New Years Resolutions

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

What is your target weight? What are you doing to lose the weight?

What is your workout routine like?
And what is that diet?

1) My target weight is 225. I topped out at 305 almost a year ago. I'll never be a thin man without working our like I did when I wrestled in high school, and that involved lifting weights and running 6 miles daily, and that's not going to happen with how banged up my body is after years of contact sports and ortho surgeries. I just want to be healthy, and my blood pressure has already dropped to normal levels after being somewhat high.

2) I basically just changed my diet, but did not go on "a diet". I started analyzing how I eat, and essentially I discovered I was addicted to carbohydrates. I wouldn't eat because I was hungry, I would eat almost in a panic due to my blood sugar levels. When I ate, I wouldn't even remember exactly what I ate sometimes or what it tasted like.

I adopted Atkins and then moved to a variation of South Beach. Immediately my appetite changed, I take longer to eat, and enjoy what I eat a lot more.

3) I don't work out at all. That's going to be one of my sub-resolutions this year. I want to start walking on a regular basis like I did when I trained for our Ireland vacation.

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Professor S

1) My target weight is 225. I topped out at 305 almost a year ago. I'll never be a thin man without working our like I did when I wrestled in high school, and that involved lifting weights and running 6 miles daily, and that's not going to happen with how banged up my body is after years of contact sports and ortho surgeries. I just want to be healthy, and my blood pressure has already dropped to normal levels after being somewhat high.

2) I basically just changed my diet, but did not go on "a diet". I started analyzing how I eat, and essentially I discovered I was addicted to carbohydrates. I wouldn't eat because I was hungry, I would eat almost in a panic due to my blood sugar levels. When I ate, I wouldn't even remember exactly what I ate sometimes or what it tasted like.

I adopted Atkins and then moved to a variation of South Beach. Immediately my appetite changed, I take longer to eat, and enjoy what I eat a lot more.

3) I don't work out at all. That's going to be one of my sub-resolutions this year. I want to start walking on a regular basis like I did when I trained for our Ireland vacation.

Hey man, congratulations on the progress thus far. I'm glad you have found a diet that works for you, and it sounds like you found a nice balance of still being able to eat things you enjoy.

Weight loss is 99% diet for most people, unless you're Micheal Phelps. It's hard to diet. This summer I was down to like 177, I'm back up to around 195 but that's because I have been indulging in bad food for the past few months. I want to get back down to 185. I run and lift, and I try to exercise 3 to 5 days a week. The thing is I love food, especially BAD food, so if I do 5 intense workouts a week I get more flexibility with my upper calorie limit.

Truth be told, at some point I'm gonna have to ween down to 3 solid daily workouts a week due to the normal, realistic demands of life. At that point it will be all about calorie crunching. Although I can never go vegetarian, I will explore some vegetarian dishes so that I can try and stay under 2000 calories for 5 days of the week, and have two 3000 calorie days where I can say fuck-all and throw back a few beers and some delicious fried food.

I've bottomed out at 1400 calories for my extreme minimum, but I just cannot do that and run 15+ miles a week. Also, 1.5 years ago I was tipping the scale around 265 I believe. So yeah....good times.

[BreakABone]

I just came up with one.
After last year visited so many GT FOLKS and then nothing major this year
Wanna travel to least one new area this year