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11 July 2011
Starting to get back into making a serious effort.
I did it back in Jan. 2005-2006. I lost 67 lbs in 1 year. From 265 lbs. to a low of 203 lbs. 6 years later it's a hell of a lot harder. Last time it was a total "system shock". I had ZERO exercise routine. I was just coming off of 4 years in college where an average week for me consisted of staying up until all hours of the night to do my school work, getting no exercise, and having a terrible diet. If I ate any breakfast, it was a big chocolate muffin and a tall coffee from the coffee shop. Lunch (again if it happened), was probably a half a bag of potato chips at 2 PM if I had time to get back to my apartment again. Supper happened around 10:30 PM and it was typically an entire Jack's thin crust pizza. Thursday night I drank myself stupid after I was done with classes for the week. Friday afternoon after I recovered I went and got the greasiest "hangover food" I could find.
Then I got fed up. I realized how fat I was, I saw how horrible my routine had become, and I did something about it. The truth is I have never been in "great shape", but at least in High School I was consistently weight lifting, doing cardio, and playing football. In short, I knew what I needed to do.
So Jan 1st I started. No more pizza, no more regular pop, no more junk, as little sugar as possible. Cardio and weight lifting at least 3 times a week.
In 3 weeks, I lost 20 lbs! It was crazy. In a month people were already commenting on how much better I looked.
It was like a "system shock". All of those terrible habits stopped, and it was astounding what eating healthy and exercising again did. Frankly it was kind of scary how fast it worked, but I didn't starve myself, I didn't start a fad diet, nothing. I just did what I was supposed to do.
By August I was maintaining about 203 lb weight. I'd swing up 3 lbs one week, and down 3 the next. I wasn't really steadily losing any more, but I seemed to have peaked out my metabolism after about 3 noticeable stages of improvement. It felt great.
Then I started to slack again and it slowly crept back. In Feb. I was up to 225 or so. We had a little office pool contest for weight loss and I one that by losing 19 lbs. by April. Then by winter I noticed I was about 240. I began feeling really stressed out about work, I didn't have any money. I lost motivation. Over 2 years I gained most of it back. Since about 2007 I've gone up and down, hovering around my High School weight of 235, and now back to 265.
I've been working out, I rarely eat fast food, I don't have pizza in the house, and I can't tell you the last time I bought a pint of ice cream or some cookies, but it just hasn't been working. Too many carbs, too much quantity, and not enough consistent exercise. One week I go 3 or 4 times to the gym, the next it's 2 because I skipped a day, the next week I step on the scale and see that I gained a lb or 2 and say "Why bother?" because I'm so busy at the time.
It needs to stop.
So I'm going to try and do the things that worked in 2005.
1) Take in 500 cal. less then my BMR daily. BMR is 2,452, so that will be a 1900 cal diet. Not too crazy or putting me on the "brink of starvation" either. I read once that every 500 cal. under your BMR should lose 2 lbs. in a week. I'll also be getting some more protein and making sure I'm taking vitamins.
2) Cut out carbs, sugars. Time to stop eating 4 pieces of toast for breakfast, and 2 sandwiches for lunch. I'm going to stop buying bread for a while. Oatmeal for breakfast, soup or a salad for lunch. I won't go on Attkins or South Beach because 1)I won't follow a menu full of stuff I wont eat (that is probably just a marketing tool anyway) and 2) Either Diet is precipitated on a serious life style change that I can't imagine following long term. That's great if you lose a bunch of weight on eating as little carbs as humanly possible, but some day you'll want spaghetti and garlic bread again.
3) Get back to at least 3 days of cardio a week, try for more if I can. It's easy to skip a day or a week when you get busy. Life happens, especially in summer. But if I can't go Fri, Sat, Sun, I need to start doing Mon-Wed, or Mon, Tue, Thurs. Endurance and stamina wise I'm doing good. I can do 40-45 min. on the eliptical no problem. But it hasn't been enough. I should add that I'm lifting when I go too. Mostly Chest/Tris, then Back/Bis and I would like to get back into more squats and leg work. I figure for now though that the main purpose of working out is cardio, and if your legs are too sore....
4) No gimmick pills, powders, etc. Since most of that stuff just seems to be caffine based and meant to spike your metabolism that way, I'm staying away. I can't drink caffine like I used to. It makes me HUNGRY, and sometimes messes with my stomach and/or intestines. More then a cup of coffee and a Diet Coke in a day spaced out after I eat something, and I feel like crap.
So there it is in a nutshell.
I'd like to loose 30 lbs this year and be back to my High School weight of 235. If I can get back into the 200 lb range, and be "middle school weight skinny" again by the end of 2012 I'd be ecstatic.
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11 July 2011
Weigh-in:
265.0 lb
lost so far:
0 lb
still to go:
60.0 lb
Diet followed N/A
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