THE PLAN - how we ARE going to reach those May weight loss goals!!!

Ok people, so we all want to lose weight and reach our goals by may! To do that we need a P.O.A!! We're all in this group so lets all share ideas, tips and motivate eachother on!!!

Tell us your current weight, how much you are aiming to lose and how you're gonna do it! It'll not only help others out but you'll feel more motivated and positive about how you are going to reach your target weight!

I'm currently 128lbs and want to lose 10lbs by May...

The Plan?....

Well my energy requirements are 1900, subtracting 500 from that will induce weight loss, so i've got 1400 kcals to fill myself up with!

The Diet Plan:

Breakfast: Fruit Smoothie and low fat yogurt OR Bran Flakes with skimmed Milk and Raisons

Lunch: Wholemeal Pitta Bread with low fat hoummous, salad and ham OR tuna salad OR Bean Salad

Dinner: Boiled new potatoes with salmon and vegetables OR home made vegetable soup OR rice with mackeral and vegetables OR Quorn mince and vegetable chilli

Snacks: Apple OR Low fat yogurt OR Carrot sticks and hoummous

Drinks: 2 litres of pure water a day

The Exercise Plan:

Swimming - 1hr, 4 times a week

Sit-ups - 100 every morning, before eating

Squats - 50 every morning, before eating

Join me, let me know your plan and lets keep each other posted on our progress!!!

*m*

Well CalorieCount estimates that I'll hit my goal by May 27, and at the rate I'm losing (practically nothing) I'll be surprised to make it by then. I've had so many people say "do this, do that, eat this, eat that" and absolutely NOTHING works.  I'm losing at barely a pound a week.  My calorie max is 1300 a day, I burn at least 500 calories at the gym every day alone, not counting basic moving around, etc during the day.  I eat an essentially sugar-free diet (with the exception of natural sugars in dried fruit, etc).  I get a lot of protein, I drink a glass of 1% milk with one scoop of Monster Milk after going to the gym to 'kick start' my metabolism and keep it working through the night.  By the book, I'm doing everything right and yet I'm still not losing.  It defies logic, and yet here I am.  So I'll continue to do everything right and hope my body decides it wants to respond at some point :)

it IS fact, if you consume less calories than you are burning you will lose body fat. perhaps your lack of progress according to the weighing scales is because you are working out and building muscle. muscle weighs more than fat so you may be losing some fat but also gaining some muscle. the best thing you can do to monitor your progress would be to take measurements of your waist, chest, arm and thigh circumference. that way you can see if you're getting slimmer, just make sure to take the measurement from the same place each time.

If you dont feel things are really progressing like you want it to be, maybe start chaning things you thought were what you should be doing or would work for you...the glass of milk after your gym session for instance. milk is a great source of easily digestable protein and calcium but you would be best to have it with breakfast or with tea or coffee. Drinking it just seems like an additional load of calories to your days intake when you could use those calories for snacks when you feel hungry. drinking 2 litres of water a day would be better.

Your metabolism will already be raised by the workout itself, and will continue to burn at a faster rate than usual for a number of hours afterwards. Don't worry about kickstarting your metablism through the night, it wont stop! The fact that you are inactive due to sleeping is what has the greatest effect on it, but you'll still burn a good 800kcals atleast over an 8 hour sleep as our body repairs itself and keeps all organs functioning.

Whats your diet and meal pattern like? We should all be aiming to eat atleast 5 portions of fruit and veg a day for the vitamin and antioxidant benefits they offer to protect against disease, plus they're a great source of fibre. But as far as dieting is concerned, they're a great source of low calorie, low fat food. Including plenty of fruit and veg and making sure they're a part of every meal will displace higher calorie/fat foods.

When you're at the gym, try to do more cardio work (running, cross trainer, rowing etc) as this burns fat. Weights are good but will only tone you up and build muscle, thats best for when you're nearer your weightloss goal.

Let me know how you get on

*m*

All true facts, and all advice I've been getting from my trainer for some months now.  I do eat a very good diet, plus I avoid starches, enriched flour (white and wheat), I drink TONS of water, avoid refined sugars, and I used to do 3 days cardio and 3 days weight lifting but now I'm doing five days cardio, one day weight lifting.  I know that my size itself is getting smaller, very slowly mind you but it is getting smaller. I know I'm not building muscle like I used to because I've cut down the weight lifting significantly. Cardio on the machines at the gym aren't going to build significant levels of muscle.  Even my trainer doesn't know what to do with me. We've tried everything, and I just respond so slowly to anything that is can be incredibly frustrating.  But, I also am not extremely overweight, so I compare myselves to my friends who have another 30 pounds to lose and how they're losing at rates much higher than I am.  I know that's not fair to myself, a pound a week is in fact a very healthy rate of weight loss, as I only have 7 more pounds until goal weight. But dang it, I want to lose 7 pounds in a week too! haha.  For now I'll just keep on keepin' on.

I'm currently 6’ 1”, 205lbs and want to lose 20lbs by June or July.  I had to push my date back because since I started this I’ve gained 5lbs (Was diet and exercise for vacation recently)

The Plan?

I burn 2800 per day plus an additional ~1000 with 2 hours of cardio/weights.  When I force myself to eat I eat up to 1800-2000 calories a day over 5 meals.  The site says I need to eat about 2800 a day.  Naturally, with the numbers I should loose, but breaking routines on the weekends and my last vacation has hindered my progress

The Diet Plan:

8am Breakfast: 4 hardboiled eggs and 2 hydroxicut hardcores

10am Snack 1: Protein shake

12pm Lunch: Medium size pita which is roughly 400 calories and 2 more hydroxicut hardcores

3pm Snack 2: protein bar

7-8pmDinner: varies, but is usually a healthy choice microwave dinner or a bowl of chunky soup (CC website says it’s surprisingly healthy)

Drinks: I try to drink a gallon a day, but it is usually half that much.

The Exercise Plan:

MWF  3-5 mile run then 1 hour of weights

TT calestenics (pull-ups/pushups/situps/ropeclimb/etc.

SS usually a leisure walk or hike with my beautiful girlfriend

Heyy...

Im currently 5'7 141lbs and planning to loose around 10lbs by late June early July as off to menorca on the 7th!

Meal plan

Breakfast - Porridge with low fat milk (the green one!) OR oatabix

Lunch - Grilled chicken salad OR ham salad

Dinner - Whatever my mums doing shes a healthy eater

Snacks - Peice of fruit or yogurt

Lots and lots of glasses of water

Exercise

Hour on bike 4 - 5 times a week 

 toning and weights 2 times a week 

Refering to my plan how many pounds should i loose a week????  

Original Post by robynaline:

Heyy...

Im currently 5'7 141lbs and planning to loose around 10lbs by late June early July as off to menorca on the 7th!

Meal plan

Breakfast - Porridge with low fat milk (the green one!) OR oatabix

Lunch - Grilled chicken salad OR ham salad

Dinner - Whatever my mums doing shes a healthy eater

Snacks - Peice of fruit or yogurt

Lots and lots of glasses of water

 

Exercise

 

Hour on bike 4 - 5 times a week 

 toning and weights 2 times a week 

 

Refering to my plan how many pounds should i loose a week????  

 

 ok so im gonna say your roughly taking in 1200kcals a day, assuming your healthy dinner is around 400 kcals. so with that kind of energy intake and exercise regime you'l definitely lose the weight, id say about 1-2lbs a week, which is a healthy amount to lose. any quicker and its most likely to just be retained fluid or lean muscle lost and be regained quickly. keep up the good work :-)

*m*

Original Post by steve83843:

I'm currently 6’ 1”, 205lbs and want to lose 20lbs by June or July.  I had to push my date back because since I started this I’ve gained 5lbs (Was diet and exercise for vacation recently)

The Plan?

I burn 2800 per day plus an additional ~1000 with 2 hours of cardio/weights.  When I force myself to eat I eat up to 1800-2000 calories a day over 5 meals.  The site says I need to eat about 2800 a day.  Naturally, with the numbers I should loose, but breaking routines on the weekends and my last vacation has hindered my progress

The Diet Plan:

8am Breakfast: 4 hardboiled eggs and 2 hydroxicut hardcores

10am Snack 1: Protein shake

12pm Lunch: Medium size pita which is roughly 400 calories and 2 more hydroxicut hardcores

3pm Snack 2: protein bar

7-8pmDinner: varies, but is usually a healthy choice microwave dinner or a bowl of chunky soup (CC website says it’s surprisingly healthy)

Drinks: I try to drink a gallon a day, but it is usually half that much.

The Exercise Plan:

MWF  3-5 mile run then 1 hour of weights

TT calestenics (pull-ups/pushups/situps/ropeclimb/etc.

SS usually a leisure walk or hike with my beautiful girlfriend

 

 Ye you should definitely see the weight loss you want to achieve in no time with that exercise plan and energy intake! just remember if you dont happen to be seeing amazing results on the scales it'll be because you're also building muscle whilst losing fat! lb for lb muscle weighs more than fat so check how your doing by taking body size measurements. its often a far more accurate way to monitor your progress. We can gain 3-7 in a day just from the weight of the food we eat, and be back to our real weight the next morning once the foods been digested. So also try to weigh yourself at the same time of day, preferably before breakfast.

Just checked up on those Hydroycut hardcore supplements, mixed results for different people. how are they working for you? any side affects?

The one thing i wouyld stress about your diet is to include more fruit and veg! The current diet is VERY high in protein, which will put your liver and kidneys under great strain trying to process it all. The big diet craze is high protein/low carb diets, but a good balanced diet with energy output exceeding energy intake will bring about healthy sustainable weight loss, that also wont set you up for future health problems.

Fruit and veg is a great source of vitamins and antioxidants to protect against cancer and heart disease, carbohydrates are great for b vitamins necessary for the chemical reactions to release energy from food, both whole grain carbs (brown rice, pasta, bread etc) and fruit and veg are full of fibre to ensure food moves continuousy through the gut, and a good protection against bowel cancers.

So hows the weight loss going for you? i lost 2lbs this week, 126lbs now and hope to get to 118lbs by may. Going for 20 min cycles and 1hr15min swims most days. Sticking to my 1400kcal limit, even with nights out consuming alcohol, just need to make sure now i limit alcohol intakes and ensure all energy consumed comes from nutritious food.

*m*

Original Post by biowife:

All true facts, and all advice I've been getting from my trainer for some months now.  I do eat a very good diet, plus I avoid starches, enriched flour (white and wheat), I drink TONS of water, avoid refined sugars, and I used to do 3 days cardio and 3 days weight lifting but now I'm doing five days cardio, one day weight lifting.  I know that my size itself is getting smaller, very slowly mind you but it is getting smaller. I know I'm not building muscle like I used to because I've cut down the weight lifting significantly. Cardio on the machines at the gym aren't going to build significant levels of muscle.  Even my trainer doesn't know what to do with me. We've tried everything, and I just respond so slowly to anything that is can be incredibly frustrating.  But, I also am not extremely overweight, so I compare myselves to my friends who have another 30 pounds to lose and how they're losing at rates much higher than I am.  I know that's not fair to myself, a pound a week is in fact a very healthy rate of weight loss, as I only have 7 more pounds until goal weight. But dang it, I want to lose 7 pounds in a week too! haha.  For now I'll just keep on keepin' on.

Ye when we embark on weight loss regimes to get ourselves to our targets its so easy to think "i want it all now, i want that body tomorrow, and all my efforts should pay off right now" Your so close now to your goal with only 7lbs to go, the last bit of weight is always the hardest to lose, the more over weight someone is the easier it is to lose the weight because the bodys carrying greater excess.

Thinking positive and imagining your self at your ideal weight is a great mental motivation. Hows the weight loss gone this week?

*m*

Mindy,

Haven't seen much change this week, about a pound down in the last two weeks.  It's definitely a struggle, and I won't be suprised if I don't meet my goal by May, but at least I'm trying.  Currently at 137.6, goal weight is 130.

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Im Brittany and 22 years old and weigh 136.5 @ 5'6

my body fat is 25% but id like to get to 22%

I have been trying to get down to 125lbs for the last two months, by May 7th.
My efforts have fallen a little short. My social life makes it difficult for me. SO, i am moving to a vegan diet, rather than the vegetarian that i usually have. but i seriously doubt that ill lose 12 lbs in a month, (and we KNOW thats not healthy regardless). But im focused on being healthy and taute.

Breakfast- Orange, whole grain english muffin.

Lunch- hummus on a tortilla. salad with avoc -bals vinegar.

Snack - fiber bar (Fiber ones are the best!)

Dinner - Vegetable and bean soup. Baked sweet potato.

After-dinner - light air popped popcorn. hot tea.

of course that is just i sample i snack on almonds throughout the day, i LITERALLY eat all day long. And i do soy products so i get protein.

Workout

Cardio-40 min 5 times a week

strength- 20 min twice a week

Pilates/yoga- one hour twice a week.

thats my goal. i usually workout 3 times a week. but its time to be serious. i just wanna show my body how much i love and respect it.

oh ya im quitting smoking! wish me the biggest luck on that one.

I just found out today that we are having a professional family portrait done in 5 weeks from this weekend!   AHHH! I just started CC on Monday and my CW is 195 and I dont want to remember me at this size in a nice portrait forever.  I already picked at the beginning of this week that I want to lose 10 lbs by the end of May but now 15-20 would be nice.  I need some serious advice and help on any suggestions that I can do to make this happen!!!!

Hey. I am currently 58kg(think 120lbs) I want to loose 8kg(16lbs).

I do not eat through the day only at evening.

Exercise everday. 30min cardio and 30 min weights

I weighed in at 193 today.  8 lbs shy of my May 1st goal but 16 lbs lighter than when I set it at the end of February. 

My end of May goal is 185 but I'm secretly shooting for 180 depending on how my 5 day hiking trip goes. 

I will be reinstating my restrictions that I had during Lent since the discipline worked well for me.

Here is my commitment:

• No liquor. 
• No sweets with the exception of fresh fruit, whipped cream, sugar free jello & pudding and whipped yogurt. 
• No dining out except if its a business function or I'm out of town and its required, even then it will be a lean meat or fish and a double serving of vegetables. 
• No soda or energy drinks.

8 lbs in 4 and a half weeks, I know I can do it. 

I was looking at the Food Pyramid several weeks ago. I was curious. I wanted to know my daily recommended calorie intake for a stable weight. I found out  based on my current weight, which at the time was 150 lbs, I was to consume 2492 calories a day. It required I reduce my calorie intake to about 100 or 200 calories. An alternative would be to maintain the same amount of calories and increase my calorie expenditure by 100 or 200 calories. I could have done both, but that would have been pushing it. I figured I would eat the same on the days I worked out and less on the day I didn't. I was able to lose the last 10 lbs. Now I'm trying to build muscle mass.