Getting back into fitness and weightloss (pounds, workouts, calories, losing)

[Capitalprophets]

Please provide recommendations.

Things I have been doing in past couple of days. Walking about 2 mile in 30 minutes of time. Losing about 340 cals. Nothing special has been going on with diet. Ingesting about 2500 cals. My daily cals to maintain weight is about 2000

[Luckyd609]

You need to provide more information like gender and height and current weight. Its not likely you are burning 340 calories with walking for 1/2 hour.

[Capitalprophets]

Originally Posted by Luckyd609

You need to provide more information like gender and height and current weight. Its not likely you are burning 340 calories with walking for 1/2 hour.

That is what my Garmin watch tells me. I'm 6'3 270lbs

[Luckyd609]

Originally Posted by Capitalprophets

That is what my Garmin watch tells me. I'm 6'3 270lbs

That seems reasonable for how big you are. For someone like me 5'4 127 pounds the calorie burn would be much lower. It sounds like you are about right with calories. Do you do any weight resistance workouts? If not I highly recommend you start. If you don't have any weights available good old push ups, planks, pull ups, etc...would be a good additions.

[Capitalprophets]

Originally Posted by Luckyd609

That seems reasonable for how big you are. For someone like me 5'4 127 pounds the calorie burn would be much lower. It sounds like you are about right with calories. Do you do any weight resistance workouts? If not I highly recommend you start. If you don't have any weights available good old push ups, planks, pull ups, etc...would be a good additions.

Weight resistance will make me gain weight. That is what usually happens.

[Luckyd609]

Originally Posted by Capitalprophets

Weight resistance will make me gain weight. That is what usually happens.

It will help you gain muscle, not fat. More muscle means better metabolism. The more muscle you have the more calories you will burn.

[Capitalprophets]

Originally Posted by Luckyd609

It will help you gain muscle, not fat. More muscle means better metabolism. The more muscle you have the more calories you will burn.

In that case I need to invest in some weights and a bench

[Capitalprophets]

So I had an arm surgery and I'm unable to lift more than 70 lbs and I have no weights at home. What are some of the ways I can do strength or resistance training without weights?

[Luckyd609]

You can find lots of great sources on Youtube. I have resistance bands that are great for a lot of different moves. But you can certainly use your body weight like pull ups, push ups, planks, crunches.