to watch TV, I must be moving on the treadmill
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe that the healthy rate is around 1 lbs per week with 2 lbs pushing it.
Not when you are morbidly obese like the author was. When you are that big( pushing 300lbs) it's not uncommon to loose 5lbs a week at the start.
Why is the weight loss mechanism different under those circumstances?
Re: No Bread, Beer or Biscuits: How I Lost 63lbs in 100 Days
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you start rapidly losing (or gaining) weight with no obvious explanation that is a cause for concern. If you start eating much less, and exercising much more, you probably don't need to ask a doctor why you're losing weight.
I believe that the healthy rate is around 1 lbs per week with 2 lbs pushing it.
The average weight loss is supposedly that. Not everyone falls into that range and so long as you are eating enough to live, are enjoying yourself and not starving to death and are getting exercise it's not dangerous.
That said, he (and anyone doing it) should probably check in with the doc just to make sure something internal isn't getting out of whack.
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#16This is an excellent writeup, and one that I have a few friends that could benefit from. I try to tell people that it is the little things you do every day that add up to big change. My friends mostly have this idea that you have to make huge sweeping changes to your life to see any results at all, but that is simply false. Start going on a walk or jog every evening instead of sitting in front of the television. Start having nuts instead of candy bars for snacks. Stuff like that adds up quick to some pretty impressive results.
Excellent read, and keep up the good work!
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#17I upped my exercise, cycling 30-40 miles a day, every day for the first couple of weeks.
Good to see!! When you are burning this level of level of energy every day, its actually to keep a stable weight. (Author must have had some base fitness, too so good for him.)
At its core, Weight change is simple input/output math. The key variable is %deplete your glycogen levels (as % of full everyday.) That is the "cache" of energy from your daily diet. If you burn enough energy to deplete this, you will lose weight, as your body replenishes itself from non-dietary reserves (fat, protein en extremis).
Surprisingsly, these are highly realistic numbers (), even for relatively fit (height/weight proportionate) people. Moderating the pace to emphasise endurance over power will lead to more loss of net-mass. Asympotically, you will reach a point of gradual returns, but it is not at all surprising to lose significant mass under such prolonged workloads.
TLDR: Glad to see this is not a crash diet.
edits: clarity
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#18>> I’ve gone from a 42” waist to a 36”. I’m now buying t-shirts in a medium or maybe a large rather than an XL or XXL.
Clothing is not sized that way in the USA. 36" waist fitting into a medium?
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#19After attending hundreds of weight watchers meetings, and being involved with hundreds and hundreds of people losing a ton of weight, I still genuinely believe too many people make weight loss too complicated, which leads them to give up. Keep it simple (as the article did) If you burn more calories (energy) than you eat, you will lose weight . Obviously, you have choices. You can cut down on all the really high calo…
This is true. I found by simply cutting out soda and juice I began losing weight. I also found that after not drinking soda for several weeks, when I would drink it I would find it far too sweet and have actually lost the taste for it.
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#20You should trade some of that fat with muscle gain (especially upper body), instead of shedding it all. Develop a consistent weight lifting routine at the gym. You'll feel a lot better about yourself. Stationary cycling might make your legs great, but your upper body will probably start to look "skinny fat".