God! I need so much effing help!?

Question

Wow.. Im so sad. I weighed myself today and I'm 243!!!! I'm 5'9" and have a somewhat bigger frame.. and I dont look 243.. BUT I hate knowing I am. I need to start off by losing 20 pounds.
Any ideas how I can do this? Im willing to try any diet anything!! any exercises in particular? any foods to avoid? foods to eat more? any certain sleeping pattern? ANYTHING

Answer 1

You have accepted the fact that you need to lose weight.

I recommend seeing a Dietician, perhaps in your school, or a nearby Hospital.

Get the professional advice, not what you see here on Yahoo Answers.

Answer 2

You've taken the first step. Please don't get discouraged.
1. See a physician. You must make sure you don't have any medical conditions that may be causing the excess weight or that may endanger you if you start exercising.
2. Don't "diet". Eat healthy. Fresh fruits and vegetables. Low-fat milk, cottage cheese, yogurt. Lean meats (chicken is good). Highly-processed foods contain lots of fat.
3. If your physician says OK, start walking 20 minutes 5 times a week. Increase it to 30 in 3 weeks, then 40 in 2 weeks. Walk faster as your endurance increases. Yes, you'll be sore. Get a GOOD pair of walking shoes. Expensive, but worth it.
4. Whoops, you slipped up and had a bucket of fried chicken! Or a cheesecake! What's your favorite treat? Allow yourself one small portion of that treat a day. Then your "cheat" will become a "treat".
5. Muscle weighs more than fat. Don't judge your progress by your weight alone. Judge it also by how your clothes fit.
6. Enjoy your new body!

Answer 3

You are off to a great start. Just "trying" to find answers and FACTS is more than most people do. Try this.
Eat six SMALL (and I mean small) meals a day. Like an apple and a few carrot sticks might be one. A hard boiled egg and a glass of milk, another. Cut out, as much as you can bread, pasta, and other carbs. Drink lots of water, and if you must DIET pop. If you start feeling run down, try green tea, caffeine, or upping your carbs a little. Learn the difference between GOOD carbs, and BAD carbs.
Eat lots and lots and lots and lots of protein.
Try buying WHEY protein and making yourself a yummy chocolate shake. Always look to eat HALF now and HALF later. Like you eat Half a sandwich and save the other for an hour from now. Learn to leave SOMETHING on the plate.
Eat off of a small plate. Learn to be the QUEEN of salads.
Make it your LIFE'S QUEST to be the greatest salad person on the planet (lo-cal of course) Then, when you lose a reasonable amount of weight, get off your butt and start exercising. Then try to maintain a decent weight. Learn to love yourself the way YOU ARE, and move on with your life.
Lots of heavy guys, need wonderful, CONFIDENT and HAPPY, heavy girls. Good Luck!

Answer 4

find daily calorie intake calculator on the net, enter all your stats and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to maintain, take off 300-400cal off that number and thats how much you need to lose.
eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours - it optimizes your metabolism)
5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water
have complex carbs for breakfast - they give you energy
have protein (lean meat, legumes etc) for dinner - repairs muscle
cardio is the only fat burning exercise (running, jogging, cycling, swimming, elliptical etc)- it burns fat all over your body, 4-6 times a week for 30-50min (ideally 45min because the first 20-30min body burns carbs and only then starts burning fat), light weight training (more muscle=faster metabolism)
dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, pasta etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried, oily.
ofcourse you can spoil yourself once in a while with a little treat:)