seeking help with liquid diets.

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Good evening all.

I’m currently seeking for some help and some guidance to help me start my quest and to achieve my goal and to be honest not really sure where to start.


Recently I’m starting to get a little depressed with my life style and I currently have been diagnosed with crohn's disease and a few personal issues at home I have never been more determined to start a weight loss program and as I’ve never really been a gym person and to be fair I work over 80 hours a week so wouldn’t be able to get the exercise I need, And the reason for my little sob story is that the fact that once I jam something in my head like this I always go over board and always have worked hard for what I want to archive my goals by any means necessary but I want to start a liquid diet to drop the pounds as quickly as I can plus I hear that it is good for crohn's disease which is another plus

But here is my plan: A morning and afternoon bike ride for excursive for an hour each & at work I do allot of walking and have to walk up a staircase which is over 30M twice a day at really high temperatures.

Liquid diet

Morning:
1 cups of low or 0% fat vanilla yogurt
2 fresh bananas
1. Table spoon of honey



Dinner:

1 cup of water
1 frozen banana
1 cup of Greek yogurt
1 table spoon of honey

Also with protein powder:

My protein Impact Native Whey 95: 2-3 times a day

(I only like bananas) unless I can find a recipe with apple :)

Is it ridiculous to go on a plan like this? I can’t really find any answer on the internet unless I buy some crap.

Thank for taking time to read about my dilemma
 
For weight loss, I DO NOT recommend a liquid diet. For Crohn's disease, I lack the knowledge to be able to advise either way, so I'd say consult with a specialist in Crohn's disease and see what they have to say.

The reason I don't recommend liquid diets for weight loss is that you still need satiation, and that's going to be a lot harder without solid food in your stomach. A much better approach would be meat or eggs (keep the yolk) and vegetables for breakfast, lunch and dinner (you can do a big cook-up when you've got the time to do your regular cooking and freeze a week's worth of lunches to take to work with you); and fruit, nuts and/or dairy for snacks. Other than that, consume plenty of water.

The average protein shake serving is about 25g protein but no more filling than whatever you drink it with (water or milk), whereas you could have 3-4 eggs or 100g lean meat to get that same amount of protein, and it would be much more filling.

I don't rate honey -- biologically, there's not much difference between it and table sugar on a gram for gram basis, so adding 2tbsp honey to your food each day is equivalent to adding 2tbsp of sugar to your food each day.

Beyond satiation, what you've written up sounds like it's extremely low in energy, which increases the rate of metabolic adaptation to reduced energy consumption. If that sounds good, think again. Metabolic adaptation is the various processes your body goes through to make your metabolic rate meet your energy consumption so that you don't die. A more modest approach will reduce the rate at which this happens, and will make it easier for you to deal with the problem when this does happen. It WILL happen regardless of how modestly you go, but if you start out consuming 2,000kcal/day in solid, filling food and losing 0.5-1lb/wk, then when that stops working you can easily drop 100kcal/day from your diet and continue progressing until metabolic adaption occurs again; if you start out on 1,000kcal/day of non-satiating meals, then when metabolic adaptation occurs (which will be sooner rather than later), you've got nowhere to go but further starvation.
 
Goldfish said:
For weight loss, I DO NOT recommend a liquid diet. For Crohn's disease, I lack the knowledge to be able to advise either way, so I'd say consult with a specialist in Crohn's disease and see what they have to say.

The reason I don't recommend liquid diets for weight loss is that you still need satiation, and that's going to be a lot harder without solid food in your stomach. A much better approach would be meat or eggs (keep the yolk) and vegetables for breakfast, lunch and dinner (you can do a big cook-up when you've got the time to do your regular cooking and freeze a week's worth of lunches to take to work with you); and fruit, nuts and/or dairy for snacks. Other than that, consume plenty of water.

The average protein shake serving is about 25g protein but no more filling than whatever you drink it with (water or milk), whereas you could have 3-4 eggs or 100g lean meat to get that same amount of protein, and it would be much more filling.

I don't rate honey -- biologically, there's not much difference between it and table sugar on a gram for gram basis, so adding 2tbsp honey to your food each day is equivalent to adding 2tbsp of sugar to your food each day.

Beyond satiation, what you've written up sounds like it's extremely low in energy, which increases the rate of metabolic adaptation to reduced energy consumption. If that sounds good, think again. Metabolic adaptation is the various processes your body goes through to make your metabolic rate meet your energy consumption so that you don't die. A more modest approach will reduce the rate at which this happens, and will make it easier for you to deal with the problem when this does happen. It WILL happen regardless of how modestly you go, but if you start out consuming 2,000kcal/day in solid, filling food and losing 0.5-1lb/wk, then when that stops working you can easily drop 100kcal/day from your diet and continue progressing until metabolic adaption occurs again; if you start out on 1,000kcal/day of non-satiating meals, then when metabolic adaptation occurs (which will be sooner rather than later), you've got nowhere to go but further starvation.
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Thank you very much for taking time to reply and in such great detail I will start with exactly what you pointed out, all though at the same time consult my doctor about the various liquid diet recipes as to if it will help me better then solid foods because of my condition as I would like to tackle weight loss along with conquering this disease

Thanks again and take care
 
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