Guys does anyone have stories or advice on how to lose weight?

Does anyone have their own personal stories on how you have been excessively working out? Or how you’ve lost a lot of weight/body fat?

Because I’ve gained soo much weight, and I want to excessively work out, but.. I don’t do it enough in a day or work out to hard.

I’ve done yoga like 2-3 times a week and also a full body work out like 1-2 times a day in all pretty much in the same week.
I binge eat but recently I’ve been eating less in a day.
So please any advice/stories?

Depending on if your male or female, you can actually lose eight with no exorcise if you stick to a relatively low calorie diet. For women, you can lose 2lbs a week (so in 7 weeks that’s 1 Stone) if you eat 1,500 calories a day. That’s enough to feel full and energised, it isn’t a crash diet and you can healthily lose weight by being sedentary (very little exercise). For men it’s a bit higher, you can get away with 1,800 I think. Not sure. But it does work, I gained a bit of weight during lockdown and since last week have been doing a 1,500 diet plan and have lost 3lbs so far.

U can't give someone an exact caloric number without knowing their, weight, age and activity level. If I as a male ate as many kcals as you are recommending to lose weight, I would be in a 1000kcal deficit which is certainly a crash diet.

I meant on average, and because I’m a girl I know more about women’s than men’s. I said I think 1,800 is what the average is for men. I should have specified I meant average, my apologies.

Depending on if your male or female, you can actually lose eight with no exorcise if you stick to a relatively low calorie diet. For women, you can lose 2lbs a week (so in 7 weeks that’s 1 Stone) if you eat 1,500 calories a day. That’s enough to feel full and energised, it isn’t a crash diet and you can healthily lose weight by being sedentary (very little exercise). For men it’s a bit higher, you can get away with 1,800 I think. Not sure. But it does work, I gained a bit of weight during lockdown and since last week have been doing a 1,500 diet plan and have lost 3lbs so far.

intermittent fasting where you don't eat after 9pm until 2pm, you can drink water though. An alternative may be mixing 1-2 tablespoons of Apple cider vinegar in water before exercising.

intermittent fasting where you don't eat after 9pm until 2pm, you can drink water though. An alternative may be mixing 1-2 tablespoons of Apple cider vinegar in water before exercising.

To lose 2lbs per week you’d need a deficit of 1,000 calories per day on average. This means you’re saying maintenance calories for the average female is 2,500 per day, and for the average man is 2,800 per day. It’s sadly not this high. Closer to ~2,000 and ~2,500. Depending on how much you weigh to begin with 2lbs per week could also be considered a crash diet. I wouldn’t recommend losing more than 1% bodyweight per week in most cases so for anyone under 200lbs it’d be pretty fast weight loss. For most females it’d be a crash diet.

I probably got my information wrong then, but I did read that 1,500 for women would be enough to lose weight in a healthy way from rebuttable sites. My apologies

You weren’t a million miles off. I was just pointing it out, no hard feeling or anything

Hormones can play a huge role in weight gain/loss and this was the case in my experience. No matter how much I exercised or how well I ate, I didn't lose any weight and kept gaining. Rather than cutting calories perhaps look at the the level of calories, macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients in your diet and try to create a better balance.

If weight gain persists or you feel unable to lose weight, give your GP a call.

My understanding is a calorie deficit is defined by consuming less calories than what is required to maintain current body weight? I averaged a dangerously low number of calories over a pro-longed period and it didn't alter my weight. ****Edit: I obviously don't recommend this as a strategy to the original poster, I was unwell at the time.

You can't establish from my original post whether I was in a calorie deficit or not.

Yes I can. If you didn’t lose weight you weren’t in a calorie deficit.