Gym/Healthy Living People of RaGEZONE - Care to help me?

[Delici0us]

Right, this is going to be a wall of text but hopefully someone can help me out.

I’ve been gaining weight for the past two years and I’ve had enough now, and I mean enough. I can’t take the fucking depression, shame and embarrassment that it’s causing me. I’ve always been on the larger side of the scale but in the past two years I’ve put on around 5 Stone (32 Kg) and it’s now brought my total weight to 23 Stone (147 Kg) at 6ft 4in it’s not as bad as it could be on somebody shorter but it’s still crushing my soul.

I don’t want to be this size anymore; I want to fix the glob that I’ve become. I want to be able to live past my early forties, but I don’t know where to start.
Tomorrow afternoon I am going to get my ass down the Gym and buy a full-on membership for the Gym and the Swimming Pool.

I understand that this is self-inflicted, from Sunday I’ll be cutting everything out of my current diet – Coke, Pepsi, Pizza and all the other shit. But I have a problem again, I’ve never been all that healthy, I don’t have a clue what to eat too actually lose weight or in what proportion. So my questions are these, if you could help me you would actually be inevitably saving me.

• What should I start eating?
• At the Gym is it likely someone will give me a “Plan” or will I just need to make my own up?
• If I don’t have a plan, what should I be doing at the Gym?

Thanks Guys!

(If this is the wrong section, sorry! Don't know where else to chuck it).

[MentaL]

[Smitty]

Check out Fittit: Fitness

First point though, you're setting yourself up for failure. Trying to do too much too fast.

Stick with going to the gym, but don't remove all sugary stuff from your diet. Start with a program like Stronglifts 5x5 or Starting Strength (both listed on fittit) and focus on getting yourself into an active lifestyle. You'll notice that once you start feeling more fit, you'll start eating less junk because you want to go further.

Start with baby steps.

*Edit* You can also use the "newbie program picker" here: Rohit Nair - Fitness Program Picker v2.

It will give you a program to start you off and get you going in the right direction.

[Delici0us]

Check out Fittit: FitnessFirst point though, you're setting yourself up for failure. Trying to do too much too fast.Stick with going to the gym, but don't remove all sugary stuff from your diet. Start with a program like Stronglifts 5x5 or Starting Strength (both listed on fittit) and focus on getting yourself into an active lifestyle. You'll notice that once you start feeling more fit, you'll start eating less junk because you want to go further.Start with baby steps.*Edit* You can also use the "newbie program picker" here: Rohit Nair - Fitness Program Picker v2.It will give you a program to start you off and get you going in the right direction.

Hey, the thing is my current diet is completely shit. I don't drink 500ml of Coke, I'm getting thought 2L a day. It's not doing me any good and as a starting point I think that should be the first to go as it's the bulk of my calorie in-take. Thanks for the links, I'll look into them now.

[Improved]

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[Delici0us]

I want to lose weight. Muscle is not important to me at the moment. Thanks for the reply though.

[foxx]

go and buy this https://www.facebook.com/the12weekchallenge

I did, lost 12kg in 12 weeks(didn't even go to the gym, ate some tasty shit.. some of it is here, half of those photos are mine).

The program is based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_fasting which is the shit in the fitness industry right now.

tell him Aleš sent you, and he'll give you 10% discount, it's still not gonna be cheap, but it's well worth it!

[Bloodraven]

Swimming helps a lot, I lost 10kg in 2 months just swimming every other day, 50m swim 4 times every other day, I swim everyday now since I was depressed about my weight at 13.

I had a low (or high, can't remember which one means which) metabolism level or whatever which means every bit of fat my body got hold of it stored, sometimes its not even you're fault.

Try swimming, running, just get more active then cut the high sugary stuff out.

My BMI was 23.9 last month, 26+ being on the higher end.

[Evilkitten]

The key is really everything in moderation and don't cut everything out completely with food.

Aim for small goals, say if you do 3 days of 30min at the gym during week then at the end of the week treat yourself with something say small pizza whilst trying to keep healthy doing the week. Build it up at time goes on adding weights, gym sessions, just generally pushing yourself.

In regards to weight, set multiple goals instead of one big goal. Say lose 6lbs by 3 weeks instead x-amount in a year. That way it will keep yourself focused and motivate at every stage of the way. Also don't be disappointed if a goal doesn't work out, keep telling yourself you won't give up and you will succeed.

Don't run before you walk... This can be taken very literal as in walk everyday at the start before aiming to do,say, 5 mile runs. 30mins a day of a fast walking can increase your fitness very quickly and get your body ready for those big runs.

I don't know a whole lot about the gyms as always done things at home but I would talk to the people at the gym. A lot of gyms offer personal advice and personal goals & nutritional advice.

Good luck and remember, start small and work your way up. ^^

[NoPeace]

The best solution is talk to experts. Get a personal trainer and see a dietitian. You might think it's a waist of time and money but they'll make sure you are doing things the right and healthy way aside from all the crap you hear in the media. They will also give you motivation which is the key to your success.

If you can't afford to see professionals then I would suggest you to go out and get some books. Get some books on nutrition to learn how to eat healthy. Your best bet is to get university level text books on the subject and they will give you a more accurate information. As for exercise, I could recommend you a few programs, though I would suggest you googling the "Insanity" work out and stick to that for the 60 days. That would be a good start for you.

NoPeace - out

[foxx]

The best solution is talk to experts. Get a personal trainer and see a dietitian. You might think it's a waist of time and money but they'll make sure you are doing things the right and healthy way aside from all the crap you hear in the media. They will also give you motivation which is the key to your success.

Exactly and I can really vouch for 12 week challenge. The guy walks you thru the whole thing, teaches you how to eat, make you a training program that suits your needs(ie. I didn't want to do to a gym, so he made me a home bodyweight workout), he's making adjusments all the time(if they are needed), doing weekly evaluations and consultations with you, you have you own progress and food charts and shit.

This guy, another of his clients, lost 10kgs in 6 weeks, unfortunately had a car accident so he couldn't finish the program, but you can clearly see how he started to shape out, another 6 weeks and he'd be ripped and fit.

[HeavenlyGifted]

I'm the opposite of your problem and I don't gain weight much although I eat heavy meals a lot, and I'm 5'1.

And also by living a healthy life you should take up sport activities and get involve on fun runs instead of going to gym lifting weights.

Be reminded when you get used to going to gym and you try to skip a week or month it will cause your body figure to go imbalance. That's why I preferred doing sports which really feels much natural and fun.

[Jiklong]

Don't just loss the weight, start rethinking of your habits. Always try to walk as much as you can, 30 min walk add so much value. Also don't bother too much in building muscle that will come later on.

In a way I can relate to you, I've been fat, since grade school. One day when trying to sleep, I could hear myself breathing heavily it scared the shit off me. That when I started to fix myself, first came the way I ate, then the lifestyle, no more shortcuts if it's 20 mins away i'll leave early and walk to get there. Last came the exercise, devoted 2 hours a day 6 days a week to 1 hour cardio and 1 hour weight.

At the end, it came with awesome results, from 265 lbs to 170 LBS (lowest I ever weight in my adult life). But keep in mind, you will have to work for this, it took me 8 months to loss 95lbs, just work on it, the results will show.

Goodluck!!!

[foxx]

Also don't bother too much in building muscle that will come later on.

The thing with losing weight is, that you are inevitably losing muscles as well as fat. You won't lose weight with cardio, you will lose weight with a proper diet, but you need to do the bodyweight workouts to, if not gain, at least keep your muscles.

Again, if you want results, get a professional to help you, whether you want to put on muscles, drop down a couple of dress sizes or just feel healthier. And believe it or not, but the money spent for a diet program are quite a good motivation as well.