Hey guys do you have any tips about going to the gym/losing weight??? I’m trying to exercise more but I’m in college and I don’t have a regular gym class. Are there any ways I can stick with a schedule or anything???
Setting a schedule that matches up with yours. Exercising twice a week is good, and remember to never undereat! Even though it seems like if you eat less you’ll loose weight, you’ll do more damage to yourself in the long run. - B
So this is something I have done a fair bit of research on over the years. I’m not going to give you specific diet advice because you should talk to a doctor and nutritionist or dietitian before you make changes to your diet. But here’s what I know, based on my research and my personal experience.
Drink lots of water. Keep a water bottle with you at all times, and have at it. If you don’t like plain water, try flavoured club soda or add some sliced cucumber or fruit like lemon or raspberries.
Try to eat lots of protein, but don’t drastically decrease your carbs or anything like that. Protein is great for your brain, but carbs give you energy to do things like exercise!
Fruits and vegetables are really good for you, so eat lots. As much as you want. Especially vegetables.
Doing any kind of strict elimination diet that is not necessary for your health (like a gluten-free diet for celiac disease) is not going to result in long-term weight loss, is going to be hard to maintain, and isn’t going to be fun. I did a candida diet for almost a full year and lost 30 lbs, and then I gained it all back as soon as I started eating sugar again. (Then I got pregnant, so I gained even more.)
Pick days and times for your exercising that work for your schedule. If you’re not a morning person, don’t expect yourself to get up at 5:30 every morning to go for a run, especially if you hate running!
Choose types of exercise that you enjoy. If you don’t know what you like, try a few different things. I like treadmills, walking/running tracks, and recumbent bikes. I hate stationary bikes, step machines, and ellipticals. I prefer free weights to weight machines.
Alternate types of exercise. If you’re going daily, do cardio one day and weights the next. It’s important to work different sets of muscles and give everything a chance to recover. That’s how you build more muscle and endurance. You can also do cardio every day, but do slow one day and interval training the next (that’s where you go slow for a bit, then as fast as you can for a short time, then slow again), and do weights every other day, targeting a different muscle group each time (upper, core, and lower body).
Get enough sleep! At least seven hours in bed trying to fall asleep, every night.
Try tracking your steps every day. My friend who is a paper carrier logs over 20,000 steps per day doing that job, and she’s lost lots of weight since she started. And it’s healthy because she’s just walking constantly and hasn’t done any limiting of her diet and stuff; she’s still eating the same way she was before.
That’s most of my information right now. Like I said, talk to your doctor about dietary changes, and you might want to also talk about what kind of exercise you want to start doing, to make sure it’s safe for you to do.
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