Hardest part for me is the urge to eat, I see food as an addiction the same kind of addiction people have to drugs, I’ve been burning about 2000+ cals a day and eating just 1000 a day. I know it’s not healthy but I need to lose this weight fast.
I've worked hard all month, thought I was dieting getting around 1500 calories a day and lost five pounds. I thought I was doing great, then went to weightloss doctor for the details scan and found out I lost only one lb of fat, 3 lbs of water, and one pound of muscle. I'm so discouraged. Dr. says i need to eat 1000 calories a day to lose weight.
I get that it can seem daunting. But even on my month under 1000 I think like 3 lbs of my weightloss of water. I’m not getting into medical advice here but I would say that objectively you showed (at least temporarily) that you are losing weight at 1500 but it’s probably a fair ststement that as a general rule a stricter calorie count usually produces FASTER weight loss. But none of us reached our highest weights in a week, so this is definitely a marathon and not a sprint. Keep your spirits up, you can reach your goals
Thank you doctor for your videos. What happens when you eat 1000cal per day for a long time? Does your body sort of adapts to the 1000 cal diet. Such that switch back to normal 1700 or so calories cause you to gain weight?
fair question and there are hormonal shifts that change the "neutral point" at which a certain number of calories leaves us maintaining vs gaining/losing. But that number can only change so much. So whatever our neutral point is for that period in our life, eating more or less calories than that number will eventually produce noticeable shift in weight.
Absolutely, i had been keeping the daily updates on instagram. Day 13 today, will do a larger update video saturday for the “two week” reveal. Hit some hunger and boredom eating temptation moments but was able to keep on track. How are you doing?
@@DrScottBland Great! I'll check it out and wait for the update on your channel too. Interesting, I was planning of taking a 1K calories diet as well, but knowing that I shouldn't exercise or keeping it for a long time made me think a bit, your experience will be very interesting
The hardest part is to hit a plateau. Then you need to continue your food and exercise regimen even though you see little to no results for a while. It takes some serious fate in the process!
Mine was simply just staying focused. Like a lot of us I worked a lot of hours and I traveled for my job. If I wasn't working, I was sleeping. During a recent hospitalization for my asthma I weighed in at 557 pounds and just finally came to that realization that something had to be done. I'll be totally candid here, I am following along with you on this 1,000 calorie a day deal and like you say, I just work right through lunch and it doesn't bother me. BUT, I am cheating a bit...my doctor did, last week did prescribe me Wegovy which does seem to be helping curb my hunger. Something that does seem to be working well (for me at least) is I drink a green shake in the morning, I might eat a slice or two of cheese for lunch, and then a light salad or tuna for dinner. Another problem for me was simply accountability. This time, I am using my skills as a multimedia journalist to blog about it, make it very public, and just roll with it. So, I really appreciate what you are doing here. I enjoy the thoughts and conversation....and helping stay focused on a pretty big task at hand! Keep up the good work!
@@mattpierceblog thanks for sharing! And I want to reassure that if you are viewing wegovy as “cheating” that you can let yourself off the hook. We all habe to do whatever we have to in order to manage our health and if that’s appropriate for you then don’t apologize to anyone for it. I have a physical fitness test coming up and i’m curious about how that will go so we’ll document that a bit to when it happens. So far day 12 and going strong. You can do this
@@DrScottBland thanks so much! You know what's funny is that I watched your video discussing people who struggle with obesity and the stigma around it that started me being observant. That said, the amount of emails I get each day from people of struggle with obesity is insane and many of them are highly critical of me using a drug to manage my weight loss and criticize me for not going the surgical route because it's "faster" or more effective. I've come to learn that like anything weight loss is a very personal endeavor and process for each person and not one size fits all. I chose this first because I am individual, and I feel that a 300+ pound weight gain in 6 years is something that needs to be addressed, but at the moment I feel as if Rome wasn't built in a day, weight loss can't be tested like that either. I really appreciate what you're doing here creating these conversations and helping provide a logical platform for these discussions. Bravo!
