Carb-cycling diet...?

Be REALLY careful with the carb diet. Of course you want to limit BAD carbs, but if you don't do it right you can totally whack your metabolism up. Assuming you want to lose 25 or 30 lbs,I'd limit calories, graze a bit, and not eat after dinner.

Here is what worked for me:
Protein in the morning. 250 calories or less.
Mid morning fruit or protein.
Lunch. 250 calories or less.
Nuts ,salad, veggies. yogurt or cheese snack snack.
Dinner (BEFORE 7 PM) 250 calories or less.
Don't eat for 12 hours minimum until breakfast.
In 90 days you will be about where you want.

Buy an pedometer and try to get as close to 70,000 steps a week as you can or hit the gym.

EDIT-Cheat every week and have something you like to keep yourself from going crazy. For me it's still healthy-Lebanese food.

unless medically necessary, there's really no need for any kind of special diet program. all you need to do is consume less than you burn every day

1) calculate your TDEE LINK /

2) eat 80% of your TDEE (or 500 calories less than your TDEE)

3) log every single thing you eat (myfitnespal is great), making sure to stay under your daily calorie goal

4) lose weight

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Protein in the morning. 250 calories or less. Mid morning fruit or protein. Lunch. 250 calories or less. Nuts ,salad, veggies. yogurt or cheese snack snack. Dinner (BEFORE 7 PM) 250 calories or less. Don't eat for 12 hours minimum until breakfast. In 90 days you will be about where you want.

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this is only 900-1000 calories. This is very unhealthy. He would lose these twenty pounds in 2 weeks

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consume less than you burn every day

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REALLY bad and simplistic advice. Many, many people have weird hormonal issues. I actually did a test with my doctor when I weighed 235 and my wife weighed 94. We ate exactly the same food and portions for three weeks. She weighed 92 at the end. I weighed 239.I ate like a bird for three weeks and I gained 4 lbs.

For me it was about eating CERTAIN foods AND calories-not just calorie restriction. And also WHEN I ate and what my maximum calorie intake was PER MEAL.

You can't tell me there isn't a big HORMONAL and GENETIC component. My kids grew up eating the same thing. Two are skinny, one has a weight issue. It was kind of the luck of the draw, IMHO.

You can't be serious. If you and your 94lb wife ate the same exact food/portions for 3 weeks, you gained weight because you ate too little, and likely put your body in a state of shock/stress.

Since you're the expert here, I shouldn't have to tell you that a 235lb male and 94lb female have different daily nutritional needs.

Timing and meal size is also largely irrelevant, as long as you stay under for the day.

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Figure out your maintenance calories, then subtract about 500 from that. That's a pound a week. Track your food and live a normal life.

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This is pretty much Weight Watchers which works IF you don't lie about your points.

Physicians usually don't know much about nutruiton, exercise, and weight loss.

To be fair, eat less move more works IF you have some baseline knowledge of good and bad food. You'd be surprised how many people just don't. My wife was helping her co worker lose weight and she had been eating nothing but ice berg salads with some sugary dressing and dried fruit and thougjt she was saying super healthy. Not even realizing she was only eating sugar and water and that that's bad.