Losing weight rapidly

[Kentish]

I've a BMI of about 26.2 and it should be a max of 25 for my age & height (40 and 6'1").

I want to keep healthy but want rapid results.

I'm going for the 30 mins (min) of exercise a day and limiting food to just the 5 a day and a small amount of protein.

Males should have an average of 2500 calories a day but that is to maintain a good constant weight.

Today, I ate no breakfast and had a banana a pear and an apple for lunch, had 3 coffees, plenty of water and did not have dinner, just water.

I estimate this to have been a maximum of 600 calories.

Does anyone know how I can estimate how this reduction in calorific intake translates to how much weight can be lost?

Are there any online sources for this info, I was unable to find any.

TIA

[Dick_Phallus]

1 lb of fat is approximately 4000 calories. So running a defecit of 2000 a day would equte to losing 1 lb of fat every 2 days. However it's nowhere near that simple, and running that sort of defecit is unhealthy to say the least. You also will probably not be able to keep this up and end up 'pigging out'. Not to mention you wont be losing just fat, but muscle. Lack of muscle tone can make you look fatter than you actually are.

Although no one wants to hear it the best way to lose weight and get in shape really is to eat sensibly and exercise regularly. Especially if you want to maintain any weight loss. It's about changing lifestyle, your old lifestyle got you overweight (albeit marginally in your case) you need a new one to not revert to your old habits.

[DBSV8]

Kentish said:

I've a BMI of about 26.2 and it should be a max of 25 for my age & height (40 and 6'1").

I want to keep healthy but want rapid results.

I'm going for the 30 mins (min) of exercise a day and limiting food to just the 5 a day and a small amount of protein.

Males should have an average of 2500 calories a day but that is to maintain a good constant weight.

Today, I ate no breakfast and had a banana a pear and an apple for lunch, had 3 coffees, plenty of water and did not have dinner, just water.

I estimate this to have been a maximum of 600 calories.

Does anyone know how I can estimate how this reduction in calorific intake translates to how much weight can be lost?

Are there any online sources for this info, I was unable to find any.

TIA

you need to go on the Christian Bale diet .............1 tin of tuna & a cup of coffee a day for 4 months ....nothing else

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machinist

Christian Bale starved himself for over four months prior to filming, as his character needed to look drastically thin. Allegedly, his eating consisted of one cup of coffee and an apple (or a can of tuna) each day (approximately 1.2 kilojoules, or 275 calories).[2] According to the DVD commentary, he lost 28 kilograms (62 lb), reducing his body mass to 54 kilograms (120 lb).



He later regained the mass, plus an additional 18 kilograms (40 lb) through weightlifting and proper eating, in preparation for his role in Batman Begins.

[ymwoods]

There is no way on earth that is healthy! that would be putting all kinds of stresses on your body. Whilst a person who is only marginally overweight may get away with something like this it will completly screw up a "fat" person.

Starve your engine of fuel and it cuts out. A 2L engine needs more fuel than a 1L...

[Lefty Two Drams]

Kentish said:

I've a BMI of about 26.2 and it should be a max of 25 for my age & height (40 and 6'1").

I want to keep healthy but want rapid results.

I'm going for the 30 mins (min) of exercise a day and limiting food to just the 5 a day and a small amount of protein.

Males should have an average of 2500 calories a day but that is to maintain a good constant weight.

Today, I ate no breakfast and had a banana a pear and an apple for lunch, had 3 coffees, plenty of water and did not have dinner, just water.

I estimate this to have been a maximum of 600 calories.

Does anyone know how I can estimate how this reduction in calorific intake translates to how much weight can be lost?

Are there any online sources for this info, I was unable to find any.

TIA

That's a serious diet!

When I was an 18 year-old student I was about 15 stone and 6'4". I started a summer job and, due to being skint, walked to work and back every day (6 miles round trip). After a month of doing that I had lost 3 stone and was much fitter. I didn't really change my diet much but did drink less beer.

If I were you, I'd try to do the same.

[DBSV8]

heres a good book on fitness and weight loss

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ranulph-Fiennes-Fit-Life-S...

[redtwin]

I was on a 500 calorie a day diet and lost, on average, a stone every month. Make sure you drink lots of water as you won't be getting enough from the volume of food you will be eating.

[Beefmeister]

By running 7.5km, 3 times a week, and cutting out all chocolate and sweets, i lost 3st in 9months.

Doing what you're doing, if you don't mind me saying, is madness.

You will screw up your body, and when you get down to the weight you want, and start eating normally again, you will pile on the pounds.

Is this for a holiday or some such? Wedding? There aren't many viable reasons why you would put your body through this.

[Dakkon]

DBSV8 said:

Kentish said:

I've a BMI of about 26.2 and it should be a max of 25 for my age & height (40 and 6'1").

I want to keep healthy but want rapid results.

I'm going for the 30 mins (min) of exercise a day and limiting food to just the 5 a day and a small amount of protein.

Males should have an average of 2500 calories a day but that is to maintain a good constant weight.

Today, I ate no breakfast and had a banana a pear and an apple for lunch, had 3 coffees, plenty of water and did not have dinner, just water.

I estimate this to have been a maximum of 600 calories.

Does anyone know how I can estimate how this reduction in calorific intake translates to how much weight can be lost?

Are there any online sources for this info, I was unable to find any.

TIA

you need to go on the Christian Bale diet .............1 tin of tuna & a cup of coffee a day for 4 months ....nothing else

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machinist

Christian Bale starved himself for over four months prior to filming, as his character needed to look drastically thin. Allegedly, his eating consisted of one cup of coffee and an apple (or a can of tuna) each day (approximately 1.2 kilojoules, or 275 calories).[2] According to the DVD commentary, he lost 28 kilograms (62 lb), reducing his body mass to 54 kilograms (120 lb).



He later regained the mass, plus an additional 18 kilograms (40 lb) through weightlifting and proper eating, in preparation for his role in Batman Begins.

Did he not almost kill himself doing that extreme died I seem to have read somewhere?

Possibly a little extreme for the OP.

[okgo]

I hope OP is joking.

The listed diet is fking stupid and will get you precisely NOWHERE.

[E21_Ross]

OP don't be a mug, don't starve yourself. it's one of the least healthy ways of losing weight.

BMI is not a very good way of measuring mass, since waist girth should be taken into account and is arguably more important.

reduce your calories a little but not that much, that's just ridiculous. eat more fruit and veg, less fatty foods and do continue doing cardio exercise, more if you can. the weight will soon fall off.

[dirty boy]

E21_Ross said:

OP don't be a mug, don't starve yourself. it's one of the least healthy ways of losing weight.

BMI is not a very good way of measuring mass, since waist girth should be taken into account and is arguably more important.

reduce your calories a little but not that much, that's just ridiculous. eat more fruit and veg, less fatty foods and do continue doing cardio exercise, more if you can. the weight will soon fall off.

Agree entirely.

30 mins of excercise a day is good, as long as the intensity is high (burn your lungs!!)

I'm an office boy, so I always assume I need less than 2500 calories, I aim to intake about 1700 to 2000.

I'm currently going to the gym three times a week, swimming twice, and cycling to work every day.

I've lost around a stone in a month and a half, but my body fat was 30% it's now 20%. 20% of 12 1/2 stone is a LOT less than 30% of 13 1/2 stone.

Eat little and often. By not eating breakfast, your body thinks "oh st, no energy" so the minute you have your snack, it will try and store as much of it as possible.

Eating small portions throughout the day increases your metabolism.

[E21_Ross]

one thing i will add if you want to lose fat it might be worth doing some cardio work (running, cycling, or cross trainer, whatever) before breakfast, but make sure you eat when you get back, make sure you also have some protein in this meal too. give yourself at least 30 mins after getting up out of bed though. don't get out of bed and jump straight into some running shoes.

if you don't want to do this, then as i said before, don't eat that little it's very unhealthy and the weight will be more likely to come back on once your diet stops.

[bales]

If you lose that much weight from following that diet, how are you going to maintain it when you start to eat normally again? Unless you are going to up the amount of exercise to match the increase in calories then you'll just end up as you were again...

[DeputyDawg]

I wouldn't advise on skipping breakfast either, most important meal of the day. That's the one way of kick-starting your metabolism.

[ShadownINja]

Kentish said:

I've a BMI of about 26.2 and it should be a max of 25 for my age & height (40 and 6'1").

I want to keep healthy but want rapid results.

I'm going for the 30 mins (min) of exercise a day and limiting food to just the 5 a day and a small amount of protein.

Males should have an average of 2500 calories a day but that is to maintain a good constant weight.

Today, I ate no breakfast and had a banana a pear and an apple for lunch, had 3 coffees, plenty of water and did not have dinner, just water.

I estimate this to have been a maximum of 600 calories.

Does anyone know how I can estimate how this reduction in calorific intake translates to how much weight can be lost?

Are there any online sources for this info, I was unable to find any.

TIA

Certainly not a healthy diet. Google "Atkins diet dangers". There is no healthy rapid weight loss system; and 95% of people who do it, put the weight back on and more. You've heard of yoyo dieting? It's the bane of every overweight person who has been trying to lose weight for decades. If you MUST follow a diet, look up the GI diet. It's not a diet; it's a way of life. You'll get your desired weight but it will take half a year. Put it this way, you're the equivalent of an 16 yr old school leaver with 2 GCSEs who won't take a job unless it's paying him £30k. It's possible (he could get a dream job as a DJ or he might be a sales guru) but very, very unlikely.

Edited by ShadownINja on Thursday 15th April 10:22

[E21_Ross]

some very good advice on here so far
take in on board for your own sake, OP

if you have a BMI of 26 or so, why do you want to lose weight rapidly anyway?

[HereBeMonsters]

If you want to lose weight healthily, much better to ramp up the exercise and just change the diet to slightly more healthy stuff. Starving yourself is just pointless.

[Kentish]

Good advice yes, thanks.

I am going to keep to around a 1000 calories a day and change how I eat to a much more varied diet with hardl any fat.

Cardio exercise increase too.

This won't be just a diet, I want to go back to how I used to eat & exercise 10 years ago when I was less than 11 stone and really fit.

I would like to shed the weight rapidly though and then maintain my weight around 11 st.

[bales]

Kentish said:

This won't be just a diet, I want to go back to how I used to eat & exercise 10 years ago when I was less than 11 stone and really fit.

But really fit people eat lots of calories, it conflicting aims, you can't get really fit if you don't fuel your body adequately.