Welcome to the boards. If you are anti-cooking you could always switch over to Lean Cuisines. They're not the best choice of course, but it's a good step away from fast food runs and pizza pick ups on the way home. Also what do you drink on an average day? Are you getting in enough water? I am a runner as well (I don't run more than 2.5 miles still) and I need to drink TONS of water before, during and all day after my runs or else I feel like crap and I don't lose any weight. I cut out almost all caloric drinks and I have seen a large surge in my loss. Good luck and welcome again!

Hi. As a single woman, I don't do a lot of cooking, either. Not that I can't, but it's just a bother to do it for myself alone all the time. A lot of times it's salads and easy stuff. You can get the prepared salad mixes and stuff to put on them, like nuts or even pre-cooked chicken. Often don't even bother to cook the vegetables, which is fine because they taste good raw. If you do learn to cook, one thing I've found that helps is to cook a big batch of something, like a whole pot of soup, then put it into individual serving containers and eat on them. If you take a day and make several things, it can stock up your freezer with healthy food for weeks.

There are some super easy cookbooks out there that guys I know have been really pleased they could use. It feels good to learn a new skill. I think one of they they'd recommend is the "I Don't Know How to Cook Book." Even if you're not in college, I think there's also an easy book called something like the Healthy College Cookbook.

Hello,

You look so great and you lost so much weight fast. What is your secret? Are you on any particular diet? Do you go to a gym? Hope to hear back from you soon.

David

Have you talked with your health care provider? Maybe meds could be affecting your weight loss. Anti-depressants definitely put weight on me. There are also some meds that don't allow your heart rate to increase when exercising, thus the exercise really doesn't do any good for weight loss.

It's not that I can't cook, I guess I choose not to. As a single person, you know how hard it is to buy for just one person. I drink between 32-48 oz of water a day. May not seem a lot, but before I didn't drink any water. David

I wonder the same thing. I take Bupropion a generic for Wellbutrin, and I hear that it doesn't effect weight loss or gain. I'm going to call next week to schedule a complete physical.

A physical is a great place to start - I've been overweight all my life but it wasn't until a couple years ago that my thyroid condition was found with a simple blood test and confirmed with an ultrasound of my neck. The doctors I saw when I was younger all assumed I was lazy although looking back I was a pretty active kid. They always told me I just needed to exercise more. My doctor who did the thyroid test was really mad that no one had even bothered to check. So I totally believe in starting with a doctor visit. I think Wellbutrin is one of the few anti-depressants that is pretty good about not causing weight gain.

Hi David -

Yep, they allow men around here; they've always made me feel welcome.

Congrats on continuing on through four months. And congratulations for finding 3FC and posting - this place can be a springboard to find out what you need to do to keep losing.

It could help to find one of the boards to regularly post what you're eating and what exercise you're doing. A little group accountability helps a lot.

Good luck whatever you choose; I hope you keep posting.

Hello,

What is the Beck Diet Solution? Great job with maintaining your weight. I hope to be joining you.

Well if medication is not affecting weight gain/loss then you are probably just eating crap foods. Weight loss is 85% diet...

Learn how to cook, if you are serious about weight loss. Grilling chicken and boiling eggs is not rocket science. I'm guessing your min calories would be around 2500, eat less than that and exercise.

I never said I can't cook, in fact I use to be a cook at Disneyland. What I said was, I DON'T cook. See if you can figure this out. I eat better now than I did before I started my weight loss program. I walk/jog and sometimes run 15+ miles a week now. Generally a person will burn 7 calories a minute by walking briskly. My exercise usually takes between 38-45 minutes. So, if I burn 7 calories a minute for 38 minutes, I should burn 266 calories (minimum) a day. If I hadn't change my diet at all, wouldn't you think burning an additional 266 calories a day someone would lose more than 4 pounds in 6 months?

Hi,

Welcome Aboard, I'm a man too and I lost around 33 lbs from the date I joined this forum..Their are lot many men over here and I believe you'd find loads of information over here.

To find out why you ain't losing enough weight I suggest you to keep a food log, one good site to maintain the food log is www.fitday.com. Log your food for 7 days and then post your public view of the food log here...lots of experts can find and let you know where things are going wrong.

Mods : Now that lots of Men are joining 3fc can we have a new forum subcategory for Men too

The Beck Diet Solution is a program to stay on our diet plan and exercise plan using the techniques of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). A few comments about it are located at the start of the November thread for support, discussion, and being diet coaches to each other:
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=155386
Also there you will find links to the prior months threads, as well as a link to buy the book, The Beck Diet Solution, from Amazon through 3FC (so that they get a coin for your purchase).

I had already lost my weight when I found out about this site, 3FC, and subsequently about Beck. I felt that I still wasn't on solid ground with my eating. I was still drawn to food and was worried that it would be easy for me to slip back into my old continuously grazing way of over eating. The steps in the Beck plan have helped me to get better grounded in both my healthy eating and my exercise.

Hi there,
Welcome! From what you posted I think you are not losing much because you are eating your calories back if you eat out. You will have to make some changes in your lifestyle and start taking care of your nutrition at home. I am sorry to say that - I know how convenient it is to go out and order something but even if you try to eat healthy while eating out, it will never never be as healthy as when prepared at home.
This is my advice for all people who don't like to cook - crockpot! If you get a big one (5.5 quart) you can make a ton of food at once, with absolute control over how many carbs, how much fat and much protein you are eating. You can divide into portions and freeze so that you don't eat the same stuff all week.

Welcome, David!

You are already getting great advice so I don't have much to add. Post often and hang around here and you'll start absorbing lots of great advice on weight loss and exercise. I know I have!

Good luck and way to stick with it!


I think that's an awesome idea for the guys!