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Healthy weekly loss is 1-2 lbs. That's more sustainable
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How would you manage to lose 5lbs per week? 1lb of fat is roughly 3500 calories, so you'd be looking at a 17,500 calorie deficit over a week.
Let's assume your maintenance calories are 2500 calories per day. If you decide to stop eating altogether, then the biggest deficit you can achieve is 2500 calories for a total of 12,500 calories per week. Thats roughly a 3.5lb loss, but you'd literally be running on fumes.
Aim for 1-2lbs per week and keep it going till you hit your target weight. Track all your calories by weighing everything you eat. It doesn't matter how much exercise your doing if youre eating 10 big Macs a day.
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Finally someone who knows what they are talking about. I've taken quick looks at other threads about weight loss and most people don't know the science/math behind it.
Just to add to the comment above, learning how to cook will be your best friend for weight loss. You can make any meal lower calories while also keeping it tasty (e.g. sometimes use sprays instead of oil, fiber bread/tortillas, using low-fat/fat-free/sugar-free things, recipes to make chicken breasts taste good, etc).
I wouldn’t expect anyone to be able to keep up 5/week. You’ll probably get a couple weeks like that early on due to losing some water weight though.
When I did Keto, I started at your weight and lost 45 pounds over about 6 months. But the day to day weight fluctuates based on a lot of stuff out of your control - the longer term trend and sustainability is what’s important.
Good luck!
Just some light cardio. I attribute all of the weight loss to diet alone.
If you haven’t done it before, I’d suggest starting off very strict in terms of carbs, keep it under 20 net carbs/day. Weigh everything you eat with a kitchen scale rather than eyeballing it, and track on an app like MyFitnessPal before you put food in your mouth.
I didn’t force any calorie limits or macro %s, but set rough targets instead just to make sure I wasn’t going completely off the rails.
I found that the diet just kept me feeling satiated longer, so the calorie reduction part more or less happened naturally after a week or 2.
Happy to expand on anything further if you want as well
Aim for 1-2 lb a week. Weight loss takes time, patience, and hard work.
Echoing what everybody else has said re: 1-2 lbs a week.
As for exercise, trackers are directional but not often accurate. 700 cals a day is a LOT of exercise in general and I would guess it’s more than you’re actually burning unless you’re doing 2+ workouts a day. It’s much easier to refrain from eating 100 cals of chips or whatever than running a mile which is the equivalent (~more or less, you can look up an estimate for your actual weight). But you can also only exercise so efficiently if you’re cutting a ton of calories. Just food for thought.
Absolutely not… worst thing is yo yo weight loss followed by weight gain. First week or two yes because it’s mostly water weight you are losing… after that take what you want to lose divided by 3 months… lose it slowly and keep it off forever
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A pound of fat is 3500 calories. Shedding 700 a day won’t get you anywhere near that.
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Your body have move to a starvation mode and you won't lose anything. 2 meals a day and exercise is might put you at a standstill
Maybe if you were 300-400 pounds. At 190 pounds you should expect to lose 1-2 a week
How tall are you? If you’re say 6.2, 190 lbs will look and feel a lot different than if you’re say 5.2.
5lbs a week could be attainable depending on your metabolism, height, % body fat, water retainage, etc. there’s not enough information for anyone to provide an accurate reply. “low carb” could be anything - are you counting your carbs strictly on rice/sweet potatoes/oatmeal or are you getting down to the the carbs counting vegetables? Also total per day: how many meals, how often, and what are the other meals.
Drink a gallon of water a day and carb cycle at an absolute minimum.
Like others said, a steady 1-2 lbs is not only more realistic, it's better for your health in the long run. Extreme weight loss in a short period of time typically is more prone to yoyo-ing back up.
Whenever I loose more than 1-2 pounds a week it becomes mostly muscle, not the weight you want to loose. Start with a 500 calorie deficit (1 lb per week) and up it to 1000. After that you don’t really benefit much given you aren’t 300lbs or something.
I will add when I did keto I was able to maintain a 1500 calorie deficit with minimal muscle loss as it seemed like the diet forced me to target fat more than muscle loss but that was brutal.