Okay lets start off about me.
I'm a guy. 18 5'10 240lbs ( :/ i know)
My target goal in the long run is about 190 lbs.
The hardest thing that i find is what to eat and what exercises to do, you always hear this high protein, low carb diet but i have no idea what to eat or anything. Starting tomorrow, i plan on running about 1-2 miles everyday and increase from there. I dont want to run and lose weight and be scrawny though but at the same time i dont want to lift too much. Is there any workouts at the gym that anyone has used that have been effective and is there any diets that anyone can recommend? Much help is appreciated, thank you in advance.
I am going to be committed to this now, i am sick of this weight and i want it GONE!
Personally, my main concern is always calories in/calories out. Everyone is different (in terms of speed of results), and certainly eating healthy food is better in the long run than eating questionable food. With that being said though, Monday-Thurs I eat two pizza pockets, a ham sandwich, a granola bar, and a small bag (150 calorie) of chips. On Friday I have a routine of eating a footlong meatball sub, and a small bag of chips, and that is it for food for the day. On Saturday I tend to go out and eat with my brother (pizza, or hamburger, etc etc), but I make sure I don't eat more than about 2300 calories in the day. On Sunday I try to eat no more than 1800 calories or so, mainly by eating pizza pockets and maybe a sandwich. Also, I am in love with a particular 0 calorie brand of soda, so I drink lots of that.
Now, almost nothing in the above "menu" is healthy. I certainly hope to avoid eating like that long term...but for me I couldn't imagine working out/calorie reduction/AND not eating foods I like (most fruits and veggies make me sick...that isn't hyperbole...my mother maintains that even when I was first eating, I would never touch most anything that was "good" for me). Sooo, food wise I eat little that is good for me, but I eat drastically less of it than I used to. That (in conjunction with exercise) seems to have been working for me so far.
As for exercise, I recommend walking and lite (at first at least) weight lifting. I walk at least 3.5 miles a day on weekdays, and I lift three times a week. When I first started with the lifting I had no clue what to do. I contacted a friend of mine who is in really good shape, and he recommended I pick up some basic dumbbells from the store. I found a set that cost 20 bucks, and could be configured in weights of 5 lb, 10 lb, 15 lb, and 20 lb.
When I got the weights, my friend recommended a routine of ...
1. Seat lifts (3 sets of 12)
2/3/4. Shrugs/Tricep extensions/tricep kickbacks (3 sets of 8 or 10),
5. Bicep rows (3 sets of 8 or 10)
6. Standing bicep curls (3 sets of 12)
7. Seated curls with a focus on the lower arms (3 sets of 12)
I added an 8th exercise of lateral raises (3 sets of whatever you can pull off routinely...lateral raises are rather tough for me personally).
I might have slaughtered some of those exercise names (I am by no means a big fan of weight lifting, but it needs to be done
...), however, I think if you google the exercise names you should be able to find illustrations/videos of the actions in question (if you don't already know what they all are).
As I said before, everyone is different, and I by no means recommend folks adopt a pizza pocket/soda diet for the long term. Still though, as someone who had no clue about how to lose weight just one year ago, I can't argue with my own results. However, I certainly recommend finding your own enjoyable diet/menu and sticking with it while attempting to lose weight.
