I need to lose as much weight as possible by March.

I started at 296 December 1 with a horrible diet (James coney island 2x week, cheese covered Mexican food 2x week, breakfast from fast food places etc..). As of today im 279; changed my diet to a banana or small bowl of cereal w/2%, smoked turkey for lunch ((not a sandwich just the meat)), something small for dinner and when i do go out it's grilled fish tacos, salad or plain chicken fajitas). I do own an outdoor bike, an exercise bike and 2 big dogs that love to be walked. I would like to be 250 by March and 225 by June.

I don't own a gym membership and am not worried about muscle mass right now.

So how am i doing and how can i achieve my goals?

Any help is appreciated :-)

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What are you drinking?

Eat primarily vegetables and meat/fish/poultry/eggs
Occasionally eat low-sugar fruit and dairy

Walk or ride often

Ditch the cereal, if your turkey is "lunchmeat" i.e. processed, ditch that and eat your veggie/meat dinner leftovers for lunch

Drink water, tea, or black coffee (maybe a bit of unsweetened cream)

Don't worry about hitting a certain weight by a date. It's a process. Keep moving in the right direction.

Do what the flyboy above said.

Best of luck, but at 250 Cola Warrior is still going to kick your ass.

Drink lots of water before and after meals to make you feel full. Use a calorie tracker. Hit whey protein shakes to make you feel more full and promote muscle growth which burns calories.

I dropped 45 in 3 months doing this along with the gym 3-5 days a week

Cola warrior is 2nd on my reasons why March is my goal date; first is a friendly wager between co workers.

Im drinking water and a Dr pepper every other day, the turkey is from a local bbq place.

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I also snack on those 100 calorie packs of yogurt covered pretzels and i eat a 1lb bag of baby carrots every few days.

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4 hour body by tim ferris, paleo diet. I lost 35 lbs in 2 1/2months

You gotta cut the carbs dude. Your joking with the pretzels and carrot sticks, right?

Drink nothing but water, and eat nothing but natural peanut butter and old fashioned oat meal.

Get maleria. You will lose 100 lbs. in a week.

Listen to H46Driver- what he describes is pretty close to a Primal diet.

Ditch the 100cal snack packs. Ditch the soda completely.

Don't crash diet. Portion control is your friend. Start walking or riding your bike until you feel like you're in shape enough to start this exercise plan. You will shed some serious lb's with interval based workouts. That's what the're designed for.

This is not healthy.

Eh, a month or so wont kill him and hell be getting protein, fat, and carbs along with a good dose of fiber. OP I used the Abs Diet which isnt actual a "diet" so much as its a guide to correct nutrition. I lost about 30lbs over 8 months with a fundamental change in what I eat and some very minor exercise thrown in. With the way I eat now it takes very little effort to maintain the results and that was 4 years ago.

Pretzels i can understand as a carb but carrots?


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Giardia dropped about 15lbs off of me in a week!!

A diet that cuts out vegetables and limits you to only one source of fat protein and carbs is not something that I can get behind. The vast majority of people would be MUCH better off just eating tons of green veggies, a little fruit and reasonable portions of meat. No sugar, no processed foods, no soda etc.
Healthy and sustainable.

Is it possible to continue a loss of roughly 16lbs a month with my current diet?

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Not only a carb, but pretzels are highly processed EMPTY calories. I'm not concerned about the carrots as long as you don't go crazy.

Your current diet isn't very good. Listen to what we're telling you. 16 pounds a month is too extreme. You're going to need to be satisfied with slower weight loss that you can KEEP off by changing your lifestyle and not going on a crash diet.

I eat about 1/3 - 1/2lb of carrots daily when im working.

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Im all ears but i always have questions.


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The oatmeal and peanut butter was a joke, the Abs Diet was a real suggestion as it does exactly what you are recommending.

So about 80 calories and 16g of carbs worth. 1/2 seems like a lot to me, but I don't think it's going to hurt you.

Ive heard 2-3lbs a week is about the max for healthy loss.

Ok, didn't sound like a joke.

Abs looks ok, but there are better options IMO.

Yeah, that's pretty much the accepted healthy max loss.

Don't worry about the carrots, especially if you'd eat something worse without them.

You may find that your appetite actually decreases if the things you consume are actually nutrient rich and unprocessed.

As far as peanut butter and oatmeal - don't do that. That's nearly nutrient-free eating. Not healthy.

Should i switch the carrots out for plain unsalted almonds? Is a protein shake really that much of a better breakfast than a banana and maybe some orange juice?

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AGH, not OJ, too much sugar and not enough fiber. Drink water and eat an orange instead. Also bananas are way to much simple carbs, either eat it before or immediately after cycling but not any other time.

I realize that im asking a lot of questions but it's not that i question any of the help that Im given Im just wanting to do this right and change my diet as necessary.

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Read the Abs book, it will set you up with a basic understanding of the nutrition you should be following.

I wouldn't completely switch them as almonds are VERY high calorie, although they are also very healthy. Go ahead and have maybe a handful a day and no more. I don't think you need to cut out the carrots.

Banana + orange juice = carbs and sugar. No protein and no fat. You NEED protein and fat. I don't really think a shake is the best answer either. How about eggs and veggies? fat/protein/carbs and it will keep to satisfied. Try 3-4 eggs + sauteed broccoli or zucchini or something. If you don't like eggs I'd just have some sort of meat.

That's my breakfast of choice, I eat 4-6 eggs every single day.

Agh?

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No worries, that's why we hang out in this forum.

You want REAL, healthy, sustainable weight loss?
Start reading here. Do the 30day challenge- your whole way of looking at food will change. You won't regret it.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-blueprint-101/

I like oatmeal topped with 2 eggs w/ very runny yolks, and spinach or broccoli for breakfast.

any fruit juice is basically a soft drink. Orange juice has good stuff in it, but 8oz of orange juice has way more sugar and none of the fiber of just eating an orange and drinking water.

Im good with water, while at work i probably drink 8 bottles in 12 hours.

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I know this isn't popular and IS NOT a sustainable diet, but going low carb could get you where you want to be by mid-late summer- simple enough, just maintain as close to a zero carb diet as possible for about two weeks, then do not go above 20g/day of carbs for a few months save for one "cheat" day a month. The fat will melt off.

The kicker here is that it is NOT A SUSTAINABLE DIET. You WILL lose weight, but you WILL gain it back if you go back to your old habits. You would be best suited making lifestyle/diet changes as have already been outlined here and sticking with them.

Overall health is a marathon, not a sprint, and there is no magic bullet.

Honestly man, my entire family was obese at one time or another, and the only thing I saw work for any of them was Weight Watchers and exercise. Weight Watchers is a completely sustainable diet based on portion control which I mentioned earlier. It also will not force you into habits you can't commit to off the bat, because the more weight you lose the less you are allowed to take in. Therefore, you adjust to the diet as your body needs to adjust. I can't stress enough how important exercise is. You don't have to blow it out with a big gym routine, just do some light to moderate exercise for ~30 minutes 3 times a week. If you're living a sedentary life right now, just walking at first is good. If you're a little more active, that C25K program I mentioned earlier is perfect. As stated earlier, interval training (which is what the C25K program is based on) is key to fat loss. Here's an article explaining the benefits of interval training link, and here's a website for later with interval training routines link. You're probably going to drop a whole lot of weight in the beginning, then that will drop off. Don't get discouraged, this is natural.

Weight watchers is an ok way to deal with portion control, but it allows you to eat complete shit. You can certainly lose weight, but your diet is most likely still garbage unless you're also watching the quality of the foods that you eat.

I don't disagree with that statement. I believe there are probably much better ways to deal with portion control. This is just the only one I've seen personally, and I know it's sustainable. If you've got a better method I'm sure the OP would love for you to share it.

Please don't do this diet

Fat chance-ha ha-that I will, but okay, why not?

Sure. Although my personal opinion is that quality > quantity- at least at first.
My portion control goes pretty much like this when I'm being strict:

~5 eggs for breakfast and 6-7 ounces of meat at lunch and dinner. Green veggies you eat as much as you want. 1 piece of fruit, or maybe a cup of berries a day. No snacks, unless you want more green veggies.

There's alittle more to it than that, but it's simpler than figuring out points, and you're actually eating healthy food rather than x amount of points of twinkies.

No meat for starters...and there is actually sugar in fruit, so although it's good for you, eating "as much as you want" isn't a recipe for success.

Not interested in weight watchers but thanks. My sil has lost weight using that but it's just not for me.

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Lots of very healthy people have no meat diets, again not that I'm likely to do this, I think I lasted a week I may be wrong in my "all you want" comment but I think fruit, like raw, not juice or anything, is unrestricted. I think I'd have to eat a lot of fucking fruit to keep my current caloric intake up

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