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Is this OK, nutritionally?

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Jugernot

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I've been cutting my caloric intake quite a bit over the last two months from a previously high amount down to a much better number.

I used to skip Breakfast and lunch most days and eat a big dinner at around 8pm when I got home from school. I?d snack on junk food until I went to bed around 1-2am. I'd guess I was taking in 3000 calories a day with no much movement/exercise. The extent of my exercise was walking fast a couple hundred feet to class from my truck and taking elevators to classes (yes, I'm serious!).

Since late December, I'd been drinking a slimfast in the morning and eating a bag of popcorn for mostly filler (lowfat, low butter, kind) for lunch and eating stir fry and rice for dinner (or an equivalently lean meal). I'd guess a max of 1000 calories per days with a low saturated fat intake (maybe 10-15 grams a day). I still haven't been doing any genuine "exercise", though I always take the stairs and am constantly running up and down them all day. I'd guess I run the extent of a 30 story building in stairs a day... I also take two multivitamins a day as I figure that will help a little from not eating lunch.

I know that the ?real? key to weight loss is exercise, but I just don?t have time and I?m not quite that motivated yet. I get up around 8am and don?t get home till 9pm most nights from class. I just don?t have time during the day to goto the gym and I don?t have the energy after I get home from class.

I have Type O blood, so I should be eating lots of high protein and not a lot of grains, according to: http://www.webworker.com/profiles/er4yt.html

Anyway, is my current diet OK nutritionally? I've read that you shouldn't cut you intake drastically or your body with shut down and keep all of it's fat and start eat away at your muscle. To be honest, I did the starvation thing for a couple of weeks and felt fine, I was eating two turkey sandwiches a day at dinner with nothing else but water during the day. I stopped because I know that isn?t good for your body in the long run?

Can you guys suggest some foods I can eat that don?t involve lots of cooking and aren?t terrible for you?

EDIT: BTW, as I've said before... I'm a fat ass. I weight somewhere in the range of 340-360lbs and am 6ft tall. Just in the last 2 months, I'm able to get into pants that are 4 inches smaller than I could previously wear.
 
Sounds better than before. Your breakfast is great and your supper sounds good too. You should up your calorie intake so that your metabolism isn't screwed too much. Raise it up to about 1500 calories. Excercise would be nice 😉 At 1500 calories you'll lose weight quickly as long as your metabolism isn't too screwed (probably isn't).

Ideally you'd want to be taking in 5 meals a day of 300 calories or around there (4 meals or 6 are fine). The popcorn is a pretty useless lunch though even though it tastes nice. Try something like a little tuperware of fat free cottage cheese, fat free yogurt, and an apple (eat apple after so that it nulls some of the yuckiness for breath that the two former items cause). You could look for small pre-packaged healthy meals at the grocery too like the little box ones you can throw in the microwave. Also a chicken/vegetable soup would be good.
 

If you can afford eating out every day, eat half your lunch and put away the other half for dinner.

If you wanna cook. Get lean lean meat like skinlesss chicken breast. Get food with low to moderate glycemic rating. Eat vegetables. The point is to have well-balanced diet every day with lower total calory.

Some low-fat food is loaded with carb/sugar, be mindful of those.

Walk on treadmill if you cannot jog (with your weight, be easy on your knees).
 
Raise your calorie intake to 1500. Your body NEEDS a certain ammount of intake. Otherwise it starts eating iteself (muscles first... it saves the fat for last).

But the real key to lowering weight is exercise. A good diet is helpful, but you should start doing some sort of workout, even if it is just a brisk walk).

Keep up the good work 🙂
 
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