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just returned from an all inclusive wedding, in cabo. 5 days. i actually worked out hard, the first 2 days i was there. this is a serious departure from normal vacation mode. we'll see what the damage was tomorrow.
crushing this.krista4 said:Motoring along. This week could be tough due to social commitments involving wine tastings, pizza, dinners out, etc., but I'm going to do my best to stay the course and hit that magical 20-pound loss by next Monday's weigh-in.
9/9: Ridiculous starting weight
9/16: -6.0 lbs
9/23: -3.0 lbs
9/30: -2.2 lbs
10/7: -3.0 lbs
10/14: +1.0 lb
10/21: -4.4 lbs
10/28: -1.4 lbs
Total through seven weeks: -19.0 lbs
It's almost the two week anniversary of that giant #### you took.krista4 said:9/16: -6.0 lbs
9/23: -3.0 lbs
9/30: -2.2 lbs
10/7: -3.0 lbs
10/14: +1.0 lb
10/21: -4.4 lbs
10/28: -1.4 lbs
Glad to see you are progressing and seeing the big picture.A couple of basic truths I thought about on my drive home from the gym this morning:
1. Systems in nature always find their equilibrium. It takes some time, but it’s immutable. If you behave like a fat person over an extended period of time, you’ll eventually be fat. If you behave like a fit person, you’ll eventually be fit. But it takes time — it’s not about what you did today or this week, but this year, or the past 3 or 5 years.
2. There are only two things that determine where that equilibrium is for you: how much you eat, and how much you move. And it turns out the first one is a lot more influential. Because it takes the average person over an hour to run the 10 miles needed to burn 1,000 calories. But you can eat 1,000 calories in under 5 minutes (not even a full Big Mac meal). Exercise is great for a variety of reasons, but once you put the calories into your system, it’s damn hard to get them out.
So eat less, and healthier, and move more, all over a sustained period of time, and you just end up a person who is in good shape. But the key is consistency over the long term.
Yo - @Mister CIA - please see this post for context on why I @'d youI'm taking a second run at a 3 day water fast, starting four hours ago. Made it to 38 hours this past weekend (The NFL triggered my beer consuming apparatus early Sunday afternoon). Psoriasis is creeping back after 10 years without a problem, but before I resort to a potent RX to clear it up, I'm going to pull out all the stops on natural remedies. Allegedly, a three-day fast can kick the immune system up a few notches (linky). While I don't know much about this, I signed up for a self-paced course at edX.org on autophagy.
I'm doing a strict water-only fast, and I'm going to try to do two a month (eventually tapering off and relying on intermittent fasting once I get my #### together). After I get a couple of these under my belt (literally?), I may try adding black coffee and teas to my method.
Observations from 38 hour water fast:
New Year's Resolutions
- Hunger was never a problem
- Sleep was not good, but that is generally always the case for me.
- Had a terrible headache when I woke up Sunday morning. Googling told me that this quite common and that it was likely attributable to dehydration. Sure enough, ramping up my water consumption and throwing back many pinches of pink Himalayan salt fixed me right up.
- Isaiah Pead, a lot.
- Eat right: Will lean slightly Keto, with the exception of sprouted grain breads, and the occasional beans and rice. I plan to eat a ridiculous quantity of vegetables.
- Exercise: Weights four days a week, cardio blowout once a week. Lots and lots of steam room.
- Sleep: I've got to make improvements. I probably average about five hours a night.
- Meditation: I rocking two guided meditation apps - 10% Happier and Sam Harris' Waking Up.
- Self-Improvement: Complete a few edX courses; read more, a lot more.
- Rewatch the greats: The Wire and Sopranos, to name two.
I crack myself up.@BassNBrew
@The Gator
@Bull Dozier
@Nugget
let’s go guys - what’s the plan? I’m going to start tagging you fatties (sig it) to get some action for Otis
Did he get banned? Where the hell have you been @James Daulton ?What are the stakes? I could stand to lose a pound or 30.
Im fat@Keerock - @pantherclub - @belljr - @shadyridr
please see this post for context on why I @'d you
Kee - Keto?
Panther - you still doing yoga? In yoga pants? I'll take a PM
Bell/Shady - how YOU doing?
LET'S GO!!! How can we help - seriously, PM your phone number and I'll text you pics of my feet daily so you won't want to eat.Im fat
Still not fat@Bluto Blutarsky - not sure if you are fat again but I know you are high, sober up and read this
Honestly I ate like a pig all summer. Fattest Ive been in years. Im ashamed. I wanna lose weight and I know what to do but I find no motivation in starting. I have to get past the first hunger phase (which for me is about 2 weeks) and then Im usually smooth sailing.LET'S GO!!! How can we help - seriously, PM your phone number and I'll text you pics of my feet daily so you won't want to eat.
Based on what you just wrote and have done in the past, you don't really want to lose weight. It has nothing to do with a 2 week hunger phase. You don't really know what to do. And the result of getting through that isn't smooth sailing - it's a path back to eating like a pig again sometime in the near future.Honestly I ate like a pig all summer. Fattest Ive been in years. Im ashamed. I wanna lose weight and I know what to do but I find no motivation in starting. I have to get past the first hunger phase (which for me is about 2 weeks) and then Im usually smooth sailing.
I said I had no motivation.Based on what you just wrote and have done in the past, you don't really want to lose weight. It has nothing to do with a 2 week hunger phase. You don't really know what to do. And the result of getting through that isn't smooth sailing - it's a path back to eating like a pig again sometime in the near future.
You may not be happy being fat. But you're content. Your mind is not in the right place right now. If you really want to lose weight then you need to put your mind to it and that will require more effort than the above makes it seem like you're willing to commit.
...and you also said you want to lose weight.I said I had no motivation.
I want to lose weight yet have no motivation to do so....and you also said you want to lose weight.
You're making this harder than it is - until you have motivation you don't want to lose weight. They're mutually exclusive. It takes focused effort to make corrections. Step one is the desire to exert that focused effort - you're not there. Until you are there's no 'want to' do anything related to your health.I want to lose weight yet have no motivation to do so.
Seems like this has been said in here before....A couple of basic truths I thought about on my drive home from the gym this morning:
1. Systems in nature always find their equilibrium. It takes some time, but it’s immutable. If you behave like a fat person over an extended period of time, you’ll eventually be fat. If you behave like a fit person, you’ll eventually be fit. But it takes time — it’s not about what you did today or this week, but this year, or the past 3 or 5 years.
2. There are only two things that determine where that equilibrium is for you: how much you eat, and how much you move. And it turns out the first one is a lot more influential. Because it takes the average person over an hour to run the 10 miles needed to burn 1,000 calories. But you can eat 1,000 calories in under 5 minutes (not even a full Big Mac meal). Exercise is great for a variety of reasons, but once you put the calories into your system, it’s damn hard to get them out.
So eat less, and healthier, and move more, all over a sustained period of time, and you just end up a person who is in good shape. But the key is consistency over the long term.
You may feel like it's too big and will be too difficult. Try making one small easy change.I want to lose weight yet have no motivation to do so.
Is this offer open to everyone?LET'S GO!!! How can we help - seriously, PM your phone number and I'll text you pics of my feet daily so you won't want to eat.
I’m eating a lot more soup. Not the creamy kinds but the brothy ones. They fill me up quickly and have few calories or fat, lots of protein, etc.i have substituted canned green beans for noodles i know that is not everyones thing but it saves me a ton of calories every day so what is your can o greener beaners take that to the bank brohans
Nice! Hope you enjoyed it. Yeah, it’s all about the elevation gain to me; the steeper the better.@krista4
I know you're a big hiking fan. As far a exercise goes, hiking is definitely no joke. We went to Red Rock Canyon last week and just from walking back at the first stop (Calico HIlls...walking from the bottom of the view back up to the top), it was a little bit of a workout. I used to think "Hiking? Isn't that just walking pretty much?". Definitely not so.
Still have the same 20-25 to lose. I haven't gained any weight. Dropped some gained some.@Keerock - @pantherclub - @belljr - @shadyridr
please see this post for context on why I @'d you
Kee - Keto?
Panther - you still doing yoga? In yoga pants? I'll take a PM
Bell/Shady - how YOU doing?
It's great advice. It is easy to get into the herd mentality around this time of year. I always say that Willpower is a finite resource but if there were a time of year to maximize your use of that resource it begins tonight and ends on January 4th. Don't expect every day to be perfect but you probably need to push a little harder (a lot harder?) to make sure that everyday isn't a complete and utter failure either.@MAC_32 made a post that made me think about the upcoming holidays - including today and @Otis candy post also made me think about how it always seems that folks in here say the holidays screwed them up. So, as a service to you guys and because I'm bored in a meeting I'm going to bump some posts from earlier in the year and end last year and @ people who maybe haven't been in here in a while.
MAC's basic point was to have a plan - just don't accept that you have to gain 10-20 pounds over the holidays. Let yourself have fun and enjoy the holidays but don't blow up all your hard work.
who the. ####. is. this?A couple of basic truths I thought about on my drive home from the gym this morning:
1. Systems in nature always find their equilibrium. It takes some time, but it’s immutable. If you behave like a fat person over an extended period of time, you’ll eventually be fat. If you behave like a fit person, you’ll eventually be fit. But it takes time — it’s not about what you did today or this week, but this year, or the past 3 or 5 years.
2. There are only two things that determine where that equilibrium is for you: how much you eat, and how much you move. And it turns out the first one is a lot more influential. Because it takes the average person over an hour to run the 10 miles needed to burn 1,000 calories. But you can eat 1,000 calories in under 5 minutes (not even a full Big Mac meal). Exercise is great for a variety of reasons, but once you put the calories into your system, it’s damn hard to get them out.
So eat less, and healthier, and move more, all over a sustained period of time, and you just end up a person who is in good shape. But the key is consistency over the long term.
i wear no shirt and yoga/compression type pants to hot yoga. :flex:@Keerock - @pantherclub - @belljr - @shadyridr
please see this post for context on why I @'d you
Kee - Keto?
Panther - you still doing yoga? In yoga pants? I'll take a PM
Bell/Shady - how YOU doing?
this is how i plan to do my next quasi fast. my wife makes bone broth, 2-3 day process. it's really good. i plan on drinking that and water for 2ish days.I’m eating a lot more soup. Not the creamy kinds but the brothy ones. They fill me up quickly and have few calories or fat, lots of protein, etc.
How YOU doing?Is this offer open to everyone?
Recipe?this is how i plan to do my next quasi fast. my wife makes bone broth, 2-3 day process. it's really good. i plan on drinking that and water for 2ish days.
I get what you are saying - I think I was right there in your shoes a few years ago and I would tweak your comment to this:I want to lose weight yet have no motivation to do so.
I'm out - good luck Otis.Good one O - I’ll join you.
Chicken carcass. Bits. Parts. Mirepoix. Home grown herbs. Bay leaves. thyme rosemary . Garlic. Salt pepper. Any excess veggies over the two days. Constant low simmer. It changes slightly every time.Recipe?