Have you ever lost a significant amount of weight? How did you do it?

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In a relatively short time? If so how did u do it

meetkitty123 · Accepted Answer

Yes 155lbs. Atkins Keto life style and combined with pre and post Bariatric Surgery Diet.(I did not have surgery)
NOW NO MATTER WHAT THE THE BARIATRIC DIET SAYS DO NOT AND I MEAN NEVER COMBINE A LOW FAT DIET WITH KETO.
IT WILL DESTROY YOUR GALLBLADDER.
With an atkins or keto diet you MUST have healthy fats so your body can regulate its on blood sugar and it also maintains your gallbladders function. And on a keto or atkins diet you SHOULD try to avoid product which say fat free or reduced fat they are actually higher in sugar or carbs. Now when I added the bariatric surgery diets I took a MULTIVITAMIN and I substituted any high carb starchy food for low carbed foods and higher protein. I did this with a friend who had a bariatric surgery done. I DID NOT GET THE SURGERY. She followed typical surgery diet of low fat and starchy diet and used my modified surgery diet of healthy fat low card. I LOST WEIGHT FASTER THAN SHE with my stomach intacted unlike her who had a good portion removed. She had to have her gallbladder removed and I DID NOT.

However a bariatric diet is not for the faint of heart. You would have to be motivated determined and strong-willed it was not an easy process to do without a surgery. I can't sugar coat it the beginning I say the first four to six weeks were absolute hell.

But it isn't necessary to go to those extremes if you are only trying to lose something like 20 lb or even 40 in that case all you need is an Atkins or keto lifestyle and remember healthy fats.

jennifer_bloom · Accepted Answer

At 21 I lost 10 pounds with 4 days of fasting and kept it off for 1 year and I also lost 30 pounds in one month on a low carb diet and was eating at sushi buffets twice a week while doing it - just avoided rice and lost weigh. I continued the trend of losing 36 pounds every year on keto until age 32 when my body became resistant to keto diets. Now I’m doing another diet I invented myself - lost 14 pounds - then gained back 4 pounds by inducing experimental changes in my overall plan - and began losing weight again once I gave up my little mini experiment during the weight loss process. I spent almost 5 years watching videos and studying weight loss online only to lose weight through an experiment I invented myself that I conceptualized 100% independent of all medical research.

Jabberjaw · Accepted Answer

When I hit puberty I also started playing video games and eating junk food a lot. shot up to 230 lb fast. So I was fat for about 1-1.5 years in my teens.

Joined basketball team at 15 and lost 50 lb in a single highschool basketball season. Maintains that weight loss for years and consistently worked out. Put on some muscle

Got into a relationship at about 22 or 23, blimped up without realizing because I was still Training. I was 240 lb but had muscle. Then in 1 -1.5 years I cut down to 183-185 just ripped.

Haven't gotten far away from that in 5 years because I got my nutrition in check. I used to never track my nutrition, now I do. So I've lost weight in two ways

1. Absurd output and hardwork

2. Watching what I eat and workout 2-3 days a week

The second way was much much better lol. If I had the understanding of nutrition that I do now back when I was in high school I would have been ripped my entire life and much stronger lol.

Recently started fitness training so help other people do it now. Not that difficult. Just a matter of changing some habits.

mikee555 · Accepted Answer

Yes a lot of weight because i had too if i didn't i probably would be in the cemetery by know. I was barely 23 years old when i started having shortness of breath for weeks. At first i thought it was asthma but eventually i started having chest pains and drove myself to the emergency room. They found i had a blood clot on my lung and spend 3 days in the hospital and discharged with blood thinning medication. Doctors believe the blood clot was caused by being obese and sitting around a lot. I was 285 pounds at that time know im down to 190 pounds. I could have died if you are overweight then take care of yourself and lose weight you don't want to end up like me. Thankfully, the clot has dissolved but i still get out of breath more easily then before the clot and still get some chest pains from time to time. I know suffer from complications because i chose to be obese and not take care of myself. But i learned my lesson that life is very precious and take care of it while you still have it!.

Cynicaldreamer · Answer

Not in a short time, but I've lost over 70 pounds (and still going!) I would still like to lose another 12-15 pounds before I'm somewhat content. But I am a healthy weight now, wearing small and medium sizes, and very active fitness wise!

It look me roughly 5-6 years to accomplish this however. I lost my weight by working out of course (walking, running, weight training), and of course, watching my food intake. No fad diets, just eating less and cutting out unnecessary junk as need be- probably why it took longer to lose the weight, but as I've been told, I have a better chance of maintaining my weight loss by doing it the right way.

Lliam · Answer

In 1989 I lost 50 lbs in 5 months by going on Weight Watchers, walking and exercising.

I had gained the weight over a period of 6 years because my new job had caused a drastic change in lifestyle. Before then, I had been super fit and active. But the job made me sedentary and I was being taken to really nice restaurants every day for lunch. I discovered good food and wasn't used to my new life. I didn't like myself because I had to cut my long hair and start wearing a suit instead of surfing, partying and being a rock musician. I didn't even recognize myself, but I was making really good money. I didn't even have a girlfriend for 5 years because I didn't want the kind of girl who would want me for a boyfriend.

But by the time was 35 and got back in good shape, I had grown up and become comfortable with my new persona. I started enjoying life again. A lot.

slatyb · Answer

Lost it? Yes. In a relatively short time? No. When I moved to Seattle I dropped 20 pounds in the first year because I was walking up and down hill to work, and because I wasn't eating free junk food at the office. So that's my advice to anyone: first eliminate the crap from your diet. Start with any drink with added sugar. Those are poison. Get them out of your mouth and out of your house. Then take inventory -- count calories for a week or so to find what you are taking in every day. Then set a reachable target. I had a trial subscription to Noom. It suggested 1400 calories but I couldn't do it, and settled on 1600. Then I dropped the subscription because in my opinion it's stupid expensive. Also, if it's safe where you live, walk more. Anything to be more active.

Reaper1985 · Answer

cutting out items that have added or artificial sugar and salt from your diet will help you naturally lose some weight over time. to much sugar in your system turns to fat and to much salt in your system makes you retain water. however most items have natural sugar and salt in them that help to balance out the bodies natural. helps to prep and cook your own meals so you know what's in things.

other then that a modest exercise plan can improve how fast you burn fat and/or build muscle. calisthenics are a nice starting point because they can be done with or without equipment. while typically targeting multiple muscle groups at the same time.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes
10 kg a month + 10 kg a month
Total 20 kg in 2 months

Jump roped every day for 20 min ( not straight jump rope just jump til I was tired and retry I wasn’t harsh with it ) only Sunday off

And ate OMAD only and ONLY meat eggs bacon yogurt fats.. veggies maybe 5%. I was carnivore full mode til I die and I look so beautiful like a snack thanks to those fats.
Veggies isn't what they tell you people feel bloated , uncomfortable and don’t know why I’m Like lady a boiled broccoli with make your poop mushy and your body mushy

People going vegan nowadays looking malnourished I feel sad. A piece or bacon or animal fat will cure your beauty not asparagus with humus and your fart be smelling like humus too jeez women eat that chicken don’t save it. God will take care of them in afterlife

wa1t1ngFuture · Answer

I've always been skinny from then until now (I even eat above normal people. I eat a lot but stay skinny and also just sleep and sleep but stay skinny...) since 5th grade I started thin at first I have normal body.. .. i'm tall and thin so people call me PENCIL MAN lol i also bend a little bit when walking but i really don't pay attention...

Anonymous · Answer

I did in the medle of sophomore year. I started walking mon- Fri to and from school originally I wasn't doing it for weight loss. I was doing it so I didn't have to deal with the bus driver and the rules on the bus. Because I was showing up to school late I took breakfast out of my routine and just waited till fourth period lunch to eat. I would say 2 to 3 weeks into it I was needing a belt just to hold my pants up I was also noticing that it made me more calm when I walked because I was not a happy person in high school. I started making a lot of goals such as spending an hour at the parkwhether it be walking' shooting hoops etc. by the time I was a senior I was walking 5 miles to the mall. Add a certain point I wasn't gaining or losing weight I stayed about the same weight till late 20s.

Anonymous · Answer

One meal a day, AKA intermittent fasting. Very difficult for people who eat 3+ meals and snacks. The beauty of it is your meal can be as large as you want. Your stomach won’t be able to hold too much and will naturally shrink over time, decreasing how much you eat. I recommend not buying anything you can snack on except fruits and vegetables/water. Take multivitamins to supplement any nutrition you don’t get. Truly the only way to lose weight is to reduce your intake of food and exercise. You don’t need both but you will still gain weight if you eat too much even with exercise. You must discipline yourself to stop snacking especially late at night and before bed. Stop eating after 9-10pm.

TommyMountainFigure · Answer

I would always advise trying to lose weight quickly. There is more chance of putting it back on, but also because it is an unsafe way of doing it.
You are far better losing a couple of lbs a week. Unless of course you are huge in which case a bit more.

MCheetah · Answer

No. I always wished I could be one of those success stories where the person loses 150 pounds or whatever, but I've never been able to lose a single pound my entire life (Hypothyroidism makes that harder than usual), and I'm sick of doing something I loathe and despise (cardio) for zero progress.

idkwhatsreal · Answer

I went from 175 down to 130 in a month and a half or so. But I not really in normal way that, I should advocate for it. Was probably the best weight loss experience I could have ever had and I wasn’t even trying. I’m sure you can sorta guess what it might be.

Smashingdoozy · Answer

Fodmap diet while still doing keto. But you'll be miserable because you can't eat anything 😩. Now I eat whatever I want and enjoy it because I'm nourishing my body. Losing weight fast isn't healthy. It's healthy to lose 2-4 pounds a week. All diets are, are just various ways for you to be ingesting less calories than you are burning. As long as you eat well balanced meals and burn more calories than you have eaten you will lose weight.

TransAm85 · Answer

When I was 17, I started losing weight slowly. I lost 100 lbs by the time I was 19. I called it all baby fat anyway. I wore a nice size 10 for 10 years. Then I started gaining weight. Now I'm 36 and wear a 14, weigh 190 and it's pissing me off! I am trying that Noom, but I don't c any changes. I don't eat much, but I drink too many mochas!

Cherry234 · Answer

I actually have. In less than 3 years I lost about 20 lbs. I thought I gained back the weight but when I went to my doctor I found out I'm only 125 lbs. I lost a lot of weight because I wasn't eating that much for extended periods of time. I lost my appetite and didn't want to eat. This was primarily because of stress for academic related reasons.

Drumlin2001 · Answer

I lost a few stone in very quick time. I starved myself. In the working week I would eat a sandwich and an apple at lunch so my colleagues would see me. But that was it for the day. Just drank water. On Saturday I wouldn't eat. On Sunday I had one cooked meal, around lunch time. Weight dropped of till I started eating again. Soon came back

silkjames · Answer

No but I used to wiegh 150pounds until I hit high school I blow up I stay active working out and training I played a lot of sports and boxed I still train tho and work out to stay fit it keeps me clear minded and now that I'm older trying to slow down the old man look I don't want to get old 😂 who does right 😂!

TallAnon · Answer

Yeah, I lost 10kg in less than a month. I ate instant noodles for lunch and only drank cola. I didn't go outside and some days I wouldn't eat because I ran out and didn't want to go out to buy anything. The only times I went out was when I was afraid that if I didn't eat, I might faint while buying it.
Conclusion, don't rush it, it's not healthy.

I also lost about 15kg at some point by going keto, but that was mainly because I couldn't find food without carbs, so I didn't eat at all.

Sushilove0 · Answer

Yeah just did not eat for a day or so or just eat very little compared to what i nomally eat. Like a fraction of it. Keep doing that for days. I have a super high fast metabolism and dk why so that Mau help me but i lose weight lile overnight its crazy. Lol also drink water a lot.

Valso · Answer

Yes, I have. How I did it? I caught Covid-19. 🤣 While I was sick of Covid-19, I could taste only chocolate and apples, everything else had absolutely no taste, as if I was chewing on air. Chocolate and apples can't fill you when you're hungry and these two things were what I was eating in all of the 45 days with Covid-19. Since they don't contain anything that my organism can use to keep my weight constant, I started losing weight. Before Covid-19 I used to be about 120 kg, now I'm about 105.

Sun_Kim-Ai · Answer

Yes, I used to weight 80+ kgs. I followed a strict diet and laid off alcohol for a while. Now I weigh 63kg.

Twalli · Answer

It wasn't a lot numerically but it was 11% of my body weight. I ate vegetables every 3rd day with a glass of milk. I only had a lunch of a nutrition bar and a glass of water the rest of the week. I al asd o had wrestling practice as cardio. Granted that's the reason why I was losing the weight.

globetrotter22 · Answer

If you lose weight fast you are likely to regain it fast. It screws up your hormones.  You need to make a long term lifestyle change and it helps to devote yourself (full time) to a fitness activity.

dragoblack · Answer

Reduced my sodium to the proper 2300mg a day, reduced my carbs to as minimal as possible, cut red meat to once every 2 to 3 weeks and watched my processed sugar intake. Doing that, from sodium reducing along dropped 20lbs of water weight in a few days dropping me from 260 to 240, then low carb & sugar brought me to 230. And ever since i flux between 230 & 235.

TonyV · Answer

Went from 310 to 235 in a pretty short time, extreme fasting and eating better stuff when I did exercise.

Wasn't sustainable tho, back to 270, extreme diets never last, you've got to make real change if you want it to last.

yofuknutz · Answer

I had saw surgery when I was a teenager for months all I could eat was mashed potatoes with marinara sauce on it so my weight went down when I went back to regular food bye-bye ever since then an upward climb

TheMajesticKing777 · Answer

Yea I went from like 230 something pounds to like 170 something in I'd say like 4 or 5 months, I abused Marijuana, it's really not worth living that lifestyle to lose weight tho so I don't recommend it

EyeKnowMeNahYou · Answer

One way I lost a significant amount of weight was I had given up soda and juices of any kind for 8 months. I drank nothing but water. My waist literally shrunk, sugar makes for a lot of fat storage from what I've read and my experiences

vanessadaniellet · Answer

I only eat one time a day during the week and it’s dinner which I should switch it to breakfast but i only eat eggs when i only do breakfast and everytime I only do eggs I lose weight fast

Pete671 · Answer

At about 35 years old, I was 16 1/2 stone, now 73 kg, just started a healthy lifestyle, diets don't work, just keep active and get your dopamine hit from fun exercise not food or alcohol, piece of piss really,,,

Adronicus · Answer

Yes, I lost around 50 pounds last summer helping a or I friend in my off time with tree service, it's excellent exercise. I had to buy new city's after, lol. Running a chainsaw & Wood chipper in the summers excellent.

Dargil · Answer

2019 = 285 lb 2022 = 235 lb adjusted diet Heading for 200.

megabamse · Answer

Mmm well i was 99kilos, then i dropped down to 72 in a e months period. And all i did, and i do mean all i did was ro cut our sugar. I just stopped eatinf and drink things that had lots of sugar.

nice-girl · Answer

I have lost weight but not a significant amount. Fasting works for me and avoiding sugar and if possible carbs too

Sour-rose · Answer

I'm sure I just started learning? Not eat so much fattening food, workout, and then look at that... I'm thinner.

exitseven · Answer

In high school I lost 30 pounds in a year. I worked out a lot and watched my diet. I went from 190 to 160 in about a year.

ShaTTeredMasterpeace · Answer

I lost about 80 pounds between 2017-2019. I put half of it back on during covid some I'm just trying to get back to my post covid weight.

BCRanger10 · Answer

Yes. I lost 23 pounds this year between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. Lots of fasting, no meat, no sweets.

Dinklex3 · Answer

I lost like 15lbs in a week. I gained weight after eating crap at tech school. It immediately dropped once i started fasting again.

ArtemisSilver · Answer

How's bad do you want it? You could could force it with a gastric bypass and a tummy tuck later, but that's going to cost like $30000  Would take about a year.

IveGotNoName · Answer

I lost 22 pounds in under a month... by getting anorexia, eating almost nothing, and doing professional ballet 5 hours a day.

VikingWarLord · Answer

Water Fasting for 72 hours once per week.  You'll lose a shiit ton of weight before the month is over.

lightbulb27 · Answer

Cut out carbs and sugar. Protein and veggies.  Intermittent fast Keep up activity

Anonymous · Answer

I lost 22 bl in 12 days by eating nothing but diet Soda. I lost another 22 lb also by eating almost nothing. And I now use diet pill stacker 3 to maintain the weight. I wish I can lose a little bit more. But it’s really hard at this point because I am skinny and to lose weight when you skinny is difficult.

Adam1978 · Answer

No I don't change my weight rapidly in either direction. But up would be so much easier and faster.

NamerOfStars · Answer

I ran out of money and nothing to eat. It's not an approach I'd recommend.

TenkRealist · Answer

Yeah. Lost 7 kilos in a few months. Soup. Canned soup. Each soup is approx 200 cals. You can have 3 soups a day and still loose some good weight.

Unlucky89 · Answer

Took up kickboxing to loose weight and never felt better

anton_dee · Answer

I have. From 86 kgs down to 58 and now stable at 63 to 65. Started with controlled diet. Lots of football. Running up a 10 storey apartment stairs, thrice...

Open2It · Answer

I've lost 30+ lbs a couple of times in a 2-3 month period by dieting (keeping track on MFP) and kept it off for quite awhile... only to succumb to desire again. 😑

I'm at it again right now and have lost 10 in about a month! 🙂

TheAfrikan · Answer

That is normally done by watching what you eat, by limiting on your caloric intake, the second step would be imminent fasting as well as doing some HIIT exercises.

zagor · Answer

Yeah, by falling ill and almost dying. I wouldn't recommend it.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

10 pounds in 12 hours I ate some bad Peruvian food

douride2 · Answer

I lost 1/3 of my body weight. I was pretty much in a coma for 2 weeks.

Andres77 · Answer

Only vegetables and protein powder. No other food. About 2 weeks. Lost almost 20 lbs.

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

Well this isn't a positive message for starters.. I lost around 40 pounds losing myself in liquor. Dark times.

Creampiekarl420 · Answer

Jumping rope for 30 minutes every day 10 minutes x 3

RationalMale · Answer

High protein and slash the carbs, plus drink a lot of water.

Blueeyes81 · Answer

I lost 40 pounds in a year. 20 of those in a month period where I got the flu twice.

Wise4myage · Answer

No, I've always been thin, but I hear its unhealthy to lose a lot of weight too soon.

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

Yes, I did. What I did was drink ice. All day and in the middle of every night

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