Ideal Weight and Safe Amount Per Week

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Primate

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I am a 6'6" males and I am right at the 300lb mark..... well 298 to be exact. I look at the BI chart and it says I should be in the 190 - 200 range for my height. The issue is I am a big guy. Broad shoulders and a huge head. If I dropped to 200lbs I would look like a bobble head doll. The idea is to be healthy and not shoot for a particular weight but I am interested in input from other guys that are in the same boat. What did you find to be the best weight?

OK second question. I read you should not drop more than 2lbs a week for it to be considered "Healthy" weight loss. I find that if I adjust my diet even a little with a small amount of exercise I can drop 10lbs a week. As long as I am eating properly and not over exerciseing does it really matter how fast the weight comes off?

Thanks for taking the time to read all this :beerchug:

Primate
 
Primate said:
What did you find to be the best weight?
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Probably a body fat percentage in the mid to high teens to start with.

Do you have any idea what your body composition is now for some place to start at?

Primate said:
The idea is to be healthy and not shoot for a particular weight...
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Exactly.

That's why it makes more sense to try and work towards a certain body fat %age instead of worrying about scale weight.

Primate said:
I find that if I adjust my diet even a little with a small amount of exercise I can drop 10lbs a week.
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Yes, but what is that 10 lbs made up of?

Likely a large %age of water. Not likely a large amount of fat, the stuff you need to lose.
 
1 percent of your body weight per week is a reasonable goal to shoot for
2lbs is not a one size fits all number
-however dependent on your eating habits prior to starting a weight loss regime - the first week you could put up a big number because of what Doc said above...
 
Thanks for the replies!

Is fat a body composition? If so that is what my composition is :D JK... No I have not done a caliper test or other real test to judge where I am at. I would say that 30% is not out of the question. I think 15% - 17% would be ideal for me. I believe guys can go pretty low with the BF% and still be healthy but my wife would not be happy ;) What you say seems simple but I have not thought about attacking my goals that way so thanks for the advice.

As far as water weight loss. My first week on any diet exercise program I usually see about 15lbs come off. But, I have had 9 and 10lb losses as far out as 3 weeks before I dip to the 3 - 5 lb range. Could a majority of all that still be water? I should note I have lost weight many times but always gain it back so I am doing something wrong. That is why I have concern about how fast I shed the weight. Does loosing weight fast have bearing on how fast/much weight returns?

I try to stick in the 1500 - 1800 range for the first few months then increase to find my maintenance number. But I start throwing in some hot wings then dessert here and there and so on until I am once again a jiggly fatboy.
 
Well, Primate, if you're a big boned guy then 30% bf is a possibility.

That means you're carrying 89.4 lbs of fat and 208.6 lbs of lean at 298 lbs.

So the math is, if you dropped to 18% bf through diet and exercise, a realistic body weight be in the 245 lb range.

The math is, in case you're wondering where I got those numbers from, you divide your lean body mass by 1 - your goal body fat as a decimal.

Or, in other words, 208.6 divided by .82 (1 - 18%).

Just a rough estimation, but still a far more realistic goal than the 190 - 200 range the BMI charts give for your height.
 
That's interesting Doc...I'll have to calculate something like that myself..

At 5' 10" and now 237 (this morning) according to the BMI I'm "obese" and would have to get down around 150-160...

With my body type/musculature that would not be healthy..

The lowest I've been since my teenage years was 185 lbs, which was before I even became a weightlifter, and even at that size people thought I looked "sickly"...

My target is to be in a range that will see me at about 10-15% body fat. IMHO with my musculature it would be around 205. My goal weight right now is 215 so I can see "what I look like" and "how I feel" and what my body fat % is at that weight..


BTW...to the OP on the losing "10 lbs. a week" stuff....maybe...but IMHO Doc has it right with that "water weight" stuff..

I weighed in this past Tuesday morning before and was at 247 lbs....after 5 days of dieting (sensibly, not starving) and getting consistent with my weightlifting/cardio I weighed in at 237 lbs. this morning..

That won't continue..nor should it. I'd bet that come next Sunday morning I'll check in about 232 lbs...and then the next week it will drop maybe to 230 or 229...
 
LowFatMilk said:
I love when I hear people say that :bigear:
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my point with that is that i read and hear so often that 2lbs a week is that magic number that people should aim for - for a 5'2, 130lb woman, 2lbs a week could be a lot... for that 6'4, 395lb dude, 2lbs is fairly low... What a person should aim for in a week, is purely dependent upon where their weight currently is... and not some number that someone - somewhere said was the safe number...

that's my opinion and I'm sticking with it :D
 
maleficent said:
my point with that is that i read and hear so often that 2lbs a week is that magic number that people should aim for - for a 5'2, 130lb woman, 2lbs a week could be a lot... for that 6'4, 395lb dude, 2lbs is fairly low... What a person should aim for in a week, is purely dependent upon where their weight currently is... and not some number that someone - somewhere said was the safe number...

that's my opinion and I'm sticking with it :D
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And I agree with you :Angel_anim:
 
Fantstic... Thanks a lot for the numbers. I think a fit 245 sounds far more reasonable! Thanks to everyone else that replied as well :cheers:
 
To: SonofJorEl

I am close to your ht and wt too. I am 234lb. and 5'11. I too would not try to get down to 185Lb. as I am muscular and would look "sickly". SO I am trying to get down to around 212-215.
Are you taking any weight loss supplements?
James
 
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