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jaredspurr:
so ive been battling my addiction to caffeine for a while now and overall my weight, i don't need to lose any crazy amount but a solid 20 pounds would be nice, how have you found a way to quit drinking soda/energy drinks? what some decent exercises i could do at home zero time for a gym, i dont have any weights other then my wifes 5 pounders lol
m249:
For the weight, a solid diet would do the trick. The key to losing weight is burning more calories than your body takes in. Crash diets work but they're only temporary weight loss. It's been a while since I've gone on a diet so I can't give you any solid plans but look into stuff like what I said. As for the caffeine, try finding something else to drink such as gatorade, sports drinks, even water. You can get the low calorie sports drinks as well which would go hand in hand with your diet plan. It all just comes down to you and how much effort you put in though. Good luck bud.
Rsn_Orange:
Being a fitness freak through the Air Force and before hand. You can use battling your Caffeine addiction to help your weight loss! That's some good news :D You need to slowly weed yourself off the caffeine. Here are some steps you may take (message me on discord or in-game with questions)
1) Find out how much caffeine you take in on a daily bases (average is fine). Good thing about caffeine you can trick your body by replacing it with other energy providers.
2) Now the fun part...not really. You must take in 20% less Caffeine a week. Weekly will work fine.
3) Since you are coming off Caffeine you will need to do Cardio workouts with high carb diets, so you'll have long lasting energy from carbs so you can walk, run, ride a bike, etc longer to burn even more calories. You wont gain much muscle, if any but you will lose weight really fast.
Your diet will need to consist NO soda, fried foods, or candy. Sorry, diets suck but they work. Your workouts will consist of bike riding, running, and you can even do weights if you so choose. Weight lifting will be LOW weights but HIGH reps. so like curling 15-20 pound dumbbells but you'll do like 20 reps with each arm about 3-5 times. You can find many many cardio workouts and follow them or make your own like i love to do. :>
Mojo:
Not really a health or fitness freak but recently I've switched to zero calorie drinks that still have caffeine. Might help a bit with losing weight combined with the better advice posted above.
jaredspurr:
i take in atleast 600 mg of caffenine, if not higher, espically on weekends where im not doing much but drinking soda