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Otis fad diet thread — yoga, fasting, and kevzilla walking on🚶‍♂️ (1 Viewer)

July 4 last year, I was sitting at a picnic table looking at what was left of a rotisserie chicken I had just demolished. I felt like crap, totally demoralized. In my head, as I had said many, many times before, I said "my diet starts tomorrow." I am 6'2" and was 242 lbs, just a few down from a high of 249.5 a few years earlier (I never let myself hit 250 as that would have killed me).

I've worked out 3x/week for years. One hour on the stationary bike, heart rate between 135 to 155, for about 900 calories. I knew if I could just control food and drink, the weight would come off.

So beginning July 5, I ate a piece of fruit for breakfast (banana, apple, pear) and another piece for lunch. For dinner, a head of romaine lettuce, 1-2 tablespoons of Caesar dressing, some croutons and some chopped grilled chicken thigh (I'd make a batch Sundays to last through the week). Saturday dinners, I did whatever I wanted and I soon found that I couldn't eat as much as I could before because my stomach was shrinking. Instead of crushing most of a pizza, I could eat two slices of a large. And man did those 2-3 beers taste good after refraining all week.

I also added 1-2 workouts but I eased off a bit on the intensity so I wouldn't burn out riding the bike.

By mid-to-late September, i was 217 lbs. 10 weeks. My doctor was stoked for me. Unfortunately, i needed to have a minor procedure which took me off my diet and workout routine, and then the holidays hit. By New Years, I was 220-221.

I started the diet again two weeks ago tomorrow. I weighed in this morning at 215.5. I think my goal is 200.

It's hard to be hungry...at first. You get used to it. I'm hungry right now but I'm cool with it, whereas I used to get really cranky. Amazing what your mind and body can do.

Good luck dudes. 

 
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James Daulton said:
HTF do you survive on so few calories?  And you're exercising?  Your will-power game is strong my friend. 
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With all due respect to those involved people in concentration camps lived on a few hundred calories a day for more than a year.  Our modern definition of extreme is skewed.

 
Week back from vacation has been hit or miss.  Work has been an 11 on the 1-10 stress meter, kids have been sick in the post vacation coming back to the cold weather stuff that always gets them sick, and a bunch of family things have happened that have made doing anything but survive difficult.

It amazing how easy it is to not take care of yourself.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
Week back from vacation has been hit or miss.  Work has been an 11 on the 1-10 stress meter, kids have been sick in the post vacation coming back to the cold weather stuff that always gets them sick, and a bunch of family things have happened that have made doing anything but survive difficult.

It amazing how easy it is to not take care of yourself.
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Stop making excuses bro. If I can do it so can you. 

 
James Daulton said:
HTF do you survive on so few calories?  And you're exercising?  Your will-power game is strong my friend. 
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It's really not that hard. When I do my 600-800 calorie days during the week I feel great. In fact looking forward to this coming week. 

 
I had chinese food tonight  :wall: :kicksrock:

Will need to run tomorrow and Monday just to get back to last weeks weight. But it was really good. Crossing fingers it doesnt hurt me too much

 
Bad news. - think I've finally given in and gotten sick - wife and oldest had it pretty bad.  I've been achy and lethargic for two days.

Goos news - I'm not hungry so not eating much of anything.  Have a feeling tomorrow will be worse.  I may have an artificially inflated loss this week. 

 
AAABatteries said:
Bad news. - think I've finally given in and gotten sick - wife and oldest had it pretty bad.  I've been achy and lethargic for two days.

Goos news - I'm not hungry so not eating much of anything.  Have a feeling tomorrow will be worse.  I may have an artificially inflated loss this week. 
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Chicken soup with potatoes for the win

 
AAABatteries said:
Bad news. - think I've finally given in and gotten sick - wife and oldest had it pretty bad.  I've been achy and lethargic for two days.

Goos news - I'm not hungry so not eating much of anything.  Have a feeling tomorrow will be worse.  I may have an artificially inflated loss this week. 
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You know what that means when you get better.

"better take a selfie" 

 
Hibachi for dinner Friday was more then I've eaten in long time.  Salad, soup, noodles, fried rice, vegetables, shrimp and chicken.  Was very good but I think the salt content was pretty high.  Worth it to take my daughter to dinner with 3 of her friends at school and their dads and then on to the Daddy-Daughter dance.  Great memories for her and me.

Back to it on Sat,

B-Oatmeal, banana and yogurt

L-Oven baked potatoes

D- Homemade chicken chili

Weigh in this morning, I've weighed myself on Sundays the last 3-4 weeks so I may keep doing that going forward until the final weigh in.  Weighed in at 274, down another 2 lbs which I am pleased with.  

Back to Oatmeal, banana and yogurt for breakfast.  

25% of the way to my ultimate goal, seems like a long way to go, but slow and steady from here on out.

Any advice on what I should start out on for exercise?  I hate to exercise and am a lazy *******.  Figured I'd start with just walking, weather sucks right now for outside, but there is a walking track at the town hall just around the corner.  I will need to get an exercise schedule together.  I want to start slowly.

 
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James Daulton said:
Just curious, so landing at 170 or 175 sounds like your sweet spot. 
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I'm not sure. That would be hella skinny for me. I'm fairly muscular. I'll get my skeletal muscle mass number the next time I'm at the gym. They have one of those cool scales that measures all sorts of crap. 

 
James Daulton said:
Alright boyz, lifting then cardio, that's 4 lifts this week and 3 sessions of cardio.  Only 4 months until summer, 

Let's Go!
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Yikes.  Summer sneaking up quickly.  Although 4 months is still plenty of time to make serious changes.  At 2lb/week we're looking at 30+ lbs.

Time to get after it.  Mrs. O and I sick of drinking, giving up booze for a while.  Usually Sunday is a cheat day, but this morning I had an egg white sandwich; a broccoli and kale salad for lunch.  Washing it all down with seltzer.  Mrs. O setting up a healthy dinner (some pulled chicken in the slow cooker, in lettuce wraps), and then we'll finish off with some seltzer on the couch and maybe some popcorn or something.  

Game on #####es.

 
Today has been decent so far

B: two pieces of Rye Bread

L: a hot chocolate with my daughters

D: Small plate with hash browns and some meat sauce (home made)

It's the bottle of Malbec that I'm going to open in a bit that is the trouble...

 
Tom Skerritt said:
Did an hour on the bike in the morning. And then a 4 mile run in the afternoon. 
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You or anyone have any good suggestions for when just getting started back working out but lacking the energy? Diet obviously but man could use an extra kick but worry about supplements I don't understand. Take some B12 but don't notice much. 

 
GoBirds said:
You or anyone have any good suggestions for when just getting started back working out but lacking the energy? Diet obviously but man could use an extra kick but worry about supplements I don't understand. Take some B12 but don't notice much. 
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B12 won't do much unless you take injections.  It doesn't metabolize well.  

I would suggest to anyone without fail the following

  • Creatine Monohydrate - Basically required <5g daily
  • Magnesium (Different forms exist, do research on what makes sense)
Both of these are required for lifting and are difficult to get in sufficient quantities when working out with intensity.

There are a ton of other amino acids and what not you can take, but I'm lazy and just use whey to get there since it has most all of them in one form or another.  L-Carnitine is the most trendy one right now and it has the funny side effect of helping you survive a deadly snake bite (warning could be fake news).  But there's plenty of that in whey and all the good food out there so not worth supplementing it imo.

 
GoBirds said:
You or anyone have any good suggestions for when just getting started back working out but lacking the energy? Diet obviously but man could use an extra kick but worry about supplements I don't understand. Take some B12 but don't notice much. 
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Sleep more (including naps if you can).

 
culdeus said:
B12 won't do much unless you take injections.  It doesn't metabolize well.  

I would suggest to anyone without fail the following

  • Creatine Monohydrate - Basically required <5g daily
  • Magnesium (Different forms exist, do research on what makes sense)
Both of these are required for lifting and are difficult to get in sufficient quantities when working out with intensity.

There are a ton of other amino acids and what not you can take, but I'm lazy and just use whey to get there since it has most all of them in one form or another.  L-Carnitine is the most trendy one right now and it has the funny side effect of helping you survive a deadly snake bite (warning could be fake news).  But there's plenty of that in whey and all the good food out there so not worth supplementing it imo.
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Appreciate it, will grab some magnesium....had tried to hold off on creatine as I used to use it but when I didn't have it felt twice as week. Is there a particular one you recommend? Feel like I need something. 

236.6 @Sand

 
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GoBirds said:
Appreciate it, will grab some magnesium....had tried to hold off on creatine as I used to use it but when I didn't have it felt twice as week. Is there a particular one you recommend? Feel like I need something. 

236.6 @Sand
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Until someone shows me a good reason not to trust them I buy all my stuff from optimum nutrition. 

 
OFFICIAL WEEK 6

228.6

23.9%

@Sand

Drank two glasses of red last night but otherwise stellar day.  I was sure I had gone up during my weeks away from home. The fact that I went down even slghtly makes me feel pretty damn good.  Gotta buckle down now and start making some killer progress. 

 
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