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Good for you!!

However, beware - soon, you'll have to buy new clothes. Again and again and again. Soon enough, old shirts that used to be too tight will be too loose...wearing what used to be regular clothes will feel like wearing a tent.



(74 pounds since June...it can be done, once you get on a roll)

What is really cool is that after having lived several years with a lot of excess weight, your body is essentially in serious training. If you loose a lot then, it will take your body yonks to adjust to the lower weight, your heart and lungs having set up to handle more than you now throw at them. I've noticed this and talked to friends who also went from huge to not so huge and they all shared that experience.
You may experience weird soreness in unusual muscles when your gait and walking speed change.

Keep it up!

Congrats to you!

Having gone from 240 down to 190 (now resting around 205) I know EXACTLY how you feel!

Now are ya gonna go all kinds of Ed Norton "Fight Club" kind of lean on us?

Good for you, I should follow suit. As I get older, I'm feeling a lot less bullet proof. This summer I need to get back on my bicycle, and start stretching. Why would your wife and sister be upset by your improved health?

Good on you guys!! With a wetter than normal winter I've fallen back to old habits and I'm pushing 250 again I felt so much better at 210, need to get back there! On the good side, spring is here, my pain levels are down and I don't have to camp out in the house for fear it'll get burglurated.

One thing that has always helped me in the past is to isolate the top three things that are causing the fatness and stab em. My portion sizes are pretty small for the most part (except once a week chicken fried steak and eggs), but I haven't been exercising on a regular basis. The biggest problem is all of these stupid pain pills. Nothing gets you fat faster than hogging down a handful of painkillers every day.

Keep up the good fight, I'll be joining your ranks soon I hope.

That sound awfully familiar. My oldest sister wouldn't talk to me for a few months because I lost as much as she gained in the same time...she came around though.

good for you rench!

after having spent several months on the couch last year, sidelined with injury, i found myself with less strength and endurance than ever. i hadnt gain any major amount of weight, only garnered an overall softness.

this was unacceptable, so i started in at the gym daily and have taken a serious interest in nutrition. now, but a few months later, i weigh the same as i did wheni was a soldier, and have nearly the wind.

there is a definite sense of accomplishment that goes along with these gains. in addition to relying on caffeine far less, my overall energy level is through the roof!

shall we have morning PT at ragnorok?

Good for you. Its easy to get lazy, and hard to get back into shape.
I'm working at losing about 10lbs just to get into my race leathers for end of May trackdays. Sure it would be easier to buy new bigger leathers, but I'm really cheap and it's really hard to fit a 6'6" 230lb man into one piece leathers.

Rench
I thought your wife was upset because she's still the beneficary on your life insurance.

Health feels good. Period. I keep going in and out of it to the rhythms of my current school situation.
When I don't have tests, I'm at the gym or on a bicycle.
When I do, I'm sitting and doing nothing but studying all day every day.

Maybe if I spent less time HERE when I needed to take a break from studying I'd be in better shape.

I just wish I had the time, geographical situation, and non-fucked ankle to get back to where I was before my wreck.

I was 265 a couple years ago, down to 240. Still feel like a big fat bald middle aged sissy white guy. But I do feel better than I did. If I could spend less time working, and more time working out, I would.
Hopefully this summer will be less commuter heavy, and more acoustic motor bikey.

I'm waiting for nice weather, so I can get outdoors and be active. I do a lot of lumberjack/landscape kinda stuff in the warm months, health permitting.

Yesterday, it got up to 75 degrees, and I walked up and down the road in front of the compound, picking up trash thrown out of moving pickup trucks by piggish okies. Today, though, it never got above freezing and we have several inches of snow...

So sick of winter.

Been trying to loose weight for a while, my Life insurance co. tells me I need to be about 15 lbs lighter to get a decent rate (I'm 5'6" and 190) Tried biking and after cycling for 2 years almost every day got nowhere. Now looks like riding the Supermoto will do the trick, it's a workout every time I'm on it trying to find a new shortcut to work and it's so much fun I forget to eat (sometimes even forget to come to work) Seems that I lost 5 lbs this week, of course it could be crack smoking habit I just acquired... but would like to think it's the bike, so on the tax return this year KTM will be written off as exercise equipment.

Crack smoking is awesome for weight loss, fucks up your cardio something awful though.

WeAintFoundShit wrote:Health feels good. Period.

I don't feel good.

Since the beginning of the year, I too have been focused on weight loss and feeling better. I've dropped 10 lbs. My goal is to drop the rest of the weight by Ragnarök. Should be a piece of cake as soon as the cubicle job ends and the pedicab job resumes. I miss my rock hard thighs.
As a relevant side note, I have found that a reduction in my stress helps me feel better. My stress reducer has popped up in the form of an aquarium with a bunch of goldfish in it. 20 minutes of watching the fishies makes me calmer.

Excellent work Rench! Thanks for the motivation. Keep it up.