I need to shed some weight

[trey85stang]

I need to shed about 10-15 lbs. I have never really worked out before.

My current situation.. I only eat one full meal a day which is dinner.. (ive been told that eating one meal a day it should should be lunch or breakfast.. never dinner)

anyways im currently 6'4" 230, I need to get down to 220 in about 2 weeks.

I was thinking changing my one meal of the day to lunch, and running a mile or so every otherday??

Any other ideas that may be better?

thanks
trey

[BLAKE]

I don't think I'm going to tell you anything you haven't heard before, but here goes anyway.

The one meal a day habit is terrible for your metabolism. 3 should be a minimum. Don't eat within a couple hours of going to sleep.

Running is good, though you should take it easy at first. Can be hard on your knees. Especially if you haven't really worked out as you say and you need to look out for your joints if you are a big guy like us (I'm 6'3" 220lbs). The amount of time you run is more important than the distance. General rule of thumb is that after 20 minutes of cardio exercise, it becomes arobic. Thats when you'll see real burning of calories.

Good luck.

[trey85stang]

so maybe try running on a track for 30-45 mins every other day??

I just cant get into a routine of eating three meals a day. because if i eat breakfast.. i will eat nonstop all day long. its not that i dont care about eating all dya.. its the fact that I can spend 20 bucks a day eating.. that adds up real quick.

[BLAKE]

Originally posted by trey85stang
so maybe try running on a track for 30-45 mins every other day??


That would be good. Don't murder yourself though. 30 min is plenty to start off, if not less.

Originally posted by trey85stang
I just cant get into a routine of eating three meals a day. because if i eat breakfast.. i will eat nonstop all day long. its not that i dont care about eating all dya.. its the fact that I can spend 20 bucks a day eating.. that adds up real quick.

This is where the will power comes in. If you don't have breakfast, your body acts as if its starving all day. It goes into conservation mode and tries to hang on to all the reserves (fat) that it can. Plan it out, have a few smaller meals, and don't give in to the non-stop habit. Its not easy, but neither is working out. After a certain point, you'll want to change your eating habits just so you don't feel like your pissing in the wind, doing all this physical work, then negating it with a poor diet.

[trey85stang]

ok, I going to start this today, thanks for the help Blake!

[BLAKE]

Originally posted by trey85stang
ok, I going to start this today, thanks for the help Blake!

No problemo. :)

Good luck!

[01WhiteCobra]

If you have never worked out before, I suggest you start with walking. Walk the same number of miles you plan on running and you will burn the exact same number of calories.

It is very very easy to take you out of an aerobic zone into an anaerobic zone when you first start running. Doing so will force your body to burn glycogen and lean tissue, not fat.

Walk the first 10 minutes, do whatever you want in the middle 15 minutes and walk the last 5 minutes if you are doing 30 minutes. Increase the middle portion if you want to do more.

10lbs in two weeks you will be burning alot of lean tissue, possibly about 1/2 of your weight loss.

If you are just trying to "make weight" for something, that's cool. But, going into a starvation diet combined with exercise, you will eventually gain most of that weight back.

[podman152]

I'm also in the weight loss quest. At the moment I'm 6'2" and weigh 295. Everythings pretty solid on me except the gut and under the chin. My inshape weight is somewhere in the 240-250 range. I recommend lifting weights along with walking/jogging. Everyone raves about cardio this and cardio that. I'll go along with that, but I found weightlifting gets the heart pumping too.

[01WhiteCobra]

Originally posted by podman152
I'm also in the weight loss quest. At the moment I'm 6'2" and weigh 295. Everythings pretty solid on me except the gut and under the chin. My inshape weight is somewhere in the 240-250 range. I recommend lifting weights along with walking/jogging. Everyone raves about cardio this and cardio that. I'll go along with that, but I found weightlifting gets the heart pumping too.

Yep, if done right, weightlifting can have cardio benefits.

It will also increase your lean tissue mass, which in turn will increase your basal metabolic rate.