>Track your calories and macros with MyFitnessPal or Cronometer. Works best on smartphones myfitnesspal.com (better for packaged food) cronometer.com (better for generic food/tracking micronutrients)
DO >count calories, all of them. >buy scales, be accurate in your measurements. autistically accurate. >learn how to cook and start cooking your own healthy meals. lean protein and green vegetables. >develop sustainable healthy lifestyle habits >eat a lot of protein (1g per lb of goal body weight) >cardio. learn to love walking. >start lifting weights! fatties have the advantage that they can build muscle while cutting, especially as complete beginners! >post your height/weight/screenshot of MFP/Cronometer food log when asking for advice
DON'T >eat refined sugars, they're terrible for you regardless of calorie count >eat processed foods, or at least try to avoid if possible >drink your calories. alcohol, soda, hot chocolate, fancy starbucks shit. forget it. >be a retard
I fucked up today. Had thai food for lunch. But I can make up for it with just having some cottage cheese and quark for dinner, right? ... Right?
Tyler King
I looked it up yesterday and I realized I had a problem on May 9th of 2017 so shortly after I joined /fat/. I was at 236 at the time eating out all the time and drinking three nights a week. I knew how to cook but just would order shit because it was easier. What I did cook wasn't healthy as it was just bad food cooked to my particular preferences of sauces and spices. I would get a 30 pack of bud light on Friday and a 12 pack of Yuengling on Sunday so 42 beers a week. I'm also a schizo so I'm on medication that makes me gain weight rapidly and kills the liver so it compounded with the drinking. I was pretty much without hope in life and a hedonist that didn't care if I died. I was chasing the next dopamine bump for years. I posted some anime clothes on /a/ and got absolutely roasted for wearing a size XL shirt. They're assholes but they're correct assholes. Up until that point I thought I was maybe 20 pounds overweight and wasn't like the fatties you would see at Walmart. That was the mental trap I was in. I was fat but no where near bad as other people. I didn't realize that didn't matter because while I wasn't as huge as them I was still huge. Started trying everything on /fat/. Tried keto. Dropped breads. Couldn't get rid of potatoes. Started calorie counting and that worked for a while. Bought a kitchen scale to portion control. 50 grams of potatoes was doable. Fell off of calorie counting. Started intermittent fasting. Never eating before 1pm. Mind you I was still drinking 42 beers a week during this. Got down to 192 through diet and lifting but got hopeless again and drank my way back up to 218. I would eat dinner sized lunches on top of dinner and drinking WAY too much. Blood work comes back for my psych. Can't even calculate my good cholesterol because my tryglycerides are so high. (cont)
Matthew Bell
My psych was worried and brought up drinking which she accepted as me coping until that point. She didn't like it but accepted it. I had to quit. That was last October. Went from 218 to 179.2 in about 4 months by not drinking and eating right and intermittent fasting turning into OMAD with plenty of tea. If I hit normal weight tomorrow it will be the first time in over 8 years. From my highest I've lost 57 pounds or as swimbro's chart would put it a fat Emperor penguin. I have the motivation to go even lower. I've never had abs in my entire life. I'm not stopping until I see them. After tomorrow that's the new goal. My limit will be 150 and if I don't see them by then I'm going on a clean bulk and cut. I'm going to make it.
