Anyone have any weight loss tips?

[Subgurl]

I’d like to lose about 50lbs. I’m 6ft tall weighing 190lbs but I’d like to get down to 140lbs. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

[egan3141]

"abs are made in the kitchen" is a common phrase for a reason. The first step is always diet. If you haven't already, minimize heavily refined food (things like bread, deli meat, peanut butter, and so forth are still fine. Just not food that is "add 1 or 2 things and you have a full meal") and definitely stop eating out except as exceptions. Make the food yourself. A very easy example is buying whole potatoes, unflavored raw chicken, and some vegetables from the produce section. Takes minimal work to make into a healthy nutritious meal. (Probably want some basic spices as well. Salt, pepper, herbs from the baking section. Those premade spice mixes like McCormick work too)

Second step is exercise. It doesn't need to be going to the gym or running. Even just walking for 1 hour every day is enough. Spending 1 to 3 days a week doing a real activity like hiking, running, a sport, or the gym helps for building muscle, but aren't necessary for losing weight.

The third step is to reduce your how much you eat. Stop snacking and just do meals, then decrease your meals little by little. If you eat sandwiches for lunch, make the sandwiches smaller first, then reduce the number of sandwiches and go back to big sandwiches. That kind of stuff

I am 6ft and got up to 230lbs in college. I stopped eating premade food and instead made the food myself. I also slowly reduced how much I ate. I started at 2 extra thick sandwiches and lots of chips for lunch and managed to get all the way down to 1 medium sandwich. I also walked 1-1.25 hours every day after classes ended. In 13 months I lost 55 lbs.

WARNING!!!
If you do normally eat heavily refined food or eat out a lot, do not be gentle with salt when making this change. Heavily processed food contains tons of salt. Meat and produce do not. Add plenty of salt to your food and when you do buy things like broth, noodles, or anything else, don't buy the low sodium version.

I spent 1-2 years getting sick once or twice a month (vomiting several times and horrid queasiness all night) because my salt (sodium) intake was too low. Thankfully, my body would crave salt, I'd gorge on something salty, and then be recovered by the next day, but it was still hell until I learned that I needed to be adding salt, not removing it.

[egan3141]

Oh ya, stop with sugary drinks too like drygermanguy said. I only drink water now with SOME exceptions when going out to a restaurant with friends/family.
One thing that helps so you aren't constantly craving sugar or something else "unhealthy" is to make one of the your 3 meals a day food you really enjoy. For me, that was my dinner of meat, potatoes, and vegetables. I love mashed potatoes and I love meat. I did all kinds of flavorings for my meat. Premade sauces are fine a few times a week, even if they are approaching that heavily refined/processed part. At least the core part of your diet isn't that. If you still need/want that sugar, you can also look up things like "healthy ways to make fruit into my dessert" or something else like that. This "cheat" part varies for everyone. Some people can get by with just having something sweet as a post dinner snack, such as an orange.

[aaron13547]

For me i found it easier to lose weight by not thinking of it like "loss". I thought of it as gaining. I started eating healthier because it made my mind more clear and I enjoyed feeling good. I started working out because I needed people in my life to push me to be better. Workout and yoga programs was how I found people who wanted to live their best life. I wanted to be like that... they taught me they dont do it because they enjoy it they do it because they enjoy being the best they can. That changed my mindset so instead of trying to lose weight I just tried to be my best no matter how much doing it sucked.

Instead of thinking how happy chocolate cake would make me. I started thinking about how much I would like looking at my abs, how happy that would make me. When I stopped thinking of the cake and just thought of the abs what I had to do to get them was what made me happy and feel good now; just like the cake use to.

I feel like I did a crap job explaining that but it worked for me. It felt impossible for me to want to eat healthy and want to exercise when I was thinking how good cake was and how hard abs are to get.

When the abs became what would make me feel good I was able to achieve the goal. Losing weight is not easy it takes a lot of effort. The purpose is you! remembering that helped me more then anything! Be your best self, you got this!

[DryGermanGuy]

Slow and easy, that’s how you will keep it longterm. Cut your main meal portion (lunch?) in half. Drop any sugarwater drinks for carbonated mineral water. Get a simple training machine (bike, stepper or rower) and put in three simple training units per week.

[itsannalee]

Try intermittent fasting 18:6


From your height 6 ft and weight 190 lbs and your Goal is 140lbs. It would be too skinny for your.
But if you still want it, from your height and weight, you can try to get 1700-1200 calories per day to achieve 140lbs.

[Mpodere]

Do you really weigh 190 pounds? You wouldn't think so looking at the photo, even considering your height. How can you say you should weigh 140 pounds?

[Spencer10]

Dont concentrate on a number... concentrate on how you feel and if your body is healthy.

[zombiewoof]

cut carbs, start walking

[roy_ricky09]

Zero sugar