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Post by Ferd Berfel on Dec 17, 2011 4:21:56 GMT -5
anyway, what exactly did you do to lose that much weight? i know i could definitely lose some weight, yet i don't seem to be having any problems from it and of course i naturally have some-what of a bulky build. p.s, yes there is such a thing as being big-boned. trust me, i know....i've held real human bones before Sure, there is such a thing as being big-boned, which is why a lot of people who knew me at the time I did weigh 215 thought I was just fine; they didn't realize exactly how skinny of a frame that I had. Actually, I didn't even realize it until I finally lost the weight. It's still a little weird to me. Anyway, I started in December of last year. I had a terrible diet, and I was an 8 to 9 cup a day coffee drinker. The first thing I did was get rid of all snacks; anything that I ate that wasn't one of my two or three meals a day had to go. That was the hardest thing to do; it took me about two months to finally kick the habit of munching food all day long when I didn't need to. Once I got rid of the snacks, the second thing I did was get rid of sugar. That meant no desserts, no sodas, and no candy. That took about a month and a half to get used to. I substituted fruit and cottage cheese for desserts. Eventually I got used to it and now I actually have a very low tolerance for sugar. I can't eat cake and cookies and the like because they make me feel sick. On the other hand, I can eat watermelon or apples and feel the same as I used to feel when I ate candy. It's pretty awesome. After the sugar came potatoes and white bread. I only ate whole grain bread (not all carbs are bad, but too many are definitely terrible). That really only took a couple of weeks to get used to, but the taste of whole grain bread does tend to grate after awhile. I do enjoy corn tortillas as a bit of a guilty pleasure. After that went the fried foods; anything that I deep-fried was baked instead, and if I couldn't bake it, I just didn't eat it. This change was definitely the easiest because it actually made me feel really good after a couple of days. I had a lot more energy and my stomach didn't hurt all the time from too much greasy foods. The hardest one was the one I saved for last, which was the coffee. I went cold turkey on a week that my wife was out of town, but it took a month for the headaches and shakes to really go away. It took another two months to get to a place where I had as much energy as I did before I started drinking coffee. Now I can drink coffee as I feel like it, but I don't need it and very seldom do I have more than 3 cups a week. Right around the time I gave up sugar, I also started going to the gym (this was in the beginning of May). I went 5 days a week, Monday through Friday. There were no exceptions allowed unless I had to be out of town, but then I would have to go back and make it up later. I would do 30 minutes of cardio and then resistance training on a certain area of my body (each section got one training sesson a week). I did this up until about September, when I scaled back to three days a week at the gym. My training sessons are longer now because I have more to do, but I still have three days a week set aside for that. It was not easy at all, and there were plenty of times I wanted to give up completely. I had to really stick with it, but I'm very glad that I did.
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Post by skully on Dec 17, 2011 19:43:11 GMT -5
lol seriously though, i could definitely cut down on coffee but then again i only drink a cup a day. however i do suffer from severe headaches and i have been getting them literally every day for over a year now. i used to take aspirin that had as much caffeine in it as a cup of coffee but i don't anymore and i still get headaches everyday. anyway, if i did stop taking coffee, i fear my headaches would be much worse and i have noticed that i've been getting some terrible stomach aches mostly from having to take aspirin (avg. 3-4 pills/day) for such a long time. as for working out, i simply don't have the time/money to be able to work out at a gym or even at home
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Post by Radiant Magnificence Alastair on Dec 19, 2011 20:30:27 GMT -5
Glad I've never had tea or coffee before, I just drink water and juice at the start of the day. If you can't gym, why not do something more awesome like walk/run outside?
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Post by skully on Dec 20, 2011 3:17:51 GMT -5
i already do speed walking between classes :/
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Post by Radiant Magnificence Alastair on Dec 20, 2011 5:28:14 GMT -5
Skipping is more fun!
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Post by skully on Dec 20, 2011 22:42:37 GMT -5
trust me, if i don't swing my arms when i walk, what makes you think i'd try skipping? that would just be horrendous yet really funny at the same time
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Post by Jeremy on Dec 22, 2011 16:32:01 GMT -5
whats wrong with drinking tea?
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Post by skully on Dec 23, 2011 0:43:13 GMT -5
nothing really, in matter of fact i like ice tea. but since i literally get headaches everyday, the caffeine in coffee really helps make them more mild
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Post by Scott on Dec 23, 2011 13:00:44 GMT -5
Nice job, Ferd!
Football, powerlifting, and some genetics have given me a rather broad frame (even the hips). Hence I'll probably never get below 190. Sitting at around 225 right now, and I've started doing more cardio in the past couple weeks. I also have a Shake Weight :-P
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Post by Muffy on Dec 23, 2011 23:04:07 GMT -5
anyway, what exactly did you do to lose that much weight? i know i could definitely lose some weight, yet i don't seem to be having any problems from it and of course i naturally have some-what of a bulky build. p.s, yes there is such a thing as being big-boned. trust me, i know....i've held real human bones before Sure, there is such a thing as being big-boned, which is why a lot of people who knew me at the time I did weigh 215 thought I was just fine; they didn't realize exactly how skinny of a frame that I had. Actually, I didn't even realize it until I finally lost the weight. It's still a little weird to me. Anyway, I started in December of last year. I had a terrible diet, and I was an 8 to 9 cup a day coffee drinker. The first thing I did was get rid of all snacks; anything that I ate that wasn't one of my two or three meals a day had to go. That was the hardest thing to do; it took me about two months to finally kick the habit of munching food all day long when I didn't need to. Once I got rid of the snacks, the second thing I did was get rid of sugar. That meant no desserts, no sodas, and no candy. That took about a month and a half to get used to. I substituted fruit and cottage cheese for desserts. Eventually I got used to it and now I actually have a very low tolerance for sugar. I can't eat cake and cookies and the like because they make me feel sick. On the other hand, I can eat watermelon or apples and feel the same as I used to feel when I ate candy. It's pretty awesome. After the sugar came potatoes and white bread. I only ate whole grain bread (not all carbs are bad, but too many are definitely terrible). That really only took a couple of weeks to get used to, but the taste of whole grain bread does tend to grate after awhile. I do enjoy corn tortillas as a bit of a guilty pleasure. After that went the fried foods; anything that I deep-fried was baked instead, and if I couldn't bake it, I just didn't eat it. This change was definitely the easiest because it actually made me feel really good after a couple of days. I had a lot more energy and my stomach didn't hurt all the time from too much greasy foods. The hardest one was the one I saved for last, which was the coffee. I went cold turkey on a week that my wife was out of town, but it took a month for the headaches and shakes to really go away. It took another two months to get to a place where I had as much energy as I did before I started drinking coffee. Now I can drink coffee as I feel like it, but I don't need it and very seldom do I have more than 3 cups a week. Right around the time I gave up sugar, I also started going to the gym (this was in the beginning of May). I went 5 days a week, Monday through Friday. There were no exceptions allowed unless I had to be out of town, but then I would have to go back and make it up later. I would do 30 minutes of cardio and then resistance training on a certain area of my body (each section got one training sesson a week). I did this up until about September, when I scaled back to three days a week at the gym. My training sessons are longer now because I have more to do, but I still have three days a week set aside for that. It was not easy at all, and there were plenty of times I wanted to give up completely. I had to really stick with it, but I'm very glad that I did. Are you writing an essay for a health class?
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Post by skully on Dec 24, 2011 5:00:01 GMT -5
@muffy, lol
@scott: does the Shake Weight really work?
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Post by Scott on Dec 24, 2011 11:43:35 GMT -5
@muffy, lol @scott: does the Shake Weight really work? Yes, but like anything else you have to use it regularly.
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Post by Muffy on Dec 24, 2011 14:56:20 GMT -5
skully, your skull collection reminds me of something.
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Post by skully on Dec 24, 2011 19:54:05 GMT -5
@ scott: hmm, i just might try it out some day
@muffy: and what might that be?
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Post by Muffy on Dec 24, 2011 20:58:24 GMT -5
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