1800 Calorie Diet

mattig89ch

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Hidy ho all,

I've never been interested in weight loos before. Hence why I'm 5 foot 7 In. and 250 pounds.

But I thought about it, and am genuinely curious about what my diet would look like, if I started one.

I found my BMR, and from that figured out my BMI is currently 2732.64. I did a bit of reasearch and figured out that, in order to loose weight, my ideal calorie intake would be something like 1800 or so.

My trouble is, I'm honestly not sure what that would look like. I figure I should avoid fast food, but what else?

Are there foods to target for breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner? Foods to avoid?

And, is there a place I should look to find out this information?
 
I hate counting calories, but I stumbled upon this outline of variety of food/options to eat throughout the day and the approximate calorie amount for those combinations. It adds up to 1350 calories but you can double the dinner amount (500cal) or add more snacks/breakfast (150cal/300 cal) as you see fit. http://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/g1105/summer-weight-loss-plan/

Aside from that, I've been mostly avoiding food that are high in sugar/fat/sodium and browsing random list of healthiest food (as well as fresh produce isle of grocery store) for idea of what to eat, lol.
 
Thanks for the link.

My logic was 900 (ish) calories to start the day 450 (ish) at lunch, and 450 (ish) at dinner, would be the best way to go. Though I freely admin my logic doesn't, normally, meet up with everyone else's.

But avoiding high surgar is probobly a better way to go overall. I do know I would need to find foods that would fill me up. And my mom tried to raise a vegitarian growing up, so I'm quite sick of most veggies.

Does anyone else, have any usefull links or tips?
 
My trouble is, I'm honestly not sure what that would look like. I figure I should avoid fast food, but what else?

Are there foods to target for breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner? Foods to avoid?

And, is there a place I should look to find out this information?

Hey Matt,

This is what it would look like:

1) You do several small meals a day, as opposed to a 1-2 huge meals
2) Ideally, you'd have protein and veggies every meal. If you hate veggies, like you said, an alternative is to blend a bunch of them with some protein powder, this way you get its benefits but don't suffer while eating your meals
3) You absolutely want to avoid refined sugar, fast foods, processed foods and especially late night binges
4) As far as calories throughout the day go, yes, concentrating them in the beginning of the day (or around your workout time) is better
5) You want to watch out for fats too; fat sources are calorie-dense and while it is great to avoid refined sugar, if you're eating 10 ounces of cheese instead, it won't work
6) Set-up a consistent exercise program that you'll stick to
7) You'll see more results if you understand that fat loss and getting in shape is a matter of continual change of habits, and not just tweaking one or two things in your current lifestyle and wishing to see drastic and fast changes.

*You want to to after natural foods; if it's processed, if it's in a package or in a fast food restaurant, they'll very likely be bad or at least not as good as natural foods for fat loss. Check the labels as many "healthy bars" or "healthy snacks" in grocery stars are actually packed with sugar and other crap.

Let me know if there's anything I can you with more specifically,

Fred
 
Avoid eating things as snacks when their calorie content is that of a MEAL. For example, a bagel with cream cheese as a morning snack with a medium regular coffee? That'll cost you just shy of 400 calories. FOUR HUNDRED CALORIES! You're now left with 1,200 calories. Having a basic Lean Cuisine for lunch? 350 calories. This means you're only left with 850 calories to last you from 2 PM to bedtime at say 11 PM. Technically, you shouldn't eat after 8ish so you have 850 calories from 2-8 so a 6 hour window in which to consume any more calories. Throw in one snack (a cookie) and you're over.

Once you get a grasp on calories, you'll start to have more respect for them. It's not a fun past time per se, but it is eye opening and you eventually develop the mentality that something isn't worth the calories.

I used to drink 4 coffees a day. Then I realized I was getting 4oo calories per day from coffee? That's more than 10% of a total POUND. After a week I'm almost at an entire pound. Of coffee? No thank you! So Istarted drinking black.
 
You can be a bit flexible on your calorie intake as 1800 is a bit on the low end for your age. However, what is key is to HONESTLY count your calories. Being off by 20% is not helpful and may make you think you are in caloric restriction when you really are not. Weigh and measure your food, it is eye opening.
 
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