Weight loss thread

I've just begun my downward spiral in weight loss, tried most diets, nuthin' seems to last.

I'm currently taking an appetite suppressant, and it seems to be working, my biggest problem is the two knee surgeries I've had, I'm in dire need of knee replacement due to the stupidity of a younger mentality(I was very abusive to my body when I was younger plus my parents believed that kneeling on dry macaroni and dry peas on a hardwood floor was acceptable discipline(old world European parents)).

I've lost 20 lbs in the last 3 weeks, 13 lbs from being sick with bronchitis, I'm determined to make it and keep it off, the appetite suppressant has made it easier to not wanna snack, I only take one BP medicine, it hasn't changed in 20 years my BP has always been 120 over 80 with the meds, my cholesterol has always been good, I eat a lot of veggies and white meat, (I still like an occasional red meat meal), I don't really drink, an occasional beer or mixed drink, months go by sometimes before I have a drink,(I'm usually the one that drives everyone else home).

Well thanks for lettin' me unload, i'll have to check back in with a progress report and to see how everyone else is doin'.
 
Well I hope things start to smooth out for you T. Erdelyi, the human body is
quite an amazing thing, so fragile and yet can repair itself too, if you take
care of it.

And yep Walking Man, glad this thread keeps the inspiration going, it's getting
a bit cold now to ride the bike at lunch time, so it will be a regiment of this
exercise machine at nights, it's called a life cycle, you sit and press forward
with your feet as you pull back on a bar so it works pretty good to get you
going and a good sweat produced.

Plus free weights and now one of those big ball thingy's to stretch out and
keep the back in shape.

Plus I'm back into the morning ritual, before climbing out of bed I do
100 crunches and 50 leg raises and then again before bed, just to keep
moving.

G2
 
Bumped back up to the top. I'm on the treadmill tonight. Get out there and do some work.
Working out is probably the best way to fight the winter blues. It's dark out and very easy to lose energy. I know, I've been feeling pretty down lately, and the only that's brought me up is overexcessive spending on INFI....
So, let's do the math... workout... good..... feel good, get thinner, more energy. Overspending on INFI... bad for marriage.... bad for not having money.... eating too much, feeling down. bad. A little off topic, I something of a spendaholic when I'm not working out. Working out allows me to occupy more of time and spend less time looking online for toys, and gives me an energy and feel good vibe so I don't need to go for the fix. All that, and I'd like to lose some weight for an out of town wedding that I need to go to.
(It's going to be a long time before I let this thread die.)
 
Good man! I miss my bike rides with the colder weather I now rely on
a life cycle thingamabob where you sit down and press with your feet
on some pedals and pull back on a bar, so you're lifting your weight plus
you can increase the pressure by adjusting a valve.

Also in my cycle out of bed in the morning I do 25 roll outs with that
wheel and a bar through it, not quite ready to go straight out from my
toe tips with arms extended but aiming for that!

Also have an old Bullworker, anyone remember those? :)
that rests just inside the door before I leave I grab that and do a few
things with it, just to warm up...

Just keep moving folks! My wife's addictive to watching that show called
"The Biggest Loser" and she does get some motivation to drive her to
excercise, a good thing...

Also adding in the Captain's of Crush grippers tuff stuff!

G2
 
Day2 of working out. I'm going to keep this up for a while, and I'll keep posting until the day of the wedding. I'll also post other tidbits of wonderful info.
My goal is to hit 300 calories/day (this is only according to my treadmill which doesn't account for weight, in reality, I think I'm doing around twice as much). So far I've split this up into 3 sets of 100 cal. each, which is turning out to be 15-20 min. Yesterday - 307 cal. 49 min. Today - 327 - 53 min. I don't want to get too competitive with myself, I just want to make sure I get on the dang thing daily. Thanks for reading. Any encouragement is very much appreciated.
 
Walking Man said:
Do your pants fit yet, Gary?
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Well the pants that I use to fit into before gaining the weight are back into use again but I'm still just a smidgen away from getting into the 32" waisted pants! I don't like squeezing into clothes and while I can snap the pants shut, it ain't comfortable :)

My bike riding has stopped for the season for a while now and the excercise life cycle thingy I don't get as near a good time on as I do riding the bike, so it's slow going right now but I'm maintaining. Next summer will be a good one! and those 32" will be fittin' loose!
You'd think if I am in 33" that 32" should be doable but it's an inch that is hard to come off, and again, I haven't been that size for many years, it was a goal the when I first lost the weight, maybe my BONES won't allow it, but I think I'll make it!
Thanks for asking though! :)

and good job Patrick!
G2
 
Gary W. Graley said:
and good job Patrick!
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Ditto. Congratulations. If you don't mind, could you tell about what excersize and diet plans helped you lose weight. thanks.
 
What worked well for me at first was to eliminate soda and stop eating seconds and fast food. I bring leftovers from dinner instead of grabing a burger and fries. I have also started walking some in the evenings. I seem to have hit a plateau now and will need to increase my excercise to loose more as I've been at 220 for several weeks.

Patrick
 
SPHayes said:
What worked well for me at first was to eliminate soda and stop eating seconds and fast food. I bring leftovers from dinner instead of grabing a burger and fries. I have also started walking some in the evenings. I seem to have hit a plateau now and will need to increase my excercise to loose more as I've been at 220 for several weeks.
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I've also cut out the FF, and yeah, Pleateaus are real frustrating sometimes. Good luck, and keeping working at it.
 
3 days in a row! I didn't plan to get as good of a work as I did, but I just kept going. 75 min, 472 cals total (according to my innaccurate treadmill)
 
This is a really good thread!

I only have a few things to add... when I started Air Force ROTC my freshman year of college, I weighed 189 lbs (I'm 5' 10"), but steady exercise and diet change has cut it to 162 lbs right now (Within two pounds of my ideal body weight, but some of it still needs to get converted from fat to muscle). I went from being able to run about a third of a mile to running four and recovering within five minutes.

A lot of it was simply that I was getting out regularly and exercising. You absolutely have to do that. If you exercise for 30-40 minutes two days a week, and you're in average shape, you will maintain the level of fitness you are currently in. Four times a week is good for at least a half hour each day- I count lifting at the gym or running or swimming as full time and any walking or physical work as half time for that, if that makes any sense.

About exercise... the older you get, and not to be disrespectful or anything, but I'd say 90% of the members here are older than me and 50% are more than fifteen years older than me, the more exercise patterns will be different. Running is very good for your cardiovascular system and endurance, but it is very bad for your joints, especially your knees. If you're relatively young like me and have to run anyway, you might as well do it, my knees will survive. If you're older, you will probably take as much harm from it as good.

That brings me to... swimming! Undoubtedly the greatest whole-body workout with zero impact, you don't feel your sweat, and it's a lot of fun! On the down side, you need to do laps to really get the full benefit of it, but it's such a good workout... you feel it EVERYWHERE...

On dieting... the only sure fire guaranteed diet plan is this: Eat fewer calories than you burn. I can actually eat about 3,000 calories a day and still lose weight pretty fast. It's well worth the money to go see a dietician and have him or her check out your metabolism.

General rules I've discovered... it's better to eat a little food a lot than a lot of food at once. It keeps your metabolism up all day. Eat heavier during the early part of the day, breakfast or lunch, as opposed to dinner, unless you work at night or are more active at night, then it doesn't matter as much.

Eat protein. A lot. Protein is the building block of muscle, and every pound of muscle you gain burns 50 additional calories every day. Grilled poultry is probably the best- has the least saturated and trans fat of most meats. I seldom eat red meat anymore. Turkey and chicken are my favorites.

Fat isn't always bad- saturated fat and trans fat almost always is. You should have a little of everything in your diet, but get no more than 30% of your calories from fat. That's not as much as it might sound like, because fatty foods are high in energy, thus in calories, compared to everything else.

Another really good dietary rule of thumb is the less processed the food, the healthier it is for you. Fresh fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than canned, for example, and processed meat usually has more fat.

Use the food pyramid, but remember an idiot designed the serving sizes, for example, a slice of bread is a whole serving of grains. If you're eating a sandwich, how many times do you eat just one slice of bread? Come on. This works in your favor, too, though, because the recommended four servings of fruit is only two pieces. I usually eat one with every meal, bananas and apples, because that's what the school caf has.

So basically... cut calories, but not too many. If you lose a lot of weight in a short period, it's not good. Max healthy weight loss per week is about two pounds. If you lose a lot more, it will tend to come back just as fast as you lost it. It's better to settle for more modest weight loss goals- the goal should be to get healthy and stay healthy, not lose weight, everyone's ideal healthy weight is different. Plus a long-term, modest goal of fitness breaks old habits and establishes new ones. Quick result diets can't establish new habits.
 
Good post there, lots of info to digest, no pun intended ;)

And I agree on the less process food thing as well, was just reading
Fit for life, not fat for life by Harvey Diamond, basically he says that
we should eat more "live" food and less cooked food, as cooking kills
enzymes that are present in the foods we eat and we need those things.
But that is just a very short reader's digest version but you should try
to eat more things that haven't been heated up too hot.
Red meat, yep, I've cut way back on that and chicken is the one meat
I do eat a bit more of lately.

And hey, who you callin' old :yawn: excuse me, had to yawn there,
hmm where was I, lol, oh yeah, old people, I'll be 52 in Jan :eek: man
that doesn't seem possible! but it's true, I love riding bike that is a great
exercise, and I'm simple enough to trick myself that I'm not going out
for exercise but I make it a trip where I have to run my errands during
my hour lunch, so I combine the two things and get a nice workout
one thing I like about biking over running, when I stop pedalling, I can
still be moving forward! unlike running, when you stop running, you just
stand and sweat, looking around at where you are and thinking crap
I gotta run back yet, never got into running as you can probably guess
did a lot when I was in the Navy, not on ship of course but on base.

Swimming, it's hard to get to places to swim and I guess I'm not into that
either but it is a great overall exercise too, good idea, I have a friend that
lives near a school that allows people in to swim and he does that on a
regular basis and loves it.

Again, just keep moving, doing something everyday, I know when I wake up
I really don't want to do those crunches and leg lifts and I have to tell that
lazy self to shut up and do them anyways...when I started doing them a while
back, my stomach muscles were not in shape, and after 60 crunches,
I laid there and my stomach would boil up and knot up/cramp really bad,
felt like the guy on Aliens and I was waiting on something to come crashing
out of me! Man did that hurt! but now they don't cramp up, so a warning to
you guys/gals that may try these things, careful to not over do things.

And Walkingman, you keep that up, sounds like you're on the the fast track
now, they say if you do something for 21 days it becomes a habit, make it
a good habit!
G2
 
Yep, and you point out something I forgot... just being more active. It won't get you in good shape, but it will make you feel better and help you keep in good shape. Like taking the stairs instead of the elevator, or walking to the store instead of driving.
 
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