Hey, New here and don't know where to begin.

JGH8696
JGH8696 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Introduce Yourself
Hey Everybody, my name is Jesse I'm 21 and I need to lose weight like now. I'm 6 ft 4 and 300lbs and i need to start working out again. i just need to know where to start, how can you do meal prep as a broke college student? never played football at my size either my goal in 210 lbs and i hope i can get there

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    To lose weight, you need to eat less. Do you want to exercise? Wonderful - do that. But you don't have to exercise to lose weight. What is wrong with what you are eating now (except for "too much")? Eating less would cost less money. Do you think meal prep is necessary? Can you cook?

    Okay, where to start. Set up your account with your stats and max weekly weight loss goal. You get a calorie target to hit. Hit i every day by logging everything you eat, as accurately and honestly as you can. You will need a food scale and some common sense, and lots of patience.
  • Graymanstole
    Graymanstole Posts: 257 Member
    Advice: This is going to take a lot of time and you will get discouraged by what seems like a ton of different things. Do Not Give Up! There will be weeks where you exercise, eat right, drink water, do everything right and you will gain weight. Just remember the scale is only telling you how much gravity is affecting you right at that moment, it is only a number. You'll have weeks when nothing goes right. You'll want to quit. Do. Not. Give. Up! All it takes is seeing clothes that fit you tightly start to get a bit loose, or notching your belt a litter tighter to make you feel like a king/queen of the world. All you have to do to get there is Do! Not! Give! Up!

    Advice: Buy a food scale. I've gotten much better results weighing my food that I have weighing myself. It's always best to know EXACTLY what you're eating, and if you've ever seen how little a single serving of pasta (2oz) is, it's awful easy to realize why I ballooned to over 250+ lbs. Weigh everything, log everything, be honest. We've all slipped up and ate an entire bag of Doritos when we only meant to eat a serving, don't be embarrassed. If you hide it/don't log it you're only lying to yourself. We'll never know you did it, but you'll never get the results you want if you look through your diary and think 'why am I not losing weight' if you aren't honest in your logging.

    Advice: This is probably the most important piece of advice I can give you...this entire journey is about making progress, not about being perfect. You'll fall, you'll slide backwards, you'll cry, be frustrated and angry. Keep signing on here, keep logging your food, keep telling yourself "It's all about the progress, not about perfection". And of course: DO NOT GIVE UP!!

    Encouragement: I am not good at encouragement, but I will leave you with something a friend of mine told me not too long ago - "Losing weight was so much easier when I was in my 40's than it is now that I'm in my 50's". No matter how hard it is now, it will get harder if you put it off. Best of luck to all, my prayers and thoughts are with you.
  • WispyBlue
    WispyBlue Posts: 41 Member
    edited November 2017
    I’m new here so I don’t know how I can share videos but look up cheap meal prep on YouTube. They have videos of people who meal prep for a week under 20, 50, etc. If you surf a bit, you can find the exact meal plan that works for you. Good luck.
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