I'm up to a 36 waist - thanks to Del Taco and a few others. As well as eating pretty poorly over the last year, or so.
I'm on a strict regimen now and doing a three week diet and then merging it into a new way of life. I have a history of eating well (normally) - but, again; have been quite clumsy over the past year or so.
My plan is to limit myself to 1100 calories a day the first week, then up to 1200 the second week, and then stay on or around 1500 calories as the norm, with one cheat day per week.
After the third week - I'll get back into some sort of exercise, which too will be part of the new 'way of life'
In this thread I'd like to discuss food ideas for assisting myself (& others) with weight loss.
Since Monday I've not gone above 1100 calories/daily - I have eaten oatmeal, oranges, bananas, hard-boiled eggs and in closing, in the evening - I'll eat one of the Chick Fil A Spicy, grilled chicken wraps w/o dressing (350 cals)
I'm open to ideas - but the goal is - finding items that are a little less common and more creative.
Please assist at your leisure - anyone else need assistance or interested in jumping aboard, I welcome it.
After asking Lord Silock if it were true - here was his response ->> "It can be. It depends on what the weight consists of. Someone might weigh 200 lbs and be muscular, which requires a few more calories per pound to maintain than someone who weighs 200 lbs but has a lot of body fat. Body fat doesn't require nearly as many maintenance calories as muscle." [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mr. Plow:
Great. Scratch my previous msg.
My plan in the app is to lose 2 lbs a week. My plan in real life is to stay 800-1200 calories below the suggested daily calories. Those numbers are without the exercise.
Right now I'm not working so I can concentrate on this part of my life. I've got the time to walk 3-4 miles a day. I may take a job next week. It's going to take 18-24 months to finish. I'll have to figure out another way to exercise in a short amount of time. I think thats where my challenge to stay on track will come from. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
My plan in the app is to lose 2 lbs a week. My plan in real life is to stay 800-1200 calories below the suggested daily calories. Those numbers are without the exercise.
Right now I'm not working so I can concentrate on this part of my life. I've got the time to walk 3-4 miles a day. I may take a job next week. It's going to take 18-24 months to finish. I'll have to figure out another way to exercise in a short amount of time. I think thats where my challenge to stay on track will come from.
Went a bit over yesterday on my down day, at about 600 calories. However, a bulk of those calories were boiled potatoes that had been cooled and reheated. This converts a chunk of them to resistant starch which isn't digestible. The calculators don't take that into account.
Anyway, I was at 220 lbs this morning. I now have back to back 2500 up days. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Simply Red:
apparently I'm only going to lose 3lbs - I've not gone above 1,200 cals in 10 days - not sure what the deal is. I was expecting 5lbs by now.
Three lbs of fat would require roughly a 10,500 calorie deficit or 1050 calories a day over your 10 days. So 3 lbs over 10 days sounds reasonable. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frosty:
Three lbs of fat would require roughly a 10,500 calorie deficit or 1050 calories a day over your 10 days. So 3 lbs over 10 days sounds reasonable.
Originally Posted by lewdog:
This. This is the bad math. Unless you burn a shit ton of calories a day, most males don’t need 3000 calories a day to maintain. It’s quite a bit less.
I'd like to see your input more in here. I was sort of hoping for it - you and some of the others. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Simply Red:
I'd like to see your input more in here. I was sort of hoping for it - you and some of the others.
He gives great advice. I've made more gains since switching to an upper lower split as he suggested! I still struggle to hang around 2k Cal's a day tho. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Titty Meat:
He gives great advice. I've made more gains since switching to an upper lower split as he suggested! I still struggle to hang around 2k Cal's a day tho.
yes - Lew is pretty good - there's a group of about a dozen who are very knowledgeable - I welcome them all here. Sure would help us all out. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frosty:
Three lbs of fat would require roughly a 10,500 calorie deficit or 1050 calories a day over your 10 days. So 3 lbs over 10 days sounds reasonable.
I’ve lost over a pound a day over a 10 day span at least twice so far. So l dont think your numbers can be applied to everyone. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
I’ve lost over a pound a day over a 10 day span at least twice so far. So l dont think your numbers can be applied to everyone.
I said pound "of fat". Losing weight and losing fat are two different things. I dropped five pounds after my first down day on Sunday. There was no way in hell it was all fat though. Clearly, most of it was water.
When just looking at the scale, it's tough to tell what all is involved in weight loss. It can be fat change, water change, the change in the amount of stuff in your digestive tract, lean tissue loss. However, if someone is water stable, it would take about 1000 calorie a day deficit to lose 3 lbs of fat in 10 days. Losing 10 lbs of fat in 10 days would take a huge deficit - basically eat nothing and exercise like crazy. I would think that's pretty rare. [Reply]