Training & Nutrition - Plan on losing weight

Hey all, I am new to the forums and decided I should post. I have recently (about a month ago) started to eat a LOT better. I used to eat a lot of fast food (the devil I tell you) and once or twice a day. My wife bought the Eating for Life book and we have been following it diligently for about 5 weeks. I have lost 10lbs so far but decided that I want to lose more. I am 6' and started at 255lbs. I have started to commute to work and have decided to make a commitment to ride my bicycle everywhere I can. I figure with my eating a lot healthier and the exercise from the bicycling I am sure to shave off a lot of weight and get that nice bikers body I would love to have. Reading the posts in this forum have really given me a lot of encouragement as I have seen that other people are accomplishing what I am setting out to do.

Welcome and Congrast on your efforts to date. You can do it, just stick to the plan. My plan was / is calorie counting and cardio. It is amazing how bad my diet was and I didnt even know it. I would never have known if I did not start looking at food lables and nutrition info for my favorite meals. So far I am down 40 pounds since Jan 4th and just recently road a century. Good Luck. Later.

Congratulations on a great start. Eating right and exercise should be a lifestyle change. Don't think of it as a diet, otherwise you'll find yourself back where you started in a couple of years. Make a goal of losing 1-2 pounds per week. By cutting the junk and moderate exercise, this is acheivable. Look at the long term and by this time next year you'll weigh under 200 lbs.

I did the same thing. I weighed 269 in December of 2004. 18 months later I now weigh 170. I changed my eating habits, cutting the junk, soda, chips, fast food and replacing it with moderate portions of nutritionally dense food. I also added exercise to my routine. The local YMCA had a 12 week exercise program to get me started and keep me motivated. Once the weight started coming off, I had the confidence to keep it going.

People ask me all the time now how I lost so much weight, I just tell them "eat less and exercise more".

Michael

Thanks for the encouragement. I agree, I have tried to "diet" before and it lasts about a week and I give up. I have definitly made a lifestyle change. Fast food and junk food doesn't even appeal to me anymore. I have never felt so good in my life as I do now either. I have a long way to go but I am going to make it.