While talking about her new inspiration's diet she said, " 2400 calories a day for 2 and 1/2 years. That's intense". She doesn't realize to keep the weight off it would be 2400 calories a day for the rest of your life. She is just soooo dumb.
It's going to be worse than that. 2400 calories a day will only be viable for weight loss for a while. At a weight around 300 pounds, 2400 calories won't create a deficit large enough to lose weight, and given the severity of her current weight, it might happen before then.
The "Biggest Loser" effect is real. Researchers have discovered that your metabolism really does change after being morbidly obese/supermorbidly obese. Say there are two 30 year old women, same height, same lifestyle, and same healthy weight at 130 pounds. However one woman used to weigh 260 pounds and dieted down to 130. The other has been 130 give or take a few pounds her entire adult life. The woman who lost weight will need 200-600 calories per day fewer than the woman who never dieted to maintain her 130 pounds. The fatter you are when you decide to lose weight, the worse the Biggest Loser effect is.
And it's hard. If Amberlynn made it to her fantasy weight of 200, if she was active enough to take walks a couple of times a week, she'd be around 2200 calories for her TDEE according to online calculators, but in reality she'd likely need to shave a few hundred off that number. So say Amberlynn reaches her goal of 200, chances are she will need to eat between 1600-2000 calories daily to maintain that weight while her peers at the same weight can consume the whole 2200 calories and maintain. People serious about maintaining a healthy weight after extreme weight loss can close that calorie gap by maintaining the lower calorie goal - which is hard and they often feel very hungry - or offset eating maintenance level calories by engaging in vigorous workouts several times a week on top of a physically active life (taking the stairs, parking in the back and walking to the store, physically active job, etc). But let's be frank: Even if AL developed an iron will and lost weight, her body is wrecked. I don't see her ever able to engage in the sort of exercise she would need to close the gap so that she can eat like her peers because even with weight loss and skin removal her feet will still be flattened, her spine will be bent, her hips and pelvis fucked, and in desperate need of knee replacement. Even if she wanted to do heroic levels of exercise, she likely would not be able.
This sort of maintenance can be hard to achieve for even the most motivated dieter, and it requires eternal vigilance. Once you lose that much weight, the Biggest Loser effect says not only that you need fewer calories to maintain a goal weight than people who always maintained the same weight, but you will also require fewer calories to regain that weight than you consumed to get that fat in the first place.
Amber will need so much therapy, life coaching, friends and girlfriends who do not enable her and lots of force of will to achieve this. Never say never but we just watched a woman so fat that her hands look like a stage prop in a film about a bloated corpse pulled from a river, pawing at the makeup she refused to wash off the night before, yammering about yet another fucking diet approach after changing gears dozens of times this year.
Also, this is why former fat people or people who have witnessed the Biggest Loser effect in those we love tell you never to get this fat in the first place. You will never recover metabolically or physically. Your life will be far better losing weight but not as great as it would have been had you not developed a triple digit BMI. /fat sperging
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@Citroen's reply - I misread the study. Unless Amberlynn manages to drop tons of weight in a very short time frame, this study doesn't apply to her.
