How does this guy stay alive? He has to be starving. He does have some good habits, but his diet blows. I find it hard to believe that CNN or a dietician would plug something like this...



http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/diet.fitness/07/18/ weight.loss.sujit/index.html

Im eating 1800 calories, which is only 300 more than him. I don't think what he was doing was that awful. He could definitely up his calories though.

It looks like a lot of sweets and refined carbs to me. He could eat a lot more veggies and fruit to get better carbs. He could add in some more fat as well.



My estimated BMR = 1900 calories - I burn 1900 cals in a coma. Add my lifestyle and exercise to that and you can bank on an additional 1000+ calories burned in a day. If this guy was just an average guy his BMR would burn approximately 1800 calories in a day. He should add his lifestyle and exercise calories on top of that.



Then again, he is trying to lose weight overnight...not healthy.

I thought his diet was kind of interesting. Milk and nesquick for breakfast? That's not a breakfast. And gatorade after working out? It doesn't say the intensities of his workout sessions, but when running, drinks like gatorade aren't needed until you're running for more than an hour. Less than an hour, water is fine.



It's not clear if he's still losing weight, and it also doesn't provide information about his height. But he was only 193 to start, and having lost 40 pounds is down to 153. That seems quite light for a guy. Also, I didn't think a size 30 was considered big? He doesn't look like he needed to lose 40 pounds from the pictures.



I'd be concerned with the amount of calories he's taking in. 1500 would be low for me, and I'm female and 5'7". But I burn just over that doing nothing, and then once you add in any exercise...



I wish they'd stop focusing on weight in these articles, and go out and find people who went from not being able to walk up stairs to running a half marathon, or lifting double their body weight, or climbing a mountain, or whatever. I think that would be a much more positive article. I think weight lost should be a side effect of a healthy life style.



You can lose a ton of weight and be really unhealthy, what's good about that? But it's a lot harder to be really unhealthy and train to accomplish a big task. Your body just won't want the junk it use to accept.



Okay, that was long-winded. I'll stop now.

Everyone has made some good points, so I'll just add that I agree that he was eating a lot of crap. A third of his calories was from simple carbs such as "Healthy Choice fudge bars" and Froot Loops! He was eating too little for sure, but he made it a lot worse on himself by eating those simple carbs instead of complex ones.



The Media really doesn't care about stories that aren't sensational - its just too bad.

Plus, it's definitely all about the the before and after photos. Whenever you see an advertisement, they're always the most impressive transformations. Even if that person did it eating Nestle Quik and Froot Loops.

But many of the ads that have before and after are people who do fitness competitions and have an "off season" body and a "competition" body. Before and after, unretouched photos of people who do that for a living. Have you seen some of these body builders off season? Then they do extreme things to get cut. Before and after.



Healthy and fit is not the same thing as skinny. I know lots of out of shape people who weigh a lot less and look a lot better than I do right now. 10 years down the road, I will have been working at my health and fitness, and where will they be? Remember "Saturday Night Fever" John Travolta? Skinny, but not looking out for his fitness for quite a few years.