Hi All - first couple of days dieting, looking for advice

[rossg11]

Hi all,

I've just started dieting as my weight has ballooned this last year to 16st 11. I am a 6.2ft male and I am 23.

I want to get down to around 10 - 11 stone. I started my diet yesterday, using soup as my main meal.

An example of what I have been eating is -

Breakfast - bowl of alpen (original) and 1% milk (red label)

Lunch - Fruit Salad

Dinner - Bowl of vegetable soup (homemade)

Snacks - Nuts, dried fruit, fruit salad.

I will be making a different flavour of soup (chicken noodle) on Monday and will be having a jacket potato with tuna on Sunday for my dinner.

I will also be including some exercise over the next few weeks (sit ups, push ups, squats) and will be walking my dogs (about an hour a day overall)

I was just wondering if this is a healthy way to lose weight? And if anyone has any advice? I am using a calorie calculator app which says I should intake around 2000 calories a day. The past two days I've had 900 - 1000. I am a little worried I will make myself ill. Any help would be appreciated

Oh and happy New Year!!

 

[xcited]

Hi all,

I've just started dieting as my weight has ballooned this last year to 16st 11. I am a 6.2ft male and I am 23.

I want to get down to around 10 - 11 stone. I started my diet yesterday, using soup as my main meal.

An example of what I have been eating is -

Breakfast - bowl of alpen (original) and 1% milk (red label)

Lunch - Fruit Salad

Dinner - Bowl of vegetable soup (homemade)

Snacks - Nuts, dried fruit, fruit salad.

I will be making a different flavour of soup (chicken noodle) on Monday and will be having a jacket potato with tuna on Sunday for my dinner.

I will also be including some exercise over the next few weeks (sit ups, push ups, squats) and will be walking my dogs (about an hour a day overall)

I was just wondering if this is a healthy way to lose weight? And if anyone has any advice? I am using a calorie calculator app which says I should intake around 2000 calories a day. The past two days I've had 900 - 1000. I am a little worried I will make myself ill. Any help would be appreciated

Oh and happy New Year!!

Suggestion: forget the chicken soup and make a nice butternut squash + potato
+carrot one! The more veggies, the more extra unwanted grams go away!
The checking account reduces itself more slowly too...

 

[TracyGWill]

Yes, you definitely need to increase your calories to around the 2,000 mark, or you will indeed make yourself ill, so please be careful. Could I just say that your target weight is very low for your height, you'd be very thin at that weight for a man of 6'2". Good luck!

 

[AliceLouise]

Hi Ross good luck with your weight loss.

Have to say its nice to see someone my height on here haha

 

[Instant_Karma]

Hello and good luck Ross

For a man of 6ft 2", 10-11 stone is very lean indeed - I would suggest perhaps increasing your goal weight to 12-13st (which would give you a BMI of 22/23), but of course it's up to you.

I put your stats into a BMR calculator and came up with 2313, which is an estimate of what your body burns per day when resting. I'd suggest using this figure to find out your basic calorie needs - Harris Benedict Equation . Then just subtract calories as needed to lose weight; so if your "maintenance" amount is 3,200, trying cutting to 2,200 and you should burn 2lbs per week - more if you exercise as well. Keeping a fitness and exercise diary on somewhere like MyFitnessPal can also be useful. Eat plenty of chicken or tuna to boost protein.

 

[rossg11]

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated

I've completed my first week, without no problems (except a sneaky narrative cake haha!)

I got a treadmill on Tuesday and been doing around an hour a day at 4mph, so losing between 350-400 calories with that. My intake is around 1000.

I don't feel hungry at all, which I am surprised about, I do miss a good chocolate bar though, and cheese

At the rate I am going does anyone have a rough guess of how fast the weight will come off?

Instant Karma - thanks for that, I have been using myfitnesspal. It's been a godsend for keeping track of things

 

[TracyGWill]

Just to reiterate, you're going about this in a way that's dangerous to your health. You will lose weight, at first, but will store up many problems for yourself going forward. Believe me, I know - I did more or less the same thing when I was 20, and have had over 30 years of ill health and weight problems ever since. I'd advise you to double your calorie intake before it's too late and you've damaged your metabolism - that's when you'll start getting real problems.

 

[Instant_Karma]

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated

I've completed my first week, without no problems (except a sneaky narrative cake haha!)

I got a treadmill on Tuesday and been doing around an hour a day at 4mph, so losing between 350-400 calories with that. My intake is around 1000.

I don't feel hungry at all, which I am surprised about, I do miss a good chocolate bar though, and cheese

At the rate I am going does anyone have a rough guess of how fast the weight will come off?

Instant Karma - thanks for that, I have been using myfitnesspal. It's been a godsend for keeping track of things

Your calorie intake is 2,200 calories under your maintenance weight per day...add to that 500 cals burned daily from walking, and you'll be losing 5-6lbs of lean muscle and fat per week. It's just too much; it won't help you build strength and will be harder to maintain the weight when you go back to eating "normally". Please think carefully.