Originally Posted by Mike03016
First off, welcome to the membership.
Great to have ya here.I will come at this a bit differently… you say you have been on the larger side most of your life, I disagree with diet being your method of reducing the fat pad. The advice is 100% solid but people in your position are not going to / be able to stick to a healthy diet regiment. Just too big of a change.
I believe you should start a whole body basic weight lifting program or KettleBell program. I am talking three days a week for just 30 minutes. Even if you are having fun Do Not go over 30 minutes.
Once you start adding muscle, you will start burning more calories, you will also start eating a bit healthier By Choice.
This works and has a higher success rate (in my experience) then a diet program.
In time you will add to this but I am talking 6 months down the road and you will be loving it.
Good luck in whichever way you decide to go,
Michael
Exercise is an amazing thing, everyone should practice. Also, if one has never pushed themselves to their physical limits, well they should start doing that too.
However, weight loss from my perspective is simple math.
Average calories burned by the typical individual at the gym, 500 if they are lucky. Let’s also start to look at the incremental increases in resting metabolic rate afforded by putting on some muscle over the course of the year, if lucky you can add just enough muscle to increase resting metabolic rate by maybe 300 calories? Let’s say we put on enough muscle to raise it to 600 calories.
So in a year we have gotten ourselves to a workout deficit of 500 calories + say another 500 for increased muscle, so 1000 additional calories burned in a day .
Breakfast 500 calories = McDonald’s
Lunch 1200 calories = a burger somewhere with fries
Dinner 2000 calories = cheese steak and more fries
Snack 600 calories = some chips and ice cream
Add some alcohol = now most of the above starts going to fat as your body just burns the alcohol.
4300 calories that day and I probably low balled the meals.
So minus the 1000 calories burned and say a daily caloric requirement (this obviously varies) of 2700 (so male, 220lbs). So now we still have a 600 calorie surplus and we are gaining fat even with added muscle and daily increased exercise.
Fat pad ain’t going anywhere.
I’m not suggesting that this is how OP is eating, not saying that exercise is not important, as I strongly recommend it for everyone, however; one crazy meal a day can easily blowout any hope of fat loss.
Definitely begin exercising if you are not already, weight training is best for raising the resting metabolic rate, but you got to hone in on the diet.