How far off-standard do I need to go?

Kelekona

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I'm 5'8 and 225 currently. I buy 40 / 34 pants in loose-fit. The only two times in my adult life that I've been merely overweight at 190 and wearing 32 /32 ....

The first time I reconstruct as... breakfast was a frozen gogurt or can of ensure, estimated can at 8 oz. I think my only other meal was a can of chef ravioli, a ham sandwich from great steak and potato that was bought many hours before eating, or the two-for-one closing special at a pizza-by-the-slice. I'd walk roughly a mile twice per day, sometimes at more than a brisk walk.

The second time is a bit harder to remember... My job required much walking, I can't remember how many miles seemed reasonable by the end... I don't remember what I would have for breakfast and dinner, but my idea of lunch was to find a bush to hide under for some shade. I think I spent an entire month dizzy from either heat stroke or lack of calories.

Do I really need to spend most of my time on the treadmill and consuming less than 1000 calories to actually become a healthy weight? I have the treadmill, I just need to set up a laptop shelf.
 
1000 calories is much lower calories than most people should consider aiming for.

I would definitely encourage you to use the treadmill every day and eat healthily on a lot more calories than 1000... I think that you would lose weight fine on over 2000 healthy calories. Make them healthy calories though with lots of fruit and veg and lean protein. Have low fat yoghurts and skimmed milk to make sure that you have enough calcium. Cook things in a healthy way - either stir fry using oil spray (I buy fry light and it is 1 calorie per spray), or grill, bake things - but basically have very little fat added and use sauces that are not the creamy kind...

Eat like that instead of things like pizza, sandwiches, ravioli and you can eat tons of food and never feel at all hungry.
 
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