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Will i lose 30 pounds in 3 months if i follow this plan? |
eat 1200 calories a day. go to the gym 6 days a week (treadmill, bike, rowing machine) 1 hour 7 days a week light weight lifting 5 times a week drink lots of water do you think following a vegan diet will help me with only consuming 1200 cal a day? it's no trouble for me because i prefer a vegan diet anyway. so anyway, how does this plan sound. is there anything i should maybe change, or is there anything i can improve on? anything will help thank you Do calories matter or do you simply need to eat certain foods and that will guarantee you鈥檒l lose weight? Should you count calories or can you just count 鈥減ortions?鈥?Is it necessary to keep a food diary? Is it unrealistic to count calories for the rest of your life or is that just part of the price you pay for a better body? You鈥檙e about to learn the answers to these questions and discover a simple solution for keeping track of your food intake without having to crunch numbers every day or become a fanatic about it. In many popular diet books, 鈥淐alories don鈥檛 count鈥?is a frequently repeated theme. Other popular programs, such as Bill Phillip's "Body For Life," stress the importance of energy intake versus energy output, but recommend that you count 鈥減ortions鈥?rather than calories鈥? Phillips wrote, "There aren't many people who can keep track of their calorie intake for an extended period of time. As an alternative, I recommend counting 'portions.' A portion of food is roughly equal to the size of your clenched fist or the palm of your hand. Each portion of protein or carbohydrate typically contains between 100 and 150 calories. For example, one chicken breast is approximately one portion of protein, and one medium-sized baked potato is approximately one portion of carbohydrate." Phillips makes a good point that trying to count every single calorie - in the literal sense - can drive you crazy and is probably not realistic as a lifestyle for the long term. It's one thing to count portions instead of calories 鈥?that is at least acknowledging the importance of portion control. However, it's another altogether to deny that calories matter. Calories do count! Any diet program that tells you, "calories don't count" or you can "eat all you want and still lose weight" is a diet you should avoid because you are being lied to. The truth is, that line is a bunch of baloney designed to make a diet sound easier to follow. Anything that sounds like work 鈥?such as counting calories, eating less or exercising, tends to scare away potential customers! The law of calorie balance is an unbreakable law of physics: Energy in versus energy out dictates whether you will gain, lose or maintain your weight. Period. I believe that it's very important to develop an understanding of and a respect for portion control and the law of calorie balance. I also believe it's an important part of nutrition education to learn how many calories are in the foods you eat on a regular basis 鈥?including (and perhaps, especially) how many calories are in the foods you eat when you dine at restaurants. The law of calorie balance says: To maintain your weight, you must consume the same number of calories you burn. To gain weight, you must consume more calories than you burn. To lose weight, you must consume fewer calories than you burn. If you only count portions or if you haven't the slightest idea how many calories you're eating, it's a lot more likely that you'll eat more than you realize. (Or you might take in fewer calories than you should, which triggers your body鈥檚 "starvation mode" and causes your metabolism to shut down). So how do you balance practicality and realistic expectations with a nutrition program that gets results? Here's a solution that鈥檚 a happy medium between strict calorie counting and just guessing: Create a menu using an EXCEL spreadsheet or your favorite nutrition software. Crunch all the numbers including calories, protein, carbs and fats. Once you have your daily menu, print it, stick it on your refrigerator (and/or in your daily planner) and you now have an eating "goal" for the day, including a caloric target. Rather than writing down every calorie one by one from every morsel of food you eat for the rest of your life, create a menu plan you can use as a daily goal and guideline. If you鈥檙e really ambitious, keeping a nutrition journal at least one time in your life for at least 4-12 weeks is a great idea and an incredible learning experience, but all you really need to get started on the road to a better body is one good menu on paper. If you get bored eating the same thing every day, you can create multiple menus, or just exchange foods using your primary menu as a template. Using this meal planning method, you really only need to 鈥渃ount calories鈥?once when you create your menus, not every day, ad infinitum. After you've got a knack for calories from this initial discipline of menu planning, then you can estimate portions in the future and get a pretty good (and more educated) ballpark figure. So what鈥檚 the bottom line? Is it really necessary to count every calorie to lose weight? No. But it IS necessary to eat fewer calories then you burn. Whether you count calories and eat less than you burn, or you don鈥檛 count calories and eat less than you burn, the end result is the same 鈥?you lose weight. Which would you rather do: Take a wild guess, or increase your chance for success with some simple menu planning? I think the right choice is obvious. For more information on calories (including how calculate precisely how many you should eat based on your age, activity and personal goals, and for even more practical, proven fat loss techniques to help you lose body fat safely, healthfully and permanently, check out my e-book, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle at http://www.fightfatphilly.com/tom_venuto... To learn more about building your best body ever, simply go to http://www.christianhealthandfitness.com... to download YOUR FREE copy of 鈥楾he Christian鈥檚 Guide To Maximal Fat Loss鈥?sample plan. You will also find some more great fitness tips from Matt Shuebrook at http://www.fightfatphilly.com/articles.h... and http://www.myphiladelphiafitnessexpert.c... Ok let me advise you to not go on a vegan diet. Im studying to be a nutritionsit so this is not just personal opinion. Maybe a faux vegetarian diet where you at least eat beef or fish or a vegetariain diet so that you can get your dairy products in. There is no need to be a veggie nazi for the sake of loosing weight. Another reason for this is the time frame you want to loose that weight in. I encourage you to look at my latest blog entry on cardio for some great cardio tips and excercises http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-bcjcpyyyc... Also Id like to help you with a diet plan if youd allow me just contact me and we can work together on one. Youre work out seems pretty good. The Link will focus on shocking your body so that you can increase your metabolism for a longer lasting and more effective work out Hard to say as we don't know how much you weigh currently and your height. With a VEGAN diet you will lose weight. And it's healthier for you in the long run too. But consuming 1200 calories a day is not healthy. You will be starving yourself. You need to eat more especially with all the exercise you will be doing. Do not aim to lose 30 lbs in 3 months, that would also be very unhealthy for your overall health. 2 to 3 lbs a weeks is better for weight loss. Eat smaller meals more often as this will increase your metabolism where as skipping meals will slow it down. Drink at least 1 gallon of water a day. And eat as much food as you want, for on a VEGAN diet you won't gain weight. Good luck! Dude, lemme break this down for you... First off, what a**clown of a doctordoctor told you you could survive off of eating only 1200 calories a day? The human body requires 113 calories per HOUR just to lay down and do nothing! Multiply that by 24 hours, you need 2712 calories per day just to exist! One pound equals 3,000 calories, which will leave you with a whole whopping 288 extra calories to burn per day....and with the exercise program you've made out for yourself, 288 calories are not enough for all you want to do as far as exercising goes. Seriously...revamp the whole thing, all your current plan will do is land you in the hospital of malnutrition. Work with these numbers, and Google "fitness calculators" and USE THEM...they'll show you how many calories all of your exercises will burn in a specific time frame (15 mins, half hour, hour, etc.). If you're gonna do it, do it the healthy way, not the stupid way. Good luck to you. a word of warning - any weight that you lose quickly will be put back on just as quickly and i don't think you can keep that up for very long as it seems a VERY punishing regime and yo-yo dieting isn't recommended. However if you're desperate to lose weight as long as you eat healthily (and that doesn't mean you have to become vegan as eggs and fish are very good for you) and do at least half an hour exercise every day you'll still lose weight although it will be slower but will last longer and you'll feel better, not drained as i think you probably will after a few days on this plan. I've never counted calories so those numbers don't say much to me.... but weight loss is very much an individual matter too. No one can say exactly how much you'll lose ahead of time; also because we don't know your *current* intake & exercise routine, so how much of a change is it from what you're doing now? If you're going to be eating less & exercising more than you are now, you will lose weight; how much exactly only time will tell. And don't try to go too fast, don't starve yourself; take your time. Losing weight too quickly can be unhealthy, and also people who take dieting too serious for a short while will often give up altogether when they've reached their goal, and regain their weight as quickly as they've lost it... so then they'll start a strict diet again, lose it, regain it, etc, etc.... better is to keep it do-able so you can keep it up in the long run! |
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