[cocoisfit]

Can you guys help me choose a plan? I'm seeing a private doctor to lose weight and have 2 options.

Option 1, very strict:
-2 days milk, 2 days fruits/veggies ... almost nothing else except vitamins and zero calories artificial stuff. i was on it, wrote about it here, lost weight and kept it off for the most part. but had to get off because i was fatigued and losing hair!

Option 2, moderate but weight loss is cut to about half:
-5 days a week boiled egg, 2 fruits, 1.5 lbs veggies, 5-7oz chicken or fish,
-2 days milk/yogurt
-1 day protocol basically meaning i can have whatever i want not to exceed 2000 calories that day
-vitamins and i'm allowed the zero calorie stuff but wouln't use it on this plan.

The 2nd option is more lenient and seems more healthy, what do you think? the downside is i'd have to be on it for 3x as longer. BUT i can probably workout more and will be less likely to "cheat."

Thanks!

[Brandis]

If you are going to pick one, it seems the second one is less limiting as far as nutrients.
I have to say this, but as you know, fast weight loss is not necessarily good. You have to be doing a plan that allows you to come to terms with how you will need to eat forever (well, at least until you die) to maintain what you lost. Whichever one you choose, I wish you the best. Do this for your health, and do it for life. Not just for a "diet." because if you go back to eating how you were before, you will be back to the drawing board.

[kelleyb]

I say nr 2 and agree with PP. Why risk your health with hair falling out, etc.?

How much weight do you need to lose?

[carter]

The second option sounds like a plan one can live with and adjust for maintenance. What do you do on the first plan when you reach your goal weight?

Better to choose a plan you can stay on with small adjustments indefinitely and actually keep the weight off. Otherwise you are going to make yourself sick and miserable in exchange for the possibility of rapid weight loss, only to have learned no maintenance skills whatsoever, go back to the way of eating that got you fat in the first place, and in a couple of years be as big as you are now, or worse.

This seems like a no-brainer to me. But then, I took more than 3 years to lose 120 pounds. Sustainability was always my goal - rapid loss never was.

[cocoisfit]

[QUOTE=carter;4487943]What do you do on the first plan when you reach your goal weight?
QUOTE]

Congratulations on your weightloss!

On the first plan when I reach goal, to transition they begin adding back protein, then carbs, fats and evrything else aout once a week. Then to maintain they give you a plan similar to what I'd be eating the last week on the plan. If I mess up and gain more than 2 pounds, I do a mini fast for one or 2 days consuming just milk.

Originally Posted by kelleyb

How much weight do you need to lose?

The plan is to lose 40 pounds to get within a normal BMI then see if I like where I am.

Originally Posted by Brandis

If you are going to pick one, it seems the second one is less limiting as far as nutrients.
I have to say this, but as you know, fast weight loss is not necessarily good. You have to be doing a plan that allows you to come to terms with how you will need to eat forever (well, at least until you die) to maintain what you lost. Whichever one you choose, I wish you the best. Do this for your health, and do it for life. Not just for a "diet." because if you go back to eating how you were before, you will be back to the drawing board.

I agree with these comments. It depresses me to think of it but I'll probably need to eat plan 2 forever to maintain. This would be good practice I suppose

[torontogurl]

I don't suggest either of those plans. I'm currently following weight watchers its very easy to follow and you are getting enough food and proper nutrition. Remember this is not a diet but a lifestyle change. My highest weight was 265 lbs and I now weigh 178 lbs it takes time to lose weight plus you want to be able to keep it off permanently. I did a drastic weight loss plan where I was getting around 500 calories per day and my hair began to fall out, I had very sagging skin because I lost the weight very quickly and it took me months to be able to stabalize my weight. It took me a long time to realize that this is a lifestyle change and if I want to maintain my weight I have to work on it everyday for the rest of my life.

[mcoleman14]

I don't know what type of doctor you are seeing but neither of those plans are really appropriate ways to lose weight and "option 1" is ridiculous.