Has anyone here done VLCD here successfully or unsuccessfully? What was your experience with it?

Before anyone attacks me, I know about the health risks associated with eating at a severe calorie deficit. But. Hear me out. As a short 5'2" girl who has weighs about 132 lbs right now and wants to get to 110, weight loss eating 1200 calories has been excruciatingly slow for me. My BMR is around 1350 and my TDEE is not much more than that. Basically, I want to make progress faster.

What if I consistently ate 800 cals of nutritionally dense foods (dark green veggies, egg whites, lean meats, avocados, milk, etc) for, say, a month. Boring...I know, but I don't care and so much of what we eat is empty filler calories anyway. And I don't have much of an appetite anymore because of school stress and keto (I also do omad) so calorie restriction really isn't too hard anymore.

I also want to mention that I plan to do this for a month max and then transition over to eating at maintenance and exercising more since I'll have more time later on. I know that a deficit like this is hard to sustain long term but surely there's a healthy way to go about it if it's done in a controlled and consistent way? I would just like to hear other people's experience with it, especially petite girls.

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Does it REALLY get easier??

Hi r/loseit!

First post! As many of us, I’ve struggled with weight loss for a few years. I was never a fat kid, I got depression at university and put on 20kg. Lost it, got gallbladder taken out (genetics), and eventually put it all back on.

Worked in fitness and lost about 10kg, put it all back on again.

I’m now once again counting calories and being more mindful on what I eat, etc. I’m struggling to get back into fitness (I LOVE exercise, just have so little motivation/no discipline) so getting those extra calories isn’t happening right now.

I know it’s a long road, ups and downs, have to take it one day at a time, etc. but does it ever really get easier??

I’m hungry all the time, constantly thinking about food and hate having to restrict myself so much.

I’m making sure I’m eating enough protein, around 1400-1500 calories, have been eating fairly clean, And I’m sitting here thinking about how much it’ll slow down my progress if I have another hundred calories (had 1600 today).

How do others deal with this? (Other than complain on the internet) Any advice will be appreciated!

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UPDATE! I've lost 250lbs and had skin removal surgery

Hey all! I've posted some photos of my loose skin previously and I'm happy to report that I've had some removed!

Long story short, I've lost ~250lbs over the course of a decade without the assistance of weight loss surgery.

Four weeks ago yesterday I had a fleur-de-lis abdominoplasty, arm lift, and a breast lift. You can find photos of them here, here, and here. I'm my own Halloween costume!

The most dramatic of the three was definitely the breast lift, and I opted out of the suggested implants. I won't share photos of those, but I have a scar underneath both breasts, one leading up to the areola, and then a scar around both (as they had to be taken in from being stretched out)

All in all I'm incredibly happy with my results! Although I'm still in a state of "this is surreal, I've been waiting years to have surgery" I don't know exactly how much the skin weighed, but the surgeon said not as much as you'd expect as skin doesn't weigh much. He said he removed roughly 3ft x 3ft of skin from my abdomen, which was about 6lbs, and quite a bit from my breasts as well.

PLEASE NOTE: it takes up to six months for optimal results of this surgery. My arms and abdomen are still in the early stages of healing and are fairly swollen. It doesn't help that I had just eaten (food baby!) and resumed cardio for the first time today, which will also result in some fluid build up. I'll post more photos when everything settles down

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Advice much needed: no weight loss after 2/3 months at calorie deficit (sensitive info)

Hello r/loseit, I'm using a throwaway account because the post contains sensitive info. I am 23M, 183cm (6ft) and in mid July I weighed 88kg (194lbs). My weight oscillated around 65-70kg (143-154lbs) last year at this time and it had been like that for around 4 years.

Around summer of 2018 I had very severe mental health issues, and ended up being commited to a psych ward against my will. In the end after many failed drug trials I was put on the only drug that would work for me, and I swiftly recovered after that, although I have to be taking it indefinitely to prevent another breakdown. I was recovering mentally by early April, but in 3 months I put 23kg (51lbs) despite not eating any more than normal, as my appetite was curved a bit by the meds. The drug that I'm taking (one of the tricyclic antidepressants) is associated with weight gain but not to this magnitude.

Around mid July I had a wake up call when my dad, who has always been overweight, told me that his type 2 diabetes had got so bad that he needed to receive weekly injections. Since then, due to this and a stomach ulcer, he's gone from 120kg (265lbs) to 85kg (187lbs) in a few months, doing no exercise, just by portion control and is no longer even considered overwight for the first time since I've been alive. This motivated me to start a diet myself back then to avoid ending up like that.

I set a goal of 1700kcal daily by late July and have been counting calories every day since then. I have been pretty strict with calories, some days not making it to even 1200kcal, and some days above 1700kcal but very rarely if ever, above 2000kcal. In fact, every day since then I have been skipping breakfast and eating for lunch the same 400kcal salad that they sell at the shop near my workplace, and a 100kcal pot of watermelon if I was still feeling hungry. I drink plenty of fluids every day, no caloric sodas, juices or hot drinks whatsoever. No sweets, snacks or any of that, don't even buy them. I go for a 1-2hr walk every day but apart from that I'm physically inactive. On the weekends if there was a social event that involved eating out I would skip the caloric restriction for that day, but apart from that the regime has been iron tight. On the first 2/3 weeks I lost 4kg (9lbs) but the problem is that despite sticking to the same diet my weight has been 83-84 kg (182-185 lbs) since then, no gains but no losses either. The thing is, I am constantly hungry. And I don't mean hungry like "oh I could go for a sandwich", but intense physical pain after a few hours, even resulting in esophageal spasms at the very worst (one of the worst pains in my life). I'm not hungry at all from 7am to 5pm because it's when my ADHD medication is active so if I eat anything it's just the salad that I mentioned earlier. I have been fighting the hunger and it's not too bad now, but the concern is that I'm putting myself through a lot of self imposed suffering and feeling a bit miserable, and I have also been feeling really weak physically, constantly light headed, feverish and dizzy until I eat, it's got to the point where I have passed out on public transport because of lack of nutrients or whatever. I had a blood test done last week, I'm waiting for results, but I don't know how to proceed at this point, and any advice whatsoever is appreciated. Thank you for your patience reading this!

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MFP Is Changing, Time For Reflection (60lbs down)

(tw throwing up, not intentional or deliberate)

"Beginning Nov 1, 2019, the free version of the diary will only save data for the last two years," my inbox tells me. Oh, word? I have been on MyFitnessPal since 2011. Sporadically, I entered data in 2014, 15, 16, 17. Began taking things seriously at the beginning of July, 2018.

MyFitnessPal underestimates my willingness to shove things into an Excel spreadsheet. You think I won't type out 381 entries worth of dates and pounds? I eat archived research for breakfast (or a yogurt, tryna stay on track).

381 entries, creating a similar effect to my life flashing before my eyes. 2011. I am a teenager. My mother has handed me her copy of the Scarsdale Diet. I fucking hate grapefruit. I'm hungry.

1. I have moved for college and I walk everywhere. I have no money, so I eat the terrible, terrible cafeteria food. I am not vomiting on purpose, but I am vomiting regardless. Weight comes off. I write about it. Some time passes. I get money. Weight comes back on.

I cringe at the gains over the years and watch myself lose a handful of pounds in 2017, when I'd first made a conscious effort to lose weight. I was hungry all the time. I ate a lot of white rice. I didn't know how protein worked.

I compare my weight gain with important times in my life. I gain weight around holidays, deadlines, start dates. I gain weight in the winter. I gain weight in the summer. My weight fluctuates over and over and over. I gain more each time.

July, 2018. I am the heaviest I have ever been. I dutifully log for a month. This is my longest streak ever, I think, typing the numbers into Excel. The numbers jump back and forth until the middle of August, when I am stubbornly lighter than I was before. I, sitting in this body now, am shocked that I was that determined, especially without immediate results.

By November, 2018 I have made real progress. I giggle at my weight jump around Thanksgiving and remember how frustrated I was at the time. The graph I have made to visualize this journey indicates a slight tick up. It doesn't matter, not in the long run. My progress is obvious.

February, 2019. I am a firm advocate for the non-linear progress of weight loss by this point, but I hadn't realized just how obvious this was until logging numbers. One less. Two more. One half less. Stay the same. Stay the same. Stay the same. Two less. Stay the same.

June, 2019. Onederland. Peace. July, 2019. Out of Onederland. Frustration. August, 2019. Onederland. Redemption.

September, 2019. Out of Onederland. Despair. Resolution.

October, 2019. Onederland, and then some. Vindication.

I have lost 60 pounds in 14 months, give or take a Christmas. My progress was not linear. I was dedicated. I knew, when I struggled day 1, day one 100, day 250, that I was playing the long game.

Consider converting your MFP data into an Excel spreadsheet and ruminating over every single number. The progress is there, the struggles are there. (And if you do, do it soon, because you've got less than 12 hours before it disappears!)

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100lbs and 1 gallbladder down (a cautionary tale)

I've lost 99lbs in the past 13 months on CICO. 33/F, 295 to 196 at last weigh-in -- but wait, how much does a giant, stoney gallbladder weigh? Because I lost one of those yesterday.

PSA: It's been said many times on here, but, losing weight fast can give you gallstones, and they SUCK. Having your gallbladder removed also, massively, sucks...but you should do it anyway asap because the alternative is worse.

I had my first major gallbladder attack in January, puking endlessly, which sent me to my first-ever visit to the ER. Gallstones were already on my radar from having read up on the effects of major weight loss, so I told the doctor that might be the cause. I got a CT scan and they said everything looked normal, and that I probably just had "some crazy virus."

I continued to have (relatively minor) gallbladder attacks every month or two, whenever I had a particularly heavy meal. Your whole upper right abdomen goes tight and stiff and painful, there's no position you can get in to relieve the misery, you just have to writhe it out for hours.

I felt a lot of guilt about it, thinking my new way of low-cal eating had damaged me and I was stupidly bringing this pain on myself by occasionally overeating (which, technically, yeah. But I don't need more guilt/shame around food.)

Finally a couple weeks ago I had an annual physical, and when my doctor saw me wince from him pressing on my upper right abdomen and heard my ER story, he said he was pretty sure I had gallstones and referred me to an ultrasound. Turns out CT scans are not diagnostic for gallstones! But ultrasounds are, and it was confirmed, I was just waiting for a call to schedule a surgery consult, when...BAM. Passed a stone. Worst pain ever, sent me to the ER again, twice.

A couple days later I was finally able to get surgery. I was ready for it to be no big deal. Laparoscopic, outpatient, done in an hour, no problem. Couldn't wait.

NOPE. Excruciating pain. When I woke up I couldn't breathe. That gas they fill you up with is terrible. For about an hour my breathing was so painful and labored I thought I was going to suffocate. Agony in my shoulders from the gas. And the nausea! Fuck my life.

It's been 24 hours since the surgery and I'm starting to feel halfway human again. I still can't breathe deeply, and my abdomen is so sore. But I know I'll never have another gallbladder attack, so that's worth a lot.

And between the organ removal and days of liquid diet, I'm sure I've hit my 100lb milestone in the process! Yaaaay.

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Extreme Weight Loss

Hi,

New member, long time weight loser.

F/27/200 pounds/5'9

I used to do a great job of losing weight, but ever since I started crash dieting a year ago for my weigh-ins in the military I've had a really rough time just eating normally. Anytime I now try to restrict a little because I've gained a lot of weight since spring my body freaks out because it remembers all the extreme crash diets and I end up bingeing. This cycle has seen me gain and lose something like 100 lbs since October last year but I have been unable to lose weight since May and I am freaking out. Now I am up 30 from my lowest weight and I need to get back to the 170s or I will face the consequences (in the mil). Unfortunately, my deadline is next month. I am overweight (not obese) so I wanted to know if it's even possible to lose 20-30 pounds in a month with say 1200 calories a day, alli pills, a low-fat protein heavy diet, two gym visits a day. Feeling hopeless at this point, but I am going to try anyway. I don't even want to lose weight, I just don't want to face repercussions at work :(

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