To try and lose two stone in 7 weeks

[Skyfullofstars78]

I have an event coming up on the 2nd September and was wondering if this was possible.

So this isn't healthy if you want to keep it off long term. Lighter Life will get you close to that result if you stick rigidly to it, but its not for the faint hearted and you need to bare in mind that it is not a long term solution. You would also need to do it 'properly' through a councillor rather than alone (as it won't work). Anything where you don't actually eat isn't great for you psychologically, and often at the end of the programme you will super over indulge to 'make up' for it.

Slow and steady is the best and healthiest approach - having battled with my weight since I was 12/13 I am fully aware... lighter life, cambridge, ww, sw, drugs, non-prescribed drugs (from a quack), slim fast, low calorie, low fat, paelio, Atkins, Dukan... every time I lost and every time I put more back on.

At most I've lost 18lbs over 2 weeks, but I was morbidly obese and had to undertake a liver reducing diet in preparation for wls, and then a further 15-20lbs in the two weeks following.

Try and be realistic with what you are after... if its to make you happy, weight loss often doesn't on its own...

That's 4 lb a week. You won't be able to do that and you shouldn't try.

Especially as you want to get to normal weight. It's taken me nearly four months to lose two stone (slimming world and couch to 5k).

I think if you do it on Lighter Life or whatever you'll gain it all back and more once you start eating normally.

I had a stone and a half to lose. I joined Slimming World and have lost 10lbs in 6 weeks, I expect to have lost a stone in 8 weeks, which I think is reasonable and healthy. I don't think I would have wanted to lose it much quicker than that.

I lost a lot of weight over 10 months and never put it back on until severe arthritis stopped me going to the gym.
I had to last year lose weight before knee replacement surgery as I had been fairly inactive and would be even more so after surgery.

I found 5:2 quite effective but is really down to your mindset how you keep it off after, and what your relationship with food is like and why you are overweight in the first place.

I can control my intake, telling myself that I can have that (whatever food item i want) but not today perhaps tomorrow or the weekend, and because I have that less frequently I appreciate it more.

You can lose the weight really fast with meal replacement, and I would suggest whatever you decide to do, whatever amount of weight you lose in the next seven weeks you will look better.

Its that "looking better" that motivates me to keep on top of my weight, I do not want to look like a sack of potatoes and have a limited choice about what clothes I can wear.

Its all very well losing weight in a hurry but you need to really have some long term strategy/goals to sustain it.

Be sensible, aim for a pound a week which is doable and maintenable. If you manage to lose more than half a stone it's a bonus.

Yes if you are prepared to be very strict and it's probably not healthy. Do the Harcombe diet. I lost 10lbs in week one and another stone over the next 3 weeks. Bloody hard but gives good results. Does taper off though