New Diet!

From today onwards for two weeks (12:15am currently in New Zealand) I will be maintaining a very low calorie based diet based on recommendations from a book I read by a New Zealand author who had done numerous years of research on nutrition.

Why I'm doing this is due to the fact that I'm obese. 145kgs or so at 19 years old with a height of around 188cm isn't great. Borderline diabetic will probably show up soon so I need to start losing all this excess fat I carry with me.

The diet is simple. I will intend to lose 3kgs a week by eating only 400 calories a day and burn most of them off by finishing off the day with 30-45 minutes of exercise with my heart bpm remaining at a constant 100 or over till the exercise is done.

The diet can only be done for two weeks every month as I think the body won't handle the lack of nutrients or something like that. It's purely for weight loss. My budget for this is an easy average $90 each week.

If any of you would like the name of the book, comment below. If you'd like to join, awesome. If you just would like to comment, feel free! :)

This won’t be so effective in the long-term. You’re best off continuously decreasing your calories over time rather than starving yourself for two weeks, as once you begin to eat ‘normally’ over 400 calories in your off-weeks you will put back on weight just as quick as you lost it. You will be weak, tired and it will lead you back to bad eating habits.

You are best off calculating your maintenance calories and deceasing this by 700-1000 and then re-calculating every two weeks.

There isn't sufficient evidence to back up claims like permanent damage to metabolism if calories are reduced drastically or anything of the sort. Your body will be more careful about spending energy, going on low calorie diets will make you as lazy as possible to prevent you from burning calories. Low blood sugar can keep you permanently dizzy throughout the day and ghrelin hormones can be particularly annoying over the first couple of days. After surviving the first couple of days you will produce significantly less ghrelin but as you are still in an energy deficit, negative effects remain. Dizziness might remain permanent, you become as lazy as possible and you will be stressed for the entire period which doesn't do the brain cells any favors. The discipline to remain on such extreme diet is admirable, is the torture worth the cost? Its up to you to decide. Right now science can't prove any significant temporary or permanent damage from doing this.

I may be uneducated so look into this yourself, i would highly suggest possibly adding more calories in the form of very green vegies (can be very helpful in regulating insulin and fend off diabetes if heard) and in new zealand it is easy to get beetroot i heard which is good for the heart so i'ld suggest adding that too.

If the diet doesn't work out dont beat yourself up change takes time and you might just need another tactic, i think vexed is definitely onto something there.

Lastly remember processed foods are evil haha, try swapping out them with more whole foods like white bread for rye bread (another one that can help insulin levels as white bread can spike insulin alot)

Trying to find a lifestyle is the most crucial thing and to create one around food that suits you can take a long time of trial and error and testing the waters.

Good luck with the journey and hope to hear how well things go