Fat Man Seeking Nerdy Weight Loss Solutions

[Pilkingtube]

OK, the normal response is:

Atleast 30 minutes of moderate cardio activity each day.
Reduce your calorific intake to around 2100 calories a day, then down to 1800 a day after 2 weeks.
Avoid alcohol until you drop down into 1800 calories each day, and after then make sure you don't let the calories from alcohol make up more than 25% of your daily intake of calories.
Switch from simple sugars such as basic sweet foods, to complex carbohydrates with plenty of protein and fibre.
Avoid snacking on anything high in protein or fat between meals, stick to fruit and vegetables.
Do not, under any circumstance, eat fruits with your regular meals, or drink fruit juices with your meals.

The simpler response is:

Slimfast or Cambridge diet.

Some of this is true but parts are not exactly true.

Calorific intake is based on a number of factors including height, weight and age. Although I am overweight I would still need to eat approx 2500 calories (including a 500 decrease for weightloss) at an active routine.

Simple answer is this

Find a calorie intake calculator

Use your own measurements to find your daily intake and take 500 off for weightloss, remian same for toning, and plus 500 to increase mass. Give or take.

This is a guideline, obviously I can't get his BMI from his username, nor can I bring him into the nutritional therapy centre. The body is more than able to adapt to a steady drop in calorific intake without resorting to muscle atrophy.

If I had to give advice that I'd feel comfortable with, it would be to see a local nutritional therapist and sort out a schedule.

 

[Queen Michael]

Carrots are great for filling you up without causing weight gain.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Exercise, Carb restiction (BUT NOT THE ATKINS), low fat diet especially saturates, and notice how all the healthy guys get the hot girls! Good motivation!, if you have a friend who is all so looking to lose weight that's a good help.

Try getting into a gym, watching workout videos online (I recommend Scott Herman), His workouts are serious biscuits.

Watch 300! and think how cool it would be to be a Spartan (But not die).

 

[Carlston]

Running, tread mill whatever....
Push your body. Make you body know your running x amount of distance.

It'll start adapting and dropping weight, if body must run, body will drop pounds to make it easier, if a good diet of normal foods is near fat is not needed to be retained. If your not wanting to make drastic changes to fast in diet, try turkey burgers or just turkey in general for red meat. It tastes good, and has at times less than half the fat.

The best diet and exercise plan is one you enjoy, find foods you enjoy in moderation. But nothing kicks the human body in the ass like running, lots of running.

As well do not tape your waist line constantly...once a month maybe. You'll see a need for a belt like I did with my gym time.

People will spout how this is better than X and you can only eat this or that. In the end faster is not always better. Best to be your target self in a year or two and have a plan you enjoy sticking to, than take a six month crash work out course you hate, and be back to how you were or worse in two years because you couldn't keep it up. Just remember the human body is a machine. You don't move you pack on weight, you don't eat it packs on weight thinking there is a food shortage (yep your a animal) biking machines are cute they just work the legs freely, running causes your body as a whole to become bulk and your body will change... add some full body routines to round it out and yer good.

Good luck.

 

[Slippers]

This isn't rocket science:
1 - Eat less.
2 - Move more.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Carrots are great for filling you up without causing weight gain.

I forgot this little nice piece of advice (remember to drink some water after it to fill the stomach up some more).

 

[dsmops2003]

You should see a physician. They will run your blood work to see if there is something going on with your body that may be keeping you from losing weight. You may be on the verge of being insulin resistant or fully diabetic. In which case you will need to cut your carbohydrate intake per meal and per day respectively. You can give yourself more energy by taking B vitamins. Meat, cheese, vegetable, nuts, fruits with higher fiber and berries. Stay away from fruits and vegetables with high amounts of sugars or starches ( potatoes, carrots, oranges, pinapples, pretty much all tropical fruits have alot of sugars.)

 

[ultrachicken]

LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) is the nerdiest exercise I can think of. It's also damned fun.

It's kind of like playing freeze tag with foam weapons, but there's usually a "story" and a referee.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well don't start too radical, just ease into a less calorie intake routine:
- mix your snacks with fruit, and slowly try to replace the snacks all together (my favorite are apples, cheap and very tasty, plus they have no calorie gain)
- little by little make your drinks less sweet, mix the juices with water and just put a little less sugar in your coffee
- and move around a little, do some sit-ups and some push-ups it's really not that hard, just start off slow(let's say 10 a day) and make it a routine, either when you turn on the tv or start watching a movie, you will be sitting there for hours so why not take a minute to work out

You will see that even with minor changes you start to feel alot better.

 

[bz316]

Switch to black coffee. It has no calories, all the caffeine you could ever need and is a natural diuretic and laxative. Also, nuts. Theyre very filling and have high protein but low calories.

 

[Ossian]

Just be like me! Eat food and always leave some on the plate. Play games so much that you eat in a hurry to get back to the PC.

I'm underweight and doing great! -_-

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

Start with circling your dining table for 15 minutes moving up to 30 minutes. Then walk around your back yard for 30 minutes moving up to 45 minutes. Then take a walk through your neighborhood for 45 minutes moving up to 1 hour. Then try the previous all over again replacing it with running. Do this every day before dinner. Also do 15 sit ups and 15 push ups every night before going to bed.

 

[Mechsoap]

Exercise, Carb restiction (BUT NOT THE ATKINS), low fat diet especially saturates, and notice how all the healthy guys get the hot girls! Good motivation!, if you have a friend who is all so looking to lose weight that's a good help.

Try getting into a gym, watching workout videos online (I recommend Scott Herman), His workouts are serious biscuits.

Watch 300! and think how cool it would be to be a Spartan (But not die).

Well now you completely diminished our advice...

 

[northeast rower]

Simple workout: 50/20. Works like this:

Alternate lower body/ upper body every day.

Accomplish 50 reps of whatever exercise in 20 minutes. When you accomplish this, make it harder by adding weight or adjusting technique.

Lower body: Goblet squats or deadlifts (50 of one or the other)

Upper body: Pullups and pushups (50 of each)

If you have access to an ergometer, use it. As a rower I cannot stress how tiring that machine is, and it WILL build muscle.

As for eating, eat enough to supplement your workout. Don't undereat, you'll just feel terrible and break your routine. Drink shitloads of water every day.

 

[RanD00M]

This isn't rocket science:
1 - Eat less.
2 - Move more.

Bad tips right there. It's eat better, move more. If you're eating less and moving more you really aren't burning anything away. The body need it nutritions, especially while doing regular exercises.

 

[PayneTrayne]

I've cut pop out of my life and I'm doing quite alright for myself. Slimmed down considerably though I haven' lost much weight.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

Instead of drinking pop, drink water, milk and orange. Also, don't snack when you're playing games, and if you do eat a yoghurt or some fruit or something. I can't even eat sweets any more, I find them disgusting. Chocolate is nice, but I don't have much of an urge to eat it, so I just leave it. Basically, if you're snacking; stop.

 

[Slippers]

This isn't rocket science:
1 - Eat less.
2 - Move more.

Bad tips right there. It's eat better, move more. If you're eating less and moving more you really aren't burning anything away. The body need it nutritions, especially while doing regular exercises.

If the guy can't see his dick behind his belly, it's pretty safe to assume, that's he's eating a tad bit more, than what his body needs for maintenance and damage repair.

Also, I wasn't aware that the word less implies welding the fridge shut and not eating for a month.

Edit. And it is "eat less", not "eat better". No matter how good the food is, if you're eating 5000 calories a day, you will gain weight, that is not up for debate.

 

[Deleted]

So before entering college I was already a pretty heavy guy, but combined with my freshman 15 I'm coming dangerously close to not being able to see parts of my anatomy anymore. I try to work out, but I have a hard time staying committed to anything. The clOSES I ever came to a regular workout was DDR Which led me to believe that I just have to find something that fits my interest. So what does the Escapist advise for potential weight loss solutions. Oh, and I'm not about to pay the money for a Wii or Kinect.

I've found that the quickest way to lose weight is to buy a really good RPG and play it exclusively for weeks.