Hi Willian ~Blake,
As long as you don't have any preexisting health conditions weightloss follows a pretty straightforward principle of caloric balance. Your body needs a certain amount of energy to function, any food that you eat is taken in as energy. If the amount of energy you ingest is greater than the amount of energy your body uses in its daily activities, this extra energy will be stored as fat. In the same way if the energy you ingest is less than what you body needs to function then your stored fat will be used as supplemental energy.

The way to have consistent and healthy weightloss consists on maintaining a calorie deficit. A good way to do this is by using a calculator to find out what your body's caloric needs are and keeping a log to ensure that you can be on a deficit in a healthy way. I personally use MyFitnessPal to keep track of my weightloss and nutrition goals, it can give you a pretty accurate estimate of what your caloric intake should be at each stage of your journey (whenever the app asks I would put my activity level as sedentary and just log any exercise independently as to not overshoot the calories used).

In order to accurate log your food intake you will need a scale to weight yourself with relatively often as well as a food scale to ensure that you are accurately measuring the portions you are eating. You will be surprised by the amount of foods and snacks that use unrealistic portion sizes to trick people into thinking they are healthy.

Another thing that will help you with your weightloss journey is to have filling and nutritious foods. Grilled meats and poultry are great as they take longer to digest and the protein helps maintain muscle mass. Vegetables are also great since you can eat very big amounts of food while keeping a low amount of calories.

Please make sure that you keep a log of any sauces or butters used whenever you are eating a meal. You will be surprised by how caloricly dense sauces and dressings such as BBQ sauce and ranch are, they can put your weightloss in jeopardy if you don't keep an accurate tracking of them.

This can be a very tedious process but I promise it gets easier over time, just remember that it doesn't matter how many times you fail as long as you get back in track and do your best to stay in it.

Hi Willian Blake,
As long as you don't have any preexisting health conditions weightloss follows a pretty straightforward principle of caloric balance. Your body needs a certain amount of energy to function, any food that you eat is taken in as energy. If the amount of energy you ingest is greater than the amount of energy your body uses in its daily activities, this extra energy will be stored as fat. In the same way if the energy you ingest is less than what you body needs to function then your stored fat will be used as supplemental energy.

The way to have consistent and healthy weightloss consists on maintaining a calorie deficit. A good way to do this is by using a calculator to find out what your body's caloric needs are and keeping a log to ensure that you can be on a deficit in a healthy way. I personally use MyFitnessPal to keep track of my weightloss and nutrition goals, it can give you a pretty accurate estimate of what your caloric intake should be at each stage of your journey (whenever the app asks I would put my activity level as sedentary and just log any exercise independently as to not overshoot the calories used).

In order to accurate log your food intake you will need a scale to weight yourself with relatively often as well as a food scale to ensure that you are accurately measuring the portions you are eating. You will be surprised by the amount of foods and snacks that use unrealistic portion sizes to trick people into thinking they are healthy.

Another thing that will help you with your weightloss journey is to have filling and nutritious foods. Grilled meats and poultry are great as they take longer to digest and the protein helps maintain muscle mass. Vegetables are also great since you can eat very big amounts of food while keeping a low amount of calories.

Please make sure that you keep a log of any sauces or butters used whenever you are eating a meal. You will be surprised by how caloricly dense sauces and dressings such as BBQ sauce and ranch are, they can put your weightloss in jeopardy if you don't keep an accurate tracking of them.

This can be a very tedious process but I promise it gets easier over time, just remember that it doesn't matter how many times you fail as long as you get back in track and do your best to stay in it.

Hi Willian Blake,
As long as you don't have any preexisting health conditions weightloss follows a pretty straightforward principle of caloric balance. Your body needs a certain amount of energy to function, any food that you eat is taken in as energy. If the amount of energy you ingest is greater than the amount of energy your body uses in its daily activities, this extra energy will be stored as fat. In the same way if the energy you ingest is less than what you body needs to function then your stored fat will be used as supplemental energy.

The way to have consistent and healthy weightloss consists on maintaining a calorie deficit. A good way to do this is by using a calculator to find out what your body's caloric needs are and keeping a log to ensure that you can be on a deficit in a healthy way. I personally use MyFitnessPal to keep track of my weightloss and nutrition goals, it can give you a pretty accurate estimate of what your caloric intake should be at each stage of your journey (whenever the app asks I would put my activity level as sedentary and just log any exercise independently as to not overshoot the calories used).

In order to accurate log your food intake you will need a scale to weight yourself with relatively often as well as a food scale to ensure that you are accurately measuring the portions you are eating. You will be surprised by the amount of foods and snacks that use unrealistic portion sizes to trick people into thinking they are healthy.

Another thing that will help you with your weightloss journey is to have filling and nutritious foods. Grilled meats and poultry are great as they take longer to digest and the protein helps maintain muscle mass. Vegetables are also great since you can eat very big amounts of food while keeping a low amount of calories.

Please make sure that you keep a log of any sauces or butters used whenever you are eating a meal. You will be surprised by how caloricly dense sauces and dressings such as BBQ sauce and ranch are, they can put your weightloss in jeopardy if you don't keep an accurate tracking of them.

This can be a very tedious process but I promise it gets easier over time, just remember that it doesn't matter how many times you fail as long as you get back in track and do your best to stay in it.

Hi Willian ~Blake,
As long as you don't have any preexisting health conditions weightloss follows a pretty straightforward principle of caloric balance. Your body needs a certain amount of energy to function, any food that you eat is taken in as energy. If the amount of energy you ingest is greater than the amount of energy your body uses in its daily activities, this extra energy will be stored as fat. In the same way if the energy you ingest is less than what you body needs to function then your stored fat will be used as supplemental energy.

The way to have consistent and healthy weightloss consists on maintaining a calorie deficit. A good way to do this is by using a calculator to find out what your body's caloric needs are and keeping a log to ensure that you can be on a deficit in a healthy way. I personally use MyFitnessPal to keep track of my weightloss and nutrition goals, it can give you a pretty accurate estimate of what your caloric intake should be at each stage of your journey (whenever the app asks I would put my activity level as sedentary and just log any exercise independently as to not overshoot the calories used).

In order to accurate log your food intake you will need a scale to weight yourself with relatively often as well as a food scale to ensure that you are accurately measuring the portions you are eating. You will be surprised by the amount of foods and snacks that use unrealistic portion sizes to trick people into thinking they are healthy.

Another thing that will help you with your weightloss journey is to have filling and nutritious foods. Grilled meats and poultry are great as they take longer to digest and the protein helps maintain muscle mass. Vegetables are also great since you can eat very big amounts of food while keeping a low amount of calories.

Please make sure that you keep a log of any sauces or butters used whenever you are eating a meal. You will be surprised by how caloricly dense sauces and dressings such as BBQ sauce and ranch are, they can put your weightloss in jeopardy if you don't keep an accurate tracking of them.

This can be a very tedious process but I promise it gets easier over time, just remember that it doesn't matter how many times you fail as long as you get back in track and do your best to stay in it.

Hi Willian ~Blake,
As long as you don't have any preexisting health conditions weightloss follows a pretty straightforward principle of caloric balance. Your body needs a certain amount of energy to function, any food that you eat is taken in as energy. If the amount of energy you ingest is greater than the amount of energy your body uses in its daily activities, this extra energy will be stored as fat. In the same way if the energy you ingest is less than what you body needs to function then your stored fat will be used as supplemental energy.

The way to have consistent and healthy weightloss consists on maintaining a calorie deficit. A good way to do this is by using a calculator to find out what your body's caloric needs are and keeping a log to ensure that you can be on a deficit in a healthy way. I personally use MyFitnessPal to keep track of my weightloss and nutrition goals, it can give you a pretty accurate estimate of what your caloric intake should be at each stage of your journey (whenever the app asks I would put my activity level as sedentary and just log any exercise independently as to not overshoot the calories used).

In order to accurate log your food intake you will need a scale to weight yourself with relatively often as well as a food scale to ensure that you are accurately measuring the portions you are eating. You will be surprised by the amount of foods and snacks that use unrealistic portion sizes to trick people into thinking they are healthy.

Another thing that will help you with your weightloss journey is to have filling and nutritious foods. Grilled meats and poultry are great as they take longer to digest and the protein helps maintain muscle mass. Vegetables are also great since you can eat very big amounts of food while keeping a low amount of calories.

Please make sure that you keep a log of any sauces or butters used whenever you are eating a meal. You will be surprised by how caloricly dense sauces and dressings such as BBQ sauce and ranch are, they can put your weightloss in jeopardy if you don't keep an accurate tracking of them.

This can be a very tedious process but I promise it gets easier over time, just remember that it doesn't matter how many times you fail as long as you get back in track and do your best to stay in it.

Hi Willian ~Blake,
As long as you don't have any preexisting health conditions weightloss follows a pretty straightforward principle of caloric balance. Your body needs a certain amount of energy to function, any food that you eat is taken in as energy. If the amount of energy you ingest is greater than the amount of energy your body uses in its daily activities, this extra energy will be stored as fat. In the same way if the energy you ingest is less than what you body needs to function then your stored fat will be used as supplemental energy.

The way to have consistent and healthy weightloss consists on maintaining a calorie deficit. A good way to do this is by using a calculator to find out what your body's caloric needs are and keeping a log to ensure that you can be on a deficit in a healthy way. I personally use MyFitnessPal to keep track of my weightloss and nutrition goals, it can give you a pretty accurate estimate of what your caloric intake should be at each stage of your journey (whenever the app asks I would put my activity level as sedentary and just log any exercise independently as to not overshoot the calories used).

In order to accurate log your food intake you will need a scale to weight yourself with relatively often as well as a food scale to ensure that you are accurately measuring the portions you are eating. You will be surprised by the amount of foods and snacks that use unrealistic portion sizes to trick people into thinking they are healthy.

Another thing that will help you with your weightloss journey is to have filling and nutritious foods. Grilled meats and poultry are great as they take longer to digest and the protein helps maintain muscle mass. Vegetables are also great since you can eat very big amounts of food while keeping a low amount of calories.

Please make sure that you keep a log of any sauces or butters used whenever you are eating a meal. You will be surprised by how caloricly dense sauces and dressings such as BBQ sauce and ranch are, they can put your weightloss in jeopardy if you don't keep an accurate tracking of them.

This can be a very tedious process but I promise it gets easier over time, just remember that it doesn't matter how many times you fail as long as you get back in track and do your best to stay in it.

Hi Willian ~Blake,
As long as you don't have any preexisting health conditions weightloss follows a pretty straightforward principle of caloric balance. Your body needs a certain amount of energy to function, any food that you eat is taken in as energy. If the amount of energy you ingest is greater than the amount of energy your body uses in its daily activities, this extra energy will be stored as fat. In the same way if the energy you ingest is less than what you body needs to function then your stored fat will be used as supplemental energy.

The way to have consistent and healthy weightloss consists on maintaining a calorie deficit. A good way to do this is by using a calculator to find out what your body's caloric needs are and keeping a log to ensure that you can be on a deficit in a healthy way. I personally use MyFitnessPal to keep track of my weightloss and nutrition goals, it can give you a pretty accurate estimate of what your caloric intake should be at each stage of your journey (whenever the app asks I would put my activity level as sedentary and just log any exercise independently as to not overshoot the calories used).

In order to accurate log your food intake you will need a scale to weight yourself with relatively often as well as a food scale to ensure that you are accurately measuring the portions you are eating. You will be surprised by the amount of foods and snacks that use unrealistic portion sizes to trick people into thinking they are healthy.

Another thing that will help you with your weightloss journey is to have filling and nutritious foods. Grilled meats and poultry are great as they take longer to digest and the protein helps maintain muscle mass. Vegetables are also great since you can eat very big amounts of food while keeping a low amount of calories.

Please make sure that you keep a log of any sauces or butters used whenever you are eating a meal. You will be surprised by how caloricly dense sauces and dressings such as BBQ sauce and ranch are, they can put your weightloss in jeopardy if you don't keep an accurate tracking of them.

This can be a very tedious process but I promise it gets easier over time, just remember that it doesn't matter how many times you fail as long as you get back in track and do your best to stay in it.

Hi Willian ~Blake,
As long as you don't have any preexisting health conditions weightloss follows a pretty straightforward principle of caloric balance. Your body needs a certain amount of energy to function, any food that you eat is taken in as energy. If the amount of energy you ingest is greater than the amount of energy your body uses in its daily activities, this extra energy will be stored as fat. In the same way if the energy you ingest is less than what you body needs to function then your stored fat will be used as supplemental energy.

The way to have consistent and healthy weightloss consists on maintaining a calorie deficit. A good way to do this is by using a calculator to find out what your body's caloric needs are and keeping a log to ensure that you can be on a deficit in a healthy way. I personally use MyFitnessPal to keep track of my weightloss and nutrition goals, it can give you a pretty accurate estimate of what your caloric intake should be at each stage of your journey (whenever the app asks I would put my activity level as sedentary and just log any exercise independently as to not overshoot the calories used).

In order to accurate log your food intake you will need a scale to weight yourself with relatively often as well as a food scale to ensure that you are accurately measuring the portions you are eating. You will be surprised by the amount of foods and snacks that use unrealistic portion sizes to trick people into thinking they are healthy.

Another thing that will help you with your weightloss journey is to have filling and nutritious foods. Grilled meats and poultry are great as they take longer to digest and the protein helps maintain muscle mass. Vegetables are also great since you can eat very big amounts of food while keeping a low amount of calories.

Please make sure that you keep a log of any sauces or butters used whenever you are eating a meal. You will be surprised by how caloricly dense sauces and dressings such as BBQ sauce and ranch are, they can put your weightloss in jeopardy if you don't keep an accurate tracking of them.

This can be a very tedious process but I promise it gets easier over time, just remember that it doesn't matter how many times you fail as long as you get back in track and do your best to stay in it.

Hello! I've been struggling with weight my whole life and would love to improve my overall health.

I'm 6ft and over 400lb, so typical workout routines are either too hard or not feasible.

Any suggestions on where to start would be helpful, for some background here are the things I'm currently doing to support a healthier life:

1. Stopped soda in 2024 January (going strong!)
2. Increased fruits/veggies intake
3. Reduced intake of candy / sweets (this is HARD)
4. Increased water intake (about 120 oz a day usually)
5. Spoke with my doctor about bariatrics and wegovy - my previous insurance didn't cover either! (not sure about new insurance!?)
6. Reduced alcohol consumption - used to be 3-4 beers a night (around 2017-2020) now I only drink if we're out to eat or for special occasions.

One of the things I know I need to improve is my sleep, but I'm so BUSY! We have 6 kids in my house, I'm working full time, and working on a bachelors degree.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks!
~Blake