Curiosities about myself

[Pemalite]

IcaroRibeiro said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Any tips? I'd love to lose 10kg in a month!

You need to be truly obese first (over 150 kgs). With intense physical activity you probably will spend 4000 kcal a day on average. If you eat around 1,5k a day (eat less than this would be dangerous), then in one month you will have spent ~75k kcal, around 10 kg. However I doubt someone that obese can truly have intense physical activity enough to yield such a high caloric deficit. My bet is... 6kg a month, at best

If you are overweight, but not obese (85-100 kg) you can't lose all this in a month, you can target ~3-4kg a month

The larger you are, the more calories you burn even at rest.
Keep in mind the height/weight ratio of some people as well, which skews things.

I was doing at-least a 10km walk every day. It wasn't unusual to walk 150km in a week. (90+ miles.)
And that is before we factor in Gym, diet and other things.

Cobretti2 said:

Pemalite said:

Stay away from anything that has carbs in it. Potatoes, Sugar, Wheat... And spend an hour at a Gym 5 times a week.

The end result is... I probably care more about my appearance and when/what I eat these days than I used to, which is sometimes a pain in the ass, but all these years later it's just a part of my lifestyle... And that is the key. Make it a permanent lifestyle change, not a temporary diet, it has to be sustainable, otherwise you just reverse all the hard work.

The doctor put me on a no carbs diet and it fucked me over hard to a point I collapsed as in the first week I lost 15kgs and body went into shock. All I ate was salads and lean proteins. In principal I agree with you but you do need a little bit of carbs in your diet and I think ease into it is a bit safer then going cold turkey like the doctor recommended.

If you increase your protein intake, your body will metabolize proteins instead to make up the shortfall.

I can't say for certain where you went wrong as I don't know you personally or your situation... But the results speak for themselves.
Never had the crash like you describe either... And this has been a lifestyle I have been on for many years and worked in some of the toughest environments on Earth.

Ka-pi96 said:

What do you do at the gym? I'm definitely not going to a gym, but if it's exercise that I could do at home too then I can definitely do that. So far I'm just doing basic stuff, eg. push ups, sit ups etc.

Mix of weights, cardio and resistance training.

The human body is actually extremely good at adapting to exercise routines... So cycling things around so you have a "Cardio day" or an "Arms day" is probably the best way to get results.

A gym is a better way to keep you motivated long term as you are paying coin for it... Plus with so many video games, if I am at home... I would rather do that. Haha

Ka-pi96 said:

I consider myself obese based on what I look like in a mirror. I'm 65kg though, so it'll be hard to lose much that fast? I just want to look decent in time for summer!

Absolutely not.

65kg at 158cm would put you in the "overweight" category, but only just barely.

Loosing 3kg would put you in the nominal range based on your BMI. (Which doesn't account for other physical attributes anyway like muscle mass, so grains of salt and all that.)

You are hardly what I would call obese though.