I updated the main post with the new stats.
A few pages back I mentioned WebMD's new Diet Evaluator, which is a helpful tool - especially for determining how many calories you need to burn daily and weekly to achieve your goal. It's essentially a 5 minute survey regarding diet and exercise followed by a custom analysis.
I haven't been to this thread for a little while, but I'm proud to report I'm at 224 Lbs now. Tap&Track iPhone app has been very helpful.
I'm trying to trend more towards, as CptGlanton put it, stuff my great-grandmother would recognize as food.
That sounds like a bad idea. I've seen some of my great-grandmother's recipes and most of them include copious amounts of lard and/or butter.
Starting (12/20/09): 315 lbs.
Current (1/10/10): 307 lbs.
Goal: 200 lbs.
Height: 6'0
Goal Date: 5/16/11
Progess so far: 8 lbs.
Holidays were bad for me, but recently I had oral surgery which made having a low calorie diet pretty easy. Anyone have any suggestions for a protein shake or other liquid lunch that hopefully costs less than $4 a day, doesn't require shaking for more than 10 seconds (powders are too grainy and wouldn't work in my work environment), and hopefully doesn't scream "I'M ON A DIET!"? I don't even know where to start.
Oh, and 93, could you change the spelling on my name, it's Kadono, just looking to avoid any accidental duplicate entries. Thanks.
The funn thig about lard is that the people that paid for all the studies saying it was bad were the same people that had vested interests in those new fangled processed oils. How long have humans been cooking wh the oil extracted from cotton plants? Also, the processed oils hydrolyse at a much lower temperature, which is when all the lovely chemicals that were used to process it become carcinogenic. Sorry about preaching, but bottom line, I use lard and cold pressed olive oil.
She wouldn't have even known that an Oreo or Dorito was meant to be eaten, so we shouldn't be eating them.
Here is a fun fact. Oreo's were first produced in 1912, so it is possible that many of our great-grandmothers would know what an oreo is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreo
The funn thig about lard is that the people that paid for all the studies saying it was bad were the same people that had vested interests in those new fangled processed oils. How long have humans been cooking wh the oil extracted from cotton plants? Also, the processed oils hydrolyse at a much lower temperature, which is when all the lovely chemicals that were used to process it become carcinogenic. Sorry about preaching, but bottom line, I use lard and cold pressed olive oil.
Cotton oil?! Yikes, I am not even sure I have any of that in my house, Coconut and Olive oil, with some generic blended oil that I rarely use (more likely used to keep things from sticking to another/prevent rust than to actually cook with). Then again I've been seriously eyeing up a flour mill so I might not be your normal cook 
Yeah Nosferatu, most fried foods are done in Cotton Seed oil at takeaway places because it is a cheap and nasty oil, Palm oil is another that is often used in cheaper products like generic brand biscuits. The more you know
Rubb Ed wrote:I'm trying to trend more towards, as CptGlanton put it, stuff my great-grandmother would recognize as food.
That sounds like a bad idea. I've seen some of my great-grandmother's recipes and most of them include copious amounts of lard and/or butter.
I think butter gets a bad rap. Calorie for calorie, a tablespoon of butter has fewer calories than a tablespoon of olive oil. Sure, butter's higher in saturated fat, so you wouldn't want to drown things in it. But then again, you wouldn't want to drown things in olive oil, either.
Want and need are two different things. I definately want to drown food in butter or olive oil, but I don't need to, and one can say I need not to.
I'm in. Lost a bunch before getting married but made the mistake of getting married in Vegas and put it all on again.
Have lost a bit from my highest a year ago but still need to lose more.
Height: 6'
Starting Weight: (12/21/09): 100kg
Current Weight (12/21/09): 100kg
Target Weight: 90kg
Target Goal Date: 1 June 2010
Weight Loss Progress: 0 kgs.
Current Weight (01/04/09): 287.5 lbs.
Weight Loss Progress: 1.5 lbs.
Gained a half pound this week. I'm going to chalk that up to weight gain due to increased daily exercise. My PT told me that you can gain as much as 5 pounds when beginning a workout regimen but you should see weight loss as long as you make good decisions around your diet.
The other side of that is that I've been pretty half-assed about my discipline around food.
Got the new scale last night, here is this morning's update:
Height: 6'6"
Starting Weight: (12/21/09): 261 lbs.
Current Weight (01/11/10): 262.8 lbs.
Target Weight: 240 lbs.
Target Goal Date: Memorial Day 2010. (5/31/09)
Weight Loss Progress: +1.8 lbs.
I'm going the wrong way! I knew before I stepped on the scale that I hadn't been eating very well, so it's not a surprise. Every day is a new start, though.
I've also decided to add a fitness goal to go along with my weight loss goal. I want to run in a 10K race sometime this spring. I'm currently running 2-3 miles a few days a week, so it's definitely doable. I always seem to hit a stumbling block around the time I get up into the 4-5 mile range, though. Maybe posting about it here will give me an extra bit of motivation to keep at it.
Starting Weight: (12/21/09): 289 lbs.
Current Weight (1/11/10): 280 lbs.
Weight Loss Progress: 9 lbs
Target Weight: 200 lbs.
Target Goal Date: 10/31/2010 (~2 lbs per week)
Not horrible. If I had done better over the weekend, I think I would have lost even more, but it was my birthday, so I went out to dinner Friday and then spent Saturday and Sunday watching football and eating my buddy's wife's awesome food.
I'm really pleased with my progress so far. I feel like there's still so much I can do to help with my weight loss. My food intake has not been as good as it could be and I've been doing hardly any exercise.
CptGlanton wrote:She wouldn't have even known that an Oreo or Dorito was meant to be eaten, so we shouldn't be eating them.
Here is a fun fact. Oreo's were first produced in 1912, so it is possible that many of our great-grandmothers would know what an oreo is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreo
You dang kids and your post-1900s great-grandmothers.
Yeah Nosferatu, most fried foods are done in Cotton Seed oil at takeaway places because it is a cheap and nasty oil, Palm oil is another that is often used in cheaper products like generic brand biscuits. The more you know ;)
I've never heard of any US fast food place using cotton seed oil; most are 100% vegetable oil due to health concerns. Still not so good for you as if they'd baked the stuff, but that would require quite a bit of oven space and time.
As for Butter vs Margarine, Butter all the way in my house. Yea, saturated fat and all that, but better than margarine. As for oils, it really depends on the application. I've used anything from lard to vegetable shortening to olive oil to canola oil to vegetable oil.
I update all of the stats from today's posts (and Kadono's name). Anyone with time and fancy Excel skills up for creating a spreadsheet in Google Docs with all of our weight loss stats? The main post is hard to read.
As for my progress, I came down with a nasty cold Friday (maybe from gym germs) so unfortunately, I'm sidelined from any exercise for the time being. I'm hoping to shake this thing off by week's end and get back on schedule. I was still able to do a TON of chores around the house so I'm at least burning decent calories.
One spreadsheet, coming up!
edit - And here it is!
A few notes:
1. Anyone can clicky to edit.
2. Let me know if that needs to change.
3. There are several computation columns; if you want to add yourself, just drag them down.
3a. These are the Comp Columns: Goal Progress, Amount Till Goal and Days till Goal date.
4. Unless you've updated in the last week, today is your current day.
5. If you want to add your height, feel free; my wife is ready to skin me alive right now. 
Hope this works for ya'll!
Alright, time for the Moose to chime in here!
It's been a ... challenging year (job loss, family deaths, etc., etc.) and my gains (err.. losses) have been swallowed up by the Comfort Beast (chips & Fries).
Current Weight: 240
Target weight: 190
Current Height: 6' 1"
Target Height: 6' 1"
Goal Weight Date: 7/10/2010 (birthday!)
Realistic Weight Date: 12/31/2010 (a pound a week seems feasible)
I'm contributing because I saw a photo (taken three days ago) of me in a chair and even the back of my neck looked fat; that's never good.
Currently I'm moving to a new house in a rural area where the closest fast-food is 14 miles away, so that may help matters a bit. Plus, moving can be good exercise, so... here's hoping.
You're spreadsheeted Puce You can dooo eeet!
You're spreadsheeted Puce
Thanks for putting this together - looks great! I added the link to the main post. I'd still like to see everyone post their updated progress here in addition to updating the spreadsheet.
Rubb Ed wrote:I'm trying to trend more towards, as CptGlanton put it, stuff my great-grandmother would recognize as food.
That sounds like a bad idea. I've seen some of my great-grandmother's recipes and most of them include copious amounts of lard and/or butter.
And it's not like my grandmother wouldn't know what fried chicken or milk chocolate is. Or pie.
kaostheory wrote:Rubb Ed wrote:I'm trying to trend more towards, as CptGlanton put it, stuff my great-grandmother would recognize as food.
That sounds like a bad idea. I've seen some of my great-grandmother's recipes and most of them include copious amounts of lard and/or butter.
And it's not like my grandmother wouldn't know what fried chicken or milk chocolate is. Or pie.
I'd much rather eat what my great-grandmother called fried chicken than what's served at fast food places today.
I'd much rather eat what my great-grandmother called fried chicken than what's served at fast food places today.
Maybe so, but nobody was suggesting those are low calorie foods. Too many calories consumed plus too few calories burned is why people get fat. You eat too much of your great-grandmother's fried chicken, you're going to get fat.
If anything, if you want to lose weight you want to focus on foods you find disgusting and awful. Then you never want to eat very much.
Update:
Edgar_Newt
Height: 6'2"
Starting Weight: (12/21/09): 236 lbs
Current Weight (1/12/10): 229 lbs
Target Weight: 200 lbs
Target Goal Date: 1 June 2010
Weight Loss Progress: 7 lbs
Added to spreadsheet.
CptGlanton wrote:I'd much rather eat what my great-grandmother called fried chicken than what's served at fast food places today.
Maybe so, but nobody was suggesting those are low calorie foods. Too many calories consumed plus too few calories burned is why people get fat. You eat too much of your great-grandmother's fried chicken, you're going to get fat.
If anything, if you want to lose weight you want to focus on foods you find disgusting and awful. Then you never want to eat very much.
Mmmm.. Fried Chicken. So in that vein, I have a recipe for it that's fairly healthy!
.5 cup AP flour
Kosher Salt
Pepper(fresh ground black)
1.5 tsp garlic powder
.5 cup low fat parmesan
Cayenne Pepper(optional)
1.5 cups Bread Crumbs, panko works really well
6 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts, 4-5 oz each
3 large egg whites
1 tbsp water
1 tbsp olive oil
1. Adjust an oven rack to the middle & preheat to 475
2. Combine breadcrumbs and oil and toast; cool in a dish(pie plate works well) and mix in parmesan when cooled.
3. Combine flour, garlic, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp black pepper, .5 tsp cayenne pepper in another dish. Whisk egg whites and water in a third dish. Again, pie plates are best.
4. Place a wire rack on a foil lined baking sheet & spray with pam or something.
5. Pat chicken dry with paper towels, then dredge in flour, shaking off the excess. dredge in egg whites and press into breadcrumbs to make sure they stick.
6. Bake the chicken for 15-20 minutes or until they feel firm when pressed with a finger & center is no longer pink.
Ordinarily, this is for chicken parm, but you can totally use it for baked chicken. If you want Chicken Parm, top the chicken with a bit of tomato sauce(puree whole tomatoes and simmer them with basil, oregano, thyme, salt, bay, pepper and a bit of olive oil for 30-40 minutes. Taste it often to make sure it's tasty) and a bit of mozzarella over that. Serve over your favorite noodly pasta.
This is not going well.
Last night I attempted to dive into a new exercise routine by joining a friend's Jitsu dojo.
I got half way through the warmup before nearly vomiting/passing out. Crawled home in abject humiliation and into a tub of Ben and Jerry's Self-Loathing-Chip icecream.
Hmm, I have been reading the thread and hope you all the best. I'm sure you guys have heard of it by now but I have been using a little iphone app called "lose it". You put your height and weight in and tell it how many pounds a week you want to lose. Then before you eat each meal you look up what you want to eat and it subtracts it from your total allowed calories. It is also free, which is always nice.
I'm 5'7" and started at 185 pounds (mini-chunk phara!) I have been using it for 3 weeks and now I'm at 176 as of this morning. I'm aiming to get back to my pre-married weight of 155, my wife cooks good food. The app is the best out there as far as its database, but if I can not find a food item in the app I just google it. I find it is less depressing to only concentrate on total calorie count and not jump on the scale everyday. Plus this way I can continue my normal take out life style without dragging my wife into the diet as well.
The reason why I recommend it is because it keeps a goal in your mind when you go to eat. For instance this morning someone brought in donuts to the office! Oh how I love donuts! But a quick look and I found out that one donut will cost me 230 calories! That means for one donut I have to skip lunch! So I just say no. This is great because if you exercise you get extra calories in a day, so if I burn off 500 calories I can eat up to 2000 in a day instead of my normal 1500. But I'm a completely lazy person so I hardly go and exercise!
It is really tough sometimes but I'm tired of having a fat neck and gut and damnit I'm going to look great when I hit the beaches of Reykjavík this July!
This is not going well.
Last night I attempted to dive into a new exercise routine by joining a friend's Jitsu dojo.
I got half way through the warmup before nearly vomiting/passing out. Crawled home in abject humiliation and into a tub of Ben and Jerry's Self-Loathing-Chip icecream.
Noooo!!!
Hmm, I have been reading the thread and hope you all the best. I'm sure you guys have heard of it by now but I have been using a little iphone app called "lose it". You put your height and weight in and tell it how many pounds a week you want to lose. Then before you eat each meal you look up what you want to eat and it subtracts it from your total allowed calories. It is also free, which is always nice.
I'm 5'7" and started at 185 pounds (mini-chunk phara!) I have been using it for 3 weeks and now I'm at 176 as of this morning. I'm aiming to get back to my pre-married weight of 155, my wife cooks good food. The app is the best out there as far as its database, but if I can not find a food item in the app I just google it. I find it is less depressing to only concentrate on total calorie count and not jump on the scale everyday. Plus this way I can continue my normal take out life style without dragging my wife into the diet as well.
The reason why I recommend it is because it keeps a goal in your mind when you go to eat. For instance this morning someone brought in donuts to the office! Oh how I love donuts! But a quick look and I found out that one donut will cost me 230 calories! That means for one donut I have to skip lunch! So I just say no. This is great because if you exercise you get extra calories in a day, so if I burn off 500 calories I can eat up to 2000 in a day instead of my normal 1500. But I'm a completely lazy person so I hardly go and exercise!
It is really tough sometimes but I'm tired of having a fat neck and gut and damnit I'm going to look great when I hit the beaches of Reykjavík this July!
I have this app too. I have used it off and on since I bought my phone last fall. I really like because you can modify the plan to what is more suitable for you rather than the standard templates. I really enjoy how it has so many exercises, many more than I could ever think of.
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