Time to get fit

[Kev]

Stay active.  Be active.  Find something you enjoy to the point that you're unhappy if you don't get it in.  I "workout" religiously.  Rock climbing and mt biking.  If I dont get one in during any particular day I'll bang out a ton of situps and push ups because I feel guilty that I didn't get ot enjoy myself.

There's a high spec Yeti 575 without a scratch in the garage and the fact that my downhill race bike that's, gathering dust, is a Rotec probably tells a sad story ... I won't list the others.

Chin ups are good if you're a climber [smile]

I think I'm doing two chin ups when I close my mouth [embarassed]

 

[Sean7a]

Wow, I haven't heard Rotec in a long time.

I was strongly considering a 575 for this year's ride...

 

[RC]

Kev, the first week is hardest - you will feel hungry with the diminished amounts until your stomach shrinks to accommodate the lesser amounts you are now eating and then the constant hungry feeling will go away.

Just try not to have a gutbash every other day and stretch your stomach right back and try to eat a healthy breakfast, two warm meals and small snacks like an apple & cup of tea after every meal (morning, afternoon, evening) to keep yourself from feeling hungry and going on a snack hunt.  [wink]

 

[dltflt]

Kevin I made the same decision about 8 weeks ago.  I am doing a high protein diet and walking and have lost 10 lbs.  the trick is to eat smaller portions 5-6 times a days because it increases your metabolism.  I am doing Herbalife shakes 2 times a day plus 1 nutritional meal for dinner.  My snacks are fruit and nuts.  I know already feel better.
My starting wt. was 240 and my goal is 190.

Good Luck to everyone making this life style change.

 

[Sean7a]

What are you doing to keep active Don?

 

[Tinker]

Throw the machines out. Aerobics work outs are the best. Burn calories and work all parts of the body. I must think I'm a doctor. MARK

[thumbs up] I play squash 2-3 times a week, at least one day out of those 2-3 I play for 1.5-2 hours, but that still wasn't enough to keep the weight off. Great aerobic and anaerobic systems exercise.
I was eating too much, particularly when I was working hard.
I was loosing to the 25 yr olds (I'm 57) so I stopped eating bread with my butter, lost 15lbs and I am still loosing...just not as badly.
Really pisses me off.
I walk with the dog...or rather he walks me.
Tim

Tim, you are a man after my own heart.
Tinker

 

[Runhard]

The key to eating right is to never get too hungry. When you allow yourself to get really hungry, that's when it is hard to eat healthy. If you are starving all you want is something fat and greasy. Eat 5-6 smaller healthy meals and always have some fruit, veggies, and nuts to snack on throughout the day. Drink lots of water and stay away from soda and drinks with artificial flavouring and high fructose corn syrup. Stay active and find an activity that you enjoy that gets your heart rate up, even if its for 10-15min a day to start. Have someone like a friend or spouse that wants the same results and that you can be accountable to.

Being healthy, feeling good, and being in great shape is a lifestyle. It is not something you do every now and again when you feel like it. Get motivated and don't make excuses for yourself. Sorry, if that seemed too harsh. I was a 2 sport college athlete, wrestling and cross country, and I also coached in college for 7years, trained in MMA, and used to be a health and fitness extremist. I have learned how to take a more moderate and long term approach to living a healthy lifestyle and want to enjoy my life to the fullest. 

 

[Deansocial]

When you have a meal make sure you eat till your full  try  eating foods with plenty of fibre, protein beans,eggs etc  which will keep you feeling fuller for longer!   Which will help to prevent you from snacking which is a easy way to GAIN weight and so snacking should be avoided!

Always try to keep moving even just bouncing or shaking your legs while your eating or watching tv etc will burn of some energy alot more than you think!

Things like soup take longer for your stomach to process so will keep you feeling fuller for longer! 

If you want to gain muscle THE ONLY best thing to have is MILK straight after sport to repair muscle   I have used milk since I was 12 to gain muscle when playing rugby I wouldnt drink anything else  just had about 10 glasses of milk!

JMB

So why are you such a wimp then?

 

[woodguy7]

[bite tongue] [popcorn]

 

[flair woodworks]

Go Kev, go!

My weight-management regime: surface wood with hand planes.

 

[Kev]

When you have a meal make sure you eat till your full  try  eating foods with plenty of fibre, protein beans,eggs etc  which will keep you feeling fuller for longer!   Which will help to prevent you from snacking which is a easy way to GAIN weight and so snacking should be avoided!

Always try to keep moving even just bouncing or shaking your legs while your eating or watching tv etc will burn of some energy alot more than you think!

Things like soup take longer for your stomach to process so will keep you feeling fuller for longer! 

If you want to gain muscle THE ONLY best thing to have is MILK straight after sport to repair muscle   I have used milk since I was 12 to gain muscle when playing rugby I wouldnt drink anything else  just had about 10 glasses of milk!

JMB

Unfortunately I know how to put muscle on - I actually need to lean up.

A foot injury from last October has stuffed me for many types of exercise, but, I'd become lazy well before that ... my free dive fins are effective torture devices and cycling shoes are agony (plus walking further than a couple of km promotes a limp that introduces other problems). This was all because of a bad initial diagnosis and to fix it could now involve an op and a lot of time completely off my foot. More good reasons to drop kilos.

Rowing and weights have been my go to exercises over the sat two days, but you've got me thinking ... there's always the punching bag and my gloves should be somewhere !

 

[tiralie]

I stopped eating bread with my butter,

Tim, you are a man after my own heart.
Tinker

Being half Irish I have always heard the saying that Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat, but I am pretty sure butter should be on that list...

 

[dltflt]

What are you doing to keep active Don?

I walk two miles every night the do 3 sets of 20 pushups and situs.  That will take about an hour.

 

[woodguy7]

Oh oh, handbags  [big grin]

Didn't realise you played rugby.  Don't you play at all now ?

 

[PaulMarcel]

During college, I was a waiter so I walked a lot.  Ate a lot, too, but never gained.  Then I stopped and became a code monkey but didn't change how I ate so got big.  When I decided to lose it, it became this singular focus.  I had a simple pneumatic stair climber in my room and would pop on a metal CD and go until it finished.  I swear, my heart rate still goes up when I hear 'Eyes of a Stranger' or 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'!  (Queensrÿche and Iron Maiden if y'all can't remember).  Lost 60lbs in 6 months. I also cut meals in half... ate all the same stuff, but literally halved it before starting.  If I started feeling hungry later after dinner, that's when I'd do the stairclimbing cuz it would completely kill the hunger.

As a weird tangent, at one time I considered myself on a 'donut' diet.  On my way to work, I'd hit the Dunkin Donuts for a Dunkin Donut (that was the name; no longer available out here hmm) and coffee to go.  That was breakfast at the office.  Tasted great!  Interesting thing, though, hour later my stomach felt like I swallowed a whale.  Completely killed my appetite until dinner and I wasn't starving for it either.

 

[Tinker]

I stopped eating bread with my butter,

Tim, you are a man after my own heart.
Tinker

Being half Irish I have always heard the saying that Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat, but I am pretty sure butter should be on that list...

Tim,  being Irish, i am sure you not only appreciate good butter, but lots of butter must be accompanied by goodly portions of potatoes. 

My very closest cuz married a nurse.  For years she has told me about the evils of eating butter, eggs, bacon and so on and on.  I have told her i could not live without bacon, eggs potatoes and butter on anything it could stay on or be fried in.  A couple of years ago, it came out that those items really are much better for good health than their replacements.  I just read no further and gloat every time we get together.  [thumbs up]

When i was working and heavy lifting, i weighed 150 with absolutely NO FAT any where.  now that i am slowing down and because of severe back problems can no longer do heavy work, I have lost a lot of muscle, weigh about 135 and have gained a spare tire around the middle. I am managing the tire by eating sensible portions and doing lots of walking (until recent hernia and surgery for).  I still manage to eat all of the good things, including butter, eggs and spuds, but i am careful about the portions.  [unsure]

Hey, if you and i get much further into this potatoe, butter, eggs, bacon, etc, we will be in big trouble here.  :
Tinker

 

[RC]

You might want to check out the Epic Mealtime videos on youtube [big grin]

A mate of mine has a running carpet machine in his workroom and has a height adjustable table over it with his laptop and he walks while doing his emails every day for 4-5h   

He's lost a lot of weight over the last 6 months doing only this.

 

[Kev]

Getting a bit obsessed I think ...

Woke up at 2:00am, rowed for 70 minutes, showered. Now back in bed and on the FOG. From Sunday afternoon I was 99.9kg, now 60 hours later I'm 96.4kg. That's down 3.5kg (7.7lb).

(I woke up hungry and acted on some advice further back in this thread and exercised the hunger away)

There's initial fluid retention and bloating to smash in the first week, so week one will typically be the biggest drop. Still, Sunday weigh in is going to be interesting.

I'm eating similar volumes, but only fresh food and coffee is black.

 

[tiralie]

Hey, if you and i get much further into this potatoe, butter, eggs, bacon, etc, we will be in big trouble here.   :

Mmm, bacon and pork...here's some roast pork for pulled pork with a side of hot sauce I cooked recently ...
[attachthumb=#]

 

[Tinker]

Tim, You are baaad  [poke]
If you are ever around Connecticut, give a call and my wife will whip up the best Sauer Bratten and potatoe dumplins you ever could want.
In hot weather, her German potatoe salad (with vinegar and chopped onions) is superb. Very cooling and i have read a spoonful of vinegar will take away a whole lot of fat  : 
Tinker