Hi, I am 18 and I'm a guy.

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I am 18 years old, male, and I have been fat for a very long time, I believe for at least 11 years now. My current weight is 205 lbs and my height is 5'8. I've had times when I say to myself, "It's time I lose weight," and usually start doing something in a routine, such as Dance Dance Revolution daily, etc. But, I always tend to stop in 2 weeks or so. Now, at age 18, I am feeling motivated again to attempt to finally lose weight and live as a healthy and fit person. Currently, I am working out daily at the gym. It's my 8th day now. I do cardio - treadmill, mostly walking fast for 1 hour everyday. Based on the treadmill calories count, I burn about 300 to 420 calories each day. I'm not sure if that's enough. I do strength training for approximately 20 to 30 minutes every other day. My diet consists of mostly rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I am starting to decrease my rice consumption little by little. I really desire to lose weight. Being shirtless is an embarassment, because I have male-breasts, and my belly has flabs of fat, which I really would like for them to go away. I want to be fit and slim down, and lose weight and no longer be 205 lbs. Also, gain height, but losing weight is first priority for now.
I am very grateful for any support and motivation from anyone.
I posted this because I want all the tips and ideas I could get, in order for me to achieve my goal of becoming slim, since I've been fat for so long. I want a change. Thank You, please help me.
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Welcome. :)

My first tip for you is that rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner is not healthy and is not going to help you get rid of that excess weight.

Losing weight is FAR more about diet than exercise. Don't get me wrong; exercise is hugely important for a lot of reasons, but most people simply cannot exercise off enough calories to lose weight w/out adjusting their eating patterns as well.

You are going to have to figure out a healthy diet that includes lean proteins (especially if you're lifting weights at all), veggies and fruits, and complex carbs (whole grains, oats, brown rice, etc.). At your current weight you might try eating about 2000 calories a day and making sure you're getting about 30% of that from lean protein and at least 25% of that from healthy fats.

Read the stickies in the boards and you'll get lots of info on diet and nutrition - and feel free to ask questions as well.
 
Agree wholeheartedly with Kara's post...

Your diet has to change... You need to balance your diet with protein and complex carbs.

I am sure you dont just eat rice, but even if you are having other foods with it you need to cut down the amount of food your eating I am guessing.

You could try weighing or measuring out your foods, or using a portion control system. It worked for me and I was over 500lbs at 29!!! Now I am under the 300 and still dropping.

The exercise and training is a great thing to be doing, however (and I am no personal trainer) there are certain exercises that can concentrate on certain parts of the body. Took me a year to get rid of my moobs, now I have pecs... there is no quick easy fix, controlled calorie intake combined with a structured exercise regime = fitter and hitting targets.

I hope this helps.
 
Do you have a trainer at your Gym? they should be able to give you more details, and help you with which exercises you should be doing.

I cant comment on if your training is good for you as it depends on your ability and what you are actually doing. If you want to talk training programmes, you would need to list all your exercises and reps and resistance etc...

Any exercise is good, as it raises your heart rate and burns extra calories, however for getting that 'toned' look then some exercises are better than others. Whilst cardio is good for you it doesnt give you a toned aperance, for that you have to do resistance and weights, as the toned look is built with lean muscle.
 
smart post above mine. nails it exactly.

in terms of effectiveness, any exercise is better than none. But intensity is what matters in terms of best overall. If you don't feel like you've pushed yourself in some things in your routine, then you probably have not acomplished the most out of your time. Walking fast on a tredmill might be ok for those who have never worked out before for a few weeks, but you'll soon plateau in terms of being able to really count it as effective exercise. I wrote about it earlier, your body has 3 energy systems in itself that it uses. Only using the cardio system is a good way to get slowish plateau results. hit all 3 by doing other types of exercise that hit the more intense systems if you will. things like sprints, intervals, weights that you hit completely and utter failure at in the 5-15 rep range. Work all the systems of the body and you'll be far better off.

doing strength training every other day is fine. But I cringe just about every time I see what people are doing for it. You didn't list yours so I can't comment. If you want an effective strength training routine that you need only do 3 times a week, then follow Starting strength. it's by far the best and will get you the best results, if you're already doing something similar then feel free to continue what you're doing.
 
Thanks a lot everyone.

I'm going to start combining my cardio-workouts by doing both the treadmill and stationary bicycle ( stand-up bicycle ).

Today I barely ate anything, I know it's not good, but I wasn't even hungry..
 
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