Losing Weight
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Anathema
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yeah, and if you want to cut a pound a week you need to slash 3500 calories a week. so 500 per day. 1000 per day for 2 pounds a week.
i think i'm around 2250 given my age and body weight, give or take. so 1750 per day to lose a pound per week. very doable, especially with exercise. you just need to cut out those awful fucking 1000 calorie fat kid meals at your favorite fast food place and lose the filler foods at night when you're just snacking. another big difference is drinking water instead of juice. a glass of juice has like 150 calories in it, at least. cut out 3 glasses of juice and there's your 500 calories for the day.
i dont even know why im discussing this. that's my inner kinesiologist coming out. hurry for a shitty degree that's really only good enough to make me a nutritionist, gym teacher, trainer, or to use for a stepping stone into something better.
guhhhhh.
cool story, anathema. super cool yo.
i think i'm around 2250 given my age and body weight, give or take. so 1750 per day to lose a pound per week. very doable, especially with exercise. you just need to cut out those awful fucking 1000 calorie fat kid meals at your favorite fast food place and lose the filler foods at night when you're just snacking. another big difference is drinking water instead of juice. a glass of juice has like 150 calories in it, at least. cut out 3 glasses of juice and there's your 500 calories for the day.
i dont even know why im discussing this. that's my inner kinesiologist coming out. hurry for a shitty degree that's really only good enough to make me a nutritionist, gym teacher, trainer, or to use for a stepping stone into something better.
guhhhhh.
cool story, anathema. super cool yo.
selkirks
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Congrats to the OP on the weight loss.
I would also add a word of caution. Such extreme diets do work, but, as pointed out above, can have the negative effect of causing a huge loss in muscle mass. Which is just as unhealthy.
So yeah. Just know that, because once you are down to your goal weight, you are going to want to switch to more of a maintenance or bulking diet in order to cleanly regain that muscle mass.
And calories in vs. calories out is absolutely correct.
I would also add a word of caution. Such extreme diets do work, but, as pointed out above, can have the negative effect of causing a huge loss in muscle mass. Which is just as unhealthy.
So yeah. Just know that, because once you are down to your goal weight, you are going to want to switch to more of a maintenance or bulking diet in order to cleanly regain that muscle mass.
And calories in vs. calories out is absolutely correct.
DUKES
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yeah a couple years ago i weighed in at 215 at 6'3" then i lost 55 pounds within 5 months under extreme dieting and i lost muscle along with fat.....a lot lot of muscle so now im all boney at 6'4" 156lbs. my problem now is i cant stop counting calories and it causes me to be less free since i need to gain some more i just can't get my head around it. I may need professional help
selkirks
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Eat more than your caloric maintenance. And lift. Typically the big compound lifts (bench press, squats, deadlifts...).
You can calculate your caloric maintenance here:
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
Counting calories isn't bad as long as you're counting them correctly. You want to make sure to intake probably 200-300 calories more than your maintenance level to gain. Or just at maintenance for maintenance.
You can calculate your caloric maintenance here:
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
Counting calories isn't bad as long as you're counting them correctly. You want to make sure to intake probably 200-300 calories more than your maintenance level to gain. Or just at maintenance for maintenance.
californiagrown
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calorie calculators arent all that accurate.
just take a look at what you are currently eating, and add another meal in there. if you arent putting on a few pounds within two weeks, bump up the amount of food you are eating.
for me, i have to eat around 1000 more calories per day to start gaining weight from my current physique, but eating just 500 less will start me losing quickly.
just take a look at what you are currently eating, and add another meal in there. if you arent putting on a few pounds within two weeks, bump up the amount of food you are eating.
for me, i have to eat around 1000 more calories per day to start gaining weight from my current physique, but eating just 500 less will start me losing quickly.
Anathema
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im down to 165-167 from 173-175, but i think the most important part of that is ive been gaining a lot of muscle, too. bench is up 30lbs, squat is up 40, rows are up 30, preacher curl up 15, and most importantly my fitness level is better than it has been in a while. i used to cycle or job for like 15 minutes on an easy setting and be at like 170bmp heart rate, now i can go for like 30-45, work up a good sweat on a higher setting and hover around 150-155bpm without being completely gassed. it really shows too just out in the world and being active. i have so much more energy than i did before.
feels good, yo. i can understand why exercising gets addicting for people. it's like youre constantly challenging yourself seeing if this next week you're going to step it up even more. then that confidence just continues to build and it start to feel like you really need that and enjoy committing to something that you see results from. plus, i love the quiet time. i just go alone, go at my pace, listen to some beats, and forget about everything else. getting into that zone and focusing on you for a while feels great.
feels good, yo. i can understand why exercising gets addicting for people. it's like youre constantly challenging yourself seeing if this next week you're going to step it up even more. then that confidence just continues to build and it start to feel like you really need that and enjoy committing to something that you see results from. plus, i love the quiet time. i just go alone, go at my pace, listen to some beats, and forget about everything else. getting into that zone and focusing on you for a while feels great.
Steezy_P
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Congrats! It's good to see people wanting to get out of old lifestyles. Growing up, I was always a bigger kid, but of course was always told that it was just baby fat, and that it would go away. Anyways, I was up to 183 last year, and I play soccer... so not a lot of that weight is muscle. So, given, I was a pretty chunky kid. I was finally pissed off at myself enough to say "I need to lose this."
I began to just immediately watch what I ate. I cut down from 2-3 diet sodas a day to 1, and eventually 1 a week. I knew that if I wanted to start on varsity soccer, I couldn't outweigh my whole team put together. So, with that, I pushed harder to lose weight over the summer. And now after a year I have lost 32 pounds!
The trickiest part is actually keeping it off though. My last major weight drop was in December, so its been about 6 months of keeping a steady weight. My two precedents are weigh yourself a lot and simply watch what you eat!
Congrats again though TOASTY. that is really great!
I began to just immediately watch what I ate. I cut down from 2-3 diet sodas a day to 1, and eventually 1 a week. I knew that if I wanted to start on varsity soccer, I couldn't outweigh my whole team put together. So, with that, I pushed harder to lose weight over the summer. And now after a year I have lost 32 pounds!
The trickiest part is actually keeping it off though. My last major weight drop was in December, so its been about 6 months of keeping a steady weight. My two precedents are weigh yourself a lot and simply watch what you eat!
Congrats again though TOASTY. that is really great!
Toasty.
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basically in the same boat. I still weigh more than you obviously but i can lift more, do pull ups easier. Ran a 5k the other day in 29 mins. (not sure if thats good or bad, basically got home from work and said fuck it I'm gonna run one.) And that feeling of accomplishment was pretty damn amazing when i was done.
And yea, i like going to the gym and i now know what people mean when they say they like working out.
And yea, i like going to the gym and i now know what people mean when they say they like working out.
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Squidles
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Basically it comes down to calories vs calories burned.
Eat healthily and exercise. The exercise raises metabolism which will burn Calories faster. Don't just do cardio, make sure you vary your exercise programme. E.g. Include going to the gym and hitting some weights. Muscle has a much higher metabolism than fat and therefore the more muscle you have the more energy your body requires.
You should never just 'diet' and not exercise. This will actually cause muscle wastage, as your body begins to break down your muscles for energy. This actually slows down your metabolism as you no longer have the muscle mass, which is raising your metabolsim in the first place. So as soon as you come off the diet, you put weight on rapidly as it doesn't have that extra muscle burning energy in the first place.
Eat healthily and exercise. The exercise raises metabolism which will burn Calories faster. Don't just do cardio, make sure you vary your exercise programme. E.g. Include going to the gym and hitting some weights. Muscle has a much higher metabolism than fat and therefore the more muscle you have the more energy your body requires.
You should never just 'diet' and not exercise. This will actually cause muscle wastage, as your body begins to break down your muscles for energy. This actually slows down your metabolism as you no longer have the muscle mass, which is raising your metabolsim in the first place. So as soon as you come off the diet, you put weight on rapidly as it doesn't have that extra muscle burning energy in the first place.
Negro_Jesus
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took me a month, all i did was run every day for half an hour. No diet changes or anything
