I'm 5'7 (female) and I weight around 196. I'm trying to get down to 125 in 4 months. I know it's extreme but is it possible? My diet is great, I eat fresh fruits and veggies and stay away from fast food. But I am still heavy, so I don't believe the key to losing weight is your diet. I think it's just the exercises I need. I have a really bad back So just by walking and running on the treadmill can I lose 71 pounds? I plan on walking 6 miles at 2.7-3.0 and running 6 miles at 4.5-5.0mph. Along with eating 1,200 calories a day. Would this work? Thanks.
Is this a good way to lose 70pds in 4 months?
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Harold14370
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KaraCooks
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Whether you believe it or not, you're wrong
Diet is THE KEY to losing weight. You can exercise until you're blue in the face, but if you eat more calories than you burn, then you're not going to lose weight.
Exercise - things like walking and running on the treadmill - burn minimal calories in the grand scheme of things.
Don't get me wrong, exercise is good for you. Lifting weights will help you to maintain muscle and burn more fat. Cardio will help you to build stamina and maintain your cardiovascular health.
But until and unless you manage your food intake, you'll never lose weight.
And aside from all of that. 70 lbs in 4 months is totally unreasonable if you want to be healthy. A reasonable and safe rate of loss is about 1% of your bodyweight per week. For you that would be between 1.5 and 2 lbs per week. In 4 months, if you eat properly and exercise, you could lose between 25 and 35 lbs.
Ozarkturtle
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I lost 215 pounds in 11 months doing what you are so if you stick to it, it is possible
Superstar922
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I don't think it's impossible.
Hard, yes...impossible, no. I just did the calculations and if you lose 70 pounds in 4 months that means you must lose 17.5 pounds per month, which is approximately a pound every other day. Every week you must lose 4.375 pounds, which isn't impossible but you may find its quite difficult (but nothing in life is easy right?). But to accomplish this goal you would have to put yourself at around 1000 (or less) calories a day and exercising more intensely multiple times a week (walking/running may not be intense enough, but idk, it might be more effective for some than others). But most importantly you gotta have some willpower and able to handle self-deprivation (which I don't encourage as from personal experience, it never worked for me).
As a matter of fact according to this one calorie calculator I used to plug in your info (at least what i know of you) you won't reach your goal weight will October 14, 2010, and it recommends you eat 1,328 calories per day.
Anyway, regardless I wish you luck!! I'm going to go see what it says for me!
Jericho
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It's extreme alright, extremely unhealthy. People have died from losing weight too fast. I don't care if you say you eat fruit and veggies and stay away from fast food..you are not telling the truth either to us or yourself. You can't gain weight or maintain weight if you don't eat more calories than you burn, period.
You have the wrong mentality and the chance of you keeping any of they weight off will be zero to none. You have to learn better eating habits. I applaude your vision of working out..fine but you are thinking extreme exercise for your weight will cure you. It won't. If anything, you will hurt yourself. You will crash and your weight loss will fail. Yes, I'm being blunt and harsh but you need to hear this.
1) Change your attitude. Instead of focusing on 71 pounds in 4 months, try 5 pounds in one month or something much more realistic. I have much more to lose than you. If I think 'I got to lose 160 pounds' I'm likely going to fail cause it is just too vast of a number to think of. Thinking 'I'm going to lose 2 pounds this week' is real.
2) Be honest to yourself. It's your diet. That's is. Period. There are no magic calories that appear inside you each day. It's burn the food you eat or burn your body. One and/or the other. Nothing else. For a week, write down every bit of food and drink you eat. Try to record the portions as well. I promise you at the end of a week of honest recording, you will see that you don't eat as little or as well as you think. We all have done it because we underestimate our calories. You have to be honest though.
3) Small changes mean big results. Take smaller steps because it is about changing a lifestyle. It's not a temporary diet. It is akin to learning a new language. You don't learn everything at once, you learn(change) bit by bit till you are speaking fluently.
4) It's not a race. You want to do this right? Drop the end date. You will get there whenever when you do it right..and you will end up healthier and wiser.
That's probably the best thing I've read on this forum by far.
Jericho
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I have my moments
It's so true though. It's like saving for a trip. You don't think 'I need to save 2000$' cause we don't handle really large numbers when it comes to personally. If you think 'If I save 50$ a week from my paycheck for the trip' that is alot more manageable.
We are so intent on meeting some self-imposed deadline. Most of us are not at the point that a doctor is saying you have 'x' months ot live if you don't lsoe weight. We create our own goals. Why make one that is so difficult? It sets you up for failure.
Just as yourself this..will you feel any different if you lose 71 pounds in a year or 71 in 4 months? No cause it is still 71 pounds. you are going to be proud and happy no matter what.