Weight Loss for a big guy

[lenglish27]

Hey guys i am new to the forum but not to lifting. I am 23, 6'1", and 295lbs. My wife and I just had our first son and in the past year i went from fairly cut to not cut at all. My question to yall is what would yall reccomend for someone my size to burn fat quicker. I go to the gym 6 days a week, I do mostly lifting with about 15min of treadmill time to get me warmed up. I was reading about clenbuterol, but from what i read that for people with much less BF%. Thank you in advance for the help

 

[uvawahoowa]

Hey guys i am new to the forum but not to lifting. I am 23, 6'1", and 295lbs. My wife and I just had our first son and in the past year i went from fairly cut to not cut at all. My question to yall is what would yall reccomend for someone my size to burn fat quicker. I go to the gym 6 days a week, I do mostly lifting with about 15min of treadmill time to get me warmed up. I was reading about clenbuterol, but from what i read that for people with much less BF%. Thank you in advance for the help

Get your diet and training in check first, supps won't help without that...

 

[B5150]

Hey guys i am new to the forum but not to lifting. I am 23, 6'1", and 295lbs. My wife and I just had our first son and in the past year i went from fairly cut to not cut at all. My question to yall is what would yall reccomend for someone my size to burn fat quicker. I go to the gym 6 days a week, I do mostly lifting with about 15min of treadmill time to get me warmed up. I was reading about clenbuterol, but from what i read that for people with much less BF%. Thank you in advance for the help

Increase your cardio to 30 mins a day or more and eat right. At 6'1" and 295lbs you should be very easily capable of shedding a lot of fat with that. Don't waste the money on supplements you don't need.

 

[delsolrob]

totally, no weight loss supps are best served once you're really pushing those last few stubborn pounds of your goal.

the only thing I might recommend is a mild pre workout...if you need a little kick of energy in the gym.

 

[Renzov2]

I agree with the above posters^ I've used super hd with some good success if you must use a fat burner. Good luck to ya.

 

[D2footballjrc]

Don't use a fat burner, abs are made in the kitchen. Losing weight is as simple as running a small 500 cal deficit. Eat right, train hard, sleep harder and you'll lose the weight. Use a cal counting site like myfitnesspal or spark people.

If you are going to use anything go no stim like TTA, raspberry Ketones, or African Mango. No reason to put your body under stress than it already is. Again they won't do jack with out rest and diet being on track.

 

[Est1969]

I know the old "x00 calorie deficit = guaranteed weight loss" tends to be dogma on weightlifting boards. Personally I disagree and believe that food metabolism and body composition is incredibly complicated and varies greatly among individuals.

My question is: why shouldn't a fat burner at least be tried by an individual in this situation? Some products, like Alpha-T2, are incredibly potent fat burners and in some people are amazing appetite suppressants to boot. I would guess that there are products available that might make the whole process easier to get started. I sympathize with people that have to fight a raging appetite when pursuing weight loss goals.

I'm not making any recommendations here...just posing the question.

Regards (and best of luck to the OP!!)

Don't use a fat burner, abs are made in the kitchen. Losing weight is as simple as running a small 500 cal deficit. Eat right, train hard, sleep harder and you'll lose the weight. Use a cal counting site like myfitnesspal or spark people.

If you are going to use anything go no stim like TTA, raspberry Ketones, or African Mango. No reason to put your body under stress than it already is. Again they won't do jack with out rest and diet being on track.

 

[EasyEJL]

I know the old "x00 calorie deficit = guaranteed weight loss" tends to be dogma on weightlifting boards. Personally I disagree and believe that food metabolism and body composition is incredibly complicated and varies greatly among individuals.

My question is: why shouldn't a fat burner at least be tried by an individual in this situation? Some products, like Alpha-T2, are incredibly potent fat burners and in some people are amazing appetite suppressants to boot. I would guess that there are products available that might make the whole process easier to get started. I sympathize with people that have to fight a raging appetite when pursuing weight loss goals.

I'm not making any recommendations here...just posing the question.

Regards (and best of luck to the OP!!)

the same thing that makes the whole process easier to get started also makes it harder to continue past plateaus, and harder to maintain after stopping. If you are one of those that has the raging appetite, you'll still have a raging appetite once you reach or near your goal weight and you need to deal with the psychological part of dealin with it. Otherwise you'll just gain it back, sometimes pretty rapidly

Its like with anabolics. When someone asks "I'm stuck at xxx weight and haven't been able to add a pound in 4 months, which steroid should I use?" the answer is none whatsoever. If they are only eating enough to maintain xxx even if they get to yyy with steroids they absolutely 100% will return to xxx over time since that is all they can eat. If they say "when I gain more mass naturally too much is fat" thats a different story.

 

[D2footballjrc]

I know the old "x00 calorie deficit = guaranteed weight loss" tends to be dogma on weightlifting boards. Personally I disagree and believe that food metabolism and body composition is incredibly complicated and varies greatly among individuals.

My question is: why shouldn't a fat burner at least be tried by an individual in this situation? Some products, like Alpha-T2, are incredibly potent fat burners and in some people are amazing appetite suppressants to boot. I would guess that there are products available that might make the whole process easier to get started. I sympathize with people that have to fight a raging appetite when pursuing weight loss goals.

I'm not making any recommendations here...just posing the question.

Regards (and best of luck to the OP!!)

At almost 300 pounds a fat burner shouldn't be needed to cut weight, save it for when you need the boost or to break through the lower %'s. A calorie deficit isn't just dogma it's scientifically what you have to do to lose weight. You have to force your body to use the fat as energy, thus a deficit.

 

[lenglish27]

Hey guys thank you for all the great advice. My appetite isnt out of control and i would like to think i have good will power. I have always been a big guy though. I used to play Junior hockey, then i blew my knee out. After that came lots of beer and cheese steaks, wife and a baby. Im trying to get back to where i was when i was playing (220lbs.) however i am down to 290lbs, as of this morning, since fist posting. my diet consist of protein shake and oj in the morning, banana 3 hours later, another protein shake for lunch, cottage cheese with fruit for as a snack before dinner, and a chicken or fish plate with veggies for dinner. I also drink between 1 and 2 gallons of water throughout the day. A little of topic but this has been going through my mind, after i lose the weight what happens to the excess skin? does everything tighten back up, or is there something i can take to help me with that ? Thanks again for all the help

 

[BB12]

Fast results start in the changing up your diet and then using supplements to aid in the process. Drastically changing up what you put in your body, will also start to reflect on the outside appearance!

 

[middleageguy]

Hey guys thank you for all the great advice. My appetite isnt out of control and i would like to think i have good will power. I have always been a big guy though. I used to play Junior hockey, then i blew my knee out. After that came lots of beer and cheese steaks, wife and a baby. Im trying to get back to where i was when i was playing (220lbs.) however i am down to 290lbs, as of this morning, since fist posting. my diet consist of protein shake and oj in the morning, banana 3 hours later, another protein shake for lunch, cottage cheese with fruit for as a snack before dinner, and a chicken or fish plate with veggies for dinner. I also drink between 1 and 2 gallons of water throughout the day. A little of topic but this has been going through my mind, after i lose the weight what happens to the excess skin? does everything tighten back up, or is there something i can take to help me with that ? Thanks again for all the help

I beleive member David Dun is right about carido, a min of 30 min and eating right and member Est1969 about cal defict.
But your really going to have to start counting your cals. I'm not counting your cals for the day above. But you will need to count your cals every day. You may end up going wow look how much I'm taking in, no wonder I'm not loosing.

When I first started going back to the gym, I was almost 260 at 6'1 I cut my cals back to between 1,000 and 1,500 per day and it still took about 5 months to drop 50lbs walking the tread mill a mim of 30min 4 days a week and at the time weight lifting only 2 times a week.
I'm not saying you should drop cals down to 1,000 to 1,500 I'm just using me as a example.

But if you don't really drop the cals and up the cardio you won't drop the weight.

For me it was just the very begining of changeing my lifestile of eating and weight lifting more and more days a week.. (I still hate the cardio, treadmil)
The drop of 50lbs still was just the bigining as I still had fat and did not look good with my shirt off.
Still had a lot of muscle to gain and a lot of fat to loose.
My skin has slowly, slowly been tightening up, I never had any streach marks.

2 years later I still have a long way to go to make me happy, still more fat to lose and muscle to gain.
But I'm getting there, now with shirt off look like someone in early 30's posibility, that still needs to get body fat in check around abs and a little around the pecks.

So, count those cals, figure out how many cals to intake to be a good cal defict and hit the cardio, treadmill.
Once you hit your desired weight. This will really just get sarted. Onde you hit your target weight, you will more than likely not be at the bf% you want.
You can do it!!