Liquid Diet to speed up weight loss

[chicagorocks 3]

I am now 2 months post surgery. I lost 30 pounds on the 2 week liquid pre-surgery diet, since then I have been eating well and exercising and only lost 26.6 pounds.

I would like to speed things up a bit, has anyone gone back to the liquid diet to try and loose some extra weight?

[KristenLe 5,980]

What's the rush? You will end up screwing up your metabolism. Just stay with the plan. Get enough Protein and fluids in and the weight will come off.

[PorkChopExpress 824]

I agree, don't rush it...the body loses how it loses. Everybody's is different. It holds onto Water prior to flushing out the fat cells, so at any given time that you step on a scale, your body may be pounds heavier than it actually is, due to Water alone. Don't sweat it so much.

Do you know roughly what your body's TDEE number is (total daily energy expended)? Calculate it (calculators are available online), then subtract the calories you're consuming any given day. The difference is your caloric deficit. Then remember that one pound of fat is the equivalent of 3500 calories. I think it's quite likely that you aren't exceeding 1000 calories a day right now, two months post-op. Starting at 301 pounds, you're probably at a deficit somewhere in the neighborhood of 2000-2500 calories a day. Figure 17,000 calories a week in deficit. Divide that by 3500 and you're looking at a probable loss of five pounds a week (though the body does what it does, and it may be more or less at any given weigh-in date). And the TDEE I guessed at there doesn't really include a decent amount of cardio, which will boost your TDEE another 100-200 calories a day.

5lbs lost each day like that ends up looking like 100 pounds after five months. At my BEST dieting and exercising without the help of surgery, I managed to get around 50 pounds off in that amount of time...and that was a seriously disciplined effort (which stalled, as always). So just let your diet, exercise and sleeve do their thing. If you want to add to your weight loss, be on top of your exercise.

[bitingcat 87]

Can't recommend liquid only - I was really sick last month and was living on Protein Shakes and handfuls of well chewed peanuts. (There were no solids at all for almost a week.) Can definitely feel the restriction, pretty much stalled, and am having a hard time getting back to my previous Protein consumption.

No, I'm not a fast loser and am at about 5 1/2 months. Being on liquids and purees didn't help. And now I have to beat a peanut addiction [emoji12]