Little Help?

[TheBandit]

My older brother brother who is really overweight, hes 6'2 and 250...I wouldn't be surprised if he was 30% bf. He's very lazy, and despises working out. He decided he wants to drop the weight since he's tired of his little brother(me) being jacked and stronger then him. He asked my what he should do, I suggested a CKD, but he looked around on the net and wants to do an Atkins Diet. Now that's one thing I must say I don't know much about. I'm assuming it has to do with carb cutting. He told me that you don't need to workout at all while doing it. And also insists that he can loose 20-30 pounds of fat in 3 weeks...my reaction? "No fucking way". He doesn't have much determination and I know that if he doesn't see his 20-40 pound weightloss that he needs in a month or so, he'll quit. What do you guys think I can say straight out to him, without being mean or pissing him off??

Thanks all
~~Bandit

 

[dEgeNeRaTe8211]

if your bro is too lazy to workout, i doubt he'll be able to withstand more than 3 days on an atkins...i can only imagine how many carbs he is used to eating.
i say that you should come across him hard. give him a big ass hard time and make fun of him so much that he cant stand it anymore and he has to prove something to you...so he'll have motivation.
but he's gonna hafta workout sooner or later. but his workouts dont hafta be super intense or anything. just have him go for a walk. or take away his car so he hasta ride his bike everywhere. and if he wants muscle, he's gotta lift. so tell him that sometime he is gonna hafta get up off his lazy ass.

 

[Mr.X]

My older brother brother who is really overweight, hes 6'2 and 250...I wouldn't be surprised if he was 30% bf. He's very lazy, and despises working out. He decided he wants to drop the weight since he's tired of his little brother(me) being jacked and stronger then him. He asked my what he should do, I suggested a CKD, but he looked around on the net and wants to do an Atkins Diet. Now that's one thing I must say I don't know much about. I'm assuming it has to do with carb cutting. He told me that you don't need to workout at all while doing it. And also insists that he can loose 20-30 pounds of fat in 3 weeks...my reaction? "No fucking way". He doesn't have much determination and I know that if he doesn't see his 20-40 pound weightloss that he needs in a month or so, he'll quit. What do you guys think I can say straight out to him, without being mean or pissing him off??

Thanks all
~~Bandit

Well, one thing I can say for sure: he will NOT lose 20-30 lbs. in 3 weeks unless he cuts his leg off. He needs to look at this with simple reason, for expectations that are too high will probably drive him to failure.

If he is as you say 30%bf, then I would recommend he would first try cleaning up his current diet and seeing the results that can accomplish before the jumps into CKD (Atkins). Anecdotally, for obese people, even a simple clean up of their current diet can bring about very similar results to Atkins. This of course is not true when you get down to lower %bf....

What should you say to him? CLEAN UP YOUR DIET...and take things one step at a time....

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Mr.X
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[diamonddiceclay]

atkins requires no working out-he will lose alot of fat quickly, and he'll be in business if he can stick to the high fat atkins requires you to eat

 

[TheBandit]

atkins requires no working out-he will lose alot of fat quickly, and he'll be in business if he can stick to the high fat atkins requires you to eat

Yeah the only problem is he thinks that high fat food would be cookies, cake, candy ro whatever. He got all excited when I told you're supposed to eat high fat. Then of course I had to explain to him high FAT not high saturated fat and/or high sugar LOL

 

[diamonddiceclay]

bacon,steak,eggs are the staples of atkins-I like those 3 things