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#441

Welcome aboard Chris!

I know this will sound cliche but it’s going to be a long drawn out battle

in 2005 I weighed 360lbs, and over a course of 2 to 2 and a half years was able to get down to 185, so if you want someone to chat with who’s been through it all feel free to send me a pm

Juan Don’t worry you can do it, we’re all here to help you through! (and yes this thread is another example of how awesome a community this is!)

Baconface gratz on another pound down! how many more until you reach your goal?

Nike yeah I’m going INSANE here waiting for Spring! I want to get out and do some hiking again in some warm weather! do a little biking, maybe rent a kayak one day and have some fun!

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Aset[/b] thats amazing! You’re so close but don’t get discouraged if things go slower towards the end, the closer you get to your goal the slower things go :mad: just keep making progress!

an update on myself, entered phase 2 of P90X today and holy frak I forgot how much harder these phase 2 workouts were…my arms are POOPED, going to attempt to get up early tomorrow to do my run so that I don’t have to do it after work when my legs are burned out, I will have had 2 weeks rest (from running) going in and no leg pain, so I can’t fail!

keep up the progress everyone!

#442

Go get 'em, sir. One step at a time. You can get there.

#443

Well, I made it through my first day of two-a-days. Got in back day this morning (a bunch of pull-downs and rows) and 60:00 on the elliptical this evening. Tomorrow’s my off day, so Wed is my next opportunity to screw it up. :slight_smile:

Really glad to see everyone opening up in the thread. If there’s anything I can do to help, just hit me up. Everyone’s right: we CAN do it.

#444

You’ll have to pry the cheese from my cold dead hands.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Juan, I love you!

And yeah, the accountability definitely helps. When other’s are paying attention, :shifty:, you don’t wanna let them down!

#445

My update: As of 3/7, 19 lbs lost :smiley:

#446

I was only able to go to the gym once in the last week, but I still weighed in at 193.8 !!

I guess eating right really pays off.

#447

uuuugh I was reminded this morning of why I once swore never to run in the early mornings

I woke up dehydrated, to compensate I tried to drink enough water so that I wasn’t

however that lead to me feeling sick when running, and right around 5 miles I had to jump off the treadmill, RUN to the bathroom, and throw up (from the fact of having too much water in my stomach) and obviously after that I had no desire to get back on

will attempt to run the last 8.1 miles tonight after work

#448

For the most part I have participated in this thread to keep myself motivated and make myself feel accountable to more than just myself. I’ve kept it mostly upbeat. But I need to vent.

I am feeling pretty freaking frustrated. For 4 months I have been faithfully doing four 30-45 minute per week and sticking to a nutrition plan that is at least 5 servings of fruit and veg per day with total of about 1600 calories. Because I had an injury I couldn’t do anything high intensity for a while and am slowly ratcheting it back up. Total weight loss: 12 pounds in the first 3.5 months, nothing for the last 6 weeks.

I’m having trouble staying motivated. I’m still doing everything but not with any joy or sense of accomplishment. For the first time I’m scared that I can’t make this happen.

Sigh.

What do you all do when you’ve hit this kind of road block?

#449

are you doing the same exercises over and over? sometimes a bit of muscle confusion will help, change it up a bit, you’ll enjoy trying something new AND be using a different set of muscles which should help break up the rut/deadlock

so for starters what exercises are you doing? (hard to suggest some new things for you to try if I don’t know what you’re currently doing :stuck_out_tongue: )

#450

DRR’s totally right re: muscle confusion. Your body does adapt to exercise.

The time of day you eat can also affect your results. For an extreme example, if you saved up 1400 of your 1600 calories and ate them right before bed, that’d cause an issue. More likely it’d be a more subtle shift, allowing you to rub negative during the day then positive overnight.

Another possibility is that something is slipping by your food logging. Sometimes food is mislabeled (usually in terms of weight if it happens) or a restaurant dish might be “optimistically” calculated by the restaurant or logging software. These usually don’t add up to much, but at your (awesome!) slow-and-steady pace a couple of hundred calories a day could cause a plateau.

Just some thoughts to help troubleshoot! Don’t worry – you’ll get it figured.

#451

Star - If you’ve been doing it for about 12-16 weeks, then maybe you need a diet break. The body has basically gotten used to your eatting patterns and your levels might be low. Basically it might be good to basically have a refeed week so that everything gets topped up again and then you do the defiect and you’ll go down again.

I think the analogy is if you have two cars and drive it, as you get closer to the destination, the gas/oil is going to start to run out and the car will not run as good. However, if the other car tops up now and then, then it can perform better in the long run.

Sorry for the bad example, but that’s how it made sense to me :slight_smile:

Also although you haven’t had scale loss, how have your clothes fitted?

As well as doing different exercises as your body gets used to the movements (it’ll use less calories because the body adapts to the movement). It’s also good to do the same with the calories and basically cycle the calories.

I’m not an expert but I’ll thought I’ll pitch in

As for me, I had my appointment with the plastics consultant in an effort to fix the loose skin I have on my pecs after the removal of breast tissue gained from having true gyno. When I last went, I was measured at 105kg and had to reach a goal where I was at a BMI of 27.

I went yesterday and weighed in about 100kg which is excellent as I can’t remember being in double digits before. My BMI was 29.7 so it was a case of so close. However, due to NICE guidelines (They govern the rules for who gets funding, what ops are allowed, whether a drug can be made available,etc) I cannot be put onto the operation list.

The consultant was very nice and was chuffed with my progress as I told him that I went back up in weight to 220lbs. However he even said that most people blip when losing weight so he was pleased that I had lost 68lbs and that I postponed the appointments to be at a reasonable weight.

So after saying that he will do the operation, the next appointment is due for 4 months time. So I have about 20-24lbs to lose in about 4 months which should be doable. I look forward to the challenge.

Today’s workout consisted of the following:

DB Chest Press 3x10 - 22kg
Handstand Pushups - Negatives: 1 set to failure (6 reps)
Incline DB Chest Press - 3x10 - 16kg
Machine Flys - 3x10 - 50kg
DB Bicep Curl - 3x10 - 10kg
Skullcrushers - 3x10 - 8kg
Tricep Pulldown (Rope) - 3x10 - 45kg

#452

Thanks, all!

Darth Raven and Chuck, I’ve been doing yoga about 3 times per week, alternating between two different routines and also doing one medium intensity, long duration cardio and one more intense, shorter cardio. I am going to start working with a trainer for the first time next week–I’ve booked 8 sessions just to help me develop some new ideas and help me get back into fighting form. I’m looking forward to that.

Bishop, I hadn’t thought about my diet in those terms. I’ve always been a very whole, natural foods type eater but I’ve made pretty big changes in the balance of green veggies to whole grains and, most importantly, the amount of food I eat. I anticipate that the meet up will be a bit of a shock because I plan to allow myself to have some drinks and will be eating out. So maybe that will be just the reset I need!

Thanks for being so supportive and helpful. I am feeling better and more upbeat today. Even if weight loss itself is slow, I’m doing things that are really good for my body and that is reward in itself. Not all the reward I’m looking for, but important.

#453

The week so far has been good on the food/nutrition front. A local store had a produce sale today so I bought up lots of good stuff, like kiwis and mangos and strawberries, for the rest of the week. I haven’t weighed myself in a few days, but my clothes are feeling looser so that’s nice.

The exercise has been going slow this week. I have a bad ankle, I broke it a few years ago, lots of unpleasant surgeries and it still swells quite often. This week it’s been really swollen and painful, so I’ve been wrapping it and icing it and doing low impact stuff like walking. Good news is that it’s getting hotter here and I’ll be able to use my pool to do some working out soon.

WOLVERINES!!!

#454

Made it through another day of extra cardio. Only two more two-a-days this week and a standard cardio day. :slight_smile:

Only made 5mi on the elliptical today vs. yesterday’s 5.4, but hey – it’ll still add up to 20 this week in addition to my standard strength. Looking forward to the fat loss; there’s nothing worse than having some blubber remaining after a year’s hard work. :frowning:

#455

Well I finally weighed myself this morning, first time in a few weeks (scale broke, ended up getting a fancy new one)

Weighed in at 223.7lbs but considering my last weigh in was 229 and I’ve been really kicking butt in the weights dept I know some of it has to be muscle weight too, just looking in the mirror I can clearly see the side flab and stomach flab slowly melting away as well as the arms starting to look a little more toned each week

gotta do Yoga tonight and then I have tomorrow off from work! fear not though, instead of sitting around snacking all day I’ll be sitting around playing Dragon Age 2 :wink: though I am going to make it a point to get my exercises done…I’m thinking sometime in the morning to get them over with right away

I’m also considering shelving the treadmill running for a while and doing the plyometrics and kenpo x for cardio, my reasoning? well other than the fact the half marathons I run take an hour and 57 minutes I just don’t feel like they’re as effective as they were for a long time. I’m feeling like my body has started to adapt to it since I haven’t been able to add any distance, incline, or speed in some time

so I’m thinking 2 to 3 weeks of Plyometrics and Kenpo X in place of the treadmill then head back to it and see how it goes

#456

Well, day five of diet/workout down… i’ve had a VERY noticeable increase in stamina since Sunday. For those interested 30 Day Shred by Jillian Michaels really seems to be getting me in shape fast!!! (can get it at walmart for like $9 now)

i’ve remembered to log all my food intake, i’ve taken my vitamins everyday, and worked out each day (varying the times a bit). who knew being healthy would be this much work :frowning:

with that said, as i dont’ have my scale here at the new house anyways, i’ll just be weighing in every Monday when i go into the office as I have a gym there with accurate scales. Also keeps me from looking everyday and wondering what’s going on LOL!

#457

Good morning campers,

Its a brief one today as I’m taking a rest day from the heavy upper work that I did yesterday. I’ve still decided to grease the groove on the handstand pushups although whether I’m doing them correct;y not to sure. I’ve included a video to show you how I’m doing them although I still feel the tension. One day I’ll be able to do a full range of motion both up and down.

Food wise, I’m doing ok i think. I’m not doing a straight defect as I’m not sticking to a rigid calorie limit. I’m still restricting cals but somedays it’ll be around 1.1k and other times it’ll be around the 16k mark. The weekends tend to be the higher calorie days.

I’m mixing circuits (heavy wieghts so I get the cardio benefit) as well as doing dedicated heavy upper/lower days. It seems to be doing well and I’m feeling the benefits of doing it this way. I seem to be quite focused :).

Sorry about the mess, the kitchen is being rearranged so its the dumping room :stuck_out_tongue:

#458

Just remembered, I put up an enquiry at work to guage if people would be interested in doing a canoe/kayak trip for charity. The last time that I did this it was a case of doing 13 miles as fast as possible. We’re thinking of doing 20 miles in about 6-7 hours (just have to see).

The last time I think that my nutrition was a bit out of whack as I practically ran out of gas for the last mile or so. This time I’m going to research on how to properly fuel myself.

The charity that is going to potentially benefit is womans breast cancer charity. I’ll let you all know how it goes :slight_smile:

#459

woooo got the day off from work today, I’ve got to make sure I exercise today (I suppose my butt will get sore from sitting playing Dragon Age 2 all day at some point right? :smiley: )

was not able to do the yoga last night because my wrists were flaring up (happens sometimes, but was not able to do really anything that involved me being on my hands which is like…half of it) so I’ll be doing it tomorrow

I’m interested in what vitamins everyone here is taking?

I’ve got a long list so here it goes, I don’t really decide what I take my dad is a huge vitamin nut and has tons so he just gives me a bunch to take

  1. B-50 for energy
  2. ‘BioSil’ - suppose to help you have healthy skin and hair
  3. Tumeric - I forget why…antioxidants I believe
  4. Vitamin A - eye health
  5. Fish Oil - heart health
  6. ‘Cordy Max’ - a stamina boost…which I must say really does work, my sudden jump in running distance in November happened a couple weeks after I started taking these, even if it was just a placebo effect
  7. Stinging Nettle - overall health
  8. Vitamin D-3 - bone health
  9. Shark Cartilage - suppose to be for wrists, just recently started on Monday, hoping it helps as my bad wrists have been flaring up a lot the last couple weeks
#460

Urmmm - None although I should probably take some BCAAs and fish oil. Hopefully I should get most of my vitamins through diet.