How do I lose the fat?
 

I started working out April 10, 2006 trying to get myself ready for the summer! Today is June 7 and I've been working my ass off but have only lost 4 pounds!!!:Oh crap WHAT THE fuck can I do to lose more pounds? Any ideas, I need your help!

A nice meth habit will slim you down guaranteed.

starve yourself.. ..seriously.

metabolisms work differently..

I haven't been eat carbs, but that shit is all bull!

go on a strict chicken and rice (lots of tasty sauces to use with this), and veggies diet. Oatmeal or grain cereal with nonfat milk is ok for breakfast
don't eat after 7pm with the exception of maybe a supplement shake
cut out all excess sugars... juice, candy, sweets
try to drink a half gallon to a gallon of water a day.

guaranteed

Eat less, excercise more. Running/jogging is probably best.

you can try that too, but i would just keep up with the excerise and all..

Water? First time I've heard that! Does that shit relly work?

remember, if you are working out (resistance training) you are converting fat tissue to muscle tissue, which has a higher density and weighs more.

so you will get toned up, and a bit slimmer, but the pounds may not come off so fast due to muscle buildup.

if you are really looking for weight loss then it is just a physics game.

less calories in than out, but increase cardio (running, biking, etc) and decrease resistance training and you will see faster weight loss.

stay on it, and exercise a minimum of 30 mins daily.

Yeah but I heard that if I work out every day my muscles will go out on me! True?

Some people are just bigger than others no matter what you do. If your really gave it th4e college try with exercise included, I'd say ask your doctor. Yo can fuck up your health with the wrong diet.

eat 5 small meals everyday that will speed up your metabolism, do not skip breakfast very important.Drink lots of water and try and excercise.

Some people are just bigger than others no matter what you do. If you really gave it the college try with exercise included, I'd say ask your doctor. Yo can fuck up your health with the wrong diet.

First off, you should have started a little earlier ... ;)

Secondly, don't starve yourself. Long story, but the best way is to eat well, but eat right. Sounds lame, but it's true - a lot of healthy foods to keep your energy up.

Forget the scale, use the mirror to guage progress (see last post for why)

Focus on improving your cardio before running, etc. like a madman. It's no good to run on a treadmill like Carl Lewis for 10 minutes and collapse. Go slowly for longer periods then increase until your heart rate is optimal and you can sustain it long enough to burn the calories.

Just a few little things I picked up.
Good luck
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Depends on how much you weigh.

Dropping from 320 to 316 isnt a big deal.
But from 134 to 130 is.

No man I'm big! I weigh 231, that after losing 4 pounds. Yeah I know I'm a fat ass! LOL

Hey theres a thread out there and the title is " Best way to gain Weight?" Fuck, I'll give you some of mine! LOL

30-45 minutes of cardio per day

swim 5-10 laps a day

Maybe it sounds funny, but try to have as much sex as it possible!

I gained a lot of wieght a while back...I went from being 125 to 185 in about a year. Now I'm 115 and I lost all that weight in the same amount of time. What I really think did it for me is Slim Fast shakes and bars, believe it or not. They taste great, plus they give you the vitamins and nutrients your body really needs. Don't starve yourself please! Your body needs to have vitamins and minerals- if you don't feel like eating or having a shake for some reason, have a glass or OJ or milk and take a multivitamin. That way, you at least aren't depriving your body of anything it needs to live. Lol
I used to have a shake for breakfast everyday, and every other day, a bar for lunch...plus like the commercial says- a senceable dinner. Lol Plus a little light exercise. That's my advice. :)

Ooooo sexercise! Great idea, I almost forgot about that one. Hehe

get divorced........


Mr. Romance

It's time to refresh it in your memory. lol

Right! :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

Water is your best friend. As someone said, a gallon a day atleast. You'll probably drop 5 pounds of water weight just from that the first week. Water does so many things besides make you feel full. It helps the kidneys and liver work more efficiently so they can break down fat.

Diet is 90% of everything. 5 small meals a day of good stuff. If you starve yourself, your body will slow it's metabolism down and you'll put on a ton of weight when you stop. You'll also kill a lot of muscle and look like a flabby skinny guy. Aim for 2 pounds a week.

Exercise is good. Weight lifting is the best stuff for you. More muscle your body has, the faster your metabolism is. Double the benefits.

Good luck.

works wonders :thumbsup

beat me to it

Eat right. Exercise properly. Cardio, cardio, cardio. It's that simple.

you can't convert fat to muscle.

go jogging with a garbage bag on like a rain coat. and drink nothinh but water.

eating more small meals does not "speed up your metabolism".

your metabolism speeds up and slows down in direct relation to the quantity of food you eat and there is no direct benefit to the frequency of meals and weight loss. the indirect benefit is that eating more frequently will aid helping to maintain a faster metabolism that is being sped up by other factors (i.e. increased exercise)

increasing caloric expenditure without modifying ones diet is not going to have any significant impact on weight loss... not to mention the fact that most of the kids on here can only fuck for about 10 seconds before they pop.

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true, thanks for the correction. what i meant was resistance training will cause a body % conversion of less fat and more muscle which may or may not cause weight loss.

it is possible to lose inches in your waist and also gaining weight by doing resistance training.

All you need is 'will power' for this one though.. :thumbsup

ok... this subject comes up and the responses often make me want to cry. so lets discuss the basics and ignore all the "just do this... just do that" crap.


first and foremost, you have to understand that you need to make a major lifestyle change. you have to be ready for that. you have to want it. second, you have to have a good reason... to live longer, to be healthy for your family or just to see your dick again, to finally bag a hot chick... whatever it is, you need a strong reason that will keep you on track, keep you focused and push you forward when you start to slip.

at the end of the day, its fairly simple science... but often difficult for people to apply.

find your body fat % - the % of body fat you are carrying vs your lean body mass.

find your BMR - how many calories your body needs at rest (without any physical activity)

now you know how much fat you have on your body. you should have a rough idea of how much fat you want to lose.

1 pound of fat = 3500 calories

if you want to lose 10 pounds, you need to burn 35,000 more calories than you consume. at this point you know how many calories a day you need... and how many you need to burn to achieve your goal.

set a goal based on where you want to be. this gives you a realistic timeline, benchmarks etc... and helps you to understand what type of progress you should expect and helps you to know if something is working or not working or to know when what you are doing stops working and you have hit a plateu. it also gives you some info as does the info below to help you to make adjustments in your routine and diet if needed.

plan your meals... so that you are getting the appropriate amount of calories and in the right proportions of macronutrients... minus 500 calories or so per day. use a baseline of 40% of your daily calories from Carbs (low glycemic carbs only), 40% from Protein, 20% from fats (also learn what types of fats you need and should be eating... this is critical!)

so... say you need 2500 per day to just live. you have planned your eating out so that you are getting 2000 cals per day from the right foods giving you a deficit of 500 cals per day.... 500 calories per day x 7 = 3500 or 1 pound of fat loss per week.

a total daily deficit of 500 cals is recommended as being "safe" and also recommended because the slower weight loss gives you a higher chance of helping reprogram your metabolism through this process. losing weight fast will cause your body to fight back. you have to be ready to make a lifestyle change... your diet has to change forever. so, say you were always eating say...3000 cals at 250 pounds. you got down to 180 which requires say 2000 a day to maintain... but typically people continue eating more and in addition to eating more, people who lose too much weight too fast tend to lose a significant amount of muscle which also slows your metabolism down (1 pound of muscle requires on average 50 calories a day). less muscle means your metabolism slows down... which means you have to eat accordingly or regaining the weight is not only easy because your body is a little pissed that you fucked away its precious fat stores... but because you slowed your own metabolism down through muscle loss and require fewer and fewer calories per day to maintain (again - means you always have to know your lean muscle mass and BMR)

add exercise to speed things up if you want. (cardio before breakfast works best) burn another 500 per day. that gives you 2 pounds per week weight loss.

track everything you are doing, write it down, keep notes and be ready to make adjustments. sometimes you need more fat, sometimes less carbs etc. subtle changes can make a big difference and there is a lot of individuality here.

once you have lost weight... remember that you have to continue to change your eating habits or you will gain it back quickly.

or... you can do all the crap everyone else says which makes little to no sense and is only appealing because its easy... struggle, get frustrated and fail.

also you can eat well, do cardio and take ephedra/caffeine/aspirin... or clenbuterol/T3 or go as far as taking DNP which can help you lose about 10 pounds a week... but will probably kill you. but remember that no pill will counter a shitty diet. DNP will but its also an industrial dye not made for human consumption and is shipped as a hazardous material.

remember that no matter what you are doing, you have to be aware of your body composition (how much fat you have, how much lean body weight you have (the rest without fat). "weight loss" and "weight gain" are not the same as "fat loss" and "fat gain". any increased physical activity can lead to a small burst of muscle gain (depending on diet, what you are doing etc) and the scale might show no change when significant fat loss has in fact occured. Cutting all carbs from your diet also causes severe dehydration - a point that few seem to understand while jumping up and down with thier rapid Atkins style success. your body stores water in the subcutaneous layers of skin and in your muscle tissue. it stores water in your muscles ONLY in conjunction with sugar (glucose). the ratio is 1 gram of glucose to 3 grams of water. when you deplete your sugar stores... you piss out the stored water as well... water is heavy, significant and dramatic weight loss occurs quickly... you might lose 10 pounds in 10 days of water weight. eat sugar/carbs, your body can now store water again, significant weight gain occurs quickly, all with no net loss or gain in fat.

its not easy for most people. there is no "one size fits all" answer for most people. we are all individuals and individuality plays a large role (be it our genetics, metabolism or how much physical activity we all actually do in a day).

there are no easy answers. either you want to change and do the work... or you don't :) "Diets" to lose weight are fine. the problem is losing the weight without making the significant lifestyle changes afterwards that caused you to gain the weight to begin with... and people tend to regain the weight.




</end lecture on the fundamentals of weight loss>

Actually if you cut out soda and switch to pop you can loose about 5 lbs. Also a lot of times you think you are hungry when you are actually thirsty. Try water before eating ;) Water also helps flush out all the junk ie fat in your system. :D

thats the exact type of shitty, asinine and just plain wrong advice i was referring to.

dont eat at all... :thumbsup

post your daily diet
current weight and height

OK, I can't top this answer. Someone has set the bar too high for us noobs :(

So much bullshit going around about diets, when the truth is pretty simple. I have used this general plan to drop 50 lbs this year:

- Remove Beer and Soda/Pop from your intake completely. (Yes, I cheat occasionally).
- Eat a Heavy Lunch and a Light Dinner, Instead of the Other Way Around
- Drink Lots of Water and Fruit Juice
- Never Skip Breakfast. Even if you only have some crackers, you must eat something to tell your body you are awake and it needs to start burning fat. I hate most breakfast food except doughnuts and I had to force myself to eat a bannana or crackers each morning.
- Avoid Buffets and Fast Food, If You Must Eat on the Road, Get a Salad or Something Healthy.

Run Forrest, run!

working out I always gain weight ....

go out and run is the best

here's a guy that actually took the time to tell the truth about this.

all 100% true. losing weight and keeping it off requires discipline, knowledge, time, and motivation.

but 30 minutes daily exercise AND proper diet will COMPLETELY change your life in positive ways.

I pretty much agree with everything that pleasureplay said, but what he didn't say is how to decide how many calories you are actually eating, how to measure it, etc.

Here is what I did to lose around 30 pounds in 3 months. Granted I was a fat ass and had plenty to lose (went from 240 to 210) but at least I can see my dick now.

Equal amounts of carbs and proteins. I used the simple method of measuring with my hand. I would eat a portion of protein (lean meat or fish) that was roughly the size of the palm of my hand. Same thing for the carbs. I stayed away from pasta and fatty meats. If I wanted a hamburger I used turkey burger instead of ground beef. I also made sure I had a fruit or veggy with every meal. In short, just be smart about what you eat. I ate 5 times a day. I always allowed myself one day to "cheat". That doesn't mean I binged, it just means that on that day I wouldn't worry if the meat was lean or not. I might have a piece of pizza or two etc... just don't go crazy on your cheat day. The only thing I drank was water or coffee or unsweetened tea.

I also worked out 5 days a week. I only worked out for about an hour 3 of those days, and 25 minutes the other 2, but it was an intense workout. The three "long" days was dedicated to weight training. The way I judged if I was working out hard enough is if I could complete all my sets of a certian exercise I wasn't pushing it enough. Be careful with this if you don't have a partner and use your brain. Use dumbells instead of barbells, use machines, use proper form so you don't injure something etc... The other 2 days or my "short" days was dedicated to cardio. I am not a big fan of running, so I rode the stationary bike most of the time. 25 minutes doesn't sound like a long time, but the way I pushed it I couldn't walk for a few minutes after I was done because my legs were burning too much.

I have tried the starvation stuff before and it never worked for me I always ended up binging and gaining more than what I had lost.

I think the key is to realize that if you want to lose weight, you need to make lifestyle changes. You aren't ever going to be able to the way it was before. Just remember the way it was before is what got you in this situation to begin with.

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Seriously, diet and jogging is the way to go. :thumbsup

Count the calories that you eat every day. If you eat < 1000 calories a day and work out normally you should slowly loose the weight

Eat raw, that will do it for ya.