| i need to lose 50 pounds in 3 months |
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45andlosing
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Posted: 3 Feb 2007 07:46 pm |
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| i have been going to a personal trainer for 1 month and he had me on 500 calories a day. I lost alot of inches, but very little weight. I work out 6 days a week. 2 hours on the treadmill and then alot of exercise on equipment for 1 hour a day. I am taking alot of vitiams. I have to lose 50 pounds by the end of April. I am having plastic surgery then. Does any one have any ideas. Or what am I doing wrong. I have had 2 colonics done, a fat wrap. I work out in a sauna suit. Please help me.
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Doug
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Posted: 4 Feb 2007 05:28 pm |
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Three months is not enough time to safely and permanently lose 50 pounds. It might be possible to go on a crash diet to achieve your goal but you will almost certainly regain it. Since your surgery is not for a life threatening illness your best option would be to reschedule it a few months further out.
There is no way you are eating only 500 Calories a day and not losing weight. The victims of Auschwitz were fed about 1700 Calories a day while being forced to perform heavy labor all ended up dead or looking like walking skeletons. The victims of the famines in north Africa were eating about 600 Calories without the forced labor and suffered the same horrible fate. If you were really eating 500 Calories a day you would be losing weight. You must be not counting some major source of Calories. If your trainer has you taking some sort of supplement many of them are loaded with calories. Even healthy food like fruit often contains a lot of calories. It is not just what you eat, what you drink can make a huge difference in how many calories you consume.
I have never heard of a reputable trainer that would recommend a 500 Calorie/day diet. You cannot get all the nutrients you need and taking pills is not going to change that. Eating that few calories would result in your body burning lots of muscle tissue as well as fat. Eating that little will have adverse effects on your bones, teeth and health in general. Most people eating that little become depressed and irritable, anorexics are not happy people. Eating that little can permanently change the way you look at food and set you up for a lifetime of yo-yo dieting. Eating that little would also leave you with absolutely no energy to work out or exercise. Getting out of a chair would require a major effort and 2 hours on a treadmill would be unthinkable. If you do not eat enough your body will go into ?óÔé¼?ôstarvation mode?óÔé¼?Ø and reduce the number of calories it burns by 10-15% by reducing activity as much as it can. This would not be enough to stop you from losing weight but it will not help and will also make you feel cold and lethargic.
Fat is up to 20% less dense than muscle. So 5 pounds of muscle can take the same room as 4 pounds of fat which makes it possible to lose some inches without losing weight. But most people gain muscle at a very slow rate (a couple of pounds a month is doing pretty good) and if you are on a low calorie diet you are probably losing muscle, not building it. Given a choice between using food to keep you heart pumping or building muscle your body is going to keep your heart pumping. If you are on a low calorie diet it will not have the resources to do both.
You lose weight by eating fewer calories than you burn. Everything else is a gimmick that may have a short term effect but will not help in the long run.
A sauna suit will make you sweat and lose some water weight but the effect only lasts until you drink more water. The same is probably true of a fat wrap. I am not sure if a colonic would even have a short term effect and it sounds pretty unpleasant. I would recommend dropping the gimmicks and concentrating on your diet and exercise which is all that really matters. If your trainer is the one recommending the gimmicks drop him too. If you selected this trainer because other trainers told you 50 pounds in 3 months was not a realistic goal the other trainers were right. A trainer should be selected on his knowledge and record of success (ask for references), not his willingness to tell you what you want to hear as long as you keep paying him.
I know this response sounds harsh but I am not going to apologize for it. You need to be told the truth instead of being told what you want to hear.
Last edited on 4 Feb 2007 05:31 pm by Doug
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Scoobees
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Posted: 4 Feb 2007 05:54 pm |
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Wow, I hope you really read all that Doug just posted. It's all very good info and I whole-heartedly agree. Losing 50 pounds in 3 months is not a realistic goal...especially if you want to keep it off and be healthy and alive. If your trainer REALLY has you on 500 calories a day, the first thing I would do is FIRE your trainer.  To get a better idea of the caloric needs of your body with your activity level, just input your personal stats (age, sex, height, weight) in the calculators here on this site. If you can't crunch the numbers, everyone here is very helpful and will give you a hand. But please - for your own health & safety - don't continue starving yourself or try more of those gimmicky diet ideas. A 1 - 2 pound fat loss a week is generally considered the norm, but through healthy eating & exercise. Attached Image (viewed 246 times):
 Last edited on 4 Feb 2007 05:55 pm by Scoobees
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