Hi all,
Now before I begin, apologies for 'yet another' weight-loss question. I've stalked around on various forums and sites but most of the stuff I read sounds like complete gibberish to me.
The stats:
I'm 25, around 115KG (255lbs) and 172cm (around 5 foot 8) - so as you can see, well and truly overweight. I live quite a sedimentary lifestyle, exacerbated by the fact that I got quite lazy after university and then the world of work hit (not an excuse, I know) as I have a desk job. I now want to take charge and actually enjoy life. I've found that my weight makes me less sociable and less likely to go out, even though thankfully I have some of the nicest friends and family who are always getting up to loads and living their best lives. I want to be able to play sports like I did in my youth and feel good in my body, the same way my friends are literally living it up and look amazing at the same time. I look at r/ProgressPics and am in awe at what people have achieved, and have decided that enough is enough. Furthermore, I've literally seen how unfit I am by climbing like 3 flights of stairs and being the sweatiest person at work, or the fact that I'm starting to get old-age pains even though I don't really do anything!
For my height, I would love to be able to lose around 40KG (90lbs) to get me to a respectable 75KG (165). My goal is to basically look skinny but slightly built, I don't really have the desire to look like a body builder, just more of a lean body with muscles and a firm chest. I guess the body building part could come later. I do however want to be fit, in the sense that I would like to run/cycle/play sports/go hiking etc, with a view of getting more muscular as time progresses
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Now I understand that other than the exercise (which I will touch upon shortly), the biggest component is what I eat. I've downloaded MyFitnessPal and will monitor my intake, however my understanding is that to maintain my weight, I need to eat 2500 calories, however to lose weight, I should cut this by 500 calories, so need to focus on eating 2000 calories per day. This I think will be doable, but extremely tough, as my biggest nemesis are fizzy drinks, which I practically live off. I thankfully don't really eat sweets, crisps, etc, but do like fast food a fair bit.
For the exercise, I'm at a complete loss at to what I should do? I joined a gym a few weeks ago and have mindlessly doing around 30mins of cycling, a bit of weights and some cross trainer with a light jog at the end (I long to be able to run further)
The ask/questions:
- What should I do in the gym to help me lose weight? Please bare in mind that I'm a complete novice and actually can't lift or run that far at the moment, so when I see things about doing pull-ups/press-ups, I don't think that's happening until I get fitter.
- Moreover, is the 2000 calorie aim enough? Is it too low or high? I think 2000 calories is based on not doing anything at the gym, so if I'm going to the gym, can I squeeze on a few extra calories.
- I am planning a 2-week holiday for Christmas 2019/New years day 2020 to SE asia, which of course means t-shirts, shorts etc, for which I want to look my best. Is 8 months enough time to get down to around 8KG (35KG/80lbs loss) or is that too quickly over an 8-month period which could lead to loose skin? (Also, pls see below for a loose skin question)
- I've seen a few people that ended up having loose skin as a result of losing weight. How can I avoid this? Can I even avoid this because as you can probably imagine with my stats, I have quite a bit of fat?
- Am I allowed to have cheat days? Or do my stats mean that I literally have to stick to this plan for a solid 6 months or so? E.G, if I have a 500 calorie deficit over 6 days, I basically have saved 3000 calories, however what is the point if I indulge on the 7th day (the cheat day) and have like 3000 calories of sugar/fast food etc?)
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