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Just laying off the $200 a week biscuit habit should allow you to win.
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check your calories. tricky stuff...
I am not a nutritionist of any sort, but I play one on the net. Here is my advice, in order of ease of initiating it.
1) Remove the worst thing from your diet. If you eat a lot of chips, stop. If you drink a lot of sugar in your coffee, start drinking it black. Big soda for break time? Quit. Concentrate on quitting the one thing that is adding the most worthless calories to your diet. It is pretty easy to drop several hundred a day like this. You don't have to start out doing everything right, fix things one at a time. If you have worked to quit eating Reeses Pieces, and have made progress because of it, it might make it easier to quit drinking a Mountain Dew with your lunch... etc..
2) Get some exercise. It doesn't have to be crazy, just do some. Get in a routine, period. Start doing as many pushups and situps as you can every night before bed. It may be just a 5 minute routine, but the getting started is the important part. Once you are started, you can expand on it slowly while you stay regular. The exercise will a)burn some fat, b)cause muscle to uptake some excess nutrients rather than fat, and c)be a period of time where you are making positive changes and putting effort into the program, rather than sabotaging progress and letting things slide. All of those are positive.
3) Once you are doing those, it is easier to expand on them. You can take away the next worst thing in your diet, and you can add in a big heavy exercise once or twice a week, like dropping in to the gym and doing a big compound exercise or two. 15-30 minutes in the gym twice a week, doing the right exercises, will make a HUGE difference, but it can be hard to start off doing that. It might not be so difficult to graduate to it after a couple weeks of a solid routine of walking, pushups, etc. at home.
See, I said I play a nutritionist on the net...
1) Remove the worst thing from your diet. If you eat a lot of chips, stop. If you drink a lot of sugar in your coffee, start drinking it black. Big soda for break time? Quit. Concentrate on quitting the one thing that is adding the most worthless calories to your diet. It is pretty easy to drop several hundred a day like this. You don't have to start out doing everything right, fix things one at a time. If you have worked to quit eating Reeses Pieces, and have made progress because of it, it might make it easier to quit drinking a Mountain Dew with your lunch... etc..
2) Get some exercise. It doesn't have to be crazy, just do some. Get in a routine, period. Start doing as many pushups and situps as you can every night before bed. It may be just a 5 minute routine, but the getting started is the important part. Once you are started, you can expand on it slowly while you stay regular. The exercise will a)burn some fat, b)cause muscle to uptake some excess nutrients rather than fat, and c)be a period of time where you are making positive changes and putting effort into the program, rather than sabotaging progress and letting things slide. All of those are positive.
3) Once you are doing those, it is easier to expand on them. You can take away the next worst thing in your diet, and you can add in a big heavy exercise once or twice a week, like dropping in to the gym and doing a big compound exercise or two. 15-30 minutes in the gym twice a week, doing the right exercises, will make a HUGE difference, but it can be hard to start off doing that. It might not be so difficult to graduate to it after a couple weeks of a solid routine of walking, pushups, etc. at home.
See, I said I play a nutritionist on the net...
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God knows we don't need any pictures of a Becker pecker.
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I don't know of ANYONE who could'nt stand to lose at least a few pounds. I just weighed in at 219 lbs and even at a shade over six-feet I need to drop about 10 lbs to feel right in my own skin. Thing is, we ALL know what weight we carry best. Unfortunately, ours is a culture and epidemic of obesity.
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Hell that was funny man, Glad i wasn't drinkin' when I read it.
I may join you guys on this weight loss deal, when id=s blade?
I was thinking something similar as well.
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I have been on a steadily inconsistent path to losing weight over the last five years. I need to get a handle on it in a bit more consistent fashion myself.
Although here for the last few weeks, I have found a diet I am more than comfortable with. I calls it my Chef Boyardee diet. Basically I have been eating a can of chef boyardee for breakfast, and one for lunch. Not all the time, but the majority of the time, mostly because of time constraints at work. Anyways, I went to put my belt on the other day, and it went another notch from the norm, so instead of three notches in, it went to four.
Got to looking, and ole chef boyardee really isn't too bad for ya. Better than what I had been eating, and they even tried to make it healthier by adding servings of veggies to it.
That coupled with a little more activity, and instead of using the bathroom by my office but walking to the other end of the building, as well as trying to cut back on soda and crap, has been working slowly but surely. I need to try to work in some exercise though, I think that would really help out. And once spring gets here and I can actually do some stuff outside it will be even better.
But I think I might try to work in the pushups and situps stuff. Making it a habit is the hard part. Good luck everyone! I know I am going to need it. We should make another thread where we post our weight every week. That would help to motivate I think. Whaddya say?
Although here for the last few weeks, I have found a diet I am more than comfortable with. I calls it my Chef Boyardee diet. Basically I have been eating a can of chef boyardee for breakfast, and one for lunch. Not all the time, but the majority of the time, mostly because of time constraints at work. Anyways, I went to put my belt on the other day, and it went another notch from the norm, so instead of three notches in, it went to four.
Got to looking, and ole chef boyardee really isn't too bad for ya. Better than what I had been eating, and they even tried to make it healthier by adding servings of veggies to it.
That coupled with a little more activity, and instead of using the bathroom by my office but walking to the other end of the building, as well as trying to cut back on soda and crap, has been working slowly but surely. I need to try to work in some exercise though, I think that would really help out. And once spring gets here and I can actually do some stuff outside it will be even better.
But I think I might try to work in the pushups and situps stuff. Making it a habit is the hard part. Good luck everyone! I know I am going to need it. We should make another thread where we post our weight every week. That would help to motivate I think. Whaddya say?
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This sounds like a great idea. A little competition and some friendly banter can go a long way in getting results.
Looks like there's already a few folks with some tips.
FWIW, I was a personal trainer and biology major (although I've shifted towards immunology for my career path) back in college. I've got a few years experience in circuit, interval, and plyometric training in addition to good ol' lifting. I'll chime in if you guys don't mind.
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Dude. A simple bet with Moose has snowballed into Bladeforums Weight Watchers. I'll get cracking on the infomercial.
"Do you like knives? Are you feeling a little thick around the middle? Bladeforums Weight Watchers can help."
Seriously, the more the merrier. I don't mind posting my start weight. I'm at 223. I'm just over 6 feet tall, and I feel a lot better when I range between 185 and 195. Getting down near 200 by Blade Show would make for a more pleasurable summer. I'd actually fit in my kayak, and I wouldn't bust through my new camping hammock.
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Mine is 250lbs. Flat 6' tall. I'm really not setting a finishing goal, so much as trying to develop a better food and exercise routine. Ultimately, I'l like to back at 195, but we'll see. If I can get a routine that doesn't require me going to the gym, it will be easier to maintian.
5yrs ago, I was 195lbs, and in the best shape of my life. 5 mile runs, gym time, rock climibing, but with the addition of my youngest, I was needed at home more.
Time to get started, I ain't gettin any younger.
Moose
5yrs ago, I was 195lbs, and in the best shape of my life. 5 mile runs, gym time, rock climibing, but with the addition of my youngest, I was needed at home more.
Time to get started, I ain't gettin any younger.
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Physical Therapy and Fitness training is my "Real Job". Knife making is the side line fun hobby job. If you can eliminate your whites, you are all good. White sugar and white flour. It's the processed food that is the problem in America. If it's in a can or plastic package it is garbage. Live hydrated enzymes are really important. They only come from fresh Raw veggies. If your body PH is below 6.5, than your are ripe for disease to take hold. Anything is better than nothing, but fresh is best. Google the 3 apple a day diet. An apple before each major meal, provided better weight loss than any diet pill out there. Apples have a fair amount of fiber and help with your satiety. You get full quicker, and don't eat as much. As someone said, small steps. Consistency and persistence are the keys to success. Weight loss is really simple, calories in vs calories out. 500-750 calorie deficit per day, is what you want. Any more and you will loss weight too quickly and rebound. I know-blather , blather, blather. Good luck, Fellas.
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A 12 oz Coca-Cola is 140 calories. Eliminate sodas and sugary drinks during meals and you're off to a great start
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I have. I also have cut way back on portions. Been eating a lot of cereral for breakfast, but this morning, I did cook for the family. Instead of three or four biscuits, second helpings, etc., I just had one small biscuit with bacon and cheese. Soon, I'll be cutting out even more fat and exercising, but just cutting portions has helped. I also have stopped with the snacking. Snacking was a big part of my problem.
Blade is June 10-12.
That's five pounds a month.
Intense, but doable.
I just put skim milk in my coffee!!!
5 pounds a month is simple.......:thumbup:
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