I present to you fat loco. 37"+ waist on a very small frame. This is "normal" in today's day and age. Sad.

My cholesterol was also 310. Wow, i am so rich with health now. I am glad I snapped out of it.

For me personally it was all ignorance and lazyness. Or bread pudding addiction. Whatever you want to call it.

They're the most helpful itt.

If you need beginner advice, I suggest the pinned beginner's thread. Covers the "why raising pf is a good idea" of the h&f world. gl to you.

Wow, no wonder you're so militant now

loco,

I thank you for killing off that disgusting fatbody and replacing it with a person.

Ha ha. But this Photoshop was not so far from reality. There are 9 organs near the belly region, when you have a fat waist, you die. People with 40"+ waists, die. Period.

This was a 30lb loss but I also gained over 10 pounds of muscle. So 40lb fat loss, not bad for a tinybro.

Last I checked, everyone dies.

LOL, I expect alobar to get back on track and reach his goals.

Let's make the best of what's left!

hmmm, I'm not sure you seem to grasp that moderation isnt really something that works with food and me. Its great that you can do it, and most people can, but I'll never be able to have a slice of pizza, or a glass of dr pepper. Again, you would tell an alcoholic "dude, just have one beer, whats the big ****ing deal?" would you?

mostly just cuz I figure change with a waist measurement is slow, so its pointless to do it everyday, figured id do it after a couple weeks or a month or something.

I suck at identifying flavors, but its cool, refreshing, and tastes like coke but a hint of prunes. Also Im pretty caffeine sensitive, so I actually get a buzz from it.

yuck, gross. I would rather just never have it than drink diet.

faster, less hassle



what exactly does an adult eat? Also, you can rip on me for pizza, but come on, throwing out wings and beer, like im some glutton? I had 4 wings, and and Ive had as many beers since I started!

5/6

weight: 207.2

BF%: 14.1

Food: leftover 3 slices of pizza, half a cheese sandwich, two enchiladas, oatmeal with some peanutbutter and blueberries

exercise: 90 minutes cycling

daily calories: -1071

total calories: -9024

5/7

weight: 206.2

BF%: 14.3

Food: Oatmeal with some peanut butter and blueberries, a banana, chips and salsa, two enchiladas

exercise: 3 mile run

daily calories: -235

total calories: -9259

ate way too many chips. I didn't even mean to buy then, but they had on the border tortilla chips at the store and those are pretty great.

Also, pretty ****ing excited I was able to run as much as I did. Didnt track time and im sure it was slow as ****, but I ran everything that wasnt a downhill or the few super steep parts (was on trail), didn't have any pain.

Well bodyfat percentage changes are slow too, so it's pointless to measure that everyday... yet here we are.

Alobar,

I'd probably give exactly that advice to an alcoholic if we lived in a world where he literally had to drink beer or die.

Adults generally eat lean protein, vegetables and a small amount of starch for about 80% of their daily calories. They don't consume sugar packets on two hour bike rides. (I've cycled far longer on far bigger deficits. And I never considered drinking sugar water.)

Have you considered buying a day's worth of food and planning in advance? Unless something has changed you can still buy a can of Dr. Pepper. Maybe stopping on the way home from work and purchasing a single can, and limiting access to "I'm weak willed and must pour another glass" opportunities is a useful tactic? You explicitly mentioned having lots of food being a problem. What were you preparing? It really isn't an issue to make containers of chicken breast and veggies and "accidentally" eat 3 days worth. You'll probably consume 2000 calories.

Also, I'm a pretty big advocate of IIFYM dieting. G4S consumes an obscene amount of ice cream as well. The problem is that your breakfast is extremely calorie dense, and then you couple it with other hyper palatable foods and then pretend its impossible to eat differently. This may serve as a wake up call or you can disregard my advice, but you will never succeed with what you're currently eating. Although I do see both a banana and blueberries (I frequently will eat a pound or so in a day). So that is a big start.

BTW you never answered how you were logging your food. Your log is pretty grossly off as you appear down 2.4lbs with a ~9200 calorie deficit while purportedly entering a diet. I'd consider weighing your food and logging it in more granular detail to get an idea of what you're consuming. Perhaps it'll help you understand that what you're eating like is what an obese person eats like, not a normal person. (See the YTF day where he stops for a midday snack between Taco Bell and a Pizza Hut buffet.)

Anyway, best of luck.

Alobar,

How are you logging your portion sizes/calories? How much protein are you averaging a day since you started your cut? How did you calculate your maintenance calories?

Also, if moderation "doesn't work for you" then, as thremp and loco pointed out, maybe actually learning how to cook satiating and non-hyperpalatable food might be a good investment of your time?

lapka,

What G4S said. Also, I think you'd be surprised at which people on this board have struggled with food/their weight, although maybe not to the extent that you'd consider "real". Ultimately, if the answer to "why did you eat a whole cake" is "some people on the internet didn't wash my balls enough about how special my individual struggle was so I did it for spite", then I'd argue that you never really wanted to change in the first place and are looking for excuses. Obviously if there's something more significant going on than laziness/ignorance, expecting to solve that problem on an internet message board is folly.

heh, good point

I drink regular water on all my rides

I dunno, I feel like id rather just not have dr pepper than have a single can. I've never actually tried it tho, so Ill give that a shot and see if that changes anything.

Im lazy so my meal prep was actually paying for a service, it was all **** like chicken breast with green beans and sweet potatoes, I guess 3 days worth of that is still better than a whole pizza

I just use MFP, I keep meaning to order a food scale, I just haven't done it, will do that now.

all my logging is on myfitnesspal, looks like im averaging 90g of protein a day. I just used their suggestion for maintenance calories given a sedentary person of my age and gender.

I predict that you're about to get a lot of angry responses.

5/8

weight: 205.9

BF%: 13.5

Food: oatmeal with peanutbutter and blueberries, a banana, clif bar, pear salad, italian break with prosciutto and mozeralla, half a wood fired pizza, half a bottle of wine

exercise: --

daily calories: +210

total calories: -8814

I graduated, so went to a nice dinner with gf and wasn't worried about calories at all.

5/9

weight: 206.8

BF%: 13.0

Food: oatmeal with peanutbutter, sopapilla compuesta w asada, left over pizza, pineapple

exercise: 4 mile run

daily calories: -587

total calories: -9401

had to drive to the other side of town for some bull****, so went to my favorite mexican place for lunch since I never get to go there.

Pretty stoked with my run, first half is a long gradual uphill thats steeper in parts, I figured I would have to walk parts of it whenever I was finally able to run it again, but even tho it was 100 degrees, my legs were tired from PT, and I haven't ran in 5 months I did the whole thing and my heart rate never went over 170. I don't think ive lost near as much fitness as I imagined I would, figured id be starting from scratch, but thats definitely not the case. Not going to push anything tho, and probably wont do anything longer than that when I do run. I plan mostly to cycle since its easier, and also because of the heat.

hah, touche. I still like it tho, because it's at least a good judge of hydration. If my weight is lower but my body fat is higher Its just cuz I havent had as much water, and vice versa

measured my waist today, was 39.5" normal and 41.5" sloppy, so down a tiny bit, but margin of error high, so probably a wash

Is "sloppy" you pushing out your belly?

Alobar,

Are you weighing your food (specifically stuff like peanut butter)?

.

haha, yeah

I dont weight it no, I do measure the peanutbutter with a tablespoon tho

I have often said, nothing in life is more depressing than seeing exactly 1 serving of peanut butter

5/10

weight: 207.1

BF%: 12.5

Food: oatmeal with peanutbutter and blueberries, clif bar, pineapple, cup of blueberries, steamed vegetables, grilled chicken, some pasta

exercise: 125 minutes cycling

daily calories: -1946

total calories: -11347

Its too hot (108) and I'm too out of shape to go for a 2 hour ride at 3pm, **** kicked my ass. Will have to start waking up early to ride. I ****ing hate summer. Ordered a food scale today