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Anonymous
Hey /fit/. I'm ready to turn my life around. My girlfriend just dumped me and I have nothing left to improve on but myself.

I am 18 years old. My height is 6'2" and my weight is 180 pounds. My arms are skinny but my legs, chest, and stomach have a layer of fat.

What can /fit/ suggest? I'm already planning on eating 1800 calories/day.

Picture is not be but what my upper body looks like.
>> Anonymous
how about you start working out ?
>> Anonymous
There's a gym about a mile from my house. Should I go check it out?

I'm really socially awkward though. I wouldn't know what to say.
>> Anonymous
EAT LESS, EXERCISE MORE
>> Anonymous
>>453682
How about 'I wanna join the gym'?
>> Anonymous
Okay, I checked the place out via a website from a friend. They have a bunch of machines in their fitness room as well as just free weights upstairs.

Where should I start?
>> Anonymous
-No soda/pop/juice/tea/coffee/ANY liquid besides milk(skim) or water
-No "white" grains (white bread, pasta, etc)...only eat WHOLE grains (NO, not MULTI grain, but WHOLE grain)
-No sugar. ever.
-No fatty meat - lean meat only (skinless chicken breast, tuna, etc... beef is okay too if you cut out ALL the fat before and after cooking)
-No potatoes
-Limit fruit/berries, increase GREEN vegetables
-ALWAYS fucking eat breakfast, preferably OATZ, no...not instan oatmeal, REAL oatmeal, the kind without any sugar, as most instant oatmeal is 30-50% sugar(not exagerating, sadly)
-Limit saturated fat and ELIMINATE ALL trans fats, try making most of your fats being unsaturated/polyunsaturated
-EAT SOME FUCKING PROTEIN

After you lose the weight you'll realize you'll need some muscles, so you might as well start lifting now - muscle helps burn fat, somewhere around 20-65calories per pound I think, not sure, but regardless, it burns calories.

High weight - low reps, do it so you CAN PHYSICALLY ONLY DO 3-10 REPS, THIS DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN STOP AFTER THAT MANY, BUT KEEP INCREASING THE WEIGHTS UNTIL YOU CAN ONLY DO THAT MANY

tl:dr: OATZ AND SQUATZ
>> Anonymous
Anything else I should be aware of?
>> Anonymous
I lol @ you, OP.
>>I am 18 years old
>>ready to turn my life around
>>girlfriend just dumped me
Your "life" up to at least 18 is shit (or as I like to call it "batting practice"). I'm 26 and trust me when I say you have the whole wide world ahead of you.

Have fun with working out and running. Keep your diet in check and you'll get where you're going in no time.
>> Anonymous
>>-Limit fruit/berries

wat?
>> Anonymous
>>453848

Too much sugar, not enough protein.

I said LIMIT, not REMOVE.
>> Anonymous
1800 calories is a good marker for steady fat loss.
NOTE - STEADY FAT LOSS.
Keep good company with all important exercise.
Eat clean.
>> Anonymous
>>453725

dont do squats you will get a big butt and they just arnt as good as leg press... you can get so much stronger with leg press
>> Anonymous
Thanks guys. I think I got something in mind now.
>> Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45pZyomwsns
>> gill !jBWQFxMp/A
everyone at the gym is pretty much in the same position at you

bettering themselves

nobody really cares about what goes on at the gym

because some weird shit goes on at the gym

and what happens at the gym

stays at the gym
>> gay
>>454582
>stays at the gym

not if you read /fit/ in which case you must post your RAGE at what you saw because you're a pussy ass piece of shit who couldn't even ask the dude squatting in your curl rack to move.