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never. i always sleep better when i am living healthier, regular exercise helps me sleep better as does eating lighter.

what have you been eating? are you eating enough? you probably want to go see a doctor in case your rapid weight loss is somehow related to the other problems you are experiencing. 

I have problems sleeping at night when I haven't eaten enough. Maybe you need to increase your calorie intake and lose at a slower pace? Just be sure to increase it with healthy foods.

I have always had sleeping problems, insomnia, etc, but now that I have started my diet, I do sleep better and feel rested. I would consult a doctor ASAP.

Your caloric in-take seems a bit low to me. I would bump it up to at at least 1,700. 

 

1450 is WAY too low for everything you're doing.

Just sitting around picking belly button lint men shouldn't go under 1500 cals/day.  You can't sleep because your body is hungry.

Are you logging everything you do and eat on here?  If so, find a happy medium between the 2 meters with a 500-800 calorie difference.  (yeah, you can go to 1000 but I find when I have that much of a deficit that I'm STARVED).  And since you're doing weight training you can up your cals with proteins since your muscles will need it.

Now go eat something!  You worry me O_O

"You burn 2400 calories during a typical day. Remember that this estimate is based on your body weight, height, age, gender, and your average level of activity"

That is based on Sedentary, lets say you burn an additional 600 (estimation) calories weight lifting and playing basketball, this puts your total daily burn at 3000.

3000-1450 = 1550 calorie daily deficit.  This is dangerous, you're telling your body you want to drop almost 1lb of weight every 2 days!!!  This is impossible, and it will drop your muscle instead of fat.  Keep in mind that it also takes muscle from your organs, not just your arms and legs.

It is advised to never go over a 1000 calorie deficit, which is 2lbs loss a week.  I suspect that when you weighed more your deficit was much higher resulting in faster weight loss, you should see it slow down soon.

Also please keep in mind that men are not suppose to go below 1500 *net* calories a day.

This means you should be eating 1500 + exercise calories for safe weight loss.

If your body is telling you something, it's probably that you're not giving it enough calories to run your organs.

You may also start to notice other things such as, loss of appitite, loss of hair, depression and irritablity. 

Please be careful how fast you are losing weight.  I lost 41 lbs in 3 months (Thanks to this web site) and I thought I was OK until I started to lose my hair and several of my toe nails.  One day I was clipping my toe nails and one just fell off no notice and no pain.  So please see a doctor and get a check up.

Weightloss TV shows are TV shows.  The rest of us live in the real world, which is the same place you live.

If you choose to ignore the facts, you will do a lot of damage.  There are many members here who have done what you have, and lost a lot of muscle as well as endangered their health.  Because it is slow on the weekends, I fear they will miss your post and be unable to convince you that you're going about weight loss incorrectly.

Good Luck, I sincerely hope you change your mind about holding a deficit that high.  I know it's some times hard to believe that we are human and ALL of us have similar needs.  I use to think I was special too.

Furthermore, they achieve these losses with the help of nutritionists and trainers.

And the supervision of medical professionals.

The minor chest pain would concern me. It is possible that you're experiencing electrolyte imbalances (potassium and sodium deficiency) from too few calories and rapid weight loss. This can lead to heart attack.

Has your doctor approved your diet/exercise plan? Has he cleared you for heart problems?

Original Post by darockmvp:

I believe what you're telling me, I've read it before.  However, I also recognize that people are different.  I've never actually seen the show, but I've read that contestants on a weight loss TV show regularly lose in excess of 5 lbs per week.  Furthermore, they achieve these losses with the help of nutritionists and trainers. 

The part I've bolded is the important part.  First off, you're not on a TV show (where I hate to say it but you're seeing like 30-60 edited minutes of an entire week), and secondly you've not mentioned that you're working with a nutritionist or a trainer.

If you are, I apologize.  If you're not, you're simply not eating enough to fuel your body and will continue to have troubled sleeping and chest pains.  Watching it come of slowly and healthly may not give the daily instant gratification, but it is much healthier.... I sleep like a rock, my hair has been growing like 3/4" to an inch and a half every 6 weeks or so (I can tell because I color it ;-) ), my nails are stronger and longer all on their own than they've ever been in my life (uh, may not be an issue for you as a guy -- just sayin').  Long story short:  I'm healthy.  Some months I drop 5 pounds, some months only 1-2.  But my *NEW* smaller clothes fit so I don't really pay much attention to the scale... it's fun, but not a make it or break it for my day.

Our goal here is health.  Not how fast a smaller number appears on a machine at the expense of your body.

darockmvp, nocturne and eringilbert aren't talking about the speed of weight loss -- they're talking about the amount of food you need to be eating.

A man who isn't doing any exercise needs to be eating at least 1500 calories. With exercise, you need to be eating more.  You need that many calories to fuel your organs (heart, brain, liver, etc). If you eat less than your body's basic fuel needs you get sick.

Please pay attention to what your body is trying to tell you with insomnia, stomach pains, chest pains. Eat more.  

And if you have chest pain, please see a doctor.  

Actually, doing a bit of googling, potassium imbalance can also cause stomach pains:

http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/com mon/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/health atoz/Atoz/ency/electrolyte_disorders.jsp

Note that heavy exercise can be a cause of such electrolyte imbalances.

When I was losing weight this past year - at a very modest rate of just 0.4 lbs per week - my doctor said that the muscles twitches i was having were caused by shifts in the electrolyte balance. He wasn't too concerned because my weight loss was slow and gradual and I saw him frequently enough.

I think that if you continue this extreme diet you are flirting with potential heart attack. If you MUST continue, PLEASE do so under a doctor's supervision. Please have the doctor give you the okay to continue. I had to have an exercise stress test, ECG and EKG before my doctor gave me the go ahead to keep going - and as I said, I was only shaving off about 250-300 calories a day! Not anywhere near as extreme as what you are doing.

Whatever, if you'd prefer to live your life believing that THE EXCEPTION to the rule is the rule, then no skin off my nose. 

But what will make me upset is if you post and confuse other people to encourage them to starve themselves.

Have fun destroying your body.

i don't watch the biggest loser but i used to watch celebrity fit club and the people losing five pounds per week were seriously overweight, and had a lot of weight to lose. at 185 pounds, you are not that overweight and even if you want to trim a few pounds, you should be doing it very slowly, one or two pounds per week is even too fast.

i am female, 5'3", 125 pounds, and i regularly eat 1450-2000 calories each day. you should definitely be eating more. a lot more. please do it, quickly. 

Well, if that's what you're looking for... the go-ahead to continue what you're doing... here on this site, you're kind of barking up the wrong tree.

That's not what this site is about at all.

No, your losses are not out of whack with some contestant.  But that contestant is eating more than you too.  They're under constant daily supervision from professionals.  Can you say the same? 

Personally, I find it humorous the way some people think they're special and only they can defy the laws of physics.

Original Post by darockmvp:

Some people smoke and live to be ninety. Some people eat 4 whole eggs per day and never have cholesterol problems.

trust me, if i knew i was one of those people, i'd be living it up. but one never knows, unless you have access to genetic testing, and even then, i'm not sure.

just eat more. it shouldn't be a problem. i wish i could post a thread on a forum with people yelling at me to eat more. i would in a heartbeat, no questions asked! 

LMAO @ missreporter!  Me too!!! 

Between that and trying to get someone to send me to my room for a time-out my day would be complete!  Go ahead... send me to bed early too

 

(Kids just don't know how good they have it)