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Would appreciate some diet help

Emmylou1981 Posts: 24 Joined: 2006/04/13	2006/04/16, 07:20 AM Hi i weigh 153pounds.I really want to lose weight.What scares me is that my bf % is 40%! The fat is mainly round my hips,tummy and butt.Please can some help me put together a diet.Maybe put what i should be eating in a day? Im so confused about what i should be eating and when.Thankyou in advance.
mikencharleston Posts: 1,585 Joined: 2002/01/09	2006/04/16, 12:12 PM Emmylou - you will have to figure out the amount of food to take in on any given day but as far as what to eat, if you'll look at the thumb tack posts in this forum, there are hundreds of food ideas. -------------- Mike in Pensacola Now.
Mojo_67 Posts: 1,299 Joined: 2003/09/23	2006/04/17, 12:19 AM First thing you want to do is find your maintenance calories, that is the amount it takes daily to keep you at your current weight. Do this by weighing yourself today, then keeping track of everything you eat for a week, and I do mean everything. At the end of the week see if you lost or gained. if you did neither, your fairly close to your maintenance calories, which is going to be the average of everything you kept track of for the week. So for examples sake if your total calories for the week was 14,000, your daily maintenance calories would be 2000, to maintain your body weight. Once you know this you can gain or lose whenever you want. To lose simply deduct 200-400 from your daily amount, to gain do the opposite. You of course need to be eating near it already for this to work properly. If your only taking in a 800 calories a day your not gonna get valid results. It mainly comes down to calories in and out. To lose you need to have less in than out. Try to eat as healthy as possible, like Mike mentioned, there are a lot of good ideas in this forum. Check out the thread "grocery list for healthy eating". Have 5-7 smaller meals a day like breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack. This should get you well on your way. -------------- She sits and wonders why.....no more.