I currently work at big brown freight company as a loader. I spend my
first three hours of my part-time job building walls inside truck
trailers, lifting an average of 35 lbs. It is a physical job, and I?d
like to see if there is a way to estimate how many calories I?m
burning doing this. I am wondering if this is sufficient exercise for
my weight loss plans. I am now down to 200 lbs (from 230) but would
like to loose another 20-30 lbs. One of the main reasons I took such a
physical job is because of the exercise, and during college, it is
perfect. I haven?t done much to loose the first 30 pounds, aside from
work; I cut out fast food pretty much all together and soda too. If
you could also suggest some other ways to loose weight the healthy
way, that how I want to do it. What would be the best foods to aid me?

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Clarification of Question by cetialpha-ga on 05 Feb 2005 03:42 PST

I will typically load a 30 foot trailer with about 1,000-1,300 pieces
of outbound cargo...

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Clarification of Question by cetialpha-ga on 05 Feb 2005 18:18 PST

My diet now is eratic. I would like to establish a diet, this is more
of what the question is about.

To actually be able to answer this correctly I would need to know what
you diet is. Becuse there are so many different diets out there. But
what I can say is that there are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat. At
the link provided you can input your data on how much you do this and
recieve the answer that you are looking for. Might I suggest the Mens
Health web site as it is a great resource for dieting and fitness
training.


http://www.caloriecontrol.org/exercalc.html

http://www.menshealth.com/

Almost all diets work if you stick with them and do regular exercise.
On Mens Health they do have a calorie counter which will tell you for
you height and weight how many calories you can consume daily to lose
1 lb a week. One of the more doctor recomended diets would have to be
the zone diet. For my height and weight I can consume 1860 a day and
lose 1 lb a week. Now if I increase my exercise I could easily lose a
couple of pounds a week. Now that might not seem like much but 8 lb's
a month is a great start, in 4 months that would be a whole 36 lbs.
You can also try some meal replacment shakes for two of your meals a
day and then a sensiable dinner. The only thing is carbs give you
energy and as you have a physical job I would not reccomend a diet
such as the south beach or atkins as they are extremly low carb diets.


http://www.menshealth.com/cda/category/0,2824,s1-4-57-0-0,00.html

Some examples of meal relacment shakes. Although if you were wanting
to go this route then I would find one that shows the how many
calories they have.

http://www.bodybuildingforyou.com/health-nutrition/labrada-lean-body-protein-shake-recipe.htm