Rowe1
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Hello, My name is Daniel.
I am 25 years old this thursday and I'm ready to change my life.
I am 5'10, nearly 400 pounds, and am ready to change.
I was a football player in highschool, and my last recorded weight was 285 lbs back in september of 2000. Back then i ran every day and lifted weights 3 times a week. Since highschool i have packed on the pounds through laziness, bad eating habits, and poor life style choices.
To lay it all out on the table, my love of 2 years left me 2 weeks ago. I'm not here to go into it, but communication and complacency ruined a wonderful thing. That being said, I spent the past 2 years trying to get her and I to get off the video games every night and to go out and exercise. Now i realize, I was making myself un happy. I want to change, and i have this unsatiable hunger to get healthy. The skinny part will come later, I just want to feel good.
So i found this place. My circle of friends have no interest in getting healthy or exercising, so i'm doing this by my self for now, with the support of my mother and father.
I hope to find some good advice, some good inspiration, and look forward to sharing ideas and experiences with the people on these forums.
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What i have done so far.
I haven't had a soda or fried food in two weeks. I have only been drinking water. I have cut my caloric intake down to about 1000-1500 per day. Fruit, salads, and lean proteins. I still don't know what or how much i should be eating but my meals have gone like this. Morning. Oatmeal, and an apple. Lunch salad w/ chicken, or a subway sandwich. I get a footlong from their diet menu with tons of veggies on it. no cheese, no dressing, and eat half at 1pm. and the other between 5 and 6. (its hard because of college and work). but i try to stop eating before 7p.m.
Tomorrow i start my excersie and I expect that to increase my appetite a bit and i plan on adjusting my food intake accordingly, i just don't know who to ask about how to measure what is good for me at that level.
I have searched online for work out routines and i have found things that are similar to what i did in highschool, so i'm going to start there.
Any advice, would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for reading.
Daniel.
I am 25 years old this thursday and I'm ready to change my life.
I am 5'10, nearly 400 pounds, and am ready to change.
I was a football player in highschool, and my last recorded weight was 285 lbs back in september of 2000. Back then i ran every day and lifted weights 3 times a week. Since highschool i have packed on the pounds through laziness, bad eating habits, and poor life style choices.
To lay it all out on the table, my love of 2 years left me 2 weeks ago. I'm not here to go into it, but communication and complacency ruined a wonderful thing. That being said, I spent the past 2 years trying to get her and I to get off the video games every night and to go out and exercise. Now i realize, I was making myself un happy. I want to change, and i have this unsatiable hunger to get healthy. The skinny part will come later, I just want to feel good.
So i found this place. My circle of friends have no interest in getting healthy or exercising, so i'm doing this by my self for now, with the support of my mother and father.
I hope to find some good advice, some good inspiration, and look forward to sharing ideas and experiences with the people on these forums.
- - - - - - - -
What i have done so far.
I haven't had a soda or fried food in two weeks. I have only been drinking water. I have cut my caloric intake down to about 1000-1500 per day. Fruit, salads, and lean proteins. I still don't know what or how much i should be eating but my meals have gone like this. Morning. Oatmeal, and an apple. Lunch salad w/ chicken, or a subway sandwich. I get a footlong from their diet menu with tons of veggies on it. no cheese, no dressing, and eat half at 1pm. and the other between 5 and 6. (its hard because of college and work). but i try to stop eating before 7p.m.
Tomorrow i start my excersie and I expect that to increase my appetite a bit and i plan on adjusting my food intake accordingly, i just don't know who to ask about how to measure what is good for me at that level.
I have searched online for work out routines and i have found things that are similar to what i did in highschool, so i'm going to start there.
Any advice, would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for reading.
Daniel.
