re: I need to lose weight

One of my issues is I work nightshift. Plant work. I don't eat at work so I get home and eat then I'm sleepy been up all night working. Fall asleep right after I just ate. This happens everyday. It's not good.

Cut out the unhealthy foods and drink water and you'll be shocked how much weight you'll lose.

I don't know what your eye roll was for

are you sarcastically saying that they have the same or are you sarcastically saying that turkey is less

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I don't know what your eye roll was for are you sarcastically saying that they have the same or are you sarcastically saying that turkey is less

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I am saying they have the same and it is dumb to eat ground turkey over ground beef unless you prefer the flavor of ground turkey.(or if you are trying to save money.)

Generally, turkey fat % is lower. There is no point getting the 85% turkey if the beef is also 85%.

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I'm 39 and I'm done with being fat. Since everyone on here is in perfect shape, tell me what foods I should definitely cut out. Fried foods? Sugar?

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1- Remove fast foods from the menu entirely. Saves money and it's fricking terrible for you.

2- Actually count calories using either a pen and paper or an ap like My Fitness Pal. sounds girly, but the truth is most people have no fricking idea just how many calories they eat in a day and then wonder why they can't lose weight even when working out as they get older. It's math...more calories in than are burned equals gaining weight.

3- Learn to be what I call "American Hungry." We're almost NEVER really hungry in this country. We enjoy eating, and those of us in S LA really do. But we eat far too much far too often. You need to learn to have a bit of hunger most of the time between meals. You'll live...you have a meals coming in a couple hours that you don't have to catch, kill and cook.

4- Move around as much as you can. As you drop weight you can ratchet that up...but for starters just do more than you currently are.

I did it this past year...not nearly as hard as people think once you make the decision and put a few measures in place to ensure success. But the biggest thing for me was actually calculating what I was eating so I could always know to stay under a certain daily amount.

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Unless you get the high fat ground turkey, it is lower.

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I normally eat 93% lean ground beef. Which has lower fat 93% lean ground beef or 93% lean ground turkey?

Vinnie Tortorich, Look him up. He suggests a NSNG (no sugar no grains) diet. Its a pretty interesting diet. My wife and i try to eat NSNG most of the time.

Read a bunch and try things, but I'm the same age as you, and I've had a double discectomy with no replacement or fusion for my spine. This summer I made it a point to trim up.
It must be a combination of diet change and exercise to effectively do it in 4 months.
For diet...I literally have two carbohydrate portions a day, once for breakfast, once for lunch. A carb portion is one of the following:
Brown rice
Sweet potatoes
Baked potatoes
Hash browns
Oatmeal, with honey
I remove the rest of sugar from my diet except a half pack with 1 cup of coffee in the morning and ONLY 1 cookie at 2-3 pm. No sodas, lattes, sweet tea, booze, etc.
I eat 6 protein portions per day, two of which are substituted by whey or protein drink.
Proteins are as follows:
Chicken breast
Shrimp
Fish
Egg whites (no more than 1 yolk)
Turkey
Ham (no more than 1/day)
You can eat whatever green vegetables you want and grab a portion of low salt nuts whenever you want. I drink about 200 ounces of water a day and take the following supplements:
BCAAs
Creatine
Glutamine
Fat burner
All immediately following my morning workout
I take all except the fat burner around 5 pm as well

I do 6 short hour long work outs per week (escalating in wt 50% of 3RM to 85% 3RM, 12 reps/10reps/8reps/6reps/12 reps of 50% again)
Day1: push day.
20 minute intervals on bike, minute 100%/minute normal
48 reps bench 12 push ups
48 reps triceps pull downs 12 overhead pull downs
48 reps shoulder press 12 Arnold presses
Day2: pull day.
20 minute intervals on elliptical
48 reps pull downs 12 rows
48 reps curls 12 hammer curls
Day 3: leg day
20 minute intervals on bike/row/elliptical
48 reps 1-legged squats on smith (my back cannot support real weight) 12 squats
48 reps dead lift (super light weight, my max is only 95 lbs due to back injury) 12 good mornings
48 reps calf raises 12 on the leg press
48 reps on the crunch machine 12 reps leg raises.

I just started adding 30 leg raises, 30 crunches and 2 minute planks to make the abs pop, since I lost about 40 lbs of fat, and gained 10 lbs of muscle this summer.
I went from 252 to 222, (I'm 6'5" ish)
I did a total of 500 miles bike/swim/run/elliptical this summer.

I do a cheat day every Saturday and eat whatever I want.
I also will fast a day on occasion...from lunch one day, until breakfast the next sometimes I don't eat...it throws a bit of shock to the body and will burn any carb stores left over in the morning workout.

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I also will fast a day on occasion...from lunch one day, until breakfast the next sometimes I don't eat...it throws a bit of shock to the body and will burn any carb stores left over in the morning workout

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dont do this....

if you trick your body into thinking it is starving, it will go into starvation mode and store your calories as fat not knowing when its next meal will be.

i didnt read the rest of your wall of text