I've been looking to get back on track with some weight loss, and thought it might be interesting to kick it off with a hardcore month. Will consider opening up a prop to loose 'X' lbs in 1 month if people are interested in taking either side.

Currently just freeballing the idea, but here are some knowns:

-overweight, but not morbidly obese(yet!)
-video weigh-in on scale in middle of room
-plan is to continue after first month, but much less extreme
-I will obv be on the over


Details I would like to flesh out:

-what is a good over/under? I have a number in my head, but don't want to divulge yet, looking for input.
-like I said, looking to really test myself with a hardcore month
-would weekly weigh-ins be better, or just beginning and ending?


So if anyone is interested in some action, please post any questions, comments, additions, etc as well as what you think might be a good number and lets see if we can get a prop going. If not enough interest, no big deal. Just looking for some MOTIVATION and maybe have a little fun..

12lbs seems like a good number imo.

What's your normal diet/exercise routine and what's your planned diet/exercise routine? Are you willing & able to give up sugar, dairy, caffeine, and most carbs?

Daily weigh ins for the millennial in all of us

I think I did this pretty easily one of the months in my Fat-Off with MLY.

Like I said, looking to extreme for a month. Everything is on the table.

Also, my current diet/exercise is complete ****.

Like tapeworms and nothing-but-laxatives? 30 lbs

Looking to avoid system-gaming. Just extreme weight loss for 1 month.

If you go super low cal and refrain from above mentioned, 20lbs is doable even without exercise. You need to stay well hydrated though. The trick is to find a routine and diet that you can live with and not constantly fiend... Definitely get bloodwork and make sure your levels are good before going extreme. If you do adopt a strict diet, look at your lab tests and see which vitamins you'll need to supplement as well.

With exercise and no diet cheating you could easily do 20 lbs in the 1st month since water weight shedding will contribute to that.

What is your current weight?

Current weight matters a ton here.

Your current height, weight, lifetime low and high weight, diet, fitness level, and age are very relevant.

As a formerly obese person who did a medically-supervised VLCD (very low calorie diet) for several months in 2011 I feel very qualified on this topic. At that time I was around 38 years old, around 300 pounds, and in absolutely terrible shape. I lost 34 pounds in my first 30 days of that program.

I'm prob #50-60 overweight medically speaking, but would be hard-pressed to lose 60 pounds and maintain that weight, which is prob what I weighed when starting college.

I am looking to avoid giving exact weight(that could change though) until weigh-in, but you can draw some conclusions from that info.

UFC fighters can shed 20+ lbs in a week

https://tim.blog/2013/05/06/how-to-cut-weight-ufc/

Someone like Max Holloway at close to 6ft probably is around 170-175 in everyday life and regularly fights at 145lbs. Sounds like he has a huge cut coming up to make 155lbs on Friday morning for his super short notice on Saturday.

FWIW, Christmas vacation in 16/17 I went from ~145 to ~175 within 6 weeks and it took me around 2 months to lose that again and another 2 month for 10 pounds more.

I am 5'-10", WELL shy of 300, and in my 40's. This will not be a morbidly obese guy loosing mostly water weight the first month scenario. Thirty four pounds would be 60-70% of what I am looking to lose.

Without current weight, I'd put the over under at 8.5% loss of whatever your current weight is. 1/2 of that would be water at least that will insta come back if you get on a calorie surplus again.

25-30 lbs imo

Using this math, it is exactly the number that I initially had in my head for an O/U.

Shouldn’t you be significantly below 250 right now to be overweight ‘only’ 50-60 pounds?

Correct.

I think this is a pretty good high side of the range. Given what I know about 27 and assuming no first weigh-in shenanigans, I would personally bet big on the under if the line is 30.

It seems like it would be easy to crush 30 lbs if you do a lot of intermittent fasting and just eat some protein and veggies especially if you have a normal first world diet that's high in sugar and carbs. Really it's just too easy to lose weight if you know what your doing but at the same too easy to do it in an unhealthy manner.


I'd say don't do this just out of the fact it's really stressful on your system. Oh **** and you're in your 40s, NO DON'T DO THIS. This is a bad idea.

To reiterate, I was younger than 27 is now, fatter, and unhealthier. I did a diet of under 1000 calories a day and lost 34 pounds in a month. He's older, less fat, and presumably healthier (I was really unhealthy). I don't think he can touch 30 pounds.

And you make a good point about health. The thing I did was at the RFO clinic at UCLA where doctors kept a close eye on me weekly, particularly potassium. My understanding is that this kind of thing can be dangerous.

30 is out of the question.

When i was 29 I did something similar. Im 5'10" and at the time was 275lbs. I lost 27lbs that month and it even cheated a few times in the month 10+ was water weight Im sure.