TheStranger
Registered User
Man GOOD JOB. I gained weight in school this past year, I'm about 20-30lbs heavier than I should be. I'm trying to lose weight but have only managed 7-10 lbs over the past two months. Since I used to drink heavily and I'm somewhat heavy right now, some of my liver enzymes are out of whack...so no drinking until I lose weight. Please tell me your secret, I want alcohol again. What's your diet?
Yeah, I was like...80lbs heavier than I should have been? lol. I was up to 272 before I said that's enough. I'm not really following a strict diet at the moment. At first I was, weighing every piece of food I ate, counting every calorie. At that weight, that I was at, basically if I ate less than 3000 calories a day, while sitting on my butt, I would still lose weight. Once I got a handle on an idea of how much I could eat though, I more or less stopped tracking it.
I'm sure it will get harder though when my daily calories burned gets low enough that I start creeping up towards that with my food intake.
I'm probably not going to be much help for you really since I don't have an exact plan other than a really busy physical job mixed with "eating less" and calorie free drinks. My only suggestion would be to check out your TDEE (http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/) which will give you an idea of how many calories you burn in an average day, and basically the only rule is to stay under that number. Some people like to shoot for a 500 calorie deficit to get a consistent weight loss.
Honestly, at least in my opinion it's as easy as calories in vs calories out. If you take in less than you burn off you lose weight. The only factor is how big the deficit is will affect how quickly you lose weight.
To be honest, if I told a doctor what I'm doing they'd likely tell me to stop, since I don't usually eat a lunch at work, so sometimes I go a full 24 hours without food and just eat supper each night.