dpfisher
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I see this girl every so often (not like that you jerks, I'm not into that) and she asked me for some help losing weight. She is very large 5'4" about 240 and she says she works hard at losing weight and just can't. I told her I'll help but only if she's going to be honest with me and I'm getting her to measure her food and write down everything she eats and everything she DIDN'T eat just because she knew she'd have to write it down (marked as not eaten of course). I reminded her that liquids count too. She apparently just joined a gym and I'll be finding out what she's doing so far and giving her suggestions.
Anyway I have experience with being fat and losing weight but this is like WAYY above my expertise so I need some help getting this set up. I don't even know what the max amount is that's safe to lose per week when you are that big. She wants to jump right in and go nuts with it, I'd prefer to see her make her diet adjustments and exercise increase a bit every week so she sticks to it, let me know if I'm wrong on that. I'm thinking start her off with 500 calories/day below maintenance (she wants to eat hardly anything of course...) and a couple cardio sessions per week then add in weights with cardio afterwards after a couple weeks if she's doing well with that. I'm sure I'm going to have to give her some basic info about nutrition as well before we even work out a diet. Is there any kind of specific macro she should follow? Obviously a lot of the type of diet macros people here do for a few months are a little extreme if she's going to be doing this for a year at the minimum.
I want to do this without supplements of any kind beyond vitamins, she obviously doesn't need them and I don't want her to get the idea that pills will solve her problems.
And yes, I know that this will probably not happen if it's at this point but I like to help people and I like a challenge.
Anyway I have experience with being fat and losing weight but this is like WAYY above my expertise so I need some help getting this set up. I don't even know what the max amount is that's safe to lose per week when you are that big. She wants to jump right in and go nuts with it, I'd prefer to see her make her diet adjustments and exercise increase a bit every week so she sticks to it, let me know if I'm wrong on that. I'm thinking start her off with 500 calories/day below maintenance (she wants to eat hardly anything of course...) and a couple cardio sessions per week then add in weights with cardio afterwards after a couple weeks if she's doing well with that. I'm sure I'm going to have to give her some basic info about nutrition as well before we even work out a diet. Is there any kind of specific macro she should follow? Obviously a lot of the type of diet macros people here do for a few months are a little extreme if she's going to be doing this for a year at the minimum.
I want to do this without supplements of any kind beyond vitamins, she obviously doesn't need them and I don't want her to get the idea that pills will solve her problems.
And yes, I know that this will probably not happen if it's at this point but I like to help people and I like a challenge.