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FitDiva4Life
FitDiva4Life Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2 in Introduce Yourself
Need to lose 100lbs.. Advice Needed!!

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  • Jebe75
    Jebe75 Posts: 99 Member
    Feel free to add! We are all here to motivate!
  • OddDitty
    OddDitty Posts: 248 Member
    FitDiva4Life wrote: »
    Need to lose 100lbs.. Advice Needed!!

    May I recommend that you first visit your doctor and/or a nutritional expert? While forums are nice, everyone is different and every need is different. I'm 22 pounds down on my 100 pound weight loss journey. But how I'm doing it may not be appropriate to you, though I will share it with you.

    I use MFP to count calories and, because of a liver condition, sodium. My tools aside from this are: a good weigh in scale for body weight; a good scale for food weighing; dry measure cups and a wet measure cup and meal storage containers.

    Its all quite simple: pre-plan everything I will eat that week; shop accordingly without adding in extra stuff I don't need; and pre-prep, if possible, meals for days when I may not be able to cook fresh.

    As to exercise, I will tell you what a cardiac nurse told me: "Unless you're an athlete you will never burn more calories in exercise than you'll take in when eating. So the importance of sticking within a caloric guideline cannot be over estimated."

    I'm at 1350 calories per day and usually hit under that at between 1300-1250. I do work out but its rowing machine (10 minutes), treadmill (20 minutes) and weights (low weights) focusing more on repetition than muscle ripping, to help tone the skin up.

    It's simple. Requires very little (of course I have to watch the sodium, so no WW tv dinners here!).

    This is what I do for ME. But check with a professional first, before taking ANY advice on here. "Everyone is an expert to themselves; very few can be experts on others." -- Mark Twain.





  • Fuzzipeg
    Fuzzipeg Posts: 2,301 Member
    Visiting a doctor may be a good move but in my experience they do not always know about nutrition, maybe its only the older ones who gave me the very worst advice. Mostly you will be referred to a dietitian.

    What you could do in the interim is put your statists into the guided format, may be set to maintain, this will give you a suggested calorie target within food groups. If you for a few days or a week you log the meals/foods you regularly consume, being honest with yourself, weigh your portions if possible for being precise, you will see how your present diet lines up with the dietary guidance/advice to stay as you are, this will reveal changes you could make for yourself. Helping you balance your food groups. By the way, fats are needed/essential for the proper functioning of your body, making hormones and the like, you would do well not to undercut the suggested MFP by much when in reduction mode.

    Remember for most of us no food is off limits, all foods are good bringing their own share of nutrients, its often the proportions which we fail to grasp.

    I'm sure achieving an overview of what you are doing now will give you the direction you could well be advised to follow. Being armed with the information you gained about yourself you could be better prepared to meet the doctor. Or you could then reset. With your aim to loose100 lb, set to lose 2 lb a week. If you can increase your movement because it helps if you atleast eat some of the calories you earned with exercise. When you are within a couple or may be three stone of your aim loosing will become less easy then setting to loose 1 or even 0.5 of an lb to be less discomforting of your lesser progress. People who have never or hardly ever tried to loose weight before usually do very well this way.

    Take care, congratulations on your desire to be a more healthy weight. Remember, do what is right and healthy for you, no one else. (there is a guide to sexypants, somewhere on here, if you care to look)
  • MikePTY
    MikePTY Posts: 3,814 Member
    Welcome! Remember that weight loss and a healthy lifestyle is not a short term thing, but rather a lifestyle change. When you are looking at developing a plan for yourself, focus on habits you could see yourself maintaining long term. You may hear that "X lost a lot of weight quick doing this particular fad" but that's likely not a sustainable way to lose weight and they will gain it all back. Focus on habits that you can keep up even after you've lost the weight.

    Losing weight really is all about calories in vs. calories out, so in order to successfully lose weight, you need to eat less than you are burning. MFP can help you with estimating that and setting goals. Moderate exercise is recommended to help assist with weight loss (it allows you to eat more while still hitting your targets) and overall health.

    I always recommend people try to keep it as simple as possible. The more complexity and rules you add into a diet, the harder it will be to maintain long term.
  • tinovillaro
    tinovillaro Posts: 23 Member
    Intermittent Fasting
    Keto
    5 x 5 stronglifts
    Adequate Sleep
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    tinovillaro wrote: »
    Intermittent Fasting
    Keto
    5 x 5 stronglifts
    Adequate Sleep

    What?
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