Losing 7 stone in under 100 days seems a bit drastic.
Well he has shit coming out both ends which probably helped him.
I am currently on his post 800 calorie diet and loving it.
Small, sustainable deficit is the best method. Takes ages, but it works and you can keep it off long term.
Nolan’s toilet deserves a medal of honour
From my understanding (& please correct me if I’m wrong), when you’re eating too few calories, you’re putting your body into starvation mode. So, while you’ll lose weight when you stop it, your body piles on the weight back on because your body thinks it needs to store it for the next starvation.
& I don’t think that living on less than a 1/3 of your recommended daily calorie intake is ever going to be a healthy long-term.
“I was big”…..no, you were just fat af, Steve.
Just like the obese people who go on juice diets and then are surprised when they start eating McDonald’s twice a day it doesn’t take them long to pack on the pounds again…. Smaller and sustainable lifestyle changes > crash diets
7 stone is around 44.5kg meaning he was losing just over 3kg per week, even factoring in water weight etc. he would have needed to be in a 23,000ish calorie deficit each week which just isn’t sustainable over any kind of meaningful timeframe. His trainer was setting him up for failure there
When you lose weight, Your on the clock, even doing a very slow healthy diet you will reach a point where it just becomes unbearable and your bodys urge to regain the weight will win.
Our drive for food is one of the oldest parts of our brain, if the intense hunger dosnt make you quit, your brain has plenty of other ticks that are a lot more insidious.
Doing an extreme diet and you will probably reach that point in weeks compared to months for a more modest diet.
If you have a lot to lose, You will probably need to do it in stages, lose 10% of your bodyweight, take a break and just maintain your bodyweight for a month or two and repeat untill you hit your goal.
That’s a horrible diet, unsustainable and yo-yo’ing up and down in weight like that is terribly bad for you.
“Plus more.”
You don’t say!
He’s minted. Why doesn’t he hire a cook and personal trainer?
It’s batshit insane. No-one can stick to that long term. Especially when he was also doing hours in the gym. He needs a plan that’s sustainable for life and I have one. When he posted up on twitter needing help, I contacted them via DM. Never heard anything back.
Yes, I lost alot of weight and was alot slimmer. But instantly put it back on even with an actual good self control.
This is real bad diet advice and I wouldn’t advise anyone to try it. He failed because he was eating too few calories. Eating around 1800 calories is little enough to lose weight as a woman. That is way more sustainable and allows room for snacks or treats if you plan out your meals well enough (for example a bowl of plain rice krispies in almond milk is a much lower calorie count than cornflakes in cows milk) then this is way more doable and its easier to maintain.
How is 800 calories sustainable for anyone? He needs to be in deficit to lose weight but even starting at something normal like 2500 a day would be a struggle for someone like him. The psychology of having a “cheat day” is brutal. It’s like the rest of the time you’re doing something wrong! How is that guilt sustainable?
He’s hardly the man to look to for weight loss inspiration.
Doing a diet that drastic only leads to burnout and an inevitable rebound.
Moderation is key, eating less and moving more
It’s not maintainable which is why he put the weight back on just as quick
Anyone got a diet plan and pm it for me Male. Be much appreciated.
I did it, but it wasn’t a conscious choice- I was pre diagnosis Crohn’s disease in the middle of lockdown & trying to not need to poop. Dropped to 80kg, Back to 110 now. It’s gotta go but that’s not happening while I have to live at home.
With the “success” Stephen has had a don’t think i will now!
By “plus more” he is referring to snorting lines of ragu, and thumbing candy floss into his cheeks until they’re tear-inducingly full to the brim where he then gets down on the floor on his back and sets two flying saucers – a pink one and an orange one – atop each eye until they melt as he lets out a giant “HURNPFH” ejecting the now mushy candy floss out of his mouth like a volcanic eruption followed by the pounding of the side of his fists onto the floor and a slight leg twitch.
That’s the part he’s leaving out. That bit.
Extreme diets like that don’t stick because you haven’t addressed the underlying causes, nor have you prepared yourself for a transition to a sustainable lifestyle (which is an overly broad word, so if you’re reading this looking for advice, think diet, exercise, sleep cycle, emotional regulation, time outside, time with friends, healthy coping mechanisms – and no, practicing how to eat plain chicken breast with vegetables is not sustainable).
People also often don’t realise that as you get bigger, your maintenance calories increase. So to stay at 23 stone you actually need to be eating a much higher amount of calories than if you were smaller. People always think of weight loss as like, “I have to eat less than a normal person until I’m a normal person weight, and then I can ??????(they have no plan here so they go back to eating like they did before they started losing)”. Whereas what you can actually do is just say “I have to eat the amount a normal person eats” and then your weight will slowly adjust down to that over time.
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Losing 7 stone in under 100 days seems a bit drastic.
Well he has shit coming out both ends which probably helped him.
I am currently on his post 800 calorie diet and loving it.
Small, sustainable deficit is the best method. Takes ages, but it works and you can keep it off long term.
Nolan’s toilet deserves a medal of honour
From my understanding (& please correct me if I’m wrong), when you’re eating too few calories, you’re putting your body into starvation mode. So, while you’ll lose weight when you stop it, your body piles on the weight back on because your body thinks it needs to store it for the next starvation.
& I don’t think that living on less than a 1/3 of your recommended daily calorie intake is ever going to be a healthy long-term.
“I was big”…..no, you were just fat af, Steve.
Just like the obese people who go on juice diets and then are surprised when they start eating McDonald’s twice a day it doesn’t take them long to pack on the pounds again…. Smaller and sustainable lifestyle changes > crash diets
7 stone is around 44.5kg meaning he was losing just over 3kg per week, even factoring in water weight etc. he would have needed to be in a 23,000ish calorie deficit each week which just isn’t sustainable over any kind of meaningful timeframe. His trainer was setting him up for failure there
When you lose weight, Your on the clock, even doing a very slow healthy diet you will reach a point where it just becomes unbearable and your bodys urge to regain the weight will win.
Our drive for food is one of the oldest parts of our brain, if the intense hunger dosnt make you quit, your brain has plenty of other ticks that are a lot more insidious.
Doing an extreme diet and you will probably reach that point in weeks compared to months for a more modest diet.
If you have a lot to lose, You will probably need to do it in stages, lose 10% of your bodyweight, take a break and just maintain your bodyweight for a month or two and repeat untill you hit your goal.
That’s a horrible diet, unsustainable and yo-yo’ing up and down in weight like that is terribly bad for you.
“Plus more.”
You don’t say!
He’s minted. Why doesn’t he hire a cook and personal trainer?
It’s batshit insane. No-one can stick to that long term. Especially when he was also doing hours in the gym. He needs a plan that’s sustainable for life and I have one. When he posted up on twitter needing help, I contacted them via DM. Never heard anything back.
Yes, I lost alot of weight and was alot slimmer. But instantly put it back on even with an actual good self control.
This is real bad diet advice and I wouldn’t advise anyone to try it. He failed because he was eating too few calories. Eating around 1800 calories is little enough to lose weight as a woman. That is way more sustainable and allows room for snacks or treats if you plan out your meals well enough (for example a bowl of plain rice krispies in almond milk is a much lower calorie count than cornflakes in cows milk) then this is way more doable and its easier to maintain.
How is 800 calories sustainable for anyone? He needs to be in deficit to lose weight but even starting at something normal like 2500 a day would be a struggle for someone like him. The psychology of having a “cheat day” is brutal. It’s like the rest of the time you’re doing something wrong! How is that guilt sustainable?
He’s hardly the man to look to for weight loss inspiration.
Doing a diet that drastic only leads to burnout and an inevitable rebound.
Moderation is key, eating less and moving more
It’s not maintainable which is why he put the weight back on just as quick
Anyone got a diet plan and pm it for me Male. Be much appreciated.
I did it, but it wasn’t a conscious choice- I was pre diagnosis Crohn’s disease in the middle of lockdown & trying to not need to poop. Dropped to 80kg, Back to 110 now. It’s gotta go but that’s not happening while I have to live at home.
With the “success” Stephen has had a don’t think i will now!
By “plus more” he is referring to snorting lines of ragu, and thumbing candy floss into his cheeks until they’re tear-inducingly full to the brim where he then gets down on the floor on his back and sets two flying saucers – a pink one and an orange one – atop each eye until they melt as he lets out a giant “HURNPFH” ejecting the now mushy candy floss out of his mouth like a volcanic eruption followed by the pounding of the side of his fists onto the floor and a slight leg twitch.
That’s the part he’s leaving out. That bit.
Extreme diets like that don’t stick because you haven’t addressed the underlying causes, nor have you prepared yourself for a transition to a sustainable lifestyle (which is an overly broad word, so if you’re reading this looking for advice, think diet, exercise, sleep cycle, emotional regulation, time outside, time with friends, healthy coping mechanisms – and no, practicing how to eat plain chicken breast with vegetables is not sustainable).
People also often don’t realise that as you get bigger, your maintenance calories increase. So to stay at 23 stone you actually need to be eating a much higher amount of calories than if you were smaller. People always think of weight loss as like, “I have to eat less than a normal person until I’m a normal person weight, and then I can ??????(they have no plan here so they go back to eating like they did before they started losing)”. Whereas what you can actually do is just say “I have to eat the amount a normal person eats” and then your weight will slowly adjust down to that over time.