Mine has to go. I never thought it would happen to me. I remember in high school at a 120 pounds soaking wet and trying to bulk up. My youngest son is the same way, takes supplements and stuff to bulk up, he went to personal trainer school. He's still thin.
Being in the wheeled vehicle being fat is NOT a good thing.
I used to carry cross draw all the time even in my walking days, strong side if much faster since you don't have to reverse the direction but this holster allows for cross draw and I will be giving that a try, it's sometimes a nice option.
Since my left arm is just for cosmetic purposes a second gun could be crossdraw so the hand that can do something can grab either one.
I did it by using a software which basically tracks everything you eat and all the exercises. The best thing though is that you first enter age, gender, kind of lifestyle current weight, target weight and time frame and the software tells you how many calories you can consume a day. It was spot on for me. Some days I had a few calories left over and some other days a bit too much. But I managed to reach my average goal at the end of each week.
Some observations are:
- That its much easier too eat less than to burn more in sport. Just one spoon of olive oil would mean having to spend 30minutes more on a bicycle. :O
- I didn't have time for lots of cardio/fat burning and only did quick strength trainings to not lose too many muscles. This training was negligible when looking at calories but still might have helped?
- Also entering the data is a little pain at first, but only at the beginning. Once you get used to it and have a few common things saved its easier.
- Eating out in subway for example makes for easy data entry, since they post all their calories (don't forget to add cookies and softdrinks which aren't posted next to the sandwich's calories) Also fatty sauces add numbers too.
- Salads are good but the dressing destroys it often. Some leaves only had 30 calories but the dressing 200...
- Aiming at a moderate weight loss over a long time seems to be the best. I think small changes can be sustained longer. Radical changes might drop weight faster but one tends to go back to old habits faster too.
- Don't trust the scale in the short term at least. If you drink two bottles of water you gain 4 pounds and if you go to the bathroom then you lose 2 pounds...
- I really like the tracking approach. You can just check on your phone how much is left and then decide on that how much you want to eat until the day is over. So you can still have lots of Ice cream and Chocolate in the morning for example but then might reach your calories for the day at noon and then have to starve
its all up to you and total freedom how you go about not exciding your daily limit. You don't have to make every meal some special untasty low calorie tv-dinner and keep doing that until the end of your days.
- I just made due with what I eat anyways and based on the app I had a bit less of each or let more hours pass between meals.
- The first couple of weeks are the hardest. There was an almost constant feeling of being hungry. But that passed and now there is only a slight hunger feeling if I pay attention to it.
- After 3 or 4 months with constant feedback from the software, I developed a feeling for when I had eaten enough. That's very useful to maintain the weigth.
- Now many months later I just check the scale once in a while to see if I'm within my range and if I would ever not be then I would go back to the app.
If you think that is interesting and have a smartphone I can look for the name of the app which I used. They might also have a browser version so that you can do it from a desktop too.
