m69

See me unlike the rest of your friends that have advised you, would probably give you not quite perfect advice into how to lose weight. It took me about 2-3 months to figure out something that I could do on my own schedule rather than the schedule advised by any dietician or exercise expert. I don;t do the 9-5 and go to sleep by midnight. I am an all nighter so I had to adjust what I had been told.

I am only telling you this because I am in a good mood over this and am proud of myself but this is how I am losing. Just keep in mind I am sure it's not the healthiest but once you get to where you want to it's easier to try to manage.

See, I wake up at about anywhere from noon to 2pm in the afternoon after I went to bed at anywhere from 3am to 6am. Time is important and not as trival as you might guess.

Time is pertinent because it is what your body is adjusted to, not just by the advice of others who work on a seperate sleeping schedules.
I am going to start off by telling you, part of it is eating little to nothing in a 16 hour out of 24 hour time frame. If you must snack, just focus on satisfying the taste and not the appetite. For me for example, I eat a hell of a lot of turkey. It's practically the least fattening and highest protein option you have next to backed fish. It's expensive but I'd advise getting the "Boar's Head" brand of the spicey stuff. There is actually taste, it increases metabolism due to the fact it is spicy and it is filling with low fat and carb bread.
Since the saying goes at breakfast you eat like a kind, that is intended to be the one where you say fuck it. I still wouldn't dine on greasy breakfast sausage and gorge yourself on bacon if that is your time frame but I'll leave that to you. With my schedule it's the same as with any adnjustment. After about an hour or 2 after you wake up you can eat bigger. 8 of the 16 hours you don't eat can be your sleep time btw. Also never sleep after you have eaten for at least an hour. Your metabolism slows down and you'll have more time to for those fatty calories to soak up.
See, part of the thing is, is that carbs are bad and sugar is bad. The foods you want to cut out are breads,pasta of any sort and things that are over oily. Don't eat fried if you can help it and if you do, let it be chicken. For goth's sake again try not to eat fried stuff. Also cookies and dougnuts are your enemy. I eat turkey so much now that it is primarily the food I most eat. You see I don't eat a lot of veggies, btw potatos are starchy and be aware of them being cooked in oil,
One thing for me is that I have to have soda and not diet or so for me anyhow, the process is slow sometimes but with all the rest I do still effective. It would probably be more effective for you if you could cut them out and go with lemonade or water.

I know I am typing a lot but I am quite long winded, in a good mood over the loss, and kind of drunks so I don't mind going into detail.

The next part has to do with the actual weight loss versus muscular growth. As I am sure you know, muscle weighs a lot more than fat. I am mentioning this because this is important to your exercise focus. You will gain muscle and lose no fat throgh upper torso exercises such as weights and pull ups and anything else that works those muscles. The ones that really make you lose weight are cardiovascular exercise such as running, power walking, actual walking(which I find to not be as challenging as the body needs to really lose the weight) and biking.
The only way considering I wasn't born with discipline is to take it easy in exercise first. I chose biking as my exercise to lose weight. trust me, it's no where near as fun as when I was a kid. Here is a way to make it easier. Start off with any heavy exercise that is difficult to do like that with 4 miles every other day and work up to 8, then do 2 between those days because hell, when you did 8 the night before it still seems like a vacation. Expect a ot of discomfort at first but hey, it's all about what you can keep yourself doing.

The next key is sweating.
Typically you would get that in when exercising but I started all of this at the beginning of January so it's been to cold to sweat a good bit. Sweating gets the impurities out and I would say even in normal weather it would be good to do what I do. Since I don't have a sauna, I just Run a hot bath and sit in the bathroom and sweat for about an hour and then take a cold bath or shower to cool back down.
and to clean up.

Outside of that I take this herbal diet pill but who knows how much that does giving it is not chemical. I think it works but who knows. Oh and there is this buttered flavored powder called C-blocker I believe. Anytime you eat things like partas or hamburgers, make sure you put at least a tablespoon on. Don't worry, it is 20 bucks and you can't even taste it. It's also good when eating high starch stuff like potatoes to. Do what you will but I am waiting till I get to the weight I want before trusting that I can eat pasta twice a week. Hell, it's been like over a month since I have let myself eat it even with the powder which is like a butter spice of sorts. I wouldn't advise dumping a bit in your hand and licking it off though. I did that once when I ate something and forgot to put it on there. Anyhow, that way it was gross as fuck.

The biggest thing really is consistency. Your tolerance will build up and make exercising easier, it won't be as hard to go without your fav foods when you see the results and when you find your way back there, eat something you like ever week or two because 5 pounds is a lot easier to lose than 30 if you pay attention to it.
Plus try to think of it as a prize for how much of a pat on the back and how you deserve to treat yourself.
I can't lie but it all takes a while and suffering through it but it is possible with discipline.

Oh and if you are a drinker, try not to do it more than twice a week. I kind of am but even there discipline can be important for more than one reason. It can seperate the alcoholics from the social drinker.

[Edited on Feb 14, 2006 12:00AM]