All - do I finally get there in round 3?

Here's my story...

5'11" weighed about 170 in high school...got married way too young, became inactive combined with atrosious eating habits and I ballooned to well over 300 by my early 30s. Peaked at about 340 in 2011 at age 36. Started losing a few then got laid off by AT&T and got on as a chip runner at the local poker room...lost more weight running chips 8 hrs a day and got down to 268 summer of 2012. By that time I was a dual rate brush-dealer and as my dealing shifts picked up I started to not GAF about the weight and the lbs came back.

June 2013 I stumbled across ytf's H&F thread and I got inspired to change for good...started out at 312.2 on June 15, began tracking calories and killing the cardio and the weight began to melt away. Despite a break even stretch the last month I'm at 239.6, 72 lbs lost in just over 7 months.

Started out walking 2-3 miles 5 days a week and slowly mixed in more and more jogging until I no longer walked and now I'm running 4-6 miles 5 days a week. Done two races so far, a 5K in September and a 10K in October then started training for a 15K which is next Saturday 2/1. Just finished a 33 mile week including a 7.5 mile run on Thursday.

I'll turn 40 on September 15th and my goal is 180 by then...gonna be a stretch to get there but I figure even if I get down below 200 it'll be a huge accomplishment.

Nice job. Keep it up.

I got down to 190 just before Thanksgiving, then Blew Beyond Belief. 211 shortly after New Year's. Back down to 196 now. Really, really want to get to 180, to smash the -200 barrier.

I had an itch on my waist the other day, and when I scratched it, I realized that there was almost no fat there. Sure, there was some, but there was more skin than fat, and some solid muscle lurking just beneath the surface. There used to be FISTFULS of fat there. It was weird to reach over there and "touch bottom".

That's great that you are turning it around as quick as you can.

I've been there with the blow-up thing. One year I turned it around quickly, which was great. This year, I blew up a bit more and therefore am in the process of having to go through more of a grind. Meh… it's a learning process.

Sounds great. GL!

Fatties,

worst calorie day record for me (4345). HAWKS though!!!!!!!!!

Great thread, guys. And great job losing the weight.

I am 39 years old. 5' 8" and this morning I weighed 234.4 lbs. My highest weight was 248 last winter. My goal is to get below 200 lbs. Ultimate goal is to weigh 175 like I did in college. I would be happy with anything under 190, though.

In order to motivate me to reach my goal I will reward myself with a Vegas trip wherein no amount of drink or food will be off limits. I will try to shoot for sometime during the WSOP.

I do not exercise and I have a very sedentary office job. I work long hours and my commute is long so it is hard for me to hit the gym.

My weaknesses food wise are: beer, pizza, cheeseburgers and Chinese food.

I downloaded the My fitness pal app on my phone and I will try to faithfully log my food and keep it between 1800 - 1500 per day.

The food I plan to eat is as follows:

Breakfast: cup of plain Greek yogurt(2%), a banana and a cup of coffee w skim

Lunch: a salad from with grilled chicken/turkey/or lean steak, veggies and balsamic vinaigrette.

Dinner: lean meat and steamed veggies.

8 cups of Water.

I ate the above today for breakfast and lunch and plan to have the above dinner tonight. I feel a bit hungry but nothing too crazy.

No beer, cheeseburgers or pizza till Vegas trip. This will be the hardest part for me especially the beer and pizza on the weekends!

Sorry for the tl;dr

also mix in eggs and seafood

burger isn't a terrible thing if you skip the bun, its ok to eat like that so you dont drive yourself crazy with cravings (just keep it in moderation)


does your office have a gym?

My office doesn't have a gym but there are a couple of places nearby including a boxing gym (always wanted to do that). I will definitely look into it. I worked out last year but let my membership lapse. I enjoyed working out more than I thought I would have. I plan to resume.

Btw, I just had braised beef, brussel sprouts, arugula and white bean salad for dinner. Washed down with some perrier. No more food today. One day down.

I aim to post updates every week or two to track my progress. I tia for indulging me!

Thanks!

Have you checked out 2+2's Health and Fitness forum? Smart crowd over there.

+1

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/85/health-fitness/

I'm in furious Beast Mode right now. 191 today, all the holiday/binge pounds are gone, 11 lbs away from my goal of -200.

Oh, and my new best friends, whom I met last night:





Add a couple of 12 oz bags of steamed veggies, and you've got a pair of <500 cals dinners. The turkey is cooked, just slice and nuke. The gravy is 80 cals in the whole packet, and is made by adding water. It's not delicious, but it will certainly do.

Good job YTF, I think you will beat me to 180.

I'm not doing very well. Still in the high 190s. I have been struggling with some emotional eating recently, just trying to tread water until this bout of depression passes.

got cleared to return to the gym! wooo.

went today, benched a solid 10x45, 10x55, 10x65, 10x75.


so jacked. getting back to logging again. starting at 225. here we go.

Wow, I can't believe how far back I had to go to find this thread to bump it! Scrolling through page after page of discarded OOT threads to get here, was like time travel, but I thought you guys wouldn't mind this x-post from my H&F log:

Speaking of my H&F log:

I don't know if you've been following my H&F log, DW, ("...and judging by the attendance, you haven't!"), but emotional eating was CRIPPLING ME in recent months. I scoped out the library's section on eating disorders, even attended an OA meeting, all to no avail.

But I had a hunch it may be a bigger psychological issue than a mere eating disorder, as this isn't the first time I've self-destructed when close to reaching a big goal in life (and fixing my compulsive gambling problem twenty years ago was such a simple fix, I figured this would probably be a simple, textbook case as well), so I went back to the library and searched the catalog for "Psychology self-sabotage", and was steered towards a book called Taming Your Outer Child, by Susan Anderson. I'm not halfway through it yet, but I'm starting to think I've got this emotional eating thing completely licked.

From my H&F log:

Yesterday was a great example. I sat in the house all day, bored out of my mind, and of course this led to temptation to snack (or even have a fourth meal) that I never would have been able to resist before. But this book helped me realize why my brain was reacting this way, and to separate the "feelings" from "actions". The temptations didn't go away, but instead of proving irresistible, they were trivially easy to disregard.

That book has 30 customer reviews on Amazon:

23 *****
6 ****
1 *

...and the 1* comes from a guy who's mad that it's just rehash of her prior books! I can't imagine I won't be boosting the 5* count when I finish this thing.

Great job YTF, I check your log 2x a day.

I have been doing really well recently. In the 190s still but I haven't binged in 2 months and I have gained some strength and feel really good. You will beat me to 180 by a few weeks.

I am glad that book has helped you. I have explored my issues with food extensively through similar resources as well as therapy. I have a good grasp on it all intellectually. I know exactly why I binge, I know the triggers, I know all the avoidance techniques. But sometimes it doesn't matter. Thankfully I haven't felt the need to binge for a long time and I hope it will continue.

Jan 1st:



This last week:



Goal is 226.0 on May 1 for a prop bet.