There is always room for improvement! 💪🏼

adluginb said:
This right here is my favorite type of working out. Go swing an axe for 45 minutes and tell me it’s not a workout! All my neighbors know I’ll take there big trees if they have to cut them down or if a storm blows one down. Now I just take their big stuff they have to clean up their own limbs:)

But this right here is what I attribute to keeping my 53yo body in shape the most. I chop at least once a week and maybe twice if have a lot of wood.


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Big fan myself. Get to be outside and getting fantastic exercise.

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Just an update….down to 242 from 324 in March. Still hoping to get my shop/gym built shortly. Hurricane Ida blew down my old gym at my previous house and have been sulking ever since.

First time in size 36” jeans in……..years. Down from a 44. 20 more lbs and I’ll be set!
 
Gravelface said:
Just an update….down to 242 from 324 in March. Still hoping to get my shop/gym built shortly. Hurricane Ida blew down my old gym at my previous house and have been sulking ever since.

First time in size 36” jeans in……..years. Down from a 44. 20 more lbs and I’ll be set!
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Besides to gym did you do anything else? Diet, drugs, emotional concerns? I’m at #255 at 67 years old, looking to drop 55#’s .
 
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I bought mine but they just dumped it on the yard even though I was assured they’d stack it. So it sat there Saturday night and all Sunday but made for a supplementary workout on Monday.

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Now I’m stocked for the winter.

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The stuff at the back is what was left over from last winter, which was my first winter in this house. It was thrown in, not stacked. Years ago, I guess, since the people who lived here before me all used the furnace. I burned only wood to heat the big drafty place, except two weeks in February where I decided to finally use the propane furnace. That two week period was crazy expensive for me, so I am not even going to run the furnace at all this winter.
 
woodysone said:
Besides to gym did you do anything else? Diet, drugs, emotional concerns? I’m at #255 at 67 years old, looking to drop 55#’s .
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Actually no gym yet. Piddle around with some kettle bells, but nothing I’d describe as a workout.

Realized I ate A LOT out of boredom. Cut all fast food, and my kryptonite….sweet tea. I was drinking 3-4 a day. So only drink to pass my lips now is water, i shoot for about 90oz a day. And Tito’s. And Whisky. And eggnog while I can get it.

No beer no cokes / soda type crap. Found these new things….vegetables. Eat fruit and veggies a whole lot more. Still drown em in ranch though. But just cut the crap. And cut back on the excess, learned it ok to be hungry and try to fast 24-36 hours 1 day a week. Still drink water but no food. I get it in most weeks but don’t beat myself up if I miss it either.
 
Gravelface said:
Actually no gym yet. Piddle around with some kettle bells, but nothing I’d describe as a workout.

Realized I ate A LOT out of boredom. Cut all fast food, and my kryptonite….sweet tea. I was drinking 3-4 a day. So only drink to pass my lips now is water, i shoot for about 90oz a day. And Tito’s. And Whisky. And eggnog while I can get it.

No beer no cokes / soda type crap. Found these new things….vegetables. Eat fruit and veggies a whole lot more. Still drown em in ranch though. But just cut the crap. And cut back on the excess, learned it ok to be hungry and try to fast 24-36 hours 1 day a week. Still drink water but no food. I get it in most weeks but don’t beat myself up if I miss it either.
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That’s awesome!

The adage “You lose fat in the kitchen, you get fit in the gym”, is pretty accurate.

The biggest factor is cleaning up your dietary habits.

For some folks, it helps to use an app like MyPlate/MyFitnessPal etc. to count their calories to learn just how much they’re actually eating.
 
I’m down around 34 lbs in the last 8 months. Counting calories and quit eating and drinking junk. Cut out all sugary drinks. Hit the gym 3 times a week for about an hour a session. Could go more but have to alternate days with my wife since we have a little one. Just going in the mornings before work. It’s tough to make progress when I am seated/driving most of the day.
 
Cut out as much flour, salt & sugar as possible.
Your glucose won’t spike causing hunger.
Unfortunately, in the land of plenty, almost everything on market shelves is processed in a way that makes you fat.
Be patient. Quick loss doesn’t last.
Be prepared for the…are you OK? You look too thin! You need to put some meat on those bones.
I just ask, want to race?
 
EMCEE said:
I got my 5,000 calories in today ! 🤷🏻🤣🤣🤣

Not lifting again yet but I did stop drinking 35 days ago. Been ill for a couple weeks and on meds but as soon as I’m healthy, I’ll be workin’ out. At 5’11”/206 lbs, I’d like to keep my size but turn the jelly into D3V !!!

Thanks for the motivation, E. You know I appreciate ya brother.
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Good deal! I quit drinking (almost) 2 years ago and without a doubt one of my best decisions ever! Feelling great!!! Good luck, even if it’s it’s just temporary.
 
David Mary said:
When I tell people that I often only eat one meal a day, they look at me like I have two heads.
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OMAD. First time I saw the acronym, I thought, “Huh?”.

One Meal A Day. Oh…

Intermittent fasting actually has numerous positive effects, aside from just cutting/limiting caloric intake, and OMAD counts.

The positive effects also tend to increase, with intermittent fasting over 24-36 hours, so it’s a good practice to do every so often. Doing what Gravelface Gravelface mentioned (trying to do a 24-36 hour fast once a week), is great, but if folks could try to do it even just once every 2-4 weeks, it still has positive benefits beyond merely caloric restriction.

Another practice that’s beneficial, is working out in a fasted state. Something I’d been doing for many years before I read the studies on it. In my case, I simply workout before my first meal of the day. I wake up, do my usual morning bathroom ritual, then head downstairs to workout.
 
I’ve never tried OMPD, but the amount I eat in a day could be one meal for some.
So I Googled, can you shrink your stomach?
It seems your stomach never really changes overall size, but can stretch to hold 5 times its normal volume.
That seems like a lot, but it’s on the web so it must be true🤔
We don’t eat out often, but the portions are literally 3 meals. This isn’t helping Americanos either.
 
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Yes. Technical semantics aside, reducing intake enough will make a person have less belly fat, and less gut bulge over time.
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I think he literally meant stomach, not belly/gut.

Many people actually CAN shrink their stomachs, because they’ve been used to stretching them out. Yes, the stomach, like a lot of soft tissue, can/will stretch, and the more time you spend stretching it, the better you get at it.

This is how the fairly small sized Japanese guy, Kobayashi, won so many hot dog eating contests. All that practice stretching his stomach to hold volumes the average person simply can’t. It isn’t about metabolism or digestion either, since none of that comes into play over how much you can shovel in, in the short timeframe of the competitions.

Your observations are correct, about portion sizes in the US. Anyone who’s traveled abroad, has noticed three big differences: just how fat most Americans are (it’s pretty blatant, when you’ve been abroad for a few weeks, then touch down at a US airport), how much smaller, average portion sizes are in other countries, and how much more people tend to walk in other countries.

Comments from friends and family from overseas, visiting over here, are similar; “Wow… that’s a lot of food. People finish this in one meal?”.

Even in Japanese/Chinese/Indian restaurants etc. I noticed that ordering the same dish in a local restaurant overseas, vs an American restaurant, the portions in the US are usually anywhere from 150% - 200+%.
 
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