I have a tandem skydive planned with my son for his 21st birthday on June 12th . I told him 10 months ago there was a weight limit for his height ( the skydiving Centre paperwork gives a maximum weight for a given height ) . He needs to lose 1 stone but we’ve only got until June 12th to get it done . We’ve got mountain bikes and weights at home and I run a lot and once in a blue moon comes for a run with me . First of all I need to know is it doable and secondly has anyone got any pointers to get us started ?

Be interested to hear what people say on this. Intermittent fasting seems to be a popular and simple one.

Heroin. Maybe a limb amputation.

Doable but keeping it of might be an issue.
My fitness Pal to track calories.

Eat less move more.

A couple of weeks on a vindaloo diet should help
😛🤯

Calorie deficit. 3 pounds a week is easily doable just by cutting out a few things (alcohol being a big contributor).
Exercise is great but all you are doing is increasing calorie burn, better results come quicker from limiting intake. Increased burn at the same type can make things go quicker.

Carbs have as few as possible and certainly no processed carbs like bread. It will start dropping off!

I was thinking cardio is key and also cutting out all the sugary shit he seems to like . He’s very hard to motivate so that may be the hardest part but We’ve also told him that I’ll do everything that he does so hopefully he’ll see it a little less like torture

Eat less.

Stop drinking.

Ride your bike more and have fun.

Massive shit!

Seriously though, avoid too many
carbs and plenty of HIIT normally works for me.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/05/vegan-diet-can-help-overweight-people-shed-pounds-study-shows

Or really good (I.e bad) food poisoning, mussels should do the trick.

Frankly, and seriously, that’s a stupid amount of weight loss by that time.

I did keto and could lose 2lbs a week. The only reason keto worked was because it made it OK to be hungry – because your body ate your fat instead. but that comes with flu, lots of learning and making sure you eat *exactly* right with no cheating whatsoever.

I lost 4 stone on it. But it absolutely killed my social life. (And when I got down to my ideal target weight every fat bastard on the planet started calling me skinny and telling me I needed to put on more weight – which said more about them than me).

He’s had 10 months, you’re asking *now*?

Pfft. I’d rearrange it. If he needs to lose a full stone – and he’s actually going to do the necessary to do that without putting his health at risk, then minimum two months IMO.

Thanks for your suggestions so far 👍

Give up bread….its pretty much solid beer…change to wraps….cut down on saturated fats and don’t eat sweets….oh and keep moving or stand….sitting don’t burn nothing …..except farts..lol

Dysentry

Chevy he only had 1 and a half stone to lose in total 10 months ago but kept saying he was on track . Just yesterday he said to me he’s not really been trying and now he’s starting to worry about it . I’m probably going to postpone it for a while

I read this morning that Kim Kardashian lost 15lbs in 3 or 4 weeks to get into that Marilyn Munroe dress.

Extreme dieting and wearing sauna suits (what are they?) helped her!

A crash diet can’t be much fun though.

I agree with @chevychase about postponing it for a while and doing it sensibly.

I did keto calorie deficit

Call it what you want but what you did was calorie deficit.

With that in mind if he hasn’t managed it over the last year – the last month is going to be a gargantuan task.

It’s going to be a tough one so if he hasn’t done it already he almost certainly won’t manage it now.

June 12th is about 5 weeks away.
1 stone is about 6.5 kg
Calorie deficit of 1000 per day will lose around 1kg per week.

It’s probably doable but I wouldn’t want to try a deficit of more than 1000 calories per day for any amount of time. I’d be grouchy as hell. He’ll need to run an overall deficit of more like 1500 calories so would almost certainly have to do a good bit of exercise to “earn” the additional calories needed to not feel like he’s starving all the time.

If he really thinks he can do it, maybe 1000 calories worth of exercise every day (2 hours on the bike?) and consume only 2000 calories. Each and every day.

I am not a dietician, doctor, or any other source of truth. I am overweight.

I lost 9lbs in 10 days following THIS before my Gall Bladder removal

(TBH, I should really carry on with it 😆 )

If he hasn’t done it in 10 months he wont in 5 weeks unfortunately. Postpone it and get him serious.

Just rememeber, the mouth is bigger than the arsehole.

If more comes out than goes it. Thats weight loss, right?

On a serious note, intermittent fasting might get him there, if he DOES IT PROPERLY, and is also careful on other days and keeps up the movement/excercise.

Eat less. No, less than that. Cut sugar and accept you’re going to be hungry every evening.
Run. No, more than that. 10k per day, every day.
Espresso’s and water will help too.
It won’t be fun for him…

I think the main thing here,is that the OP really needs to change thier username before doing a skydive. 🙃😉

@crapjumper

Only skim read the thread as there is only one way up.

Atkins/ low carb. You’ll be amazed how quick the weight comes off. Ad exercise and it’s even faster.

I go on it every Spring after the winter excesses.👍

Your problem is not how to lose weight. It is how to motivate someone to lose weight. Does he really want this.

@trail_rat:

Call it what you want but what you did was calorie deficit.

Yes – I said that in a roundabout way:

I did keto and could lose 2lbs a week. The only reason keto worked was because it made it OK to be hungry – because your body ate your fat instead.

However – the reason it’s hard to maintain a calorie deficit is that being hungry sucks the big fat one. Hard.

Keto removes the hunger.

I could do 10 hour rides eating nothing and drinking only water. I’d eat when I got home for nutrition alone – so big salads, lean protein (not too
much), lots of healthy fats – avocado etc.

But yep – the reason I could easily maintain a calorie deficit was because I wasn’t hungry and didn’t feel like eating.

Two things that were hard:
1) Eating out. Pretty much the only thing you could eat out was steak and a salad (hold the chips) – and pretty much everywhere covered the salad in a sugar sauce of some description.
2) Drinking. Practically impossible if you like beer. So socialising is out of the window really.

and..

3) Everyone else. You get slated for having the force of will to actually make changes and stick to them to lose lots of weight. All the people who would like to lose weight but have failed to do that for their entire lives suddenly have an oar in the conversation about what you’re doing – and it’s never nice. Despite the fact that they’re all still fat – and I’m not.

🙂

If he’s serious, eat egg white and Turkey for breakfast, lunch and tea every day and keep calorie deficit (1500/day)

That and lots of water.

Multiple doses of norovirus should sort it

When I followed the Atkins diet I lost 16lb in the first three weeks, I did have a lot to loose though and a lot of it was water weight. I’ll be honest, the first two weeks where really rough as I suffered from complete lack of energy and was as moody as hell but the diet makes loosing weight easy as it completely kills your appetite so sticking to a calorie deficit is a walk in the park.

If he’s serious, eat egg white and Turkey for breakfast, lunch and tea every day and keep calorie deficit (1500/day) Dysentry

That and lots of water.

Even better if he’s got the chance to spend the next month in a hot country.
#flashbacks 🤢

Calorie deficit. 3 pounds a week is easily doable just by cutting out a few things (alcohol being a big contributor).

Maybe it’s easy to some people, but I’ve never found the supposed scientific theory to work as it should in practice.

My eating habits and weight fluctuate and I’ve went through relatively quick weight loss a number of times. However, each time I’ve lost pretty much nothing in the first month or 2, despite cutting anywhere up to over 1000 calories per day. It’s only after that period the weight loss begins, and accelerates.

Loads of times I’ve made smaller adjustments to my diet (like cutting alcohol) and seen no difference whatsoever.

Christian Bale lost four stones in four months for The Machinist on a diet of black coffee, one apple and a tin of tuna per day – but he’s pretty badass. I lost a stone in a month once, but then I was eating so badly, drinking so much and excersing so little beforehand that it was pretty easy.

Put it and more all straight back on since, mind. 🙁

Are calories the same as carbs then?
Cos I lost a stone pretty easily by cutting well down on carbs. Bread, rice, pasta, sugars, beer, spuds (& derivatives thereof).
Not total Keto, just cut a fair bit.

Get him a job as a multi drop delivery driver. I did that for a month and dropped to race weight. Calorie burn is huge delivering in a city. Top floor flats x 120 a day. Calorie burn is huge. No time to eat during the day as you are on a schedule. Even with a huge meal at night half a bottle of wine and a big bar of chocolate I dropped around 6kg in a month. To lose a stone just do it without drinking alcohol. Bonus is you earn some money too.

Motor neurone disease is working pretty well for me

Try the Juice Diet, Joe Cross. No doubt not healthy or sustaianable, but it works.
Watch ‘Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead’.

If he hasn’t done it in 10 months he wont in 5 weeks unfortunately. Postpone it and get him serious

Difficult to see beyond this realistically :(.  That’s a huge amount of weight in a short time

In all honesty after after finding out I was diabetic and limiting carb intake to 50g a day, plus doing strength training I lost 10kg in about 3 months.

Unfortunately even with total focus and dedication it is probably not realistic to lose enough in time.

I would consider postponing or rubbing him against someone with norovirus.

I did the 8 week blood sugar diet using recipes that minimised carbs

https://g.co/kgs/GkXo9V

I lost a stone and a half in about six weeks, I cut out beer and bread especially.

all the best,

Keith