Fat Man Seeking Nerdy Weight Loss Solutions

[Carlston]

Running, tread mill whatever....
Push your body. Make you body know your running x amount of distance.

It'll start adapting and dropping weight, if body must run, body will drop pounds to make it easier, if a good diet of normal foods is near fat is not needed to be retained. If your not wanting to make drastic changes to fast in diet, try turkey burgers or just turkey in general for red meat. It tastes good, and has at times less than half the fat.

The best diet and exercise plan is one you enjoy, find foods you enjoy in moderation. But nothing kicks the human body in the ass like running, lots of running.

As well do not tape your waist line constantly...once a month maybe. You'll see a need for a belt like I did with my gym time.

People will spout how this is better than X and you can only eat this or that. In the end faster is not always better. Best to be your target self in a year or two and have a plan you enjoy sticking to, than take a six month crash work out course you hate, and be back to how you were or worse in two years because you couldn't keep it up. Just remember the human body is a machine. You don't move you pack on weight, you don't eat it packs on weight thinking there is a food shortage (yep your a animal) biking machines are cute they just work the legs freely, running causes your body as a whole to become bulk and your body will change... add some full body routines to round it out and yer good.

Good luck.

 

[Slippers]

This isn't rocket science:
1 - Eat less.
2 - Move more.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Carrots are great for filling you up without causing weight gain.

I forgot this little nice piece of advice (remember to drink some water after it to fill the stomach up some more).

 

[dsmops2003]

You should see a physician. They will run your blood work to see if there is something going on with your body that may be keeping you from losing weight. You may be on the verge of being insulin resistant or fully diabetic. In which case you will need to cut your carbohydrate intake per meal and per day respectively. You can give yourself more energy by taking B vitamins. Meat, cheese, vegetable, nuts, fruits with higher fiber and berries. Stay away from fruits and vegetables with high amounts of sugars or starches ( potatoes, carrots, oranges, pinapples, pretty much all tropical fruits have alot of sugars.)

 

[ultrachicken]

LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) is the nerdiest exercise I can think of. It's also damned fun.

It's kind of like playing freeze tag with foam weapons, but there's usually a "story" and a referee.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well don't start too radical, just ease into a less calorie intake routine:
- mix your snacks with fruit, and slowly try to replace the snacks all together (my favorite are apples, cheap and very tasty, plus they have no calorie gain)
- little by little make your drinks less sweet, mix the juices with water and just put a little less sugar in your coffee
- and move around a little, do some sit-ups and some push-ups it's really not that hard, just start off slow(let's say 10 a day) and make it a routine, either when you turn on the tv or start watching a movie, you will be sitting there for hours so why not take a minute to work out

You will see that even with minor changes you start to feel alot better.

 

[bz316]

Switch to black coffee. It has no calories, all the caffeine you could ever need and is a natural diuretic and laxative. Also, nuts. Theyre very filling and have high protein but low calories.

 

[Ossian]

Just be like me! Eat food and always leave some on the plate. Play games so much that you eat in a hurry to get back to the PC.

I'm underweight and doing great! -_-

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

Start with circling your dining table for 15 minutes moving up to 30 minutes. Then walk around your back yard for 30 minutes moving up to 45 minutes. Then take a walk through your neighborhood for 45 minutes moving up to 1 hour. Then try the previous all over again replacing it with running. Do this every day before dinner. Also do 15 sit ups and 15 push ups every night before going to bed.

 

[Mechsoap]

Exercise, Carb restiction (BUT NOT THE ATKINS), low fat diet especially saturates, and notice how all the healthy guys get the hot girls! Good motivation!, if you have a friend who is all so looking to lose weight that's a good help.

Try getting into a gym, watching workout videos online (I recommend Scott Herman), His workouts are serious biscuits.

Watch 300! and think how cool it would be to be a Spartan (But not die).

Well now you completely diminished our advice...

 

[northeast rower]

Simple workout: 50/20. Works like this:

Alternate lower body/ upper body every day.

Accomplish 50 reps of whatever exercise in 20 minutes. When you accomplish this, make it harder by adding weight or adjusting technique.

Lower body: Goblet squats or deadlifts (50 of one or the other)

Upper body: Pullups and pushups (50 of each)

If you have access to an ergometer, use it. As a rower I cannot stress how tiring that machine is, and it WILL build muscle.

As for eating, eat enough to supplement your workout. Don't undereat, you'll just feel terrible and break your routine. Drink shitloads of water every day.

 

[RanD00M]

This isn't rocket science:
1 - Eat less.
2 - Move more.

Bad tips right there. It's eat better, move more. If you're eating less and moving more you really aren't burning anything away. The body need it nutritions, especially while doing regular exercises.

 

[PayneTrayne]

I've cut pop out of my life and I'm doing quite alright for myself. Slimmed down considerably though I haven' lost much weight.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

Instead of drinking pop, drink water, milk and orange. Also, don't snack when you're playing games, and if you do eat a yoghurt or some fruit or something. I can't even eat sweets any more, I find them disgusting. Chocolate is nice, but I don't have much of an urge to eat it, so I just leave it. Basically, if you're snacking; stop.

 

[Slippers]

This isn't rocket science:
1 - Eat less.
2 - Move more.

Bad tips right there. It's eat better, move more. If you're eating less and moving more you really aren't burning anything away. The body need it nutritions, especially while doing regular exercises.

If the guy can't see his dick behind his belly, it's pretty safe to assume, that's he's eating a tad bit more, than what his body needs for maintenance and damage repair.

Also, I wasn't aware that the word less implies welding the fridge shut and not eating for a month.

Edit. And it is "eat less", not "eat better". No matter how good the food is, if you're eating 5000 calories a day, you will gain weight, that is not up for debate.

 

[Deleted]

So before entering college I was already a pretty heavy guy, but combined with my freshman 15 I'm coming dangerously close to not being able to see parts of my anatomy anymore. I try to work out, but I have a hard time staying committed to anything. The clOSES I ever came to a regular workout was DDR Which led me to believe that I just have to find something that fits my interest. So what does the Escapist advise for potential weight loss solutions. Oh, and I'm not about to pay the money for a Wii or Kinect.

I've found that the quickest way to lose weight is to buy a really good RPG and play it exclusively for weeks.

 

[Slippers]

eat better food and stop being fackin lazy.

EDIT: I speak from experience not from Trololery. I was 11stone n went down to 9.

11 stone=6kg right? If so, that's hardly a huge obesidy problem to begin with and your weight loss was minor.

11 -> 9 stones is a 18% loss in mass. That is pretty major.

 

[UBERfionn]

Eat ice-cream.
No joke.

A simple ice-cream will help you lose weight so long as it's cold. It takes you body more energy to heat up the ice-cream and then digest it then it gets from the food. As long as the ice-cream is still frozen when you eat it you will lose weight on an all ice-cream diet!!

 

[megs1120]

I had a friend in college who got good results from constantly playing DDR. Then again, his calves became enormous and hard as rocks.

 

[Slippers]

eat better food and stop being fackin lazy.

EDIT: I speak from experience not from Trololery. I was 11stone n went down to 9.

11 stone=6kg right? If so, that's hardly a huge obesidy problem to begin with and your weight loss was minor.

11 -> 9 stones is a 18% loss in mass. That is pretty major.

It's still a tiny amount of weight that can easily be lost by minor changes.

The OP sounded like he had a more substantive problem that the smart ass answer wouldn't give any guidance to.

No, it is not. Weight loss is not linear.

The amount of difficulty in losing 10kg for a man who weighs 150kgs and 60 is very different. Going from 70 to 60 takes a lot of dedication, that does not go for going 150 to 140.

Smart ass or not, it is a major weight loss.