Need to go extreme

[Dibbies]

Having Had my fitbit for over a year, and seriously trying to loose weight for the last 7 months ( which I have failed miserably - 2kg in 7 months )

I think the only option is to go extreme !!!!!

Food intake to the minimum, just to stay alive, exersise every spare minute of the day i can manage,

surly then I will lose some weight ???????????

[Dibbies]

Hi All,

Well it is now approx 4 months on from my last post, so I thought it would be a good time for a update.

I took the advice given to me on here, and took a break..... and the result ??????

As I thought ... my weight has returned to what it was some 11 months ago now...129Kg

That is from 124Kg 4 months ago. and still rising and getting bigger.

No real consistant excesise, but have kept active, my job sees to that mostly.

No big change to diet, tried to keep as health as posibble be not following exactly a healthy nutrition plan, can be summed up as eaten what i want when i want without feeling guilty.

So the big question is where do I go now ?????????/

Do i go back to what I was doing before, and see little improvement for alot of hard work.

Do I go with my origional plan to go extreme, see previous posts

Or do I do something else, suggestions please because I honestly do not know what to do 

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[shipo]

@Dibbies, I think you need set your sights on something between the two extremes; doing too little and you'll continue gaining weight, do too much and you'll lose weight at the expense of messing up your metabolic rate.

[Dominique]

@Dibbies: I’m quoting what you said last July:

After 7 months of "doing all the correct" things the so-called experts say I should do - healthy diet and exercise more. when nothing happens week after week, I am just looking to lose weight, never mind consistently.

Losing or gaining weight is a numbers’ game: it doesn’t matter if your diet is healthy or not. If you eat less than you expend, you will lose weight (even if your diet is "unhealthy"). If you eat more than your expend, you will gain weight (even if your diet is "healthy").

This year, I’ve been both losing (from February to August, 66.7 to 62.9 kg, -3.8 kg) and gaining (from August to date, 62.9 to 66.4 kg, +3.5 kg so far):

I have been doing both (losing, gaining) on purpose. My diet has been exactly the same, quality-wise (= mostly "healthy", but it also includes less healthy items that I love, in other words, I’m a flexible dieter), but I’ve made adjustments to quantities: for instance, I usually ate 50 grams of peanut butter when losing, while I currently eat 100 or even 150 grams now I’m gaining.

You need to find some way to track your intake, so you can find the right balance of food and exercise that will result in weight loss. Simply making "healthy" food decisions won’t be sufficient.

The above graph is from trendweight.com, as mentioned by @A_Lurker earlier in this thread. I highly recommend it since you also have an Aria scale. It takes the focus out of the seemlingly random daily fluctuations (grey curve) and puts it on the overall trend (red curve). 

Going to extremes will get you nowhere. Paying attention to the numbers (calories in vs. calories out) is what works.

[emili]

Exactly as Dominique said. Best advice you can get

[AndyDandyPandy]

Only 2 things can happen from going extreme. You fail or you succeed. 

When people hear the word extreme with weight loss they automatically think: Starving, self-torture, miserable, weak, failure, because it's what they put themselves through and they failed miserably because they don't know what extreme means so they have some sort of ptsd about going extreme.

To me extreme is putting in the extra effort. Keeping yourself motivated, Be on top of your diet, Constantly researching to better yourself, Trying new things, Making your own decisions, Keeping your progress in check. No slacking off. No half assed. Giving everything you got. Intensity. <---Making these become your new habit/lifestyle

Just think military. Soldiers are put through extreme training for conditioning. Once they are disciplined, things get easier.

Extreme doesn't mean that life will be hard on you forever. Extreme is just for the moment until things get better. You will become a better person after that extreme session. You will be wiser. You will make better decisions. Because being extreme will become just another normal day in life. 

Extreme worked for me. It can work for others.

[shipo]

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@AndyDandyPandy wrote:

Extreme worked for me. It can work for others.

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I think you've taken the word "extreme" out of context; in the case of the original poster it is used relative to an extreme cutting of daily calories; that type of severe diet will lead to failure.