Hi i'm new to this Forum, looking for some support

maisie_girl

maisie_girl

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Hi everyone, i've been looking aroudn the forum and i'm very interested in it. I weighed 120 lbs up until i was 25 (2 years ago) and since then i've been hovering around 150lbs, i have a few ideas what changed my weight, but ever since i've been struggling to get it back down or at least loose 20-25 lbs. I have a gym membership and even that's been rocky, i find that i go to it for a few weeks at a time and then stop for whatever reasons (other things happening in life) then i go again and same thing happens. This time around i'm ready to stick with it, not jsut going to the gym but excersising at home, walking alot, drinking lot's of water and trying to eat healthy, but i think the eating part is what gets me. I'm not much of a cook and i am one of those people that just wants to be told what, when, how to eat and exsercise but i can't afford a trainer. So i'm hoping that there are kind people here that can help me on my journey to lose some weight. any tips on what a healthy diet consists of???

thanks
 
welcome maisie, youve come to the right place you will find lots of people here that will give you help and support in you weight loss!
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there is quite a fit of information on nutrition in the stickied threads, you can start there and then ask questions. i don't know what others would say but i feel that learning to cook for yourself is pretty important in eating healthy. you don't have to be a gourmet chef, it can be really simple and easy. you have much more of a chance of keeping off your weight if you learn the right way to eat and how to make healthy choices. if someone just tells you what to eat, you may not learn and you may not continue the behaviors that got you to your goal. make sense? well, anyway, welcome to the board. i hope you find something here that helps.
 
Welcome!
Another place you may want to check out is the recipes thread. Allot of great ideas there. I love to cook and would love to give you some ideas for f easy and tasty recipes.
Good Luck to you
Tina
 
thanks

hello thanks for the advice i'veread through some sticky's a bit i guess there's just so much info there it's hard to knwo where to start lol, i agree that if i'm ust told what to make i won't learn anything, but i can cook basic's at this point meat and veggies and stuff, but i guess i've just never dived into it far enough to really love it, it will probably take seom time and a lot of effort for me, but i will defentily try as long as som egood funds are there it's a bit easier!!! lol thank you everyone, and yes i'd love to hear some basic recipes that may apply to many others, for starters what would be the best way to cook meat??? BBQ?? i love doing it that way anyways.

thanks again
 
Spend some time at the library in the cook book section or your local bookstore -there's a lot of cookbooks that are geared towards the time challenged, creativity challenged, and people with limited ingredients... Sometimes you have to use a bit of common sense and make some substitutions but it's really kind of fun... Or just spend some time googling healthy recipes... you'll have fun :D

Best way to cook meat - pretty much as long as it's not batter dipped and deep fried, is however you will eat it... baked, roasted, grilled, broiled, steamed, sauteed with a bit of oil -it's really wahtever your pleasure is..
 
thanks maleficent, good tips, i have one question that really bugs me i'm not sure if there is a true answer to it probably not, but i really want to know what a good intake a day is of fat carbs sugar and protein i've been calorie counting and counting those as well and i need some kind of range of what a healthy intake is... thanks
 
there are a few threads in the forum on this topic... (steve has posted some good info on it -just not exactly sure what threads they are in.. )

from my understanding, as long as your calories are iin place, then protein should be your biggest concern - and the range you should shoot for is .75 - 1 gram of protein per pound of lean body mass (which isn't your actual weight, but your weight less the fat...) some people that's usually 20 -30 percent of ther actual weight.. .once you get protein in check -the r est should fall into place.

There are some sites, like or sparkpeople.com or one of the 100s of other food diary sites that will calculate the amounts by percentage of your total calories -sometimes that works out pretty well..
 
thanks again for more info but soemtimes it's hard fo rme to catch on to the way things are said, i jsut don't understand some of it,i have no idea how to calculate my weight less my fat...... (lean body mass) how do i figure that out?
 
there's no good way that I'm aware of without using calipers or fancy equipment

there are body fat calculators on the web -that do it based on measurements that would give you an approximation...

Do you know how much protein you are currently getting -and how m any calories a day you are consuming?

As long as you aren't getting 20 grams of protein a day, and eating only 1100 calories a day, i'd say you're doing ok
 
well i guess i'm not doing that great then cause i've been getting more than 20 g protein a day but also close to 1300 cals a day..... see i jsut have no idea what to eat, this is sooo frustrating!!! lol i feel like if i look at all these foods and what they have in them there is always so much junk in alot of foods, and the things that don't have much at all don't ever seem appitizing or filling for me.... i never had to worry about what i ate and how much before an di never gained any weight so this is such a sturggle for me!!!
i think i'm eating healthy but just becuase i'm eating healthy with no junk food and always drinking water still doens't mean i'm eating healthy enough to lose weight......:banghead:
 
see i jsut have no idea what to eat, this is sooo frustrating!!! lol i feel like if i look at all these foods and what they have in them there is always so much junk in alot of foods, and the things that don't have much at all don't ever seem appitizing or filling for me....
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My own personal philosophy on the foods I won't eat -or try to avoid if i can - is that if it's got entirely too many ingredients that wouldn't be found elsewhere in the grocery store, then I don't eat it... I try to stick with as much real food and avoid processed stuff as possible...

Don't stress over it though - this should be a lifestyle change - not a short term diet... eat what you like and figure out how to make it work in your day...
 
hello, I joined the gym I am currently going to in August last year, went a couple of times a week and then maybe did not go.. So finally I started going on the way to work. Get up get things ready go to the gym work out shower there and go to work. It has helped. I now go 5 days a week and I can see the difference. As far as food goes lots of fruits and veggies. Do not have to really cook those. Works good for me. I do that during the day and at night if eat grains and maybe some meat, but lots of veggies.
 
ok thanks again, more questions though. when i count calories in my diet am i to add the calories in the fat?? and teh carbs?? and the protein, or just stick to the cals in the food itself????

and question for you FROMTODAY.... what do you usually do at the gym 5 days a week?? rotate arms every other and legs every other?? cardio on treadmill for 30 mins and eliptical?? or ride bike?? how often do you switch up each cardio excersise so your body doens't get used to it??
 
ok thanks again, more questions though. when i count calories in my diet am i to add the calories in the fat?? and teh carbs?? and the protein, or just stick to the cals in the food itself????
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The calories listed on the package are the total calories - no additional math needed...
you don't need to worry about the fat, carbs, protein.. just stick with the calories

and question for you FROMTODAY.... what do you usually do at the gym 5 days a week?? rotate arms every other and legs every other?? cardio on treadmill for 30 mins and eliptical?? or ride bike?? how often do you switch up each cardio excersise so your body doens't get used to it??
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read the stickied threads in the exercise forum - you'll a lot of useful information...
 
scales

hey i've got another question, i believe that the scales at the gym are the most acurate (doc's scales) and at hoem i use digitals and they read about the same, and also i have reg scales i step on and they are set at zero but for seom reason always say i weigh a few lbs lighter, which scales do you prefer??
 
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