Submitted 5 hours ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Just for reference. I am a heavy beer drinker. But can do 5 miles a day if i push myself.
Stop drinking beer.
If you’re serious and your doctor thinks it’s fine (and you have some extra money) you can go on a glp-1 but even then a doctor wouldn’t recommend more than 2 lbs / week. There are healthier ways to lose weight.
No idea, but any diet that involves weight loss will also need you to quit beer entirely.
20 lbs of fat is 70,000 Calories. That means that you need to be at a net deficit of about 2300 Calories daily to lose 20lbs in a month. That’s a huge deficit which would require eating little and working very hard to hit anything near that.
A pound of fat equates to, very roughly, 3500 calories. So you would need a deficit of over 2300 calories per day to lose that much weight in a month. Try to keep your calorie level above 1200/day at a minimum. So if you’re drinking so much beer and eating so much food you’re currently consuming 3500 calories/day or more, then yes, it would be possible. But that’s not exactly a healthy amount of weight loss. Even halving the rate would still be pretty aggressive. I get wanting to see tangible progress, but I would strongly encourage you to do this over two months instead of over a month.
Everyone here talking calories and forgetting water weight. Boxers etc. will drop carbs entirely to make a weight cut-off. Two aspects to consider here, glycogen and inflammation, both of which store water. If you are not fat adapted and stop carbs your glycogen will deplete (~500g glycogen + 4x that in water, 2.5kg = 5+lbs), also called hitting the wall in endurance sports.
If you have systemic inflammation your fat cells will carry a bunch of extra water (you know when your ankle swells up after twisting, that’s water from inflammation), so removing inflammatory stimuli, foods, environment can cause that to get peed out. Depending how many fat cells, the amount will vary, but could easily be 5kg if obese.
This is how people lose dramatic amounts of weight in the first few weeks of diet. Actually removing fat is a lot harder, but it starts in the kitchen.
Water fasting would be my best bet.
You can’t be in more caloric deficit and ketosis than by simply not eating.
If you want to do it naturally, combining prolonged water fasting and endurance exercise is the way.
I once lost 18 lb in 10 days with it. I am already quite lean so I stopped.
You have to build up to it. Both in terms of walking or slow running long distances and being fat adapted. I started with intermittent fasting, omad etc.
It’s possible. Just depends how fat you are. If you’re 500lbs, and do a crash diet, sure. Maybe even more.
If you’re 140lbs…ehhhh…maybe not.
Drink lots of water, to help with skin elasticity. Losing more than 3 lbs a week normally results in extra saggy skin.
Sure, I lost 28 lbs in one month when I was first developing type 1 diabetes.
Ketoacidosis for the weightloss win! But also death. That said ketogenesis works pretty well for weight loss so cutting out carbs can help cut fat - but loosing that fast you may end up with loose skin to such an extent that the aesthetic weight loss isn’t worth it.
Few carbs, drink water and walk far - let us know how you get on!
I lost 15 pounds in March. I was eating an average of 1,100 calories per day.
Yeah sure, liposuction exists and you should be able to recover in a month as well. GLPs exist as well, but you wouldn’t lose that much. With laxatives you could lose enough body water as well, not bodyfat, but still weight.
As for avarage person, under normal circumstances and doing it sustainably. Basically no.
The 5 miles of walking is roughly around a full sized Snicker bar. “You can never outrun a bad diet”
Losing roughly 1% of bodyweight per week is the upper limit of sustainable fat loss.
Though a month is a good timeframe to make a start. Don’t think of it as dieting as it will give you an expression that your doing it temporarily, see it more as a lifestyle change. First start tracking your weight. 2-3 times a week, under same conditions aka first thing in the morning after taking a leak, use avarage numbers. At the same time reduce the amount of beer your drinking, just an easy way to reduce caloric intake without a hit to nutrient intake. After a month see how the bodyweight has shifted, at first probably quitting beer is enough to start it to shift downwards, then just keep it up and have patience. Weight loss is measured on a scale of weeks to months. Personally i lost nearly 15+kg over the course of half a year by just quitting beer and not even doing anything else.
I lost about 5-10 pounds a week for a while when I first started losing weight. But I was also extremely overweight.
Actors are liteypaid for their body so they can dedicate their entire time (and crazy amounts of money) into a diet and exercise routine.
Exercise regimens and diets that actors follow are also usually not even intended to be sustainable. You alter your body for a few weeks for a role. It’d probably be a miserable existence maintaining it, and that’s what you’d have to do to maintain the results.
Generally it’s best not to focus on losing weight but on adjusting calorie intake. Because muscle weighs more than fat, water weighs more than either, and the goal is generally to feel fit, not light.
When wrestling I used to do the “drop a kilo class” thing by bulking up in a way that could rapidly store water, then running to temporarily shed that water before weigh in, then immediately rehydrate up to the next weight class. That was usually around 10 lbs of weight, but I was dropping it and regaining within a 6 hour period.
Losing weight for health reasons isn’t going to be the same for everyone. Personally I find the best way for me to lose weight is to increase my metabolism, which I find I can do through endurance running in threshold temperatures. But for other people that just makes them tired and hungry without their metabolism adjusting. And without the metabolic change, you don’t get the added benefit of literally burning off stored energy.
Also, depleting fat cells isn’t the same as removing fat cells. Those cells are still there, and it’s going to take months for cellular change to happen in your body. So 20 lbs of weight loss in a month will mostly be loss of water, muscle, and energy stored in the fat cells. And as soon as you stop starving yourself, it’ll all come back. And that can happen in a matter of days.
I mean it’s close to doable but you’d be pushing what’s healthy in terms of weight loss. The problem with rapid weight loss is mainly yo-yo dieting. You usually use a fad/crash diet that isn’t sustainable long term and then gain it back. Lifting + some cardio is the best bang for buck in terms of calories burnt for most in terms of time/effort.
The boozing is a problem for a couple reasons (beyond the obvious reasons, but I’ll spare you the sermon there). One beer is ~112cal. Maintenance for me was -2200cal back in the day. Drinking ten beers, which back when I was boozing was enough to get a buzz going. That’s 1120cal, eating at a loss for me was 1600-1700cal if I recall. So one night’s buzz undoes 2 days dieting, at least.
If you then eat to account for it, you run the risk of getting most your calories from booze, which can be incredibly harmful for you long term, I.e. deadly I’m pretty sure.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 minutes ago
Of course you can, the question is should you?
If you don’t eat for a month you’d drop 10 kilos. But then you’d grow them back with interest.
Better to lose maximum 1 kilo (2 lbs) per month if you really want to lose it.
And yeah, beer isn’t the way forward for sure, except if you aim for a big belly and skinny legs…
Ditching all sugars is a good start IMO.
Good luck!