Food tips. Exercise.

[Sael]

I recently joined a gym on Monday, and I am working to achieve my goal of 180 pounds by July 1st. I am currently at 222.6 pounds and a 5'10" 19 year old male.

My friend gave me an intense workout that I will do 3 days a week, they are all different but he is extremely fit and personally I think he knows what he's talking about. My main goal is to lose weight, but I am doing a full upper body workout as well.

My main issue is food. I started a diet this week but it's not very official. I don't know much about food but I want to be on a 1,500 calorie diet. I don't know which foods I can eat that will fill me up. Can someone help me with this? I don't have much money to spend either, as of now my breakfast is a bowl of special K and toasted wheat bread. For lunch it's pretty much been rice and different meat, and dinner has been a salad with grilled chicken and no fat italian dressing. I don't know if this will work.

Any help/advice you guys can give me would help me so much. If possible can someone write me a makeshift diet and I'll attempt to follow it as much as my budget allows me too.

The workout my friend gave me is extremely intense and will completely work me out. It is Monday's, Wednesday's, Fridays and each day works out a different body part. He wants me to start each workout day with 50 crunches, 30 minute cardio, 50 more crunches. He wants me to end each workout day with 3 sets of 10 push-ups. There will be different weight exercises each day, like bench pressing, curls, etc.... Just working out my chest,back,arms, shoulders.

Well I just wanted to voice out what I'm doing and ask if my goals are possible? How quick is it possible to achieve my goals if I work hard at it?

 

[Xab]

Whoah there. You're a 19 year old male, you weigh 220 pounds, and you want to be on a 1,500 calorie diet? There's your problem man.

I'm a 20 year old male, I weigh 240, and I'm dieting on about 3,200 calories a day. While many factors play into how many calories you need, the biggest ones are age, gender, activity level, and weight.

In your case, you're at the highest point in all of those catagories:
- Younger guys like you and I need more calories thanks to puberty (most people don't actually biochemically exit puberty until age 22-24 or so)
- Males burn more calories than Females
- The more you weigh, the more calories you need. You have more flesh, so you have to expend more energy to keep it all living.
- Activity level, obviously. If you are moving around and doing more each day, you need more calories.

Many people think that they need super small diets like that because of nutritional info on food packaging being based on a 2000 kcal diet. The truth is, you need way, way more calories than what you are currently consuming.

Edit: If weight loss is your concern, you'll need to throw your whole body into it and not just work mirror muscles. I had a hard time coming to terms to this too, as I used to just go to the gym, bench press a little here, do some crunches there, and curl a bit there. After about six months after that, I was precisely nowhere near where I wanted to be. After researching, I began a huge program full of full-body workouts and have been seeing consistent results since.

 

[PrISM]

Like Xab said, drop the mirror muscle exercises along with crunches. You'd be better off doing a full-body workout three times a week. Also, you REALLY need to work legs as well.

 

[wesrman]

I wouldnt drop the ab exercises, but what they said is correct. Start doing the hard exercises and you will see results faster.

 

[DafnaGal]

Liquid Diets

If you want to achieve your goal as early as possible,then you can follow the below tips to reduce your weight.

It is a must that you drink plenty of fluids during cleansing. It is recommended that you have at least 8 glasses of water everyday to assure detoxification of the toxins from the body.You can try the diet below: it is a diet that allows some food.

:½ lemon, squeeze - with 1 glass of warm water
:1 tablespoon bentonite clay and 1 tablespoon ground flax seeds in 1 glass of water.

Breakfast :
- Shake consist of pear, rice milk and rice protein powder.
- Vitamin C supplement

Snacks :
- Apple juice (diluted)
- Water

So,if you follow these then you can lose your weight quickly.

Follow the Link :theweightlossmiracle dot com

 

[qwertyque]

If you want to achieve your goal as early as possible,then you can follow the below tips to reduce your weight.

It is a must that you drink plenty of fluids during cleansing. It is recommended that you have at least 8 glasses of water everyday to assure detoxification of the toxins from the body.You can try the diet below: it is a diet that allows some food.

:½ lemon, squeeze - with 1 glass of warm water
:1 tablespoon bentonite clay and 1 tablespoon ground flax seeds in 1 glass of water.

Breakfast :
- Shake consist of pear, rice milk and rice protein powder.
- Vitamin C supplement

Snacks :
- Apple juice (diluted)
- Water

So,if you follow these then you can lose your weight quickly.

Follow the Link :theweightlossmiracle dot com

That sounds like a very unhealthy diet. It's a great way to lose weight if you want to end up malnourished. It's really not necessary to go to such an extreme. Just eat healthy and exercise, that should do it.

Be sure to eat lots of different veggies (the good ones: green, red, orange), lean protein (chicken breast, fish, lean beef), whole grains (lentils, wholewheat/multigrain bread, wild rice, whole wheat pasta), drink lots of water and clear fluids, avoid fried foods and sugar. Try to control your portion sizes by listening to your body - stop eating when you are full, don't over eat just because it tastes good. Every once in a while treat yourself to something really delicious that you love (but keep it reasonable).

There are some great sites that have tons of information about healthy ways to eat for weight loss. Here's a link from the Mayo clinic which is a very highly regarded medical reasearch center and clinic, the Food and Nutrition section of their website has lots of good tips and healthy recipes: mayoclinic.com/health/food-and-nutrition/NU99999 Best of luck to you

 

[SXIPro]

That sounds like a very unhealthy diet. It's a great way to lose weight if you want to end up malnourished. It's really not necessary to go to such an extreme. Just eat healthy and exercise, that should do it.

Be sure to eat lots of different veggies (the good ones: green, red, orange), lean protein (chicken breast, fish, lean beef), whole grains (lentils, wholewheat/multigrain bread, wild rice, whole wheat pasta), drink lots of water and clear fluids, avoid fried foods and sugar. Try to control your portion sizes by listening to your body - stop eating when you are full, don't over eat just because it tastes good. Every once in a while treat yourself to something really delicious that you love (but keep it reasonable).

There are some great sites that have tons of information about healthy ways to eat for weight loss. Here's a link from the Mayo clinic which is a very highly regarded medical reasearch center and clinic, the Food and Nutrition section of their website has lots of good tips and healthy recipes: mayoclinic.com/health/food-and-nutrition/NU99999 Best of luck to you

That is an understatement. It would be a great diet if you want to spend your day on the toilet reaching for the imodium ID. The diarrhea weight loss plan....NICE!!

 

[Chillen]

It's really not necessary to go to such an extreme. Just eat healthy and exercise, that should do it.

It depends on what context one puts the extreme in.

Have you EVER dabbled in the area of Stubborn Body Fat, where one's simple and basic dietary construction of what once worked doesn't anymore, and seemingly no amount of physical activity (training, etc) seems to work?

If you notice about the types of body fat on a person, there are some clear and concise distinctions in the medical field, but there isn't a classification "specifically" for Stubborn Body Fat, though Stubborn Body Fat may fall within those medical classifications--though there is a difference, IMO.

The context I am putting Stubborn Body Fat is with one who is "really" having this problem, and not to varying elements of fat loss plateau's, etc, etc.

IMO, (and speaking in terms of naturals), the lower the body fat and the closer one gets to essential/critical fat (simply critical fat necessary for life), the more stubborn fat loss "can" become.

IMO, taking educated approaches on removing Stubborn Fat, are no different that the risks involved in what we put in our mouths daily. The difference can be that one is trying to eat healthy and function within certain dietary perimeters (i.e. Calorie and macro manipulation, glucose storage depletion, etc, etc), which can be deemed as unhealthy to some.

But, I beg to differ.


best regards,

Chillen

 

[leckbass]

I don't know which foods I can eat that will fill me up. Can someone help me with this

One thing that helped me a lot is chugging water. If i have that feeling like i am so hungry, i grab a quart of water and chug it.

Another thing that helped me is to psyllium fiber. I have used colon clense and now foods brand. It seems to fill me up pretty good, plus adds good fiber to my diet. Very low calories.