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I'm going to lose 100 lbs.

I am ashamed to admit that I have fallen off the wagon. After dropping 16 pounds I lost sight of my goals, and have actually put a couple more pounds back on. I've promised my wife that starting Friday I am back to the gym and back on my routine.
 
I'm still plugging away and can say, I feel so much better. I've eaten out a little more lately so I'm still healthy for my surgery, but its been chicken salads from Taco Bell. Of course I have no cheese, ranch dressing, and no sour cream since I'm allergic to them. I need to add a new notch to my leather belt since its to big once again. But since I can carry concealed, I haven't really needed to put the notch in it just yet. I did start doing some walking in the last couple of weeks but the weather has been pretty crappy once again so I've stopped that for now. I'm making one lap around the inside of the yard with the dogs so I can get in some form of walk. The spinal disease has been a great motivator for losing the excess weight. Granted I wished it was a different reason for losing the weight.
 
Weight Loss is still stuck but Sugar is doing well. A1C is below 7 for the first time in like forever. Last time is was just over 10 which is bad. I think 5 is normal.
 
I need to lose about 20 pounds. The only problem is I am a senior in college and work full time which means I eat whatever and whenever I can. I find myself eating dinner some nights at 10 or 11 which im sure has added to weight gain. I also need to stop drinking.
 
I lost 125 lbs recently, divorce :laugh:

I would suggest hitting the weights hard, more muscle burns more calories, and that combined w/ eating clean and good cardio should melt the fat off of you. I also would suggest intense cardio 1st thing on a empty stomach, really kick starts your metabolism, alot of it is getting your metabolism rolling, not just the calories burned by the physical exercise. Of course you should run everything past your md...

And i have to scratch my head on Mr. Peat doing 1500lbs w one leg on leg press. best i can tell, a world record was 3100 lbs (both legs), and there's a Ronnie Coleman vid of him doing 2300 lbs, and he's freakishly strong.
 
A co-worker randomly stopped me in the hall this morning to tell me that I look great. I've only lost 20 pounds since January, but the compliment really motivated me to step up my weight training and cardio. When people start noticing that you are looking healthier you must be doing something right.
 
theroberthogan said:
A co-worker randomly stopped me in the hall this morning to tell me that I look great. I've only lost 20 pounds since January, but the compliment really motivated me to step up my weight training and cardio. When people start noticing that you are looking healthier you must be doing something right.
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It does motivate you. We went to our old church for Easter where no one had seen us in several months. Everyone kept telling me how good I looked, and noticed that I had lost weight. Sometimes it's hard to get your ass in gear for that cardio workout, especially in my case where it has to be after coming home from work. That day definitely gave me the shot in the arm I needed.

Weighed myself this morning and I finally hit the 230 lb. mark. I was 255 lbs. when I started in January. :cool: I've done it without depriving myself. I just use simple economics. I never take in more than I burn off. I have cheat days once and a while, and I never skip a simple breakfast, something I used to never follow.

Th biggest benefit is how good I feel overall. My ankles don't hurt near as bad (or at all) at the end of the day.
 
Yeah John, but you're still so ugly you're mama had to tie a porkchop around your neck to get the dog to play with you :laugh:

Good job guys, that's some nice progress, can't say enough about the energy you'll gain, not to mention the lengthening of your life span...
 
I decided to ride my Bicycle to the Horseshoe Casino this morning. It would have been about 44 miles round trip. I made it just fine, tired as hell but when I started back I had a flat tire so my buddy Steve gave me a ride home.

I believe this was the first time I was ever happy to have a flat tire.
 
Haven't updated in a while weight loss hit a plateau for like two months. Bounced up and down between 295 and 300 lbs. Blood sugar is doing well.

I think I am back in business. I was watching the Jesus Channel (TBN) and they were interviewing an MD that treated type 2 Diabetics but preferred not to give out medications. He put his patients on the Rice Diet, which I hadn't heard anything about. I bought the book (discount rack at Barnes & Nobel with a gift card FTW!) and although I realize the Rice Diet is way too restrictive for me, they made some very good points and the book got me thinking about why I was stuck and what I needed to do.

The book says, if you eat a lot of salt, you have to problems trying to lose weight. One is that salt causes your body to retain water so you weigh more because you are carrying more water and salt triggers your hunger mechanism so you feel hungry.

So I have been backing away from the salt shaker and trying to break my Diet Coke addiction. I know it is an addiction because I went through mild withdrawl symptoms. I have never taken drugs so I have no idea what full-blown withdrawl would be like and I am pretty sure I never want to find out. No way I win Miss Congeniality this week!

Walking is going pretty good. I made a post recently about Ben and I hiking and getting started down the wrong trail. I posted a picture of were we planned to go and where we actually went.

Planned route in Blue Actual in Red. I walked the Blue route this time.

The Knobstone trail totals about 59 miles IIRC but the section I walked is just over 5 miles. If you start at Deam Lake it is mostly a gentle climb until you get to mile 4 and the last mile is a killer. I am familar with the area so I started from Bartle Knob Rd secure in my knowledge that it would be mostly downhill. Well, it is mostly, from Bartle Knob Rd is damn near straight down and then straight back up! Winding down one side of a ravine (that's the fancy name for a Holler if you are a HillBilly like me) and winding right back up the side of a knob, I found myself thinking it was similar to the time I rode The Son of the Beast at King's Island, if I ever get off this damn thing, I am never getting back on!

But once you reach the 4 mile marker, you follow a ridge, gently for the most part, down to Deam lake. There are few ups and downs but nothing like that 5th mile.
 
Nice update there Steamboat.

I found out I lost 22 to 24 pounds since I started my diet. I seem to hit a plateau myself but now that I've had my surgery, a lot of things is taken out of my diet instantly. It sucks but it will help in the end. I knew the salt retains water. One thing we did in the field to help retain water was to eat salty sunflower seeds. I'd probably take out like 6 lbs of Sunflower seeds and share with my Recon section and they had things that they shared as well.

I'm basically still on a soft food diet as of right now so a lot of apple sauce, pudding, jello, water, and other things that I can digest pretty easy. Hopefully in a week I'll be able to start eating more solid food as I am sick and tired of soups. LOL!!!
 
295 lbs blood sugar 83 this morning. Cutting back on salt has made a significant difference.
 
I seem to have hit a plateau around the 20 pound mark as well. It probably doesn't help that I have not been going to gym and using depression over my pending job loss as an excuse. Like my wife always tells me, working out releases endorphins and makes you feel happy.
 
292 lbs, blood sugar 99

A week ago Friday, I walked to J. Gumbo's on Frankfort Ave in Louisville, KY and back for lunch, approx. 18 miles but I wasn't woth a shit for anything the rest of the weekend.

I am going to have to make a smaller hole in my new belt, which makes me very happy!
 
An amazing thing just happened. We rolled in from a weekend at St Louis and there was my mailbox, blown up! One of our BOTL's whishing me well on my Quest and it could not have arrived at a better time.

Thanks Brother
 
What's your current status on the 100 lbs??
 
Great to hear brother, depending on your physical level of athleticism you may want to look into P90 or P90X its an amazing meal plan, "NOT DIET" and exercise plan. Hit me up with a PM and I can explain more about it. Me and my girlfriend are starting P90X as soon as I get paid from my new job. Its about a 150 dollar investment as far as equipment and a little more for food, but you will see amazing results. I recommend googling the program and watching some of the videos. Try to find someone about your same build weight height and so on and see exactly what could happen its amazing.
 
souldog24ca said:
What's your current status on the 100 lbs??
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Weighed last week, was up slightly, 296 lbs. Record low was 289, Blood Sugar has been doing really well but weight loss, not so good.

Our trip to ST Louis was really nice but it was a regression to our old ways. Sonya wanted to get away for the weekend and we basically made a list of places to eat and we drove from one to another, which if you have serious issues with food, is a wonderful trip.

I had asked Sonya about halfway through the weekend, if I had permantley damaged my weight loss plan and how difficult would it be to get back on the straight and narrow. I purposely include some splurges and I don't beat myself up about them, but this weekend was excessive, damn tasty but too much.

I was planning to make a trip report here in the lobby but I thought about this thread and figured it would make me look bad, but I have made a point not to lie to myself or to any BOTL's in this thread so I probably will post some pictures and talk about the food.

Poronico said:
Great to hear brother, depending on your physical level of athleticism you may want to look into P90 or P90X its an amazing meal plan, "NOT DIET" and exercise plan. Hit me up with a PM and I can explain more about it. Me and my girlfriend are starting P90X as soon as I get paid from my new job. Its about a 150 dollar investment as far as equipment and a little more for food, but you will see amazing results. I recommend googling the program and watching some of the videos. Try to find someone about your same build weight height and so on and see exactly what could happen its amazing.
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It is too extreme and there is no way I can maintain that lifestyle. I have to build a lifestyle that I can maintain and while it would be completely awesome to be ripped, how bad would it suck after I get fat again?
 
Steamboat...great job man. I think this post is phenomenal. Losing weight is a tough thing. I've had toubles myself with losing weight just to gain it back. Your adventure is inspiring. Keep up the good work. As for me myself...I am working on losing weight now as well. Trying to get back to my military weight of 180, now almost 240.
 
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