I was very impressed but all the people I've talked to said this was very unhealthy?
It's because it's only been 12,000 years since we invented the technology of agriculture, which is only a few hundred generations. That's not long enough for our bodies to evolve to adapt to a new era of perpetual food surplus.
You have a caveman's body and when it starts noticing a dropoff in food intake, it says, "Omigod, there's a famine! We have to start processing food more efficiently or we're gonna die!" You lose your nervous tics. You begin digesting your food more efficiently so there are zero nutrients in your stool and urine. You sleep more. When it's time to decide what to do next you'll unconsciously choose an activity that requires less energy.
This won't happen in one month but it will happen in a couple more. You'll find it more difficult to lose weight with a more efficient metabolism. When you finally reach your target weight and start eating a normal diet, the caveman body will be a little wary, but soon it will revert to its old ways and be a little less efficient.
What you must avoid
at all costs is doing this again. If your caveman body experiences another famine, it's going to start thinking that famines are a regular occurrence and
it will never return to its old efficient metabolism. This is the plague of the so-called "yo-yo dieters." You know them. The people who have lost the same 100 pounds five times, and revert to bingeing in between. My wife did that, and you know what happened to her? She's a big, tall muscular lady, who should be able to eat a decent meal, but she can now gain weight on a 1400-calorie diet. Her caveman metabolism has toggled into
permanent famine mode.
The best way to lose weight is to calculate a maintenance diet for your ideal weight, and start eating it every day. You won't lose as fast, but you won't feel like you're starving, and most important of all your caveman body won't punish you by becoming more efficient. When you finally get down to your target weight you'll already be eating a maintenance diet, so you won't have to change your habits.
That's what destroys most people. They've been starving themselves for a year, then they finally reach their target, and they say, "I don't have to diet anymore!" At this point they feel so deprived and so desperate that they say, "Well I can celebrate and have a really big meal, then I'll start eating healthy." That celebration goes on and on and on and next thing they know they're back where they started.
My goal is to be 240 by October 8th, which will be 67lbs in 3 months. After that I will switch up the weights and caloric intake and try to bulk back up to around 255.
I don't understand why? Pick a target and shoot for it. You're messing around with your Inner Caveman and that never has a happy ending. If you want to weigh 255, eat the right number of calories to maintain a weight of 255
and completely stop thinking about dieting. You'll be eating a healthy diet and when you reach your target weight you'll be able to keep right on eating it.
You're setting yourself up for a disaster. You are
deliberately planning to have a celebration after you lose your weight and
gain some of it back. Does that sound as dumb to you as it does to me??? How hard do you think it's going to be to
stop celebrating?
By losing one pound a day you're abusing your body. The few people I know who lost weight
only once and kept it off for the rest of their life were losing
one or two pounds per month. It took years, but they weren't suffering, and when the diet was over they kept it off.
If you're seriously overweight and you start eating a maintenance diet for your target weight, you might lose five or six pounds a month at first, and then taper down as you get closer to your target. But one pound a day? You're starving yourself and your caveman metabolism will punish you for this.
My question is has anyone else lost this kind of weight in the timeframe and is it healthy?
I've never gone on a diet so I can maintain my weight of 180lb by eating a 3500 calorie diet. My inner caveman never had to worry about a famine, never had to get tough with me, so my metabolism is extremely inefficient.
So my issue is not whether or not your diet is
healthy. My issue is that you're gonna be real
sorry that you did it this way.
Be patient and treat your body better. It will reward you.
I suppose you're about 19 and you don't care what us old folks have to say because you're smarter than we are. Print this out and read it when you're 40. You'll smack yourself in the head and say, "I wish I had listened to that guy."