Please help me get in shape

[Judo Tom]

you really dont have to count or measure or do anything if you just eat good foods and train hard. Yeah it will help but that is not the biggest part of the problem.

Right now if I asked you what you ate the last 3 days how many "cheat" or Bad or unhealthy meals would be in there? be honest. If it is over 2 you need to get it down to 1 bad meal every 3 days.. then work on making it 1 every 5 then 1 every 7 if you are doing that you will see improvements. once you are around 9% bf then we can start tracking every cal, carb, pro determine what time of day each should be eaten, what your sleep schedule should be. what time of day to train etc etc

but for now focus on the basics. EAT HEALTHY TRAIN HARD 100% NO EXCUSES

 

[Zyglamail]

you really dont have to count or measure or do anything if you just eat good foods and train hard. Yeah it will help but that is not the biggest part of the problem.

Im going to disagree here in part. The reason being many people fail to gain mass because they simply dont eat enough. If your going through the trouble of cleaning up your diet why wouldnt you just take the next step and measure food and calculate macronutrients?

It becomes increasingly important to know exactly what your putting in your body if you are both trying to gain mass and lose fat. Its more difficult than just cutting or bulking but can be done. The window in which you need to be in for food consumption however is generally pretty small. Eat to much you dont lose fat. Eat too little you dont gain strength and/or over train within a few weeks.

I think tracking what you eat and going through the steps of weighing and measuring things helps you learn whats works best for you and you have raw data to back it up. After some time of doing this you learn to be able to eyeball portions with ease and can cut out the weighing and measuring but for those just starting and taking things serious I feel its required learning material.

 

[Judo Tom]

You are right of course. The more you track the better. I am just saying you can also start w/out tracking and just cleaning things up. Then track.. then get to the point where you dont need to track.

But again the more data you have the better. When its competition time for me I plan and track EVERYTHING.. food,workouts, sleep, anything I can think of I want to track and see what I can do to get an edge.

I am just not sure if the OP is ready to do the tracking so I was trying to give him another way to get results

 

[pector]

So your a big enough guy, so its gonna take a bit of time. There is no need to rush things buddy, last thing you want is to start of with real crazy ideas like loosing a massive amount of weight and doing a colossal amount of exercise, because it will become tedious and tiring and its very frustrating if your not meeting your goals.
Simple fact is, that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight!
This is only my 2 CC's, I think its important that you set a realistic amount of weight to loose each week, do plenty of cardio, as its proven to use up calories in the hours after you stop.
Also the diet is the main part, you don't necessarily need to count the calories but get a general idea of what your taking, although an extra biscuit or a handful of cereal does add up! Don't eat untill your 100% full, I'd say 80% full. And don't eat anything fatty before bed time.

Hope you reach your goals bro!

 

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