Help a Letsrunner out: what is your good or "bad" advice for losing weight fast?

Get yourself a girlfriend your size, chances are you'll have other things in common besides obesity.

Don't drink ever

Don't eat after dinner. Eat tons and tons of veggies. Only drink water (you can drink barely anything a couple days before you see your lady if you want to look thinner but you'll be very dehydrated) only eat lean meats. The first couple days will suck so much and you'll be starving so bad but after a bit you'll only be starving pretty bad cause your stomach will adjust. Good luck.

Try to figure out how many calories you take in a day and reduce it to less than 2000. You run off 500-700 doing your current mileage and need another 1500 on top of that to maintain weight. Then try to taken the calories in mostly fat and protein, limiting the carb. Drinking 20-30oz of water before eating will help. Finally do a bunch of core work and push ups. You\'ll be good to go in a month.

Sprint workouts (like 100m-400m training) and lifting weighs might be the fastest

Fastest would be starving yourself while exercising vigorously daily. This is not the 'healthiest' option but it will sure work the quickest.

See 50% of D1 female distance runners for more information.

Don't eat for a month. Fasting for a month is perfectly safe and not difficult. You will likely lose 20 to 30 pounds during this month.

However, you will not be able to continuing running during this month.

Eat significantly less. Nothing to drink but water. No booze. Be hungry all the time. Run a lot.

You're not going to lose 20 lbs in a month. Not gonna happen, don't bother trying. If you even try, you will lose a few pounds quickly (water weight), think you're doing great, then realize in a week you're not on track anymore, then give up and probably stay fat for a long time.

Thanks for the advice. I, of course, don't mind putting on muscle, but why would sprinting/weight lifting be more effective than, say, high mileage training?

Starve Yourself wrote:

Eat significantly less. Nothing to drink but water. No booze. Be hungry all the time. Run a lot.

I think this was my basic plan until I posted, but I was curious to see what else people had in mind. The beer def got me into trouble in the first place. It's like having a second dinner, but you don't necessarily realize it until one day you look in the mirror, and you say fuuuu.....

The Michelin Man wrote:

Thanks for the advice. I, of course, don't mind putting on muscle, but why would sprinting/weight lifting be more effective than, say, high mileage training?

I only have my own experience, so it may be different for you, but:

I get injured pretty easily from high mileage training, so there's less down time when that happens. (I'm sure some people would be more injury prone in the gym)

It's much easier to sprint/lift weights than run lots of miles, at least stress-wise (if I run a lot I tend to get sleepy at work too so that's just an added irritant).

Adding some muscle never hurts for social situations. Don't expect your 5k to improve while you do this but you might still run a good 800

It's not really scientific but that has been my experience

as has already been pointed out:

1) Eat a lot less than normal

2) exercise as much as you can

Pretty simple, eh?

Don't listen to people who say cutting carbs is key, it ain't. Cut calories in the form of carbs OR fat (i'd prefer cutting fat), keep most of the (lean) protein. As already pointed out: eat veggies (fiber will fill you somewhat, low calorie). Lean protein will fill you up, and will go to muscle maintenance (or keep you from losing too much).

There are no secrets here. Eating most of your calories in the first half of the day will keep you from bingeing later, and is better from a fat loss standpoint.

But again, really no secrets, just pain.

The quickest way for you to lose 10 pounds of useless weight is to cut off your head. Your welcome.

Here is what I do when I get over my racing weight...

Drink nothing but (lots of) water and black coffee (no sugar)

Small bowl of granola and a banana for breakfast

Apple for lunch

Normal sized dinner but excluding any fried or deep fried food (so examples would be salmon, boiled rice and vegetables or a piece of steak, baked potato and salad)

Another piece of fruit before bed

No booze, candy, chips, cakes, etc

While doing this diet I typically run about 60-80 miles per week but all very low intensity (I think running hard would be a good way to get hurt). I increase my calorie intake significantly when my mileage gets higher or I start training seriously.

It is miserable, I am constantly hungry and very cranky and running feels like a slog, but in a month I can shift a serious amount of weight. Maybe like 10 or 12 lbs. I think 20 lbs in a month would be difficult and not particularly healthy or sustainable.

No additional wisdom here, just a request that you update this a month later with what you ended up doing plus results.

Disclaimer:always consult a doctor before fasting- the following is just for entertainment.

I had an amazing experience last month where I had gone from 157lbs to 193 lbs while learning to low-bar back squat and I was stuck at185 lbs until I just stopped eating for 10 days taking only water - not too much or you get a headache!

I continued to squat 240 lbs a.m and jog 5k p.m. Until day 10 when Tutte a un tratto the squat wouldn't go up any more and I started eating again - first broths and water melon.

After 3 days you enter ketosis and burn fat directly. I went to 168 lbs then back to 175 lbs when my intestine filled again while my lifting belt went from notch 4 to 6.

Those 10 lbs of blubber seemed to be a marvel of energy storage!

Blah Blah Blah. wrote:

Don't eat for a month. Fasting for a month is perfectly safe and not difficult. You will likely lose 20 to 30 pounds during this month.

However, you will not be able to continuing running during this month.

^^^This. Obesity is caused by insulin resistance, and the easiest way to permanently cure this condition is by fasting. Google "Jason Fung" and read his blog titled "Intensive Dietary Management."

You may be able to run if you follow an intermittent fasting regime. Google "Martin Berkhan" and read about his Leangains protocol. He ate one meal per day and packed on muscle. You can also read up on Nolan Shaheed, who eats one meal a day and runs very well for a man his age.

I'm calling b.s. on the OP and his thread. No REAL letsrunner would let himself look like the Michelin Man, except maybe Henry Rono, but he's been too drunk to post here for years now.