If you stop eating entirely for 2 months you might just barely make it.
EDIT: Or sing up for the next season of Alone, which is basically the same thing.
What is Alone? A tv show or somethiing?
Turns out, there are people who practice that sort of extreme fasting. BTW going back to normal eating doesn’t happen in a day.
I’m aware of one case where a man lost a ton of weight by fasting for several months and maybe taking some supplements but that was done under medical supervision. It can definitely be done but it’s dangerous.
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Nothing, it’s just a bad idea
Also, just go see a doctor, because each situation is unique and it’s stupid to believe the “calories in calories out” shit
What is the “calories in calories out” shit?
Ignoring metabolism and focusing solely on food calories consumed and exercise calories burned.
While calories are basic physics/chemistry/biology, they say nothing about the health of the individual. Not eating anything for a month to burn through your fat reserves isn’t going to leave you thin and trim.
That is metabolism. CICO will make literally anyone gain or lose weight. Nothing in the universe violates thermodynamics. You maintain a healthy caloric deficit and lose weight. End of story.
Not eating anything for a month is an eating disorder.
The big difference is the effect of a calorie for each person differs. How the body chooses to burn a calorie differs. If person A reduces their diet by 3000 calories in a week they might lose a pound. Person B might not. CICO is literally thermodynamics, you’re very right. How our bodies react to thermodynamics varies quite a bit.
What you’re describing is basically your metabolic rate. Everyone has a different one. If yours is super efficient, you need to eat less than other people.
That’s the whole story. You can still reduce calories to lose weight. It’s literally the only way.
If it’s impossible to lose weight and still eat sufficient nutrients to survive, then you are one in a million and go see a doctor. Everyone else, start adding vegetables and fiber to your meals.
What I’m talking about but maybe didn’t do a very good job of explaining is metabolic adaptation. It can take months before your body adjusts, before you figure out what calorie deficit is needed and it varies wildly from person to person. Our brains can burn calories to be more creative or slow down to preserve ideal body weight. Which can negate a wide amount of calorie usage. https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/07/05/its-time-to-bust-the-calories-in-calories-out-weight-loss-myth.html
Yep, it takes a while to figure out where your calorie intake should be, and it changes over time.
But to be clear, in no way does that mean some people can’t lose weight with a calorie deficit. It means it’s complicated to find your deficit, and you won’t ever get nice linear progress. I think a lot of weight loss problems are because people get sold on diets and expect steady results. That’s not real.
This isn’t a diet. If someone wants to be fit, they need to learn to eat like a fit person because one day they’ll be a fit person and then they’ll have to maintain that. Forever. So no keto. No carnivore. No intermittent fasting (unless you really can do that forever. I’m going on 5 years). Just eat more fiber, less calorie dense things, and find things you like that are sustainable for you.
Sorry, just realized I’m ranting. This is one of those topics that gets me going because there’s an entire industry designed to make you lose weight, gain it all back, and suck the money out of your wallet in the process. It doesn’t need to be like that. It’s not that complicated. There’s no trick to it.
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Well scientifically it is exactly calories in to your metabolism vs calories burned out.
Whether your body is absorbing those, or too depressed of a system to burn at a normal rate would be the doctor’s investigation.
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Calories in, calories out is basic thermodynamics.
In the context of human energy use it’s also extremely simplified. Energy in can be measured in terms of food, but that assumes all calories are absorbed. It also assumes exact efficiency. It assumes average energy use etc.
As weight loss drugs show, for many who struggled with weight loss before, it’s also important how the body uses, stores and distributes the energy.
Sure, no energy is created or destroyed, but dietary makeup, hormones, metabolism gut motility, gut biome, etc all have an effect in the process.
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Well - I don’t think this is healthy or possible in 2 months.
Last year, I weighed in at 242 with high blood pressure and decided to get serious about weight loss. I started tracking my input and output to my system. I have a watch that measures approximately how much I work off. I use apps to track how much I’m taking in. The one factor that is missing is your BMR, your basal metabolic rate. This is how many calories you burn just by being alive. There are special scales or devices that can measure this for you. You will need this to figure out the math.
Food calories eaten - BMR - Exercise calories spent = Calorie deficit or excess
So, if you exercise more, or eat fewer calories, you’ll lose weight.
So, a pound of fat is 3500 calories, so if you have a deficit of about 500 calories a day, that’s about a pound of fat per week. If you have a deficit of 1000 calories a day - that’s a lot! - then you might lose 2 pounds a week.
Using this formula, I managed to lose about 45+ pounds in 6 months. I worked up to a walk+jog and managed to cover about 3+ miles per day. Unfortunately, with the cold weather of winter, I’ve not been able to exercise much, so my weight loss stopped in December.
But what you’re talking about is losing 5+ pounds per week. That would require a 2500 calorie deficit! That would be a super-heavy workout every day. And then eating very sensibly. Even so, there is danger that some of your weight loss would be muscle and bone loss in addition to fat.
tl;dr - Don’t do this. Also, talk to a doctor.
1-2 lbs a week is the MAXIMUM you should be losing.
Find a TDEE calculator (total daily energy expenditure). It’ll give you a rough idea of how many calories you need to maintain your current weight.
Eat less than that. Weighing your food is critical or else you’re lying to yourself.
It’s near impossible to exercise yourself out of a calorie surplus unless you already do endurance sports and if you’re looking for drastic weight loss chances are you can’t handle that much cardio right away without dying.
All fad diets are a way to trick you into eating less than maintenance. Keto? You won’t be able to get enough calories - so you lose weight - although rarely some people manage to maintain on a keto diet. Vegan? Lose weight due to reduced fat intake and fat is calorie-dense. Intermittent fasting? Just hard to eat 3000+ calories in one meal per day.
Don’t. For most part, weight loss and diet culture is bullshit at best and deadly at worst.
It takes a deficit of about 3500 calories to lose 1lb. Let’s say you stop eating at all for those 60 days. Assuming you burn 2500 calories a day idle, then after 60 days you’d have burned 150,000 calories, which would lose you ~43 lbs. Also your metabolism would slow down if you stopped eating and would make you lose less.
I don’t think it’s possible without some kind of surgery, but that violates your requirement of not spending a lot.
That sentence makes no sense. Figure out the amount you would need to eat and work out to MAINTAIN your desired weight and start doing that. Let it take however long it takes, then keep doing that to maintain, or tweak it to improve.
50lb in 2 months sounds dangerous as fuck. You could stop eating and probably lose that much, fuck up your metabolism, and immediately gain it back without even eating as much as you did before.
50lbs is an unhealthy goal. Both for your mentality and for your body. Health recommendations put about 2lbs a week as the upper limit on weight loss without health issues. Even people who are on weight loss programs and injections are told to stick to this amount as best they can.
As someone who lost 50lbs last year I get the urge to just “get it done” trust me. But it won’t help long term. Pick a routine, watch your calories, and stick with it. Success comes from progress, not quick fixes.
And if you want my secret tip, you’re gonna be hungry, but when you do eat, shrink your serving sizes, and wait. If you’re eating don’t make a whole meal (ex. Two pb&js, chips, and fruit) make a serving (one sandwich, or just the fruit, or a measured serving of chips, don’t just eat out of the bag), eat that and some water, and give it time. You won’t be “full” but the hunger will go away and you can keep going.
Chop an arm?
It’s technically possible by water fasting for 2 months, but that is pretty dangerous for so long and you would need a strict vitamin and salt intake to even have a chance of doing it safely.
Definitely not a good idea, certainly not without doctor supervision.
You don’t. If you’re serious about weight loss you need to commit long term.
Pick up a 1lb bottle of water and drop it once a day, every day, for 50 days.
You might be able to take a few days off, since you have more time remaining.
IDK man if I lost 50 lbs of stuff out of my body, I’d probably be in the ICU.
