Weight loss and weight management catch-all!

Strangeblades wrote:

Yay. Another no snack night (last night). And regular food during the day (yesterday) too. Tonight? Another no snack night.

Awesome. Tonight, I will do it with you!!! Let me know how you do.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:
Strangeblades wrote:

Yay. Another no snack night (last night). And regular food during the day (yesterday) too. Tonight? Another no snack night.

Awesome. Tonight, I will do it with you!!! Let me know how you do.

I'll let ya know how it goes. Hip hip hooray for both of us.

Another no-snack night in the bag. Time for breakfast.

All weights in pounds (lbs). Because Murica!!!

Starting Weight: 455
Last Week's Weight: 333
Current Weight: 335.5
10% Goal Weight: 300
Total Goal Weight: 180
Change: +2.5

Now now I'd kill for that plateau I was sitting on. Oh well, back to work.

Starting Weight (12/28/13): 295.0
Previous Weight(10/14/14): 226.0
Current Weight (10/21/14): 224.8
Target Weight (10/28/14): 225

Goal officially achieved! 70 pounds lighter and feeling awesome!

I go on vacation next Tuesday. My short term goal is to not gain over the next couple weeks and start on something new in early November.

kaostheory wrote:

Goal officially achieved! 70 pounds lighter and feeling awesome!

Heck yeah! Congrats!

Since cutting out late-night snacking (and having no booze on the weekend). I'm down two pounds from 200 to 198.

Strangeblades wrote:

Since cutting out late-night snacking (and having no booze on the weekend). I'm down two pounds from 200 to 198.

Nice!

Late night snacks aren't a problem for me, it's the 1 or 2 beers every night. I really need to drop the Sun-Thurs beers.

Starting Weight: 311 (7/8/2013)
Previous Weight: 192.8 (10/10/2014)
Current Weight: 194.2 (10/24/2014)
Body Fat: 17.5%
Target Weight: 190ish...

I'm pretty good hovering around 195. I seem to bounce up and down a few pounds around it. I may try the slower, steadier pace to move towards 190. What I did to get to this point doesn't seem to want to work as well and I really don't feel like killing myself for 5 lbs.

That being said, I need to start getting used to a lower caloric intake. I still shoot for 2000 and don't go too strict on Friday and Saturday (probably push up to 2500, then). I've got surgery coming up on my foot and that means no running for 4-6 weeks. I might be able to hit the stationary bike after 2 weeks. If I don't start adjusting now, I'm afraid the immobility combined with diet change will be a little tough to handle.

El-Producto wrote:
Strangeblades wrote:

Since cutting out late-night snacking (and having no booze on the weekend). I'm down two pounds from 200 to 198.

Nice!

Late night snacks aren't a problem for me, it's the 1 or 2 beers every night. I really need to drop the Sun-Thurs beers.

Thanks. Yup, it's the late-snacks that had been piling on the extra flesh for me. I weighed myself midday yesterday. After tons of water, lunch and breakfast and coffees I still came in between 198 and 200 pounds.

Starting Weight: 270 lbs (08/25/2012)
Current Weight: 186 lbs (10/25/2014)
Short Term Goal: 183 lbs by (11/29/2014)

Starting Weight (12/28/13): 295.0
Previous Weight(10/21/14): 224.8
Current Weight (10/28/14): 221.0
Target Weight (10/28/14): 225

I wasn't really aiming to lose much this week. I adjusted MyFitnessPal down to 1/week. I made some really not spectacular choices. Somehow I still managed to drop 4 pounds this week... that's nuts.

The wife and I are heading to San Diego for a week. I'm super excited to have met and exceeded my goal. This vacation shouldn't actually be that awful. We're staying with her brother and sister-in-law and watching their one year old daughter for the week. They're super healthy and active and we plan on spending a lot of time enjoying sunny San Diego during the day while they're at work.

So I have been thinking about getting into bodyweight exercises as I travel enough that it gets in the way of a regular schedule for walking/running.

Does anyone know of a good reference book? Preferably available as an ebook or pdf so that I don't have to carry it with me.

manta173 wrote:

So I have been thinking about getting into bodyweight exercises as I travel enough that it gets in the way of a regular schedule for walking/running.

Does anyone know of a good reference book? Preferably available as an ebook or pdf so that I don't have to carry it with me.

You Are Your Own Gym is your one-stop-shop for it.

What I really need most is to start tracking my food intake again. I haven't done it in quite a long time, so I created an account on myfitnesspal. Man, these tracking pages have come a long way. One of the reasons I fell out of the habit of using them is that we mostly cook food from scratch and entering recipes all the time got to be a pain. The import recipe from a URL feature is super handy!

The past handful of months have been spent mostly being disgusted with myself for getting so out of shape and it's time to change that. I'll weigh myself on Monday morning as a starting point and maybe I can hang out in here to keep myself accountable.

Broke the no-late-nite-snack streak last night with some unsalted pretzels and an apple.

Tonight is no-snack night though. Cause I said it here. That's why. No snack-night. No Snack-Night! No Snack-Night! *wanders down the street, shouting, confusing people*

Ok. So here we go. I think I'm going to start to try and lose weight. Right now, I come in at around 330lbs at 5'11". That picture is of me playing the tuba, but I'll try and get a real photo of me up at some point. Now according to the BMI table, I should weigh around 178ish, but I really don't want that. Ideally, I'd want to get down to 250-240lbs (which would still be overweight, but I'm more here for the health benefits) because, honestly, I do like being a bit bigger. Luckily, I just got a job as a produce clerk, so I'm no longer just sitting on my butt playing video games and "studying" (grad school, so I did really study at times), and I'm hauling massive boxes of apples and bananas around.

So, since it's November 3rd (for about one more hour), I'm going to try to set a first goal of just maintaining or losing about 10lbs over the holiday season. I'm going to start by exercising first and drinking more water. No dietary changes yet. I'm planning on using Run Keeper and Lose It! on my iPhone to keep track of things. Hopefully I'll be able to do this (I always start out with this plan, but it goes away fast), and maybe with GWJer support I can do this.

I'll keep you up to date (daily or weekly, not sure yet)! Wish me luck!!! Also, any tips and tricks would help. I have a weakness for junk food (pizza rolls are my heroine [not that bad, I haven't had them in a long time]) and love just sitting around.

andrew_kroepel wrote:

Ok. So here we go. I think I'm going to start to try and lose weight. Right now, I come in at around 330lbs at 5'11". That picture is of me playing the tuba, but I'll try and get a real photo of me up at some point. Now according to the BMI table, I should weigh around 178ish, but I really don't want that. Ideally, I'd want to get down to 250-240lbs (which would still be overweight, but I'm more here for the health benefits) because, honestly, I do like being a bit bigger. Luckily, I just got a job as a produce clerk, so I'm no longer just sitting on my butt playing video games and "studying" (grad school, so I did really study at times), and I'm hauling massive boxes of apples and bananas around.

So, since it's November 3rd (for about one more hour), I'm going to try to set a first goal of just maintaining or losing about 10lbs over the holiday season. I'm going to start by exercising first and drinking more water. No dietary changes yet. I'm planning on using Run Keeper and Lose It! on my iPhone to keep track of things. Hopefully I'll be able to do this (I always start out with this plan, but it goes away fast), and maybe with GWJer support I can do this.

I'll keep you up to date (daily or weekly, not sure yet)! Wish me luck!!! Also, any tips and tricks would help. I have a weakness for junk food (pizza rolls are my heroine [not that bad, I haven't had them in a long time]) and love just sitting around.

Howdy and welcome aboard! Once you start making being more active a habit, you start to crave it. You'll find yourself antsy when you're just sitting around. Strange, random thoughts like, "I could go for a quick walk" will start to pop in your head. Start small and work your way up.

October was a rough month for me, I am going to get a new start in November.

All weights in pounds (lbs). Because Murica!!!

Starting Weight: 455
Last Week's Weight: 335.5
Current Weight: 336.6
10% Goal Weight: 300
Total Goal Weight: 180
Change: +1.1

So today I walked for a little bit, but it was really cold and spitting rain. I'll go again tomorrow.

Food, I'd rather not say.

I had a great weekend of cooking with my other half. We made some delicious dinners....then, I came home to a 5lb weight gain.

I'd like to lose 30lbs or so. It was 20, but these last couple of months have added and extra 10 to that!

I'm just starting today, so no losses to report yet.

Starting Weight: 159
Total Goal Weight: 130

I am feeling a bit weak from the junk food withdrawal. Should I start working out today, or wait until my body adjusts a bit to the new diet?

*Disclaimer*

Not a doctor.

In my experience, even on days that I felt a bit "weak" or down, heading into the gym and working out and getting the blood flowing was just what I needed to get re-energized. YMMV of course!

*Also not a doctor

The one exception I'd make is when recovering from illness. I pushed on a sinus infection before being fully recovered and probably made myself worse.

Feeling lethargic can just be a mental thing. Overcoming that hurdle and getting active, even for 15-20 minutes can help you tell the difference between real, low energy (biological, need food, etc...) vs. mental (don't feel like it, what will it accomplish, etc...). Then it becomes your will, which if you're stubborn like me, is the strongest thing you have that will drive you forward on those low mental energy days.

Junk food withdrawal shouldn't make you feel weak, it should do just the opposite. As you get used to better foods, that next bit of junk food makes you feel like crap. Try to start eating healthier right away. Find some good snacks you like to fill the junk food void. Veggies and hummus/even ranch are great to start. The bulk of the veggies makes you feel full but doesn't give quite the calorie load of fruit and nuts. This gets offset some by whatever you're dipping the veggies in, so don't go to crazy, but moderation will become your new friend. You can still have the "bad" stuff, but eventually you won't want a lot of it and when you do have it, it won't be as frequent.

The Daylight Savings Time change always makes me lethargic. Riding home from work in the dark just makes me want to go right to bed when I get there.

I don't think I can digest vegetables. I throw pretty much all raw vegetables and most cooked ones back up. Same with many raw fruits. It is part of the reason I have become such a junk foodie. It makes it a lot harder to make healthy choices when a salad is never an option.

I went to the doctor and they told me it was from stress.

I seem to be okay with sweet potatoes, spinach, canned green beans, bananas and berries. Peas are okay in baby food form (blech.) Pretty much everything else makes me vomit for a day or so after I eat it.

And junk food withdrawal DOES make me feel really bad. I spent all last night weak and with the spins on the couch until I finally gave in and ate bad food. Then I felt fine again. I still lost weight as I ate less than I normally would have. I never made it to the gym because I felt so terrible.

Here is to day two of trying to wean myself off of processed foods.

gore wrote:

The Daylight Savings Time change always makes me lethargic. Riding home from work in the dark just makes me want to go right to bed when I get there.

That could be part of why I felt so bad last night, as well. It felt like winding down time, when it shouldn't have yet!

Man, that's rough. Didn't mean to jump to any conclusions or offend. Maybe a nutritionist could help you out.

Hemidal wrote:

Man, that's rough. Didn't mean to jump to any conclusions or offend. Maybe a nutritionist could help you out.

Second this suggestion - you've obviously got some unique challenges to work with - seems smart to seek professional advice.

The reason I third a nutritionist is I'm seeing one, and it took all the stress out of eating for me. Especially since she was very willing for me to ask for most foods, and would just tell me what portion that equaled (so if I want my mushrooms in garlic and olive oil, but much more oil than I'm allowed...I can, just the portion of the total is smaller. Same stuff. Less of it.).

Likewise my snacks. When I don't want to have 2 fruits and 6 nuts, especially when I'm at work and my 15 minute break has actually become 2 minutes in which to eat, I can have almost anything that's 200 calories. For now, I have various bars and such stored around to grab.

But the biggest thing for me was I would feel stressed/guilty for eating ANY carbs, and instead right now I'm eating 3 cups of carbs at dinner, and 1 cup at lunch. Of whatever I freaking want (bread, rice, spaghetti, non-french-fried potatoes, where "a cup of bread" is like 2 slices of normally cut sandwich bread).

My wife and I are seeing the same nutritionist. The only "pain" was the initial shock of "I can only have *how* much meat?" but this became less when I asked for more meat in our second session, and she switched some stuff around and gave me more. The second came 2 weeks ago, when my lunch carbs went from 2 cups to 1 cup...but so far I'm okay with it.

Starting Weight: 311 (7/8/2013)
Previous Weight: 194.2 (10/24/2014)
Current Weight: 191.2 (11/7/2014)
Height: 6' 1"
Body Fat: 17.5%
Target Weight: 190ish...

Made a real concentrated effort the last couple of weeks to push down to 190. I'm almost there. I'm thinking about seeing a nutritionist as well, just so I can maintain the weight, but drop about 5% body fat. I will have a 6 pack by summer*.

* - stupid goals are stupid and vain, but hey, whatta ya gonna do?