People People Please Go On A Diet !!!

I've made that journey too. Unfortunately, I'm no longer one of the BIGGEST People here in the Forums...

I'm in my late 50's, marginally overweight with a couple of chronic sporting injuries, but basically fit and healthy.

I’m an athletic young adult: 5’11” and 160 lbs…. I put on 11 pounds so far this year (on purpose). Keeping it up is worth it to me, 2 days ago my dad and I had to help my obese neighbor get off the floor and back into his wheelchair. It took 40 minutes. Definitely gonna learn from someone else’s mistakes. I don’t think any of us want to be there.

(I’m also addicted to running, which is why it was a goal for me to put on weight, because I was skin and bones)

Just doing a diet isn’t going to make you loose weight you need to workout to

I mean, I went from obese to healthy just by eating good. Exercise is important, but it isn’t completely necessary to lose weight.

Yes it definitely is

Sorry, I agree with SpacePodz  on this one. Exercise is beneficial but not absolutely necessary.

You’ve clearly done no research

I work out to Gain Weight.

You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

SpacePodz did it. Are you calling him a liar?

I did it. Are you calling me a liar?

 

I don't know the details of SpacePodz diet, but I did keto. Worked great, no exercise required.

Here's an entertaining video from Dr. Ken Berry explaining the basic idea. He also links to a couple of papers (British Journal of Sports Medicine, and International Journal of Epidemiology):

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/15/967

https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/42/6/1831/737866?login=true

 

 

Thanks for all of the posts.

Ok

To def don’t need to workout to lose weight.

I’ve trained fighters and wrestlers for years…they MUST be on weight. It’s science and it’s not a hard one despite what these new fad diets say or new workout trends.

It’s very simple: your body is a machine.

A calorie is a unit of energy(or heat).

It’s takes a certain amount of energy to run the machine.

If you intake less energy than the machine needs to operate(your calculated maintenance calories) your body MUST take it from its reserves….you would be violating the law of thermodynamics otherwise(which is impossible).

Working out is always a plus. The lost important muscle in your body is your heart and diet alone will not make your heart and lungs stronger.

Your most important tool in losing weight is a simple digital kitchen scale.

Wrote down the calories of EVERYTHING you put in your body. I’m talking when you put ketchup on your burger measure the ketchup in a kitchen tablespoon and write down how many calories that tablespoon of ketchup had and add it to your daily total.

This is not hard and you will know EXACTLY how much energy is going into your body.

All foods have nutritional info on the back. It’s easy to read and if weight loss is your goal calories are all you need to focus on. Not protein or carbs or fat.

When my son was 12 he had to make 130bs to wrestle in his division and he was 137(because he had gained a little fat).

I proved to him he could eat McDonald’s THREE TIMES A DAY and still make weight.

He stepped onto the scale at EXACTLY 129.9….and this is common for wrestlers it’s not special.

McDonald isn’t good for you it’s crap calories and you could have TWICE the volume of healthy food and achieve the same caloric goals, but “calories in vs calories out” is the only thing 90% of people looking to lose weight have to know.

I’m on three different diets. I was getting really hungry on just one. 

Thanks for the info and the posts,