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Originally Posted by starkind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Running helped give me energy and stamina but didn't do shit for my weight.

You can't just exercise an expect to lose fat, you have to eat right too. Lots of sugar for instance will actually prevent fat loss. Alcohol is metabolized like sugar, so no alcohol either, at least not until you reach your goals. It's best to eat for muscle retention, remove as much sugar from your diet as possible.(Eat Clean) When you're working out hard you should get 1g of protein per pound of body weight, low sugar like 10g a day max. Fresh veggies, lean protein, chicken, fish, Whey protein shakes. Remove Soy from your diet as well for men, it acts like estrogen an lowers your testosterone. So read ingredients of things you eat and avoid it, 80% of all the food in grocery stores has soy an high fructose corn syrup in it cause its cheap, but that's why obesity is out of control. Some cans of goddamn tuna have soy in them, the broth it's cooked in uses soy.
BMI does tell you jack about your fitness, body fat does. Weight means little, the body composition means everything, fat to muscle to water ratio's, they have special scales that can measure these in seconds. The more muscle on your body the higher your metabolism, so the goal is always to add muscle while losing fat. Extra protein is required for building new muscle as well as repairing an maintaining the muscle you have. If you starve yourself you lose muscle and your metabolism slows, then when you get tired of starving yourself you gorge. Now that you have less muscle from starving yourself you will get fatter than you were because of the slower metabolism due to losing muscle. So eating right can be the hardest part.
1 lb of fat is 3600 calories, water is usually 1st thing you lose from sweating. You cannot lose pounds of fat in a day, you CAN sweat pounds of water daily. Just remember that when you think you've lost lots of weight in a few days, it takes months of clean eating an exercising to attain lasting gains/loses. Maybe a few cheat days.