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grglblch

Start Weight:	(23 Jun 09) 147.0 lb
Current Weight:	(23 Jun 09) 147.0 lb
Goal Weight:	147.0 lb

following: grglblch's own diet
performance: Steady

I'm 42 years old, and airline pilot for Jetblue Airways, and a Team Beachbody Coach. At 40 years old I had outgrown my size 34 pants, and refused to buy 36's. I've exercised regularly since 1984, but bad diet and lack of intensity and duration lead to an increasing body fat with my age. I was desperate to find a way to stop the expanding gut when I found P90X. The program changed my life, gave me the tools to know how much I needed to eat, how often, and what kinds of foods, along with an intense exercise program. Following that program I dropped from 170 lbs down to 145 in 90 days, have gotten as low as 138 but was too skinny. Since then I have added 8 lbs of muscle to my upper body while keeping my body fat around 6-7%.

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What am I doing wrong?
Many people think they eat healthy and clean, but aren't necessarily as healthy as they think. "I just had the Cesar salad for dinner, that's healthy right?" Nope.. many salads have 1000+ calories.

The key is twofold: 1) consistently eat clean, healthy, whole unprocessed foods. Things like lean meats, 4oz at a time, along with fresh steamed veggies and grains, in measured amounts. I eat about a cup of steamed broccoli and 1/2 cup of rice with a 4-5 oz chicken breast as a meal. That's a staple.

Healthy snacks include veggies, fruits, etc.

You need to measure your portions and track your calories.. you have been tracking but are you eyeballing your portions or are you measuring them?

2) Exercise needs to be VARIED, not just the same old running. Your body is on a plateau with that, and just doing simple steady state cardio isn't going to break that. That's why programs you see advertised like P90X and Insanity work, they push you to your limits but change up the workouts consistently.

The last thing you need to understand is that weighing yourself every day is just a set up for disappointment. It takes time for your body to change, but you have to be doing what works to make it change. Right now you aren't, your program isn't going to cut the fat.

posted 10 Nov 2009, 13:32

Belly fat
You cannot spot reduce fat, no matter what you try. You can cut this out of your diet, or that, and do a bajillion crunches and your body will burn off fat when and where it wants.

The key to weight loss and fat loss is eating a slight calorie deficit, along with a consistent exercise program. Strength training 3 days per week and cardio 2 to 3 days per week will help you retain muscle mass, while burning off the goo.

posted 10 Nov 2009, 13:25

Nutrisystem Tastes Really Bad
There is no secret to weight loss and keeping it off, it's just plain simple common sense. Eat the right amount of food, eat healthy clean non-processed food, and do some exercise several days per week.

As a general rule of thumb a sedentary man needs to eat about 1500 calories per day to lose weight, an active man 1800-2000. Women need about 1000 to 1500 depending on their level of activity.

This site provides all you need to track your calories, but the work is up to you. You have to measure your portions, weigh lean meats, and eat 5 to 6 small meals per day. I've been doing this for 2 years and have maintained single-digit body fat since Oct 2007.

It's not difficult, especially once you get into the groove of it. You just have to commit to doing the work. Gimmicks like Nutrisystem will never work long term, because they fill you with preservatives and sodium on a big calorie deficit, then when you go back to eating non-pre made foods you will gain the weight back.

Cook your own foods, eat clean, and move your body. That's the trick, but it's no secret.

posted 06 Sep 2009, 11:42

Dieting and drinking
The real question is do you want to lose weight or do you want to just keep doing what you're doing and hope the weight goes away?

What most people don't know about alcohol is that it doesn't matter how many calories are in it, or the calories you eat when you drink, etc. it's that alcohol is quite simply a poison. Your body will shut down your metabolic processing of anything in your system when alcohol gets in because it's trying to rid itself of a toxin.

It uses the alcohol first for energy and tries to burn it off quickly (which is why it will hit you faster than the energy you gain from eating normal foods). During that time if you consume more calories, or have them sitting idly in your system, your body will start storing them away as fat.

So drinking and dieting together simply don't mix.

I do agree that cold-turkey can lead to binging, but can you limit yourself to 1 or 2 drinks max on a weekend? If not, you are going to be shooting yourself in the foot.

posted 23 Jun 2009, 20:57

No Results! Can u tell why?
If you're going to the gym 3 times per week, unfortunately you are wasting your time. The simple truth of getting fit and staying that way is that you have to workout AT LEAST 30 minutes per day, 5 days per week... that's a bare minimum to stay in shape if you're already there. If you're trying to lose weight it takes a lot more work and a lot longer than 2 weeks.

Before I started doing P90X, I was doing the same thing, and asked the same question: why am I not seeing any results. It's because I wasn't doing nearly enough.

1 hour an an optimum workout. There are different theories on doing full body circuits, but most trainer will tell you do strength training day 1, cardio day 2, strength again on 3 and so on. And when you do your workouts, they have to be hard..HARD. You should be spent by the time you leave the gym. If you're not, you're just dipping your foot in the pool, you're not swimming (as my old martial arts master used to say).

posted 23 Jun 2009, 20:44

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24 June 2009

goals for Level II 2400 calories: 240g protein 240g carbs 53g fats

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	1/2 serving Smokehouse Almonds
	4 servings Fat Free French Vanilla Cappuccino
	1/2 cup Brown Rice (Medium-Grain, Cooked)
	Conditioning exercise (health club)
	Calisthenics (heavy, e.g. pushups)
	Calisthenics (heavy, e.g. pushups)

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