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How to lose weight rapidly. Bariatric Pre-Op Diet.

Renae

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Since I started this, about 6 days ago, I have lost 20lbs.

Let me tell you what it entails.

2 weight loss shakes, They want me drinking the high protein Premier Shakes, I prefer slimfast. Choose your poison.

Snacks?

1 serving a day Sugar Free Jello (pro tip, add a tablespoon or so of Splendia to the hot water, makes it much better, seriously)

Celery between shakes.

Dinner, 1/2 a peeled Cucumber with 1 packet of Tuna, one of those flavored type is fine, I prefer starkist brand.

Every third day, have something nice for dinner. Like half a filet of fish, broiled with minimal butter. OR a skinless chicken breast in an olive oil, garlic, white wine, balsamic vinaigrette sauce. If you like mushrooms cook them in it, mushrooms have low low carb.

Count the bard, keep the total intake to 400-600 calories a day.

Not only is it doable, but if you stick to it for a week, you'll notice:

Food smells more amazing.

Grocery stores smell like bread and sugar

Just a friendly thing I discovered. I'd advise not having a whole pizza the day you go off the diet, work out and keep sugars/carbs low.
 
Are you having bariatric surgery?
 
Renae said:
Since I started this, about 6 days ago, I have lost 20lbs.

Let me tell you what it entails.

2 weight loss shakes, They want me drinking the high protein Premier Shakes, I prefer slimfast. Choose your poison.

Snacks?

1 serving a day Sugar Free Jello (pro tip, add a tablespoon or so of Splendia to the hot water, makes it much better, seriously)

Celery between shakes.

Dinner, 1/2 a peeled Cucumber with 1 packet of Tuna, one of those flavored type is fine, I prefer starkist brand.

Every third day, have something nice for dinner. Like half a filet of fish, broiled with minimal butter. OR a skinless chicken breast in an olive oil, garlic, white wine, balsamic vinaigrette sauce. If you like mushrooms cook them in it, mushrooms have low low carb.

Count the bard, keep the total intake to 400-600 calories a day.

Not only is it doable, but if you stick to it for a week, you'll notice:

Food smells more amazing.

Grocery stores smell like bread and sugar

Just a friendly thing I discovered. I'd advise not having a whole pizza the day you go off the diet, work out and keep sugars/carbs low.
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I will advise not to lose weight much quicker as your skin may not shrink fast enough to keep pace leading to very saggy skin which might require surgery to remove.
 
Well, you'll definitely lose weight on a 400-600 calorie/day diet. Actually, that isn't so much "diet" as it is "starvation".
 
So you are basically going low carb then. It really does work. Have you noticed your tastebuds changing yet? Whenever I eat a blueberry it's almost like having a jolly rancher now.
 
MrPeanut said:
So you are basically going low carb then. It really does work. Have you noticed your tastebuds changing yet? Whenever I eat a blueberry it's almost like having a jolly rancher now.
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Not yet, but I have found that things like Sobe Life Water, 0 carb/calorie Yumberry Pomegranate taste AMAZING now.

I'll be on a water diet for 10 days, then move to broths and soft foods, and eventually to real foods. I've decided to take a 6 days of low carb and 1 meal fun meal approach. Something nice where I don't get over excited if it's over the limit.

When I am able to hit the road on my bike again I'll probably find a high carb food to eat just before I boke. But that's gonna be it.
 
Renae said:
Count the bard, keep the total intake to 400-600 calories a day.
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You'll certainly lose weight. But such a low caloric intake for an adult is harmful to your overall health.
 
Good luck with your surgery!

My thoughts about eating that low of a calorie count each day for a very short time probably OK but long term it would not
be a healthy way to lose weight.
 
Renae said:
Since I started this, about 6 days ago, I have lost 20lbs.

Let me tell you what it entails.

2 weight loss shakes, They want me drinking the high protein Premier Shakes, I prefer slimfast. Choose your poison.

Snacks?

1 serving a day Sugar Free Jello (pro tip, add a tablespoon or so of Splendia to the hot water, makes it much better, seriously)

Celery between shakes.

Dinner, 1/2 a peeled Cucumber with 1 packet of Tuna, one of those flavored type is fine, I prefer starkist brand.

Every third day, have something nice for dinner. Like half a filet of fish, broiled with minimal butter. OR a skinless chicken breast in an olive oil, garlic, white wine, balsamic vinaigrette sauce. If you like mushrooms cook them in it, mushrooms have low low carb.

Count the bard, keep the total intake to 400-600 calories a day.

Not only is it doable, but if you stick to it for a week, you'll notice:

Food smells more amazing.

Grocery stores smell like bread and sugar

Just a friendly thing I discovered. I'd advise not having a whole pizza the day you go off the diet, work out and keep sugars/carbs low.
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I certainly hope you are consulting with a doctor while doing this, and the doctor is monitoring with weekly blood analysis of nutrients and proteins, urine analysis for kidney damage, and gastric acids with bacterial levels.

Any massive reduction of calories will result in immediate loss of fluids, thus the appearance of significant weight loss. You must avoid protein loss which causes your body to devour your own muscle mass.

The two major problems experienced with sudden calorie reduction, heart attacks, and after discontinuing, because of lack of dietary structure (falling back into old habits), regaining of the weight and more as a gift from god for being good. Review those powdered drink loss programs run by hospitals. Most are being discontinued after initial success because of what follows.

Losing massive weight with low carb programs is a life long commitment to exercise programs and dietary controls, mostly portion controls. They can be a catalyst, but are not sufficient in and of themselves. I know of only one person during the past 30 years who dropped 180 lbs through one of these programs, continued to lose weight during the next decade till he reached his goal, and then he devoted his entire life, including his professional life, to weight control and eating disorders, never regained the weight. His top weight was 420 lbs at 5' 7" age 36. His doctors had suggest he would die within two years if he didn't act. Today, at 73, he weighs 168 lbs, exercises vigorously 4 hours daily, and claims for him strict portion control is everything. He has never come across anyone else who succeeded. He points out those who choose bariatric surgery, regain most of the weight because of the lack of commitment to exercise, and regaining old eating habits.

He has suffered two heart attacks and a mini stroke during the past 7 years. Quick medical attention with anti-thrombotic medication kept him alive. He was lucky.
 
Common Sense 1 said:
Good luck with your surgery!

My thoughts about eating that low of a calorie count each day for a very short time probably OK but long term it would not
be a healthy way to lose weight.
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True...I predict you will have gall bladder trouble somewhere along the line and that is no fun...no fun at all...severe pain...
 
Renae said:
Yeah it's not a permanent diet
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Is this a 2 stage surgery?? 2nd a year later?
If the diet is working, why have surgery?
 
Best wishes for your surgery. You have obvious determination.
That diet does not sound easy, but your findings about how things smell and taste are amazing.
 
Acadia said:
Best wishes for your surgery. You have obvious determination.
That diet does not sound easy, but your findings about how things smell and taste are amazing.
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Today I could only eat solid food for breakfast, a thin small piece of chicken breast, two shakes and water after with one cup of herbal noncaffinated tea as a treat (Twinnings Orange and Spice) So the wifey had a TV Dinner since I'm not cooking tonight, it was some indian dish, she said it had no flavor but the SMELL of it was incredible.
 
Renae said:
Today I could only eat solid food for breakfast, a thin small piece of chicken breast, two shakes and water after with one cup of herbal noncaffinated tea as a treat (Twinnings Orange and Spice) So the wifey had a TV Dinner since I'm not cooking tonight, it was some indian dish, she said it had no flavor but the SMELL of it was incredible.
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That's bordering on cruel!:lol:
Indian spices smell amazing.
 
Acadia said:
That's bordering on cruel!:lol:
Indian spices smell amazing.
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I know right? I bought it for her, and I picked it out. I didn't want her to have her philly cheese steak lean pocket, they smell like old feet. :p
 
Uhh.... 400-600 calories/day is what I would do for about 2 weeks prior to the beginning of wrestling season and for the first two weeks of it, when I wanted to crash down to or below 5% bodyfat in a hurry for weight certification (doc comes in, weighs you, takes bodyfat, determines lowest weight class he'll allow you to wrestle at). This was in addition to 2,000-4,000 calories of exercise/day. It'd be 20-25ish pounds in that time between the restriction and the extra burned calories, and probably also involved a self-defeating loss of muscle to boot.

The idea is maximum muscle:bodywweight ratio.





400-600/day is not a diet. It is not sustainable. It is only for crash dieting. It is utterly miserable if you really are restricting yourself to that low of an amount. You will quickly find yourself unable to sleep, and during the day, you will have unavoidable intrusive thoughts of all the food that exists. I'd be sitting in class, doodling sandwiches (really) because I was too tired to pay attention. Etc.

And if I did everything over again, I wouldn't be doing it that way. Probably hurt my performance.



Do not do 400-600/day of consumption. It really is starvation.
 
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400-600 calories per day. The Bataan Death Marchers got more than that.
 
rhinefire said:
400-600 calories per day. The Bataan Death Marchers got more than that.
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On so few calories for a prolonged period (>24 hours), I would think the body would commence to "cannibalize" protein. That said, I don't have a lot of fat stored that my body can use, so after about a day of fasting like that, my body would have to burn protein to power itself. I guess if one is obese that's less of a problem.

That said, my suggestion is to do resistance training and aerobics and eat about 200-500 fewer calories than one is burning each day. For folks who really aren't active (that is, working out daily), the fat loss and strength gains will happen quite rapidly. (The younger, the faster, but that's a different matter.)


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