Hey all, I’ve never posted here before but it seems like such a supportive community, and I just wanted to post and get some advice and see what people think about my weight loss situation.
Growing up I was always the super tall, skinny, scrawny kid who never had to worry about what he ate and it seemed like just stayed a permanent bean pole. Toward the end of my teenage years I quit playing sports (graduated high school) and decided to pursue lifting weights in college for the sake of “gains”/looking good for girls. I was super self conscious of how skinny I was and just wanted to gain weight.
Unfortunately, my weight lifting program never worked (shocker given my body type, lol) and Covid/a toxic relationship hit me really hard, and suddenly my weight has ballooned to between 210 lbs and 220 lbs. For context, I’m 6’3, so I probably should lose 30-40 lbs to be at a healthy weight, right? I’m addicted to junk food, fast food, candy, and sugary coffee and honestly, don’t cook much. I’m also an engineering student so am very busy with classes during the year.
Obviously, I need to lose some weight and I’m hoping to do so with running and diet. Everyone in my family is obese and we’re all trying to lose weight so that helps. I think I have developed some kind of emotional thing with food too, so I’m not really sure how to address that. It appears I need to eat around 2000-2500 calories per day depending on how fast I would like to lose weight. I would like to have it all lost by the end of the summer, in time to go back to class in the fall with hopefully some sustainable habits/diet built. I am naturally very good at running and am hoping to build up to about 5 miles per day.
I guess what I’m wondering is, how do I start with diet? I’m not a great cook, so would vegetarian be an option? I am having trouble finding diet advice for people who are training for distance running , so that’s tough too.
Thank you to anyone who took the time to read that post/share any advice :)
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