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This fatbody needs some help and direction. I'm trying to lose some extra weight to make it to DEP weight. I've followed a few diets, had some success and then plateaued, switched, and plateaued again. I've been on this same plateau for several months and am getting frustruated. If I can get any advice, diet sites that are proven to work, or any other motivating words, feel free to write. Thanks a lot.
SonnyD
Smalcom
03-01-06, 10:31 PM
cut down on food (bad food), drink lots of water, and RUN... LOTS OF AEROBICS, SWEAT A LOT... thats all i have to say.
Thatcher
03-01-06, 10:34 PM
I weighed about 205 at the beginning of my junior year. Since I didnt have a car I had to ride my bike to and from school (Which was about 5 or 6 miles a day) and my weight dropped to 165. That was before I even started running and working out. Biking helps alot if you really push yourself.
a friend of mine lost alot of weight by walking and eliminating soda from his diet. if your the kinda guy who sits around and gulps mountain dew all day, you may wanna change that. he told me he started taking long walks around his neighborhood. now, if you want to speed that up, then run instead.
bigalholmes165
03-02-06, 08:17 AM
This fatbody needs some help and direction. I'm trying to lose some extra weight to make it to DEP weight. I've followed a few diets, had some success and then plateaued, switched, and plateaued again. I've been on this same plateau for several months and am getting frustruated. If I can get any advice, diet sites that are proven to work, or any other motivating words, feel free to write. Thanks a lot.
SonnyD
Carbs! Dump the carbs.
Oh yeah, get off the couch and EXERCISE.
Old Marine
03-02-06, 10:26 AM
Table muscle can be a big problem. You have to push away from the table and get some exercise. Without exercise you don't have a chance.
Echo_Four_Bravo
03-02-06, 01:59 PM
Weight loss is not as difficult as people would have you believe. Weight works on a simple formula, if you spend more calories than you take in, you lose weight. If you consume more calories than you burn you gain weight. So, to lose weight, eat the things you know are healthy, practice portion control, and exercise more, both cardio and strength work. It takes time, but it will happen for you.
This fatbody needs some help and direction. I'm trying to lose some extra weight to make it to DEP weight. I've followed a few diets, had some success and then plateaued, switched, and plateaued again. I've been on this same plateau for several months and am getting frustruated. If I can get any advice, diet sites that are proven to work, or any other motivating words, feel free to write. Thanks a lot.
SonnyD
Give some details about yourself. How tall are you? How much do you weigh? How much do you need to lose to DEP in?
Shadowman777
03-02-06, 04:06 PM
This fatbody needs some help and direction. I'm trying to lose some extra weight to make it to DEP weight. I've followed a few diets, had some success and then plateaued, switched, and plateaued again. I've been on this same plateau for several months and am getting frustruated. If I can get any advice, diet sites that are proven to work, or any other motivating words, feel free to write. Thanks a lot.
SonnyD
All the suggestions above are great and should be followed - but sometimes it is even simpler then that. (This will have more application to us old farts.)
Most of us are brought up with the mindset that we need to clean our plate. You know, starving kids in China and all that. A friend of mine lost a tremendous amount weight, and I asked him how he did it. He said he simply ate till he was full, then pushed away the plate. If the food was thrown away, it was thrown away - so be it. He lost over 100 lbs by doing that - as it's those last few bites that put the fat on.
I followed his example, and went from 265 lbs (I am 6'3") to where i am now - 200 lbs. This is not a "quick way" to lose weight, rather a lifestyle decision to stay healthy.
This way works for me, but may not work for everyone. I'm just tossing my two cents into the pot - and if this clicks for someone - Great!
(BTW - everyone in my family is overweight except me. My dad is around 365 lbs - and requires a cattle scale to be weighed. He was Army ....)
Steve
To answer accord, and to tell a little bit about myself...I'm 5'11" and arugably a half. Don't know my "to the minute" weight...somewhere around 307 I think. I did weigh over 360 when I started and have dropped some, but my DEP weight and thus my goal has to be around 230. I work for a company called Nebraska Furniture Mart as a delivery driver/helper. Basically I ride in a truck for 6-12 hours in a given day, not counting loading the furniture in the mornings and delivering it. I like the job for the stregnth it's given me. Before I started, I couldn't do a single push up to save my life and hadn't done a real one ever. I mean I'd been close before, but not true to form. 2 months later I can do two. Not good by any means, but it's an improvement. Next week a buddy and I are going to start running. Probably a half mile at first, just to get used to it again, then working up from there. I also just joined a gym close to my work and will be doing about 40 minutes a day on an eliptical machine.
Ok, so thats some of who I am and what I'm doing. Since I'm always in that truck, I'm looking for portable food that I can eat cold. I came up with an idea today and want to run it by a ya. I'm thinking either a nutritional shake or slimfast for breakfast, some fresh fruit for a snack, mid-day another slimfast, some fresh veggies for another snack, then like a healthy choice (read box type tv dinner with low cal) for dinner.
Alright, it's been the weekend and no takers on if this is a decent diet for a life on the road. If you have a thought, shout it out. Thanks!!
To answer accord, and to tell a little bit about myself...I'm 5'11" and arugably a half. Don't know my "to the minute" weight...somewhere around 307 I think. I did weigh over 360 when I started and have dropped some, but my DEP weight and thus my goal has to be around 230. I work for a company called Nebraska Furniture Mart as a delivery driver/helper. Basically I ride in a truck for 6-12 hours in a given day, not counting loading the furniture in the mornings and delivering it. I like the job for the stregnth it's given me. Before I started, I couldn't do a single push up to save my life and hadn't done a real one ever. I mean I'd been close before, but not true to form. 2 months later I can do two. Not good by any means, but it's an improvement. Next week a buddy and I are going to start running. Probably a half mile at first, just to get used to it again, then working up from there. I also just joined a gym close to my work and will be doing about 40 minutes a day on an eliptical machine.
Ok, so thats some of who I am and what I'm doing. Since I'm always in that truck, I'm looking for portable food that I can eat cold. I came up with an idea today and want to run it by a ya. I'm thinking either a nutritional shake or slimfast for breakfast, some fresh fruit for a snack, mid-day another slimfast, some fresh veggies for another snack, then like a healthy choice (read box type tv dinner with low cal) for dinner.
You need to be eating 5 small meals a day to speed your metaboism up, not 3. And hit the weights, the more muscle you have, the more fat you'll burn. Slimfast is total garbage, drink 100% whey protein shakes instead.
Read this thread for info on what I did to lose more than 80 pounds: http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24546
For some reason it's not letting me edit my post, so i'm just going to make another reply.
Also, stay away from all fruit. While most fruit is extremely healthy, it is absolutely terrible for an aggressive weight loss program because it's so high in sugar and as a result will mess with your insulin levels and inhibit fast storage and make things more difficult that they have to be. You need to be eating low glycemic foods (do a google search for the index and which foods are low glycemic).
Ok, what about drinks. I try to go through 4-5 20oz Walmart waters every day. Say I wan't some flavor though, then whats good? Something like Crystal Light, or just plain ol' tea? Also, are artifical sweetners metabolized the same as regular sugar? What I'm asking is are the ok or not. Accord, you've been a big help man. So have all of you. Thank you.
D
Ok, what about drinks. I try to go through 4-5 20oz Walmart waters every day. Say I wan't some flavor though, then whats good? Something like Crystal Light, or just plain ol' tea? Also, are artifical sweetners metabolized the same as regular sugar? What I'm asking is are the ok or not. Accord, you've been a big help man. So have all of you. Thank you.
D
Drink water. Do not mess around with any diet soda's like Diet Coke, etc. because while they all have zero calories, the carbonation in them inhibits fat storage and is counterproductive.
The pre-bottled Crystal Light is bad stuff, but the ones you can buy in packets and then mix in water is great and you can drink as much of it as you want. I drank probably 1.5 to 2 gallons of Crystal Light pink lemonade in water when I was on my aggressive diet.
I stay away from NACB's and most other fruit drinks in general. I like me some oj and applejuice once in a while, but not often enough that it's a main drink. As far as the Crystal Light, didn't even know it came in a bottle. I just got some packets and was going to take them back if they wern't on my new "approved" list.
Non
Alcoholic
Carbonated
Beverage
Since people call it pop, soda, soda pop, cola, ect. Makes it easier and it's another handy acronym (like the Marines don't have enough already lol).
I stay away from NACB's and most other fruit drinks in general. I like me some oj and applejuice once in a while, but not often enough that it's a main drink. As far as the Crystal Light, didn't even know it came in a bottle. I just got some packets and was going to take them back if they wern't on my new "approved" list.
Non
Alcoholic
Carbonated
Beverage
Since people call it pop, soda, soda pop, cola, ect. Makes it easier and it's another handy acronym (like the Marines don't have enough already lol).
Apple juice is one of the worst things you can drink when trying to lose weight, it's very high in sugar. You want to cut ALL sugar out of your diet.
When you have this much weight to lose, you can't afford to have apple juice and orange juice every once in a while, it will not benefit you at all when trying to lose weight and will slow your progress.
hey, whats a good idea (or 2) for breakfast
Brooklyn
03-06-06, 11:38 PM
Couple cans of tuna fish.
Eat em again a few hours later, and again for lunch.
Chow on some chicken for dinner.
Low fat, low ( or no? ) carbs, low ( or no? ) sugar, high protein, can't go wrong.
If you exercise while only eating chicken and fish it should be impossible to NOT lose weight.
By the way, don't fry the chicken or fish. ;)
By the way II, for flavor, try Fruit 2o. No carbs, calories, or sugar, yet somehow it's flavored.
Static_Sky25
03-08-06, 02:08 AM
Drink water. Do not mess around with any diet soda's like Diet Coke, etc. because while they all have zero calories, the carbonation in them inhibits fat storage and is counterproductive.
The pre-bottled Crystal Light is bad stuff, but the ones you can buy in packets and then mix in water is great and you can drink as much of it as you want. I drank probably 1.5 to 2 gallons of Crystal Light pink lemonade in water when I was on my aggressive diet.
The citric acids will help....
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