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Unofficial weight loss thread

#81
jokerjkny said:
wow, LOTS of great suggestions here. learning tons.

myself, living around NYC, you do nothing but walk, so that's helped a ton.

but, changing my diet did AMAZING things for my body. eating much smaller frequent meals, and avoiding fast food / most processed foods in the super market helped my body from storing all those preserved ingredients that do nothing more than sit inside of me!

and, when i started cooking for myself, i knew what went in and what didnt, which for some odd reason made everything taste better! my minestrone rocks anything that comes in a can. :p

but more than slimming down, i found myself more refreshed after sleeping, i wasnt as tired during the day, and most of all, it was sooooooo freakin' easy. seriously, didnt do much exercise save for walking lots, and yet, the weight melted away.
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its been about 2 months, and since then i've lost about 20 lbs. i still eat what i want, barring fastfood.

course, if i do want a hamburger i cook/grill it myself, and waddya know, i dont feel nasty after eating it. ;)

btw, finally saw "Super Size Me" a few days ago, and holy crap, that's a scary movie. :eek:
 
#83
January 18 = 232 lbs

July 18 = 187 lbs

Total loss = 45 lbs.

Done mostly through calorie restriction - better food choices - with the occasional "cheat". Little or no booze - lower fat, lower carb, slightly higher protein, lots of veggies and fruit - and tons of water. This is a program I bought into called Slim4Life - kind of a WeightWatchers type place. They tell you what to eat etc. and you go in for weigh-in and BP checks. Pretty good system.

I am on the stabilization phase which means I am kicking up the calories and adding back some foods. Really haven't been keeping tabs as they want me to - but my weight will fluctuate between 187 and 190. Most of the change comes from eating the wrong thing that has too much salt = water retention. Drink extra water the next day - avoid salt and the weight goes back down.

Have had to buy a ton of new clothes. BP and HR both way down and I feel great.
 
#84
This past Saturday I finally had a free day, was up early and had some energy; a combination that doesn’t happen all too often. So I figured, if I’m up this early, I may as well get some things done, like cutting the lawn for the first time in three weeks.

Go outside, take out the riding mower, drive onto the lawn singing “chitty chitty bang bang” and start cutting. I look behind me and notice the lawn is cutting seared low on side while the other is barely cut at all. Disengage the blade, drive back to the garage, pull out the push mower. I notice the push mower is a bit heavy and clunky, but I’m determined to get the job done.

Now my lawn has trees surrounding the entire perimeter; but they’re small. So I had to maneuver this clunky mower around 15 or so arborvitaes (bushes). The icing on the cake was my front lawn, which has both trees and hills. So I pushed this heavy mower up the hills and around the trees. By the end of the job I was covered in sweat, exhausted, but proud of myself.

My dad stopped by right about when I had finished and packed everything away (oddly enough to cut the lawn).

“What are you doing son?”
“Oh, just got done cutting the lawn, did you know the riding mower is broken?”
“Haha, I just came here to do that. So, which mower did you use?”
“I just used the heaviest lawn mower ever, the big clunky one over there”
“Oh, did you use the self propel function on it?”

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At this point I stopped, took a deep breath, and sat down for a minute. Contemplated what I had done that day and sighed. I justified it to myself by determining it was the best work out ever. So if you’re looking for that total body work out to sculpt and tone those abs, while providing a full cardio workout; just stop by my house, I’ll set you up with the self propelled mower and you can cut my lawn, but you can’t use the actual self propel function. I’ll only charge you for renting the equipment and gas; it’s the deal of a lifetime.
 
#85
Eggman said:
Have had to buy a ton of new clothes. BP and HR both way down and I feel great.
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that is the best part! i was in paris recently, and i went into a boutique for an italian designer. i was able to find jeans that fit really well, and are not anything you can find in the states. there is no way i would have been able to do that before.

since losing weight and starting running, my HR has gone through the floor (usually around 42, though the EKG read 30 somehow). in the new movie, even superman's pulse was 40.

robb.
 
#86
One of a few studies I read recently about eating yogurt for weight loss:

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pretty interesting, and since I love plain yogurt (we use instead of sour cream on everything- from baked potatos to fajitas), it isn't hard to eat a few servings a day.
 
#87
v-12 said:
One of a few studies I read recently about eating yogurt for weight loss:

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pretty interesting, and since I love plain yogurt (we use instead of sour cream on everything- from baked potatos to fajitas), it isn't hard to eat a few servings a day.
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heh, hope a bunch of us dont go out and start binging on yogurt! ;)

while "cultured" yogurts w/ the "good" bacteria is great for your body's digestive system, and its something i eat every morning to give my metabolism a jumpstart, FYI, lots of yogurt out there has TONS of sugar, and also lots of preservatives to help the diary sit longer on store shelves, which pretty much make them nothing more than liquid candybars.

luckily, if you read the labels, you should be able to steer clear of the nasty stuff. i love ronnybrook "creamline", and another brand that i cant remember that i just found at my local morton williams. but RB's pretty darn simple. something like 5 ingredients total w/ an average of 19g of sugar. tastes dang good, too!

EDIT: i found out the other name, and its Sky Top Farms. and holy crap, its good!
 
#88
rcz said:
since losing weight and starting running, my HR has gone through the floor (usually around 42, though the EKG read 30 somehow). in the new movie, even superman's pulse was 40.

robb.
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That's a super low heart rate. Rates like that are typically only seen in highly conditioned endurance athletes such as cross country skiers, marathoners, cyclists and triathletes.
 
#91
Wow, a lot of you guys are doing better than me. I've been eating out of vending machines (soda and snacks) but have managed to lose 8 lbs in about two weeks. Simply getting up every day and working my ass off (I'm a stockboy) and I simply don't slow down. Carrying stuff 8 hours a day makes things happen.

However, I still have the gut, trying to work on t hat.

Diet isn't helping much. While my mom is a dieter, she refuses to go above and beyond with the cooking. I bought her a healthy cook book which she won't cook out of, nor will she let me cook.
 
#92
Geoff St. Germaine said:
That's a super low heart rate. Rates like that are typically only seen in highly conditioned endurance athletes such as cross country skiers, marathoners, cyclists and triathletes.
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my doctor did his residnecy with the detroit pistons, and he said their heart rates were in the high 20s and low 30s. he basically told me that there was a slim chance that something was wrong, but most likely i'm just unusully healthy.

robb.
 
#93
There's really no 'majick bullet' other than: eat right and exercise.

Pictures worth a thousand words:
Here I am with Scotty Moore in 2004:
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and here's one taken at a blues Jam back in May 2006:
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I lost over 60lbs by limiting sweets, fried foods, switching from "enriched flour" to whole grain breads, and only consuming fat free dairy. I also started eating regularly - small portions 5 to 6 times a day.
Exercise lite dumbell weights on Mon, Wed, Fri, cardio for 20 minutes on tues, thurs and saturday.
 
#94
rcz said:
my doctor did his residnecy with the detroit pistons, and he said their heart rates were in the high 20s and low 30s. he basically told me that there was a slim chance that something was wrong, but most likely i'm just unusully healthy.

robb.
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The lowest recorded (medically) heart rate is 28 by Miguel Indurain, 5 time Tour de France winner.
 
#96
It is confession time for me!

I have been horribly delinquent about going to the gym. I used to run every day, do circuit training 3 or 4 times a week, and eat right.

All that has gone out the window in recent months. I am almost back up to what I weighed after I gave birth to my daughter 7, almost 8 years ago.

This cannot stand!

So...I have come to my TB brothers and sisters in the quest to be more fit.

Cherie :o
 
#97
gsys said:
Advice from Dr.** Gsys:

I've never had a weight problem, except in the opposite direction of most TBers. Here are some lifestyle things that have caused me to lose more weight than I wanted to in the past, so I assume they would help normal people not gain too much. Sticking to three of these is guaranteed** to do the trick:

1 - No driving at all.
2 - Regular schedule of full nights' sleep.
3 - Only eat what took at least a half hour to prepare (except for cereal or whatever in the morning).
4 - Drink lots of water, no pop, maybe a little juice.

Of course, eliminating red meat, fatty foods, sweets, and getting regular exercise goes without saying.






*not a real doctor, but smarter than Dr. Phil and Dr. Laura
**guaranteed or your money back!
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I've cut soda almost totally from my diet. I will have a Pepsi with a burger, but I'm making a conscious effort not to go buy fast food, because that, in turn, makes me what a soda.

Cherie
 
#98
KoskoArts said:
This past Saturday I finally had a free day, was up early and had some energy; a combination that doesn’t happen all too often. So I figured, if I’m up this early, I may as well get some things done, like cutting the lawn for the first time in three weeks.

Go outside, take out the riding mower, drive onto the lawn singing “chitty chitty bang bang” and start cutting. I look behind me and notice the lawn is cutting seared low on side while the other is barely cut at all. Disengage the blade, drive back to the garage, pull out the push mower. I notice the push mower is a bit heavy and clunky, but I’m determined to get the job done.

Now my lawn has trees surrounding the entire perimeter; but they’re small. So I had to maneuver this clunky mower around 15 or so arborvitaes (bushes). The icing on the cake was my front lawn, which has both trees and hills. So I pushed this heavy mower up the hills and around the trees. By the end of the job I was covered in sweat, exhausted, but proud of myself.

My dad stopped by right about when I had finished and packed everything away (oddly enough to cut the lawn).

“What are you doing son?”
“Oh, just got done cutting the lawn, did you know the riding mower is broken?”
“Haha, I just came here to do that. So, which mower did you use?”
“I just used the heaviest lawn mower ever, the big clunky one over there”
“Oh, did you use the self propel function on it?”

==============================================

At this point I stopped, took a deep breath, and sat down for a minute. Contemplated what I had done that day and sighed. I justified it to myself by determining it was the best work out ever. So if you’re looking for that total body work out to sculpt and tone those abs, while providing a full cardio workout; just stop by my house, I’ll set you up with the self propelled mower and you can cut my lawn, but you can’t use the actual self propel function. I’ll only charge you for renting the equipment and gas; it’s the deal of a lifetime.
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I saw a guy on the news yesterday who, starting 7/5, changed his diet for a healthier one, and began cutting his neighbors' grass for a workout. He did his lawn, and decided it was such a great workout, he'd do the neighborhood's, too!

Cherie
 
#99
gsys said:
Of course, eliminating red meat, fatty foods, sweets, and getting regular exercise goes without saying.
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The threat of red meat to health is largely a myth. While most of people think that red meat is packed with artery-clogging saturates, around half the fat in red meat is actually heart-healthy monounsaturates. In particular, red meat contains oleic acid, the same type of fat that’s found in olive oil. Nowadays, lean beef is around 5% fat, which is comparable with chicken breast. Of course, I'm not talking about going out a picking up a case of T-bones and chowing down, I'm talking about lean cuts of beef such as eye of the round, top round, bottom round, round tip, top sirloin, top loin and tenderloin.

I personally don't eat a lot of beef as I have easy access to wild meat (caribou, muskox, deer, etc).
 

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