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Here are my tips:
1) Eat 5-6 smaller meals a day, trying to include with each some protein and some carb, but not a lot of fat.
2) Eat a meal about every 2.5 to 3 hours
3) Eat veggies with at least 2 meals
4) I snack on Fruit (mostly apples & pears and they fix my sugar craving) for one or two of my small meals each day.
5) Take the time you normally go to bed (1am for me) and subtract 3.5 hours from it (9:30pm). If you go to bed at 11pm, your time is 730pm and so on. The rule here is don't eat ANYTHING past this time.
6) Exercise first thing in the morning when I get out of bed. When I am done, I wait about 30 minutes before eating breakfast.
7) Do NOT skip breakfast
8) Don't over-do exercise if you are going from next to nothing - you will pay for it in a few weeks. Ease into the program
8) Here is how to calculate how many calories you should eat:
To lose a pound of fat you need to reduce your caloric intake by 3500 calories. To lose 2lbs, you need to reduce your intake by 7000 calories a week and to lose 3lbs you need reduce your caloric intake by 10,500 calories per week.
Now, how to figure out how many calories you need to eat per day to lose a few pounds a week......
(1) Mulitpy your current weight by one of the following:
12 = very inactive (slow metabolism, little physical activity)
13 = inactive (sedentary office worker)
14 = slightly inactive (occasional walks)
15 = moderately active (frequent jogging, tennis, calistenics)
16 = highly active (Always on the go, seldom sitting or standing)
17 = very active (athete in training, construction worker)
(2) Determin how many caloires you need to reduce each week (3,500 to 10,500). Divide this number by 7.
(3) Subtact the number you got from step (2) from the number you got from step (1). This is the amount of calories you need to eat each day to lose the ideal amount of weight each week.
EXAMPLE..........
Let say I weight 230 lbs and I am slightly inactive. I would multply 230 by 14 = 3220 calories per day to maintian this weight.
Let say I want to lose 3 lbs per week (max for a man before you start losing muscle). I would divide 10,500 (cals per week) by 7 (days) = 1500 calories per day less
To lose 3 lbs a week while being slightly inactive, I would need to take 1500 calories per day away from 3220 calories per day.
To lose 3 lbs a week, I would need to eat about 1720 calories per day.
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