SteveM222
12-15-2007, 04:15 AM
Hello. I am a male and weigh about 185, 190. I am trying to lose as much weight as possible in the next 2 months, hoping to get down to 165ish. Is this possible, or is 2 months just waaay too short amount of time. The good news is I am 20, and I have gained most of the weight while on medicines the past few years due to migraines (it is sometimes easier to lose weight after that, right?). Please tell me what I can do in terms or diet and exerice. Well please let me know what I can do and if that seems unrealistic, what is realistic? Thanks a lot!
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cardinarky
12-18-2007, 07:48 PM
OK, you want to lose 25 pounds. That translates to expending an additional 25(lb)x3500(cal/lb) = 87,500 cal over that which you eat during a 60 day time frame.
A sensible diet which you can live on and function cognitively would be about 1,800 calories a day. and you need to lose 87,500/60 = approximately 1450 calories a day to meet your goal.
You will be required to expend in aerobic and weight training, that amount if you eat a reasonable diet.
Running or walking will burn about 125 calories a pound. So if you can handle 8 miles a day, that would take care of 1025 of the calories. Now you will need a weight training program to lose the additional 425 calories each day.
The goal is possible but it will require an extreme dedication and effort to achieve. About 25 years ago, I did about the same thing and was successful.
My diet consisted of
Breakfast;
A double portion of real Old Fashioned Quaker Oatmeal, sweet and low for sweetener, coffee black, half a cantaloupe or a banana.
Snack:
Apple or banana or nectarine
Lunch:
A 7 oz can of water pack albacore tuna and all of the greens from a salad bar that I could eat. Lettuce, Broccoli, some onion, mushrooms, Then I used malt vinegar for the dressing. NO OIL
Dinner:
I/2 of a baked chicken.
1 large baked potato I used Frenches mustard to moisten the potato.
Snack; 1/2 Cantaloupe.
I know it works, (at least for me) because I have been there.
I also quit smoking two weeks before I set out on this program. So the theory that if you stop smoking, you will gain weight, also was dismissed.
Good Luck if you try it.
A sensible diet which you can live on and function cognitively would be about 1,800 calories a day. and you need to lose 87,500/60 = approximately 1450 calories a day to meet your goal.
You will be required to expend in aerobic and weight training, that amount if you eat a reasonable diet.
Running or walking will burn about 125 calories a pound. So if you can handle 8 miles a day, that would take care of 1025 of the calories. Now you will need a weight training program to lose the additional 425 calories each day.
The goal is possible but it will require an extreme dedication and effort to achieve. About 25 years ago, I did about the same thing and was successful.
My diet consisted of
Breakfast;
A double portion of real Old Fashioned Quaker Oatmeal, sweet and low for sweetener, coffee black, half a cantaloupe or a banana.
Snack:
Apple or banana or nectarine
Lunch:
A 7 oz can of water pack albacore tuna and all of the greens from a salad bar that I could eat. Lettuce, Broccoli, some onion, mushrooms, Then I used malt vinegar for the dressing. NO OIL
Dinner:
I/2 of a baked chicken.
1 large baked potato I used Frenches mustard to moisten the potato.
Snack; 1/2 Cantaloupe.
I know it works, (at least for me) because I have been there.
I also quit smoking two weeks before I set out on this program. So the theory that if you stop smoking, you will gain weight, also was dismissed.
Good Luck if you try it.
jem6600
12-22-2007, 11:02 PM
Hey Cardinarky...
Thanks so much for posting that you were able to lose weight even though you had just quit smoking. I am on day 5 and smoke-free but everyone keeps telling me that I will automatically gain weight. I have also been at the gym for the past 6 months..running and weight training and I really do not want to gain weight. Thanks for the diet suggestions as well...I think the diet plan is sensible and do-able!
Thanks again!
Thanks so much for posting that you were able to lose weight even though you had just quit smoking. I am on day 5 and smoke-free but everyone keeps telling me that I will automatically gain weight. I have also been at the gym for the past 6 months..running and weight training and I really do not want to gain weight. Thanks for the diet suggestions as well...I think the diet plan is sensible and do-able!
Thanks again!
LadyItalian
12-22-2007, 11:59 PM
The weight loss is possible, there are many low cal options out there. And if you're like me and the main prob is snacking, there's sugar free jello that is a great alternitive dessert. Even with the quitting smoking thing. It's too bad we live in a society that basically "gains weight" everytime something isn't going right, like missing smoking. I'd smoked for 10 years, quit last year, used the nicorette gum, helped me stop smoking w/o gaining weight, but got hooked on the gum. But I'm off of everything for about a month now, I do miss it a little, but I feel great and didn't gain any weight, still watched diet and exercise. So hang in there, it is totally possible!