re: I need to lose 20 lbs in 2 months. Is this doable?

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Why?

Is it for a wedding? To look good in pictures? If so, cut the eating and start running. 20lbs in 2 months is easy unless you are already pretty skinny.

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For 99% of goals, just focusing on a good diet and workout plan and not sweating whether it's 15 or 20 LB is the best thing to do.

If you gain 5 LB Of muscle and lose 20 LB of fat, you'll look better than if you lose 20 LB of fat and gain no muscle even though the scale only says a 15 LB loss.

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So... it's like 700cal. 750 with veggies if no dressing is used.

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how can anyone function on that more than a few days

Yep. And I got fat again.

BUT... since March of this year I’ve done it right and it’s working big time.

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I'm probably following this strictly for 5 days a week and even then if I feel like eating a small snack I don't feel bad about it.

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this is how people do it for a long time. Combined with the fact the above estimate is on the low side

5 days at 900 = 4500 Friday night at 1800 and Saturday sunday at 3500 w beer = avg 1900 cal a day with a tdee of 2000, equals an avg of 100 cal a day deficit. Most people aren't honest about how much snacks and cheating they do

So there are two ways of going about this so you lose fat and not a shite ton of muscle. It you are not obese you will lose some muscle though.


If you care about strength, pretty simple-3 full body workouts a week. Any program like gslp, 531 100% awesome, RPT, PPL etc will work. Lift heavy, lift with fast bar speed and get done in under 90 min.

For diet- fast on non lifting days. On lifting days eat 300g of protein minimum from whole foods, then carbs before workouts only. So before working out, do 1-2 pieces of fruit and about 90 min before do 100g brown rice, intraworkout use hcbd. Fats come from the meets. Try and stay in the 2500 Cal range max if male.


Velocity diet- just read and follow. But no solid meal every night like 3.0 says. Once a week only.

Protein soaring modified fast. Lift 2 times weekly for 45 min. Follow rapid fatloss handbook guidelines.

Last option is longer fast. I prefer people just do 72 hour fast. They break the fast eating meats only. Lots of it. They lift om that day. Full body, a vertical lift day. Repeat and do a horizontal lift day. Do u til you reach goal weight.

The above are pretty much the only ways to go about really rapid fatloss without losing a ton of muscle.

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No breakfast
Salad for lunch
Tiny dinner

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Wasn’t your stomach screaming by the 3rd day? Light headedness?

Yes.

Do the Daniel Fast

See if you can get on the Naked and Afraid show. Lose weight, be the talk of the town.

If you are going to fat shame people kid at least post pics of how un fat you are

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Wasn’t your stomach screaming by the 3rd day? Light headedness?

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Oh for sure. The tons of water helped and actually so did the two miles running in extreme heat. I’m sure my body was on survival mode.
It was a struggle but like the OP, I wanted fast results and didn’t care about the means to get them. Dropped 20 lbs. in 20 days. People were shocked. I just told them “very strict diet and exercise.”