i need a diet plan menu i am 230 pounds

[Luckykboxer]

It almost shocks me that peopel are telling someone who readily admitted to having a severe weight problem, and a learning disability how to eat.

 

Someone who is grossly overweight like this needs a doctor diagnossis before starting any diet plan.

 

nothing short of a certified nutritionist should work with this person.

 

Thats my advice.

 

If you want to live... If you want to stay alive... go see your doctor now.

 

if you dont care about your health enough to see a doctor then it wont matter what is typed up here it will never help you.

 

Good luck with your weight loss.

 

I truely hope you are successful

[matbla]

i am looking for answers to take to doctors to read over

 

from matt blake

[Luckykboxer]

ok..

 

ask the following questions from your doctor..

 

Ask how your heart rate is, and if you are able to handle intense exercise... like running, or something that gets your heart rate up.

 

ask how your blood pressure is and ho wyou can improve it if it is bad.

 

Ask how your cholesterol level is and how you can improve that.

 

write down what you eat and ask your doctor what is good and what is bad out of that..

 

when i say what you eat, I mean not only what kind of food you eat but how much and how often.

 

tell your doctor how much you are working out now, and how hard of a workout you are doing and ask his advice.

 

ask if y our doctor can give you a reference to an obesity specialist. This is a person who specializes in weight problems, and can give you dietary information and will help you alot.

 

Good luck

[matbla]

please keep it going i need all the help on this subject fro matt blake

[Shorin Ryuu]

I recommend (as I have in another post) picking up a copy of the Okinawa Program. This book has a lot of good information, to include foods to eat, foods not to eat, and just general nutrition informaiton that will help you out if you want to know what to buy in the grocery store or order at a restaurant. For the more hardcore, they have a specific diet/meal plan with many options (you aren't eating the same thing every day), but I don't follow it myself.

[CloudDragon]

Matt, its been almost 2 months, what did you find out from your Dr.? My guess is that you should have started on your diet 2 months ago. Have you made any progress?

[Rich67]

It almost shocks me that peopel are telling someone who readily admitted to having a severe weight problem, and a learning disability how to eat.

 

Someone who is grossly overweight like this needs a doctor diagnossis before starting any diet plan.

 

nothing short of a certified nutritionist should work with this person.

 

Thats my advice.

 

if you dont care about your health enough to see a doctor then it wont matter what is typed up here it will never help you.

 

Good luck with your weight loss.

 

I truely hope you are successful

Holy cow, man. Lighten up! The guy asked for advice. What are you going to do, blow everyone off who has a legit question about nutrition by telling them to go see a doctor? We are all here to try to help, and I would think that most people who come to this board just want some help and support to point them in the right direction. I don't think many of us here are fully qualified to provide medical diagnosis, and I think most people who ask questions on this board are smart enough to know this. The best we can do is give them advice from our own personal knowledge base and hopefully give him the motivation and a direction to start losing weight. Yes, he should see a doctor. But not everyone goes to see a doctor when they want to embark on a moderate weight loss program. Exercise may be a medical factor, in which case that wouldn't be a bad idea. But give everyone a break. If a friend of yours walked up to you and asked about weight loss, I hope you wouldn't just tell him to go to a doctor. Please.

[Luckykboxer]

Please nothing.

Yes, he should see a doctor. But not everyone goes to see a doctor when they want to embark on a moderate weight loss program.

 

I didnt say that everyone should go see the doctor, I said he specifically should.

 

If someone just asked for normal advice then I would have not made this assessment. But when there is an extreme case with extreme circumstances, it requires attention from a professional.

 

I can spout off nutritional information as i am sure many others here can as well, and for most people that is more then fine

 

Now when someone claims they have a learning disability, and there is no idea on how serious or what it entails then it is not a good idea to be tossing out information like that.

 

There is absolutely nothing positive in this situation that we here in this community can give to him other then having him go see his doctor and getting his questions answered directly from someone who knows all about his particular scenario

 

Now if you personally dont understand how dangerous the situation here can possibly be, then there is nothing i can say that will change you mind, and in that case i am wasting my energy even responding.

 

Besides my comments were directed to the original poster especially to get his attention and try to lead him in the direction I consider the most likely to help him, as I am positive everyone else tried to do as well.

[torris]

Ok. The first thing to understand, it's not HOW MUCH you eat as much as WHAT you eat.

 

You need to break your eating menu into 5 smaller meals. Your most important being breakfast (Eat this within an HOUR of waking up.)

 

Eat a small dinner, no later than 8pm (your internal clock begins to switch jobs after this time, so you can't really digest heavy meals after this time).

 

Snack on negative calorie foods all you want. Carrots, Celery, Tomato, etc. They take more calories to eat than what they posess (hence negative calorie).

 

I will return later with some food suggestions. Hopefully this will help.

 

Oh! and stay away from sugar. Absolutely.

[Shorin Ryuu]

Not all sugar is bad. It is the refined and simple sugars that are unhealthy because they hit the blood stream a lot quicker, causing your body to produce insulin in large doses in order to counter your high blood sugar level. The complex ones have things like fiber that slow the absorption of sugar into the blood stream, helping you to avoid a "sugar high" and puts less toll on your insulin (which if it burns out, you get diabetes).