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David Goggins lost 100 lbs in 3 months on an 800ish calorie diet. I’m not recommending that… but what you can accomplish when you own it versus doing it for oth

David Goggins lost 100 lbs in 3 months on an 800ish calorie diet. I’m not recommending that… but what you can accomplish when you own it versus doing it for other reasons is probably significant too. Especially for when the “diet” (or whatever word is preferred, a la “intervention”) ends. I lost 60 lbs over a couple of years and set a state lifting record for my age group. I love what I do and kept the excess weight off. I got good at what I do and the intrinsic reward still burns, even though I’m not lifting for records anymore. I wake up every day ready to go hard for at least 50 minutes. It doesn’t take me more time than that to stay in shape, but I do eat consistent with my goals.. which is the harder part. I personally think someone needs to really own their desired outcome and then there are many valid and healthy ways — and even more “effective” ones — to get there. Hard to measure “own” though. Measuring every different kind of modality is generally missing the point. We actually know how people get in shape and stay in shape. The problem is generally in the mind.

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syrrim 4y ago
100 lbs in three months is ~1lb/day, thus a deficiency of 3500Cal/day. His maintenance intake would have been 4300Cals/day. That seems insanely high - what was his weight?
- browningstreet 4y ago
  He started north of 275 lbs if I remember. He was working out 3x a day. There are lots of videos out there about it. He was also overweight when he started, and he was going into hell week (military) so the first n lbs of weight would come off “easy”.
- MerelyMortal 4y ago
  It was 297lbs Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GdHW1YipmVo https://youtube.com/watch?v=GdHW1YipmVo
UncleOxidant 4y ago
> David Goggins lost 100 lbs in 3 months on an 800ish calorie diet. Losing weight that fast generally means it comes back pretty quickly as well. > I lost 60 lbs over a couple of years That's a much more reasonable timeframe. It's almost like we have to trick our bodies into finding a new metabolic balance. Do it too quickly and it just rebounds. Do it more slowly and it seems to be more sustainable.

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syrrim 4y ago

100 lbs in three months is ~1lb/day, thus a deficiency of 3500Cal/day. His maintenance intake would have been 4300Cals/day. That seems insanely high - what was his weight?

browningstreet 4y ago
He started north of 275 lbs if I remember. He was working out 3x a day. There are lots of videos out there about it. He was also overweight when he started, and he was going into hell week (military) so the first n lbs of weight would come off “easy”.
MerelyMortal 4y ago
It was 297lbs Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GdHW1YipmVo https://youtube.com/watch?v=GdHW1YipmVo

UncleOxidant 4y ago

> David Goggins lost 100 lbs in 3 months on an 800ish calorie diet. Losing weight that fast generally means it comes back pretty quickly as well. > I lost 60 lbs over a couple of years That's a much more reasonable timeframe. It's almost like we have to trick our bodies into finding a new metabolic balance. Do it too quickly and it just rebounds. Do it more slowly and it seems to be more sustainable.