Fat Loss dieting...just looking for some tips!?

Question

I know that there are a lot of questions in this category, I just need some help..

I am an ex-athlete that had a high metabolism when I was active...Now that I am a little older it has caught up to me. I am 5'11" and weight about 210 (more of a muscular build though) and need to get rid of the "spare tire". Runnig can be a chore for me because I blew out a knee and still have problems with it...

Mind you I do still like to go out and have an occasional drink, which I limit to Vodka and Soda water...I have cut out beer and wine and have cut out most breads from my diet...Where do I go from here.

Thanks

Answer 1

Limit these foods to once or twice a week, they really put the weight on! cheeses, sodas, chips, fast foods, fried foods, sweet treats. Eat fresh fruits, more veggies.
Be sure to eat a good breakfast.
Cut your portions in half later in the day, especially at dinner.
If you eat anything after dinner, make sure it's healthy.
Drink alot of water.
Keep active, park far away from the store, walk, walk, walk!
If you do eat bread (and it's ok) eat wheat. Try to not cut out all of your breads, this is carb and it gives you energy, you'll get too tired if you don't have any.
No bacon or sausage or eggs except for once a week.
Exercise! This will speed your weight loss.

Answer 2

Read some diet tips and more on this site to help you with it

Answer 3

count fat grams and calories....walk instead of run, 20 minutes at least 4 times a week. Worked for me

Answer 4

slather on lip balm 765 times

Answer 5

spice things up with 35 minutes of foreplay and 45 minutes of sex in different positions

Answer 6

take a break from blue moon belgian white a 164 calorie treat and grab a miller genuine draft which is only 64 cals

Answer 7

You have a head start in understanding the answer from your athletic background. Here are some thoughts from my 360 Blog of September 10.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 8

Try a vegetarian diet.
It's much healtheir, cheaper, and will help you lose weight.

Answer 9

chug 12 8 ounce glasses of ice water a day it has the same effect on your metabolism as green tea

Answer 10

Eat an apple instead of bottled juice