How do you guys DO it??
Do you drink protein shakes all day?
Do you guys carry around zip lock bags of baby carrots for snacks?
Do you guys not eat after 7pm?
Do you do cardio 6 times a week? For 45 minutes each?
I'm 210, down from an awful 220 and I need to be 185. How can I get there?!!
Understand that weight loss is SIMPLE, but HARD.
Simple in that the process is burn more calories than you eat.
Hard because humans are busy, and food is yummy. I'd bet that you are in a NON-physical job.
So here is what I did.
In 2008 my child was born and someone took a picture of me sleeping while holding her. Awe so cure. Fuck no. All I saw in that picture was my fat 310 lb ass. I used to be a sports star in University.
At that point I made a change.
EAT LESS WORK OUT MORE.
- Bought and religiously used P90X = A fuck ton of hard cardio.
- Used mynetdiary - and recorded my eating EVERY SINGLE DAY.
- And lost 95 lbs to drop to 215 lbs
- For me exercising is easy I LOVE IT. The hard part was eating within my caloric limits (2500) a day.
For me though I found that I was as weak as a kitten. So I changed from a crazy cardio plan to more of a power lifting plan.
I am currently up to 245 but my bench, deadlift and squat amounts are higher than when I was university and I'm 41.
Anyway to answer your questions
1. Do you drink protein shakes all day?
- No I think this is stupid and is only useful for people who are trying to GAIN muscle mass and who are on a heavy program.
2. Do you guys carry around zip lock bags of baby carrots for snacks?
- No. BUT I do monitor what I eat VERY closely. And I will buy fruits for lunch etc.
3. Do you guys not eat after 7pm?
- This is a HUGE myth. Your body doesn't change the way it burns calories after a certain hour of the day. The only value of this is to try and limit your caloric in take. But I don't think its effective.
4. Do you do cardio 6 times a week? For 45 minutes each?
- My P90x program was 6 days a week.
- My current powerlifting program is 4 days a week of heavy lifting (surprisingly short session each time tho). And then an active lifestyle.
Hope that helps. BUT YMMV. The above works for me.