I find the following more balanced:

65% carbs, 15% protein, 20% fats

Of which 50% of the fats come from your meals throughout the day,
and the remaining 50% come from fish oils and unheated olive oil.

Can adjust the protein level higher by 5% and carbs lower by 5%, depending on your activity intensity. Fats should remain constant.

How much weight can you lose? Don't need to quantify at all. Just get into a consistent process of working out and maintaining a good diet, and you'll be allright.

This post has been edited by entryman: Feb 6 2011, 12:44 AM

What body analysis did you pay to do....?

BMI, BMR, Body Fat%, visceral fat ?

This post has been edited by entryman: Aug 15 2011, 12:30 AM

Yes that would be correct

But take note that you need to exercise too, some cardio, and some weights.

Do you really need to buy a luxury item to help you motivate yourself? It depends

Even if you knew your body better, you still need to take the step of eating right (of which the info is already widely available anywhere on the web), and being consistent (it's a mental thing).

But I do admit Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis is a pretty cool thing to have in your body scale.

This post has been edited by entryman: Aug 17 2011, 11:25 PM

How about jogging before having breakfast then. No carbs to burn.

Kyogezsho, then what's your take on fasted training?

It could be possible that you gained muscle too, while losing fats, thus the stagnancy in weight.

That's mostly just loss of water content. Drink a few cups of water and the weight will increase.

Weight is the least important in any weight loss program, what's more important is body fat %.

There's no best exercise for spot reduction. It's a holistic process.

This post has been edited by entryman: Sep 4 2011, 05:15 PM

Is there any other way to lose weight other than cardio and weightlifting?

There's no best way to get rid of excess fats in any part of the body. The best way is to consistently lose fats over a period of time.

Oh yeah, that.

Make sure you're eating healthily (google healthy diet) and drinking enough water (minimum 2 litres per day).

Whey protein is expensive, keep it to your before and after workout shakes.

And try not to have a fruit salad at night, as it's high in calories, instead incorporate more veggies.
Fruits best taken earlier in the day.

Try not to have meals after 9pm, I don't see the point as you're not going to be active after that. Get ready to sleep man.

Can also review a post I made sometime earlier and probably it'll give you a better understanding.

Start from your diet. Google for weight loss healthy balanced diet.

For the meat only: nil.
For the oil used: nil.
For other seasoning, depends, e.g. breadcrumb, or flour, soy (lecithin in grill sauces), sugar etc contain carbs.

That's why you gotta add in some carbs e.g. brown rice (packed with tonnes more nutrients than white rice and more fibre thus more filling) or potato to balance up the carbs. Combine with boiled broccoli and carrots to give you vitamins and extra fibre which fills you up faster.

This post has been edited by entryman: Sep 11 2011, 04:18 PM

To lose fats, basically two things, cardio and nutrient packed diet with reduced calories. Both go hand in hand.

A good balanced meal with adequate carbs and protein about 2 hours before workout should be good enough to fuel you. For post workout, you can mix whey protein with some simple carbs.

As for losing fats and gaining mass at the same time, I'll leave it to the other pros here.

This post has been edited by entryman: Sep 15 2011, 04:52 AM

1 Pound of body fats roughly equals to 3500 calories. (1kg = +/- 7000 calories)

Let's say you are 160cm and weigh 70kg.

Your ideal weight should be at 56kg.
So you want to lose 14kg to reach your ideal weight.

That means you need to lose a total of 7000 calories X 14kg = 98,000 calories

Healthy weight loss plan is losing 500g-1kg per week.
So let's take the easier one, which would be 500g per week.
14kg / 0.5kg = 28 weeks (6 and half months) to lose that.

98,000 calories / 28 weeks = 3500 calories per week.
So you need a calorie deficit of 500 calories per day.

Fill in the details into this site here and post the details here so that I can comment more.

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/health/cron1.html

For the level of activity, remember to choose sedentary.

You will fail.

Never go below 1200 calories. Even that is already extreme.

About 1700 calories on food intake would be okay even if you don't exercise much. If you do exercise, it's gonna be a bonus as fat loss will be expedited.

Make sure the diet consists of vegetables, fruits, grains, lean meat, and dairy products. refer to mypyramid.gov

Weight loss should be a gradual process, about 500g to 1kg per week, and not overnight.

You don't need any fat burner at the moment, just consistent diet and exercise.

This post has been edited by entryman: Sep 22 2011, 08:38 AM

1200 is quite extreme I would say, even for females.

You should be taking 1800 first, that is a little bit less than a normal healthy person's diet at 68kg bodyweight.

You will see weight loss without much exercise. Want it to be faster? Exercise.

This post has been edited by entryman: Sep 22 2011, 12:19 PM

That's good. You might want to compare with nutritiondata.self.com just to double confirm that the figures are accurate.

That amount of calories is pretty good! Make sure it is a healthy balanced diet, as can be seen in the proportions depicted here http://www.choosemyplate.gov/

Anyone considered the slow-carb diet by Timothy Ferriss?

Sounds promising.

No crash diet involved, just a clever selection of food.