In 2001 I lost 45kg (from 125kg) in 6 months just eating less (600-1200kcal/day) and trying to balance my food mainly in terms of vitamins and microelements. And after being obese for so many years I also felt indeed like a new man (almost literary sometimes when some of my friends were not able to recognize me on the street) . I did all the basic health screening directly after I got back to more usual diet and the results were better than before. My bad eating habits got pretty limited but in few years some brand new appeared (very easy in SG) so be careful. Fortunately I never went back to such high level of obesity but needed to put myself back on diet to lose some kilograms. I am doing it right now and again the same fashion. No exercise, just ~800kcal/day, started less than one month ago and lost already 5kg. What is most important to me and the main reason for such pretty harsh diet is that I can see the progress practically every single day so I have a very good motivation to continue.sundaymorningstaple wrote:I was satisfied that this was safe to do. And it worked just as fantastically for me as it did for the guy who referred me to the programme. I only needed to lose 25kg, which I lost in 22 weeks, but he lost 49kg in 6 months & 2 weeks! And, like me, he's much healthier for it as well.
Having said all this I tend to agree that doing at least limited exercises would be probably more reasonable for a number of reasons. One of them is that if you "shrink" too rapidly and not exercise your skin will not manage to follow. Not a particularly most desired aesthetic effect one would like to achieve
