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@BakusaiTenketsu, you're a good guy. I agree with neonreaper.

I also echo CoolCly's sentiments exactly, with the exception of the 2000 calories per day thing. The amount of calories you should consume per day depend on how many calories your body burns per day (everybody is different; a 5 ft 120 lb female burns less calories in a day than a 6 ft 240 lb male even if they both sit on a couch the entire day doing no physical activity).

But the cool thing about MyFitnessPal, is that after you input your weight, height and activity level, it'll give you a rough estimate of your daily calorie expenditure and tell you how many calories you should eat per day based on your weight loss goals.

The most important thing that MyFitnessPal does for you beyond helping you set a budget of what your food intake per day should be is that it shows you many calories you are consuming through the foods you're already eaten. You might be surprised to find out how many calories a normal meal for you right now actually contains.

BakusaiTenketsu posted...

I was thinking a keto type diet might be a good start, high protein, high fat, low carb, but some things I have been reading suggest it's not a good diet for general weight loss.

Can you direct me to what you've read on this topic? I've never personally done a ketogenic diet before, but all of the resources I've looked at (personal anecdotes, mainly, and some scientific articles when I wrote a paper back in college on the subject) suggest that it is a diet well-suited for weight loss. I was actually reading your post thinking that I would recommend the ketogenic diet to you based on your dietary restrictions from Celiac's disease. Does your body being in "ketosis" actually help you improve weight loss? Honestly, I'm not sure. But the fundamental reason, in my opinion, that this diet exemplifies CICO that CoolCly was talking about. When you're eating high-protein and high-fat foods, you'll actually feel full and satiated while consuming much less calories than if you were eating high-carb foods. Think about it this way: would you feel more full after eating a plate full of steak or bread? Bacon or cookies? Which of those two options do you think contains more calories?

PM me if you're interested in receiving my contact information. I'll send you my cell phone number (actually, there's a chance you already have it from our mafia days) and you can text me at any time if you have any questions or concerns. I'm not an expert on this subject, but I've been through what you're going through and have done a lot of research. I know a lot about the information that is out there, I know what worked for me, and I am happy to help you as much as I can. I'll even start using MyFitnessPal again in order to add you as a friend so that we can both log our meals together and see each other's progress over time in terms of goals met and days logged.

Good luck, Baku. You've made the first step toward your weight loss journey. I'm happy to help you if you're interested. A bunch of us here are. =)

P.S. I heavily recommend you strip down and take a "before" picture of yourself in a mirror. Not to share with anybody, but it'll be really cool for you to be able to see just how far you've come when you compare before and after pictures as you shed off the weight.
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