Need to lose 93 lbs in 6 months!

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bigdigraz

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Placed a $5000 bet with a friend, please help me!

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THANKS,
Brian
 
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93 lbs in 6 months? That's almost 4 lbs a week? Unless you weigh 400 lbs right now, that's a really unhealthy, unsafe rate of loss.

Sorry, you're not going to find people on this site who will advise you on how to be unhealthy and foolish. If you want real advice on how to lose weight in a healthy and safe manner, start by reading the sticky posts in the various forums and learning about proper nutrition and exercise.

I have to say that the $5k was a sucker bet on your part - and probably a sure win for your friend. Hope you have the money to spare.
 
Even so ... nearly 100 lbs in 6 months is probably not going to happen. Your rate of loss is going to slow the more you lose.

Why the urgency? Why not just be healthy and safe about it?
 
Motivation...

If you had to choose; be 400lbs for who knows how many more years OR losing 100lbs in 6 months? Which is healthier?
 
If you had to choose; be 400lbs for who knows how many more years OR losing 100lbs in 6 months? Which is healthier?
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That's a silly question and completely unanswerable.

If you can choose to lose weight, then why not choose to do it in a healthy and sustainable manner?
 
I used to think like that. "It doesn't matter how quickly I lose it s'long as it's lost right?"

I think before you lose any significant amount of weight, you need to undergo a serious reality check.
 
I started at 400 pounds just like you. I've dropped around 40 pounds since the start of the year.


EDIT: After thinking about it, it is possible to do at your weight to lose that much. Talk to a medical professional and look at what changes you can make.
 
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bigdigraz: everyone here is giving you good advice and they are only looking out for you.

But to everyone commenting here, has anyone ran the numbers? If the OP started today and worked hard and consistent to lose 1% of his body weight per week, even if you accounted for his weight going down and factoring that into the 1% calculation, the op should be able to healthily lose 93lbs between 26 and 27 weeks, which is 182-189 days. Don't forget that on average, a month is going to be about 30days, and not 4 weeks, so that puts him reaching his goal in 6.067 to 6.3 months, which is ONLY 2 to 9 days over his month deadline. Strictly by the numbers, at the 6 month mark, he should be within 3-6 lbs of his 93lb loss goal. If you account for the fact that he will probably dump an extra 3-6 lbs at least of water weight the first month, you start to realize that this is not just an achievable goal, but one that can be achieved in the healthy recommended manner this site recommends.

Now, this would require a big committment, and would be very hard to do, but I don't see that it is unhealthy, at least not according to the general consensus of everything I have learned from this site. I don't think I would have been able to do it just starting out. I did lose 150lbs from a starting weight of over 475 in a year, and even that would have fell short of 93lbs in 6 months. On the other hand, if the OP finds himself falling behind his target and starts taking drastic measures to keep up, then it does become unhealthy. That is not the issue right now. I understand the rush to judge because he is choosing to lose weight for a less than ideal motivating factor (the bet), but there's no reason he can't learn to live healthier throughout the next 6 months, and still win his bet.

bigdigraz, good luck on achieving your goal!
 
If you want to do this, we aren't the ones to talk to. You should be talking to a medical professional instead.
 
I'm fairly flexable but how about we keep this in the forum for advice and support instead of trying to direct to outside locations?

Thank you.
 
This is getting crazy, if I want help and people are willing to help me outside of this forum, who are you to stop that?

My last thread had no solicitations at all!

Please REPLY TO THIS THREAD if you would like to help me....
 
Jericho, maybe you should have a chat with KaraCooks about her flexibility. She felt it necessary to take out my comment on the first post.

I thought the Internet was a place to express yourself and enjoy the freedom of speech. Apparently that is NOT the case with these moderators...
 
First, Hi. I'm Jericho, a mod. That's who can tell you what you can and can't do on the forum. Let's move forward.


2. Spam is strictly forbidden. Spam is the obvious, leaving links to any website that is selling a product. Spamming is also left up to moderators discretion. For example, if a newcomer joins and every post asks people to check out their blog, they will too be banned for spamming. Spamming also includes leaving links in your signatures.


Links to personal blogs or websites, whether they are commercial in nature or not. This is not a place for you to promote your own sites or blogs to gain an audience.
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More specificly, Twitter requests falls into the same line as spamming. You are requesting people to follow you and contact you in the same way as posting a personal blog link. It was also decided that requesting people to PM you falls under the same rules because you just tell them to do the things you was just warned for.

The reason we have given warnings because I assume you are real and do honestly want to lose the weight, but your posts are not helping matters.
 
It was Kara's choice to remove your comment about Mods. I was going to myself but I decided to leave it. I'm not going to overrule her (especially since she has been a mod longer than me).
 
I don't know whats going on behind the scenes, but what help specifically are you looking for? Have you read through other threads on this site, specifically the stickies? You've got a big learning curve ahead of you, and you have to be the one to put in the effort, no one can lose the weight for you, and that includes learning HOW to lose the weight. If you have specific questions, they can be answered, but "How do I lose weight" is pretty open ended and impossible to really answer succinctly.
 
Ok, I ran the calculations quickly in Excel. *IF* the original poster is 100% on plan and being healthy, he could lose 93 lbs in 27 weeks. That's a hair over 6 months.

It does help to have full information from the get-go.

However, the goal of 93 lbs allows for no deviation from a strict plan. It doesn't allow for any stall, any blip, any personal events in his life, any anything.

So ... while it might not be as unhealthy as I said when I didn't have full details, it is still, IMO, an unsustainable and highly improbable goal.
 
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More specificly, Twitter requests falls into the same line as spamming. You are requesting people to follow you and contact you in the same way as posting a personal blog link. It was also decided that requesting people to PM you falls under the same rules because you just tell them to do the things you was just warned for.

The reason we have given warnings because I assume you are real and do honestly want to lose the weight, but your posts are not helping matters.
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This. Pretty much word for word.

Read the rules and follow them. If you don't like the rules, take it up with the administrator, since he's the one who sets them. But don't bash the mods for enforcing the rules. That's our job.
 
How can any of you calculate my BMI or how much I can lose in what time without knowing more about my body?

Moderators actually edit the posts to show their beliefs, they aren't just enforcing the "rules". These posts should be an open forum and people can have their own opinions...leave them alone!

For whoever wants to truly crunch the numbers and not speculate; I'm 6'5", 33 years old white male, my previous prime weight was 245, very proportioned, built big and carry weight well.
 
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