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This doesn't work for everybody, especially middle-aged sedentary people. Exercise is great, but I found it just made me hungry and did nothing to get the weight off. Most salads are too high carb and not enough protein.
I'm close to your ate, I'm 54 and need to lose 15 to 18 pounds in the next two months. I am following basically a combination of Atkins protein diet with some Paleo type dishes. The weight is starting to come off - but slowly.
I hate to tell you this, but the one thing you may have to give up for awhile, and I have had to give it up in order to get the weight to start to come off, is the wine. And I HATE that because I miss my nightly glass. But alcohol really interferes with weight loss.
At 54 you will not lose 15 pounds in 8 weeks unless you have a really ramped up metabolism. If you did it would be a miracle. I am 53 and I gained ten pounds this past year and it is coming off a pound at a time. I am at the gym 4 to 5 days a week doing intense workouts and eating clean 1200 - 1400 calories a day.
I say this because nothing makes you more discouraged than hoping to lose a certain amount by a certain time and not see it happening and then get frustrated and give up.
It has taken me 5 weeks to lose 5 pounds so I figure I will be at my goal sometime after Thanksgiving.
OP, I am your age and I lost 30 lbs last year and I've got to tell you that I didn't lose hardly any weight for the first few weeks. My theory is that if you're insulin resistant it will take some time to turn that train around and that you should stick with it for awhile longer. I did the ketogenic diet--very low carb. This past summer I did a 21 day complete fast and lost another 16 lbs that have stayed off but I don't think I would have lost that much weight if I hadn't already fixed my insulin resistance. The good thing about a fast is that it resets your metabolism and all those fears about gaining all the weight back and more, or ruining your metabolism are unfounded, since I'm still losing weight and I'm no longer on a ketogenic diet--I just eat less when I want to lose a few. Needless to say, I don't eat a lot. I would not recommend a fast for anyone who still has a job though--I'm a teacher and was off for the summer. I was pre-diabetic before I lost the weight but my last fasting glucose was 80.
One thing. Stop eating so much. You'd be surprised how little you can get by on. Cut out all sugar and no fried foods. Eat nothing after 6 in the evening. Give you body time to burn off calories. A few years back. I lost 30 lbs. by doing just this. I dont need to eat near as much as I use too, and I no longer crave the foods I use to eat for decades. The pounds just melted away. It took about 3 or 4 months. Your brain wants what it has been having. We humans are a species of habit. You can change that. If you have a medical disorder, It might take a little more work in what you need to eat. There is that thin person in there.
Im back to wearing 34" jeans, and the're a little loose. Fasting does nothing. That food you shouldn't be eating is still on your brain's menu, and it wants it. You will have to give up things you like. Cant do that. It will make it tough. When loosing, I decided to give myself saturday to eat anything I wanted. After a few weeks and I could see myself loosing. I no longer wanted to eat whatever I wanted on saturdays. It was more of a habit and a craving. That are no longer there. After loosing, it is easy to maintain, once you know what NOT to eat.
I don't understand how come it takes at least a week or two for me to lose a pound but I can gain 2 pounds in 24 hours.
Cat
You are not gaining 2 lbs of fat in 24 hours unless you are gorging yourself with an obscene amount of food. You are retaining water, probably from salty food.
Fasting most certainly does do something. It sets your blood sugar to a much lower setpoint and causes you to go quickly into ketosis. It's not for everyone but it's not worthless and the health benefits are amazing and I've had several health issues just go poof. For someone who is really having trouble getting weight off, it may just be the impetus to get things going. I would not be able to do it and work however, unless it was a modified fast of some type.
Fasting most certainly does do something. It sets your blood sugar to a much lower setpoint and causes you to go quickly into ketosis. It's not for everyone but it's not worthless and the health benefits are amazing and I've had several health issues just go poof. For someone who is really having trouble getting weight off, it may just be the impetus to get things going. I would not be able to do it and work however, unless it was a modified fast of some type.
I agree with you on the fasting. Even a short fast like 24 hours can lop off 3 lbs which for me STAY OFF! And it definitely resets things in your body. It's good to give the body a break like this once in while, also.
I'm close to your ate, I'm 54 and need to lose 15 to 18 pounds in the next two months. I am following basically a combination of Atkins protein diet with some Paleo type dishes. The weight is starting to come off - but slowly.
I hate to tell you this, but the one thing you may have to give up for awhile, and I have had to give it up in order to get the weight to start to come off, is the wine. And I HATE that because I miss my nightly glass. But alcohol really interferes with weight loss.
Congratulations RM. I know about the wine .
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I would not recommend a fast for anyone who still has a job though--I'm a teacher and was off for the summer. I was pre-diabetic before I lost the weight but my last fasting glucose was 80.
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