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I have been dieting for months. I am an average male, 220lbs 6'3" and I can say that he will have a very hard time as he continues this trend. By all means will

I have been dieting for months. I am an average male, 220lbs 6'3" and I can say that he will have a very hard time as he continues this trend. By all means willpower can overcome how he feels, but the amount of calories he needs to sustain that kind of weight loss will leave him drawn out. Extremely drawn out, to the point he feels like he is starving when waking up. I hope he can do it, but at the same time he should reconsider his time table. In pounds that is about .7 pounds a day. That is an incredible amount of weight to sustain losing. He also mentions beginning working out. This is also a problem, since once he begins working out (since he hasn't been) he will immediately get weight gain from muscle production. This will hinder his ability to lose the weight. I always suggest that people chose a diet or work out routine, but not both. Then as one of the two is going along, and the willpower is there to sustain it slowly start doing the alternative. Most people when they do both, feel like they are taking a crash course, their body works different while working out, feels starved because of the diet, and ends up breaking them down. Doing one and moving to the other help to balance the changes. I am hoping for him though.

freshhawk 14y ago
"I always suggest that people chose a diet or work out routine, but not both." Yikes. That's bad advice in my opinion. People don't actually want to lose weight, they want to be healthier and look better. They would be very happy to gain muscle and lose fat, even if the measurement on the scale goes up because they would look less fat. Also, it's way easier to lose weight when you are also working out. Just because it's hard to measure body fat percentage and easy to measure weight doesn't mean you should do something that is actively against your real goal just because it makes the one number that's easy to measure go down. I agree that starting an intense workout routine and an intense diet at the same time is a horrible idea. But that's why you start it gradually, from every moment moving forward you will be closer to your goal than doing just one or the other. This is, of course, entirely predicated on the assumption that people can be taught the difference between losing weight and losing fat ... but I have to believe that people are smart enough that this is a simple thing to teach.
- mulletbum 14y ago
  I think you're just missing my original point. I did not mean diet for 7 months then start working out. I mean start your diet for a week or two, then begin to work exercise into it.

freshhawk 14y ago

"I always suggest that people chose a diet or work out routine, but not both." Yikes. That's bad advice in my opinion. People don't actually want to lose weight, they want to be healthier and look better. They would be very happy to gain muscle and lose fat, even if the measurement on the scale goes up because they would look less fat. Also, it's way easier to lose weight when you are also working out. Just because it's hard to measure body fat percentage and easy to measure weight doesn't mean you should do something that is actively against your real goal just because it makes the one number that's easy to measure go down. I agree that starting an intense workout routine and an intense diet at the same time is a horrible idea. But that's why you start it gradually, from every moment moving forward you will be closer to your goal than doing just one or the other. This is, of course, entirely predicated on the assumption that people can be taught the difference between losing weight and losing fat ... but I have to believe that people are smart enough that this is a simple thing to teach.

mulletbum 14y ago
I think you're just missing my original point. I did not mean diet for 7 months then start working out. I mean start your diet for a week or two, then begin to work exercise into it.