How the hell did I lose 21lbs in 10 days.

[UncleMo]

I collapsed and was In hospital 10 days for 999 emergency life saving treatment. I did eat their meals. As allways I lost the weight of my face and other parts of my body but not of my tummy, my face looked awful, like a skull.

[bunblebeaz]

You probably didn't notice, but hospital meals are TINY!

And unless you have people bringing in food for you, you only eat the food you are given.

[Bkkbull]

That reply made me think!

Are they really Tiny, or is it that we have become used to BIG portions. I'm assuming that all hospital meals are set by a nutritionist, so maybe its us who have it wrong.

Thx for getting the old grey matter turning over.. food for thought to coin an apt phrase

[bunblebeaz in reply to Bkkbull]

Good point!

Even if the portion size is correct, they are definitely smaller than meals anybody would prepare for themselves.

Also if you are ill most of the time you don't feel like eating a lot anyway.

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Hi UncleMo.

Really sorry to hear about your health emergency.

Actually, drastically losing weight is easy, but rarely healthy or helpful and can be quite dangerous, which is why VLCDs are not recommended except under medical supervision.

The other problem is that if you rapidly lose weight, then you're likely to regain it quite quickly too. So, I would suggest you just try to maintain your new situation as best you can, if you like, allowing a few weeks at 'maintenance' or even slight increase, until you're about 'back on schedule' with your weekly weight loss.

I've been a bit 'ahead of the game', and I've been trying to bring the trend back to averaging out at a bit closer to 1 Kg a week.

Oh I and would dare to say that Hospital meals are probably more defined by Hospital Managers' budgets than by nutritionists or dieticians!

[UncleMo]

My scales are very accurate and by chance the previous day before I collapsed unconscious I weighed myself 13 stone 5 lbs. On returning home from hospital I weighed 11stone 12lbs, unbelievable! I onlywanted to loose around 8 lbs, this wasn't the way I wanted to loose weight. Whilst in hospital I had porridge and 2 medium to small standard meals every day which included various fruits. I must admit I didn't feel like eating much, didn't even miss the cakes and desserts, my downfall regards diet. Alas I've put all that weight back on and MORE to 13st 6 lbs