[Anonymous]

whats the most amount of weight you have lost in a period of time?

need some motivation and what to expect. what was your calorie in / out etc?

[albertb]

Well, I once lost 10lbs in 45 minutes...
I'll leave it up to you to guess how.

[icarus_xx]

Most places say that you shouldn't really go beyond 2lb per week.

I once lost about 2-3 stone in a few months, but that was via illness :/

[Ineluctable]

(Original post by icarus_xx)
Most places say that you shouldn't really go beyond 2lb per week.

I once lost about 2-3 stone in a few months, but that was via illness :/

If you want the weight loss (and by that, I assume you mean fat loss) to stay, you are going to have to make lifestyle changes not just adhere to short term diets. You need to raise your basal metabolic rate by doing exercise every day, preferably early in the morning and then mid-afternoon. With eating, it is best to eat 5-6 small meals a day, but I'm sure you know what foods are good for the aim. If you keep at a routine like this, you will lose fat and it will be permanent.

[ScORTED]

lost about 9% of my body weight in 6 weeks by cutting my cals to 1300 and working out 4 to 5 times a week but i was 300+lbs

[porn induced coma]

i lost 2 and a half stone in 3 months

[Malsy]

I lost about 5 lbs in a week I think then gained it all back the next week bleurgh

But seriously I lost a good stone by cutting out bread/ milk/ chocolates excessively turned to brown bread etc but would like to lose another stone/

[Tompazr]

12kg in 12 weeks. 1kg/week is easy to do. 2400-500 cals initially, then 2200 cals from about week 7

[purple-owl]

I lost 20kg in 2 months by eating breakfast and 4 apples a day, but then again I had a breakdown shortly afterwards and depression destroyed my GCSE's :/ the key to weight loss is to really recognise the moment your full and drink water with meals, because to recognise satiety is to recognise your emotions if you stress eat at all.

[HFerguson]

I lost 19kg in 3 months once. Some of it was muscle though.
This summer holidays just gone I lost 12kg in 3 and a bit months. All fat.

[boba]

I lost a stone and a half in a few weeks... was a post op thing though. you shouldn't loose more than a couple of lb a week really

[tinktinktinkerbell]

9lbs in a week

wasnt even dieting just stressed

[Powerlifter]

14 stone in a day

[CommunityShadow]

It's recommended that you lose only around 2.2lb/1kg a week. You will naturally lose more in the first 3-6 months and then becomes the challenge of maintaining that weight.

Best ways to lose weight and maintain it.

Eat smaller portions and more regularly throughout the day - increases your metabolic rate.

Try to avoid heavy carbohydrates in the evenings - it is harder to break down and can store as fat (do NOT cut them out completely, you need it as part of a balanced diet.

Try to drink at least 1.5-2l of water per day. I actually found this quite hard when starting - I found a pint glass at work really helped and drinking from that just made me feel a lot easier than sipping from a bottle.

Increase protein in your diet before exercise, not only does it generate greater energy for your workout, it also helps your muscles as does water in terms of growth.

Try to not snack between meals, the weight watchers plan is quite smart like this, if you do, try to eat vegetables and fruits, or yoghurts, make it exciting and see if you can keep to it (again, very hard, but comes a little more naturally after 6 months)

Keep a blog - or write down what you eat, as mentioned before, if you can reduce the amount of calories by 500 calories a day from a recommended 2500 for men/2000 for women, you need to lose around 3000/3500 calories per week to achieve that. Naturally, you'll expect less and you'll begin to eat in moderation.

Green tea has also helped me, a great way of speeding up your metabolic rate by around 35% - I'd say try it with lemon or something else, it's an acquired taste but you do get used to it

Most of all - smile and keep motivated it, share it with your buddies and get your family and people around you to help, celebrate the fact you want to become healthier, and most of all, do it for yourself and no one else.

Source: Lost 3 stones (around 18-20kg) in 1.5 years and kept it off. I would say you can achieve much more, but I also do weight lifting as well as cardio so my BMI has dropped but my weight has gone up a little at points because of gaining more muscle mass as it's denser than fat.

[No Future]

Fast weightloss = bad idea

[FALCONSFURY]

Probably 2 stone since july - now

[cowsforsale]

15kg in 3 months.

About 6 stones in 2 years.

[MutantGecko]

1 stone in about 3 weeks i had food poisoning though

[ch0c0h01ic]

(Original post by CommunityShadow)
Eat smaller portions and more regularly throughout the day - increases your metabolic rate.

Myth.

Meal frequency has little or no effect on metabolic rate.

Try to avoid heavy carbohydrates in the evenings - it is harder to break down and can store as fat (do NOT cut them out completely, you need it as part of a balanced diet.

Again, largely a myth.

As long as you aren't consuming beyond what your bodily needs you shouldn't gain fat by eating carbohydrates in an evening.

Try to drink at least 1.5-2l of water per day.

It's a very rough guide but it's by no means essential and it probably won't have any effect on fat loss.

Try to not snack between meals,

Different strokes for different folks.

If healthy snacks between meals stop your binging or buying unhealthy foods while shopping and ultimately enable better comply with your diet it's a step forward. If you don't have the discipline to consume a couple of healthy snacks in between meals as part of a calorie controlled diet then it might be a good idea not to snack.

At the end of the day it's down to what you find works best for you.

Green tea has also helped me, a great way of speeding up your metabolic rate by around 35% - I'd say try it with lemon or something else, it's an acquired taste but you do get used to it

Green tea can boost your metabolism by 35%? I'm sorry but it's not even close to that, in reality it's a couple of percent (if that).

One of the more reliable figures out there claims that you need to drink 5+ cups of green tea per day to burn an extra 50-100 calories. In fairness most people aren't going to drink around a litre (if not more) of quality green tea every single day and they would be far better off cleaning up their diet and getting more exercise. Even something as little as a 30 min walk before breakfast and after dinner would be far more beneficial.

[lolololol]

(Original post by ch0c0h01ic)
One of the more reliable figures out there claims that you need to drink 5+ cups of green tea per day to burn an extra 50-100 calories. In fairness most people aren't going to drink around a litre (if not more) of quality green tea every single day and they would be far better off cleaning up their diet and getting more exercise. Even something as little as a 30 min walk before breakfast and after dinner would be far more beneficial.

Just out of curiosity, would matcha powder be beneficial to weight loss? I've heard that it is equivalent to ~10 cups of regular green tea, but I guess that still wouldn't be burning that many calories.