Post by yogurtron on Jun 27, 2004 5:23:35 GMT -5
I'm a college male, about 225 pounds at 5'9". I've got three months here, and from what I read online, 167 is supposed to be around the maximum healthy weight for my height and build. That's a bit much, especially in this time period, but my goal is to get around 180 (hopefully closer to 170). That also might not be all that healthy (dropping 45-55 pounds in 3 months), but this is a goal, not a specific number that absolutely must be attained by the end of summer.
I was wondering, what advice you can give as far diet and whatnot to help in this. Currently I play DDR almost everyday, burning about 600-700 calories a day (given the weight mentioned above (actually, i think it was 224 then, but that's besides the point)). I play it that much just simply, because I'm a gamer, gotta play my games when I'm back home, away from my girlfriend (we play DDR quite a bit at college too, hee hee).
Nonetheless, I can play 5's, usually 6's, 7's are iffy, and 8's are only once in a while (depending on song and BPM). I also drink quite a bit of water while playing, as I've seen been recomended countless times. I'm asking because I tried myself doing that, and taking rather little thought into diet (first week home from school, and now that I don't have to pay for food, heh, had to splurge a little bit). But yeah, tried that, burned about 5000 or so in the week, and actually gained 1 pound, according to the scale (done around same time of day).
So yeah, want a bit of help here, especially in the diet area. (and yes, I'm doing this to hopefully give some surprise to my girlfriend when we return to college).
Thanks for the help!
I was wondering, what advice you can give as far diet and whatnot to help in this. Currently I play DDR almost everyday, burning about 600-700 calories a day (given the weight mentioned above (actually, i think it was 224 then, but that's besides the point)). I play it that much just simply, because I'm a gamer, gotta play my games when I'm back home, away from my girlfriend (we play DDR quite a bit at college too, hee hee).
Nonetheless, I can play 5's, usually 6's, 7's are iffy, and 8's are only once in a while (depending on song and BPM). I also drink quite a bit of water while playing, as I've seen been recomended countless times. I'm asking because I tried myself doing that, and taking rather little thought into diet (first week home from school, and now that I don't have to pay for food, heh, had to splurge a little bit). But yeah, tried that, burned about 5000 or so in the week, and actually gained 1 pound, according to the scale (done around same time of day).
So yeah, want a bit of help here, especially in the diet area. (and yes, I'm doing this to hopefully give some surprise to my girlfriend when we return to college).
Thanks for the help!
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