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Originally posted by skyechase
Try calorie counting. Almost every diet (with a few exceptions) will require you to count the amount of calories you eat in a day. To loose weight quickly, most diets will have you at 1200-1500 calories a day.
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Are you kidding? They'll gain weight on a diet that small. That might work for a woman, but for a man that's near starvation and the body will store everything it can get its hands on.
Let's start over, if you want to calorie count. Spend a week eating normally and count how many calories are in your normal diet. Divide that by 7 and you get your average caloric intake. Decrease that by 100. If you don't start losing weight, then decrease by another 100. Once you start losing weight, stay with that level.
To gain weight, I need about 3,000 calories. To lose weight, I need about 2,500 calories. I've found that when I get around 2,000 and below that I don't lose weight, because I'm gaining fat and losing muscle.
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