Inspired by this thread.
Lets say you magically become 150 pounds heavier over night.
When you awake, you see Q hovering at the end of your bed.
He says he’s fattened you and one other unknown person for a little game.
The first one to slim past their original weight gets 100,000USD.
How do you maximise shortterm weightloss?
(20lb muscle, 130lb fat)
NOTE THIS IS NOT ABOUT HEALTHY WEIGHTLOSS, SO DO NOT COPY ANY UNHEALTHY EXAMPLES.
I’d have no idea where to begin. I’ve never lost or gained large amounts of weight. I do have a fast metabolism so if I get to keep that, I sure hope I’d lose the weight fast…
Well, dietry changes and your new difficulties in exercising might slow your metabolism, so I’m not sure just relying on your metabolism would be enough.
I did it once* in about 8-1/2 months or 37 weeks; that comes out to an average of just over 4 pounds per week. I really doubt if anyone could do it any faster and be anything like healthy at the end. But I don’t want to go through that again.
*Starting at almost age 56. Doctor-supervised liquid protein diet, about 600 calories per day plus steadily increasing exercise.
Roddy
I’m assuming we can’t use prescription medication?
Extreme caloric restriction to 800 calories a day…incessant amounts of coffee which would both promote frequent defecation and curb the appetite.
I’d have it off in about a year.
If unhealthy/unsustainable methods are on the table, I can think of quite a few. Depending on how quickly you can make an appointment for surgery, you could get it liposuctioned out pretty much immediately. Amputation is also an option.
If surgery is out, then securing a bunch of amphetamines would be your next best route. Especially if you are not already taking prescription amphetamines (like Adderall), and thus have no tolerance to them, you can pretty much reduce your appetite to zero for a while. Combine that with lots of trips to the sauna, diuretics, etc. to shed water weight and you could have it off in a couple of months, tops.
Yes, this is probably the best way.
You are right
Surgery is out, sorry, and even if it was, who would loose a limb for just 100,000 dollars
Bring Up My Post
If you just have the weight, but not the unhealthy diet/lifetsyle to go with it, wouldn’t it come off of it’s own accord?
Yes it would EVENTUALLY, but unfortunately, you are in a race with an unknown person. The first person to lose the weight wins the $100,000
i would try divorce…the fastest way to lose weight is by the drop of the gavel 
I’d go with lots of rabbit food, and as much exercise as my augmented body could handle. I’d plan on its being a 2-3 year project to get back to where I am now.
And I would basically say “screw you” to Q and reject the whole idea of a competition to lose weight faster. $100,000 would be nice, but I’m comfortably well off already, and would not twist my life into a pretzel to be a bit more comfortably well off. I’d take the weight off in my own way, at my own speed, and if I were to win, great; if not, that’s OK too.
I did it in about 8 months about a decade ago, doing low carbing and an insane amount of exercise. I was working out till exhaustion every day, including lots of lifting, so I gained a substantial amount of muscle in the process which offset some of the fat loss, meaning I probably in total lost around 200 pounds of fat in 9-10 months.
No calorie restriction was necesary - I kept my carbs extremely low and ate whenever I was hungry.
No ill effects either. I had a doctor who hated the idea and was trying to prove how much I would harm myself, but after extensive testing could not find any way in which I wasn’t in perfect health.
Almost double my weight over night? I’m sure I could trigger a heart attack by noon the next day. How long does it take for 150lbs of matter to decompose and would I still be eligible to win the cash … cold comfort as that would be?
Just going by the television series, The Biggest Loser records, the fastest 100 pound weight loss was 6 weeks for a male and 9 weeks for a female. The most weight lost in a single (18 week) season was 264 pounds for a male and 183 pounds for a female.
I think I could drop the magicly-added weight in about 10 weeks, especially with $$$ on the line. Hmmm, if I could just drop my job for the 10 weeks to focus exclusively on weight loss I think I could guarantee it.
You couldn’t lose 150 pounds in 10 weeks short of a very dangerous starvation type situation.
I also don’t think you appreciate how much more difficult everything would be at twice your weight - excercising would become exhausting much more quickly and you wouldn’t be able to keep the pace you think you could.
Your calorie burn per mile would be through the roof though.
True, but not enough to make up for it. I’m saying this with experience - I was 380 when I started working out and it was exhausting enough just to walk a few miles a day. By a few months in, I was doing an hour of lifting and several hours of other types of exercise every day (well, not every day for the lifting), but it simply wouldn’t have been possible to do that from the beginning. And I had more muscles suitable for being that heavy than someone who’s normally 170 pounds and is suddenly 320 pounds would. You’d get off to a very slow start in terms of the amount of exercise you could manage.
With the surgery route, I lost 75 pounds in a year. People with the same surgery I had who are heavier to begin with lose more, but even then I’d say it would take a year and a half at least, and that is with a gastric bypass.
Would the surgery help someone who already has good eating habits?