Will this help me to lose weight?
- Thread starter Drake5
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Cheers guys!
Will report back with my (terrible) diet for today tomorrow. Scared to see how many calories I'm consuming.
I'm trying my best to stepup the exercise, I'm defo improving though.Just wish I could go back to how I was 4 years ago!
Your doing it now thats what counts.
I used to have to run around in the shower to get wet when I was 21. Started bodybuilding and got pretty big. Injured my shoulder benching 170Kg and havn't really trained since. Hence now being 17 Stone and fat.
Got myself a MTB and now trying to get my fitness back. its a bit harder at 36
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Some basic things to give you an idea of what helps, and what doesn't help burn body fat.
Average guy burns X% of body fat a day on a normal diet, normal diet sustains this, bigger guy wants to lose weight, eats less food, and less vitamins/etc that comes with eating less food, but wants to burn a lot MORE body fat every day. Supplementing with things the body uses to in turn burn body fat is a very good idea
A marathon runner uses SIGNIFICANTLY less energy to run a marathon than a 15 or 20 stone guy does, cardio increases your efficiency, dramatically over someone who isn't very active, this will apply to breathing, resting heart beat, walking around the house. Being ultra fit makes losing weight HARDER.
Building muscle is good, you spend FAR more energy every day building cells than exercising. The average guy uses 2500 calories a day, and would also only burn 600 extra calories running for an hour straight, which is way less intense exercise than a normal day of sitting on your arse, yet its less than 1/4 of the calories usage?
Building cells takes a lot of energy, and building cells all day long, every day, for life is what your body does and uses a crapload of energy to do. SO ideally your diet will, incorporate things that help your body to burn fat at a higher level than normal(more b-vits, more omega fats, and if you want to supplement, l-carnitine, various other things) and also supply your body plenty of spare protein and vitamins to continue building cells with.
LIfting weights, the majority of the increase in metabolism is from that, repairing/replacing/adding muscle cells. Maximising the amount of energy your body can supply, and the amount of essentially "raw ingredients" for cells = most efficient way to lose weight.
Weight lifting can help, cardio will do smeg all for you.
Some basic things to give you an idea of what helps, and what doesn't help burn body fat.
Average guy burns X% of body fat a day on a normal diet, normal diet sustains this, bigger guy wants to lose weight, eats less food, and less vitamins/etc that comes with eating less food, but wants to burn a lot MORE body fat every day. Supplementing with things the body uses to in turn burn body fat is a very good idea
A marathon runner uses SIGNIFICANTLY less energy to run a marathon than a 15 or 20 stone guy does, cardio increases your efficiency, dramatically over someone who isn't very active, this will apply to breathing, resting heart beat, walking around the house. Being ultra fit makes losing weight HARDER.
Building muscle is good, you spend FAR more energy every day building cells than exercising. The average guy uses 2500 calories a day, and would also only burn 600 extra calories running for an hour straight, which is way less intense exercise than a normal day of sitting on your arse, yet its less than 1/4 of the calories usage?
Building cells takes a lot of energy, and building cells all day long, every day, for life is what your body does and uses a crapload of energy to do. SO ideally your diet will, incorporate things that help your body to burn fat at a higher level than normal(more b-vits, more omega fats, and if you want to supplement, l-carnitine, various other things) and also supply your body plenty of spare protein and vitamins to continue building cells with.
LIfting weights, the majority of the increase in metabolism is from that, repairing/replacing/adding muscle cells. Maximising the amount of energy your body can supply, and the amount of essentially "raw ingredients" for cells = most efficient way to lose weight.
Weight lifting can help, cardio will do smeg all for you.
But those 600 calories are ON TOP of the 2500 so 3100 calories burnt.
A pound of fat has 3500 calories so in order to lose a pound of fat there needs to be a difference in intake of calories and calories burnt by 3500.
Agreed that building muscle takes energy but in order to gain muscle maximumly there needs to be an excess of calories ( I say excess because getting it bang on is nigh on impossible).
If you can have a diet deficit of 500 cal per day and increase your cardio to burn 500 cal per day. It has been proven that any exercise increases your metabolism throughout the day but slows down when you sleep. So doing cardio first thing in the morning will increase your metabolic rate for longer.
It has also been proven that cardio first thing in the morning on an empty stomach burns 3 x times more fat than doing it in the evening. The reason being is after waking your body has to use its own fuel for energy as it has no food to use.
Yesterday this is what I ate
Breakfast -
Mornflake BREAKFAST CEREAL Porridge Oats
Lunch -
Batchelors Noodles (Probabaly not the best thing to have for lunch)
Banana after
Dinner -
3 Slices wholemeal bread + Banana
Before bed I started to feel hungry so I had-
Corn flakes
Total calories taken in was 1.4K which I think it's a pretty good start. On a normal day, in that list would include a load of junk food. Burgers, microwave stuff, crisps, choc etc.
So if I hit 1.4k calories every day, I can expect to start dropping weight?
Cheers
Breakfast -
Mornflake BREAKFAST CEREAL Porridge Oats
Lunch -
Batchelors Noodles (Probabaly not the best thing to have for lunch)
Banana after
Dinner -
3 Slices wholemeal bread + Banana
Before bed I started to feel hungry so I had-
Corn flakes
Total calories taken in was 1.4K which I think it's a pretty good start. On a normal day, in that list would include a load of junk food. Burgers, microwave stuff, crisps, choc etc.
So if I hit 1.4k calories every day, I can expect to start dropping weight?
Cheers
Yes, but you can also expect to resent your diet!
I would aim for 1800-2000 if your gymming, 1600-1800 if your not. ISH!
Needs more protein, more fats, less carbs though wholemeal is a good start. Think beef, chicken, eggs, nuts, lots of green veg etc. etc.
I would aim for 1800-2000 if your gymming, 1600-1800 if your not. ISH!
Needs more protein, more fats, less carbs though wholemeal is a good start. Think beef, chicken, eggs, nuts, lots of green veg etc. etc.
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This isn't entirely correct. See here.
So if you're doing intense ish cardio then you won't burn any more fat if you do it fasted.
All you are eating is carbohydrate sources. As above, add lean meats etc for protein and good fats (eggs, nuts etc).
Corn flakes are also full of sugar as far as Im aware.
That, unfortunately, is one of the worst diets I've seen posted.
No meat or veg AT ALL? Basically zero fat? Cornflakes before bed?
Not good I'm afraid.
You say your diet used to consist of junk food - to be honest I'd say that cornflakes and super noodles were still junk food.
No doubt you will lose fat because you're reducing calories, but this isn't the way to do it in the long term. Eating like that will end up with you losing a lot of muscle weight giving you the illusion of making progress (the scales will still show a reduction in weight). What you're interested in is reducing the fat on your frame while preserving as much muscle as possible, this means eating FAR more protein than you are.
Yeah you're getting the wrong end of the stick... That by any means is not a diet I want to stick to. That was the first day of just 'cutting back'.
I think what I'm having for breakfast is fine, however all the rest needs changing.
I'm just not sure where to go with it. I can't cook for **** so I have to stick to basic stuff.
I think what I'm having for breakfast is fine, however all the rest needs changing.
I'm just not sure where to go with it. I can't cook for **** so I have to stick to basic stuff.
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Buy a steamer, and throw in loads of veg like broccoli. Steam it for 15-20 mins.
Boil eggs.
Stir fry chicken, broccoli, peas etc. Add chilli sauce/soy sauce
Put a chicken in the oven on 180c for about 1-1.15 hours. Throw some carrots in the same dish.
Saying you can't cook is a stupid excuse, you don't need to make restaurant quality food.
Yeah I'm just not very good with cooking stuff... At all.
Would lifting dumbells be benifical for losing weight aswell?
Cheers
You are going to have to learn to cook some basic things, man can not live on toast alone...
Cooking is easy, honest! All you need is a little patience.
You won't get very far without cooking at least some of your meals. This point is far more important than messing around with some dumbbells for a while. The internet has loads of information on cooking, and video guides for most things.
Cooking is easy, honest! All you need is a little patience.
You won't get very far without cooking at least some of your meals. This point is far more important than messing around with some dumbbells for a while. The internet has loads of information on cooking, and video guides for most things.
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You get good at something by doing it.
Think of it this way, You want to become healthier, Which means you want to improve your lifestyle.
In learning to cook, You're doing both.
In starting the weights and cardio, You're also doing both.
It's just another step towards a healthier life style, The sooner you start experimenting with cooking, the sooner you'll become a better cook, and the sooner you'll beable to eat specifically the foods that will help you grow stronger
1 Article Come on. Plus it does state that it may reduce fax oxidation in untrained.
The OP is clearly untrained.
I went MTB with some very fit mates on Sunday both of us doing the same thing they would have burned up a LOT less Fat/ Calories just purely because they are fitter.
I'd also recomend a steamer, they are cheap and there really isnt anything involved in operation. Fill, turn on, come back in 15 minutes / when timer goes off.