I think I'm going to go the cutting calories and just eating healthier route for now. I'm worried cause I hit close to 195lbs when I've been weighing 185 at the doctor the last bunch of years minus one where I was 175.
I don't drink alcohol or sodas or fruit juices anyways. I'll cut the sugar in my coffee. Snack on veggies and fruits. Skip breakfast, eat a salad for lunch or dinner and stuff like that. Thanks for the interesting responses so far!
I just went back and had a look at the thread you started at the end of August about the blackouts and other heath issues you were having. You weighed 373 at the time. Do you mean that after a wake-up call like that and all the encouragement you received here, you've actually managed to gain another 19 pounds in the 3 months since?
WTF?
I've decided to cut out the sugar sodas, sugar-laden sweet tea (only unsweetened tea), and candy, pies, doughnuts, cheesecake.
I was weighed at 392 at my doctor's office last week. (My own electronic scale stopped giving me readings two weeks ago.)
Went from 230lbs to 170lbs by using myfitnesspal and counting calories.
I found it easiest to cut carbs and keep fat and protein high.
Calculate your TDEE (rough estimate) - eat less than that - Lose weight.
Eat 1000 calories under your tdee and you'll lose around 2lbs a week.
Eat 500 calories under your tdee and you'll lose around 1lb a week.
Having an extra 1k calories of pizza is easy. Cutting to 1500 calories/day sucks and your body is fighting you all the way. Your biology wants you to be a fat ass.Why does it go on so easy but take so long to get rid of?
Chemically speaking, you're basically addicted to sugar. Srs.
Can't say no to fattening foods, alcohol or compulsive behaviors?
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don't count calories, cut them
i needed something simple and easy and fast. If I didn't get see results I wasn't going to be motivated to keep with it.
don't drink calories (soda, milk, sweet tea, alcohol, fruit juice)
don't snack
skip breakfast
eat whatever you normally do for lunch and dinner, just cut it in half. Save the rest for the next day.
lost something like 80 lbs in less than a year
it's easy because you can literally eat whatever you want. Just less of it. For instance I would have a chocolate donut for lunch. But that's all I would have for lunch.
When you're cutting such massive amounts of calories, there's no need to count them. Whether it's 45% less or 65% less than normal, you're still ahead of the game.
All it takes is willpower. When you get hungry, just acknowledge that the diet is working and move on. Ignore it enough and it stops bothering you. There is this very conditioned response that as soon as we feel any hunger, we reach for food. You really don't have to. Breaking that conditioning is actually very freeing.
But I have a thyroid problem. :colbert;The one where you burn more calories than you take in will work 100% guaranteed.
But I have a thyroid problem. :colbert;
1k mg Viagra...cheater
True but 1K mg? Lee Harvey....Theyn't nuthin in the rules whut disallow them lil blue pocket rockets...
Probably not 19. Most home bathroom scales aren't going to be super accurate at that weight, and even at half that weight, they tend to read a couple of pounds below the scale at the doctor.
Point being... An experience that should have elicited a major lifestyle change, and he's apparently done nothing, or even gone further down the hole. Something is seriously wrong.