My rapid and easy weight loss

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tpuncatfinal

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I'm 6'3" and almost 5 months ago I weighed 319.6 pounds. I decided on that day to restrict my calories to 1000/day.

Now I weigh 238.4. I'm able to run 3+ miles, go on long treacherous hikes and do ridiculous amounts of pushups and curls as much as I want. Whether I do the exercise or not, the weight falls off.

I've never had any temptation to eat or cheat. I found that food wasn't that big a deal to me.

What I don't really understand is.. how am I able to survive on 1000 calories a day? That's the maintenance BMR for a 55 year old 4'8" 80 pound woman. Yet I eat that amount and am filled with energy all day. Sleep great. Exercise whenever and as hard as I want.. and the weight flies off.

It's a mystery to me and I'm curious if anyone has had similar experiences and could possibly offer an explanation.

Isn't this severe a caloric deficit supposed to have all kinds of health complications? I keep waiting for some health problem to arise.. and instead I just feel better stronger faster and more filled with energy and stamina every day.
 
I think that a key element will come from the euphoria associated with seeing weight loss successfully take place... You will be pleased with the results and lighter than in years... I know that I felt like a human jumping bean as my weight reduced... I was so full of energy it was silly... I still am. :)

I presume that you must be using quite a reasonable proportion of your calories on healthy food so that you are not deficient on some of the key macros... I know that hitting those macro targets takes up quite a lot of calories so I presume that you are not hitting some of them - eg I know a lot of people that shoot for 1g per pound of lean body weight for protein (or more) and that can take up quite a few calories in itself... I wouldnt like to play with 1000 calories...

There is a danger associated with burning lean muscle mass when you eat too few calories... It really isnt a healthy move even if you do see a good drop at the scales...

I suspect that you will hit difficulties when you want to stop losing weight and maintain weight as your body will have got used to having less. You may have difficulty trying to eat a normal quantity of food for someone your size. I hope that this is not the case...

I dont know how much more weight that you want to lose - but cutting straight to 1000 calories a day can bring a lot of problems... As we lose weight, the rate of weight loss can slow down... At that point we tend to look at the calorie balance and either increase the amount of calories burnt in exercise or reduce the amount of calories eaten... If you start out at 1000 calories - you really do not have too much room to move there... You may get right down to your goal - but you might not.

While we can take all sorts of in depth looks at each of our individual current BMRs - it can often be simpler to follow the simple rule of thumb which says that most people lose weight on a calorie level between 8 times and 12 times their weight in pounds depending on their activity level. If they try a few weeks at say 10 times their weight - they can have a varied diet which will allow them to hit all their nutritional targets...

If the multiplier works for them and they recalculate as they lose weight - their calorie level will reduce naturally with their weight.

If the multiplier does not work they can try say 9 times or 8 times...

It gives room to play with and allows people to hit all those targets.
 
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Yeah I plan to slowly up my calories. I was thinking something on the order of 100 calories per day per week up until around 2000. But I'm not sure when I want to start doing this.

I do go for a protein rich meal every day. Roughly 275 calories worth of lean skinless grilled chicken and egg whites. Then I lift some weights or do a ton of pushups about an hour later. (this is just something i threw in a week ago because i thought getting strong would be fun)

It's actually been ridiculous how fast my triceps and biceps and chest, abs, shoulders, and back got ripped and defined.

And I've been doing this to try to mitigate the muscle loss which I've been aware is a big risk from the start. I just had so much fat to burn off that I think the muscle was spared.

I couldn't even bench 135 when I was at my max weight. And the best I could do running wise was a half mile to a mile at around a 15 minute-per-mile pace.

Now I can bench 185 (for 4 reps) and last night I ran 3 miles in 20:30. (back to being below 7 minutes per mile)

I think that a big part of this is that I used to be super skinny, eating whatever I wanted (at a daily calorie level that probably borders on some kind of world record) up until around age 23. I ran marathons and climbed some state peaks (>15,000 feet). Then I blew up in weight. I didn't have an obese childhood.

It's the people that were obese as children that are pretty much screwed for life and almost guaranteed to have a short life expectancy due to stress on the heart. (you only get so many beats. about a billion and a half, then you're done and this is across most animal species as well)

Well I wasn't a porker as a kid and just blew up in my mid 20's.

So I think my body's natural state just happens to be slim and that's why it's slimming so fast and easily.

I'm currently able to hammer out 5 sets of 12 pushups, which at my body weight is pretty impressive imo. I only tried bench yesterday because I wanted to see how much my pushups were lending themselves to bench. (I alternate between the wide and closed hand positioning to emphasize chest and tris respectively)
 
coucouza said:
hey :patriot:

the best way to lose weight and keep it off is to lose weight slowly: 10% of bodyweeight every 6 month :waving:
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10% in 6 months is much slower than necessary.

1% every week is a perfectly acceptable healthy rate of weight loss.
 
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