I haven't heard from a few of the Challengers, and I do send a mass email out every day. I am assuming they are moving along and doing well. The first weigh-in is on Sunday, and I am expecting everyone to have some success. The scale is a fickle bitch, we all feel that, but at 1200 calories per day, plus exercise and the water being super healthy, not losing for some of us is not an option. It is not a contest, but as I pointed out before, if this doesn't work over the course of a few weeks, then a visit to a physician again is in order.
For those of us that are new, and are reading this for the first time, bigger people have an advantage in higher rapid weight loss than smaller people. Yeah, us fatties are kings of something. As an example, I am 250 pounds. I need 2750 calories a day to live. If I ingest 1200 calories a day, my body will burn 1550 calories of Al to survive. Every 7 days, there will be about 11,000 calories or so of lost weight. When I weighed 350 pounds, the same diet had a loss of 20,000 calories or so a week. Fatties lose weight faster, and that kids is the real reason why we lose less on successfull diets every week. Smaller people, less fuel, it adds up.
This is the premise as well when someone tells you that they had a Twinkie as a cheat, and dieted the other 168 hours in the week, and gained weight. It is hard to gain weight when you follow a plan. I am pretty sure we are all on plan, and moving right along with this.
Feeling good, exercise in, and the dogs have never walked this much before. They love running around with me..
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Welcome to the new challengers. I wish the best to all of us. :)
The more the merrier! I found something else that works for weigh-loss, though I don't recommend it. Being sick with fluids/solids exiting and no desire to put more in to only have them come out again. Eww. Like I said, I don't advise that as a plan, but the scale sure was happy this morning.
I had a dream last night that was Allan inspired. I was talking to someone about losing weight and how annoyed I was that sugary foods that dont come in a predefined portion trigger me to eat more in general. The friend in the dream, who I can only assume was Allan in another friends form said "So, why dont you just stop eating those foods? At least for the duration of the challenge. Why would you keep torturing yourself like that?" Truer words my friends. Truer words...
And in good news I am already a pound and a half down. Not too surprising since I get over my sugar trigger with salt and was seriously retaining. A gallon of water daily worked all that out. Worked out last night and burned 483 cals (none of which I ate of course) and happily downed my 1200 cals during the day. Back to the gym tonight and doing the packet exercises!
Allan, Perhaps you'd like to enlighten us r/t the forest that we did not see. I, for one, would enjoy the insight.
Deb
Hey allan, while us smaller people do lose 'less' weight as we go...remember that( this is for smaller people who may get frustrated) each pound is a bigger slice of the whole. AT 262 pounds I had to drop 5 to see a dent. at 146 I drop 5 and it's one whole pants size.
Good luck to you and your group! It sounds like your plan makes perfect sense, and I wish all of you great success! Maybe I will join the next one?
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