Fatty B Gone

Its a tough situation man, I've been "outa the groove" about 13 years. There was a time I was very dedicated and found out ALOT about myself/body in terms of working out. Some of these may apply to you, I have an average metabolism with a very slow recovery rate. My motivation was easy at first when ephedrine was legal lol, energy focus and a higher than normal body core temp. I did find that as I got closer to some of my goals it was easy to maintain plus still improve as well. My metabolism boosting was about a 3 month project, mostly by eating 5-6 small meals a day. Lotsa tuna fish(yuk), banannas and yogurt worked for me. But as far as exercise I found my Nirvana: I was able to select exercises that targeted the areas I wanted to focus on, found an order to follow these that let my body recover while going to a different muscle area and saving time. Many of these exercise were not optimum types though, but I found many that were covered the bases without being the:OMG not these again types. I actually had my best results when pushing myself out of the gym-no more than 3 days a week. If I want more it has to be cardio only. My body needed lotsa recovery. Good luck man.

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Why don't you follow your own advice and do something that is not "working out". Do you have a friend that likes to play raquetball, tennis, basketball? Get a regular play-date on the calendar, join a league...Or if you're into running, but just need a competitive goal - sign up for a 10k or something. www.active.com is a good site where you can pick a sport and find a league, a race, or whatever. Or check your local community center for programs. Everyone is going to get bored if they just go to the gym.

Seriously though, I went from 160 to 139 by doing something radical: eating better and minimal workouts (just don't have the time). I did this in roughly 4 months or so, and I've still kept it off for around 6 months floating between 139 to 143 depending on the day. I'm not talking about some crazy diet like atkins, southbeach or weight watchers. I'm talking about basic stuff, don't eat "instant pasta" - just don't. Want spaghetti? Wheat noodles and organic pasta sauce (lower in sugars). Just watch your sugars and white pasta. You get hungry a lot? Eat six times a day. Have a good breakfast that keeps you full, and eat any sugars around that time. I eat Total, with raisens and stuff. Lots of sugars but most of it is the raisens (I wish I could spell them though). Eat that when you get up, then you may try a yogurt or maybe two graham crackers at like 10:30 or 11:00, an hour or so before lunch. Then at lunch have a modest portion of something equally healthy (wheats, no white pastas). A turkey sandwhich on wheat, with a bag of grapes, jello, etc. Then, at 3:00 I have an EDGE protein drink (because they don't taste horrid). That protein keeps me full for a bit, but if it doesn't you can try a two more graham crackers around 4:30 if you normally eat at 5 or 6 at night. If you do this, you should remain full for a bit, allowing your dinner to be of smaller portions. Now, I'm 160, you're 250, so you may have to eat double the graham crackers and a lot more protein. During the day, try to drink at least 32 oz of water, especially during those off eating hours to keep your stomach full and flushes your system of those toxins and crap. I also drink one or two caffeinated beverages during the deay (DIET- Coke Zero). I can find you this diet program i use on my PC too. It basically counts your daily allowances of everything, and tries to guide that along your weight loss requests. So, if you're trying to get down to a target weight of 200 it will tone your intake towards that over the requested months you want to do it. The shorter time period the more aggressive it gets. In the end, I found myself eating double what I usually did and staying full a long time. So bad, that I had to force myself to eat when I wasn't hungry. The only difference? It wasn't junk food. No cookies, candies, twinkies and all that vending machine garbage. Protein over sugars, kept me full longer and I didn't get that urge to look around for something to snack on. I tried to do the tredmill every other day, but gave up after a few weeks. It didn't change my diet loss very much, just extended it a month or so. Think "healthy," less sugar more proteins, good fats (I drank straight Flax Seed Oil to get my fats up), and all that good stuff. TO commit on it, you have to stop eating out (if you do), only doing so once a week as a "cheat day" because your body can burn that one day worth of badness. Once I started using that program I found myself looking for ways to get fat (hence, drinking flax oil) and getting up the fiber (drinking metamucil) because I'd never considered 'balancing' a diet and eating healthy, if not monitored, can lower important fats and such. You still need fat, just not fat from a Biggie Fry and Shake.

I'm 5' 11" and weighed around 225 lbs. I lose approximately like 7 pounds a week just by exercising and dieting. I just run on a treadmill for about 40 minutes. My diet consists of low carb diet, morning just coffee. Lunch just a piece of chicken, fish or meat and a small side salad. Dinner a small bowl of cereal or sometimes I just skip it. The first week I lose 10 pounds and the next weeks I lose about 5 to 7 pounds average weight. My weight goal is 175 lbs. I'm at 200 right now. Good luck to you.

This is the program I used to lose and maintain weight by tracking what I'm eating: http://www.dietpower.com/try/?gclid=CNaYpOvGvo0CFQgZhgodzHqVQQ After following it for a few months I was able to learn what is good for you and what is bad. Should be common sense, but in a lot of ways, you don't really know what you're eating until you put the nutrition facts into the program (if they're not) and chart a days worth of eating. Then you're like "holy crap bags, that's really not good for you after what I ate today." Then, over time, I was able to be more concious of what's good and what's not. And, when I eat something high in carbs/fat/whatever I know offhand other things that would compound it rather than compliment it.

Fetal, I'm 5'10" and 180lbs. I can benchpress 225lbs 15 times. How? One word: Moderation. I have been working out in moderation for 10 years. I've not allowed myself to "get burned out" because I reward myself with plenty of down time. I commend you that you were able to lose so much weight witout dieting, that's really great! My experience has been that 75% of my results have been attributed to diet alone. Me, I eat pretty well. Low fat, med carb, high protein. I don't eat like a freak though. I also reward myself each week with "cheats". I can eat whatever I want 4 meals per week. The rest I stay pretty healthy. It gives me someting to look forward to every other day or so. The bottom line is this....in order to maintain your target weight you're going to either have to continue the miserty of strenuous exercise OR you can try to make permanent lifestyle and diet changes, although slight, that will enable you to maintain your losses without that much work. If you'd like some supporting deatail to all of this, I'm happy to help. Good luck!

Hey Fetal, TDrag mentioned this above, but your situation sounds exactly like mine. Anyway, I had never played racquetball before last year. I played once with a friend and was hooked. Much like playing b-ball there is a goal, but I have never had such a good workout while having fun. You could not force me to run or use a treadmill or whatever. I basically played racquetball for 1 hour 2 or 3 days per week and ate better in smaller portions and more often and dropped pounds but more importantly dropped fat and inches. I let it slide recently too, but I think I just found another partner again and am looking forward to playing again.