Quote:Funny this comes up, i brought it up about a year ago and sought advice but I wasn't prepared to do anything with working out until a month ago when i got up to 372 lbs and lightheaded every day. So far I'm down to 352 and really haven't done anything drastic in terms of changing my eating habits. I am on average losing 1-2 lbs a week and with no more exercise besides walking (until tomorrow night when i get back into the gym)

 

Typical meal 

6 eggs (3 are egg whites only) with 1tblspoon butter, feta cheese, onions, and mushrooms (no meat) with a glass of water and either an apple, banana, or cup of grapes. 

 

lunch

Spinach and mushroom etouffee with garlic bread and rice

 

Dinner 

8 oz mahi mahi with some lemongrass, basil, thai rice with brocoli, baby corn, and sugar snap peas. 

 

Snacks

Freezey pops because summer

Apples

Granola bars

grapes or bananas

not all these snacks but i do a morning and afternoon snack

 

I drink 64oz of water and walk 1.75 miles and climbing a day. 

 

What i use: I have a Fit Bit (i recommend it highly either the bracelet or the pocket one), i use Run Keeper, and My fitness pal. 

 

Fit Bit tracks all my activity and calories burned

Run keeper tells me how many calories I burn specifically on my walks

My Fitness pal helps me track my calories. You choose your age,height, weight and how much weight you want to lose per week and it sets a calorie goal each day to maintain. When you exercise it gives you calories. It tracks all your nutritional information down to how much sodium and iron you take in each day. One of the coolest things you can do is you can scan your food ala the barcode and just put in the serving size. 

 

If you do a meal say like chili or something that has a lot of ingredients, the best thing to do there is to track the amount of each ingredient you cook on a piece of paper. Once you add it all up together, you measure out the amount cooked and say if you make 10 cups of chili for a total of 2,000 calories, then you would say 1 cup equals 200 calories and measure off what you want to eat for dinner. 

 

Right now it has me sitting on about 2400 calories a day and i gain 375 calories back usually each day and often stay under 2,000 calories. And get this.......it's not even hard to do! 

 

 

If you need meal ideas let me know. I've essentially got some good stuff that allows me to eat really good and it's fresh all the way through for the most part. The rice stuff for my dinner is found at Kroger(dunno if you all have that). 

 

i buy groceries for a few days at a time incorporating a lot of veggies into my diet. I'm a vegetarian but I eat fish so a pescatarian if that's spelled right. I occasionally will have a bite of chicken or steak if im out and someone says " you gotta try this!!" 

Congrats, you're off to a good start.  I've gone up and down in weight forever...at one point I lost over 100 lbs.  I've gained some of it back, but better off than I used to be.

 

I workout 3-4 times a week doing a crossfit like workout.  If you can get into that kind of stuff, I say do it.  I was pushing a pretty heavy weight when I started.  Push ups, pull ups, squats...it all sucked at first, but I love it now.

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