Losing Fat on 1250 Calories?

Diet and Nutrition
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hi,
I’m 21, 6’3’’ tall and now I weight 240 pounds. I have lost 50 pounds since December. currently I lift weights 5 days a week. I want to loose 20 extra pounds in one month because I have a bet with one of my friends, do u guys think it is possible? I was thinking to go for 1250 cals aday with 125 grams of protein and 70 grams of carbohydrates.

I also supplement with HOT-ROX and eat 6 meals aday. do u think I will be able to loose that much weight in one month and do u think 1250 cals are too little and I will loose mainly muscle even if I lift weights 5 days a week? and do u think I will damage my metabolism if I do that?
any help is appreciated

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Yes, I think you will lose muscle and destroy your metabolism with that total calorie intake. Unless you HAVEN’T been low carbing since december, I don’t see how losing 20 lbs is possible (in the realm of safety). If you have been eating moderate amounts of carbs, then low carbing may help you shed some water retention and glycogen which may help you.

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You’re going to lose a ton of muscle. You will kill your metabolism doing that.

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I haven’t been low carbing. how much is the least amount of calories u guys think I can go for? I’m doing this diet for only 20 days that why I thought it won’t damage my metabolism .
after that I will up my calories and build muscles. I just wanna go to 220 pounds before I start building muscle and I really wanna do it in this month

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I haven’t been low carbing. how much is the least amount of calories u guys think I can go for? I’m doing this diet for only 20 days that why I thought it won’t damage my metabolism .
after that I will up my calories and build muscles. I just wanna go to 220 pounds before I start building muscle and I really wanna do it in this month

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You will lose lots of muscle if you aim for 20 lbs in a month. No way around it. I consider 10 cals per pound to be lowish. so in your case, thats 2,400 cals (almost double).

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you spelled losing wrong.

oh and what all the other posters said

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ya English is not my first language.
thanks a lot guys for your help. Even if my main goal is loosing fat now and I don’t mind loosing a bit muscle you think the minimum I should go for is 2400 calories?

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ya English is not my first language.
thanks a lot guys for your help. Even if my main goal is loosing fat now and I don’t mind loosing a bit muscle you think the minimum I should go for is 2400 calories?

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Check out the Get Shredded Diet. It’s low calorie, but I hear it works well. That said, I have no personal experience with it.

I certainly wouldn’t recommend going that low at your weight and height. 2000 at the lowest. That’s for a week. No longer. 2400 is much better.

Get your pudgy hands on some BCAA and drop the carbs a bit more (70 seems a bit high for quickest fat loss) and there’s no reason why, if you train hard enough, you won’t lose quite a bit of fat in the next month, with minimal muscle loss.

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[quote]dr.ali wrote:
hi,
I’m 21, 6’3’’ tall and now I weight 240 pounds. I have lost 50 pounds since December. currently I lift weights 5 days a week. I want to loose 20 extra pounds in one month because I have a bet with one of my friends, do u guys think it is possible? I was thinking to go for 1250 cals aday with 125 grams of protein and 70 grams of carbohydrates.

I also supplement with HOT-ROX and eat 6 meals aday. do u think I will be able to loose that much weight in one month and do u think 1250 cals are too little and I will loose mainly muscle even if I lift weights 5 days a week? and do u think I will damage my metabolism if I do that?
any help is appreciated[/quote]

I think you’ve understood the consequences of undereating for a month like that. You will lose muscle and fat, and your metabolism will slow down (making it too easy to regain fat when you up the calories again)

To lose 20lbs of fat only you’d need to lose 70,000kc of energy through fat metabolism. Roughly that means an avearge daily deficit of 2400kc. I don’t know what your maintenance requirement is.

On the numbers going 1250 may seem plausible but not without losing too much of the good stuff. Also check your diet, remember to eat some fats - some fish would be good.

Shouldnt have made the bet! Good luck though, remember not to get into a mindset of always losing weight, you can eat more now and then to match heavier training weeks if you are fit enough, with no medical worries. Keep mixing it up. Stay Active.

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V-Diet forum if are interested in a “muscle-safe” extreme calorie diet.

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I second the Get Shredded recommendation. I’ve been lifting for 14 years and I’ve yet to see anyone “lose alot of muscle” as long as they keep lifting.

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Elusive said it best Its not safe nor will you be able to retain any muscle! Your best bet is eating around 2400 calories a day with 50 grams of carbs or less! You will not however lose 20 lbs of fat in a month maby 8lbs of fat 1-2 lbs of muscle and maby 5 pounds of water! Also you have lost alot of weight alredy which makes it that much harder!

Read lisnin and keep lifting heavy!

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Yeah you could try the V-Diet, that seems to work fast for people around here, but I haven’t tried it. Requires a lot of dedication though, and even that probably won’t cause you to lose 20lbs in a month.

But yeah you’d be totally screwing yourself. Yes, you could lose 20lbs in a month, if you fucking starved yourself like you’re proposing. But so much of that would be muscle that it would defeat the purpose.

Also, there’d be no way in hell you’d be able to get the energy to lift effectively 5 days a week. You’d probably be burned out by the first week. Hell, a couple months ago I was eating over 2k calories a day (i’m 6’1 200lbs) and I still completely burned myself out once (had to take a long break from lifting). You might be able to still haul your ass to the gym and go through the motions but you won’t be doing yourself much good.

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Everybody is suggesting the get shredded diet. If I remember correctly however, JB only recommends the diet for those who have been dieting for a long time. He used Dave Tate as an example.

And no offense to the OP, but I doubt he’s at Dave’s condition.

JB said in the beginning of the article:

"A Warning

First things first; the dietary strategy outlined below is extreme.

In fact, the dietary strategy outlined below is so extreme that you’ll likely have to alter many of your lifestyle habits �?? even those independent of exercise, nutrition, and supplementation �?? just to tough through it. It’s that hard. It’s that extreme.

However, in the case of the dietary strategy discussed below, extreme isn’t synonymous with dangerous. In fact, if applied strategically and infrequently, this strategy might even improve your health. And that’s why I use it myself �?? once every 2 years for about 6-12 weeks �?? to improve my health while getting pretty scary-lean.

I’ll say that again �?? I use it ONCE every 104 weeks for ONLY 6-12 weeks �?? and I use it in between long periods of healthy eating, sound training, and smart supplementation.

Those of you who follow my writing know that my baseline nutrition approach is best known for being moderate, smart, and sound. And that’s why 92-98 out of 104 weeks are marked by moderation and good dietary decision making. But that’s not what this article is about. No, this article is about presenting an extreme dietary strategy designed to make body fat disappear into thin air in the shortest amount of time.

To give you an idea of just how fast we’re talking �?? you should expect body fat decreases of about 0.5%-1% per week when following the Get Shredded Diet. No kidding. And with this rate of progress, you’ll actually be seeing physical changes every few days."

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[quote]dg401 wrote:
Everybody is suggesting the get shredded diet. If I remember correctly however, JB only recommends the diet for those who have been dieting for a long time. He used Dave Tate as an example.

And no offense to the OP, but I doubt he’s at Dave’s condition.

JB said in the beginning of the article:

"A Warning

First things first; the dietary strategy outlined below is extreme.

In fact, the dietary strategy outlined below is so extreme that you’ll likely have to alter many of your lifestyle habits �?? even those independent of exercise, nutrition, and supplementation �?? just to tough through it. It’s that hard. It’s that extreme.

However, in the case of the dietary strategy discussed below, extreme isn’t synonymous with dangerous. In fact, if applied strategically and infrequently, this strategy might even improve your health. And that’s why I use it myself �?? once every 2 years for about 6-12 weeks �?? to improve my health while getting pretty scary-lean.

I’ll say that again �?? I use it ONCE every 104 weeks for ONLY 6-12 weeks �?? and I use it in between long periods of healthy eating, sound training, and smart supplementation.

Those of you who follow my writing know that my baseline nutrition approach is best known for being moderate, smart, and sound. And that’s why 92-98 out of 104 weeks are marked by moderation and good dietary decision making. But that’s not what this article is about. No, this article is about presenting an extreme dietary strategy designed to make body fat disappear into thin air in the shortest amount of time.

To give you an idea of just how fast we’re talking �?? you should expect body fat decreases of about 0.5%-1% per week when following the Get Shredded Diet. No kidding. And with this rate of progress, you’ll actually be seeing physical changes every few days."[/quote]

Agreed! the Get Shreded diet is Not the way for the op to go

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[quote]dg401 wrote:
Everybody is suggesting the get shredded diet. If I remember correctly however, JB only recommends the diet for those who have been dieting for a long time. He used Dave Tate as an example.

And no offense to the OP, but I doubt he’s at Dave’s condition.

JB said in the beginning of the article:

"A Warning

First things first; the dietary strategy outlined below is extreme.

In fact, the dietary strategy outlined below is so extreme that you’ll likely have to alter many of your lifestyle habits â¿¿ even those independent of exercise, nutrition, and supplementation â¿¿ just to tough through it. It’s that hard. It’s that extreme.

However, in the case of the dietary strategy discussed below, extreme isn’t synonymous with dangerous. In fact, if applied strategically and infrequently, this strategy might even improve your health. And that’s why I use it myself â¿¿ once every 2 years for about 6-12 weeks â¿¿ to improve my health while getting pretty scary-lean.

I’ll say that again â¿¿ I use it ONCE every 104 weeks for ONLY 6-12 weeks â¿¿ and I use it in between long periods of healthy eating, sound training, and smart supplementation.

Those of you who follow my writing know that my baseline nutrition approach is best known for being moderate, smart, and sound. And that’s why 92-98 out of 104 weeks are marked by moderation and good dietary decision making. But that’s not what this article is about. No, this article is about presenting an extreme dietary strategy designed to make body fat disappear into thin air in the shortest amount of time.

To give you an idea of just how fast we’re talking â¿¿ you should expect body fat decreases of about 0.5%-1% per week when following the Get Shredded Diet. No kidding. And with this rate of progress, you’ll actually be seeing physical changes every few days."[/quote]

OP has already lost 50 pounds, which is no small amount. The only thing ‘extreme’ about the Get Shredded Diet is the low calories. For him, that would be 2400 cals a day. Not that extreme at all.

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[quote]Dave.F wrote:
Agreed! the Get Shreded diet is Not the way for the op to go
[/quote]

People have been recommending 2400 cals a day with low carbs. That is the GSD for the OP. Just because JB says ‘Liek OMG itss soooo extreme!’ doesn’t make it that all that monumental. It’s extreme for someone who has been eating 5K calories and bagels for the past two years. He’s been on a fat loss diet, this is old hat to him.

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[quote]Vicomte wrote:
OP has already lost 50 pounds, which is no small amount. The only thing ‘extreme’ about the Get Shredded Diet is the low calories. For him, that would be 2400 cals a day. Not that extreme at all.[/quote]

That is true. It’s just that it is very strict. Also, the supplementation is kind of expensive (for me at least). There is no way he wouldn’t lose fat on the plan, I just think that any other logical eating plan would work well. But if the OP really wants to shed weight in a really short time, I suppose GS would be the way to go.

It’s all up to the OP I guess… IMO it’s the question of “Do I have the dedication to stick with the eating and supplementation schedule?”

I don’t know if I could…