Losing weight

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Originally Posted by DHG Otaku

also try and eat several meals throughout the day. Smaller meals, but very often, every 2 or 3 hours if you can. Five or so meals a day, you're body needs to be constantly fed energy instead of a big 3 meals where it sits on the unused stuff and turns it into fat...

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Also, don't eat anything in the two hours or so before you go to bed, for the same reason.

It's also not necessarily how much you weigh that's important, but rather what your body's fat content is.

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Originally Posted by DHG Otaku

also try and eat several meals throughout the day. Smaller meals, but very often, every 2 or 3 hours if you can. Five or so meals a day, you're body needs to be constantly fed energy instead of a big 3 meals where it sits on the unused stuff and turns it into fat, 5 small meals will just give it the energy and there won't be as much left over to be stored (as fat etc) and this will also help your metabolism. Basically everything Dolomite said is absolutely spot on. Drink lots of water, a gallon a day if you can. Take a multivitamin to help assimilate everything and it will help keep you from being drowsy n' shit. You've got to do a minimum of 30 minutes cardio, otherwise you don't get your heart rate up and burning fat for very long.

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Forgot about mentioning the smaller, more frequent meals thing. Good call, Otaku.

Overweight at 150lb? Man, that makes me feel totally overweight at 6'/180lb (fully-clothed.)

3 years of office work contributed to a bit of an extra belly, but I have fairly large muscles in my legs from no-car syndrome.


Why do you have to be in Cali to ride your bike to work? I ride mine to work in the middle of blizzards...

excercise, drink alot of water, less protein, more veggies :D.

also mental motivation wouldn't hurt. you'll feel better in more then one way.

Dolemite, 2-3 pounds a week is a lot. At anything more than 1 pound per week you're losing muscle mass as well.

To lose 1 pound of fat per week, you need to burn 500 more calories than you ingest every day.

What would I recommend doing? Run 2-3 times a week, 2-3 miles. It's not as hard as it sounds!

Cut out the soda. Each can of soda has 150 calories. Cut out most sweets, eat sweets once or twice a week (because if you absolutely deprive yourself of them, it becomes triply hard to keep doing it because its easy to get discouraged). Stop drinking beer or other alcohol because alcohol is very high in carbohydrates.

Be realistic, though, most of all. In 45 days I dont think you could lose any more than 5-10 pounds in a healthy manner. Sure, you could starve yourself and shit, and that might be what you have to do if youre really fat, but there's no way you could be really fat at 155. Im 5'11" @ 165 and Im pretty damn skinny.

Losing weight or getting into shape requires patience most of all. I just started working out and its kinda blah, but all the studying makes it all very very hard (had to stop for the past week and a half because I have so much to study, starting back up this Saturday).

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Originally Posted by Klonoa

'doshi, how tall are you? Holy shit. Being 150 lbs is not fat. I'm 5'9/ 5'10 and I'm around 150-155 lbs, and I want to GAIN weight. I've been eating and eating and yet at the end of the day I alway hover around 150/155. It sucks ass, especially since I'm trying to bulk up.

So guys, how do I get fatter?

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Just takes time man. Patience is the key.

patience is a virtue for people that want immediate results. Excercise is the best idea i could give you Shidoshi, works for everyone no matter what, and ive never heard of anyone getting fatter by working out, unless they did something else on the side.

Cardiac and water. I can't stress how important water is, to me at least. I've gotten to the point that I piss about 10 times easy a day...with almost every time being pure clear water. Yup, I drink so much water that my piss is actually water.

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Originally Posted by dolemite

This is why Oprah's weight keeps going up and down. She goes on some wacky crash diet, loses a ton, then sees a ham and goes wild.

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Classic line Dole, that shit was hysterical. She must go wild for Thanksgiving.

Everyone tells me it isn't healthy, but heres what I did, even thought I wasn't actually trying to loose weight.

I use to eat pretty crappy, and pretty often. Now, I only eat 2 meals a day, and only drink water. I still don't eat that healthy, but I eat fairly small quantities considering I only eat twice a day. I’m around 6 feet and use to be like 190, and now I'm down to 170. Everyone tell me it isn't healthy, but now I feel better (my stomach use to hurt all the damn time) and I sleep way better.

I don't recommend it to anyone because everyone says it bad, but it seems to work for me.

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Originally Posted by Rich

Cardiac and water. I can't stress how important water is, to me at least. I've gotten to the point that I piss about 10 times easy a day...with almost every time being pure clear water. Yup, I drink so much water that my piss is actually water.

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Ha, he's actually right. Well it isn't water, but it's a white enzyme.