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Originally Posted by jayswin
Damn, it sucks when weight gain suddenly sneaks up on you. Im 6'3" and am generally around 195 - 200 unless directly after a meal.
Hadn't checked in a few days and felt bloated today and I was suddenly 110 lbs at the end of the night.  Looking up diets, it mostoy seems scammy/sponsored BS. Anyone know a good diet to go on that's legit to just drop a few pounds over over a few weeks? |
Just start tracking calories. Grab an app like macrofactor and start punching everything you eat into it. You don't need a goal or anything, the biggest thing is just knowing how many calories you're consuming.
If you want to commit to it, I recommend a food scale as well. It's a tough go man. I thought I was eating pretty decent but once I was actually tracking it, I was easy 2500+ calories every day. I'm a cereal addict and had no idea that some of the cereals I was eating were a whopping 920 calories a bowl with milk. I switched to lower calorie cereals and unsweetened almond milk and can now have 2 bowls of cereal for 660 calories if I want. Peanut butter is crazy, barbecue sauce, cheese. On the flip side hot sauce is zero, gravy is next to zero, potatoes are solid bang for your calorie buck. Just last night I had a huge taco salad instead of using tortillas and it was 316 calories instead of 716 with 4 small tortillas.