Fat but determined newbie, bit of help please

ringadingding

Hey guys and girls,

So, after 15 years of being overweight and pretending it was part of me and didnt bother me, I snapped when I couldn't find any decent clothes to fit me at all.

A week ago
Changed my diet, started working out a bit at home, stretching, sit ups, press ups, squats etc, just to warm up before joining a gym and making a complete prick of myself ;-0

Joined a gym, and went for the first time yesterday, and I don't have money for a personal trainer, and also i'm in a foreign country without enough of the language to communicate fully with one.

I was hoping you guys could give some tips, and some guidance targets, i've read around the tips, and get the gist of it, do lots of cardio excercise to lose the weight.

I know whats wrong with my diet, and am pretty determined to change it up, I was using my job as a chef as an excuse for poor diet and heavy drinking habits. Biggest change being to stop coming home from work at mid night and eating my dinner, and stopping the 12 pint drinking sessions 2/3 times per week.

I'm 140 kg, 6ft 2, fat , muscular legs and arms, but complete jelly belly, i mean its like a bag of water and some pretty impressive moobs.
I feel like i have no abs at all and a big bin liner for stomach, as whatever i eat or drink, seems to go straight to my belly, even a glass of water.

Going to the gym yesterday was pretty daunting, and normally i take things i my stride, but i was ****ting it yesterday, anyways went in and with no idea of targets done the following

15km on ex bike
fast walked 3 km on tread
100 x 35 kg butterflys
100 x each arms 20 kg dumb bell reps

I couls have gone a bit more, but the gym is all electronic for water etc, and me swipe card was not fully activated, so I walked home 3km instead of the bus.

Im not ready for running yet, i know my joints wont take it just yet but plan to start next week, had it in my head to get to the gym 4 times per week, slowly increasing the workout.

Thanks for reading, its long winded i know, maybe putting it in words may help me, and all tips and advice greatly appreciated.

I have a drawer of clothes that haven't fit me for 2 years i want to fit into for x mas day, and i'm gonna do it.

mollyluvs

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Mellor

Going to the gym will help but at 140kg the issue is diet and not any lack of exercise.

Eating at midnight wasn't or isn't the issue. You are simple eating too much. A galss of water has never gone to your waistline.

Post up a typical diet and people can give pointers. If you start ing right you should be able to shift a decent amount of weight. 500-1000cals a day under your required calories isn't to big of an ask.

ringadingding

Thanks for replies, appreciated.

Mellop, your dead right, as embarrassing as it is to admit, I was completely over eating, I would eat 3 huge meals a day, all fried or sandwiches and way too much meat. I had kinda convinced myself, wrongly that because the food i cooked had little or no enumbers it was not that bad, it's strange what lies you will convince yourself.

Typical day before
wake at noon, eat 2 sandwhiches on white bread with fried eggs/ bacon, lunch around 4pm, something in work which would be fried, or laced with butter, cream, cheese, you name it it was in there. I'd arrive home around midnight and eat a main meal, whatever the family had eaten, a roast ( meat and 2 veg) dinner of sorts and then i'd snack and pig out until 3-4 am on the couch eating crisps and chocolate and drinking fizzy drinks.


Typical day now for the past week,
wake at 10, Fruit tea with lime and honey, bowl of porridge / boiled eggs with mustard on ryvita , get out of the house for an hour.

around 1pm before work, a light lunch, yesterday was boiled lean pork with potatoes and cabbage and banana in yogurt , around 6pm something in work but this time lots of raw vegetables and salads, yesterday was a white bean salad with olive oil vinegar, lots of garlic and herbs with a 2 slices of salami through it.
Gym after work around 10 -11 pm, and bed at 1am, without any snacks.


I have done this for the past week, my main diet plan is to eat no carbs after 6 pm, and very little carbs after 1 pm, much more fruits and veg, with a few bad things thrown in along the way, i know if i cut everything completely i'll only last a couple of weeks, i was thinking having sundays as sin days, and having a couple of pints once a week instead of the 4 nights a week before.

About things to my waistline, i genuinely feel that anything i eat or drink just bloats my stomach completely, i drink an awful lot of water each day, half still and half soda, would it be better to stick to just still?

I must say, I feel great after the first week, full of energy and like a new beginning.