Need Tips For Workouts To Drop Some More Weight. Help Please!

[Kettle]

what really opened my eyes....track what you put in your mouth..(yes, that includes penis, jase)..everything you eat..everything you drink..you'll be surprised with how much you're actually consuming. I bought a food scale for $10..I use it every day. I'm basically done losing weight..but I still weigh my food..thinking you know what a cup of something weighs or measures out to could end up costing you hundreds of calories a day

this is part of what weight watchers does. the other part being that they assign point values to foods, and give you so many points for the day. Quite a bit of my daily intake is 0 point foods for snacks. Those include raw fruits, and veggies prepared sensibly. Not covered in butter or other fattening additives.

[Darth Biscuit]

Holy poo, my BMI is 31%. But I'm not fat though. I was fat-ter I suppose. Thanks for the tips guys.

Unfortnutately where I live there's no gym close by. The closest gym is in the next town over. So what I'm doing is a lot of walking/running with my dog. He's a very hypber German shep/something mix. So we go running every day. But I do the other exercises every other day. I don't know if I should be letting my body rest more or less. I guess that's another problem. As far as eating, I haven't had junk food in over 9 months, been eating a lot more veggies, shakes in the morning when possible. Also been eating more than less. Meaning I eat 4-5 times a day, but in small portions.

I really should see a doctor but I don't have the time and money at the current time frame.

How much to rest depends on what you're doing and your overall health... if you're overweight, 3 times a week is a good start... once you get going, there's no reason you can't run/walk everyday. I lift 6 days a week and do cardio most days too... what I don't do is the same body part(s) within about 4 days. My routine right now is, Back, Chest, Legs, Shoulders rest, repeat... some weeks I do biceps with back and sometimes with legs, some weeks I do triceps with chest and sometimes with shoulders. I do abs pretty much every day except when I do back because I hit my lower back pretty hard that day and also on leg day.

Sometimes I do cardio before lifting, sometimes I do it after and sometimes I do it in the middle... just depends. I try not to let myself get used to the same thing over and over.

MPF makes a good point... track, as in write down, what you eat for a week... it's quite an experience. That really helped me get my diet in better order.

[Mrs Pantherfan]

this is part of what weight watchers does. the other part being that they assign point values to foods, and give you so many points for the day. Quite a bit of my daily intake is 0 point foods for snacks. Those include raw fruits, and veggies prepared sensibly. Not covered in butter or other fattening additives.

I tried to do WW's and I hated it..I know it works for TONS of ppl..I just didn't like it...I just stay around 1300 calories a day.

[Jase]

I am smack dab in the middle of the 'normal' range BMI.

And yet somehow in this country I am considered very skinny.

Maybe it is americans' misplaced opinion of what a normal weight is, and not the BMI scale's fault...

[Guest Irv]

hang out with anorexic people

[Zod]

BMI is for idiots. It assumes you have zero muscle.

I am down to 12% body fat yet my BMI says I am overweight. Pretty dumb.

[TNPanther]

I'm still young and lean/muscular, but the human body is the same regardless of what kind of shape you're in. I gained the freshman fifteen over the course of last semester and christmas break due to eating nothing but fast food, unhealthy processed cafeteria food, and sodas. Around the start of Lent, I changed my mealplan to the gourmet dining hall. Since Lent started, I've stayed away from soda, desserts, and excessive eating, instead substituting these with fruits and vegetables. I have since lost 15 pounds. This is including going to the gym and lifting about twice a week. Plus, I gave up alcohol. That helped a lot too.

Do what I did. I guarantee it will work.

[davos]

starve yourself not quite to death but close, start chaining cigs, go on a quest....repeat for 90 days....yeah, that should do the trick

[Squirrel]

You could try my plan eat 1 main meal a day and snack the rest of the day. Also I dont have a car at the moment so I walk and bike everywhere. Dpeending on the day I either walk or bike between 4-6 miles a day. Days off work I actually walk more. I can say I am the slimmest I have been in 15 years. Now all I need to do is lift a little weight.

[Kettle]

I tried to do WW's and I hated it..I know it works for TONS of ppl..I just didn't like it...I just stay around 1300 calories a day.

What you did with counting calories and keeping a food log is very much like WW's anyway. The meat of it is portion control, so the way it helped me and my wife was keeping us from eating seconds at dinner and bad snacks throughout the day.

[captfluoro]

Along the line of diet and WW there is a website and phone app called "my fitness pal" (myfitnesspal.com) that helps you track your calorie intake. You put in your age, weight, height and activity level and then put in what your diet goal is ( mine was lose one pound a week). It then tells you how many calories you are allowed per day. Just enter in what you eat and it keeps track of fats, carbs and proteins as well as total calories. There is a huge food databank that has the info on basically every food out there (went to Brixx pizza last night and almost the entire menu was available). Plus the phone app has a UPC reader so you can just take a picture of the UPC code on food containers and it pulls up all the info. If you exercise you can enter that in as well and your calorie allowance for the day will change accordingly. Has made me very conscious of how caloric some food is. I'm a sedentary 45 year old but have lost almost 6 pounds in two weeks.