How do you lose 20 lbs in one month?

[Anonymous]

Can you explain your technique/system in simple terms.. a quick dirty method that is

[Sonorous]

Well, now I have a spreadsheet that allows me see how much I'm gaining or losing. This is what kind of caloric deficit I'd need to be in to lose 20lbs in one month:

I would need to eat 12calories a day for 31days to mathematically be in enough of a caloric deficit to lose 20lbs of weight.

This wouldn't actually happen for me though because I'm already in the 12-15% bodyfat range. So since I don't have enough fat, my body would adapt my metabolism to burn fewer calories. So my maintenance intake would definitely not be 2270cals anymore. Making it harder & harder for me to get leaner & lose mass.

If you ever hear of anyone losing 20lbs in one month, they were likely extremely obese & just simply ate less than 5,000cals per day

orrrrrrrr

most of it was water weight.

For instance, I can carry like 10lbs of water weight which would mean that based on the numbers of the scale, I can drop the water weight & simply go into this caloric deficit to lose 10lbs of fat & inevitably muscle tissue:

[Sonorous]

the percentage difference at the top of my caloric difference numbers is just a small error. I forgot to take out what my caloric maintenance was for those days & put the average maintenance for me. It's a small error though. Wouldn't show any visible change in the weightloss if this actually was practical.

[razelove]

Cut down to 1500 calories a day or less, run at least 1.5 miles every other day (or walk for an hour if you're too fat to run), do push ups until you drop. Then do crunches until your shoulders aren't leaving the ground. If you can do any chin-ups, start trying to do that too. Mix in some Burpees for 10-20 minutes a day when you exercise.

Having that rest day is important. Main things are calorie deficit so you aren't putting on more fat, and a mix of aerobic and anaerobic exercise. At some point you will stop losing weight and start gaining weight, though you will keep losing fat. This is because you are a guy putting on muscle, and it is more dense than the fat you are losing.

[Nikki1989]

Such a rapid weight loss is often unhealthy and unsustainable.

[Apple1996]

I had a baby and lost 20 pounds in one month 😆

[nolabels]

I lost 50 pounds in one month earlier this year.
I simply didn't eat except for an extremely small amount of food over that period of time.
The feeling of hunger was not present at all after just a few days in.

This was not a planned situation.
It came about as a result of very specific terrible circumstances.

I wouldn't recommend doing so intentionally.

[Malwi93]

yeah i noticed with fasting its just a matter of getting into the groove of it

[nolabels]

@Malwi93
Yep.

[Malwi93]

you do feel the hunger but you can't die from it. eating is just habitual 4 people and we should unlearn this

[DryGermanGuy]

Zero-intake dieting or very close to (apart from enough fluids of course). Which is not advisable at all, because you will 99% experience the dreaded Yo-Yo effect.

[ProbablyClueless]

I've had a lot of success by not eating every day. I eat more or less the same stuff, but I only eat every other day. Basically cuts your calorie intake in half.

[exitseven]

Cut your caloric intake. I have lost 15 pounds since July. I seem to have gotten stuck but i will ratchet up my workouts and consume more protein.

[genericname85]

not without talking to a doctor. everything above 2 lbs a week is dangerous.

[disappoint3d]

Be an Ectomorph.

If you are not an Ectomorph, it's pretty simple. Eat less. Exercise more. It's not a hard concept.

[noohair]

That could kill you. The safe rule is one pound a week. I quick dirty way is to cut your head off. lol... lol..

[Malwi93]

Puff didn't

[Anonymous]

Strictly 1,800 calories a day and a 30 minute walk each day, preferably with hills.

[Jmmmfi4]

STAIR CLIMBER... AND LOTS OF IT

AND CALORIE DEFICIT

[jahaims]

Calorie deficit

[In_Trance]

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