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cutting calories to loose 15 lbs
i read an article online where a woman cut her calories.
she ate like a person of the goal weight she wanted ate (that amount of calories)
for example if she wanted to weigh 115lbs shed consume as many calories it takes for someone at 115 lbc to maintain that weight.
she lost 26lbs in 1 month doing this. with little to no exercise really.
is this truly possible? i want to loose that amount as well.
she lost 15 in 2 weeks.
how is this physicaly possible?
could i get the same results?
im 121 lbc 5'1 and i want to be 108lbs (which is my normal weight. i recently gained 12 lbc on a vacation and cannot loose it)
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Go high carb, low fat, whole foods, plant-based VEGAN! It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle change. I went vegan this year and have lost 40 pounds, with minimal exercise, and eating AS MUCH as I desire bringing down my BMI from 30 to 24. I weigh less now than I did throughout high school, as an overweight teenager, even when I exercised for hours while on Junior Varsity and Varsity sports teams. I went to my annual physical earlier this month, and even my doctor was in shock.
My goal for next year is to lose 30-40 more pounds, I just need to start exercising on a regular basis. Nothing crazy, just 30-60 minutes of jogging, Ballet Beautiful, bike riding.. things like that.
I think it's amazing what I've accomplished so far, just by changing my diet, though. It's a lot easier to go vegan than it seems. I was never vegetarian, I went from being able to eat an entire box of pizza or entire tub of ice cream in one sitting to a full-fledged vegan. I now spend a lot less money on groceries, have more energy (never need caffeine, and never feel lethargic like I used to on a regular basis), have more concentration, am learning to cook, and etc. Try it for a week, that's how I started, and I felt so good that I just kept going, and it's now been 5 months! You can get every nutrient from plant foods, including protein!
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The only vitamin you need to supplement is B12, and one I personally recommend is Garden of Life's B12 spray (cause I personally hate swallowing pills, and methylcobalamin is better than cyanocobalamin). You can buy it at any health foods store (Whole Foods, Sprouts, Trader Joe's, etc.), or online.
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If you think about this, the 26 pounds in a month eating like a 115 pounder makes no sense.
First, you have to eat about 2000 calories to maintain your weight, even at 115 pounds. So if she truly did eat like a 115 pounder she would have lost no weight.
Secondly, even with a daily diet of about 1200 calories (which isn't that much---that is about two packets of ramen noodles, for example) with no exercise, you will only lose maybe, if you're lucky, 10-15 pounds.
Furthermore, if your food intake gets too low, including on what you eat in a day, it goes into famine mode and your metabolism slows down. This is an evolutionary survival mechanism.
So the plain truth is, eat 1500 calories a day, exercise vigorously 1-2 hours a day (or at least five days a week), keep the fat intake low and just let things happen in their own time. That is all you can do.
By the way, if you got down to even 115 pounds, you would look good. So don't be so desperate to try to lose the weight all at once. Diet in a sane, healthy manner.
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To be honest that sounds a little far fetched. To loose 26 pounds in a month is loosing almost a pound a day. Proper dieting targets loosing maybe 3 pounds a week. To loose twice the amount of weight then what is considered proper, sounds dangerous.
Could you get the same results. If what this article reported is true, then I would say anything is possible for you. That would be the upside. The downside is that this type of diet like most fad diets results in only temporary weight loss as once we hit are target weight we, as a general rule, go right back to our old eating habits.
While you did not ask I did look up what you proper weight range should be for someone of your height. If you are between 18 to 34, for your height your present weight falls right in the middle of the range. I would call that healthy. To loose 15 pounds puts you very close to the lower end of your weight range which I would consider close to unhealthy. If you still feel you need to loose weight, which I feel you do not, then consider a target weight of 115 pounds, which I would still consider in the healthy range.
The last paragraph is just my thoughts offered to help you make a decision. Loosing 5 or 6 ponds in month without any strange dieting programs is more possible than the program you asked about.
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well, 2 weeks may be pushing it. If you cut your calories by a lot like 800 calories a day, then you might. But, it should take about a month. look up online what it would take to maintain 108 lbs for a 5'1 person. I actually use to weigh about what you weigh and now I weigh 108 and I am also 5'1! I eat about 1,200-1400 calories a day and I exercise a lot. Here's the thing. I practice intuitive eating. Read up on it. It changed my life! I didn't even diet too much to lose the weight. I eat whatever I want just a small portion, or until I"m full. And I work out about 90 minutes a day. Exercise will really make you lose the weight faster. Look up intuitive eating!!!
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No. It is not possible. Without exercise, you should be losing 1 pound a week if you have a daily deficit of 500 calories.
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