Lifestyle Advice Needed

[jessielynn85]

HI everyone i am new to this website My name is Jessie i use to be a workout fanatic but the last year well been a rough one i have put on 40 pounds and i think if i tried to run five miles like i use to i might die i dont even think i could make a mile anymore.. and well have had a hard time getting back into my routine so thought i would join a forum and hopefully get inspired again. Its really hard to get back into excersing and eating healthy again harder then i ever remember it when i work out i get so discouraged because i dont remember it being so hard. Also i feel as i cant do anything anymore its not fufilling like it use to be just not sure what im doing wrong! Thanks for listing and any tips would be appreciated

[YavetteMichelle]

Make sure you track how many calories you burn at the gym and throughout the day because you are going to have to eat more than that. Which can be difficult and calls for strategic planning. Stick with non meat proteins. NUTS. and whole grains.

[Boss Man]

Some would say however, that burning more calories than you eat would help, though I feel often changing the makeup of what someone eats, would help potentially more, assuming it's not simply a case of being sedentary that caused the gain and the diet has remained as good as it was when exercise was more prominant.

Not entirely sure though why you suggested Nuts and grains. I'm not criticising, just curious .

Tracking calories is notoriously difficult anyway with electronic devices, as you'd need to use several different makes and models of the same machine(s), for several consecutive days, at the same time and with the same settings and duration, because then if a consistent group of readings came out of most of the recorded sessions, you would have a ballpark figure to use, allowing for maybe 5-10 calories either way on the different machine readings.

This wouldn't be practical, except in a controlled scientific test, as most, if indeed no Gyms, would have 5,6 or more different makes and models of treadmills for example, so using a calorie monitor on a workout machine, would be trusting to luck more than potential accuracy.

Plus the fact, as humans cannot physically see calories burning, any reading(s) off any machine(s) used, would still be a guide only and could be quite a way off an actual end result and not necessarily close.