197.5 this morning

I know how you feel I didn't believe the scale when I peaked at 390+ lbs

218 this morning and that was after birthday cake yesterday... so I'm calling it a good weigh in.

I'm really struggling with cravings tonight. I wanted a pizza so badly tonight. Really ****ing badly. But I knew it would a) cost money and b) I would eat the whole thing in one go.

Ended up with eggs and bacon but I feel gross about the whole thing. Still want my damn pizza.

Nice work! Gotta pay the toll to get results.

Man pizza sure sounds good. My luck is it wouldn't be as good as hoped. Nothing is more frustrating that splurging calories on subpar food.

Boom.

Pizza and eggs.

https://lowcarbyum.com/pizza-casserole-gluten-free/

I'm on the third day of an extended fast and the weight is falling off. What is suprising is how great I feel. This intermittent fasting idea is legit.

Not only is it good for losing weight, it helps with many other aspects of your health.

I'm down 10.1 pounds in January with no running or major exercise other than pushups during the day.

Sick results, man. What is your fasting schedule?

bagger05 said:

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Sick results, man. What is your fasting schedule?

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I just started skipping breakfast and kept tightening my window until it was at an hour. I got busy and went past it and decided to wait for morning. I felt fine in the morning and decided to just keep going. I haven't had a bite of food (or sweetener, creamer, etc) since 5:30PM on 1/8.

It's not really believable, but I'm not even hungry. I watched a bunch of videos on youtube from Dr. Jason Fung explaining the intermittent and long term fasting process and as long as you are not tasting food, your body switches over to burning stored fat for energy rather than food that is ingested. Once you eat, your body turns the fat burning switch off.

This is completely different than what I expected. I encourage anyone who has difficulty with weight to watch a few hours of the Fung videos, he also has some books out. His basic premise is that everything we have been doing with eating and dieting is completely wrong. Calorie deprivation is only going to cause your body to slow your metabolism and drop the calorie requirments necessary to maintain yourself. The difference with fasting is that your body switches to fat burning which provides enough energy and doesn't result in calorie deprivation.

Sorry I'm late to the party:

Personal info
33 M, single, Live in Sugar Land

Starting point
Weighed in January 2nd at 287.2 pounds.

Goals
Get back down to about 230 pounds

Motivation
To get back to being the best version of me.

Strategy
Working out 5-6 times a week. I'm using P90X to start, but done with my twist on it. Phase 1 Lean Program, Full version of P90X classic, Phase 2 and 3 of doubles.

How can we help
Keep me honest. Also, when I get to my goal I start slipping back into bad habits. Mainly because they're easy.

No sweat man. Welcome!

I really liked P90X. Great program. Check back in around the 40 minute mark of the yoga workout to let us know how much you hate your life in that moment.

bagger05 said:

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No sweat man. Welcome!

I really liked P90X. Great program. Check back in around the 40 minute mark of the yoga workout to let us know how much you hate your life in that moment.

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I've done it before, and honestly the last time I could never finish that workout. It's the hardest one & I had multiple friends that didn't believe me.

bagger05 said:

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No sweat man. Welcome!

I really liked P90X. Great program. Check back in around the 40 minute mark of the yoga workout to let us know how much you hate your life in that moment.

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That yoga workout was NOT yoga... it was essentially a lot of burpees disguised as yoga.

91_Aggie said:

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bagger05 said:

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No sweat man. Welcome!

I really liked P90X. Great program. Check back in around the 40 minute mark of the yoga workout to let us know how much you hate your life in that moment.

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That yoga workout was NOT yoga... it was essentially a lot of super slow motion burpees disguised as yoga.

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FIFY

It was brutal but a fantastic workout. When I stopped doing that one because it was so long (and I kinda hated it) 7 or 8 weeks into the program I saw my performance in everything else suffer shortly after. I think it's REALLY good for you.

That's big. Making progress while you're traveling is NOT easy.

197.4

Good job, bagger and mrs beer. It's tough when you are near where you should be.

Y'all be good this weekend.

If your strategy includes some cheating, enjoy and get ready to come back next week recharged ready to hit it hard again.

If your strategy doesn't include any room for indulgence, keep your eye on the prize and stick with it.

Whatever your strategy, keep the promises you've made to yourself and strengthen your resolve.

214.6

No real progress for me this week. In fact I gained a little. Got my workouts in but didn't nail the eating.

2019 Weight Loss

12/30 - 318.4 @ 44.9% BF
1/6 - 312.4 & 43.8% BF
1/13 - 313.2 & 43.9% BF

Down three pounds this week. Nothing special, just started cutting out the junk. Slowly working my way back to one meal a day.

1/6/19 - 199
1/13/19 - 196

Big Monday spike and back up to 203.4. A little higher than I expected and will be watching that during the coming days to make sure it gets back down. Expect my weight on Friday to be down around 196-197.

Yesterday I weighed in at 234.5 lbs. I'm going to use that as my official weigh-in for the week since I spiked a little bit this morning as well. It was my daughter's birthday party this weekend and I enjoyed myself (not crazy, but enough to feel some bloat this morning).

Been hitting exercise hard and really limiting my food (i.e. not starving myself, just cutting out large portions and junk food.
Ran 11 miles on Saturday, 5.5 on Sunday.
Down to 216 from 225 (9 pounds since Jan 1)
Going to kill it this week... want to be comfortably under 215 by Friday (I define comfortably as it not being a temporary under 215 due to water weight, right after a run, i.e. if I weigh myself anytime during the day it will stay beneath 215. For example, after a run on Friday, I was at 213.6... but I know that it isn't real.)

1/14 update - 199

Weekend wasn't good to me, but still made progress from last Monday's weigh in

234 this am.

Slow and steady win the race, but I'd love to see some fast drops.

168.5.

Week 2 update:

127lbs
17% BF

Update 1/14:

216 lbs

Last week: 4 lbs
Total: 4 lbs

% Weight change since start: -1.81%

Workouts:
7 OTF workouts: 281 SP.

1/1 - 140
1/7 - 138
1/14 - 136.8

Goal: 120

I cam in at 223.9 this morning. I did not tape ran late.