How to Lose Weight Quickly and Safely
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 70% of American people are obese or overweight. Those who wish to reduce weight as rapidly as possible must consider an essential question: How can you lose weight quickly and safely?
"Creating a continuous calorie deficit with balanced meals and physical activity is the quickest method to lose weight," says Gaby Vaca-Flores, a certified dietitian and founder of Glow+Greens, a nutrition and skin care consultant headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
While it is undoubtedly feasible to restrict calories sufficiently to lose a significant amount of weight in a week, Vaca-Flores advises against choosing the most severe diet. "Although you may notice quick results at first, a weight reduction plateau may be just around the corner due to a slowing of your metabolism," she warns.
This slowing, also known as metabolic adaption and sometimes referred to as "starvation mode," occurs when fast weight loss, sometimes known as a crash diet, confuses your body into believing you're hungry.
“The body requires energy – calories – to power basic biological functions, including digestion, breathing (and) pumping blood through the body, along with the activity you do throughout the day,” explains Mia Syn, a registered dietitian based in Charleston, South Carolina, and author of “Mostly Plant-Based.” “When you don’t consume enough energy from food for these functions, you can put your health at risk.”
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To compensate in a restricted calorie environment, the body adapts to using fewer calories each day to function. This leads to a slowing in metabolism, which makes it even more difficult to lose weight and ultimately leads to rebound weight gain.
Cutting calories too dramatically can also result in muscle loss, which exacerbates the situation. Muscle burns more calories at rest than fat because it is more metabolically active. If your body begins to break down muscle to fuel its essential activities, your metabolism will decrease even more, making reducing weight and keeping it off long term challenging.
Rapid Weight Loss Might Result In Rebound Weight Gain
If you've followed dietary advice and lost a considerable amount of weight only to have it return, you're not alone. It's not your fault either. The human body is built to preserve as much balance as possible; when you lose weight, your metabolism adapts because the system believes food shortage has become a threat to existence.
Because the body prefers to maintain weight, a gradual strategy to decreasing excess pounds is preferable than suddenly reducing calories. "It's preferable to pace your weight reduction by eating just enough calories to maintain a deficit while satisfying the majority of your body's energy demands," Vaca-Flores advises. "This will assist keep your metabolism running smoothly."
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Determining the number of calories you need to eat to meet that rate of weight loss will depend on several factors, including your age, starting weight, activity level and sex. Candace Pumper, a staff dietitian with the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, says, “The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics position statement on adult weight management recommends 1,200 to 1,500 calories per day for women and 1,500 to 1,800 calories per day for men to support weight loss.”
She notes, however, those guidelines are “not meant to substitute for professional nutritional advice or treatment. It’s recommended individuals follow the advice of their dietitian’s guidance regarding appropriate calorie intake, as many factors affect calorie needs.”
Furthermore, "if you lose weight too rapidly, you'll undoubtedly have drops in your energy levels and even headaches, which might make it difficult to keep on track," Vaca-Flores adds. "This usually happens when you don't eat enough or over-exercise."
Rapid weight loss may be necessary only under exceptional conditions. "A extremely low-calorie diet is occasionally prescribed for individuals who are obese and need to reduce weight for health reasons or before undergoing weight-loss surgery," Syn explains. The diet is "only followed for a limited amount of time and under the supervision of a doctor or dietician" in certain instances. If you want to reduce weight rapidly, she recommends "working with and being overseen by a health care practitioner."
Other Weight Loss Alternatives
While many individuals desire to lose weight quickly without exercising, it's vital to remember that exercise may help you kickstart weight loss and keep it off in the long run; remember, muscle is more metabolically active than fat and can help you maintain your weight. According to a 2021 review research published in the journal iScience, exercise is more significant for longevity and health benefits than weight loss.
Bariatric or weight reduction surgery, as well as other methods of medically supervised weight loss, can assist persons who are extremely overweight in losing weight safely and permanently. These tactics, however, are not necessarily quick means to success and may need patience.
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the other thing too is that losing weight is NOT a neutral action in the same way that being fat is.
what do I mean by that?
well, it is morally neutral in that no one should be judging you for wanting to lose weight & wanting to lose weight does not make you a bad person
however. it's not a neutral action. in the same way that feminists critique the beauty industry and makeup and constantly get replies like "but I LIKE wearing makeup!!!!" that completely miss the point. that's sort of the same thing happening when fat activists/people that advocate for fat liberation point out the flaws in diet culture and get "but I NEED to lose weight for (xyz "good" reasons) are you saying I'm a bad person?" that completely miss the point.
in an ideal world, people could lose and gain weight without a single bat of an eye. but we don't live in that world. not only is it scientifically proven that most people CANNOT sustainably keep weight they've lost off (and no, not due to lack of self control) and that losing weight (especially rapidly) can have some huge health consequences, but, more relevantly, these ideas of weight and health and beauty are SO tangled up in fatphobia and western beauty standards that it's nigh impossible to reach some Enlightened State where your reason for weight loss is untouched by it.
you want to lose weight to "be healthier?" who told you you were unhealthy? was it your doctor? doctors that routinely suggest fat patients lose weight for every complaint ever including the common cold or a broken bone? was it society telling you being fat is unhealthy even though you ARE healthy? and if you're Not healthy, do you know for sure it's your weight? because thin people can also have high cholesterol and heart problems. there's other ways to fix these things that don't involve weight loss to dangerous degrees, but doctors are already so up their own ass about fat people that they probably didn't discuss anything with you other than "lose weight." does that mean no fat person ever is unhealthy because they're fat? no. but it Does mean that that reason is so tangled up in fatphobia that 100% stating you're free of diet culture when you say it just is Not accurate
you want to lose weight to "feel better about yourself"? well this one's easy and won't be as long as the last. why do you feel that way? who taught you that being fat is something to feel bad about? if you lived 500 years ago before diet culture, would you feel pressure to lose weight to feel better about yourself?
and none of this is to say you CAN'T chose to lose weight. it's your body. you can do whatever the fuck you want with it, good or bad. but when people talk about fatphobia and fat liberation and your first response is "oh but I'm losing weight for the GOOD reasons" stop yourself. ask if that's relevant to the conversation. ask yourself if those reasons ARE neutral. if they're tied to health, body image (including dysphoria!), or how other people perceive you? the answer is no
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