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How do I make it easy

You will only lose weight when you have jad enough. You also need to do it step by step. Start by cutting back on things. Get fast food everyday? Go one less day a week until you can cut another two days out of the week. Cut out your favorite type of sweets. No more energy drinks. Shy away from frozen food.

As for exercise, start by walking around your block every night or day. When you religiously do that, join a gym. Replace one or two walks per week with visits to the gym, starting with cardio. When you do that reiligously, bump it up to 3 or 4 days a week. When you start seeing some major results, integrate weight lifting.

Its not easy at all and you cannot go full "tropic thunder" with dedication nor cold turkey with bad habits. Baby steps donkey.

When i joined a gym years ago, the first thing one of the trainers told me (in his opinion), 'weight loss is 70% diet, 30% exercise' and i honestly believe in it all these years later.

imjusthere4fun posted...

How do I make it easy

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Ryven posted...

When i joined a gym years ago, the first thing one of the trainers told me (in his opinion), 'weight loss is 70% diet, 30% exercise' and i honestly believe in it all these years later.

Nearly 10 years of going to the gym regularly, and I still don't have the body I feel I should have, and it's because of my diet. I'm not fat, but I'm not skinnier. I've got muscle, but don't have a high definition.

You should create a plan and schedule for everything you want to accomplish and an end goal for achieving it with smaller easier goals along the way. For instance, if you want to lose 50 lbs in a year, set it up where you're aiming to lose around 4-5 pounds per month.

Figure out what type of meals you should be focusing on, create a daily schedule for your workout routine and stick to it. Starting out it's perfectly fine to just do a 15-20 minute walk a few times a week, but gradually increase each week.

If you want to do strength training too, start with light weights like 10 lbs dumbells. Even if the weight is too light, it's still fine because you're just trying to focus on the routine before you start adding weight.

imjusthere4fun posted...

How do I make it easy

Sleep a lot

imjusthere4fun posted...

How do I make it easy

There's your first problem

Turn it into a numbers game and count your calories. Keep a calorie deficit going and youll lose the weight.

You don't want to do the easy way, because it's dangerous.

If it was easy there wouldn't be so many obese people in the US

alfred_ashford posted...

You will only lose weight when you have jad enough. You also need to do it step by step. Start by cutting back on things. Get fast food everyday? Go one less day a week until you can cut another two days out of the week. Cut out your favorite type of sweets. No more energy drinks. Shy away from frozen food.

As for exercise, start by walking around your block every night or day. When you religiously do that, join a gym. Replace one or two walks per week with visits to the gym, starting with cardio. When you do that reiligously, bump it up to 3 or 4 days a week. When you start seeing some major results, integrate weight lifting.

Its not easy at all and you cannot go full "tropic thunder" with dedication nor cold turkey with bad habits. Baby steps donkey.

Ive done it cold turkey before but its always a yoyo effect. I can lose up to 40 pounds in 3 months but then i gain it all again every single time.

imjusthere4fun posted...

Ive done it cold turkey before but its always a yoyo effect. I can lose up to 40 pounds in 3 months but then i gain it all again every single time.

That's why cold turkey isn't good. When you go too hard too fast, it's hard to maintain that momentum. So you end up gaining back what you lost.

What I did was I started counting calories. There's plenty of free apps like MyFitnessPal, that do a decent enough job. Enter your age, height, weight, and how often you exercise and based on your weight loss goals, it will tell you how many calories you need per day to lose weight.

In my case, I wanted to lose 2 pounds per week (which is a lot), so it recommended that I stay below 1800 calories per day. Since I was eating 3 meals a day, that left me with 600 calories per meal. I didn't make drastic changes like completely changing what I ate. Instead I just ate less of what I liked, in order to meet those numbers. So for lunch, I might go to taco bell and get only a Mexican Pizza, which is 540 calories.

You should still add healthier foods over time, but the long term goal should be sustainability. Things that you can continue doing, even after you meet your goals.

What worked for me was getting an app that counts calories and following that religiously. I lost like 80 pounds doing that.

Unfortunately, during covid I gained 40 lbs of it back since I got lazy with my tracking and always had access to food since I worked from home. I'm in the process of getting back into good habits and trying to eat better too now, though.

NoxObscuras posted...

That's why cold turkey isn't good. When you go too hard too fast, it's hard to maintain that momentum. So you end up gaining back what you lost.

What I did was I started counting calories. There's plenty of free apps like MyFitnessPal, that do a decent enough job. Enter your age, height, weight, and how often you exercise and based on your weight loss goals, it will tell you how many calories you need per day to lose weight.

In my case, I wanted to lose 2 pounds per week (which is a lot), so it recommended that I stay below 1800 calories per day. Since I was eating 3 meals a day, that left me with 600 calories per meal. I didn't make drastic changes like completely changing what I ate. Instead I just ate less of what I liked, in order to meet those numbers. So for lunch, I might go to taco bell and get only a Mexican Pizza, which is 540 calories.

You should still add healthier foods over time, but the long term goal should be sustainability. Things that you can continue doing, even after you meet your goals.

Thanks ill try the app

imjusthere4fun posted...

Thanks ill try the app

I recommend lose it or another alternative to my fitness pal these days. I used to use my fitness pal, but they went off the deep end with monetization last year once they were bought by venture capitalists.

For example, the function that scans food labels and matches it with user inputted foods was always free until they suddenly forced you to pay $20 a month to access it. It's just stupidly greedy.

Flesh eating bacteria.

Dedication.
If you're willing to cut back on fatty foods and exercise a lot, it's possible to lose weight. You just have to stay committed to it. You can still eat whatever you want, just not as often as you normally do.

I agree with the users who say to start slowly and find a way to make it enjoyable. Instead of starving yourself, replace some bad stuff with good stuff. Instead of running for eight hours per day, take a walk.

Sugar and sodium are two things to watch out for. One sugar cube is 4g of sugar, so I use this as a metric to decide what has too much sugar. Read the labels for everything you eat and calculate how many sugar cubes are in each serving of whatever you might eat.

Ryven posted...

When i joined a gym years ago, the first thing one of the trainers told me (in his opinion), 'weight loss is 70% diet, 30% exercise' and i honestly believe in it all these years later.

Yup. I was working out 4-5 times a week for a good three months and making no progress with my weight loss (granted I was eating like shit).

Once I started dieting last month, I lost like ten pounds.

Use a daily calorie calculator to see how much calories you need to eat to lose weight.

Record everything you eat and the amount of calories in it. You can do this through apps like myfitness pal.

Go to gym three times a week doing compound lifts exclusively. Each week add an extra 5-10 pounds of weight. If you want to lose weight faster, run or use the elliptical for 20 minutes.

im my case what worked was not stressing out super hard about it and just dropping out shit i knew i shouldnt be eating. when i was doing calorie counting or fad diets i was constantly stressing out about what i was eating and eventually i would reach a breaking point and just gorge, realize it was easier than trying to do mental math constantly, and gain whatever i had lost back

What made it stay off was cutting out fast food and soda and learning more about foods that I could eat in smaller portions to stay satisfied which still taste good. I gave myself one night a week to just go nuts and eat whatever if I really wanted to, and I found after a few months I didn't really want to eat like crazy anymore because my body had adapted to eating better, so doing something like eating a whole pizza meant my "fun" day would be spent feeling like shit.

Just start thinking about what you're eating and try to stay at least decently active and you'll have a much easier time working off weight and keeping it off

I lost 70 pounds playing Just Dance on the Wii, and now the Switch. Thinking of exercise like a game helps it seem less like a chore.

imjusthere4fun posted...

How do I make it easy

Took you years to gain weight, it'll take years to lose weight. Sorry no easy way that is healthy.

I'm not saying this will work for you, just what happened for me. I had my first (and hopefully only) kidney stones 2 years ago. So I had to make changes to my diet. So I started out with one simple rule: I'll eat whatever I want, but I have to keep track of the sodium intake total for the day, never letting it go over 100%.

Obviously, walking/running helps. I walked/ran on a treadmill one or twice a week. Don't pay too much attention to the numbers though. You'll lose motivation if you keep trying to outdo what you did last time, especially when you don't meet those numbers. You aren't trying to be a pro athlete, you are just trying to lose some weight. Plus, you will gain some weight back as you exercise more and more due to muscle gain. So your weight will fluctuate anyway. Just do as much exercise as you feel you can do, then 5 more minutes. The most important part is to keep to a regular pattern of doing it.

I was around 220 when I first started with these things in mind. The lowest I got to was around 165, but I seem to constantly average 180 now.

You replied to my first post and someone replied to that quoted post so Im just gonna add something right here. Cheat days are a must! But you have to stick to cheat days, not let it overflow into the next day. I do Saturdays as cheat days.

That is another thing you can widdle down as you go. Like at first have it be a whole day. Then make one less snack during the cheat day, then make one less meal a cheat. The ideal cheat day would be a 2 snacks and one meal.

At first during the week, I had a SMALL handful of M&Ms to get my fix. I know I said dont let it spill into other days but at first you do need crutches. Another huge tip is portion control. If you eat an entire frozen pizza at a time, start doing only 3/4. Go to a restaurant and get large fries and soda? Step down to medium and then small also stop getting double chzburgers. Go from regular soda to diet soda to sparkling water to none of that shit.