Help me with a friend...

[saint808]

I have a friend who came to me and asked for some help. He has noticed the changes in me and my training partner over the past several months. He's very big and wants to slim down to 300.... yes that's right 300 will be slimming for him. He's 6'3" and hovering around 400 pounds or so right now. Can anyone help me design a diet for him? I have no experience when it comes to guys of that size.... I don't want him to catabloize or cut his calories too low and end up losing a lot of weight to yo yo back and forth. He does eat healthy foods sometimes so he is not avoidant of them and I asked straight up if he was willing to give the fast food and he said he would. Also does anyone know if it would be good for him to drop some weight before he starts in the gym with us? To be frank I am concerned about him exerting himself into aheart attack even though he's only 24.

 

[diamonddiceclay]

put him on atkins for a few weeks(350g protein a day and no carbs)-then slowly raise carbs to 100 g a day

 

[dEgeNeRaTe8211]

cardio will give your friend some fast fat loss when he is that big. just put him on the same kind of diet as you are on. i don't think his diet should be any different because of his size. but i'm thinking an atkins or ckd or something would be too extreme for him. try like a 30-30-30 or something that he won't hate and give up. but hey, if he's willing to give up all his carbs, then a no-carb diet would definitely make a huge difference.