Diet Plan Recommendations

[DarrenMcLeod]

Dyne... a Powerbar and water for lunch? That doesn't sound like enough... a salad or a sandwich (whole wheat bread, not white) would probably be a good choice as well, wouldn't it?

Anyways, my dad bought the Body For Life book, and followed that program (www.bodyforlife.com i'm assuming). It's a 12 week program that teaches you how to adjust your lifestyle to a healthy one. If you have good willpower, it works extremely well, as it gives you one "free" day a week, without exercise and you can eat whatever you want. My dad lost 40 pounds in 12 weeks, which is awesome because he was 49 at the time, and quite overweight.

Really, it's just a matter of staying active, cutting on snack foods, and eating lighter. It's easier to say than do, but with good willpower, you can do it. "Dietting" isn't really the right term for it, since you should just plan on changing your lifestyle permanently rather than just for a few weeks time, otherwise you'll just go up and down in weight all the time.

[Jonbo298]

To Darren first: I dont plan to do this short term. I just called it diet'ing since its easier to get people to understand what I want to do The source of alot of my 'problems' has been my self image so I dont to make this short term at all

Originally Posted by Perfect Stu

-stop drinking soda
-put on some muscle mass (the more muscle mass you have, the more carolies you burn)
-drink at least 2000mL of water every day (try to do 3000)
-move. get active. instead of walking up stairs, run. shoot some hoops. walk an extra mile ever day. skip. whatever it takes, just make sure you dont sit for extended periods of time.

When I feel like it, I can slim down fairly easily with some hard work and consistency. Key word? Consistency. One time I drank nothing but water for an entire week (it was TOUGH) but I felt like...twice as good at the end of the week than I did at the start. Make sure you've got some muscle on you...that helps big time.

The soda I will be cutting back drastically. I've been taking a bottle of pop to work each day since when your doing inbound sales, you needs the liquids but when the bottle is empty I bring it home and fill it up with water and throw it in the fridge or something and on Lunch walk over to apt, eat a lunch and bring back a water but I think I'm gonna overhaul that and just bring 2 bottles of water to work (one partially frozen, other not or just 25% frozen). Then on lunch swap them for 2 more.

I plan to mainly lose the "belly fat" first of all since it stands out the most obviously but I dont want to just stop at that. My arms still have some muscle on them but its not a huge amount but its noticeable.

For me at work the way it is right now, I unfortunately have to sit quite alot. Heck, when they changed my schedule recently I have ALOT of days that are 10am-10:30pm. Granted, I may pace back and forth a little more often but not too much to make people look at me weird But on days off I may take a small walk or whatever to "get used" to what I will probably be doing for a long time hopefully.

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I think overall, I'm going to try to "get rid" of the foods in the house that are more fattening or calorie'ific or whatever. I have a few tv dinners and whatnot I just throw in the microwave on lunch but can just as easily make a sandwich and maybe drink a glass of milk or orange juice for lunch. But right now I dont want to just "trash" the food I just bought a few days ago before deciding to start doing what I should have a long time ago

[Joeiss]

Jonbo, some people have great success going cold turkey when it comes to their diet, others don't. Don't be afraid to slowly cut out the junk for your diet. You drink a bottle of pop a day? Well if you can't take having no pop at all, cut that to a bottle of pop every other day, then once every 3 days, then once a week, then none at all.

Like said before, its a lifestyle change, and lifestyle changes are hard when you change everything at once.

And buy boneless, skinless chicken breast. It is delicious. Eat complex carbs (oats, potatoes, brown rice) during the day, then stick to greens at night.

[Dyne]

Originally Posted by DarrenMcLeod

Dyne... a Powerbar and water for lunch? That doesn't sound like enough... a salad or a sandwich (whole wheat bread, not white) would probably be a good choice as well, wouldn't it?

The results speak.

Of course, it was only during the week, and I was so busy with school that I didn't notice in the long term. Of course I ate normally on weekends but I also had more time to exercise.

Now that I've lost all that fat, I've gone back to eating whatever the hell I want. It works great. I stay 190 no matter what I eat. And it's been well over a year of this. I figure I only gained all that weight in the first place because of badly timed meals and my old karate training, which was pretty rigorous.

[Jonbo298]

I'm not gonna worry about killing out pop overnight basically. I can easily switch to all water in a heartbeat. The food stuff I have right now I'd rather get eaten so I dont waste the $50 I spent this check to get lunch type food and a few snack'y things

[Perfect Stu]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

I can easily switch to all water in a heartbeat.

it is surprisingly hard to drink water 100% exclusively for an extended period of time. I did it more to test my will power than anything...drink water, but drink some juice and Gatorade (after you work up a sweat, Gatorade tastes like heaven). Just stay away from soda...cola in particular. That is pure sugar.

[Dyne]

Stay away from cola regardless. I started drinking it more than usual after I lost all my weight, and I got my first damn cavity.

It's all just bad karma.

[Joeiss]

Crystal light is good, and super low in cals.

[Jonbo298]

Well, let me clarify. What I meant by all water was at work. I forgot to add that tidbit. At home I'll probably drink some OJ or Milk, etc... here and there

[Perfect Stu]

let us know in a couple weeks how things are going...this summer i decided i wanted to lower my overall bulk...I dropped only 12 pounds but I lost 2 inches off my waist, didnt lose any strength, and got quite a bit quicker/faster

[Jonbo298]

I need to get a scale then so I can mark my "Current weight" and go from there if I can make it to the store in the morning If not I'll try for Tuesday morning and maybe get a few pictures of myself to see if there is a difference in a few weeks or not

[Stonecutter]

Originally Posted by Bond

I drink nearly a gallon of water a day. Yummy!


You need to change your lifestyle for long-term success. It's all about balanced diet and exercise. Notice that there is no "z" in exercise.

Actually I'd say getting a proper number of Zs is very, very important to exercise. You're not going to want to do ANYTHING if you're tired all day. If anything starting a diet plan should be accompanied by adding MORE not less sleep to your day.

[Jonbo298]

I usually try to shoot for 6-8 hours of sleep depending on time spent on computer. I've started off the week by basically eliminating the "Take a bottle of pop and swap it for water later" when going home for Lunch to just all water. I may try to get in a walk tonight even though its not until like 10:30pm when I get off But its at least a start until I can eventually get my overtime fleshed out more easily to get longer walks in.

Then probably come back home, rest up and watch a movie I rented and maybe eat something light. But food changes wont occur immediately because I already bought up a weeks worth or so of food and have to get rid of it first before buying more.

But thanks againe everyone for your suggestions so far. I've got at least a partial plan narrowed down until I can get a more permanent or semi-permanent one established

[Teuthida]

Do not drink orange juice.

(And with that comment I'm off for a week.)

[Jonbo298]

Anyone care to elaborate?