Weight Loss Help?

[Memory Master]

Well i've been eating less of the bad stuff and I have been drinking 7-8 waters a day and have been eating lots of vegetables and I have excersized an hour a day 3 days a week.

I did weigh 241 lbs in September now this month I weigh 225 lbs. But still haven't seen any physical change in my body. My stomach hasn't reduced in size and neither has the fat around my thighs. Am I doing something wrong.

Is there anyway to get the physical results I want and quick?

I need some help !

[Azrael]

Originally Posted by Memory Master

Well i've been eating less of the bad stuff and I have been drinking 7-8 waters a day and have been eating lots of vegetables and I have excersized an hour a day 3 days a week.

I did weigh 241 lbs in September now this month I weigh 225 lbs. But still haven't seen any physical change in my body. My stomach hasn't reduced in size and neither has the fat around my thighs. Am I doing something wrong.

Is there anyway to get the physical results I want and quick?

I need some help !

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[Mr. Wilhelm]

Originally Posted by Memory Master

Is there anyway to get the physical results I want and quick?

It is possible, but it won't be quick except if you do surgery. Your losing the weight but the process of your body shape changing can be very slow. In some rare case it may also be in your gene, meaning you have a natural side to get weight and look fatter, so to say.

It's a lot of work and I wish you to succeed, but all I can say for you is to wait and continue as you do. In a few months the result will be a lot more significant already i'm sure =)

[TheMuffinMan]

First, healthy weight loss is no more than 2-3 pounds in a week, and more realistically 1-2 pounds a week. Any more than that, and you're actually hurting your body and losing muscle tone, not fat.

Secondly, there is no such thing as spot reduction, you can not lose weight/fat from specific parts of your body, it is impossible. You can only lose weight/fat from your entire body as a whole. Think of your body as a bathtub full of water, if you dip a bucket into a full bathtub of water is there a giant gaping hole from where you took the water away? No, because you can not take away water from a specific place in the tub, you are simply gradually taking away from the whole. Each bucket you put in, you're slowly reducing how much water is everywhere.

That is how weight loss works. You are not doing anything wrong, you are actually making significant progress if that 15 pounds you lost was healthy weight loss, and not something stupid like not eating, or exercising too much without the proper intake to fuel your body.

[Memory Master]

Originally Posted by TheMuffinMan

First, healthy weight loss is no more than 2-3 pounds in a week, and more realistically 1-2 pounds a week. Any more than that, and you're actually hurting your body and losing muscle tone, not fat.

Secondly, there is no such thing as spot reduction, you can not lose weight/fat from specific parts of your body, it is impossible. You can only lose weight/fat from your entire body as a whole. Think of your body as a bathtub full of water, if you dip a bucket into a full bathtub of water is there a giant gaping hole from where you took the water away? No, because you can not take away water from a specific place in the tub, you are simply gradually taking away from the whole. Each bucket you put in, you're slowly reducing how much water is everywhere.

That is how weight loss works. You are not doing anything wrong, you are actually making significant progress if that 15 pounds you lost was healthy weight loss, and not something stupid like not eating, or exercising too much without the proper intake to fuel your body.

My doctor said I was doing everything right, even though I couldn't tell a difference in my body. My target weight is 190 pounds, atleast my doctor says so. What if I get to 190 lbs but still my body doesn't change? Does that mean I keep excersizing and dieting or will I loose too much weight and if I do reach my weight goal but still see no changes what should I do?

[TheMuffinMan]

Your doctor might have been basing your target weight through BMI, which is a really impractical benchmark for healthy weight, but regardless 50 pounds lost is a really significant difference, at the moment you've only lost 1/5th of the weight you stand to lose total if you stick with it, so I think by the time you're 190 you will be a lot more comfortable.

[Mastermind]

How tall do you happen to be?

[Du Soleil.]

Like TheMuffinMan said - make sure you lose weight healthily and also realise that fat comes off the body as a whole. However, you might also want to look into speeding your metabolism up. I'm not really sure how to do this but apparently eating chillies and grapefruit speeds it up. You'd have to double-check that, though.

[Memory Master]

Originally Posted by TheMuffinMan

Your doctor might have been basing your target weight through BMI, which is a really impractical benchmark for healthy weight, but regardless 50 pounds lost is a really significant difference, at the moment you've only lost 1/5th of the weight you stand to lose total if you stick with it, so I think by the time you're 190 you will be a lot more comfortable.

I hope so, my next doctors appointment is November 17th. If I haven't noticed some change by then, then i'm going to ask my doctor what's wrong because I really don't want to have to take some kind of fat burning pill.

EDIT: I'm 6 feet and 1/2 inch tall.

[TheMuffinMan]

Dude, you don't see immense results in 2 months, and frankly if you follow it so much then you're actually hurting your progress. The best part of losing weight is simply letting being a healthy person become a routine and become the normal for you, having it become part of your every day life and not a chore, and then suddenly realizing 6 months later that you're a much better person for it, and that moment when someone compliments your appearance when you didn't even realize you had changed that much. That's what healthy weight loss is about.

[Memory Master]

Originally Posted by TheMuffinMan

Dude, you don't see immense results in 2 months, and frankly if you follow it so much then you're actually hurting your progress. The best part of losing weight is simply letting being a healthy person become a routine and become the normal for you, having it become part of your every day life and not a chore, and then suddenly realizing 6 months later that you're a much better person for it, and that moment when someone compliments your appearance when you didn't even realize you had changed that much. That's what healthy weight loss is about.

6 months? Well if it works then I guess the wait is worth it. As someone famous once said, "Anything that is good is worth waiting for."

My grandmother has said that she can tell my face is slimmer, I don't know if that means I have actually lost some fat in my face or not or what. I just don't want to become underweight is all which is why I was worried about going under 190 ilbs just to see results.

[TheMuffinMan]

Like I said, normal healthy weight loss is no more than 3 pounds in a week, typically 1-2. So, that's anywhere from 5 to 12 pounds in a month, maintained over 6 months would be around your 50 pound target.

[Memory Master]

Okay, I hope this all works. I really would hate to g through 6 months of this and get no results.

[TheMuffinMan]

Well,

In July of 2008 I weighed 209 pounds at like 5 foot 9 inches, I decided to make a change and completely cut soda and junk food out of my diet bar none for a year, and switched almost exclusively to filtered water and occasionally milk with cereals/oatmeal/sandwiches, and sometimes juice when I felt like a flavor drink. Then I switched to smaller more frequent meals throughout the day, which contrary to popular belief you should actually eat more often when trying to lose weight, just simply eat much smaller meals that are essentially "snacks". Eating 5-6 tiny meals of different food groups throughout the day makes it so that your metabolism is constantly working, and constantly adjusting to metabolize a different type of food, over time your metabolism learns to simply work more as a default, and you can actually maintain a healthy weight without having to keep up with rigorous exercise routines. Water also helps boost metabolism.

I didn't track my weight at all, or constantly check in the mirror, all I did was decide that I wanted to be a healthier person for myself, and made the changes I wanted to make and had them become routine. By December of 2008 I went to a party and met a friend who I hadn't seen in awhile who commented after I made a joke saying "I'm glad you're still funny, I thought maybe you weren't that funny-fat-guy anymore because you lost all that weight", and at that point I hadn't even realized I lost weight at all. By February of 2009 I had to buy all new shirts and pants because my old ones were massive on me now. In April of 2009 I went swimming at a friends house, and when I took my shirt off he said "Holy shit you're skinny now!", and had his mom commented that I "seemed to get skinnier every time she saw me". Hell, I even had people on KHI comment on it, because I used to have pictures up back in 2008, and when I posted new ones in 2009 I had like 10 people mention that never knew I was actually in shape

So by July of 2009 I went to the Doctors and got my height/weight updated, and I was 5 Foot 11 and weighed 154 pounds. Also, I can do 1 armed pull-ups now, when the last time I had ever even done pull-ups was in Middle School...at which point I could do 0 with both arms.

[Memory Master]

Originally Posted by TheMuffinMan

Well,

In July of 2008 I weighed 209 pounds at like 5 foot 9 inches, I decided to make a change and completely cut soda and junk food out of my diet bar none for a year, and switched almost exclusively to filtered water and occasionally milk with cereals/oatmeal/sandwiches, and sometimes juice when I felt like a flavor drink. Then I switched to smaller more frequent meals throughout the day, which contrary to popular belief you should actually eat more often when trying to lose weight, just simply eat much smaller meals that are essentially "snacks". Eating 5-6 tiny meals of different food groups throughout the day makes it so that your metabolism is constantly working, and constantly adjusting to metabolize a different type of food, over time your metabolism learns to simply work more as a default, and you can actually maintain a healthy weight without having to keep up with rigorous exercise routines. Water also helps boost metabolism.

I didn't track my weight at all, or constantly check in the mirror, all I did was decide that I wanted to be a healthier person for myself, and made the changes I wanted to make and had them become routine. By December of 2008 I went to a party and met a friend who I hadn't seen in awhile who commented after I made a joke saying "I'm glad you're still funny, I thought maybe you weren't that funny-fat-guy anymore because you lost all that weight", and at that point I hadn't even realized I lost weight at all. By February of 2009 I had to buy all new shirts and pants because my old ones were massive on me now. In April of 2009 I went swimming at a friends house, and when I took my shirt off he said "Holy shit you're skinny now!", and had his mom commented that I "seemed to get skinnier every time she saw me". Hell, I even had people on KHI comment on it, because I used to have pictures up back in 2008, and when I posted new ones in 2009 I had like 10 people mention that never knew I was actually in shape

So by July of 2009 I went to the Doctors and got my height/weight updated, and I was 5 Foot 11 and weighed 154 pounds. Also, I can do 1 armed pull-ups now, when the last time I had ever even done pull-ups was in Middle School...at which point I could do 0 with both arms.

wow that is some of the best advice anyone has ever given me. Sounds like it works, I'll try that.