Hi My Name is Austin & I Want To Lose Fat! Yeah!

austin_88

austin_88

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Hi, I am new to this forum.

My name is Austin - I'm a girl!

I started my weight loss journey at the end of July, I lost a bit of weight to start off with, now I am losing motivation and slacking a bit.

STATS:

Starting Weight: 137lbs
Current Weight: 126.5lbs
Goal Weight: 118lbs
Height: 5'6"

But honestly... I could throw out my scales right now, I dont give a crap about a number, I want to look good!

My main problem areas are my tummy, arms and calfs/ankles.

How Am I Going To Achieve My Goal?
Smaller Portions - Im not going to deprive myself
Around 1500-1600 calories per day
Running every second day 30-60 minutes
Pool session once per week
Resistance Training 3 Times per week

I used to keep track of calories in calorieking.com. But I really dont have the time, and I only have access to a computer at work. I kinda hated counting calories too! It just made me think of food ALL the time!

Usual Food For The Day:
Breakfast: either 2 slices toast with a low cal spread, or oatmeal with honey, or muesli with yoghurt, or 2 scrambled eggs on a piece of toast.

Lunch: Toasted Cheese & Tuna Sandwich, or low cal salt reduced soup, or salad roll or sandwich, or leftovers (small portion).

Dinner: I live at home, so a small portion of what my mum cooks. If I am eating out I will choose grilled meat with vegetables or salad.

Snacks: Fruit (apples, bananas, nectarines, raspberries, mangoes, strawberries), low fat natural yoghurt, vegetable sticks (capsicum, carrots, celery, cucumber) with Hommus, any more suggestions?

Drinks: I have a coffee every morning (teaspoon of nescafe 43, 2 equal, dash of low fat milk), and drink water. Maybe a diet coke a couple of times a week.

This is my plan! I havent been following this lately, I have been terrible! Eating chips and pizza and takeaways! But it has to stop NOW! I got down to 124lbs but have since put on around 2lbs.

When Do I Want To Achieve My Goal?
Christmas

If you have any criticisms or ways I can improve please say!
 
Hi Austin. I'd like to commend you on attempting to look good and not focusing on a number. After all, looking like a million is the ultimate goal, right?

Your tummy will come around once you lean out, and hitting a proper calorie mark everyday is the best and most consistent way to do that. 1500-1600 sounds just about perfect.
I especially like that youll be resistance training 3 times a week...that's all you need to do! And if you get used to what you eat and be honest with yourself, you dont
need to count! Just eat small meals at least 3 times a day.

Can I ask what you are going to do with your resistance training?

Just remember that fruit is an easily accessible form of sugar...so try and keep that moderated with an adequate number of vegetables.

Other than that i have no complaints..that is one of the most sensible/complete eating/exercise plans ive seen from a new person in a long time. Kudos.

Michael
 
ExercisePhysio said:
Hi Austin. I'd like to commend you on attempting to look good and not focusing on a number. After all, looking like a million is the ultimate goal, right?

Your tummy will come around once you lean out, and hitting a proper calorie mark everyday is the best and most consistent way to do that. 1500-1600 sounds just about perfect.
I especially like that youll be resistance training 3 times a week...that's all you need to do! And if you get used to what you eat and be honest with yourself, you dont
need to count! Just eat small meals at least 3 times a day.

Can I ask what you are going to do with your resistance training?

Just remember that fruit is an easily accessible form of sugar...so try and keep that moderated with an adequate number of vegetables.

Other than that i have no complaints..that is one of the most sensible/complete eating/exercise plans ive seen from a new person in a long time. Kudos.

Michael
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Im doing a workout that my trainer at the gym gave me. It involves free weights (4kg dumbells), for biceps, triceps and another one lol. And also using the machines (shoulder press, chest press, leg extention, leg press etc) and then using the captains chair for those leg raises, and this other seat/bench thing for crunches. Im hoping to get some personal training sessions though, and start doing completly free weights. I really dont know a lot about it though, but ive just heard (and from reading on here) that free weights give better results than machines.

Also, with my job its really really hard to eat more than 3 times a day, so im going to have my 3 meals then a snack or two. I know its apparantly better for your metabolism, but Ive never seens substantial proof of this.

Steve - I eat meat at least twice a day. I always have tuna at lunch (20g protein) and have a serving of chicken/steak/beef/turkey/fish at dinner.
Would you think its better to have the majority of my dinner protein (meat + vegies or salad) and limit my carbs?
 
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