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The diet starts today! Who wants to join me? 04/26/14
I got on the scale this morning and it groaned and said 230 lbs. That's as heavy as I ever let myself get and is grounds for me to start a diet. My ideal weight is 205 lbs. So starting today I am going to get in better shape and drop 25 lbs like a bad habit!
My intent is 25 lbs in 10 weeks.
Do I have any challengers? Participants?
Perhaps a wager to make it interesting?
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My intent is 25 lbs in 10 weeks.
Do I have any challengers? Participants?
Perhaps a wager to make it interesting?
D
"A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." Mark Twain
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
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Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:
Guess that leaves me out.............I would have had to start yesterday.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
Good advice, dude. It's important to have knowledge of how certain additives affect you and such. Most folks tolerate sweeteners unless of course they overuse them.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Mmmm, I say from lots of personal experience to stretch that to every 2 weeks. Once a week is too often. Thing is, your body adjusts to being on a diet at the beginning and it takes usually 2-3 days to hit stride. That's why some people who start a diet are amazed to not lose weight or seem to gain weight at the very start. Your body's still adjusting and still processing what you ate 2 days prior.
If you splurge once a week, your body gets all wappajawed (a scientific term!) and doesn't "know" what you want, and your weight loss varies all to hell and gone.
Also, you really don't hit stride in a diet until several days in, and you don't want to break it too soon, psychologically it gives you an excuse to cheat too frequently.
I'd recommend a mild splurge only every 10 days at the shortest.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
I started mine last Monday.
Lunch today was a
Subway 6" ham & turkey, white cheese, lettuce onions, tomatoes, and jalapeno peppers (I still say hot peppers are one of the best things you can eat) w/ honey mustard.
Bag of baked Lays, 24oz Dasani water.
Dinner was a lean ham sandwich on wheat bread, mustard and lettuce.
Half a bag of frozen mixed vegetables, glass of orange juice, and 10 oz glass of water.
You are one of them.
You know a couple hundred people? I yield to the superior intellect.
Plus of course I'm old. Why, I barely was able to write 15000 words this week.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
I don't diet so to speak but I do try to eat healthy. That's what you do when you are over 50 and and your family is littered with heart attack deaths. Anyway when I gave up the deserts, fried and other high fat foods, my weight did drop…about 20 lbs. I still have the bad for me foods and deserts on weekends and the weight stays off. When I do eat those foods I modify my habits a bit. Like today I ordered fish and chips for lunch. I ate the fish and told them to hold the fries. I still eat bacon burgers, but no cheese or mayo and again…hold the fries. Small changes can make a big difference.
Another change you can make is portion control. Most restaurants serve you enough food for two people or two meals. You don't have to eat ALL the food on your plate at one sitting. I was raised that it was a sin not to clean my plate so that one took some re-programming.
And like Mr Larsen said…watch out for the artificial sweeteners. Your body just can't process that stuff properly so too much can cause other problems.
Dang, you is much older than I thought, I didn't think you were a day over 150 :jester:
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
I feel good at a tad over 200 pounds and 6'1" a few less pounds would be OK, but I ain't too worried about it.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
I use myfitnesspal.com to track my food and weight,
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
I like the barcode scanner that can lookup the food you are eating and knows what is in it.
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Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:
You didn't call me a name, you just implied that my being older disqualified my knowing things.
I'm not saying that a weekly cheat meal won't work. I AM saying that it is too frequent and a larger gap between "cheats" works a lot better. It's about metabolic activity and cyclic functions of the enzymes and general digestive system. The calendar week is an artificial cycle and 7 days intervals are too short, as it actually takes 2 or 3 days for the body to adjust to a diet, and so, by weekly cheats, you're just getting up to speed and you introduce a speed bump.
I know that your friend has hundreds of adherents to his plan. This is all well and good. But what works pretty well for his classes could work even better. It's not my "opinion" either. It's clinical facts about the metabolic cycle.
Psychologically, "scheduling" a cheat day or weekly meal is also unwise. Food habits are hard to break and setting up another scheduled "habit" works against the whole idea of transforming an overeating mentality into a proper eating lifestyle. The idea is to NOT have a cycle or schedule or any sort of timetable. The whole thrust of a proper weight loss program is to break habits, and setting up a habitual one-per-week cheat meal is an artificial construct that tends to perpetuate a habit per se.
The whole idea of "cheating" -- which I agree is an okay thing occasionally -- is to NOT schedule that "cheat meal" but to let it come naturally, unscheduled, as the body's metabolism will "ask" for a break when it needs it.
From personal experience, setting aside, say, Friday or Saturday to have the hamburger & fries doesn't work. I may actually not feel that hungry for the cheat meal and to schedule one is re-introducing a ritual where no rituals is the key idea. What I found to work is that my body will let me know when those fries (or whatever) is wanted, and it's then that I enjoy the cheat meal more, as it's not a scheduled thing but arises from within.
Speaking from experience (you can insert your own success story here), myself, having lost nearly 80 pounds from last year, and 40 pounds in one month. And I've kept the weight off, too, weighing 154 today, Sun Apr 27.
And although you know a couple hundred people who are satisfied w. their weekly cheat meal (amazed that I am -- I scarcely know 50 people total, that you know a couple hundred solely who are witnesses to the weekly cheat meal thing), it's far better to let your body do the talking and if so, you'll find that the urge to cheat isn't calendar based, but metabolic based.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Edited to add: I had been as high as 245 back in the day, but I was weightlifting every day, so I was not fat. Years later, at 235, I looked pretty bad...:yikes:
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Good luck on the diet, dude. Keep on keepin' on, and all that rot.
Anyone else who has an opinion and defends it here: Forthright and solidly constituted, a right to his opinion, by golly.
Sam who has an opinion and defends it here: cantankerous. (but eloquent)
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Same here, I'll be rooting and hope things come out okay for all contestants!
My highest recorded weight via actual hospital clinic weigh-in, Jan 5, 2011: 236.5. Awful but true. And this was only "recent" because at one time I'd bulked out at about 280!
Today, out of the shower weight, 154.0. delta = 82.5 pounds lost.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Go shooter go!
I like to keep things in perspective. 8 lbs is a one gallon water container, and I need to lose three of them. If I strapped three 1 gallon jugs to my back all day it would kill me, yet gaining it over time seems manageable.
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Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:
So I guess I am in!
Breakfast: bowl of Kashi cereal w. 2% skim milk, washing down 7 cardio prescription meds
Lunch: large tossed salad w. diet Russkie dressing & 4 sesame crackers
Dinner: can of tuna w. 2 Tbsp cranberry sauce**, 4 sesame crackers
Dessert: 2 sesame crackers w. 1 Tbsp lowfat peanut butter
Snacks: 3 tangerines
Liquids: 4 bottles of water
Late night: 2 more cardio meds washed down w. fresh grapefruit juice
** whole berry cranberry sauce is a tasty and lowfat condiment that goes well w. tuna, broiled fish, grilled chicken, etc. Honest.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
You can't even imagine the difference after losing the weight. I sleep easy, can lie flat on my back and breathe without difficulty, showering and even drying off is much easier, and it's also a treat to get into clothes you couldn't wear before.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Er, some people may be eggbound but having bathroom stuff is called normal.
What's the old joke? "I always wanted a nice BMW but nowadays I can only look forward to a nice BM."
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx