WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE MINDSET OF LOSING WEIGHT

[Tribaligenesis]

There really is no point in doing an hour of cardio, HIIT for 20 minutes will burn more calories and help you gain muscle mass.

 

[SchrodingersStrapped!]

Man I don't know what the fukk y'all on where y'all can go from eating anything to eating healthy and go from never working out to 4 times a week in a blink of a eye

slow transition into a method of dieting breh, you can loose weight and still eat shyt...as long as there is a caloric deficit, as you loose more weight though and you want to get better conditioning, your dieting will need to be stricter...

The Macros I use are 50% protein, 30% carb, 20% fat....when I want to gain , 200 cal surplus, and if you want to loose fat and not muscle you want to create a deficit of less than 10 percent of your overall caloric intake ....As long as whatever you eat fits into those dieting metrics, you can eat whatever, not saying it's the healthiest method, but it works.

 

[The ADD]

The mindset bro shyt is hard to just stop all the bad habit's at once

Without knowing all of your bad habits I get the feeling you think you have to be 100 percent on point with all things. That's great in a perfect world but that's not real life.

Try to set mini-goals around your issues and then building from there. For example commit to training 4 days a week. 6-7 might seem to daunting initially.

You've made a lot of progress before so you know it's possible.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Big part of it is just making individual decisions and not setting yourself up for failure. If your job has constant treats and shyt out.... you gotta just make that choice every day not to indulge. If you go out and eat a lot of shyt after drinking.... might have to stay in. Etc. Have to make it easy for yourself and take it one meal/day at a time.

Truthfully I've been able to drop 2-3lb a week while still staying mostly sane and having occasional indulgences. But I have the big shyt covered. I barely drink; I prepare most of my meals; I have a pretty consistent weekly diet. Once you build the foundation and hone your decision making process in you should be good,.

 

[The ADD]

Big part of it is just making individual decisions and not setting yourself up for failure. If your job has constant treats and shyt out.... you gotta just make that choice every day not to indulge. If you go out and eat a lot of shyt after drinking.... might have to stay in. Etc. Have to make it easy for yourself and take it one meal/day at a time.

Truthfully I've been able to drop 2-3lb a week while still staying mostly sane and having occasional indulgences. But I have the big shyt covered. I barely drink; I prepare most of my meals; I have a pretty consistent weekly diet. Once you build the foundation and hone your decision making process in you should be good,.

Great point. That also gives you more flexibility in the long run. I can go yolo on ice cream (my vice) one night and for the most part it's not going to be an issue. As long as it doesn't turn into multiple yolo days I can recover easy enough and get back on track.

 

[Da_Eggman]

Let me discuss my history

I was about 290 at my biggest I'm now looking at 184 on the scale

I went throu
every level
every hurdle
every kinda plateau


And it's all about your mind it's not physical

It's about how tough minded you are and can you keep yourself dedicated

Can you shut out the outside noise

People don't like to see you getting better.,,they will mock your healthy choices....question why aren't you drinking or smoking as hard as them....say things like it's just one night or it's just one pizza....

You have to be strong enough to not worry about anybody but yourself

It's your body and your temple

Not to just lose weight but to build your body to its best possible condition

 

[Da_Eggman]

how can u fall in love with nutrition

Read and learn WHY it's interesting and important

 

[Remote]

I don't think I understand the question.

There's no special mindset to losing weight. It's the same mindset you have to have to achieve any goal.
People have different motivators and we have to tap into ours in order to stick with it. The main thing is consistency. Consistency. Consistency. Maybe you only hit the gym 3 or 4 days a week, but you gotta make sure you go when you're supposed to go. And you gotta do the workouts you are supposed to do. There's days you're gonna want to cut out a few sets of a certain exercise or run a few minutes less on the treadmill or whatever. You gotta push through that. Even if sometimes you can't muster the same enthusiasm or effort. It's like that poem "rest if you must, but don't you quit"

If you're talking about eating whatever you want and transitioning to eating better - look, I don't think many people can go from eating chicken cutlet heroes to salads every day.
As far as the diet thing goes, I'm finding that 2 things are critical for me...

1. You have to plan ahead. Maybe not every meal, but enough that it limits the impact of cravings. If you know you prepped a meal, you're gonna eat that rather than go to a restaurant.
2. You have to research healthier options and find substitutions. Maybe you don't like broccoli. Find another fibrous carb that you do like, and eat that. You can do that for any of these healthy recipes you find online. A lot of healthy diets have foods that I don't really fukk with like peppers and salsa and shyt. So I gotta work around that. Spend some time doing research.

Actually let me add a 3rd: don't drink your calories.

I apologize for getting off track, but to reiterate the main point, consistency is the key to losing weight (or anything, really)

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Great point. That also gives you more flexibility in the long run. I can go yolo on ice cream (my vice) one night and for the most part it's not going to be an issue. As long as it doesn't turn into multiple yolo days I can recover easy enough and get back on track.

Exactly. Plus then you don't get into a cycle of binging and guilt. I just killed 800kcal of Pop Tarts... gonna be over a little bit, but not much, and it's gonna keep me sane. A lot of times when people indulge it's because they weren't on a realistic plan in the first place.... so they snap and don't know how to get back in line or get over it. It definitely takes time though but creating a good plan will make it that much easier.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

The mindset bro shyt is hard to just stop all the bad habit's at once

It really is.

I found getting my diet right the hardest part during my 100 lbs weight loss.

I was addicted to sugar.

When I first started I was cardio for 1 hour and weights for another hour. Ater a gym session I would hit up a ihop for them sweet ass pancakes


I got by in the beginning because my fat ass needed so many calories just to move around. After a while I plateaued and then that's when I knew I had to change what I was eating.

I didn't try a full on diet but I completely took sugar out of my diet. Thankfully I took a lot of biochem classes in college so I'm familiar with a lot of biochemical pathways/metabolism.

More specifically, I didn't take ALL sugars out, I just replaced glucose/sucrose with fructose. In simpler terms, all my sugar came from fruit. No sodas. Strictly water.
You really have to condition yourself to live like this but after a while it becomes second nature.

Basically it takes baby steps to getting on the right path.

I had a hard time stopping all of my bad habits at once

 

[brother walt]

It really is.

I found getting my diet right the hardest part during my 100 lbs weight loss.

I was addicted to sugar.

When I first started I was cardio for 1 hour and weights for another hour. Ater a gym session I would hit up a ihop for them sweet ass pancakes


I got by in the beginning because my fat ass needed so many calories just to move around. After a while I plateaued and then that's when I knew I had to change what I was eating.

I didn't try a full on diet but I completely took sugar out of my diet. Thankfully I took a lot of biochem classes in college so I'm familiar with a lot of biochemical pathways/metabolism.

More specifically, I didn't take ALL sugars out, I just replaced glucose/sucrose with fructose. In simpler terms, all my sugar came from fruit. No sodas. Strictly water.
You really have to condition yourself to live like this but after a while it becomes second nature.

Basically it takes baby steps to getting on the right path.

I had a hard time stopping all of my bad habits at once

How big where u

 

[Da_Eggman]

It really is.

I found getting my diet right the hardest part during my 100 lbs weight loss.

I was addicted to sugar.

When I first started I was cardio for 1 hour and weights for another hour. Ater a gym session I would hit up a ihop for them sweet ass pancakes


I got by in the beginning because my fat ass needed so many calories just to move around. After a while I plateaued and then that's when I knew I had to change what I was eating.

I didn't try a full on diet but I completely took sugar out of my diet. Thankfully I took a lot of biochem classes in college so I'm familiar with a lot of biochemical pathways/metabolism.

More specifically, I didn't take ALL sugars out, I just replaced glucose/sucrose with fructose. In simpler terms, all my sugar came from fruit. No sodas. Strictly water.
You really have to condition yourself to live like this but after a while it becomes second nature.

Basically it takes baby steps to getting on the right path.

I had a hard time stopping all of my bad habits at once

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Double post

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

How big where u

I was 270

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

@gabbo what's your take on artificial sweeteners? Admittedly those are life savers for me; I still have a crazy sweet tooth.