Dropping the pounds

[Sugaree]

Well, as some of you may or may not know, I have a severe weight issue. I'm nearing a very dangerous weight and I am going to a gym next week to apply for a membership along with my mom and dad.

However, I want to know how to eat right along with working out to help me drop the weight and get down to being healthy again. I tried the MyPyramid.gov thing, and it's shit. I can't enter in my wieght and height, and when I do, it says I need to consult a physician immediatly.

My current wieght (I might be a bit rusty on this) is 278 pounds. My current height (again, might be rusty on this) is 5 foot 7 inches. Now, I'm just looking for some advice here, and not something professional.

[MysticalBurrito]

Try to eat a fair amount of veggies and fruit avoid junk food get a nice amount of fiber drink lotsa water instead of pop and stuff
also eat stuff with grains in it like oatmeal.
Dont eat to much bread
a little bit here and there is ok but not too much

Try to eat less in meals and have a small snack inbetween meals like fruit or veggies

:)
hope this helps

[MoveAlong]

I know a few people who are huge who have dropped major pounds because they just stopped eating so badly.

Be sure that you do not drink a bunch of soda and eat a lot of snack foods. And by soda, I mean diet soda, too.
Snack foods just don't fill you up like a meal does. Sure, if you NEED a snack, go for it. But eating it because you're bored or hungry for a meal is a bad idea, because eating a meal is a lot better for you than eating snack foods.

Have some kind of healthy snack at LEAST once a day for a start. I like apples, bananas, grapes, and oranges.
Fruit juice is great too. It's tasty and more nutritious than soda.

Drink water if you're thirsty.

Try to incorporate veggies into meals...have a few pieces of broccoli on the side, or green peas, or carrots...dip them in whatever else you're eating in order to mask their not-so-amazing flavors.
You can start with a small serving, and once you start to like them, you can up the amount.

Find a sport. WAIT!
By SPORT, I DON'T mean a team. You don't have to do football, wrestling, basketball, baseball, tennis, volleyball, biking, or swimming.
You could play dodgeball with your friends, or bounce tennis balls off of a racquetball court with friends. Weekly, or every so often. I am SOO bad at sports but I play those games with a few girls so I don't feel as bad :P JK!
Just do something that's fun, and if you can, make teams or something! Exercise SHOULD be fun!

A trainer at a gym is a good idea, but if they have a little card that you have to fill out, or a weird-ass routine for you to do and you start getting unmotivated, STOP the routine. You're not making a commitment, and you shouldn't be put under stress like that. Find another way. And if they're all like "man you shouldn't be quitting, this is good for you, and it's worked for a lot of my people", you go ahead and say "excuse me? well I can choose what I want to do and I choose not to do this so you betta get outta my face." It's happened to me before, so I'm just warning you.

That's all I can come up with. Good luck!

[Oblivion]

I know a few people who are huge who have dropped major pounds because they just stopped eating so badly.

Be sure that you do not drink a bunch of soda and eat a lot of snack foods. And by soda, I mean diet soda, too.
Snack foods just don't fill you up like a meal does. Sure, if you NEED a snack, go for it. But eating it because you're bored or hungry for a meal is a bad idea, because eating a meal is a lot better for you than eating snack foods.

Have some kind of healthy snack at LEAST once a day for a start. I like apples, bananas, grapes, and oranges.
Fruit juice is great too. It's tasty and more nutritious than soda.

Drink water if you're thirsty.

Try to incorporate veggies into meals...have a few pieces of broccoli on the side, or green peas, or carrots...dip them in whatever else you're eating in order to mask their not-so-amazing flavors.
You can start with a small serving, and once you start to like them, you can up the amount.

Find a sport. WAIT!
By SPORT, I DON'T mean a team. You don't have to do football, wrestling, basketball, baseball, tennis, volleyball, biking, or swimming.
You could play dodgeball with your friends, or bounce tennis balls off of a racquetball court with friends. Weekly, or every so often. I am SOO bad at sports but I play those games with a few girls so I don't feel as bad :P JK!
Just do something that's fun, and if you can, make teams or something! Exercise SHOULD be fun!

A trainer at a gym is a good idea, but if they have a little card that you have to fill out, or a weird-ass routine for you to do and you start getting unmotivated, STOP the routine. You're not making a commitment, and you shouldn't be put under stress like that. Find another way. And if they're all like "man you shouldn't be quitting, this is good for you, and it's worked for a lot of my people", you go ahead and say "excuse me? well I can choose what I want to do and I choose not to do this so you betta get outta my face." It's happened to me before, so I'm just warning you.

That's all I can come up with. Good luck!

Excellent post.
I don't have much to add except chips;
Never. Eat. Chips. They are a) very easy to consume b) very greasy c) very salty and d) very fattening. You could easily just sit there and eat a bag of chips. without feeling full at all. But guess what? It's probably worth a whole meal in fat, calories, and salt.
It's almost always purely unhealthy to eat chips, unless you are positive you can consume only the serving size or less. Even then it's pretty unhealthy.

Also, try browsing around www.kidshealth.org
Especially here (http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/fit/no_sports.html).

[Sugaree]

A trainer at a gym is a good idea, but if they have a little card that you have to fill out, or a weird-ass routine for you to do and you start getting unmotivated, STOP the routine. You're not making a commitment, and you shouldn't be put under stress like that. Find another way. And if they're all like "man you shouldn't be quitting, this is good for you, and it's worked for a lot of my people", you go ahead and say "excuse me? well I can choose what I want to do and I choose not to do this so you betta get outta my face." It's happened to me before, so I'm just warning you.

Trust me, I've been there too. I've had a membership at a local gym before, and I got a personal trainer. For the first few months, he was great. I was losing weight and there was some hope for me getting healthy. Then he just vanished for an entire month and his excuse was just.....fucking dumb. We got into a fight with eachother and I almost threw my fists. I took my membership card and snapped it in front of him :P

The whole reason I don't want a personal trainer, is that they are very hyper, such as my last one. He also told me to eat beats and oatmeal in the morning with tuna juice inside the oatmeal. He was telling me to make the wierdest of all meal combinations ever. I also don't want one because of their attitudes. My last one also had a bad rep for calling his clients "fatasses" and "dipshits" for their wieght, which is one of the things that caused my fight with him.

Thanks for the advice Zach. I'm going to start off on this tomorrow and thanks for wishing me luck :)