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i dont think i live very healthily. when i was in high school i played soccer almost every day of the week and my mom always cooked good healthy meals. the opposite is true for the past 3 years. the only exercise i get is walking around town (which i admit is alot of walking, but not a good exercise regime alone) and almost all of my meals are delivered or eaten at restaurants. after high school i weight about 165, now i weigh about 195. i need advice on good stuff to eat. for example, i just bought some mashed potatoes, gravy, and corn. yesterday i had some chinese food which consisted of rice and spicy chicken. should any of these be cut out? what common foods cause weight gain? also i snack alot. i need some good ideas for something i can eat a ton of without it really mattering. i know these questions' answers arent the solution to the big picture but anything related to this that anyone can post is appreciated. |
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195 fuuuuck dude Dieting sucks, atleast for me. I was on a very successful cardio 6 times a week for an hr and >1500 cal a day diet for some time but its hard to maintain through holidays. These days, i try to avoid snacking all together, eat small healthy meals through out the day and dont really worry if i have 3 small ones, 4 small ones, 5 small ones. Some days im real hungry, others im not. I lift a lot and do cardio less as i find it more and more an absolute chore. One tip is: Don't think that diet alone or excersise alone is the solution. Commit to both now. Just to note on my dieting history, like 1.5 yrs ago, i was 270 worked down to 225, slipped up to 245 about 4 or 5 months ago and am now down to 230 with a lot more muscle mass than i had at 225 easily. |
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Move your carbs to bkfst and lunch so you can burn them off during the day (So hardly any bread/pizza/pasta/potatoes etc. in the evening. A tiny little bit is okay.) Snack on carrot sticks, fruit, that sort of thing instead of junk. There's lots of convenient packaged stuff out there - craisins, dried apricots, all sorts of stuff. Generally, eat less, exercise more. |
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I haven't seen 195 since the sixth grade....LOL Just kidding. Just feels like it I think. Any carbs and starches will tend to stick to you if you don't work them off. Mashed potatoes are a fattening food, with the butter and milk in them. Matter of fact, the only nonfattening potato is a plain baked one. Gravy....bad. Rice, see: potatoes. More or less if it tastes especially good, it's fattening. Sauces on any food are fattening. You are better off with lean meats and vegetables to cut calories. Dairy products are high in calories and fat. However, if you cut any of these out completely, you will likely miss some vitamins you should have. Bottom line is this, and it's a fact: If you use more calories than you consume, you will lose weight. So if you choose to eat more, you have to work more to keep it off. Unfortunately, I am not good at either. I don't eat quite right, and I don't spend nearly enough time at the gym. That will change though. I looked at a pic taken of me this weekend and for the first time in my life, I saw a fat man looking back at me...... Good luck man. Hope it helps. Lord knows you help me enough with cards..... |
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If you drink soda stop. What do you snack on? If you eat foods with more protein it will keep you full longer. I eat a lot of sandwiches for lunch. Instead of having two sandwiches at noon, it's better to eat one at 11 and one at 2 (like rilla said, more smaller meals). Eat breakfast when you get up, it gets your metabolism going and helps regulate your body better. You don't "feel hungry" when you're not. Bagel, cereal, yogurt, power bar, eggs, etc. Little things help. Try to cook instead of eating out. Buy 90% lean beef instead of buying fast food, fries in the oven are better than deep fried fast food. If you make mashed potatoes don't add butter. If you drink milk buy 1% instead of 2% (if you exercise at all 1% is better than skim). Little things add up. One for me was to stop eating Stouffer's pizza. There is like 35 grams of fat per pizza. |
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Metabolism has a lot to do with it. You don't "naturally" burn off calories like you did when you were 15, your body isn't growing like it did. Calorie consumption is huge. Less sugar, especially refined sugar. Carbs don't really matter IMO. They're harder to work off in general but they'll help you if you follow what I do. Go to a gym. You can afford a membership. Make sure they have TVs on the treadmills. Watch WSOP. Or whatever. The TVs are beyond clutch. But do this: Speed of 3.5 Incline of 10.00. Basically a good paced walk at a pretty good gradient. Every 2 minutes, increase speed by 0.1, and incline by 0.2. Do this as high as you can without having to jog. It's key that you walk, even if it's as fast as you can possibly walk. I generally get going to about 4.6 speed, incline of 14.0. The increase is gradual so its not like you DIE, but its harsh. You WILL want to stop. Don't. Gut it out. After about 20 minutes, runners high will kick in. From then on, while you'll feel really tired... you'll never get more tired. You'll stay at the same level as long as you choose to do this. Doing this will burn 600-1100 calories in an hour. That's a shit ton, and really, after you get the hang of it, it isn't that big a deal anymore. Watch TV, remark how Jamie Gold is a fish, space out, and an hour later you'll be done. Doing this not only knocks out a TON of calories, but it increases your metabolism, helping you burn them even when you're not exercising. The change will be dramatic inside 2 weeks. Wouldn't be shocked at 10+ pounds being gone. |
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i have high metabolism. i eat alot (mostly bad stuff), am the laziest mfer youll ever meet, and i am 135 soaking wet... it sucks but yeah one of the biggest thing is replacing pop with water or just replacing chocolate/other bad snacks with fruit or something. just little things like that can pwn fat. |
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Aerobics is a good place to start. If you want more after ~3 weeks read euro's workout thread. |
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you should try to lose your money and become poor, gabe. the more poor you are, the more you're forced to stay at home and make your own food. generally speaking, food you make yourself is healthier than any food from outside ... lemme know if you want someone to give money to. i wouldn't mind becoming a little fatter ... |
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It's hard to find healthy food that tastes good unless you cook it yourself (or someone in your family cooks it for you). Do you still live in a dorm or do you have a kitchen? Pick some vegetables that you like, and buy a cookbook or get on the Internet and find some healthy recipes that are based on them. Another good thing about cooking is that you usually have leftovers and then you can snack on them the next day instead of snacking on junk food when you're hungry. Also, definitely stop drinking pop if you do, that shit is terrible for you. I don't really have any advice on exercise because I don't do it enough, but I'd say I have a healthier diet than 95% of Americans so I stay in good shape. I should still exercise though. |
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taebo FTW also, if you can stick to these fancy plans above, great, but if you are like me trying to re invent yourself as Oprah's chef tomorrow is probably going to last about a week. Think of a couple bad things you eat, cut them out or reduce them or replace them, see if you can handle a couple more next month. It took time to get fat, it takes time to lose weight also. Between my senoir year of college and my first year out I put on probably 40 pounds, but I quit eating fast food every day for lunch, got a dog and lost the first 20 pretty easy. The other 20 was a lot harder and took a couple years of Taebo along with lots of trying to limit desserts and adding in fruits and veggies, etc. Now I weigh same as I did in HS and I'm a lot stronger than I was then. Maintain some belly, chicks like for you to have more tummy than they do. Also, consider doing coke rather than drinking. You've got money! |
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ty everyone for responses so far, but i did forget something i have stopped soda, except for when im making myself alcoholic drinks..also i drink alot of beers. probably at least 4 nights/week i have at least 3 beers. im pretty sure this is bad too...but i dont see how i could cut this out. i would think this adds in to the 'exercise more' thing. |
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Dont drink and eat at the same time, if you are going to be drinking eat less than normally. If you drink regularly (4 times per week plus) then it will be very difficult to lose weight. Exercise, it has lots of other benefits too. |
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in order of importance: 1) 6-8 small meals a day, high in protein. you don't have to be a bodybuilder or anything but be conscious of what goes in your body. obviously mashed potatoes, gravy, and corn is a terrible meal, ditto with the large majority of food that you can get delivered or eat in a restaurant. Sorry if this is what you didn't want to hear. (do as I say and not as I do in this department and you'll be better off. there was a time when I didn't eat japanese food every day....) 2) good lifting routine 3) cardio and other exercise. Move up here and we can ball it up and go snowboarding a few times a week in the winter (after we workout of course). holla |
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drmc is spot on. Little changes can make a big difference and most people find it impossible to go instantly from a bad diet to a great one. Things like cutting down on sugar in hot drinks (say from 2 to 1) or using sweetner or getting low fat spread instead of using butter and so on. My advice is to give up one of your beer nights and make this a night you excercise instead. Also make it something you enjoy or you won't stick to it. I struggle at the gym because it's so damn boring so instead I play football (soccer), cricket, badminton and also cycle a lot. Then begin to introduce fruit and veg into your diet. You can fill up on this stuff and will reduce your need for crap food. If you need to snack, get something like cashew nuts or dried fruit pieces. Finally, check your weight once a week on the same day at the same time with the same scales and clothes (or with no clothes). Then keep a record of your progress. Then can then increase your healthy regime as you see fit (e.g. more exercise, fruit + veg) when you are ready. Finally, eating healthy (and cooking it yourself) is not difficult - it's just a matter of discipline and practice. I used to eat crap but now eat pretty well but I find it easy because I've been doing it for a few years now. Good luck |
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1) 6-8 small meals a day, high in protein I don't think this should be your highest priority because it's so difficult to actually do (though a poker pro might have a more flexible schedule so maybe it's easier). Swimming helped me lose the most weight in my life - 45 mins of breastroke 3 times a week, along with cutting out big portions, snacks and soda and reducing the amount of alcohol (though not by much). If you keep a food diary then you'll find you're psychologically loathe to write down crappy things - the simple act of record keeping will help you stay on the straight and narrow. |
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| seriously i am in the same boat as you... i use to be very active and healthy... played basketball and weightlifted 5 days a week, now i haven't done shit for the past 9 months except drink soda and eat out all the time and find myself 28 lbs. heavier w/ a gut... BUT take this advice to heart... go and get urself the Flavorwave Oven Deluxe, i don't know about u but i can't cook worth a shit, w/this there is NO prep work needed except maybe rinsing of vegetables and putting salt & pepper on ur meats and placing it into the Deluxe and whammo ur done man. This includes straight from the freezer Meats, no need to thaw out!! I just got this a month ago and have been eating great. Chicken & asparagus meals, salmon, steaks, roast loins... all u do is take it out of the freezer and insert it into the Deluxe and set the timer and ur good. Everything cooks at the same time, whether it be the meat and veggies or whatever u got, and NO none of the foods will share the flavors while they are cooking. It's also extremely healthy because there is no Oils or whateva needed to cook ur food. This machine cooks, bakes, steams, and roasts all-in-one!!! It is a god-send. Now i buy full chickens, steaks, pork chops, roast pork loins and whatever veggies or else i want and i am not scared now, asking myself do i know how to cook these, it's simple!!! Eat Great & Healthy, *oh just to let u know i cooked a 10lb turkey with this thing it came out marvelous in only 3.5 hrs too! and EXERCISE too, whether it be push ups at home or jog around the block, DO IT u lazy bitch...hahaha!! LATER High-roller | |||
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im upto 220 from 185 over the last few months. I played soccer, rugby other sports almost constantly then got to my finals at uni and quit it all and took up poker. Fwiw, im addicted to cola and cant quit it, os i just try to drink lots of coffee instead of the soda, eat small meals during the day after a fair large brekafast and run every day around the local park. Helps that i can fit it all into the grinding schedule which makes me stick to it. Basic advice here is fine really, dont drink soda a lot, try to drink less beer and keep your meals small while taking a good amount of excercise. fwiw, you prob need to go and find a sport or something at the gym you like to do that helps a lot. Or else buy a cross trainer for the spare room (just got the g/f to this, def +sixpackev) |
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For caffeine addiction, get rid of coke, black coffee or sugar free red bulls are great. I think I gained 5 pounds from sugar filled energy drinks last year. I switched to sugar free red bull (10 cal as opposed to 110, some energy drinks have 0 cal vs their 250 cal sugar version) or black coffee. I've also been lifting every day besides rest days and eating with the frame of mine that I'm fueling my muscles so I avoid crappy foods. I weighed 185 at beginning of semster and now weigh 173. I still have to get rid of a mini beer belly but that will mean I need to stop drinking SADFACE. Maybe cut down on beer and take shots? y/n? |
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hear hear... a couple shots for the "president"... P.S- 173?? man ya are some puny little guys, anybody on hear thats 210+ but not a fatty, sorry Gabe!! |
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Your posts sound familiar as I used to be very active in sports during college, but after college, time became a premium and I didn't have time to wait for a basketball pickup game, my metabolism slowed, and I gained weight. A friend of mine who owns a gym gave me some tips that were really helpful and I still use them today: 1. He was low carb before it became popular. Watch your glycemic (sp?) index, carbs in the morning, proteins at night. 2. Smaller meals more frequently to keep up your metabolism. 3. Junk night. Sounds silly but works. Once a week after 3 pm, I don't care what I eat. Pizza, beer, sugar, snacks, whatever. The rest of the week is strict low sugar diet. This helps to: (1) lower your "fat set point", which if you gorge your body once in a while it will retain less fat; (2) you will feel like you are not cheating yourself; and (3) once you blow your insulin levels for the day, you really won't recover until the next day anyway. At first, you will crave sugar like a junkie, but after a while, your body will adjust, you will be more even during the day without sugar crashes and you won't crave sugars. 4. Drink lots of water. Your body does not know you have water available to you most of the time on demand. If you drink more, you will retain less. 5. Exercise; a combination of weight lifting AND aerobic activity has been proven to be the best for weight loss and keeping it off. It can also remove the effects of bad eating habits. 6. MOST IMPORTANT- Buy yourself a heart monitor. If you are not doing cardio within your target heart rate A MINIMUM of 30 mins 3 times a week, you are wasting your time. They are only about $40 at most sporting goods stores and you will be amazed at how little exercise it really takes to be in your range. At first, I could hit it by a quick walk, but after a year and a half, I was up to regular jogging (which I had hated in the past) and was able to complete run/walking a marathon within my target heart rate range, which would not have been possible without it. To get your target heart rate subtract your age from 220, then multiply the result by 60% for your low range, 70% for your high range. 7. Drink red wine daily. 1-2 glasses will increase your circulation, red wine (not white) also has beneficial effects on your insulin levels. A good byproduct is it will also help you sleep. Good Luck! |
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Lots of great advice. But to keep it simple to start, cut the carbs, alot. No bread, no pasta, no potatoes, no rice and most important no sugar. Learn what they are, where they are and eat only enough carbs to maintain energy levels. usually 100 g or less early in the day over two or three meals. I usually recommend dropping them completely on a weight loss diet. But alot of people have problems with concentration and fatigue for a week or two while adjusting so don't eliminate them all together or your game will suffer. Basically, Just eat anything you can cook on a george forman grill and vegetables( Potatoes and corn excluded). Eat high protien. That's meat, eggs, cotttage cheese, low fat cheese and lots of veggies. If you concentrate on the protien you won't have room for carbs. 8 meals a day is the best thing you can do. You will be hard pressed to eat at all and you wont get cravings for junk. If you drink pop, diet or regulaar, stop. If you have limited time to exercise, ift weights instead of cardio, it'll maintian muscle mass while eating less, and even burn more calories than cardio in less time. |
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Just set it... and... forget it! bigred: the alcohol is where the calories come from. Shot of 80 proof alcohol ~100 calories. A tasty Sam Adams: 135 calories. I'll go with the flavor and enjoyability and worry about a whopping 0.7% of my daily caloric intake later. |
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To affirm what others have said. Eat more protein. Egg whites, chicken, low-fat milk, lean beef, pork, cheeses, etc. Eat at least 6 smaller meals per day. Eat only protein starting 3 hours before bedtime. Learn the difference and eat good carbs (complex) not bad carbs (simple). Good luck. |
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Another thought, randomizing your caloric daily intake is also good. If you eat 1.5k every day, your body adjust to it and it becomes less effective. You need to find your "ideal" intake. You want to vary how much you eat, so 80% one day, 100% the next, then 90%. If you can think of 6 "small meals", then once a week just eat 4, maybe twice a week eat 5. Being in school helped me randomize it because I would be busier some days with less time to eat. Pretty soon we'll be able to make that "Stud ballers of FTR" calender. |
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