losing weight

[ilikebeef]

I'm really not overweight, it's just that I have a lot of fat that I want to lose. I'm 5'11, 165.

This is what I was doing before:

breakfast: 4 chocolate chip waffles with syrup every single day. yeah.

lunch: if at school, a burger and fries or pizza.

supper: leftovers, pizza, soup, steak, chicken, normal stuff.

exercise: sporadic. Sometimes I would go all day, but a lot of the time I'd just sit around being lazy.

The plan as effective yesterday:

breakfast: wheaties or rice chex

lunch: roast beef sandwich

supper: same as before really, I'll just not eat the junk.

exercise: 1.5-2 miles jogging 6-7 days a week.

One thing that I've always been good about is water, I drink about 2.5 L daily, so that's not a problem.

Thoughts?

 

[Le Parisien]

Sorry but your diet is just crap.

No vegetables? No fruit? How about milk? How about cheese? Ok, me being a Chinese Frenchie can't really help to find a diet that will suit your American taste, but at least try to eat decently healthy.

And your exercise, if you run/jog, it's really not about how long you run(although 1.5-2 miles every day is not bad at all), but how fast you run. Jogging at walking speed is for old people over 50s, you NEED TO RUN to burn that fat. I would suggest that you run at a speed faster than 8min/mile and for a distance of 1.5miles everyday. You will see the results relatively "quickly".

 

[ilikebeef]

The diet is a very rough outline just to show that it's healthier.

I currently run a 7 minute mile and I'd like to chip away at that.

 

[talrock]

How old are you? What are your goals? Do you lift weights?

 

[Le Parisien]

Just curious, you "run for real", not on a treadmill right?

If it's "real running" and you keep it at 7min/mile, than damn that's very good and you will lose that fat pretty well.

 

[NRM]

When I was his age and size, I'd run 7 minute miles, but you don't really lose much fat just by doing speedy running. 7 minutes is a pretty quick jog, but it's not an all out sprint/run. I wasn't strong or built or cut at all. I'm pretty sure I know what he's working with.

What you need to do is join a gym and start pumping weights. Your diet outline is just way too basic, but I understand your thinking, less fatty junk food, less fat. There's a lot of info online that you need to read regarding food ratios, workouts, calorie intake, because if you end up going for your plan, you'll be burning loads of muscle and keep the flabby fat while losing weight, but it'll all be muscle mass.

You won't get the 6 pack I think you're dreaming about this way. If you haven't lifted weights before, start. You'll see dramatic improvements the first month before it starts dying down. Then you can go for your cut period. Read guides on the internet. Diesel's guide is very basic, but very good at the top of the Health and Fitness page.

 

[AFK Protector]

STart running. Also start swimming a lot. That helped me lose a lot of weight. PLus, you're not hot and sweaty afterwards.

 

[DJBen]

Checkout the food listing thread and base your diet around that. Read the cutting and the bulking threads to get an idea of what you need to gain mass/lose fat.

Google 'HIIT' and start doing it. You'll notice a drop in fat when you start that.

As has already been said. Join a gym, shift some iron.

Not prepared to do all of this? Or any of it? Thats cool, you wont keep the weight off for long. I've learnt that kidding yourself and not commiting to training is virtually health suicide before you begin.

Good luck bro

 

[ilikebeef]

ok sorry for not responding, i lost the link to the new forums.

I'm 16, 5'10, 165 pounds. I run outdoors, not on a treadmill, and I timed myself today at 7:08 on the track.

I will start lifting weights, but I want a solid base to work up from. You won't lose weight by lifting weights, will you?

I'm thinking 165 is about the ideal weight for my height, and I'm really not fat at all, it's just that I have excess fat that I want to get rid of for one, and eventually turn into muscle.

 

[DJUofS]

Originally posted by ilikebeef
ok sorry for not responding, i lost the link to the new forums.

I'm 16, 5'10, 165 pounds. I run outdoors, not on a treadmill, and I timed myself today at 7:08 on the track.

I will start lifting weights, but I want a solid base to work up from. You won't lose weight by lifting weights, will you?

I'm thinking 165 is about the ideal weight for my height, and I'm really not fat at all, it's just that I have excess fat that I want to get rid of for one, and eventually turn into muscle.

Go for more than a mile. You are barely burning off any fat by just doing a mile run. Here is a nice workout that I do 3 times a week. Go on the track and do half lap sprints. Half a lap sprint, half recover. Do one warmup lap before sprinting and 1 cooldown lap after. Translates into 3 miles total, 2.5 being with sprints. I garantee you'll be sweating bullets.

Also, lifting weights will help you gain weight if you take in enough calories. Muscle weighs more than fat, so if you put on muscle and lose fat at the same ratio, your weight will go up.

 

[semag]

dude, 165 is ideal weight for your height?? I dunno man. I'd say 180-200 at about 8% body fat is ideal for 5'10 or so.

shyt man, ronnie is 5'11 and 300 lbs, at 3-5 % body fat... there's a lot of room there