My wife told me I'm fat...

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bloodiedathame

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And she's right.

I definitely overeat, I love eating.

I'm 35, 5'10", and 215 lbs currently.
I work a sedentary job and only walk for exercise.

So I'm basically going to 16-8 fast and work to a calorie deficit. I'm replacing weekday lunches with Proteinworks Meal Replacements and maybe over the weekends too... I'll do my best to keep track on here.

Day 1 was yesterday.
17500 steps
1500 calorie goal
1,181 consumed
718 active.

Deficit of 1037.
 
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Pretty sure that calorie deficit will be a one off, very light dinner and I got lost on a Pokemon Go walk with child number 2. :cry:

I'm happy fasting (dont generally eat breakfast anyway), and 1 meal replacement is easy.

I would like to start doing some weights down the line, but need to get into a routine first, as you guys say.

I used to cycle a lot a few years ago, commuting MTB about 75 miles a week, I was super fit. Lost job due to Covid now work from home.
 
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Begbie said:
Imagine not being able to tell your wife/husband to sort themselves out. I'd 100% rather they told me than living a life ignorant to it.

OP - have you thought about lifting? 3 sessions a week will see you look better, and can probably lose less weight whilst feeling better and living longer.
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Whenever I do weights, I ALWAYS overdo it and everything hurts for about 2 weeks.

My wife losing weight was a bit of a catalyst to sort myself out. Hoping we can sync and do some activities together.
 
Syla5 said:
This is actually just something that is part of doing weights, its called Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness...DOMS. This phase will pass once your body starts to become used to this sort of activity.

On the whole i think you have an admirable goal, but you've set your limits quite hard to start with.

You should consider jumping in to the big fat weight loss thread, there is a lot of good info in there.

Generally though a daily walk is good, a step goal is very handy as its a hard target that you can break down across the day, although using the dog having a sprained wrist is not a valid reason to not walk!

Also as others have said your calorie goal is very low, you really should be consuming a higher amount i would honestly say your size and stature justifies a 2k calorie goal, add to this a 10k steps target and then try adding in some workouts.

Weight training is so underrated for weight loss. It encourages the body to maintain muscle mass, and tie this in with a high protein diet which does the same and when you lose weight, you will lose more fat then muscle this way, rather than an a more equal amount of each. Your goal is to lose fat, so you want to focus more on keeping muscle.

Good luck with your journey.
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Yeah it's the DOMS that makes me struggle to get into a routine with weights.

Thankfully I have very active kids so usually get to take them out for a walk/cycle even if the dog isn't going.

I'm not actually finding the calorie goal too tricky so far. I can basically eat whatever I want for dinner so long as I've skipped breakfast (normal for me) and had a shake for lunch.

I think if I were walking more or weight training then I'd definitely put the goal higher otherwise I just wouldn't have the energy or recover.

Hardest thing so far is switching to black coffee. :cry:
 
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I actually don't remember but you're right the deficit probably is too low looking at bmr calculations.

BMR comes out at about 1900.
Sedentary target looks like it should be 2140/2300... That's a lot more than I'm currently eating.
 
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Forgot to update:

Friday I was a few calories over.
Impossible to record what I ate and drank over the weekend but it was def a blowout.
Yesterday I felt like crap, didn't walk but didn't eat much either. I was 800 cals under. Oops.
 
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