hey guys, just looking to lose weight...i am a male, 6 feet tall, and weigh 250. i am looking to lose atleast 30 lbs. i am active, i play baseball, i go to the gym, but its the food that kills me...i came here to try and see if i can make myself i diet that will work and i was also looking for good weight loss pills...well thats it...thanks

I'd ditch the idea of pills. Focus on getting basic nutrition under wraps.

How old are you?

im 19...i dont eat healthy thats my problem...and i am a very picky eater

as far as pills...i was looking at these things called leptorexin but im still debating and trying to get input

Like I said, ditch the pill mentality. It's pointless, especially until you have a handle on your nutrition.

Consider pills in weight loss as concentrated capsules of evil. Lol. Unless given by a doctor. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE TO A HEALTHY DIET AND LIFESTYLE. There are no miracle pills. Most of them do more harm than good in the long run. They make us lazy. It would be great if there was a pill that made us lose weight and keep a healthy lifestyle, but there isn't.

Trust me, stay away from pills. I made the mistake of trying various ones in the past, and all they did was throw me off course and ruin my weight loss plans. Don't even use them alongside a healthy diet and exercise regime, unless they are completely legit, completely safe, bought in a professional environment (not on the internet) and you know they will be used only to help you along the way, not to replace the hard work that is NECESSARY to start losing weight.

And just to add, you need to start experimenting with food. Being picky with food will make things very difficult in the long run. Start to eat healthy, and eat more types of good, healthy food.

I have watched my mother struggle with obesity my entire life. She has done every diet and plan practically imagineable. Her doctor's have over the last 2 years (3 years ago she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes) put her on several different prescribed medications to help curb eating, shut off brain functions relating to hunger, etc. to absolutely no avail.

The only time my mother has ever successfully lost weight and earned a healthier lifestyle was when she completely, and i mean completely, revamped her diet and excersized consistently.

I am in the same boat pretty much. 5'11 was 234.8 pounds at the end of April '09. I took a good look at it, and yeah, it was my lifestyle and my diet.

You can already acknowledge that your diet sucks which is the first step I made. From there its a matter of changing the foods you eat, which I find is stupid hard to be honest. All the good things for you (aside from raw fruit and veggies) are a pain in the ass to prepare in my opinion. (ordering pizza = 20minute wait, making a healthy pizza = a hella long time).

Making sure you are expending more calories than you are intaking was huge for me. Finding out just how many calories are in some of the things you consume might be enough. For me it was finding out that an Extra Large English Toffee Cappuccino from Tim Hortons boasted something retarded like 400+ calories. And I would drink 3 of em a day. So instead of going before work, on my coffee break and again after work I instead take a bottle of water. ON top of the -1200 calories I save $6.57 a day not including the gas for getting there.

What I have been doing is going through what foods I like and what foods I eat out of convenience. I make sure on days Im eating something I want to eat (taco's as an example) that I consume lighter calorie meals before hand so I dont consume more calories than I burn throughout the day. Essentially I have completely removed foods of convenience from my life (drive through or take out, packaged crap like chips, fatty snack bars, etc.) and replaced them with thigns that are more benificial like veggie plates with 1tbsp of dressing. What works for me to actually CONSUME the veggies (instead of lettin them sit in my fridge like i used to) is to prepare them when you get them home. Ill buy a head of cauliflower, broccoli, some radishes, etc. and get em home, dice em all and wash them up then put them in containers with water so they become "convenient" to eat. This works really well for me because they are so available and for me when I started not eating so much of the heavier foods (baked spaghetti, taco's, lasagna, pizza, etc.) I was hungrier more often. A light quick fix is better than a heavy fix.

Hope something in this mess helps! Good luck!

Psssh, even diet pills from doctors are crap. My mom used to take diet pills - she got them from her doctor. And it didn't work.