250 lbs fatass here...

250 lbs fatass here, currently on my 9th day of swimming for an hour every morning and 25th day of eating (more like drinking) an 800 calorie diet. I want to not be a disgusting flabby couch potato. Am I gonna make it, bros?

STICKY

>eating (more like drinking) an 800 calorie diet.

It is better for the long run to start eating healthy.

I've read it, I know starvation diets are shit and lifting is generally better than swimming or other cardio. I just consider it more pleasant to become not fat in 4-5 months then start lifting and eating properly, rather than eating properly and lifting from the start, losing those 20-22% bodyfat over 1,5-2 years instead.

But that's the thing, you won't make it. You will feel like shit everyday all the time and even if you do make the weight, you'll have shat all over your metabolism and you'll gain all the weight back afterward.
Go for a proper diet with lifting and cardio (swimming here) and you'll have some great progress under 6 months.

Good for you wanting to lose weight fast but you are in this for the long run.

Crash diet is bad because if you fail the thing you will fall back on is your old diet which got you to the place you are in now. Fix your diet to a healthy one so that the chances of relapse are slimmer.

As for swimming or lifting it does not matter at all. If anything I am with you with you swimming instead of lifting weights

Oh yeah, that old "Crash diets are bad because you will gain all the weight and more back quickly". There's a reason people say it so often, it definitely happens, because people don't change their eating habits. I did one of these back in 2012 and it took me 4 years to get back the weight I lost in 5 months, and I did keep eating shit food, albeit a little bit less of it than before.

>But that's the thing, you won't make it. You will feel like shit everyday all the time
I keep hearing this too, and I know a lot of people experience that on extreme diets like this. I've been going for almost a month now and feeling tons better than when my daily diet was a pizza and a 2 liter soda, doesn't really feel like energy levels are holding me back at all. I know it happens though, I had times (mostly during the first two weeks) last time where this was an issue. You might be right about the metabolism though, I don't know the first thing about that but it makes sense that living off of powder and water for months would switch things around a bit down there.

>As for swimming or lifting it does not matter at all. If anything I am with you with you swimming instead of lifting weights
Really? I understood it as swimming being "mostly cardio, with a little bit of full body resistance training thrown in". But I didn't think it could even almost compare to weightlifting in terms of building muscle. I'm mostly doing it right now to create a healthy habit and try to at least give my body some sort of exercise while losing all this weight, don't want to fuck it up with saggy skin and tiny muscles completely.

Ehh probably not, you might but I doubt it. You're "crash" dieting, where you go from a fatty-boomba-latty diet to basically no diet at all. In about 3-6 weeks you're gonna crave your shitty food, give in once and fall back to your old habits. You might see more results now, but you're less likely to stick with it.

If on the other hand, you gradually started improving your diet and eased yourself into swimming, I'd say you're more likely to stick to it.

I used to be 250lbs
Then I lost 70lbs
Then I gained 70lbs back
I currently weigh about 250lbs
Such is life as a fatty.

*I currently weight 230 lbs

it blows my mind how fat people are so fucking autistic that they dont take advice from people with actual nutrition and fitness knowledge and continue to do retarded shit like 800 calories diets, then make these threads with no purpose, youre not gonna make it, stop being retarded go read the sticky and eat at least 1.5k cal a day

Keep it up mate. You can't fail if you're putting that much effort in. Just got to be consistent with it.

such is life as a lazy faggot.

Every bit of movement you make helps, swimming is GOAT cardio because it is eay on your joints.

Maybe also try biking.

You are going to make it bruh.

height?

You're gonna be fine bruh, but I'd suggest eating at a smaller deficit, at least for starters, 800 is a little tight, regardless of fucking up your metabolism, I'm sure it's hard for your brain as well, and considering you got fat in the first place, I doubt you have infinite willpower
consider lifting, it's goat for fattys

Fucks your knees though

If you're feeling motivated go with what's working and keep going for as long as you can.

Balancing your diet takes time and you'll never get it perfect straight away, and you'll fuck up at some point.

Might as well go HAM on diet/exercise while you can.

The diet part is actually not a problem for some reason. Most fatties are addicted to soda, pizza and other shitty carbs. I was basically in a several month streak of "I feel shitty and depressed, no energy to cook, I'll just order a pizza and a 2 liter bottle of soda every day". But now that I've stopped eating like that, I'm not feeling tempted to eat sugar or anything like that in the least. I just take a look at whatever shit people are offering me, thinking "No, I don't really want a candy bar, it's just bad for me, not worth it", no problem.

Fapping on the other hand, there's a pretty fucking stubborn habit. Always doing it at least twice a day, and my brain always manages to convince me that it's fine. Pretty much every morning in the shower, it goes something like "Well...you can't quit cold turkey, just stick to once a day for now, then cut down to 6 days a week, 5 days a week and so on. Besides, you're not watching porn right now so you're not fucking with your brain that much, just fapping with your imagination is practically healthy stuff". Fap happens, dopamine surge feels nice for 30 seconds, then I think "Well, guess I fapped again today. Better stop doing that so much, it's just making me tired and unmotivated".

About 180 centimeters, or 5 feet 11 inches. That was the result I got when I was measured during P.E. in 6th grade, and I'm 24 now so that was quite a while ago, but I doubt I've gotten taller, feels like most people are a tiny bit taller than me.

I read a few books and articles and watched a bunch of videos about motivation and self-discipline, that's pretty much what got me started in the first place. What most people seem to say is "Motivation is unreliable as shit, you can't rely on motivation alone, you need to be consistent and create habits, do healthy shit that you don't want to do consistently until you don't even think about not doing it", and it seems to work pretty well so far.

This user speaks the truth

Did around 4 months on a 700cal diet and ended up gaining pretty much all of it back on because of how fucked my metabolism was after it all

Not a good idea m80, losing weight that fast is what causes all that nasty loose skin.

But lifting isnt better then cardio...
You are fat.
Anaerobic exercise like cardio will burn more calories.
Eat around 1500 of proper food and do cardio.
If you wanna meme diet then you wont make it.

i have 700 cals currently and its been more a less for the last 4 months.
How bad did it affect it?
How much weight did you lose.
At max i would think maybe 300 less calories then what TDEE should be?
Its definitely a worry i have about such calorie restriction.

> 2014
> decide that I'd turn my life around
> crash diet, was 220, became 170
>looked good, got female attention
> post before and after on Veeky Forums
> brahs tell me I'm going to make it
> be two years later
> gained 80 pounds

Don't do it op

>But lifting isnt better then cardio...
I disagree. Lifting is better in the long term. lifting builds muscle mass which in turn raises your TDEE, helps you look better in the end, makes the loose skin less noticeable. it's true that cardio burns even more calories per workout, but so what? it's only relevant if you want a huge deficit. a normal 500-1000kcal deficit can easily be created by lifting and dieting.

In my mind people who are quite overweight should do cardio for the first half or so then do weights.
They can burn it faster then doing lifting.
Also they will always be in a deficit and while you can gain muscle under certain circumstances its not going to be much.

Oh look at that whale