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Some Help for a new guy

jbond226
jbond226 Posts: 16 Member
edited March 5 in Social Groups
Hello, I am new to this whole thing and could really use some advice, I am a 31 year old male, I weigh about 260lbs, I did the Scoobys calculator and my results were BMR 2351, TDEE 4466, based on my goal in step 6 3350.

I'm a Chef and work about 12-16 hours a day on my feet. I would like to lose around 60-70 lbs. Any advice you give me on how to achieve this goal would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
jbond226

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  • tomcornhole
    tomcornhole Posts: 1,084 Member
    In order to get that TDEE, you had to enter 7-21 hours / week of strenuous exercise/work. Did you mean to do that? That is professional athlete level of exercise every day.
  • jbond226
    jbond226 Posts: 16 Member
    I'm literally running and moving all day everyday for 12-16 hours. plus lifting massive bags and sacks of potatoes and vegetables. as well as I've started working out going to the gym and at home doing strength and free weight exercising
  • tomcornhole
    tomcornhole Posts: 1,084 Member
    That's certainly a lot of work and burns a lot of calories. So, I would start by logging all the food you eat and your weight and see where it's going. Don't change anything yet, just log your food for 2 weeks and weigh yourself every day. Then we can make adjustments from there.

    Tom
  • jbond226
    jbond226 Posts: 16 Member
    lol yes it is a lot of work! thanks for getting back to me
  • tomcornhole
    tomcornhole Posts: 1,084 Member
    This should be fun. You are starting about where I did but you work much harder. Hopefully small adjustments will yield big results. And the strength / free weight work will pay huge dividends in keeping as much muscle as you can as you lose weight. You will be a hulking adonis in no time.
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