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[soulsurfer]

update:

What’s your background? - fat
What causes you to be overweight? - eating a lot and not exercising
How long have you been trying to lose weight? 17 years
How much have you lost, and/or how much do you have to lose? was down 56 ten years ago, put 45 back on over the last 9 years
What are you doing about it? talking on the internet
What foods/exercise are working for you? nothing
How the fuck do you maintain after losing it? can't
…etc

Dang.


I honestly didn't have high hopes going into this but even if I never lose another pound at least I'm not poisoning my body with sugar and processed bullshit at this point. I had no idea sugar was in EVERYTHING until I started looking at labels. No more fast food or any junk food included.

I have had chronic heartburn for years. Went to the DR. He prescribed some expensive bullshit after doing an Endoscopy. I quit taking that shit a long time ago. Guess what? I haven't had heartburn ONCE since doing this low carb thing. Fucking amazing. Energy is through the roof too. I wanna chase teenagers down the street and punch em in teh nutz!

I'm glad I don't have chronic problems or anything like that. I've just become soft by sitting around in the office and not doing physical stuff. And, I've remained fat by eating large portions and slipping "innocent" deserts in here and there. It's easy to just lose hope when you're stuck in a routine.

The routine is:
get up
eat a bagel
sit at the office
eat lunch (hope for it to be at a healthy place. Then it isn't)
sit at the office
go home, play guitar for 30 minutes. (or do laundry, or mow lawn, or go to post office)
cook dinner for family
eat dinner (something relatively healthy, then eat like 2 gigantic plates of it)
put baby to bed
sit and watch tv for an hour with wife (eat a few hundred unnecessary calories here)
go to bed

It's HARD to break a routine.

I know I can cut the post dinner snacking, but it's hard.
The bummer is that 30 free minutes isn't enough time to get to the gym. of course, this is an excuse, but I'm a bum. I'm lazy, and it's all about trying to take care of the family. (which leads to a preacher of some sort saying "taking care of your family should start with taking care of your health".)

I just can't deal with anything any longer at the moment.

I'm not feeling motivated at work. (not that I don't have energy, it's that I just don't care.)
I'm tired of the house having problems.
I'm tired of not being in a band
I'm tired of my clothes fitting like shit
I'm tired of advil commercials showing super human athletes who supposedly have "pain". YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT PAIN IS!


I EAT TOO MUCH PIZZA DAMMIT! I liked it when I was drunk constantly, but that's over. Now, I'm just fucking bored. I used to run around the park. Now, I hate running. I used to cycle, now my wife hates cycling.

if you're happy - then it's hard to convince yourself to change. if you're insane, then you'll expect to be happy doing things you that make you sad.

It all starts with you and whatever lie you're believing. You don't have to make your eating habits the focus. Make being happier the focus. If eating a gallon of icecream is 'happy time' . OK - unless it really isn't.

don't lie to yourself. Carbs make you hungry ironically. The more you eat the more you want more and more and more. Coca-Cola and Micky Ds aren't the problem...carbs are.

You can eat them...but you should eat more protein and fats. AS CRAZY AS THAT SOUNDS. you won't have to eat as much per sitting and can eat it more often and still lose weight.

I took my friend's advice and split my normal 3 daily meals into 6. Didn't eat any less just ate less per meal and ate meals more often.
Got used to that quick. Then dropped carbs. This was harder not because I want them so much as they are in everything. Even low-fat dairy uses sugar to sub for fat to keep the flavor up and the consistency. Micky Ds is a sugar laden factory by design. Fries are carb heavy on their own...they add sugar for flavor....and to their buns and to their condiments and everything else they sell.

I have low carb tortillas (balanced with fiber) as bread. I toast them for flavor. I fill up on meat and veggies instead of rice and bread and potatoes and etc.

I finally hit the 200lb mark just a couple of days ago for the first time in 20yrs. NOT by exorcising or low calories but by not eating SOOOO many carbs. (I still eat them and am fine with that. I don't expect to lose weight when I do tho and that is fine. Be real)

Wine + nuts = good
sandwich = no....but low carb tortilla or wrap = good.

etc... all the flavor is still there....just not as many carbs. Make it work.

[Tom]

I didn't know they made low carb tortillas?

You may have just saved my life.

[BroSlinger]

Fwiw, I just jogged for the first time in a few years. Feel pretty good. I wish I could figure out what's wrong with my right knee. It's been bothering me ever since I was thin. I've done therapy, ortho doctors, orthotics, new shoes, chiropractors, etc. I'm getting sick of this. Now I'm remembering why I stopped running.

[Ostinato Rubato]

Fwiw, I just jogged for the first time in a few years. Feel pretty good. I wish I could figure out what's wrong with my right knee. It's been bothering me ever since I was thin. I've done therapy, ortho doctors, orthotics, new shoes, chiropractors, etc. I'm getting sick of this. Now I'm remembering why I stopped running.

Have you tried strength training for the muscles surrounding the knee?

[GuitarBilly]

I'm glad I don't have chronic problems or anything like that. I've just become soft by sitting around in the office and not doing physical stuff. And, I've remained fat by eating large portions and slipping "innocent" deserts in here and there. It's easy to just lose hope when you're stuck in a routine.

The routine is:
get up
eat a bagel
sit at the office
eat lunch (hope for it to be at a healthy place. Then it isn't)
sit at the office
go home, play guitar for 30 minutes. (or do laundry, or mow lawn, or go to post office)
cook dinner for family
eat dinner (something relatively healthy, then eat like 2 gigantic plates of it)
put baby to bed
sit and watch tv for an hour with wife (eat a few hundred unnecessary calories here)
go to bed

It's HARD to break a routine.

I know I can cut the post dinner snacking, but it's hard.
The bummer is that 30 free minutes isn't enough time to get to the gym. of course, this is an excuse, but I'm a bum. I'm lazy, and it's all about trying to take care of the family. (which leads to a preacher of some sort saying "taking care of your family should start with taking care of your health".)

I just can't deal with anything any longer at the moment.

I'm not feeling motivated at work. (not that I don't have energy, it's that I just don't care.)
I'm tired of the house having problems.
I'm tired of not being in a band
I'm tired of my clothes fitting like shit
I'm tired of advil commercials showing super human athletes who supposedly have "pain". YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT PAIN IS!


I EAT TOO MUCH PIZZA DAMMIT! I liked it when I was drunk constantly, but that's over. Now, I'm just fucking bored. I used to run around the park. Now, I hate running. I used to cycle, now my wife hates cycling.

yeah I know what you're talking about. I was there for a few years, especially when my son was younger and I didn't really have time to do shit and compensated my frustrations with overeating. But you need to find a way to break out of it or it gets worse and worse. I am finally at a point where I am at a healthy weight again but it was hard, I had to lose 110lbs. My gf is 120lbs, I lostpretty much her whole weight in fat. That's crazy.

I can give you a couple of suggestions but they only work if you try it:

1- replace the morning bagel with fruits.
2- find a place to eat lunch that is walking distance and walk there so you get some exercise. Try to get something as low calorie as possible although I know that's hard when eating out. But even if your lunch choice is not the healthiest one, as long as you only do it once a day, you should be fine.
3- cook less food for dinner. You can only eat 2 gigantic plates if you cooked enough for it.
4- stop snacking late at night. There is really no way around this.
5- forget the gym. People like you and I are just not cut out for it. But you need some kind of exercise. Easiest one is walking. Walk around the block at home or work and try to add more walking on everything you do (take the stairs instead of elevators, when going to stores find a parking spot that is as far away as possible to the door, etc etc).
6- understand you will feel hungry all the time for a while when you start changing your habits. It sucks but it does go away. Drink a lot of water, it helps.
7 - continue choose foods you like, just have less of it. Nobody gets fat from eating a slice of pizza, but eating half a pizza will get you there.

This is what I've been doing. Nothing drastic, no major changes on my diet except for quantities and no exercise other than walking. It takes forever to show results (took me 2 years) but it's more sustainable because you're not trying to be someone you're not.

[BroSlinger]

Fwiw, I just jogged for the first time in a few years. Feel pretty good. I wish I could figure out what's wrong with my right knee. It's been bothering me ever since I was thin. I've done therapy, ortho doctors, orthotics, new shoes, chiropractors, etc. I'm getting sick of this. Now I'm remembering why I stopped running.

Have you tried strength training for the muscles surrounding the knee?

Yes. Made it worse. It's funny, walking and standing are the only things that affect it. Running and cycling don't hurt it. Luckily my office is upstairs. I probably do 20 flights a day. My leg is strong, it's just a weird dull pain. Fwiw, I've had weird problems with my right knee my whole life. They thought it was cancer like the red band society when I was a kid.

[BroSlinger]

Billy, those are some great pointers. I used to be a different person. I used to like the gym. I hate it now. When I lost the weight the first time , it was a fluke. I was fucking driven. I was starving myself, but I wasn't hungry because I was hypnotized by Drive. I look back, and have no fucking clue how I did it. I think I was abusing alcohol harder, and I wanted to slay pussy. Now, I just don't want to be fat. Maybe I need a real reason. If I set goals, I'll just beat myself up for failing at them. I think I'm having an endorphin rush right now. Feels good. Sadly, running feels better on my knee than walking. Just need to get the old cardio back a bit. I had to take it easy. Didn't want to die alone on a sidewalk. Lol.

[GuitarBilly]

Billy, those are some great pointers. I used to be a different person. I used to like the gym. I hate it now. When I lost the weight the first time , it was a fluke. I was fucking driven. I was starving myself, but I wasn't hungry because I was hypnotized by Drive. I look back, and have no fucking clue how I did it. I think I was abusing alcohol harder, and I wanted to slay pussy. Now, I just don't want to be fat. Maybe I need a real reason. If I set goals, I'll just beat myself up for failing at them. I think I'm having an endorphin rush right now. Feels good. Sadly, running feels better on my knee than walking. Just need to get the old cardio back a bit. I had to take it easy. Didn't want to die alone on a sidewalk. Lol.

Then don't set goals that go any further than one day. Set a goal to have a good eating/being active day when you wake up in the morning so you just have to work at it for a limited number of hours. By 9-10pm you met that goal successfully. Then do it again the next day etc... next thing you know you accomplished something.
Setting a long-term, hard goal like "I'm going to lose 50lbs" can be frustrating and overwhelming. So don't. Anything you do is a succession of small steps anyway. Break them down and focus on them.

[primeholy]

For some reason, since I've lost weight, when I piss while wearing gym shorts, I piss out the leg instead of pulling them down under my balls.

[BroSlinger]

For some reason, since I've lost weight, when I piss while wearing gym shorts, I piss out the leg instead of pulling them down under my balls.

I do this whether i lose or gain weight.

[BroSlinger]

Billy, those are some great pointers. I used to be a different person. I used to like the gym. I hate it now. When I lost the weight the first time , it was a fluke. I was fucking driven. I was starving myself, but I wasn't hungry because I was hypnotized by Drive. I look back, and have no fucking clue how I did it. I think I was abusing alcohol harder, and I wanted to slay pussy. Now, I just don't want to be fat. Maybe I need a real reason. If I set goals, I'll just beat myself up for failing at them. I think I'm having an endorphin rush right now. Feels good. Sadly, running feels better on my knee than walking. Just need to get the old cardio back a bit. I had to take it easy. Didn't want to die alone on a sidewalk. Lol.

Then don't set goals that go any further than one day. Set a goal to have a good eating/being active day when you wake up in the morning so you just have to work at it for a limited number of hours. By 9-10pm you met that goal successfully. Then do it again the next day etc... next thing you know you accomplished something.
Setting a long-term, hard goal like "I'm going to lose 50lbs" can be frustrating and overwhelming. So don't. Anything you do is a succession of small steps anyway. Break them down and focus on them.

worked out
ate a sensible low carb dinner
didn't eat anything after dinner
went to bed!

It's a good start because I feel good, and I'm not mad today.

[TurboPablo]

When it comes to diet vs. mood, I always remind myself that my body is my mind and my mind is my body.

Everything you eat or consume has a direct, straight line correlation to how you feel and percieve the world.

[BroSlinger]

When it comes to diet vs. mood, I always remind myself that my body is my mind and my mind is my body.

Everything you eat or consume has a direct, straight line correlation to how you feel and percieve the world.

I still need to remind myself that too much healthy food makes one fat as well.

I can feel my mind power expanding with my waistband.

[soulsurfer]

[BroSlinger]

So, I went two days without eating stupid shit at lunch, not snacking after dinner, and making sure I didn't eat giant dinner portions, and I'm down 4.1 lbs. Just have to keep it up. I just need to stay vigilant. Like, DON'T GO TO THE DONUT TRUCK@@@

[soulsurfer]

while i'm not one for dandelion salads I think it's wise that you plan to stay away from the donut truck.

Find what works good for you and then keep the good works up.

[Tom]

Wife made Zucchini pizza last night. It was really good!

[soulsurfer]

[BroSlinger]

Looks like a Dick with leprosy.

I want it.

[soulsurfer]

mmMMMmm Lepro-dick
it melts in your mouth and in your hands

[VTM]

Wife made Zucchini pizza last night. It was really good!

Where did you get those mini pepperonis that curl when baked?

[BroSlinger]

Wife made Zucchini pizza last night. It was really good!

Where did you get those mini pepperonis that curl when baked?

They're actually hot dog disks.

[Tom]

Looks like a Dick with leprosy.

I want it.

Wife made Zucchini pizza last night. It was really good!

Where did you get those mini pepperonis that curl when baked?

[bish0p34]

Alright dudes. I'm 24 days into changing the way I eat and nothing else. Very little sugar (other than beer), no bread, no pasta. Basically counting carbs.

I started at 215 and today I'm 204. My belt is out of room for adjustment, need a smaller one. My wife is super impressed already with the visible improvement. Other people have noticed as well. I can tell a difference looking in the mirror and that's motivation enough to keep going.

I also feel better in general and feel like I sleep better. At this rate I will be a happy dude in a couple months. Hopefully it doesn't stall out.


You guys motivated me to do this, so THANK YOU.

Congrats man! That's awesome.

Hopefully you're in the part of losing weight where it it becomes addictive and you don't want to stop. That's how I get. When I first saw the change, I wanted more.

[VTM]

Looks like a Dick with leprosy.

I want it.

Wife made Zucchini pizza last night. It was really good!

Where did you get those mini pepperonis that curl when baked?

Thanks!



Your pic reminded me of the old Tony's pepperoni pizzas before they were bought out and turned to shit.