[twig05]

Additionally, I probably wouldn't overly concern myself with eating super healthy. Instead, if you are counting calories and trying to meet a specific goal, you will necessarily have to cut out high calorie foods like sweets and fast food just to meet the goal. This will, by default, lead to healthier choices. However, if you have a few hundred extra at the end of the day, feel free to eat some ice cream or whatever. The only thing that matters to losing weight is calorie deficit. Where those calories come from isn't very important

[paintballguy2255]

Along with counting calories, a few tips are:
1.when you get hungry, chew on a piece of (sugar-free) gum and see if your hunger goes away.
2.don't fall for those things like nutrisystem and weight watchers. Just use apps, like others have suggested.
3.Instead of hamburgers, try chicken out.
Lastly,4. have willpower.

[braindead]

If you have about $150-$200ish to change your life, then get (Possibly) Insanity or P90X. From what it sounds like you're not ready for the follow up programs. Anyways, if you DO get one (or both, lol) follow the nutrition plan STRICTLY. Don't cheat, and trust me--your life will change for the better.

P.S. I weighed about 170 when I was 11-12ish. My brother (who had lost about 100 lbs by the time he got me into it) forced me to do it, and i hated him for it. But now I see it was most likely the best thing anyone's ever done for me. I now weigh about 160, I'm 5-10/11ish am 15 years old, so all I can say is dig deeper!

[TechPB-Mike]

let me set you up right now, this is easy as pie

5'10"?

This is your diet-

Breakfast -
3 tall glasses of cold water
3 whole eggs (scrambled or hard boiled, protein)
half avacado (fat to help you stay full)
1/2 Apple or Orange (carb aka sugar)

Lunch -
1 Whole Chicken Breast (protein)
two handfuls of broccoli or asparagus (fiber & vitamins)
5 almonds (healthy oils and fiber)
1/2 Apple or Orange (carb aka sugar)
2 glasses of water

Dinner -
1 Whole Chicken Breast
Two Handfuls of Broccoli or Asparagus
5 almonds
2 glasses of water


I would try to add about 30 to 45 minutes of LIGHT cardio every day, walking while talking on your cell phone, biking around the neighborhood, something. Cut out all caffeine, cut out all fizzy sodas, diet sodas, anything other than water or green tea. If you end up eating bread, cut out the fruit.

Carb = Sugar = Bread = Fruit - it's all the same shit, if it's not immediately burned, it turns into FAT

For your chicken breasts, bake them in the oven, 4 at a time, coated in mustard. 350 degrees for 35 minutes. I think this diet is a great guideline, to maintain protein and strength, while filling you up with healthy fats, oils, fiber, vegetables, fruit for card / sugar, and almonds for fiber and healthy oils. The water will keep flushing out your digestive system, the light cardio will turn on your metabolism.

I did this and went from 330 pounds to 210 pounds in about a year. I always felt full, happy and content. If you are strength training, feel free to add a scoop of whey in WATER (not milk) to supplement the extra protein. Hope this helps

[Captiontom]

^ Do you actualy count out five almonds and only eat five mike? I could understand a quarter cup or something but do five almonds really have that many calories?

[TechPB-Mike]

Almonds are loaded with TONS of good nutrients, but you can easily put as many calories in your body with Almonds as you would with eating a Big Mac. So yea, I'll try to make sure I'm eating the correct amount of almonds.

Also, true fact - 15 almonds + two glasses of water = feels like you just ate a medium sized lunch. Almonds fill you up

If you are on track, sure eat a couple more. If you are hungry and craving something, eat a couple more. But just be careful, almonds are rocket fuel, FILLED with good calories, but they can add a surplus if overdone.

Weight loss is like how the grand canyon was carved out. Slow and steady, consistent and persistent. Try one thing for a week, measure, adjust, try for another week. Weight loss is measured week to week, not day to day.

Aim for 1 pound a week of fat loss, that's a great pace if you combine the above diet with light cardio.

[ADPedro77]

TechPB-Mike, on 15 May 2012 - 12:40 AM, said:

let me set you up right now, this is easy as pie

5'10"?

This is your diet-

Breakfast -
3 tall glasses of cold water
3 whole eggs (scrambled or hard boiled, protein)
half avacado (fat to help you stay full)
1/2 Apple or Orange (carb aka sugar)

Lunch -
1 Whole Chicken Breast (protein)
two handfuls of broccoli or asparagus (fiber & vitamins)
5 almonds (healthy oils and fiber)
1/2 Apple or Orange (carb aka sugar)
2 glasses of water

Dinner -
1 Whole Chicken Breast
Two Handfuls of Broccoli or Asparagus
5 almonds
2 glasses of water


I would try to add about 30 to 45 minutes of LIGHT cardio every day, walking while talking on your cell phone, biking around the neighborhood, something. Cut out all caffeine, cut out all fizzy sodas, diet sodas, anything other than water or green tea. If you end up eating bread, cut out the fruit.

Carb = Sugar = Bread = Fruit - it's all the same shit, if it's not immediately burned, it turns into FAT

For your chicken breasts, bake them in the oven, 4 at a time, coated in mustard. 350 degrees for 35 minutes. I think this diet is a great guideline, to maintain protein and strength, while filling you up with healthy fats, oils, fiber, vegetables, fruit for card / sugar, and almonds for fiber and healthy oils. The water will keep flushing out your digestive system, the light cardio will turn on your metabolism.

I did this and went from 330 pounds to 210 pounds in about a year. I always felt full, happy and content. If you are strength training, feel free to add a scoop of whey in WATER (not milk) to supplement the extra protein. Hope this helps

I hope this works. Im going to try it out as well. I recently weighted my self and found that I am about 210, ( i'm 5'7") big gain from when my weight use to be 130 constantly during High school. Last weekend I was at a big scenario game and was just completely worn out a couple minutes into it.

[sagestylerpb]

Good luck man! This fat boy has been trying to lose weight as well. It sucks! lol

[Paintb@ller]

Swimming is also a great exercise if you have access to a pool. If you want to loose weight, don't expect it to happen soon, the best thing to do for yourself is create a calorie deficit by cutting down on excess fats. If you have 2 bags of chips a day, try to cut it down at first then replace it. Same with soda replace it with a chocolate milk, same amount of calories but a lot better for you, then try to switch to water eventually. Any excess snacks, again replace them with anything almonds are good, celery with peanut butter and cranberries are sweet and healthy as well. Switch to wheat bread if you haven't already. Let's say you want to start by loosing 15 pounds or so in 6 weeks, start by adjusting your diet the first week and getting used to your new diet, it is ultimately up to you if you want to loose the weight. Remember to let yourself cheat one meal a week and treat yourself to anything you want, you have to enjoy your meal sometimes. Do not end up starving yourself and going on some sort of "diet", most diets are unsuccessful and even if you do loose the weight it is temporary. Then during the next 5 weeks try to implement a cardio exercise routine. Since you want to loose weight cardio is a better option than weights. If you are starting out try to go on a bike ride on monday, swim on tuesday, stairmaster on wednesday, bike ride on thursday, stairmaster on friday and swim on saturday and take sunday off. Count your calories but dont cut way too much, if you try to starve yourself you will end up over eating at your next meal. Replace junk food with healthy food and then cut calories. Excercise 5 days a week moderately and then you can do more intense exercises. Lastly, breakfast is your best friend, your metabolism is a natural fat burning machine but you have to power it with the right foods, the sooner you kickstart your metabolism in a day the more it will burn; dont skip breakfast. Good luck

[tripp]

i have no access to a pool, but ive been keeping up with Biking 50 miles a week
along with that my dad is buyign a gym member ship as well

so now just about any time i wanna play videogames, ima go to the gym lol

and thanks for the advice mike, but im a WAYY too picky eater, so i think im gonna go with a calorie counting app and good exercise to help me lose the weight

ive cut out ALL soda, sugary drinks, juices, shakes and everything i can think of except water and teas( a little splenda with it )
the only think i drink with flavor is those little Sugar free Mio squirt bottles

all junk food is cut out, for snacks i go with healthy raw nuts and some Baked crackers
ive lost 5 pounds since i posted this first, so im losing weight generously, but i know it will slow down soon

Edit: im alos lifting weights, nothing uge, but enough to make sure im not burning off muscle with my fat
my dad doesnt particularly care about the exact weight. if he can see that im within a "Healthy" size , hes happy

oh and the almond advice sounds awesome

oh Myfitnesspal said i need to eat 1650 calories a day to lost 10 pounds by june 20th

This post has been edited by tripp: 16 May 2012 - 09:05 PM

[twig05]

Sounds like you are doing well! As Paintball@ller said, make sure you have a cheat day once a week.

[Distortion_UK]

Don't eat too many nuts, full of calories. I wrote a 14 day mass building diet plan and nuts was a huge factor in gaining weight. 140 grams of unsalted peanuts can contain up to 800 calories. Just because it seems healthy doesn't me it is.

[Mr.Herbert]

Get food poisoning and then wait and vomit!! Hahaha just kidding bro I lost 25lbs because of food poisoning.

This post has been edited by Mr.Herbert: 20 May 2012 - 11:27 AM

[IwannaWAFFLE]

As a side note to the bike road riding..

if you can, try to find an air horn



and if someone is beeping at you to try to get by, keep this in your bottle area, or somewhere similar..
right when they are passing you, pull this out (works well if their window is open) .. and just hold down that button for a bit..

should teahc tem to beep at you..
I have one laying around in the shed, just thought of that.. hehe

[Dak-Attack]

Compound weight lifting.
Squats
Deadlift
Benchpress

Anything that uses multiple muscles. More muscles = More calories burnt = more fat loss.

[Briere]

drexler, on 08 May 2012 - 12:13 PM, said:

Losing weight is 90% diet and 10% exercise.

I personally recommend picking up the Dukan Diet book, I used it to drop from 275 to 235. Great diet and easy to follow.

Get a diet and find a good workout like INSANITY , or P90X

[tripp]

ive lost about 15 pounds so far

drinking nothing but water, and the occasional diet soda, and staying away from as muhc friend food as possible
along with counting the calories i intake, and getting rid of all condiments except mustard

[zachpnnc]

Cable, on 08 May 2012 - 01:59 PM, said:

Your calorie count should be 10x of what you want your weight to be. That is how I understand it. So 200lbs=2000 calories a day. Don't do anything too drastic. It is about life change not dropping to weight. Remember that, don't kill yourself.

i am 15 years old and i have over a hour of physical activity a day and according to choosemyplate.gov i should eat around 3000 calories so either your wrong or the website is wrong

[tripp]

i weighed 245 when i started and im down to 229 right now
when i started calorie counting i used an app on my phone( has full fast food and restuaunt menus and all different brands info) so it made ti real easy.
the app, according to my hieght/weight and my familys height/weight, told me i should weigh 191 optimally
it as well told me to lose 1 pound a day , i had to eat 1600 calories a day

and since i do about an hour of biking every day, it allows me for an extra 900 calories, i typically only add an extra 500

[P51]

IwannaWAFFLE, on 20 May 2012 - 01:56 PM, said:

As a side note to the bike road riding..

if you can, try to find an air horn

and if someone is beeping at you to try to get by, keep this in your bottle area, or somewhere similar..
right when they are passing you, pull this out (works well if their window is open) .. and just hold down that button for a bit..

should teahc tem to beep at you..
I have one laying around in the shed, just thought of that.. hehe

This could also become incredibly dangerous for the OP, though. If you're riding a bike, do you really want to piss off the idiot in 2,000lb.+ car behind you, who's honking at you because he thinks you're in his way?

We're trying to help him lose weight, not become another victim of road rage