I weigh about 250lbs, and my height is 190cms. Am I on the verge of obesity? I want to lose weight before it gets out of hand. Have tried dieting but it yielded no poor results. Need help.
drink water. eat vegetables
Weight is just a number. Other factors go into a healthy body size. BMI is usless.
First of all, you have to really want to make a lifestyle change. Second talk with your DR. Third, you have to be will to make a lifestyle change. Weight loss and the changes needed to keep it off, take time. To make the changes nessessary you have to understand why you are the way you are, now. Keep a log of all food you eat and exercise you do. Online logs often have a breakdown of nutrients and calories. Do this for a few weeks first, without changing what you currently eat.
Dieting does little to nothing in the long run. Changing your diet does.
I weighted 288 at christmas, i am currently at 235, and have about 20 lbs to go. I want some drastic changes to my diet, start tri training, and am now adding food back into my diet to slow down, and eventually stop the weight loss.
dieting/weight loss often fails because people concentrate on what foods, they are giving up, not the benefits of permanent weight loss and increase in fitness.
Once my weight stabilizes, i will be able to eat anything i want, it is just about portion control.
I am 5’ 10" and about 16 - 18% body fat.
If you want to be skinny you need to either eat less, FOREVER, or work out more, FOREVER, or some combination of the two.
It absolutely will work if you HTFU and do it.
good luck!
Have tried dieting but it yielded no poor results. Need help.
Eat healthy, dont eat late at night, drinks lots o water…and Run…thats how I did it. Lost over 70 lbs.
I’m waiting for the folks to chime in and say that it is as easy as burning more calories than you eat. It isn’t. Since what I’m sure you are asking is how can I maximize my fat loss to lose fat quickly you need to pay a lot of attention to your diet. Losing fat is 95 percent what you put in your mouth. Skip the fad diets. They work primarily because when you first start out with them you are actually watching the quantity that you eat too. After awhile you stop paying attention to that and the fat loss stops. Pay attention to portions and try to eat a high protein lower carb a low fat diet. This isn’t the ideal diet necessarily for a triathlete doing ironman distance but it definitely works best for losing weight and has been fine for me even doing half ironman training. When I say lower carb I don’t mean anything like Atkins. Just concentrate on getting healthy complex carbs (sweet potatoes are my favorites) and try to eat them for breakfast and lunch. Eat tons of veggies (preferably raw) but watch out for salad dressing (most of it is horrible). Eat smaller meals 6 times per day. If you do this you can’t help but lose fat if you are working out. Personally I find that strength traing 3-4 times per week accelerates fat loss in addition to my endurance training.
I followed this formula to go from 325 pounds to 220 currently.
Verge? My guess is at that size, you are obese.
Not being harsh, but IMO the first step to have a reality check.
There’s no short cut, just a very simply process of burning calories through exercise and limiting your caloric intake. Those process comes in many different flavors. Since this is a triathlon site, most are going to recommend swim/bike/run a lot. IMO, if you want to lose the most amount of weight in the least amount of time, it’s a lil different.
Good luck
Check out Weight Watchers, use it as a guide. 10 years ago I did. Never joined or went to a meeting. Went from 225 then to 185 today. It’s a way of life not a diet.
The theory is simple, execution takes dicipline.
Essentailly, eat lean meats, friuts, vegatables, 2-3 servings of dairy (yogurt/milk, this is crucial) and drink lots of water. Combine with exercise, give it time and you’ll see the results.
Later you’ll learn you can eat anything (except fried food). It’s about portion control.
For most people, changing diet gets it off, exercise keeps it off.
Someone said “run” - you need to be careful of that if you are overweight, due to the stress it will place on your joints.
Diets tend to not work. Healthy eating does. Keep a food log for a couple days - where are you getting most of your calories from? Can you cut out something like sweets, soda, ice cream, etc — an easy thing that will help?
Where are you from? I’ve never heard of anyone who measures their weight in pounds and height in centimeters…
I second drink lots of water and eat vegs and eat fruit. Also cut calories. Read a post I put up a few weeks ago it worked for me. I was at 250 then got down to a steady 183 now I am 169 the 250 to 183 was due to training the 183-169 was due to COUNTING Calories!!!
PS dont eat out that stuff is garbarge anyway
Eugene
You need to burn more than you eat. Easy to say. The hard part is that this will make you hungry. No one has the will power to be hungry all the time. So, during the day eat heathy and enough so you are not hungry. Save up your will power for the evenings. Don’t eat late and make your dinner the lightest meal of the day. You will be hungry when you go to bed, but the scale will like you in the morning. This should be your strategy everyday. You need a high level strategy.
I assume you are not a starting defensive end.
At 188 and 230, know where you live.
The basics are simple, burn more calories than you consume. Anyone who claims they do but cant lose weight are lying (not implying you are, but some people do)
Here is what I believe are “tricks” that make it easier.
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Eliminate empty calories, specifically pop and other high sugar foods. Juice is major sugar delivery vehicle, so is ketchup.
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Reduce high fat foods, specifically anything fried. Note, fried vegetables is fried food. 1% milk instead of whole milk.
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Avoid major cycles in your blood sugar. 2500 calories in 5 meals over the course of day is far better than three meals.
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No food within 2 hours of bedtime. Dont have a load of food being processed while you sleep and your metabolism is at its lowest.
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Consume the bulk of your calories earlier in the day rather than late. Big lunch, small dinner is better than reverse.
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Watch out for alcohol. Tastes good, feels good but lots of calories in most and makes you hungry.
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Dont use reasonable training activity to scarf down 3 gels and 2 bottles of drink. Anything up to 2 hours, water only unless high intensity.
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When ignoring the above, do so in moderation.
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Smoke a pack a day.
Whenever I stick to the above, weight goes down.
Wish I stuck to the above more.
BEFORE it gets out of hand? Really? Well first of all I’m pretty sure you didn’t become obese in a month, or 2 months or however long you tried to diet. If you want to see change you need to “diet” for A WHILE. Second, I’m thinking your dieting consisted of sever caloric restriction for several days, which ended with you maybe losing some weight but then feeling like crap and binge eating at the end of the “diet”.
Here’s a great way to lose weight HTFU and shut your mouth when you’re hungry. You want to be 175lbs, eat like a 175lb person. Yes you’ll get hunger pangs, yes it’s going to fu$king suck but nothing worth having ever comes easy. Read the overweight to Sub-10hr stud story on this forum, one word DEDICATION.
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I followed this formula to go from 325 pounds to 220 currently.
You need to remove the first three letters of your screen name. Seriously, that is awesome.
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I went from being a fat lazy slob to a recon marine and decent age grouper by completely changing my lifestyle…
NO soda, fast food, chips, cheeze-its(was hard), gave up alcohol. After 4 years of this i look/feel/am a different person.
I never thought before it would be possible for me to run a 15:30 3 mile and still be able to do 28 dead hang pull ups.
My friends changed in the process, my hobby’s, attitude towardslife. Pretty much everything changed…
Wouldn’t change any of it. Don’t miss any of it, certaintly wont go back.