some input,
By far the most important thing is going to be how much your eating (kcals).
Its not going to matter all that much if those cals come from chicken breast and broccoli or wings and nachos, the problem is that wings and nachos its alot easier to eat far more and they are more caloricly dence.
Ive recently gone from 255 to about 225 over the last few months without much work at all. I just made a meal plan that I could stick to each day that had enough calories to make me loose the amount of weight I needed, enough protein (I set it at 220g/day which seems to be fine for me), and plenty of nutrients. Everything was set amounts, but nothing that I had to calculate before I ate it. For instance I will have two steaks instead of 400g of steak etc. I hate measuring stuff and I don't think +/- 50 calories here and these will make any difference at all.
At your weight and activity level you are going to notice some big changes with just changing a few things. Cut out that cheat day, maybe drop the all you can eat wings, limit your almond/cashews to just one handful (they add up fast), and don't have a few PB+Js before bed.
Make a plan that you can stick too is the most important thing. 2 months of an easy diet is always going to be better then 2 weeks of something brutal.
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