| This. Anecdotally, I lost 130lbs in 1 year, and have now lost 140lbs (1 year 4 months). Initially, I was 330lbs and lost weight at a rate of 3.5lbs per week. Slowly decreasing weight per week to stabilize at around 1% of body weight per week. During the entirety of this time, I had, and still maintain, a rigorous resistance training program. My muscle mass is significantly higher than it was when I was 330lbs. The important part of losing weight is to know what your goals are, and to adjust all aspects of your life accordingly. Not just cutting calories, unless your goal is to lose weight, vs lose fat. The biggest thing afterwards is, if your lifestyle doesn't support the maintenance of your new weight, and when you hit your goal you eat like you used to and revert activity to your old sedimentary ways, all of that weight will come back incredibly fast. Whole life changes are needed. Going slow helps with these changes, as they become habits. This is why the success rate of achieving a healthy weight for someone who is morbidly obese is only 1-1266 (men) and 1-677 (women) [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK362452/#:~:text=In%20p.... |