Agreed. Since I started my workouts and diet 9 days ago, I was excellent until last night when I went over to some friends house. I had a couple glasses of wine and when dessert was served I took a small slice of cheesecake and a scoop of sorbet. Loved it, and I deserved every bit of that meal. However, I did plan on breaking my diet for that meal, so I worked out extra long in the morning and had only eaten 400 calories prior to the indulgence. But I ate a nice salad, mussels, garlic bread as well as those desserts. Went to the gym at 6:30 this morning to make sure I was back on track.
I hear you. Everyone is different. Continue doing what you are as long as you're seeing results. And trust me, I eat like a disgusting pig during those two hours. It's crazy how sick you feel from eating those indulgence foods once your body is cleansed from eating them.
For me, the best part of last weekend was feeling sick even though I ate half of what I used to eat on a weekend like that. More than 500 calories' worth of food anymore makes me feel stuffed, when it used to take 1,200 calories or more PER MEAL to do that. Maintaining my starting weight (363) took 3,600-4,000 calories a day. I miss pooping sometimes, though. Nice breaks in my day, gone.
My wife still doesn't understand why I spend 30-45 minutes in the bathroom pooping. It's just a nice relaxing place away from everyone else. Like.in that clip from the movie this is 40 where Paul rudd is sitting on the toilet playing candy crush
Do it man. I was 230 all of high school and never realized I was putting on weight. At 25 I hit the scale and saw 270 and was like wtf where is all this weight going? Now I hover between 270 and 290 but never seem to get below 270. It's no ones fault but my own. Some people have drug addictions, or pills or alcohol, my addiction is food. Nothing makes me happier than a bbq and a cooler of Coors light. I've been trying to change dinner to mostly vegetables. I have to have meat and high protein for breakfast or I start shaking by 9 am and feeling sick. So I usually have some eggs and cheese and a meat for breakfast. Lunch is free at work so I get a chicken sandwich. I enjoy cooking dinner to wind down my day but I need to turn it into tossing a salad or something. Started experimenting making thai food, I made some bomb ass bamboo coconut curry chicken, I imagine it's better for me than burritos or pizza.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever taken a moment to calculate how many liquid calories you consume? Switching to drinking only water all day long really isn't all that difficult, and it's an easy way to shave a ton of calories out of ones diet.
Yep. I just buy a bunch of those mio flavored water things. Grocery outlet has them for 99 cents instead of $4 at the grocery store
I've had trouble with shin splints before but stretching a lot and changing the way I run helped (look up pose method). Because I had never been a jogger, my running form was only suited for sprinting short distances, like I did in basketball and football. Or maybe try biking? That's what I'm trying to get in to now even though my bike is a piece of shit. If I decide to stick with it I'll probably buy a new one. You might have tried this already but something that has helped me is only eating during an 8 hour period during the day and "fasting" for the other 16, half of which is spent sleeping anyway. I used to have a big problem with eating right before I went to sleep, I think cutting that out was a big help. And yeah, I actually saw 199 on a scale and it was fucking amazing. My weight hadn't started with a 1 since 8th grade and I honestly never thought it would again. Hopefully I can make it back down there.
Yeah do what you gotta. This is actually the third time I'm doing this, but I feel really good about it. When I got out of high school, I weighed 220. It was mostly leg muscle since I did drum corps-level marching band. My freshman 15 was actually a freshman 85; I ate Coco Puffs until I weighed 300. I walked everywhere during college; I just also ate an entire rack of ribs and a pizza every day. By the end of junior year I weighed 320. I cut out sodas, moved out of the dorms into my own apartment, and was too poor to eat well. I dropped to 250 by the time I was a year out of college. I could touch a basketball rim, since my leg muscles had been working carrying my fat ass around for five years. I met my wife, and we went out, a lot. I still never drank sodas again, but I slowly ballooned up over the course of five years to 375. My wife and I got back on track, and I was able to drop to 325 and maintain that for about six years without really trying hard. But then we got married, and she got pregnant, and I got to eat everything she craved too. I was back up to 370 by the time my son was a year old. We dicked around kind of trying to lose a little weight, but meal planning was impossible because the baby is insanely difficult, like way more difficult than we could imagine. There's literally no preparing for the way it changes your life forever. Then, six months ago, my father-in-law died, and my father went into the hospital, and then my mother-in-law went into the hospital, and suddenly I'm all "fuck EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE SOMEDAY AND I WANT TO LIVE TO PLAY WITH MY GRANDKIDS!" So, now my son is 2 1/2, and I'm like, "I know it'll take me two years to get to where I need to be. I better get on it before he starts remembering that I was a fatass. I want to be able to run around with him when he's REALLY mobile!" So here I am, doing this thing a third time, and dammit I'm going to kick the fucking habit this time.
I have a seriously arthritic knee but not bad enough for a knee replacement yet, and I really want to put that off for as long as possible. My doctor told me that losing weight would help (duh) and suggested the Keto/Atkins diet. As I had excellent success with it when I was in my 20's and 30's, I jumped right on it. Two weeks into it I ended up in the emergency room with kidney failure (despite flooding myself with water) and spent a night in the hospital to boot. Sometimes the things you can do in your 20's and 30's you can't get away with in your 60's. So all you weight watchers out there, please be careful and pay attention to what your body is telling you. And if you keep yoyoing weight wise in your younger days, you increase your chances of becoming a Type 2 diabetic in your dotage. Take it off and keep it off. This from a guy who found out the hard way....
I have maintained my weight loss for 6 months now. Those who said lifestyle change are correct; I never said I was "going on a diet" as that is temporary. People who "go on a diet" to lose weight for a particular event rarely succeed or, if they do, it is by unsustainable means like starvation. People have asked me the "trick" or "secret". If I knew a "trick" that would make it easy I'd be able to retire rich. They are disappointed when I say I eat vegetables by the pound, cut sweets down to one small serving a week and work out for an hour a day including when I absolutely don't feel like it. They want a trick and there is no trick. It means changing the way I eat, for life. There are, however, treats and yes, there need to be. On Thanksgiving I did not count calories but I spent the rest of the week living on salad, fruit and vegetable soup. I have San Francisco Ballet season tickets and on performance days like to try San Francisco restaurants, some of the world's best. Every restaurant meal has to be balanced by two lean (salad/fruit/vegetable soup) days. And get up early to do full workout before hitting BART to cross the bay. Incidentally, a couple of weeks ago I accidentally tipped over the big mirror that sits on my dresser in my bedroom, sending everything crashing to the floor. Miraculously the only thing to break was a hairbrush although the mirror lost a corner. When I moved in I could not lift it onto the dresser as it is very heavy; two movers did it for me. I was now, after a year and a half of lifting weights, able to pick it up by myself and put it back. So workouts have practical benefits aside from weight loss and having biceps.
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Sounds like you're diabetic, diagnosed or not. http://www.livestrong.com/article/463341-ketosis-kidney-failure/ The mistake people make is thinking keto is a diet you do for a while until you lose weight, then you go eat something else (and gain it all back and then some). I've been on it for 2.5 years now and have no intention of stopping. My weight has been stable, within +/- 5 lbs of my target weight for close to a year.
Really, why would you stop? The food options are tasty (if you can afford it) and eventually you lose the cravings for sugar.
My parents both grew up poor. So they had bad habits for eating purposes and are both overweight. I've since inherited those bad habits of eating (but luckily have always had a fast metabolism, but it's gotten much slower in my late 20s) Then I met my wife who grew up in a strict eating family. She's really helped me eat better and probably add years onto my life. I've always been a skinny guy, and I could use more weight because I don't want osteoporosis as I get older. But I just get a little belly fat I like to get rid of which is why I try to eat on the zone diet consistently. I still have cravings of disgusting food like pork rinds, pickled sausage, fried foods, hamburger helper, boxed macaroni and cheese etc that are not good for you.
Exactly. My wife went from WeightWatchers to 100g carbs a day. Not keto, but still a low carb diet. Since then, she gets to eat all the keto food I make and she's dropped weight that seemed to be stubborn to lose doing the WW point counting (low fat, exercise, low calories, etc.) approach. I do the cooking most of the time. I'll go to the grocery store every day. 1lb of ground chicken, a couple of jalapenos, and a bag of pre-made broccoli slaw mix or cole slaw mix and I make us an awesome meal for under $10 (for 2). 1 lb of hamburger, $2 worth of broccoli (or a bag of premade salad) and 3 slices of cheese makes a sub $10 meal as well. Cheeseburgers without the bun It's not really that expensive, but you do have to prepare your own food a lot. I used to do the low fat, count calories diet and lost weight. But gained it back again because weighing everything and calculating the calorie count of a meal became so automatic I thought I could wing it and do it by eye. Gradually my portions got bigger and I put on the pounds again. I also found I was eating a lot of highly processed food. You don't get many low fat foods in nature (like low fat cheese or milk). When you take the fat out of food, you're taking out the flavor. So they have to add back something to give it flavor and that something is almost always sugar (or some form of it). Beyond that, I love nuts but if you're eating low fat they're a food to avoid. A handful of almonds is 200 calories, which is considerable if you're limiting yourself to 1200-1500 calories per day. Watching my wife do WeightWatchers and eating tiny portions of food and little or no beef and so on, it's no wonder people hate to diet and go off the diet that lost them weight. With Keto, I can eat a pound of hamburger for dinner and lose 1/2 lb overnight. Or a huge steak. Or all of a roasted chicken instead of just the breast meat. The best restaurants add a lot of butter (fat) to their recipes because it makes the food taste so good. It's hard to get enough fat on my diet, so butter, butter, and more butter on anything that it tastes good with. As 3rainiac can attest, I can go on and on about how good the food is and how much sense the diet makes. I've cheated only 1 day on my diet and that was 2 months in, our anniversary. We ate a chicago style deep dish pizza. All those carbs just made me feel bloated and killed my energy. I simply don't care to have carbs anymore. Some people just have the idea they can't live without carbs. I don't get it. Why do I want to fill myself with bread, a lump of dough in my belly, when I can have an extra burger patty instead? The burger has all the flavor and is the best part anyway. Gotta have pizza!!! Made this last night: Pepperoni, sausage, green pepper, and 2 kinds of cheese. The dough/crust was a small bit of almond flour and a bunch of mozzarella rolled out thin in a pizza pan and pre-cooked. It looked and tasted like pizza crust. The pizza was yummy. But I had to make it. From fresh ingredients.
