No joke, i've been using that site and have lost 4 pounds in two weeks just from not eating shitty food anymore, thanks.
HCP, one thing that has worked real well for me is having something specific to train for. You could sign up for a 5k run, get a friend or two to do it with you and have some friendly competition. If you have a goal to run so far so fast in 12 weeks then you can focus on small steps each day to complete your larger goal. Just think of how you'll kick someone elses butt during the run and that'll keep ya motivated in your training. Also don't take days off, you can do pushups, squats, or core exercises like plank in under 10 minutes, or a stertching day if your low on time. Just do something every day. I had a good routine where I worked out every mourning first thing before taking a shower, then you don't have to worry about getting busy and not having time later in the day.
Awesome. It just occurred to me I haven't once eaten at a fast food place since starting to use it. I've looked up the calories on Fitday and it's just too damned depressing to contemplate.
Figured I'd bump this and see what's up. I got lazy and stopped charting what I ate about a month ago. Haven't lost a goddamned pound since. Time to cowboy up and go back to what's worked. Wife was baking last night and used 10 egg whites. So the yolks were left over. So I ate them today scrambled. Just logged it. Holy shit. The calories weren't too bad (540, but I did eat it over two meals.) But it satisfied 700% of my daily requirement of cholesterol. Hope I make it to the end of this post without a coronary. Anyway, I'll rep any other fatties on this thread who claim to have lost more than a dime since this thread died on Sept 3.
I never saw this thread the first time around, but I've lost a total of 30 pounds this year. Looking to lose 30 more next year.
I started eating better and playing more full court basketball at the gym. I met my new years resolution goal of losing 30 pounds and I'm going to make the same goal next year.
I gave up on the gym because it was taking up too much time. Now I run in my neighborhood everyday. I usually run about 4.5 miles, but once a week I rest with an easier 2 mile route, and another day I'll do 10. Running outside is so much more enjoyable than on a treadmill at the gym. Plus it seems to be a better workout. Anyway, that, along with eliminating all snacks from my diet, has gotten me down to my what I would consider my ideal weight. I'm definitely in the best shape I've ever been.
HCP you had the balls to post your story. Here is mine. As a young man I played several sports was always in shape and was an avid outdoorsman. Over the last ten years I've had some serious health problems been through chemotherapy twice and put on a lot of weight. April 6, 2010 I went to my doctors office and hit the scales at 300 pounds. I'm 5'9". He ran some tests and told me I was prediabetic. I've enough health problems already, the last thing I need on top of it is diabetes. Dialysis, amputation of toes and feet...don't need that shit. Anyway he told me this was a problem I could fix. Since then I have lost 62 pounds by eating right and exercising regularly. My blood sugar is now normal. No doubt in my mind you could do the same thing by excersing every day and eating small meals every couple hours, staying away from excessive carb consumption, and eating as many fresh fruits and vegetables as possible. You can excercise when travel. And you can eat healthy. All these things can be managed if you put your thinking cap on. One of the things I realized when I started looking at my diet was that my default choice about what to eat in restaurants and pretty much at any given moment was about what I would find most pleasing and delicious. Rational thought says that food is fuel for my body and its better to make the healthiest choice each time I decide what I am going to eat. I've made that my number one rule about food. So far its worked. Good luck to you!!!
I am cutting red meat out. Been eating chicken sandwhiches mainly for lunch and it made a difference. Yesterday I did korean BBQ though, kind of killed it all though. so much meat. pulled my achillies a while back haven't been in the gym in 2 months (and its an expensive gym I go to). I'll start getting on a good regime shortly. hard around the holidays with all the parties.
I'm 6' and on January first I weighed 280. I started eating better, I haven't had a sip of any kind of soda all year, and I almost never have anything that has a lot of sugar in it. I've been eating a lot of chicken and turkey burgers, very lean meat with vegetables. I weigh 250 right now, and I want to get down to 200 at some point. Starting in January I plan to lift weights and play basketball on a more consistent basis, and also try to improve my eating even more. I want to get back to the size I was as a sophomore in high school. I haven't grown since then, and I was 200 pounds with not very much fat. People always thought I weighed less than I did and they still do. Even when I weighed 280, people would guess 230 because for some reason my body was still proportioned all the way down, I never had a stomach that stuck out or anything. I gained 60 pounds in about 5 months during my junior year in high school. I had very severe depression and anxiety. I basically just shut down and didn't do anything for a year.
I've been stuck at 215 for like a month now but that's because i haven't been working out for that long, too lazy lol. Still trying to eat better though so i'm glad that i have been able to maintain the weight at least. Will go back to working out after the holidays and will try to get to 190 by the summer hopefully. I weighed around 200 the entire time i was in high school so if i was to weigh less in college it would be really kick ass.
I'm 5'9 180 lbs. I was in the 200-190 range most of high school. Went into college a few years ago at about 190 and quickly shot down to 170 in my first year (no dining hall + no food available whenever i wanted it + increased activity + lots of pickup bball available = easy weight loss). Remained at a pretty steady 170-175 with sporadic pick up basketball as my only activity for about a year and a half. Just weighed myself the other day after my mom told me that I looked fatter over Thanksgiving weekend (how kind of her lol) and she was right, I'm back up to 180 lbs. With an insane end of the quarter schedule and a ton of stress I decided I'd continue to eat/live like shit and let my ankle heal another two weeks until I got off school and then I'd go into full health mode Today was my first day home and I ran a mile tonight around my neighborhood. I sprained my ankle pretty bad playing bball about 6 weeks ago and haven't done ANYTHING on it since (no wonder I added 10 lbs) so I didn't want to push it too hard. It held up pretty well and I really wasn't too bad cardiovascular-wise. My plan is to run sprints 3-4 times a week perhaps with some light runs inbetween. What I've read suggests that sprinting is excellent for overall fitness; weight loss, muscle building, etc. it burns calories long after you do the excersize. Perhaps its because I'm such a bball nut but I find it much, much, MUCH easier to push myself to run sprints in intervals for 12 minutes than to run at a decent pace for 30 mins. Running long distances or periods of time = mental torture to me. If I'm in ok shape I can play basketball for 3 hours but I can't run 20 minutes. Seems like the sprints have more practical application to my one general athletic hobby- playing basketball- than does running long distances.
And manboobs. I have 2 strict vegan friends, both pot-bellied, pale, skinny guys. To be fair, they are not active types.
Want to lose weight fast? Go on the homeless diet. Eat anything you want as long as it comes from a dumpster or soup kitchen.
