Sport Proper nutrition for my activity level

[medicryan]

Hi Everyone,

I am brand new to this forum and I have an issue that I want to get some insight on.

Here are a few stats. I am 6'5" tall, 235 lbs, 27 years old, 26 bmi, would like to lose 20 lbs of fat.

Here is my problem...I KNOW I am not eating enough to burn any fat. My job consists of briskly walking about 8-9 miles over about 5 hours a day, 6 days per week. Doing a few BMR calculators I have come to a conclusion that I need to eat over 4000 to maintain my weight. The problem is, I can't even get close to eating 2500 calories a day, mainly because I don't have the budget to buy that much food. Right now this is my diet:

meal 1: Slimfast shake
2 eggs

meal 2: handfull of peanuts
granola bar

meal 3: ham sandwich on wheat with light mayo

meal 4: pb&j sandwich on wheat
string cheese

meal 5: 2 grilled chicken breasts
corn

So, believe you me, with this diet my body is definitely in starvation mode which I know if why I am not losing any weight. My main question is, with my current financial situation, I have actually considered getting weight gainer to fill in the blanks to healthily lose weight. I know this probably sounds crazy, but I don't know what else to do. If anyone can tell me the pros and cons of this idea or anything to help me out with my nutrition to lose weight, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

Ryan

 

[summer123]

Add some rice, potatos, good quality oils to your meals if your certain you want to eat more to lose weight.

But to be honest- and please correct me if you see otherwise, I do not really understand the principal of the starvation mode here- if so then why do anorexic people eat so little and then continue to lose weight to an unhealthy level? though I am not advocating anorexia, just be careful of adding in extra calories in order to lose weight- its harder to lose weight then gain it for most of us!

 

[evan]

I think you're overestimating your activity level.