Originally posted by Red92784:
I cant afford a gym membership at this point in time.

I normally eat a bagle w/ cream cheese for breakfast, usually not much of a lunch (salad), and well, I rarly get a decent dinner. I eat alot of Italian food so I know I'm getting my carbs, I just don't know what to do with them.

I used to weigh 250lbs. Once I saw that on the scale I decided it was time for a change. I stopped eating fatty stuff, iced cream before bead, McDonalds almost every day, snacking every half hour. But I cant seem to get below 235. I get McDonalds like once a week now, I rarly even touch iced cream, and I cut out all the snacking. But I cant seem to get below 235. I was doing crunches, sit ups, and leg ups for like 4 months but I was seeing no results. I could feel my stomach getting tighter and I was able to do more reps but I still had this damn spair tire!





You dont even need to start running, start walking. Its all about calories in vs calories out. I'm not gonna get super specific on what to eat and not to eat but i would say the cream chees on the bagel isn't the best. And while i'm not a nutrition guru I can tell you that even that once a week mcdonalds can be sabotaging you. Typical mcdonalds meal probably has about 1500 calories in it which is about 500-750 calories more than a proper meal you can make yourself. HAve that mcdonalds once a week for a year and thats an extra 10 lbs. Remember the basics, lifting weights builds muscle, cardio burns fat. to be inshape you need to do both. I live in NYC where gym memberships are 90 bucks a month and people say it's expensive. I say that it's only 3 bucks a day. When i lived in the suburbs it was only 25 bucks a month. Stop making excuses, cut back something in your life and find the money for the gym membership. It will pay you back in improved health and the increase in energy will allow you to work harder to make the money to pay for it and will allow you to have energy to enjoy your time off