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Im very fat guy. I want to be sexy but apparently, I can't control my eating habits. I eat a lot! What is the best diet for me to become sexy and healthy?
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While most people will NOT encourage this, and I really don't e n c o u r a g e it.....I cut daily calories to 900 for about a year and lost over 100lbs. Had my TT, and now have lost 40lbs. Still got 40 to go...but am up to 1200 calories a day. As for exercise....treadmill, bike and ...lol...squats. You can do mine....I can't...lol.
Good luck to you.....YOU CAN DO IT!!! Welcome to the board.Jonnie
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I like to eat too! We just have to learn to like to exercise even more!! Start slow and work yourself up and before you know it the appetite gets surpressed and your feeling much better about yourself! I've got to get back on track myself! We can do it!!
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Hi there and welcome to the board....
I'm not a man so I can't give info by example.
However, I do have some weight, and I do have a son who is over weight. We both love food.
Getting started is the hardest part...
Before adjusting your diet, read up/research metabolism! It will shock you as well as guide you. Start exercising today.
Take a look at what you are doing today. Do you have a food journal? If not, start one. You need to know what you are consuming. How much water are you consuming?
How many calories you need is the most difficult part to figure out. For instance, there was a time when I was only consuming 1200 calories. That wasn't enough - my body required at least 1400 for basic operations. Then, I went to 1600 calories. That wasn't enough. I was exercising and putting my body into starvation mode. (you will learn more about that when you research metabolism) Now, I'm at 2000 calories. It's weird, but I'm finally starting to lose weight. It's slow but it's moving and I feel great!
2000 calorie doesn't seem like much - but you will be amazed of how much food that is when you are eating high ~ It's what you learn AFTER you know everything that counts!!! ~unknown author-:¦:- ~Cindy~ -:¦:-
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Bluewave.. welcome, look thru our board we have a lot of articles that all of us have posted to help get each of us to work at this, an I do mean WORK.. this is not easy but we are here for each other in the ups and the downs. We have fun at it and that is what helps.
Whether you are 5#-100# over your desired goalthat you want to be 1st. I think you need to be motivated, finding that one thing that makes you want to lose those #'s keep that at the front of your mind..that is your key, then find the fuel to lost that weight SLOWLY,number of calories.Then combine that with exercise cause without that you might lose but it will not be the healthy way.Next when you lose reward yourself and not by food, find other rewards..for me I love to shop for clothes.Don't beat yourself up as to where you are today,recognize it and start to change.Mind,Body,goal. Best of luck check back in with us. CathieBL 8/28/05
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Im very fat guy. I want to be sexy but apparently, I can't control my eating habits. I eat a lot! What is the best diet for me to become sexy and healthy?
bluewave, can you provide some stats? (height/weight/waist size/age?)
I am a male, 6'2", age 43. I weighed 325 pounds about nine months ago. Today, I weight 258 pounds (a total loss of 67 pounds) and my ultimate goal is to get down to 240 pounds (total pictures/viewAlbum.php?albumid=744
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I love to eat, too...I eat out a lot, as well! For me, the answer has been:
1. Eat smaller portions, ALWAYS. I never give myself a "just this once" or "but it's Christmas". I can always have some more at another meal.
2. Knowing that the eating experience is doomed to end: whether I eat the whole cheesecake and lick the plate clean, or eat a slim slice...it ends. The good part is that I can be in charge of *when* it ends, and eliminate the guilt part...thus enjoying my slim slice more than I would have the whole pie, anyway.
3. Always eat breakfast.
4. Eat more frequent (smaller) meals...every 4 hours is my usual (sometimes even 3 hours).
5. If I don't really love it, it doesn't pass my lips. I'd rather have one bite of REALLY EXCELLENT food than 20 bites of "it's okay".
6. Find a food buddy: someone who has similar tastes in food and loves to eat and eat out. Go on lunch dates, and split your meal. This way, you both a) eat cheaper, b) eat less, and c) enjoy some commeraderie.
7. Make *most* of your food intake "sensible". Sensible doesn't = sucks. Pick stuff you really like, but make the bulk of it things that are good for you, or at least not awful for you. Then add some things you just love (no rules for that part).
8. Never totally deprive yourself of foods you really love. The exception to this is a temporary move for a month or two, if you need to get a handle on your self control. That's what I had to do...I gave up everything for several weeks, until I could manage my food addiction. Then I started adding things back in in controlled doses...it's worked great ever since, and I don't over-indulge anymore. Let me tell you, *that* is REALLY liberating!!!!
9. Excersize. This means do some sort of cardio at least 3x a week for 30 minutes (more if you can). This can be a brisk walk (even in your office building, the mall, wherever). A few simpleat-home stregth training excersizes 2-3 times a week (this can be as little as 10-15 minutes of your time...we can all find that much). You don't *have* to belong to a gym, or buy expensive equipment. A few pilates bands for resistance is even enough for a start (about $10 at many outlet stores).
10. Reverse bank your calories: we usually gain weight by eating more and excersizing less, right? Well, those little bits that added up to packed-on pounds can be undone in reverse...cut off little bits of excess eating (even reducing portions by 1/4 of their total size, and leaving a few bites on the plate...helps!!) and do a little bit more, physically. Park at the far back of the lot, and walk farther to the store. Take the stairs. Get up from your desk (if you work at one) every hour to take a brisk 5 minute walk (bathroom's a good excuse). Just add in a little extra oopmph to all your chores and activities. If you have to pick something up that you dropped, do an impromptu squat...take advantage of the free excersize time.
Whatever you do, make it a lifestyle change...that is permanent, vs dieting, which is temporary. Pick things you can really live with comfortably, and ENJOY your life.
I found an amazing catch 56 (I just like to assign random numbers to my catches...it amuzes me)...and this might just be me, but I doubt it...it's probably quite universal...
You have to be happy now. If you catch yourself thinking/saying "Oh, I'd be happy if only I was thin(er)" (or insert richer, more successful, in a relationship, whatever the desire is). The thing is, while I/you/we may *want* to be thinner (or whatever), if we aren't happy anyway, being or achieving that won't make us any happier, in the long run.
It takes tremendous self-love and self-compassion to lose weight, keep it off, get fit, and be healthy. You can't do it (over the long haul) if you are beating yourself up, emotionally. For me, I had to totally accept myself as being valuable and worthy just as I was, even with that disfigured ass on my lower tummy...even with the extra pounds, and everything else on the "this is what sucks about me" list. I had to make peace with who I was, then, to become who I am now. Catch 97.
Live the life of the thin person you want to be. It's like dressing for the job you want, in a way. Buy the nice outfit (yes, guys too...get a rockin comfy pair of jeans that feels good on you, and flatters your existing shape the best way possible). Don't wait "till you loose x pounds". Treat yourself as the person you hope to be, and the rest will follow. This is one of those easy-to-say-harder-to-do things, but I really honestly believe in it, have lived it, and I think it will work for almost anyone. I've watched my (adapted from lots of other sources, and combined) methods work for friends and family...so it's beyond just me.
And I bet you are a wonderful person with tremendous things to offer the world...fat is something you can conquer. And you don't have to give up what you love to do it. Live is worth living fully and really enjoying...so the answer (for me) has been finding the middle ground, and avoiding excess. Yes, that's hard to figure out how to work, if you have a food addiction (which I did, bigtime, most of my life).
And since you have to eat to live, it's not like you can *avoid* it (you can at least avoid smokers when you quit smoking, or stay out of bars if you are giving up drinking, etc). Food is in your face all the time. And then there are the "feeders"...those folks who tempt you, even push you, sometimes seem to sabotage you.
Sorry this is so long...one last little thing. This is sort of funny, on the feeders thing. I was at a group event, a sort of a club type situation, where food was being served pot-luck. One lady baked brownies (which were decent, but not to-die-for-good). I cut one in half because they were pretty big, and enoyed eating it. She tried SO hard to get me to eat more and more...I had to really be firm with the "no, thanks" and explained that I just "taste things". This same lady often tries to feed me...she'll bring over a bag of fresh, hot french-fries, thinking I'll run for cover when she offers me some. It's funny to watch her face when I eat a few (few being the key word, there). Three or four french fries doesn't do much harm...a supersized bag, however, kicks your butt.
Oh, kiddie sizes. BaJournal
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