So, my female friend wants some advice for weight loss.
20yo, 170cm tall, 80kg.
She’s pretty inactive, likes alcohol and candy, on top of all she has damaged knees.
My advice so far is to sleep more (she sleeps 4 hours on average) and to kick out all the candy, drink more fluid, add fruits and salads + lean meat into her diet, drop alcohol too and actually lift some weight and do something on bicyce in gym. If nothing else to try stuff like aerobic.
Is above mentioned enough or you would add something more to it or change something mentioned above?
It is all about energy balance. Calories in = calories out.
Eating ‘healthy’ doesn’t matter, you can have a pretty ‘bad’ diet and still lose weight, if you are eating at a smaller amount and burn out a lot of calories through activities.
You can also eat ‘healthy’ and gain weight, if you are eating too much and don’t burn enough calories to balance it out.
I agree that 80 kg is quite heavy for a woman at that height. If she’s serious about it. She’ll figure it out.
Accidentally posted wrong. You can only do so much for a person. Ty for reminding me there are genuinely nice people in this fast-paced world. I try not to get involved much anymore because people have to accept and be willing to change. If she does, invest as much energy but not at your own expense. And if she fails, don’t beat yourself up. The ball is in her court! Best of luck!
Sounds right to me, though I would specify water rather than fluids, given that soft drinks are fluid and made of sugar or chemicals, and juice, which many people think of as healthy, is very high in sugars, too.
I would also say fruit and/or salad - many people don’t like both, so you want it to be flexible for her, not something overwhelming. Both would be fine, but it’s not necessary.
I think she can go far just by cutting out alcohol and candy. In my opinion, somebody who’s 20 years old and sedentary, if they have no background in a high impact sport, is probably lying when they say have “bad knees”. They’re probably stiff from inactivity.
I think all your recommendations are great, but I would try to address one habit at a time to ease into it.
She used to play football (thing that some people call soccer) till 4 years ago. And I know for 100% sure that she did had injuries in her past. She even had surgery on her left knee once.
I live with a bloke who has a bit of a gut. Most days he will comment about being fat or say that he doesn’t eat much or doesn’t have dinner because he had a big lunch. The same bloke drinks between 4-10+ full strength high carb beers a night, sometimes have rum and coke cans as well. He also never eats breakfast and he generally has his largest (and sometimes only) meal of the day right before sleeping for the night.
Now in his defence, he works 12+ hours 6 days a week and some days are pretty physical.
He obviously sees that I work on my body a fair bit and that I eat a large amount of good food so that usually results in conversations about how he can lose weight.
I have given him the answers multiple times. Cut down on drinking. Don’t drink sugar. If you drink beer, make it low carb. Eat a good breakfast to kickstart metabolism. Don’t eat a huge meal before laying motionless in bed for 8 hours.
He hears my advice, he understands it, but he will never implement it unless he truly wants to. It is just easier for him to complain about his belly than to do anything about it. That’s ok, and it’s how most of the Western world live, but we all know that he won’t achieve his dreams until they become tangible goals.
They are all offered advice and they hear it, they know it.
They could even find all the answers online on their own if they wanted.
But it’s not a priority for them. They do, however hope that we’ll tell them some secret magic trick that will make their problem go away… like: “Take that and those pills” or “Drink tea from this or that” or “Eat that and that food at some time of the day”
I used to argue about stuff but found it was a waste of my energy. Send them to the articles and tell them to watch videos. The knowledge is out there. If someone really starts to put forth an effort then I’ll help. However, I’ve been burned too many times.
If we’re swapping fat girl/guy stories, then I have one too.
An ex-girlfriend of mine from way back used to live with this chick called Izzy. Izzy was morbidly obese, and kind of a bitch. The bitch thing isn’t really relevant to the story, but she really was a bitch.
Anyway, I can’t remember why but the topic of Izzy’s weight came up, and my girlfriend said something like “Izzy’s always struggled with her weight,” to which I replied “last night I saw Izzy eat a whole tub of Nutella with a spoon. There is no struggle as far as Izzy’s weight is concerned. She has made it very easy on herself to be fat as fuck.”
Girls, sweat! Lies…isn’t that why they where so much fucking makeup at gym. That should be under another thread just sweating and makeup is so gross to me…haha
In any gym where I was so far - there’s more girls than guys.
At least at time when I’m coming. I’m training in the morning or as early as I can. People tell me that serious gym crew is usually going at evening. I came to gym in the evening few times and it turned out that it’s true.
So I keep going to gym early, because I rather watch women in leggings doing squats than big guys grunting and spitting while they deadlift. Not that I mind grunting, just I’m eather training near women xD
