is this a good diet regimen for losing 80 pounds in a year {no spammers real peo!
Question: Is this a good diet regimen for losing 80 pounds in a year {no spammers real people please}?
lunch- meal replacement or salad {after workout} 11-12pm
protein bar 4 pm
9:30 lean meat vegetables
i work in the evenings i kno thats a little late to eat dinner im open to criticism im not a fitness expert or anything im going off strictly off what i researched
exercise pretty much treadmill 45-hour starting out 5 days a week light weight lifting {2-3 times a week}
Answers:
It depends on whether you're trying to achieve this just for this year, or are you trying to maintain the weight loss once you've finished?
While the calorie count looks like it would work, I'd personally have a tough time eating just a meal replacement or a salad every day for the rest of my life. Make changes you can stick to: a turkey sandwich with lettuce and tomato, on whole wheat bread, without mayonnaise (or fat-free mayonnaise, but don't put a lot) probably has a similar calorie count (or less even) than a meal replacement shake or a salad with creamy dressing (ranch, blue cheese, thousand island, french... all culprits!). You could make tuna with mustard, instead of mayonnaise, and eat it on whole wheat bread.
I would consider putting a low-fat protein in the salad with vinagrette (maintains the full feeling longer), and perhaps you could rotate the protein bar with a fruit. 2-3 whole wheat crackers with low or no-fat cheese makes for an ok snack, too. I'd probably eat eggs and toast, maybe some turkey bacon or chicken sausage, a couple of times a week instead of oatmeal. You need protein to help rebuild the muscles you used working out! I know, I keep mentioning "whole wheat", which the thought of makes most people cringe... but in my experience, whole wheat has the lowest calorie count and highest fiber out of all the breads. Nothing like a 7-grain slice of whole wheat, toasted, with a little tuna on it... mmm.
I'm down 82 lbs since March of last year, and I did it by cutting out red meat almost completely, eating a lot of veggies with my lunch and dinner, and limiting my calorie count to approximately 1800 calories per day. I began exercising for about an hour a day starting in July of last year, and I've maintained a solid 8-10 lb per month weight loss since then. You can do it!
its pretty much okay. but if you don't mind, ill tweak it a bit.
for breakfast, add a hardboiled egg to that.
for lunch, you need to have a mixture of lean meat and vegetables, and a bit of brown rice (coz you still need the fiber it gives. (soluble fiber) .then put either chicken or fish in your salad.
then eat again at 4, but not a protein bar. i suggest eat nuts (if you're not allergic... hopefully.) choose almonds, walnuts, or whatevers available.
for dinner, eat something like you ate during lunch, but lessen the rice. then 2 hours after eating dinner, drink the meal replacement you mentioned.
for your workout, lift weights 3 times a week with a rest day in between. do your cardio during those rest days. :)
Cut the meal replacement and you can call it a done deal!