Hourunner wrote:
I may be the only person to reply to this thread that has actually done what you are trying to do. A few years ago I lost about 40lbs in 3 months. Very simply I switched to a keto diet. In that diet I didn’t count calories. When you eat clean you don’t have to. All the calorie counting and 500 cal per day deficit stuff is nonsense. To oversimplify it. The human body doesn’t treat all calories the same. All carbs are not equal, all fats are not equal and unless you are eating an extremely large amount of protein it will not cause weight gain. I ate 3 meals a day and stayed hydrated. No snacking between meals. During that 3 months I lifted a little but I mostly walked which is actually better for burning fat (low intensity). I walked 4-5 miles every morning on an empty stomach. That was it. Once I hit my goal size I started running and some lifting again. 50 lbs in 6 months is very doable but diet is the key.
Naa, I think I have the LRC record. Not that I'm "happy" that I was in that bad of shape.
I lost 110 pounds in one year, April 2008 to April 2009 (My birthday to be specific). I started at 284 pounds and was 174 a year later. (Male, age 34 to 35, height 5'11").
So yea, 50 in half the time should be "easy." In fact I was probably down about 60 in the first half of my year journey. I hit a plateau for about 6 weeks around Thanksgiving of 2008.