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So in that case, "self control" is the only thing that works.
If I'm going to drink sugar it better have some ice cream in it.msommer said:.
What self respecting man can't handle a little sugar on occasion.
Enjoy your horribly tasting fizzy water
#######it I love reading Maurile posts in here. Awesome.
Tried the rice diet once. Once.
Eating is for suckers. Still haven't eaten, yet. Got some boiled potatoes for later tonight, though.
Exercise. Meal plan Sunday. Shopping list, minimal veering. Prep the next day's food after the kids go to bed. No cheat food until next day's food prepped. Don't drink my calories (unless it's booze).
I've been saying and thinking I need a better maintenance plan but I don't have one other than just keep doing what I'm doing and allow myself more cheats and monitor my weight - can you explain what you mean by the science around maintenance? Apologies if you've explained this before and I've missed it.
It keeps me from veering from the pre prepared food until...about now. I am still kind of full from dinner and very dry tired, so while I plan to have some of thes chocolate covered pretzels it isn't going to be many then I'm going to bed. Today may be a 9 hour sleep night.
Good luck brother. To be honest I think trying to eat only potatoes for 38 days is far more difficult than losing 25 lbs in the same time frame.
5 years ago I was 249 lbs (never quite hit 250) and decided to make a change. I changed the way I ate, started running again, and did insanity. I got down to 199. I've been back up to 220 but usually hover around 210-212 now. As we all know, it is all what you eat! When I was 249 I was playing in basketball leagues 4 nights a week, but would pick up Taco Bell or Wendy's on the way home. Couldnt drop a pound. I switched that to baking chicken and just having it in the fridge all the time so I had something to reheat and make quickly. Id sauté mushrooms and zucchini some days with it, or I would put the chicken on a couple of corn tortillas and add salsa. I also cut out all soda, and the weight dropped off. My job changed when I got back up to 220-225, and I was on the road entertaining a lot. I used that as an excuse but realized it doesnt need to be. These great steakhouses also have great fish. The asparagus or Brussels sprouts at those places are just as good if not better than there potatoes. And if you have a glass of wine in front of you, no one realizes if you have 1,2 or 5 glasses if you are with a large group.
I dropped 90-100 pounds ten years ago. My peak was probably 300 and change. The biggest number I ever saw on the scale was 290 something. I went down to 210 and maintained that for a few years. I later pushed hard to get down to 190, hs playing weight. I'm 6-3. I'm currently 212. But I might be 207 after my morning workout. Weight fluctuates. For me maintenance just means never stop dieting and exercising. Ever. Losing the weight is not easy but it is easier than initial maintenance. Long term maintenance gets easier, "it has to be a new lifestyle". I intermittent fast... for life. Basically one meal a day with very little snacking. I pick a day here and there and fast. Sometimes I pick a week and fast. That's just life now. I like it.
My post ignored this and may read to some like I disagree. I think cheats are important. I go out to eat and I eat. I watch portions, but pizza burgers tacos whatever. I eat it... less than weekly lately, but I'm on a kick. Maintenance doesn't just allow pizza and beer, as ditka says above, it is key.
I have plateaued over the past week or two. I am down plenty of weight overall, but I want to lose at least another 10 lbs. I am recommitting myself to the "fasting" method that worked very well early on. lately I have been eating relatively healthy foods, but I haven't been doing the fasting with the regularity that I started with.
Despite all the schtick, it appears you've lost 13 lbs. That's pretty good - remind us what your height and target weight is.
What would 15 more lbs put you at? Around 190? What's your goal goal?I've got 37 days to lose 15 lbs. to get to my competition goal of 20%. That's a little under half a pound a day which is doable but given how much I've already lost it will be really tough. I may need to do something drastic like colonblow or wear a fat suit or cut off an appendage that last week.
I was a fat kid starting in about 8th grade. 230lbs when I graduated college. Dropped to 175, married an active, healthy-eater, and have hovered between 175-185 for the last 20 years. I know its cliche, but lifestyle change (ie: never stop dieting) really is "the key to success" (and I give most of that credit to my wife). It's all stuff you've heard before because its all true. Cut out all soda/sugary drinks forever. Find healthy whole-food meals/snacks you like and make them part of your regular M-F routine. Eating out / snacks / junk / binge drinking should be a special treat, not the norm. Stay active. I still do a maintenance diet every couple years to keep in this range, but for the most part, this is where my weight has stayed.
Probably 175. Ideally I would get down to 165-170 and add some muscle.
I'm really tempted to post the pic they took of me coming out of the water during my race 12 years ago - think skinny Elmer Fudd. I just don't want JD to get fired or arrested for molesting his computer at work.
You're fine giving us pregnant Elmer Fudd, but you draw the line at skinny?
