About Rev. Dr. Abbott Expertise I've spent decades dieting and living with eating disorders. Now I am not only recovered, but a nutritional consultant and counselor.
Since 'no more diets' I've also been 100% free of any weight problem. It's that easy. No dieting.
Experience Nutritional advisor and consultant; counselor (ordained minister); ongoing extension education in human (and animal) nutrition, behavior.
Question What is the healthy amount of weight I should loose a week?
I am a 190lbs and 5'7 and lost already 5 lbs in 1 week. I eat very low amounts of carbs and walk everyday.
How much should I be weighing?
Answer The most important information that "real" professionals in diet and nutrition are trying to get out there is that this low carb nonsense can be the worst thing anyone does for their health AND weight! Most low carb dieters end up gaining weight over time (I've experienced this first hand, twice!).
Just like the low fat craze resulted in heavier people overall (it didn't work either), the low carb thing has actually been around since at least the early 1960's before Atkins tagged it. Every few years it resurfaced as some "diet of the day" (some of the names were: The Drinking Man's Diet; The Woman's Alpine Ski Team Diet, etc). Since it's been around that long - and frankly, so have all the other "diets" - and we're just getting fatter and fatter...you'd think it might dawn on us that these things are just making someone really rich, not making anyone really healthy! It's a $40-BILLION per year, every year, industry.
Quick weight loss, like you've experienced, is always (always) excess water weight. Once this stops, it's called a "plateau" and depending on the diet, different tricks are employed to try to get it happening again.
In order to lose a single pound of real 'fat', you need to burn 3,500 more calories than you need to survive. The GOOD news is that to gain a single pound of real 'fat', you need to consume 3,500 more calories than you need.
The walking is GREAT and will help tone and build muscle. The more muscle, the higher your metabolism is and if you're eating a balanced food intake regularly (no 'diet'), you can pretty easily lose 1-2 lbs of 'real' weight a week. At this rate, it's likely to be permanent. "Permanent" is based on keeping it off 1 to 2 years later.
"Diets" don't work because you eventually 'go off' it and that's when the weight will, in 99 out of 100 people, return with 20% MORE weight!
If you really want to do this right, eat EVERYTHING! Check my site to find out exactly what and how. It's no sales, no promotions, no signing in...just honest, real and free....
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Your ideal weight is approx. 100 lbs for the first 5' in height and then about 5 lbs per inch over that. So, at 5'7", you should probably be around 135 lbs. Remember though, if you're larger framed or more muscular, add up to 10 - 15 more lbs..
