To think I could be 15 stone by December 13th

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If I diet and exercise currently 18 stone 13 I believe

I lost 1 stone in 4 weeks eating 2 meals a day, steak and greens for both meals, and spin class 5 x week. You could easily lose 2 stone if you focus mainly on calorie restriction and add in 10k steps a day or 30 min cardio 4 / 5 times a week.

OP, this is bordering on ED territory. There's no way to lose such an amount in a very short period of time besides severely restricting what you eat or making yourself sick after eating and/or living in the gym. MJ will not make it happen on its own, it will only make it easier for you to do so but the ED behaviour would be the same. MJ doesn't magically melt away fat so even if you're on it, you'd still need to go on hunger strike to lose that amount in 2 months.

You probably could, but it might leave you with saggy skin. By all means start to work on your diet and lifestyle, but setting yourself such a hard to achieve target and a tight timescale is going to get very stressful as the date approaches, and you could go into panic mode and start binging, which is not good.

Focus instead on getting your hair, skin and nails into fabulous condition and working out a good make up look, so people see how polished and well groomed you are before they see the weight.

No, thats a terrible idea, doomed to fail and make yourself feel worse about yourself.

It is just under 9 weeks away, that is just under 6lb per week.
It takes 3500 calories UNDER your maintenance (base level, ie the amount of calories you require to maintain your current weight) to lose 1lb.
6x3500 =21000. /7 days per week =
3000 calories per day deficit.
Minimim recommended to consume according to several sources is around 1100 (and that's bloody punishing).

So to eat enough to live and lose that fast you would need to be burning around 4100 calories a day which is virtually impossible to all except possibly elite athletes in training (and they wouldn't do it on a calorie restriction anyway as it would make you feel awful, if not ill)

A safe and sustainable but still challenging rate of loss would imo be to aim for 1stone loss, you would feel the difference and have the mental boost of setting a goal and achieving it. If you starve yourself for 2 months you.will just feel physically dreadful and mentally defeated as you won't achieve the goal, and then be very unlikely to keep going afterwards.
1 stone with dedication should be totally doable though! X

It's 4 stone

OP you can only try. If you decide it's not possible and don't try you will still weigh what you weigh today.
If you try you'll lose some weight and be closer to your goal regardless. Good luck. I recommend the nutracheck app for logging food intake.

@Pennnny I'm aware. That's why I said at most I think 3 stone would be doable.

Please reconsider this. The majority of people aim to lose weight fast for an event, holiday and so on. 90% of obese people put the weight back on and more. Crash diets for an event are not the way to lose weight and keep it off. You need lifestyle changes that you can stick to forever and ever and these are easier to maintain if you start with small steps.

@EmeraldRoulette I am sure she lost a considerable a out of weight in that time,

We work in a school and she came back after summer holidays considerably thinner.

She said she lost 3 stone , I don't know if it was that much but it was definitely obvious she had lost a lot of weight in the 6 weeks break

I don't know how, I didn't ask x

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It's taken me five months to lose 4 stone on Mounjaro and I was starting from a higher weight so in theory I should lose faster than you. So no, four stone in two months doesn't sound doable or reasonable even with help.

I've lost 6 st 3lbs in the past 11 months. Looking at my diary I can see I lost 4 stone in around 5 months, and it's slowed down since then. That's been on a 1100 calorie a day diet, no weight loss injections just bloody mindedness and willpower. It is so important not to lose too quickly or you'll be at a high risk of gallstones or other issues. I'm on target to be down 7 stone total by mid-November so happy with that. As others have said, start sensibly now and you'll be smaller by the time the event rolls around anyway.

Was going to suggest the same. I know people who have lost 4 stone in 2 months, but they had much more to lose. You could definitely lose a couple of store though.

That is about 25 kgs. In two months? Not impossible, but not through reasonable dieting.
If you STARVE TO DEATH, then it is 100% achievable, but quite frankly, I don't think it is worth the risk regardless of how important the event is.
You could die.

Losing 4 stone in that brief period… I mean, you could chop off a limb, I guess.

Seriously, OP, there’s not a chance to do so safely. It’s only 9 weeks away.

Bollocks, that's literally a pound a day. The only time I lost weight that fast was when I was in the throes of an eating disorder and eating a few slices of turkey and exercising for 5+ hours a day, and I looked gaunt and ill. There's just no way to drop that kind of weight and be healthy at the same time, unless you're conveniently missing the fact that your colleague started out at 550lbs or something.

OP set an achievable goal so you're not discouraged and give up too soon. 2 stone by December would be easily done, without verging into the weird eating disorder territory that the Mumsnet teeny tinies love to pretend is normal and healthy.

It's possible but not sustainable. I can understand you want to loose weight for an event but that's really not a good way to approach it. What do you want? Just to lose weight for this or more long term weight loss?

I've lost 8 stone and kept it off. Because I realised is a total change. Not looking at one event.

@MonsteraMama well she definitely lost a significant and noticeable amount of weight in that short space of time 🤷🏼‍♀️

I know someone who went and had some sort of weight loss/gastric band surgery abroad about 12 weeks ago and even she hasn’t lost 4stone in that time. Close, but not quite.

The only way you'll do it is the weight loss jabs and a ton of exercise to tone

the weight loss jabs won't give her a 4 stone loss in 8 weeks.

That’s a huge amount to lose in such a short time and really not realistic. Would be much better to target something achievable like a stone and then anything above it is a bonus. Setting an unachievable target will likely result in failure and you’ll feel bad whereas a more realistic one will mean you’re likelier to succeed and lose weight in a sustainable way.

It's unrealistic, probably impossible without making yourself unwell. I'm taking Mounjaro weight loss injections at the moment, I'm losing weight consistently but there's no way that I would lose 4 stone by Christmas.

What is important for you to realise is that if you started a sensible weight loss programme now, you could lose a stone or even a bit more by Christmas. Surely that's better than an unrealistic and unachievable goal?