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RachelWatson93
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Hey I'm 21 and have been struggling to lose weight! Any suggestions on what I should be eating and at what times etc? Any help would be nice
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Try vegetarian. There are recipes on the web. I've done it and lost 40 lbs in 62 days.0
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It's all about calories in verse calories out! The time you eat doesn't matter. Set your goals and stay within your limits, and you'll do great!
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RachelWatson93 wrote: »Hey I'm 21 and have been struggling to lose weight! Any suggestions on what I should be eating and at what times etc? Any help would be nice
If you're struggling to lose weight, you are eating too many calories. Are you accurately weighing, measuring and logging absolute everything you eat? Use a food scale for solid foods. Liquids can be weighed or measured. If you're exercising, are you overestimating the calories burnt, and eating too many back?
Food choices aren't necessarily important for weight loss, but for good health, make nutrient dense choices most of the time. Eat sufficient protein and fat, then fill the rest of your calorie goal with carbs. Timing, number and size of meals is irrelevant0 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »RachelWatson93 wrote: »Hey I'm 21 and have been struggling to lose weight! Any suggestions on what I should be eating and at what times etc? Any help would be nice
If you're struggling to lose weight, you are eating too many calories. Are you accurately weighing, measuring and logging absolute everything you eat? Use a food scale for solid foods. Liquids can be weighed or measured. If you're exercising, are you overestimating the calories burnt, and eating too many back?
Food choices aren't necessarily important for weight loss, but for good health, make nutrient dense choices most of the time. Eat sufficient protein and fat, then fill the rest of your calorie goal with carbs. Timing, number and size of meals is irrelevant
I'm a little confused with the whole calories burnt bit, if I exercise and only burn say maybe like 400kcals am I only allowed to eat 400 kcals that day or am I being completely blonde here lol? That's probs where I've gone wrong because I don't really measure my food out at all, and I've now just started using this app to count my calories today:)0 -
Well, to start, what calories limits are you setting for yourself? For example, mine is 1200 a day.RachelWatson93 wrote: »I'm a little confused with the whole calories burnt bit, if I exercise and only burn say maybe like 400kcals am I only allowed to eat 400 kcals that day or am I being completely blonde here lol? That's probs where I've gone wrong because I don't really measure my food out at all, and I've now just started using this app to count my calories today:)
Say I exercised and burned ~250 calories by going out and jogging for a while. That day, I could eat 1450 calories and 'hit my goal' still.
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Also, what the guy said up top about going vegetarian... I did that too, just for the diet. I've lost a good amount of weight fairly quickly, but only because I'm eating HEALTHY as a vegetarian. Still gotta be careful on fried foods/calorie bombs.0 -
RachelWatson93 wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »RachelWatson93 wrote: »Hey I'm 21 and have been struggling to lose weight! Any suggestions on what I should be eating and at what times etc? Any help would be nice
If you're struggling to lose weight, you are eating too many calories. Are you accurately weighing, measuring and logging absolute everything you eat? Use a food scale for solid foods. Liquids can be weighed or measured. If you're exercising, are you overestimating the calories burnt, and eating too many back?
Food choices aren't necessarily important for weight loss, but for good health, make nutrient dense choices most of the time. Eat sufficient protein and fat, then fill the rest of your calorie goal with carbs. Timing, number and size of meals is irrelevant
I'm a little confused with the whole calories burnt bit, if I exercise and only burn say maybe like 400kcals am I only allowed to eat 400 kcals that day or am I being completely blonde here lol? That's probs where I've gone wrong because I don't really measure my food out at all, and I've now just started using this app to count my calories today:)
A bit blonde, perhaps
Your body needs energy just to function - your bmr is what you need just to survive if you lay in bed all day doing nothing. MFP doesn't include exercise, so whatever exercise you do on top of the calories you're given to lose weight needs to be added on (although calorie counts for exercise seem to be overinflated and most people don't eat back all of them from my understanding)
Measuring food is important so you know what's going in. If you don't measure, count and log you really have no idea!
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Ohh I see now! So my BMi says I'm allowed 1900 calories a day, if I exercise and burn 500 kcals I have to add it on to my total so I would be allowed 2400 kcals that day? Is that right lol? I'll get there in the end I promise hehe!livingleanlivingclean wrote: »RachelWatson93 wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »RachelWatson93 wrote: »Hey I'm 21 and have been struggling to lose weight! Any suggestions on what I should be eating and at what times etc? Any help would be nice
If you're struggling to lose weight, you are eating too many calories. Are you accurately weighing, measuring and logging absolute everything you eat? Use a food scale for solid foods. Liquids can be weighed or measured. If you're exercising, are you overestimating the calories burnt, and eating too many back?
Food choices aren't necessarily important for weight loss, but for good health, make nutrient dense choices most of the time. Eat sufficient protein and fat, then fill the rest of your calorie goal with carbs. Timing, number and size of meals is irrelevant
I'm a little confused with the whole calories burnt bit, if I exercise and only burn say maybe like 400kcals am I only allowed to eat 400 kcals that day or am I being completely blonde here lol? That's probs where I've gone wrong because I don't really measure my food out at all, and I've now just started using this app to count my calories today:)
A bit blonde, perhaps
Your body needs energy just to function - your bmr is what you need just to survive if you lay in bed all day doing nothing. MFP doesn't include exercise, so whatever exercise you do on top of the calories you're given to lose weight needs to be added on (although calorie counts for exercise seem to be overinflated and most people don't eat back all of them from my understanding)
Measuring food is important so you know what's going in. If you don't measure, count and log you really have no idea!0 -
RachelWatson93 wrote: »
Ohh I see now! So my BMi says I'm allowed 1900 calories a day, if I exercise and burn 500 kcals I have to add it on to my total so I would be allowed 2400 kcals that day? Is that right lol? I'll get there in the end I promise hehe!livingleanlivingclean wrote: »RachelWatson93 wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »RachelWatson93 wrote: »Hey I'm 21 and have been struggling to lose weight! Any suggestions on what I should be eating and at what times etc? Any help would be nice
If you're struggling to lose weight, you are eating too many calories. Are you accurately weighing, measuring and logging absolute everything you eat? Use a food scale for solid foods. Liquids can be weighed or measured. If you're exercising, are you overestimating the calories burnt, and eating too many back?
Food choices aren't necessarily important for weight loss, but for good health, make nutrient dense choices most of the time. Eat sufficient protein and fat, then fill the rest of your calorie goal with carbs. Timing, number and size of meals is irrelevant
I'm a little confused with the whole calories burnt bit, if I exercise and only burn say maybe like 400kcals am I only allowed to eat 400 kcals that day or am I being completely blonde here lol? That's probs where I've gone wrong because I don't really measure my food out at all, and I've now just started using this app to count my calories today:)
A bit blonde, perhaps
Your body needs energy just to function - your bmr is what you need just to survive if you lay in bed all day doing nothing. MFP doesn't include exercise, so whatever exercise you do on top of the calories you're given to lose weight needs to be added on (although calorie counts for exercise seem to be overinflated and most people don't eat back all of them from my understanding)
Measuring food is important so you know what's going in. If you don't measure, count and log you really have no idea!
1900 cals is likely what you need to live plus your normal every day moving around. So if you do no extra exercise, this is what you eat. If you do your exercise, add it on top like you said... Make sure you don't overestimate this or you could be negating your hard work! Machines and MFP give inflated readings so don't rely on them for your exercise calories!
(pretty sure MFP doesn't give you BMR... To be honest I use my own numbers and haven't used the MFP method! BMR is what you'd need just lying in bed - probably 1400ish)0 -
Ok thanks for being such a big help0
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try the Ideal Protein Diet you can lose average four pounds a week I'm on the Ideal for 2 weeks and I lost 16 pound and tomorrow will be my third week I'm hoping to lose another 5 lb0
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Where can I find that diet plz? Is it on the Internet? That's amazing well done! Keep at itsalaita1968 wrote: »try the Ideal Protein Diet you can lose average four pounds a week I'm on the Ideal for 2 weeks and I lost 16 pound and tomorrow will be my third week I'm hoping to lose another 5 lb0 -
RachelWatson93 wrote: »
Where can I find that diet plz? Is it on the Internet? That's amazing well done! Keep at itsalaita1968 wrote: »try the Ideal Protein Diet you can lose average four pounds a week I'm on the Ideal for 2 weeks and I lost 16 pound and tomorrow will be my third week I'm hoping to lose another 5 lb
Why is it amazing? Rapid weight loss happens from doing something extreme, that is likely restrictive and unsustainable. You don't need a "diet" to lose weight. You just need to count calories and be in a deficit (but not a massive deficit...)
I had no idea what the "ideal protein" diet was, but googling shows that it is restrictive in food choices and calories....
You may lose weight rapidly, but are you going to keep it off? The real success of a method is in the maintenance once you've reached your goal.
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RachelWatson93 wrote: »
Where can I find that diet plz? Is it on the Internet? That's amazing well done! Keep at itsalaita1968 wrote: »try the Ideal Protein Diet you can lose average four pounds a week I'm on the Ideal for 2 weeks and I lost 16 pound and tomorrow will be my third week I'm hoping to lose another 5 lb
Sorry but before you rush off into doing any deit id suggest you need to take some time eductaing yourself about how weight loss works. Wjat you wnat is soemthing thats safe and you can stick to. Safe weight loss is considered to be 1-2lb a week depending on how much you have to lose.
You will lose weight if you are at a consistent calorific deficit. In terms of weight loss it doesnt matter what you eat. In terms of nutrition, then it will, so your aim is to find a balance bweteen being able to manage a deficit and making sure it gives youthe nutrition you need.
Start by looking at the first post on this thread.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p10 -
Only thing I'll add is, get educated on nutrition. There are a lot of good books on the topic. I'm a big believer in what I call a modified low carb diet. The problem is DIET Plans just mess up your body. It's about life style.
Me, not a vegetarian and don't believe it's the right way to eat. My person belief is it causes the person to become skinny fat. Can it be done and not cause that, seen it done, but I think it is far more difficult to do. Lose weight, yes, being more healthy.... Don't know. Watch the documentary film called Fathead on YouTube. It'll give you some of the basics on where our public beliefs came from. Very educational. Anyway... As I said before, educate yourself and kind of work into what you believe on diet.
Final note, I'd be more worried about fitness than weight.
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