thanks for sharing OP

First off Congrats on a great achievemant.

Were you an emotional eater and are other family members seriously overweight?

Do you have any anymosity towards your parents for allowing you to get that big?

sparklepeople is also and free

Just had to bump this. this was a sick read OP and Congrats. I am currently where in that i need to lose 20-40 pounds.

if OP is still around can we get an update on him?

im guessing not but wow, trying to get motivated and this thread does the trick man.

Congrats on the weight loss BB, it might be worth checking out these newsletters if your looking for training information mixed in with some general diet advice:

http://www.ptcfrankston.com/newsletter.html

(Im not affiliated at all with them but have got a huge amount of knowledge from reading these free newsletters)

very inspiring, and a well-written story. congratulations!

Anyone still in contact with bb? what happened to him?

BB, I want to thank you. Your post has helped me realize and motivated me to lose weight. Over the holidays I was playing with my niece and I couldn't keep up with her for more then a minute and couldn't play with her b/c I was so out of shape. I felt horrible and hearing her say, please unk play with me. Basically broke my heart.

At the beginning of this year I weighed 288 and my waist was 53in. I jumped on the aktins after reading the book you recommended. After the first 3 weeks I have lost 29 pounds and my waist is down to 50.5. I'm exercising everyday and wake up feeling great with a lot more energy. With my little buddy (niece) by my side, she has been a big help. I've promised her that I will play with her whenever she likes and will continue to lose weight. I can keep up with her so far thanks to my increase in indurance.

I will continue to do the diet for the rest of my life. Again, Thank You!

it so beyond tilting when someone who's very heavy says that "nothing worked" for a long time for him. it's simple, you didn't exercise enough and/or didn't cut your diet enough. OP says he has willpower? BS, there's no such thing as a fat guy who's on the treadmill twice a day and eating salad at every meal. it's frustrating that people make excuses so easily when the formula to losing alot of weight and keeping it off is so damn simple

Meh. Either your body is busto or you eat too much/exercise too little. There is no other way about it. Though a lot of people who have "credentials" seem to insist that this is possible. Taubes being the most prominent of this brand of people who don't understand basic science or physiology.


ETA: Leigh Peele's blog, www.bodyrecomposition.com, and Alan Aragon Research Review are all way better than the ptcfranston site which is kinda broscientarded (http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...erm=broscience sick irony on the author).

says guy whose been skinny his whole life?

If this is suppose to be some sort of weird type of "You must be fat, to know what the fat man faces." Please take this completely ridiculous and super trollish attitude elsewhere. The process for healthy individuals is pretty simple.

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat...-equation.html
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat...different.html

And the entire rest of that site says essentially the same thing. It is a simple process to lose weight that may be ongoing for the rest of your life because of changes to your set point.

Some people may argue that food intake is something beyond their control. These people are idiots and should be culled in the first iteration of an eugenics program. Blah blah blah... your post is terrible.

fwiw I've lost a good amt of weight in the past year, all thru eating healthy and working out no crazy diets or pills or w/e.


but to hear someone whos never been overweight say how easy it is to not be fat is ****ing annoying. losing weight is not easy and takes a ton of committment and hard work(unless your a person who is fat cause they eat pizza every day).

theres no one whos been fat their whole life and diets/makes life changes to get skinny and will say its easy and LOL @ people who don't do it.

Yeah, it takes years of hard work to become obese. Years of constant caloric surplus. In fact I'd say its harder to become obese than to maintain a regular weight.

Your comment about pizza also hints at a lack of understanding unless you were citing it as an example of caloric density, in which case I'd blame the milk drinkers and the nut eaters as well.

There is not difference in the level of work/desire it takes anyone to reshape their body. Its a habit that took years and years to create. HF forum has a litany of guys who're small and underweight, and all who're sincere make radical changes. This is no more difficult than what Dids/buriedbeds or anyone has done. You're creating some sort of whiny sob party for fatbodies and it disgusts me. There is nothing magical about years of casual disregard that makes a change "so tough". If anything, its pathetic how someone would allow themselves to become in such a state (overweight or underweight).

You seem to view obesity as a natural set state and not something that you've worked hard at for years (possibly decades). You've tuned your body for fatness. In fact you're going to have to work harder to maintain a "normal" bodyweight because of the hard work put in to be fat.

NB: This isn't you in specific. Its a "you" general.

x2 on post above, but still happy for you bb

thanks for sharing your story, really inspiring to see that you turned your life around and saved yourself. hope that you continue it and you definitely show that if you put your mind to it you can achieve anything you want.

it can be easy and hard work. it's easy because there is no skill involved, the only skill is willpower. running constantly throughout the day, whatever it takes, and laying off the bad carbs, anyone in the world can do it. you just need the commitment like you said, fat people just don't have it. and don't tell me that i don't know how easy it is to lose weight, i'm 5'11, a month ago i was around 166-167 and now im 162(on a serious cut). imagine how much weight i would've lost if i started at 250!

i stealthmunk did a propbet 2 years ago where he was 330 and bet a friend 50 or 100k that he could lose 100 pounds in a year, after a month he had lost like 35 pounds and got his friend to buyout for 27k. u know what he said? he just got a personal trainer, worked his ass off in the gym and ate fruit all day. its that simple

fat people are a disgrace. treadmill+less food=skinny, if that formula doesnt work add treadmill and minus food until it does.

I'll repeat myself: have u ever seen a fat person who runs 3 miles a day and eats salad at every meal? NOPE

Just to clarify my feelings. While I disdain the obese, and think they're an abomination, this post is pretty terrible. wtf are "bad carbs"? Fructose is actually worse than complex carbs like bread/pasta/rice etc if running any sort of CKD (new Thremp knowledge).

Unless you have the bone structure of a prepubescent asian girl. 162 lbs at 5'11 is a small ass "man". Just FYI before you get on some sort of manorexia roll with the fatbodies.

I'm sure this thread as a lot of similarly piss poor advice. But again you can read the sites posted above and learn about all this stuff (I don't actually subscribe to AARR despite my friend being a contributor). Then pwn noobs when they don't know what they're talking about.

u say small, the chicks say ripped and muscular

You guys realize our entire culture is centered around eating way too much food, and most diets out there are designed terribly. So it is not so easy to keep off excess weight.


Oh and 5 11 and 162 does sound skinny. I might have broad shoulders but I looked emaciated at 180.

a kid who is 6 years old is obese.

did he work hard @ it for years or is it a set state?


fwiw yes I was fat as a kid, and now I get angry @ parents when I think of the garbage they let me eat. But imo the "set state" for a lot of people are years when they had very little control over their diet.

and your also implying genetics plays no part in obesity? you don't know any sticks who can eat/drink tons and never work out?

Umm.. An obese 6 year old has likely worked exceptionally hard. You have to eat a ton of the wrong things and be especially sedentary to be obese as a youth in modern society. Its fine if they became obese as a child, but in reality that isn't the case as childhood obesity lags, and regardless of whether they "had control". They put in the time. The ground candy bars, sodas, big meals, etc.

Genetics obviously plays a large part in body shape. However, the second does not follow from the first. There are virtually none of those people on planet earth. Evolution did not see fit to destroy our species via that mechanism. You don't really understand the basics of nutrition, weight loss, etc and shouldn't be discussing this, as it leads to someone explaining concepts that have been hashed out time and again, while you spend your time learning remedial basics. If you care enough to whine about "super high metabolisms" (a super high metabolism is a few hundred calories difference from one that isn't), you should take the time to educate yourself on the subject so you don't make naive and uneducated comments about it.

you are so so wrong, i don't even know if its worth responding. i could eat the same and excercise the same as person A and person A could outweigh me by 50 pounds. you have absolutely zero understanding of this topic

you couldn't be more wrong.

but that doesnt change the fact that just because while i can eat burgers and fries all day and never break 180, it may take someone else 3 miles a day on the treadmill and salads to do the same. anyone can do it, it's just takes more work for some people because of genetics

You should read the sources I linked above and stop spouting off broscience. There is no scientific or factual evidence in healthy individuals to substantiate what you say.