Not that I expect you guys to care, but my wife and sister would be genuinely offended...
I've lost like 16 lbs since the first of the year, 28 since I started. I'm down to a long-time goal/healthy weight of 185. Portion control, hallowed by thy name, shitloads of cardio (50% of deaths at my work are cardiac-related), and now lifting more weight than I did when I was 18.
I'd love to make some crack about "can I take a fucking day off from working out now?!?!" But it's true, once you start feeling better (which was like 5-10 lbs ago), you want to keep feeling better.
Ok, off my soap box. No heart stints in the immediate future for me! Woohoo!!
-Rench
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Rench
- the Harm in Harmony
- Location: Chicago
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Only outlet...
"I'm not a schemer..."
"Do you know why it's illegal to put gasoline in a glass container?" - Piccinni
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DerGolgo
- Zaphod's Zeitgeist
- Location: Potato
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!
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!
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.
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Ames
- Megachiroptera Übermench
- Location: Denver, CO in MY OWN DAMN HOUSE!
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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?
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?
Cheers,
Ames.
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My Little Pony
- Maltov Rattlecan
- Location: Maine
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Beemer Dan
- Dark Poohbah
- Location: Oregon
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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.
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.
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Rench
- the Harm in Harmony
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My Little Pony wrote:Why would your wife and sister be upset by your improved health?
This gets into areas of psychology that I don't feel comfortable with, so I just pull the idiot guy card of, "they're chicks." Not my usual stance, and both of them are very intelligent people. But "health" has become inextricably synonymous with "weight" for both, and both of them are above their optimum BMI.
In short, I can say all day that my resting pulse is in the 50's, my joints and back don't hurt anymore, and I'm benching 250, but all they'd here is "I lost more weight than you, nana-na-na!!"
I don't pretend to understand, I simply abide.
Thanks for all the support here though.
-Rench
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DerGolgo
- Zaphod's Zeitgeist
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xaos
- Zaouse!
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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?
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?
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Rench
- the Harm in Harmony
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I am planning on some serious ab work at the Rag. Specifically: every monring wretching out whatever Vile Substance That Shall Not Be Named™ and Jack my gut did not absorb properly.
That's called "working the core."
-Rench
(seriously, I thought about bringing running shoes, but not enough room on the bike )
That's called "working the core."
-Rench
(seriously, I thought about bringing running shoes, but not enough room on the bike
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TallGuy
- Maltov Rattlecan
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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.
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.
"I ride way to fast to worry about cholesterol"
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WeAintFoundShit
- Ayatollah of Mayhem
- Location: Davis
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.
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.
"The grip on the right is the fun regulator." -Donny Greene
I crash a lot.
I crash a lot.
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Rench
- the Harm in Harmony
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...and to celebrate...
The Burger King Triple whaopper with cheese. To assure arterial destruction and intestinal decimation, I got mine special, with bacon and jalepano.
1250 calories 31g sat. fat 225mg cholesterol 11g sugar 50g carbs
84g fat 3.5g trans fat 74g protein 1580mg sodium
It wasn't that good actually. A plain burger from any local joint probably would have tasted better.
Ah well, it's done now. Back to the whole healthy thing.
-Rench
The Burger King Triple whaopper with cheese. To assure arterial destruction and intestinal decimation, I got mine special, with bacon and jalepano.
1250 calories 31g sat. fat 225mg cholesterol 11g sugar 50g carbs
84g fat 3.5g trans fat 74g protein 1580mg sodium
It wasn't that good actually. A plain burger from any local joint probably would have tasted better.
Ah well, it's done now. Back to the whole healthy thing.
-Rench
"I'm not a schemer..."
"Do you know why it's illegal to put gasoline in a glass container?" - Piccinni
"Do you know why it's illegal to put gasoline in a glass container?" - Piccinni
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piccini9
- Everybody dies. It's a love story.
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.
Hopefully this summer will be less commuter heavy, and more acoustic motor bikey.
Adding pink and unicorns makes everything better.
-roadmissile
Treatment may include things like riding motorcycles and crocheting… whatever it takes to counteract the deleterious effects of existence. - Rolly
-roadmissile
Treatment may include things like riding motorcycles and crocheting… whatever it takes to counteract the deleterious effects of existence. - Rolly
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guitargeek
- Master Metric Necromancer
- Location: East Goatfuck, Oklahoma
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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.
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.
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MATPOC
- The Unreasonable Ukranian
- Location: Providence, RI
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.
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piccini9
- Everybody dies. It's a love story.
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erosvamp
- Sophisticated Meat Machine
- Location: denver
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.
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.
"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." -General Eric Shinseki