I am 6 ft 8, and currently weigh 220, I am far from ripped or very physically fit. My max weight being 300 lbs 3-4 years ago, I drank pop every day and ate huge amounts of food because it was available. I have never been big on working out, even though I try to do a few sit ups and push ups on occasion but whenever I get into a regular routine I blow it off and spend nearly the same amount of days sitting around doing nothing as the days I "worked out" if even for a few minutes.
So after cutting out the pop, a lot of the extra chub seemed to melt off and continues to do so to this day with no running or huge amounts of exercise other than using dumbbells and getting in a few reps when I could. A lot of people can barely recognize me anymore.
Stick to Water. Its good for everything in your body, especially your muscles and brain. It will also help regulate your digestive system and metabolism. Stay away from pop, when I say that I don't mean only have 2 a day. Cut out pop completely. I can honestly say on average I probably have about 2 cups of pop per month usually just when mixing drinks, from the 7 or more 32 oz cups that I originally drank per day.
I'm not the best role model but I am still working on myself daily and have come a long ways. What most people don't understand is that drastic changes don't happen in the real world like the people on TV tell you it will. Perhaps if you jog a mile or more per day, on top of an hour workout of the different machines it would be possible to loose a good amount of weight in a short time but that is more of a after you are halfway in shape workout instead of starting from scratch. Plus with me at least, when I do work out fairly hard I get burned out and am sore as shit so if I do that same thing for a couple days I need/like to have at least 1 or more days off before repeating. If you push yourself to hard in the beginning you will only turn yourself off to the idea of continuing.
So when you don't lose the 10 pounds you wanted to in a week after starting, you binge eat or give up completely until next month after trying again only with the same result and in the end only gaining weight. That was my problem growing up, and the same one I fight with daily. The best advice I can think of when it comes to your work out is to do some sort of physical activity everyday. It doesn't matter if it is 5-10 pushups, doesn't even matter if you can't do 1 pushup. Just try to do what you can't then do 5-10 of something you can. Eventually what you couldn't do before will become easier till you can do it 5-10 times per day. Over time these will become sets of 10-25 possibly doing 3+ sets per day of each but just try to do something every day to keep everything tight and working on full throttle. This time Last year I couldn't do 1 pushup, today I can do 15 in one go on a good day. May not seem impressive to a lot of people, but it is huge for someone that the doctors said would never see his penis again. I showed them!
It takes dedication, power over your impulses and urges to eat, and requires you to actually feel hungry for a while and although its not required I would recommend going a day without eating and only drinking fluids (NOT POP, or anything overly sugary). You can survive for like 12 days without food, especially when working off of huge amounts of excess stored body fat, some people have gone much longer, the only thing you need is water, remember that.
My favorite drinks are Water, Powerade/Gatorade, apple juice, sweet tea and Arnold Palmer (sugar I know, but I don't like unsweet tea, and hey still better than pop). Also food to go for is protein, I make a mean steak and if I had more money would eat steak every night. And with your Vegetable hatred, I have always said, anything can taste good if its cooked/seasoned right, but I personally hate cooked carrots with a passion, Ill eat them raw all day however just the mushy hotness of it being cooked... My favorite veggies are mushrooms (sauteed in butter, pepper, salt, and garlic salt, fucking amazing with any type of meat or on a salad), peas (again butter, garlic salt, pepper, salt), and Salad (Ceaser Salad Dressing, shredded cheese, croutons, bacon, Greek olives, fetta cheese).
Being fit isn't about eating your vegetables, although it cant hurt. It's about eating in moderation, eating what is halfway healthy for you (Consult The Food Pyramid, and eat NEXT TO NO SWEETS, everyday real homemade food has plenty of natural sugars to fill that part of your bodies need), and like I said before actually feeling hungry once in awhile. In the beginning if you're not use to it it'll probably hurt, but the saying no pain no gain means more once you start to gain anything that inches you closer to your main goal. Do your best to stay away from fast food joints, and if possible cook your own meals. If you want some sort of "Fast Food", check out subway, They make a mean salad and don't get me started on their BLT, Italian Herbs and Cheese, everything except for cucumbers and green peppers, with vinegar, mayo, buffalo and sriracha sauce. I'd Shank someone for that sandwich, and now I know whats for lunch tomorrow. Although everyone recommends the healthy bread, wheat is just to dry for my taste, add enough vinegar and it's alright, but the subway workers don't like using a whole bottle just for little old me.
Those are my preferences and what has been working for me, although everything can be tweaked to max settings it is a good start for most people since it did so well for me.
However, I know everyone has different taste buds, so tailor everything to you. What one person does may not work for another. Although I would recommend that Subway sandwich to everyone that could ever possibly view this post, if you like cucumbers get them, if you'd rather drink orange juice than apple, do it. Can't do a pushup, work on anything else till you can. much further than I could dream to be? go for a jog every other day or whatever you want to do. This is what I believe to be a decent outline to follow, just remove, then plug and play whatever you see fit to match your needs, tastes, and speed at which the end goal will be reached.
If you must, work yourself into it, just don't take to long or you'll fall back and lose any footing gained.
Hope any of this was helpful. Like I said, I am still working on myself, but this is what I have been doing and it has helped me out a lot.
If I need to be clearer, you want me to go into any more detail on anything I mentioned, or have any questions on cooking or anything else pm or Skype me.
