Need to lose weight.

[GreenDragon]

I need to drop 20 lbs. I'm @ about 200 lbs. I'm 5'7".

Anyone else in that kind of situation?

Any tips?

[XenoMorph]

Originally Posted by GreenDragon

I need to drop 20 lbs. I'm @ about 200 lbs. I'm 5'7".

Anyone else in that kind of situation?

Any tips?

Well how fast do you need to lose it there are many ways to lose 20 pounds..

the easiest would be to stop drinking anything that isnt water. or juice

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Or Cut all sugar from your diet.


and cardio exercises.

Or go to a steam room and sweat it out lol (comes back when you drink fluids.)

[Stewee28]

Yes Sir!!!

Advocare 24 Day Challenge

http://www.advocare.com/products/trim/99038.aspx


Read up on it. It is a weight loss system that cleanses your body for the first 10 days. Once the cleanse is over, you begin taking weight loss supplements (14 days) that help speed up metabolism as well as give you energy and overall body wellness. Its a little pricey ($180 for the bundle) but it does wonders!!

The 24 Day Challenge bundle:

10 Day Cleanse - Fiber Drink, Probiotic Pills, Cleanse Pills, Spark energy drink
14 Day Weight Loss - weight loss supplements, spark energy drink, meal replacement shakes

My personal success story......

26 years old who coaches high school baseball. Put on a lot of weight during the season mainly because I dont have time to go home and cook, so I usually picked up fast food on the way home from the games. Once the season was over, I weighed 268 lbs. The biggest I have ever been. I began the challenge, did everything by the book and ended up losing about 25-28 pounds within 24 days. I continued the eating habits / routine while still popping the weight loss supplements and ended up getting down to 220. I lost nearly 50 pounds by the end of summer. Completely changes your eating habbits as well as gives you tons of energy. I feel a lot better and my body reacted very well to it. It did wonders for me. I am currently doing another challenge in hopes to getting down to 200 by the time summer starts. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who is looking to lose weight.

Good luck!

[Helldog]

Originally Posted by GreenDragon

I need to drop 20 lbs. I'm @ about 200 lbs. I'm 5'7".

Anyone else in that kind of situation?

Any tips?

You plan on lifting weights at all or would like to? If so, would be a good way to turn a good portion of that fat into muscle while having to do little cardio. Need to eat good too, of course, which isn't as hard as most people make out to be, if you go about it right.

I spend Sunday / Monday cooking all my turkey , chicken and lean meats. I cook them in bulk and slap them in containers that way I can easily just reheat it at work or where ever.

Motivation and being consistent, just need to make it routine and you'll adapt to it!

[ishouldbegm]

Originally Posted by GreenDragon

I need to drop 20 lbs. I'm @ about 200 lbs. I'm 5'7".

Anyone else in that kind of situation?

Any tips?

not being on the bengals message board would be a start

[XenoMorph]

im not sure what this does but you could try it

[GreenDragon]

Originally Posted by Helldog

You plan on lifting weights at all or would like to? If so, would be a good way to turn a good portion of that fat into muscle while having to do little cardio. Need to eat good too, of course, which isn't as hard as most people make out to be, if you go about it right.

I spend Sunday / Monday cooking all my turkey , chicken and lean meats. I cook them in bulk and slap them in containers that way I can easily just reheat it at work or where ever.

Motivation and being consistent, just need to make it routine and you'll adapt to it!

Lifting weights - yes.

Eating right - there's the problem. House full of people that DON'T eat right.

[SteelCitySouth]

Originally Posted by GreenDragon

Lifting weights - yes.

Eating right - there's the problem. House full of people that DON'T eat right.

Take responsibility over your own food intake.

I lost 25 pounds in about 2 months changing the way I ate and riding a bike.

[XenoMorph]

Originally Posted by SteelCitySouth

Take responsibility over your own food intake.

I lost 25 pounds in about 2 months changing the way I ate and riding a bike.

Yeah ive lost 5 lbs in 2 weeks just reducing the amount of soda i drink and increasing the amount of tea and water. And working out about 15 minutes a day. (ive missed a few days too)

[Steeler Eater]

Originally Posted by Stewee28

Yes Sir!!!

Advocare 24 Day Challenge

http://www.advocare.com/products/trim/99038.aspx


Read up on it. It is a weight loss system that cleanses your body for the first 10 days. Once the cleanse is over, you begin taking weight loss supplements (14 days) that help speed up metabolism as well as give you energy and overall body wellness. Its a little pricey ($180 for the bundle) but it does wonders!!

The 24 Day Challenge bundle:

10 Day Cleanse - Fiber Drink, Probiotic Pills, Cleanse Pills, Spark energy drink
14 Day Weight Loss - weight loss supplements, spark energy drink, meal replacement shakes

My personal success story......

26 years old who coaches high school baseball. Put on a lot of weight during the season mainly because I dont have time to go home and cook, so I usually picked up fast food on the way home from the games. Once the season was over, I weighed 268 lbs. The biggest I have ever been. I began the challenge, did everything by the book and ended up losing about 25-28 pounds within 24 days. I continued the eating habits / routine while still popping the weight loss supplements and ended up getting down to 220. I lost nearly 50 pounds by the end of summer. Completely changes your eating habbits as well as gives you tons of energy. I feel a lot better and my body reacted very well to it. It did wonders for me. I am currently doing another challenge in hopes to getting down to 200 by the time summer starts. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who is looking to lose weight.

Good luck!

Nice to read a success story with a diet like that. In currently 225 and I'm 5'9" and want to get back down to my hockey weight of 189 and this does look intriguing, especially with reading a first-hand account that is actually real.

[GreenDragon]

Originally Posted by Stewee28

Yes Sir!!!

Advocare 24 Day Challenge

http://www.advocare.com/products/trim/99038.aspx


Read up on it. It is a weight loss system that cleanses your body for the first 10 days. Once the cleanse is over, you begin taking weight loss supplements (14 days) that help speed up metabolism as well as give you energy and overall body wellness. Its a little pricey ($180 for the bundle) but it does wonders!!

The 24 Day Challenge bundle:

10 Day Cleanse - Fiber Drink, Probiotic Pills, Cleanse Pills, Spark energy drink
14 Day Weight Loss - weight loss supplements, spark energy drink, meal replacement shakes

My personal success story......

26 years old who coaches high school baseball. Put on a lot of weight during the season mainly because I dont have time to go home and cook, so I usually picked up fast food on the way home from the games. Once the season was over, I weighed 268 lbs. The biggest I have ever been. I began the challenge, did everything by the book and ended up losing about 25-28 pounds within 24 days. I continued the eating habits / routine while still popping the weight loss supplements and ended up getting down to 220. I lost nearly 50 pounds by the end of summer. Completely changes your eating habbits as well as gives you tons of energy. I feel a lot better and my body reacted very well to it. It did wonders for me. I am currently doing another challenge in hopes to getting down to 200 by the time summer starts. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who is looking to lose weight.

Good luck!

Sounds like an advertisement to me.

[neek]

Originally Posted by Helldog

You plan on lifting weights at all or would like to? If so, would be a good way to turn a good portion of that fat into muscle while having to do little cardio. Need to eat good too, of course, which isn't as hard as most people make out to be, if you go about it right.

I spend Sunday / Monday cooking all my turkey , chicken and lean meats. I cook them in bulk and slap them in containers that way I can easily just reheat it at work or where ever.

Motivation and being consistent, just need to make it routine and you'll adapt to it!

That's a really good idea, I'm stealing it. Aside from the fact that I knew you loved meat, I didn't expect that from you.

[-CR-]

I just went through the same thing. Here are a few things I did to lose 30lbs in a little over 6 months.

1. Keep a food log for the first 2 weeks. Look at your food, count calories and know what a portion is. For your height/weight you only need between 1200 and 2000 a day.

2. Plan your meals, know what your going to eat, how much and how many calories for each meal. You'll quickly learn what kinds of foods you can eat more of and stay within your calorie goal.

3. Get active but take it slow.

4. Nothing but water after 8:00 pm. This one will **** and will take a while to get used to but will be worth it once you start seeing the results.

5. Realize that this is a lifestyle change. If you don't continue after you meet your goal, the weight will come right back.

Good luck to you!

[Stewee28]

Green Dragon & Steeler Eater

No adverstisement boss man. Honest to God, I have tried many different diets in my time from Weight Watchers to Nutri System, the Advocare plan is the best I have ever tried. Im still going strong. The price of the challenge is what motivates me to stick with it. For $180, Im going to work my *** off and not cheat and finger pick fatty foods. Not going to waste the money.

It will change everything from weight, waist, eating routine to checking the labels. I am eating much healthier and feeling better then I have ever felt.

Do some research on it and find some reviews. I am sure youll find some reviews that tell you to stay away from it. But I am one of MANY that has been a success.

[Shady]

It was around this time last year when I got word from my Dr to start working to lower my cholesterol. I quit eating food at night - no snacks after 8:30 pm. Watch what I eat. AND I started a running program.

Couch25K

That took me through the first 9 weeks. It starts out with running 60 seconds and walking 90 for a total of about 20 minutes. Gradually, week to week, you increase your running. By week 9, you're running 30 minutes non-stop. It's not as easy as it sounds, especially if you were as bad out of shape as I was. I went 25 years smoking a pack of Camel non-filters a day. I also switched from cigs to ecigs.

I'm now up to running about 25 miles per week. 10 miles on Sundays, averaging about 10:40 a mile on those longer runs. And I finally did a 5k run under 30 minutes a couple of weeks ago. It's not as good as when I was in the military, but I was in my early 20s back then.

I'm 52 and about 6'1". I went from 214 down to 185 over the course of past year. I'm hoping to get down to about 175-180.

The main thing is that it's given me a lifestyle change. I didn't try to lose it overnight. The only way to take it off and keep it off is to change your habits. I'll never be a competitive runner, but I'm not worried about that. I've got my first half-marthon race coming up in March. I'm entering just to get the t-shirt. If I finish in the top of my age group, that'll be a bonus.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

[bengals23]

Originally Posted by GreenDragon

I need to drop 20 lbs. I'm @ about 200 lbs. I'm 5'7".

Anyone else in that kind of situation?

Any tips?

If there's not a time table for this, you should try making small substitutions that will go a long way. I think cutting out everything you love and going straight to nothing but health food is rough. It makes it harder to stick to it. Again, if you have time, try cutting out sugary drinks and replacing them with water or juice. When having dinner, try having more vegetables and lean meats instead of having the larger portion of meat and fatty side dishes.

All of this will only take you to a certain point though. You have to commit time to working out. You don't have to workout every single day for an hour or so, but maybe 3 or 4 times a week, go for a quick run and do some weights for 30 minutes or so. In that time, you could do a mile or so of running and a good amount of weight training.

Any way you end up doing it, I wish you the best of luck. Hope it all works out.

[Fan_in_Kettering]

Originally Posted by GreenDragon

I need to drop 20 lbs. I'm @ about 200 lbs. I'm 5'7".

Anyone else in that kind of situation?

Any tips?

Congratulations on taking the first step. Admitting you need to drop some pounds takes a lot of guts and I understand your plight because I'm about your height too. Anyone our height who weighs over 200 pounds is at risk for heart attack and stroke. I weigh maybe 160 pounds but I got up to 180 recently -- and I've lost by making only one change: I walk on the treadmill 30 minutes a day. We both have the same issue: Our cardiovascular health is not as good as it should be and that's the thing to change: Just increase the heart rate 30 minutes a day and your metabolism will reset itself automatically. Your blood pressure will drop and so will your resting heart rate. Cardiovascular conditioning stokes the metabolic fire, so to speak, and by doing my daily treadmill routine I lost weight faster than on any diet I ever tried.

[BengaliJack]

Originally Posted by Fan_in_Kettering

Congratulations on taking the first step. Admitting you need to drop some pounds takes a lot of guts and I understand your plight because I'm about your height too. Anyone our height who weighs over 200 pounds is at risk for heart attack and stroke. I weigh maybe 160 pounds but I got up to 180 recently -- and I've lost by making only one change: I walk on the treadmill 30 minutes a day. We both have the same issue: Our cardiovascular health is not as good as it should be and that's the thing to change: Just increase the heart rate 30 minutes a day and your metabolism will reset itself automatically. Your blood pressure will drop and so will your resting heart rate. Cardiovascular conditioning stokes the metabolic fire, so to speak, and by doing my daily treadmill routine I lost weight faster than on any diet I ever tried.

I agree 1000%. I lost weight and kept it off because of that 30 mins.

[Benton]

I lost 10-15 pounds the month I stopped eating fast food for lunch.

I didn't really do it to lose weight, but it was an added bonus.

[jack1953]

Take Smith with you!

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[GreenDragon]

Originally Posted by bengals23

If there's not a time table for this, you should try making small substitutions that will go a long way. I think cutting out everything you love and going straight to nothing but health food is rough. It makes it harder to stick to it. Again, if you have time, try cutting out sugary drinks and replacing them with water or juice. When having dinner, try having more vegetables and lean meats instead of having the larger portion of meat and fatty side dishes.

All of this will only take you to a certain point though. You have to commit time to working out. You don't have to workout every single day for an hour or so, but maybe 3 or 4 times a week, go for a quick run and do some weights for 30 minutes or so. In that time, you could do a mile or so of running and a good amount of weight training.

Any way you end up doing it, I wish you the best of luck. Hope it all works out.

Like to do so before the summer. Short fat guy in shorts never looks good on the beach.

[pennsyltuckian]

Originally Posted by GreenDragon

Like to do so before the summer. Short fat guy in shorts never looks good on the beach.

I know a few people who have done 17 day diet and south beach diet which are similar. These 2 both seem to have fast results and people I've talked to in the medical field say they are very health ways to lose weight.

A bit about 17 day since I know more about that one. It works on 17 day cycles and there are 4 cycles. If you haven't lost the needed amount by the end of cycle 3 you go back to cycle 1 again. Cycle 4 is more of teaching you to live healthier and maintain results. Teaching you about certain things is what I found most interesting about it. I did the first cycle myself and lost 28 pounds in 17 days. But what that number doesn't show is I also gained muscle mass, so it was more than that in fat an water weight. Most people will gain muscle mass also due to the diet actually introducing exercise which increases with each cycle.

Speaking of which, the first week most people lose an incredible amount of water weight if they don't stay properly hydrated their body actually starts to retain water. Once the body starts getting the proper amount of intake, it stops retaining. I knew a person who just started drinking enough water through the day and she actually lost 3 inches around the waist. Unfortunately that prompted he to do the Atkins diet, which was perhaps the most unhealthy fad diet I have ever seen.

[neek]

Right now I am doing 2 a days Monday through Friday. I'm 6 foot tall and 220. I'm trying to drop about 20 pounds and tone up for summer. I get up at 6 and do the Eliptical for 30 mins before work. Then after work I workout with free weights and do abs and such. Only been doing this for about 10 days so I haven't really seen any results. I feel a lot better and have more energy though. Not drinking is the hard part though because I usually smash two fifths every weekend.

[XenoMorph]

Originally Posted by GreenDragon

Like to do so before the summer. Short fat guy in shorts never looks good on the beach.

Sex is a great way to burn calories...

[d-rock22]

No disrespect to anyone in here...but there is an awful lot of terrible information being given out in this thread. I hardly have the time to correct everything but am willing to help in any way if we have a chance to go slowly but surely.

My qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in Exercise Science
Certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a:
-Certified Personal Trainer
-Health Fitness Specialist (allows me to work directly with higher risk patients)
Certified Group Fitness Instructor
Certified Yoga Instructor
World Kettlebell Club Certified Personal Trainer

Work History:
Head trainer at two seperate big gym chains (Urban and LA Fitness)
Turned that into a job managing a Corporate Fitness Wellness Center

Personal History:
Have lost and maintained a loss of over 60+ lbs (don't know the exact number because I haven't wasted my time stepping on a scale in 2 years)

I can help absolutely anyone in any situation when it comes to exercise, and I have no problem sending you tips and advice. I just beg you to not listen to what these others are saying, especially DON'T WASTE MONEY ON A CLEANSE OR PACKAGE. If you want some help, let me know.