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Hey, I was just wondering what I have to do to drop around 30 pounds in 1.5 months? Or if that's just way too much to be healthy, what would be the most amount of weight I can drop healthily in that time frame and what do I have to do in terms of diet and workouts?
My current workout is 4 cardio workouts (jogging turns sprinting straights on a track) for 45 minutes and 3 cardio (same as above) for 30 minutes + weight training and 3 3 hr+ tennis games sprinkled into a week. I've been waking up early to do the workouts and the tennis games are usually in the afternoon. However, after a month of this I feel the results are a bit slow, I've only lost about 10ish pounds and I'm not sure how much of that is water. (probably a lot) I didn't adjust my diet.
I feel I can at most wake up another 30 minutes early to make the workouts 90 min total so I could do 90 min cardio 4 days and 45 min cardio + weigh training 3 days with 3 tennis games a week and start eat a lot less, will that help me make my goal?
Back story if you're interested:
I've played tennis quite competitively in high school, playing any amateur tournaments that were within my driving distance and what not. Since college I've been getting out of shape, I still play, just not with the same frequency and definitely not at the same level. A month ago one of my best friends who was my doubles partner back in high school invited me over to his house for winter break, he also mentioned there was a week long tennis tourney that coincided with this visit if I wanted to play, so of course I said yes. (haven't played tennis with him for a couple years now) I know he's been playing all throughout college though and know I've fallen behind so starting a month ago I've been playing 3 times a week and working out to catch up and so when we play it'll actually be competitive and fun.
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Uhm, most forms of inflammatory bowel disease will do it. Barring that, other unhealthy shit. Various amphetamines and derivatives, for example, and eating disorders. So no, there's not a good way. I'd suggest hitting up the health and fitness sub-forum for good advice.
+ Show Spoiler +The stupid way is to layer heavy clothes until you're warm under them and go running to sweat a metric shitload. The issue is, you only lose water weight this way if you force dehydrate in the process, and it can put you in the hospital or kill you.
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It's impossible...unless you cut off both legs. Realistically, you can lose 2 pounds per week if you have enough fat stored. But your body will not allow you to drop 30 in a month, or else we'd all be skinny!
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as a general rule losing more than a pound a week is not going to be healthy or sustainable, most diets that result in quick weight losses are going to result in quicker weight gains..
i'd adjust your diet (high protein, low carbs, low fat) and keep the cardio up, that's the tried-and-true way to do it
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30 pounds in 1 and a half months sounds nearly impossible. (Unless you starve yourself, haha)
Aim for 2 to 3 pounds a week, so you could ultimately lose 18-20 pounds but it would still be very difficult. If you haven't changed your diet at all, you really should. There are a lot of interesting takes on diet, so I would be cautious when trying a new diet if it seems gimmicky. Good luck!
Here's a good general guide that has helped me in the past: http://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/lose-weight-fast-how-to-do-it-safely
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Dropping this kind of weight is possible, but it's not good for you and after you attain the weight loss it will be an uphill battle to keep it 'cause your body will be trying to return to homeostasis.
The best thing you can do is take the weight loss slow... I know it's probably not what you want to hear.
Other then that just start cutting more and more food out of your diet, keep high protein foods etc. make sure you don't cut out essential fats. Keep doing this until you till you feel you don't have energy through out the day and then add a bit of energy to your diet and you should be at the point where you will lose weight slowly(unless you want to count calories)
And don't overdo the cardio, you will end up burning yourself out after a few months if you overwork yourself from the start
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On October 10 2011 04:59 Count9 wrote:
Hey, I was just wondering what I have to do to drop around 30 pounds in 1.5 months? Or if that's just way too much to be healthy, what would be the most amount of weight I can drop healthily in that time frame and what do I have to do in terms of diet and workouts?
My current workout is 4 cardio workouts (jogging turns sprinting straights on a track) for 45 minutes and 3 cardio (same as above) for 30 minutes + weight training and 3 3 hr+ tennis games sprinkled into a week. I've been waking up early to do the workouts and the tennis games are usually in the afternoon. However, after a month of this I feel the results are a bit slow, I've only lost about 10ish pounds and I'm not sure how much of that is water. (probably a lot) I didn't adjust my diet.
I feel I can at most wake up another 30 minutes early to make the workouts 90 min total so I could do 90 min cardio 4 days and 45 min cardio + weigh training 3 days with 3 tennis games a week and start eat a lot less, will that help me make my goal?
Back story if you're interested:
I've played tennis quite competitively in high school, playing any amateur tournaments that were within my driving distance and what not. Since college I've been getting out of shape, I still play, just not with the same frequency and definitely not at the same level. A month ago one of my best friends who was my doubles partner back in high school invited me over to his house for winter break, he also mentioned there was a week long tennis tourney that coincided with this visit if I wanted to play, so of course I said yes. (haven't played tennis with him for a couple years now) I know he's been playing all throughout college though and know I've fallen behind so starting a month ago I've been playing 3 times a week and working out to catch up and so when we play it'll actually be competitive and fun.
In a healthy manner? 15 pounds max.
30 pounds in basically 6 to 7 weeks would be insanely unhealthy and borderline impossible. You'd be looking at about 5 pounds per week, which would be a 2500 calorie per day deficit. So in order to lose weight at this rate you would need to eat NOTHING and run about 5-6 miles a day. If you wanted to eat a tiny amount of food (1000 calories a day) you'd be looking at perhaps 10-13 miles per day, which isn't too crazy, but trying to do that off that minuscule amount of food certainly would be. This assumes your body doesn't start to go into starvation mode and decrease you base metabolic rate to compensate.
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30 pounds in 90 days is absolutely unhealthy. In general, you should aim to lose like 10% of your current weight over several months if you want to follow guidelines. It's a bit strict in my opinion but 30 is still a lot.
To lose weight, eat well. Consult a nutritionist if you don't know what that means, otherwise eat a lot of vegetables and get only the calories and proteins you need.
Do cardio like you're already doing... walk or jog a lot.
Losing weight is not really that hard. I've lost around 10 pounds over the last month despite still eating a bit of junk food (mostly icecream, why is it so fucking delicious) and doing minimal exercise (IE just walking from home to university a few times a day every day, but not actually doing cardio). If I was 100% motivated to lose weight, with a proper diet and exercise, I could've lost like 20 pounds without a gigantic effort. Of course, it also matters at what weight you start.
Most important part is what you eat. Otherwise, be patient. You sound like you're already in semi-good shape. Just be consistent with your workout and diet and you'll lose the weight, even if it doesn't end up being 30 pounds in 90 days.
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it would be insanely unhealthy if possible, and even if you could, that kind of extreme is sure to cme right back afterwards
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I lost 21KG ( 32 lbs? ) under 1 month.
but then i got some syndromes about loosing weight so i always lose weight.. can lose like 5 KG (6lbs) a week at most.
went from 85kg to 79kg from last week. and i eat normally. so yeah.. constantly loosing weight 
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Honestly man, just get to running and lifting weights. Do it regularly and eat light... those pounds will drop off you.
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On October 10 2011 04:59 Count9 wrote:
Hey, I was just wondering what I have to do to drop around 30 pounds in 1.5 months? Or if that's just way too much to be healthy, what would be the most amount of weight I can drop healthily in that time frame and what do I have to do in terms of diet and workouts?
My current workout is 4 cardio workouts (jogging turns sprinting straights on a track) for 45 minutes and 3 cardio (same as above) for 30 minutes + weight training and 3 3 hr+ tennis games sprinkled into a week. I've been waking up early to do the workouts and the tennis games are usually in the afternoon. However, after a month of this I feel the results are a bit slow, I've only lost about 10ish pounds and I'm not sure how much of that is water. (probably a lot) I didn't adjust my diet.
I feel I can at most wake up another 30 minutes early to make the workouts 90 min total so I could do 90 min cardio 4 days and 45 min cardio + weigh training 3 days with 3 tennis games a week and start eat a lot less, will that help me make my goal?
Back story if you're interested:
I've played tennis quite competitively in high school, playing any amateur tournaments that were within my driving distance and what not. Since college I've been getting out of shape, I still play, just not with the same frequency and definitely not at the same level. A month ago one of my best friends who was my doubles partner back in high school invited me over to his house for winter break, he also mentioned there was a week long tennis tourney that coincided with this visit if I wanted to play, so of course I said yes. (haven't played tennis with him for a couple years now) I know he's been playing all throughout college though and know I've fallen behind so starting a month ago I've been playing 3 times a week and working out to catch up and so when we play it'll actually be competitive and fun.
About to get my M.D., so take it for whatever it is worth to you.
When a human loses body mass at a rate faster than about 15% per year (assuming weight loss projected steadily outwards), even acutely, there is a protective decrease in metabolic rate. Now this decrease is larger in cases of calorie restriction more than thru exercise (and yes, your body can tell the difference), but it happens in both cases. So we advised people to lose about 1lb/week because 1) most people can only keep that up for a month or two and 2) it is a fair experimentally supported rate at which metabolism decreases, but not so much to prevent further weight loss.
If you are interested in losing FAT, you can lose FAT much quicker, by compensating with weight training and building muscle mass. This actually increases your metabolic rate quite successfully after a few weeks. So if you were to stay the same weight but trade 15 lbs of fat for muscle (which is quiiiiite a bit) first, your metabolism would increase non-trivially, making it easier to remove unwanted body fat primarily later.
You seem to be wanting to get in shape more than just lose fat, so I would recommend decreasing your streneous cardio (which believe it or not, makes it verrrrrrrry hard for your body to put on muscle mass after you reach a high volume of strenuous exertion), and increasing your weight training sessions. If you'd like to msg me your height and weight, I can offer more pointed advice, but IN GENERAL, get in shape by maintaining your weighht and trade fat for muscle is the most medically safe and fastest "weight loss" method.
Trying to focus on cardio as the dominant weight loss method is actually not as successful for volume of fat lost, and results in siginficant decreases to BMR in the volumes you are doing it for MOST people. You very quickly start to see protein in the urine, even some rhabdo (muscle loss), and weight loss even stalls after 3-4 weeks.
Please be safe.
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Well, it's very simple
Let's assume 2lb is water weight, because, why not? (and it makes math easier)
So 28lb in 7 weeks, or 4 lb/week. that's about a 14,000 kcal deficit per week (since a pound of fat is about 3,500kcal) or a 2,000kcal deficit daily.
So if right now you're maintaining your weight, you're eating at your maintenance level (makes sense, right). Assuming you're eating 2,000kcal per day right now, all you have to do is not eat for 7 weeks.
Good luck.
+ Show Spoiler +Hint: don't. Aim for 1-2lb per week. What's the rush?
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I've lost 40 pounds in a month before. I ended up in the hospital and almost died, then got diagnosed with crohn's disease. There's no healthy way to lose weight that fast.
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On October 10 2011 05:21 Stijx wrote:
Honestly man, just get to running and lifting weights. Do it regularly and eat light... those pounds will drop off you.
wouldn't lifting weights actually make him gain weight in a 1.5 month period?
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max 500 calorie deficit=>max 0.5kg/week drop is healthy
keep in mind that your body will adjust to lower calorie intake, which will slow down metabolism. so do sports every day and don't drop too fast
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Probably if you don't eat AT ALL, you could get it done.
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best tips is to defecate it all,LOL
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On October 10 2011 05:33 Terranist wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2011 05:21 Stijx wrote:
Honestly man, just get to running and lifting weights. Do it regularly and eat light... those pounds will drop off you. wouldn't lifting weights actually make him gain weight in a 1.5 month period?
Who knows?
It depends entirely on the eating. If he were to eat the same calories as he burned, he would gain no weight though his body composition would likely change. If he ate less calories than he burned he would still lose weight, regardless of lifting, though as with before the lifting would likely influence the body composition.
Trying to focus on cardio as the dominant weight loss method is actually not as successful for volume of fat lost, and results in siginficant decreases to BMR in the volumes you are doing it for MOST people. You very quickly start to see protein in the urine, even some rhabdo (muscle loss), and weight loss even stalls after 3-4 weeks.
I assume you mean this in a statistical sense as in many people experience these things if they focus on cardio as the main method for weight loss. As someone who lost his weight almost entirely through cardio I certainly didn't have problems such as significant muscle loss or stalling of weight loss. That said, I do agree with the premise of favoring strength training over heavy cardio for weight loss both because of the benefits to body composition and the advantages you already espoused. However, I don't feel cardio should be cut entirely, 3-4 light sessions per week is still a good thing for most people.
You seem to be wanting to get in shape more than just lose fat, so I would recommend decreasing your streneous cardio (which believe it or not, makes it verrrrrrrry hard for your body to put on muscle mass after you reach a high volume of strenuous exertion), and increasing your weight training sessions. If you'd like to msg me your height and weight, I can offer more pointed advice, but IN GENERAL, get in shape by maintaining your weighht and trade fat for muscle is the most medically safe and fastest "weight loss" method.
Very true. That said, I doubt the OP is even going to get in a nearby neighboorhood of high volume. Other than dedicated endurance athletes trying to get faster there are very, very few people who actually do high volume of endurance exercise. I'd be suprised if 1 in 10,000 people, who aren't focused on being fast runners/bikers/etc., are doing anything that resembles high volume.
That said, I will emphasize that I agree with pretty much of all of what you say. If your looking for body composition change and good health, a weight oriented approach with modest endurance exercise is the best path.
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best tips is google after a nice weight lifting traning pass and buy some drinks that gives calories, and lift weight 3 times a week and run 2 times a week and eat healty- you will gain weight, BUT it will be muscles and you'll look sexy 
thats what i and me brother did, 6 months and we were awesome !
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Martil Strel the man/machine that swam down the entire Amazon River(3,273 mi, which is about the distance from London to New York and wider then the Atlantic ocean) in 66 days lost 26 pounds. So no 30 is fucking crazy.
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From what little I know, I'd recommend sprinting and weight lifting, no cardio. Dietwise, eat meat and vegetables.
If you want to lose weight, make your diet immaculate. If you want to gain muscle, train smart.
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-blueprint-101/
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On October 10 2011 05:33 Terranist wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2011 05:21 Stijx wrote:
Honestly man, just get to running and lifting weights. Do it regularly and eat light... those pounds will drop off you. wouldn't lifting weights actually make him gain weight in a 1.5 month period?
No gaining muscle burns more fat. One of the best ways to drop pounds is so do weight training first and then cardio. Weight training burns off a lot of the sugars in your body and the cardio will burn much more fat.
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Not an MD here but is that safe/healthy? I mean sure we'd all like (except me, haha) to lose a bit of weight once in a while... but just eat healthily and exercise.
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Ok, thanks a lot everyone. I just wanted to get back to my previous tennis weight +10, guess it was just wishful thinking. Alright, I'll aim for 1.5 lbs a week from now on and do more weight training.
If I'm doing cardio everyday, what's a good amount to meet that goal (never had to lose a specific amount of weight before, kinda just exercised when I felt way too fat and lost some random amount of weight after a couple months)? Is the 90-min/45-min every 2 days too much? I played tennis 5-6 hours a day before without feeling like I'm killing myself so is that actually too little? (I'll be doing sprint straights/jog curves on a regular track) I'll probably bump weight training to every other day rather than 3 times a week. I don't want to gain too much muscle, just want to be sleeker to jump higher/accelerate faster on runs.
Again, thanks everyone, I've read every single reply multiple times and they've all been helpful (or, at the very least, a slap of reality).
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On October 10 2011 05:45 rezzan wrote:best tips is google after a nice weight lifting traning pass and buy some drinks that gives calories, and lift weight 3 times a week and run 2 times a week and eat healty- you will gain weight, BUT it will be muscles and you'll look sexy thats what i and me brother did, 6 months and we were awesome !
+1 Amazing advice and relevant to the OP, cool story, you changed my life. Less lifting, more reading imo.
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On October 10 2011 06:21 Count9 wrote:
Ok, thanks a lot everyone. I just wanted to get back to my previous tennis weight +10, guess it was just wishful thinking. Alright, I'll aim for 1.5 lbs a week from now on and do more weight training.
If I'm doing cardio everyday, what's a good amount to meet that goal (never had to lose a specific amount of weight before, kinda just exercised when I felt way too fat and lost some random amount of weight after a couple months)? Is the 90-min/45-min every 2 days too much? I played tennis 5-6 hours a day before without feeling like I'm killing myself so is that actually too little? (I'll be doing sprint straights/jog curves on a regular track) I'll probably bump weight training to every other day rather than 3 times a week. I don't want to gain too much muscle, just want to be sleeker to jump higher/accelerate faster on runs.
Again, thanks everyone, I've read every single reply multiple times and they've all been helpful (or, at the very least, a slap of reality).
Okay, sounds like you actually are more focused on performance than aesthetics or general fitness.
You say you don't want to gain to much muscle, well you'll be fine there are long as you aren't eating like crazy. It's pretty tough to put on lots of muscle if your in a caloric deficit. Basically, you don't need to be worried about getting bulky with the goals and exercise your proposing, it just isn't going to happen.
Accelerate faster on runs? Like as in quickness/getting up to speed? I'm just trying to figure out if your more focused on being able to sprint faster or increase endurance.
90/45 every 2 days, is that like 90 minutes one day, 45 minutes the next, then 90, etc, etc.?
Why sprint straights/jog curves? I don't see any real need to do that; though it will help if your a little more specific with exactly what sort of goals your shooting for.
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Are you training for some kind of boxing event? If you need to drop huge amounts of weight before a weigh in just run a mile while chewing on a rubber band and spitting as often as possible. You will lose a ton of water weight.
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removing all carbs will make you drop weight like insanely fast
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Diet is VERY important when your planning to lose weight. You can lose weight with no cardio but its of course a lot harder.
The first thing you need to find out is how much calories you burn every day say for example you burn 2500 calories if you did nothing but just sit on a chair. You could just eat 2000 calories every day and just sit on the chair and you would lose weight but of course its not easy. You could also eat 2500 calories eat every day and run to burn 500 calories.
So you would lose 3500 calories every week which is 1 pound. And dont think you are clever if you drop down to 1000 calories a day that would make it only worse since it would put your body in starvation mode and you would start to store all your food you eat.
I am as well currently following a very strict plan on losing weight.
I run 30min every day (5km)
I lift weights every 2nd day for 1 hour.
I eat 6 meals a day.
I drink ONLY water and MILK. (Avoid other drinks)
Dont eat fast food or candy.
Try to check all the foods you eat and see how much calories they have so you have an idea of how much calories you are going to eat.
Also you can lose 2 pounds of fat every week at MAX anything more than that means you are losing muscle as well and thats not what you want to lose since muscle burns more calories than fat.
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On October 10 2011 06:40 Pulimuli wrote:
removing all carbs will make you drop weight like insanely fast
This is a false statement. You could ONLY eat chocolate and you would still lose weight IF you eat the right calorie amount , of course it would not be healthy and i do not recommend it but you could lose weight by eating anything if you just know how much calories you have to eat.
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i second the weight training--if you do high reps with low rest and relatively low weights, you won't be putting on muscle as much as you will be burning fat (i'm doing this right now, and it's working pretty well) .
but again, diet is CRUCIAL. you have to tailor your diet to your workout goal--remember that a pound of fat is roughly 3500 unburned calories..
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On October 10 2011 06:44 Knap4life wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2011 06:40 Pulimuli wrote:
removing all carbs will make you drop weight like insanely fast This is a false statement. You could ONLY eat chocolate and you would still lose weight IF you eat the right calorie amount , of course it would not be healthy and i do not recommend it but you could lose weight by eating anything if you just know how much calories you have to eat.
Yea but if he removes all carbs he will likely be slashing his caloric intake quite significantly. Still not a great diet though.
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How heavy are you? If you're like 200kg+, you could probably lose like 50kg in liposuction if you're willing to spend the cash.
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the better advice on carbs is to remove simple carbs as much as possible and focus on getting more complex carbs in your diet
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wont your heart shrink or something if you lose that much wait in such a short period of time
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On October 10 2011 06:40 Pulimuli wrote:
removing all carbs will make you drop weight like insanely fast
That's not really true, the atkins diet isn't that good. You can consumer carbs early on and only fat later in the day and lose weight, plenty of body builders do that.
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On October 10 2011 06:21 Count9 wrote:
Ok, thanks a lot everyone. I just wanted to get back to my previous tennis weight +10, guess it was just wishful thinking. Alright, I'll aim for 1.5 lbs a week from now on and do more weight training.
If I'm doing cardio everyday, what's a good amount to meet that goal (never had to lose a specific amount of weight before, kinda just exercised when I felt way too fat and lost some random amount of weight after a couple months)? Is the 90-min/45-min every 2 days too much? I played tennis 5-6 hours a day before without feeling like I'm killing myself so is that actually too little? (I'll be doing sprint straights/jog curves on a regular track) I'll probably bump weight training to every other day rather than 3 times a week. I don't want to gain too much muscle, just want to be sleeker to jump higher/accelerate faster on runs.
Again, thanks everyone, I've read every single reply multiple times and they've all been helpful (or, at the very least, a slap of reality).
Weight loss is ~85% diet. Doing a bunch of cardio isn't really going to help you that much. Just eat 500 calories below your maintenance level (google BMR calculator find out how many cals you need a day). Weight training (squat, deadlift, bench, etc.) 3x a week will help lose a bit more fat but will mostly lead to better body recomposition so you look better.
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I had links to blogs posts around here on teamliquid about extreme weight loss, things such as extreme low cal and different workout routines.
I originally wrote up a 2 week plan followed with a month routine on the weight loss, i went through about a week and a half of it, lost between 12-15 pounds, but it was extreme hell...
Wouldn't really recommend extreme lifestyle changes, i went from being decently content with my life to absolute shit, without energy, and it started to effect how i did things generally.
Really, take it to heart when people suggest things extreme.
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Some UFC fighters drop 50 pounds in a week, it's possible.
But not healthy ofcourse.
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Cardio doesn't really do much for weight loss for me.
I went from doing 0 exercise at all to 3x 30min jog a week, with no change in diet and it took me 3 months to lose ~4 pounds.
I had a stomach virus 3 weeks ago, had a low fat diet as a result and with 5x 30min body weight "workouts" a week (UFC personal trainer lolol) and have dropped about 12 pounds since.
I was eating 2 slices of toast for breakfast, two sandwiches with vegetables for lunch, and 1 head of broccoli for dinner.
It was an extreme diet change for a week but tbh I felt like shit eating anything else with any fat in it. It's gotten a bit more normal now, but I still try to limit my fat intake just because I'm fucking paranoid about getting the sick again.
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There is a disease I caught that helped me do 15 in a few days and I did the rest through starvation dieting.
good luck.
edit: it seems you want to be in shape more than skinny. Just get in shape it's healthier.
I'm not fucking around. I really dropped 15 in 4 days. It wasn't fun or healthy. But I'm sure there are illegal ways of inducing similar effect.
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On October 10 2011 08:15 Trizz wrote:
Some UFC fighters drop 50 pounds in a week, it's possible.
But not healthy ofcourse.
50 pounds? No way in hell man. Even if we said that was 30 pounds of water weight and stuff inside your gut and such, there is no way in hell he is dropping 20 legit pounds in a week. Not to mention doing so would absolutely destroy his fitness.
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I could understand losing weight that fast to meet some sort of weight cutoff for wrestling/MMA/boxing, but even if you did manage to lose it it wouldn't help you out in the least bit for tennis. You'd just end up hurting yourself both short term and long term, and you should probably just set a better goal like 10 lbs which actually would help you out much more.
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I basically removed sugary fluids out of my diet (99% drink water or milk nowadays) and dropped 10 pounds because of it. don't remember the timeframe for the weight loss but I'd estimate it was somewhere between 1-3 months.
I was already skinny too. went from 145 pounds to 135 pounds and am 5' 10".
didn't change my diet to lose weight though. did it because my teeth are crap and losing the 10 pounds just ended up happening.
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On October 10 2011 07:01 Gummy wrote:
How heavy are you? If you're like 200kg+, you could probably lose like 50kg in liposuction if you're willing to spend the cash.
I'm 5'' 11' and around 190 lbs (86 kg) so yeah, not gonna happen. I just wanna drop to 160 cause I used to play at 150 when I was playing my best, and now I'm probably hitting better than ever but I'm really really slow. I'm definitely doing high rep medium weight for weight training right now, don't wanna get buff or anything. I'll probably extend the weight training portion and try to do 60min weight training sessions instead of the 45 min ones I'm doing right now.
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Have you tried looking at the Health and Fitness sub forum yet? A lot of good information there to help you lose weight.
Good luck in you endeavor though, I lifted weights and lost a few pounds but mostly changed my body composition.
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On October 10 2011 09:51 Count9 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2011 07:01 Gummy wrote:
How heavy are you? If you're like 200kg+, you could probably lose like 50kg in liposuction if you're willing to spend the cash. I'm 5'' 11' and around 190 lbs (86 kg) so yeah, not gonna happen. I just wanna drop to 160 cause I used to play at 150 when I was playing my best, and now I'm probably hitting better than ever but I'm really really slow. I'm definitely doing high rep medium weight for weight training right now, don't wanna get buff or anything. I'll probably extend the weight training portion and try to do 60min weight training sessions instead of the 45 min ones I'm doing right now.
Getting buff is like 90% diet. You could train for crazy hypertrophy but if your eating to lose weight your not going to pack on tons of muscle. Any muscle you do put on will be a "fat -> muscle" conversion anyway which is only going to make you stronger and quicker.
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I just recently lost 30 pounds in 2 months, but it wasn't in a very healthy manner i suppose. I had recently been prescribed adderall and found that I had to force myself to eat, otherwise i just wouldn't do it. I drank 3-4 liters of water and 4-5 coke zeroes a day and basically only ate low-fat string cheese and almonds except for weekends when I would eat some chicken.
You sound much more healthy than I was though so i doubt this could work for you  . I started at 198 pounds, 5 foot 11 inches and I ended at 168 pounds. I spent the entire time studying and doing zero physical activity other than walking to and from classes + the dogs for 15ish minutes a day.
Now I eat a lot more but my body never lets me go above 172 pounds.
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On October 10 2011 10:08 L_Master wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2011 09:51 Count9 wrote:On October 10 2011 07:01 Gummy wrote:
How heavy are you? If you're like 200kg+, you could probably lose like 50kg in liposuction if you're willing to spend the cash. I'm 5'' 11' and around 190 lbs (86 kg) so yeah, not gonna happen. I just wanna drop to 160 cause I used to play at 150 when I was playing my best, and now I'm probably hitting better than ever but I'm really really slow. I'm definitely doing high rep medium weight for weight training right now, don't wanna get buff or anything. I'll probably extend the weight training portion and try to do 60min weight training sessions instead of the 45 min ones I'm doing right now. Getting buff is like 90% diet. You could train for crazy hypertrophy but if your eating to lose weight your not going to pack on tons of muscle. Any muscle you do put on will be a "fat -> muscle" conversion anyway which is only going to make you stronger and quicker.
Biologically speaking this isn't true. Fat doesn't turn into muscle. Fat deposits shrink and muscle mass increases. These two processes are not entirely independent, but at no point does a fat cell become a muscle cell or vice versa.
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