The weight loss challenge / health thread

I was sick nearly all last year until a few months ago and barely ate good stuff....so lately I've been slugging sodas down and etc. I gotta stop though, I think I'll do whats suggested here....just drink water.

The Red Bull thing can't be true....right?

 

From personal experience a good diet along with exercise works great, right now I don't follow any special diet, just eat 4 meals a day and mostly have pasta for dinner, and always water, tons of water. Lately I've been eating like a dinosaur but as I do tons of exercise I haven't felt the weight of it luckily, I train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (mostly anaerobic) twice a week, K1 (mostly aerobic) and weight lifting 5 days a week.
Though in October 2007 as I had to lose weight for a Jiu Jitsu tournament I followed a really good diet prepared by my nutritionist (combined with the same exercise) and lost like 6kg in 3 weeks, crazy shit.
I believe the key is not eating between meals, drinking mostly water and doing regular exercise.

 

Oh, it will be, trust me! :lol:

 

The key *IS* eating between meals. More meals of smaller portion = your body never goes into "store this as fat for energy later" mode. It's probably not necessary for most people in high school, and quite a few in college. But once you get in the real world though, and are lucky to get in one session of true excercise a day, you really gotta get creative. Sitting on your ass at a computer is just awful.

Your workout is pretty intense. I do weight training 3 days a week, and cardio (run 8-10k or swim 1.8k) the other 3. Rest on Sunday, just like God. I don't think I can handle what you're doing though.

 

I rest on weekends too :110: unless there's really nice warm weather, in that case I'd go for a run, but that won't happen any time soon since we are entering winter.

I have 4 meals a day, and my nutritionist told me to try not to eat heavy or big portions of food between meals as I used to do that, and interfered a lot with my effectiveness while training. She told me I can eventually eat stuff like cereal bars / yogurt / fruit in between meals. I do that some times in a gap between training sessions (some days I train BJJ in the afternoon and K1 at night), or when at the university where sitting all day long studying gives me the need to eat something or I feel I'm gonna faint.

Anyway what you say about more meals in smaller portions sounds logical, maybe the thing of the effectiveness of eating or not between meals depends on the kind of exercise/lifestyle of each person.

 

Definitely so, but as Assembler pointed out. It depends on your metabolism. Younger people are going to have better metabolism on average, so it's not as necessary for them. Up in your 30's though, where I am, if you have a desk job you generally don't have any accidental excercise. This is when you should break your meals (at least lunch and dinner) into two, and maybe a small snack in there. My lunch is generally at about 11;15, then 12:30 for the rest. I have a protein bar about an hour or so after that, and then workout around 16:00.

Sounds like me with meat. It was the easiest of things to give up. Cigarettes was the hardest. If I have soda now, it's almost always diet.

 

Ugg, I dunno if I could give up meat all the way....

 

That's what he said.

 

rofl

Was it tough for you? Have you seriously not ate meat for a long ass time?

Word of advice: never say "I'm craving meat" out loud in front of people.

Also can't you just jack off to top physical condition?

 

I've been trying that method for years and it doesn't seem to have made any difference:icon_bigg... Seriously, I believe you need to do it at least 5 times a day to show any cardiovascular improvement.

I've been attempting to diet for a little bit now - stopped eating shit between meals and switched to diet free coke and fruit rather than sweet desserts at meals. I keep telling myself I'm going to start exercising any day soon, but never get round to it...

 

Yeah, I gave up soft drinks three or four years ago, after half a year I couldn't stand to drink the stuff anymore. Which was pretty nuts, because I used to drink Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb that a fiend.



Anyways, for a little under a year I did a pretty hardcore workout routine 5 days a week and ate nothing but chicken, spinach, rice, and drank only skim milk, orange juice, and sweet tea. Wound up losing 80+ lbs. back then too. Who knows how much I would've lost had I not drank the sweet tea. Pants size went down like, 8 sizes too.

These days I just eat 3 meals a day and mostly drink water. Workout routine is lessened because of school/work. But eh, it works.

 

You sound like me, jp..
I've ranged between 250 lbs and 165 lbs. I'm on the lower end of the spectrum now (probably 175). I eat pretty healthy, but I can't stand skim milk. I'm a 2% low fat guy.

Back on topic, I ran 10k yesterday. Felt good, but for some weird fucking reason it was really cold for mid-May, and my balls were all chaffed when I got home. Not fun.

 

I had been considering digging out my old bike and cycling the 1.5 miles to and from work (I usually walk - I have a car, but I'm not that lazy), but never actually did anything about it until I read through this thread. I figured it was time to finally get some exercise for the first time in... Uh, nevermind.

Since I wasn't at the office today, I decided to try cycling around the country lanes surrounding my house to get in a little practise (I hadn't ridden a bike in about five years). I managed to get a staggering 0.7 kilometres before my body crapped out... Yes, you read that right. In my defence, it is all up-hill. Not steep, but it's a decent gradient.

I knew I was horribly unfit, but damn was that disappointing. The good news is that it has actually encouraged me to do something about it; the plan is to keep doing a bit more each day - trying to get further each time. Well, until my body finally gives out later this week and I abandon this crazy idea.

 

you wanna be a beast son? alright, follow these steps.

1:stop eating what you eat
2:get a gym membership
3:Make up your mind that you are ugly/fat/skinny/outofshape (whatever applies) and want to get in shape, so you have to workout harder than the people that are already in shape, that means going 5 times a week.


Diet:
1: atleast 2 gallons of ice water a day
2: 40% complex carbs , 40% protein 20%fats (peanut butter, olive oil...)

Just eat oatmeal with fruit in the morning with 2 eggs, and through out the day tuna with brown rice, or lettuce with chx breast.. it will get annoying, but it works.......no mayo or cesar dressing fatty, maybe cesar dressing made with olive oil and only alittle bit.

That diet is something that works, just work around it if you feel like it gets boring.

working out:
1: run 1 mile 3 times a week, don't over do it... it burns muscle and messes up your knees.
2: Do abs everyday after your workout

stack with no xplode, animal pack, syntha-6 some bcaa .... and some :evil:testosterone boosters :evil: .

lift heavy, if people around you don't think you're about to shit your pants, you're not lifting hard enough.

 

Tell me about it. Try being a pinch over 6ft and yet 120 pounds. I also have mitral valve prolapse, so my heart isn't as efficient as it should be and therefore I get quite tired very quickly when doing strenuous activities. Also have a high risk for a couple other issues, so if any of them pop up the MVP will just compound those problems.
Obviously, anything I eat just gets burnt up immediately. I haven't gained more than 10 pounds in the past 4 years.
Then there's my joints, spine, and all those issues...

Regardless, I do need to get in shape as I generally feel like crap all day every day.

I wish I had easier access to a pool, it sure would be the best on my shitty body.
Any other hints/tips? I'm not really looking to "bulk up" (though it might make me a little more accessable to the ladies), just feel better in general. I've tried working out in the past with some normal friends, but it just screwed me up more. Impact is a definite downer.

 

Swimming is about the best 'low-impact' excercise you can do. It's probably going to make your metabolic rate even higher (if that's possible -- doesn't sound like it) though, so be warned. It will work out your muscles though w/ little impact on your joints.

Have you looked into low-weight/high rep workouts? This a great routine, and puts way more strain on the muscles rather than the joints. You look like a pune in the gym though.

 

A gym with a trainer/nutritionist will fix this. I have a lightning fast metabolism and i'm slim and I get easily tired out.

A few years ago I started at the gym and the guy just told me to eat nothing but fish rice and baked beans everyday with plenty of water. I then attended the gym 3 times a week and basically pushed myself as far as I could go each time I was in agony all the time for the first month.

After about 2 months it started getting easier and I was running distances on the treadmill I could only have ever dreamed of before I started. Before I knew it I bulked up a bit and if I look back at the photos from then I looked flush and healthy in the face and shirts didn't hang of me like a ghost costume.

It's a really slow process and it's very easy to just say fuck it and give up but it's just pure determination in the end that will get you there.

It will feel like you have been raped for quite sometime but switching to a pure health routine is a complete system reconfiguration and you need to punish your body into accepting how it is.

After about 4 months you will feel like walking sex.

I'm gonna start up my routine again, I've never had time or the funds to keep it up and a year of slacking has left me a mess, I can't even start the day without at least 13 hours sleep.

 

Sucks when you realize you pissed away all you worked for. Not doing it this time. I can think of 3 times I got lazy. Sucks, as it's like an eraser.