Those pounds are flying off, Adam! You're losing 1.7 pounds/week (and bear in mind that 2 pounds/week is generally considered the maximum for healthy weight loss).

As for me, my progress is slowing; I'm still losing just under a pound a week, but I'm also realizing that pace won't get me to my goal! We'll see if I end up achieving it; even if I don't, the fact of the matter is that I'll still have lost a lot of weight by the end of the year!

Here's the update:

Weeks since start: 33
Starting BMI: 37.4
Starting weight: 246.0
Current BMI: 28.2
Current weight:185.2
Goal weight: 164.1 (BMI = 24.9 / "normal")
Target date: 9/25/2012 (one year from when I started)

I've lost 60.8 pounds since beginning this thing. To achieve my goal, I need to lose 21.1 pounds in the next 19 weeks!

Preach on brotha! Sick work!

Doux Jesus!!!

You guys are doing The Business!!!

Incredible ... are we going to get the before and after photos in 19 weeks? 3/4 the weight gone in less than 2/3 the time. I'll take the under! Wp sir

Hi,

I have been reading this thread and congratulate you guys for doing so great.

I have recently decided to do this as well a few weeks ago and started doing some research.

I found a couple good sites (feel free to remove links if its not allowed)

myfitnesspal.com works like weight watchers, but its free, there is also an app that you can download. It lets you set your goals and then track all of your caloric intake. It even has a bar scanner that tells you how many calories are in your products. (If you join, feel free to add me as a friend, siberianex)

Another site is very cool, it is a weigh simulator, where you enter your current height, weight, and age and also your goal weight and the normal physical activities you do (even if its nothing, sedentary level).
It basically figures out your current BMR.
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is the number of calories that your body burns on a daily basis to maintain your lean body mass. (This is the amount of calories they would give you in a hospital in case you were not able to move).

So if you increase your physical activity and decrease your caloric intake, it will give you a deficit of calories you need to lose on an every day basis to reach your goal. Play around with it, its pretty cool.

http://bwsimulator.niddk.nih.gov/

As far as me: I am 5" 10' and weigh 221 lbs 45 yrs old, I started with 230 lbs 7 weeks ago, with a goal weight of 175 - 180.

I currently try to cut my caloric deficit between 500 - 750 calories a day.
My goal is to net 2000 calories a day to reach my specific goal by end of Dec 2012. BTW a loss of 3500 calories = 1lb (so 500 a day would lose you 1lb a week)

I currently walk at least 1 mile a day (~15 - 20 min) for 5 days.
I play racquetball for about 1.5 hours (once a week) GREAT BURN.
I take a spin class for 1 hour (once a week) Decent Burn.
I also play roller hockey about once a week for 1.5 hours.

I have added all of these activities and I have to say my endurance has been a lot better. No more getting out of breath just by walking 1 mile.

Good Luck guys! Happy Burning, we can all do it!

Skinny Bunner Status Update:

At the end of January I was tipping the scales close to 230lbs

fat Bunner in all his glory...



Yesterday weighed in at 209.2lbs

Almost Skinny Bunner...



Success Secrets:

- Weight training 6 days a week (50 - 60 mins) in the morning
- 20 - 30 mins of cardio in the evening 3/4 days a week
- Completely cut butter out of my diet, replaced with olive & flax seed oil (actually tastes pretty good imo)
- only eat carbs in the morning
- no pop or juice, just water and skim milk
- lots of coffee and green tea

Goal: 200 lbs or Jesus abs (which ever comes first)

What the hell is Pius Heinz doing at a poker table in Vancouver?

Nice job Bunner!

Been sick with a cold and busy with work. Finally got some time to do a weight in and post.



Weightloss Update $5 (-20.7 lbs)
Cliff notes: -20.7 pounds.

With the cold, and being so much I had worried about plateau, but it’s nice to a little bit of progress.

Status update:

3 weeks ago I started to do some light running (3-4 miles) 3 to 4 times a week in addition to the diet I described in my first post itt.

Current weight: 78 kg (172 lbs), BMI 25.8

Target: 75 kg (165 lbs), although I'm thinking about trying to get to 70 kg (which would be BMI 22.9) while I'm in the groove of things.

Weight loss:

Since start of thread (5 weeks ago): -11 kg (-24 lbs)
Since Mid-January: -26 kg (-57 lbs)

Hmm.. I'm starting to believe my wife when she says I make absolutely no sense after taking a Lunesta. Explains a couple sessions of Zoom a month or so back.

Got in workout #4 for the week this morning. Eating good as well. Holiday weekend here in the US, which is a good thing for me as I will have extra time to workout and don't have any cookouts or parties with bad-for-you food.

I think Body Fat % is more accurate than BMI. Maybe add that to your stats.

If there are any GETYOURFATASSFIT Club members in the Philly Area I would like to train with you.

6 Pack (Abs/Beer) or Bust!

How do you calculate that?

Also how heavy are muscles? What happens to your weight if you gain muscles and lose fat?

Down somewhere between 10-15 lbs so far. Slower than I would have liked but still steady.

I'll have to revise my goal for the 2p2 party (it would be unhealthy to drop another 25 lbs in a month), but still reasonably happy with my progress so far.

Also still chugging down fruit/veggie smoothie several times a week.

WTG Nicole!

I've hit a bit of a plateau, hovering at 197 but feeling good. Lots of exercise this week but a bit more food.

Played golf yesterday and walked the course. Usually when I walk I get really tired half way through the back nine and my swing then goes to crap. Not yesterday, finished strong shooting 73 on a tough course. My best round in 15 years. /sickgolfbrag

Wednesday I played my first soccer game in 10 years. My conditioning level is somewhere around 80 year old house bound grandmother, but had a great time and played pretty well. If my back holds out, that weekly game is going to go a long way to getting me to the shape I want.

Ive hung up the past few weeks. very easy to find excuses not to do much physical activity and take the lazy route. Im going to be stepping it up big time next week. I am going to be starting paternity leave for the rest of the year. Im going to be taking my son out for a walk every nice day. The way i look at it I drive 3 hrs round trip to work each shift I can simply sub atleast 1 hour into my day instead of the drive ill be back on track.

Im a deadline person, aka i like to procrastinate for ever but given a firm date for something I focus and get it done by the deadline. My wife has given me some additional motivation. I want to go on a deer hunting trip in november for a week or 10 days....which my wife wasnt too pumped on me taking off for that long. She has thrown down the challenge if i knock of 35 pounds before november Im good to go! I don't like missing out on hunting trips!
I know counting pounds vs how you feel argument can go on forever and normally im a feel vs lbs lost person but since ideally i should really lose like 80 lbs long long term so 35 in 6 months sounds good to me!

Update:

Start Date: 5/8
Starting Weight: 258

Today weight: 243

Had a couple garbage meals over memorial Day weekend, but have been eating great otherwise. Cheating tonight as the wife and I are going to see Anthony Jeselnik and out to eat beforehand. Back at it in the mourning though!

i completed 3 weeks of 90x... then i stopped for about 2 weeks cause i got lazy.

then i realized that i needed to make some changes in my life. i've been grinding out a modest living on poker stars for about the last 5 or 6 years... but i'm not making the kind of money i used to be making (no money HU, everyone's solid), so i'm thinking about going back to school for 8 months to get a post-grad financial planning degree to become a stock broker or financial planner or something like that. i follow the economy and stock markets as a hobby, so i already know a lot about this stuff and i enjoy it. i listen to financial radio shows and interviews a lot when i'm grinding so i can talk finance with the best of them.

i'm also an amature magician (i started doing close up magic as a hobby about a year ago)... and i randomly started doing some magic tricks for this guy who was sitting alone at my local bar. we got to talking and it turns out that he's a professor at a good community college (george brown) who teaches the financial planning course and knows a lot of people in the industry. we exchanged e-mails and met up again a couple weeks ago... so i know that if i take his course, he'll probably be able to help me find a job in the industry cause he has lots of contacts.

and as a back-up... i figure i can always get a job as a bartender somewhere. even though i have no bartending experience, i think that some place would hire me if i explain that i can perform magic tricks for the customers if it's not too busy... when normally hiring a magician of my calibre would cost $100 per hour. or better yet, get a job on a cruse ship as a bartender/magician.

i'm 28, and i've been smoking weed pretty much every day since i was 16. about a year and a half ago, i quit weed for a full month... but then went right back to being a stoner. i also drink quite a bit. i'm not an alcoholic by any means... but i would tend to have 4 or 5 beers/drinks maybe 5 or 6 days a week (obviously sometimes having more). i'm not overweight really (maybe i could drop 10lbs, but i'm not fat at all)... and i eat relatively healthy, but i still like going out for chicken wings and eating pizza and french fries and stuff. i realized that if i want to go back to school and get a real job, i've gotta stop smoking weed and drinking so much. i managed to get through school (got my undergrad from UBC) despite being a horrible student (spent most of my time partying, snowboarding in whistler, etc.).... but i know that if i go back to school and want a good recommendation, i'm going to have to actually show up to class and study.

this is now my 5th day with no weed, no alcohol, no fast food, no junk food... i've worked out for 4 of the last 5 days (one day i was helping my girlfriend all day, so i was busy). i'm trying the Insanity workouts (same company as p90x). They're a lot more exhausting than p90x, but they're much shorter. they seem to be more focused on cardio and core... rather than muscle building. so i did 3 days of insanity, next day i took off... then i did a p90x workout today. i think i'm going to do a combination of Insanity and p90x.

next tuesday, i'm going to wake and bake, get a slice of my favourite pizza, watch the last 5 episodes of Friday Night Lights (awesome show btw)... then go to the bar for wings and beer. then i'll try and go for another 6 or 7 days of healthy living. if i have 1 cheat day per week, and the other 6 days of clean living... i think that'll be pretty good.

i'm planning on going to an all inclusive resort in the dominican republic in late august... so i'm going to try to keep the clean living + 1 cheat day per week thing going until my vacation. by then i'll hopefully be in awesome shape and no longer be in the habit of drinking and smoking weed all the time. then i'll have my 1 week of drunken fun in the sun as my reward for 3 months of keeping on this routine.

so hopefully i'll stick to my plan. and i'm going to try to put in a lot more hours in playing poker... since i don't think i've really reached my potential as a poker player yet... and hopefully i'll be making better money and wont have to go back to school and get a real job quite yet. over the last few years, i could get by maybe only playing 40 or 50 hours of poker a month... when i should have been playing that much per week. so i'm gonna start putting more effort into poker too. i'm not unhappy with my life at the moment... but i'm 28... so i'm not a kid any more and i can't just keep doing what i'm doing. so i'm taking steps to improving my life.

i've never been really overweight... but i've also never really been super fit... and it would be awesome to look like an underwear model for once in my life before i get too old. so my journey has just begun... and hopefully within a few months, i'll be in great shape, making money from poker, and maybe even be going back to school at starting a real career. gl to me !

GL, MAGICman.

I read every word of your post, and it sounds like you're committed to your new lifestyle. Best of luck moving forward!

Also, congrats on your weight loss to: NDfan, Nicole, ugerhard, Bunner, and anybody else who I may have missed who's been killing it lately!

My motivation has sucked lately, and while I haven't gained any weight in the two weeks since my last update, I also haven't lost any either. Gotta get back to it...

Weekly update:

Got in 3 workouts this week, plus another one coming later today. Waiting to weigh again on Day 60. In the process of running 800 2x during yesterday's workout, there was a definite difference in the amount of gasping for air, which is a good feeling.

Ate well all week, until I had some pizza last night.

Another 4 workouts and good eating coming up this week...

"800 2x", do you mean two half miles?

Nice job regardless, keep it up!

anybody try "insanity"? I think I'm gonna due this in lieu of p90x. I'm still recovering from my shoulder surgery, so doing a lot of pullups/pushups and heavy lifting is not on the menu. From what I understand "insanity" has the intensity of P90x but is more cardio and less weight training.

yes - forgot to include the units. 800m 2x. I've never been a fan of running, but it is more tolerable when you don't feel like dying throughout.

I happen to have done both; Insanity focuses more on plyometrics (running/jump-training), while P90X is geared toward weight training. Personally, I much prefer P90X and believe it is a better all-around fitness program (P90X includes a specific plyometric workout each week).

Insanity is much more 'intense' as there are few breaks, and you are constantly pushed to continues. P90X stresses setting a goal, and reaching it as opposed to doing maximum reps.