AAABatteries
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Give it 10 more years. Once you don't have little one it gets a lot easier IMO to get in shape.
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Frostillicus
Footballguy
My brother had success with low carbs and since I have about 40 lbs I need to lose I decided to give it a shot starting Monday. Down 4.4 lbs. already this morning. I like this.
I miss beer.
I miss beer.
MAC_32
Footballguy
So this changed and I dropped 5 lbs in a month. Go figure.
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Breakfast - oatmeal, orange, and hard boiled egg
Pre workout - banana
Post workout - protein drink or cottage cheese w/fruit (berries a/o pineapple)
Lunch - sushi, a deli sandwich (turkey/roast beef w/swiss, mustard and veggies), or a tuna concoction w/tomato + onion + olives + lemon juice + parsley
Afternoon snack - raw veggies (green/red/orange/yellow peppers, cucumber, grape tomatoes) w/hummus
If I lifted over lunch, am running after work, and need more fuel - nuts
Post run - avocado (and gatorade if run > an hour)
Dinner - meat (ground turkey, chicken, shrimp, white fish, beef, pork) and veggies (asparagus, shrooms, broccoli, sprouts, zucchini/squash, salad) + brown rice/black beans/quinoa/baked potato
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Basically, adding the carb at dinner allowed me to push breakfast back to between 9 and 10 am. I was then able to eliminate empty carbs during the day I previously needed for workout fuel purposes. I'll still have pretzels and fruit snacks on stand by, but have only needed to dip into that reserve a couple times. Bagels are now completely out and nuts/oatmeal aren't an every day thing. The tuna concoction was critical too. It isn't enough on 2-a-day's, but if I'm only working out over lunch? It's sufficient.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
About time for an update here. 172.4 today.Week 15 Weigh-In
Starting Weight: 180.0
Last Week: 165.0 (Week 12)
Current Weight: 168.1
Overall Lost: 11.9 lbs
I’ve mostly recovered from my vacation but not quite back on Keto. What I have done is IF almost daily since I got back. But I also finished off the beer that was leftover from vacation- no alcohol for a while starting today.
The Good - I’m working out again. I’ve “run” 4 times in the last 2 weeks which makes me very happy even if it’s slow as molasses. IF - I’m doing this fairly often and is a great tool for me. I’ll need to reconsider this as I ramp up exercise but right now it’s probably one of the biggest reasons I haven’t gone off the rails
The Bad - I’ve basically been off Keto for 2 months. I’m still fairly low carb and I’ve improved my diet some (lots of soup and salads) but still need to change my diet more to lose the stubborn belly fat
The Ugly - I love this time of year (except my allergies) - warm weather, lots of outdoor activities and swimming, yard work - and I’m drinking all the ####ty light beer. I went out for 4 miles last night and when I got home I was covered in sweat and thirsty as hell. Pulled out an ice cold beer and it was one of the greatest tasting beers I’ve ever had. I’m not sure I can cut it out or want to more than I want to lose more. We will see
DocHolliday
Footballguy
Think I wold stay on this routine and enjoy living. Looks like you found a sweet spot of diet, exercise, and some beer.
ragincajun
Footballguy
So.....
About 3 or 4 weeks ago I jumped back into Keto. I was down roughly 15 pounds after 2 weeks, however it was giving me the poops in a bad way. The sneaky kind when you have to run to the bathroom in the middle of a meeting. I jumped off and back onto the Weight Watchers app as this happened twice. I was thinking yesterday of jumping back into Keto as I was reading about Keto Chow, when what showed up in the mail?
https://imgur.com/a/ISHFQc9
About 3 or 4 weeks ago I jumped back into Keto. I was down roughly 15 pounds after 2 weeks, however it was giving me the poops in a bad way. The sneaky kind when you have to run to the bathroom in the middle of a meeting. I jumped off and back onto the Weight Watchers app as this happened twice. I was thinking yesterday of jumping back into Keto as I was reading about Keto Chow, when what showed up in the mail?
https://imgur.com/a/ISHFQc9
ragincajun
Footballguy
Not going to lie it was pretty motivational. Also when I dropped of Keto I gained 7 pounds back over a WEEKEND!
AAABatteries
Footballguy
That how I went up from 165 to a little over 170. It’s crazy but I was pleased I’ve stabilized here. I do think I’m going to go back to Keto soon for an extended period
AAABatteries
Footballguy
You can do it Kee - if anybody has an excuse because of life it’s you but we know you got this and we got your back.I fell off the wagon and it's 15 miles down the road. Need to catch up and jump back on
Frostillicus
Footballguy
Been Keto for about 4 weeks and down 14.6 lbs. Going to be a normal person for memorial day weekend and then will reasses what exactly I want to do. I never thought I would get sick of cheese.
ragincajun
Footballguy
culdeus
Footballguy
Trying a new approach for my beach cut. Basically going keto all but ~90 minutes of a day and for those 90 minutes go ham on everything. So it's a hybrid carb cycle/IF/keto approach.
Down to 169/13% with eyes on 165 in 2 weeks.
Really struggled this year with some back issues, but those are 98% behind me now. It's transformed my lifting into more high rep type full body stuff and that's been different, but good.
Down to 169/13% with eyes on 165 in 2 weeks.
Really struggled this year with some back issues, but those are 98% behind me now. It's transformed my lifting into more high rep type full body stuff and that's been different, but good.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
So you are basically just eating all carbs during those 90 minutes? I’m assuming “clean” carbs?culdeus said:
culdeus
Footballguy
I wouldn't say all carbs. But I would say the overwhelming hit in that timeframe from mostly potatoes I would say.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
I meant all the carbs you are eating for the day. Interesting - what’s the logic here, that you want the carbs for exercise but want to clear your insulin to promote fat burning?
culdeus
Footballguy
Basically. Sort of beta testing my theory that low carb can be periodized such that you can maintain high intensity workouts and fat burn.
N=1
DocHolliday
Footballguy
As I get older, I cannot push around the heavy weight without getting aches and pains. But it seems like building muscle requires working out heavy weights. How effective is your new work out compared to a heavy weight and 6-10 rep routine?culdeus said:
culdeus
Footballguy
I'm mostly trying to increase volume through varying in the 15-20 range and using a lot shorter rest periods.
I've been using some of the philosophy of the Yessis method. The workouts are more enjoyable than just running the same 3-4 compounds per workout.
I'll probably swap back relatively soon. Arms have seen the most benefits :gunshots:
Frostillicus
Footballguy
K-E-T-O. 14.6 lbs in 4 weeks, man. Do it. You can drink as much vodka and soda as you want!
Klimtology
Footballguy
AAABatteries
Footballguy
172.0 - down half a pound after a long weekend with lots of beer and BBQ - I’ll take it. Plan is to fast a couple of days but we’ll see how it goes.
Otis
Footballguy
Ok making the first big change today, which tends to trigger all the rest. GIVING UP BOOZE. Need to do it for a variety of reasons, not the lease of which being the 10lbs of bloat I’ll shed almost instantly. We’ll see how long it can last; I have a stockpile of my trusty old Bud Select 55s for when needed, but won’t be tapping into those for a while.
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
Jumping back in. I think I said that a few weeks ago, but it is for real this time (gawd, I sound like Otis. I guess that's why I'm here).
Starting a program with the wife today. She actually started yesterday, but I was under the weather having started day 1 of giving up caffeine, so my day 1 is today.
Starting weight 192.
Starting a program with the wife today. She actually started yesterday, but I was under the weather having started day 1 of giving up caffeine, so my day 1 is today.
Starting weight 192.
Tecumseh
Footballguy
Pg 4 save.
I got back on the keto train for about 2 weeks. it worked great for me last year, but this time for some reason I had almost 0 progress. Not sure why. I was pretty strict and watched my carbs closely but it wasn't happening.
Since that wasn't really working for me, and because I also want to add some muscle and tone, I'm trying something different. I'm still going to go low carb, but I am going to try to stay under 100g per day, rather than under 20. I'm logging everything in mfp and staying under 1800 cals/day.
The other major change I'm making is dramatically increasing my physical activity. I have resolved to either run or weight train for 100 days straight. Every day when I complete the activity, I am transferring $10 from my checking to an old savings account that only had like $5 in it. At the end of my 100 days, I'll have $1000 to do whatever I want with.
Day one was a 1 mile run and an upper body workout at the gym. Day 2 was a 3 mile run (well, 2 miles running, one mile walking). Today is day 3, and it was back to the gym for leg day. I'm going to weigh myself on days 30, 60, and 100. I'll post updates if anyone is interested.
Starting weight: 223.4
I got back on the keto train for about 2 weeks. it worked great for me last year, but this time for some reason I had almost 0 progress. Not sure why. I was pretty strict and watched my carbs closely but it wasn't happening.
Since that wasn't really working for me, and because I also want to add some muscle and tone, I'm trying something different. I'm still going to go low carb, but I am going to try to stay under 100g per day, rather than under 20. I'm logging everything in mfp and staying under 1800 cals/day.
The other major change I'm making is dramatically increasing my physical activity. I have resolved to either run or weight train for 100 days straight. Every day when I complete the activity, I am transferring $10 from my checking to an old savings account that only had like $5 in it. At the end of my 100 days, I'll have $1000 to do whatever I want with.
Day one was a 1 mile run and an upper body workout at the gym. Day 2 was a 3 mile run (well, 2 miles running, one mile walking). Today is day 3, and it was back to the gym for leg day. I'm going to weigh myself on days 30, 60, and 100. I'll post updates if anyone is interested.
Starting weight: 223.4
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DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
this is the real key, my friend. i have made the decision to more or less stop drinking. over the last month, i drank at my brother's wedding(many, many beers) , and had 2 beers today. that's it. i'll report back in another few weeks and see what the results are. i've been stuck at the 182-186 threshold for a while and think it's probably the booze. that, and the resulting crap food.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Week ?? Weigh-In
Starting Weight: 180.0
Last Week: 172.0
Current Weight: 169.9
Lost this round: 10.1 lbs
Starting Weight: 180.0
Last Week: 172.0
Current Weight: 169.9
Lost this round: 10.1 lbs
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AAABatteries
Footballguy
Otis
Footballguy
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Early in the year Keto. I’ve moved to IF and more good carbs on some days. Some days look Keto, some days I’ll have a little rice or beans or sweet potatoes. Some days I’ll cheat and some days I’ll completely fast and eat nothing. And for the last 2 months finally able to mix in exercise.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Pretty sure we did a weight loss before this that I participated in but don't feel like looking it up.
Also, I know this wasn't my highest - I was more but never broke 250 (that I'm aware of). I'll go with my pre-dump weight as it's still technically the highest I've been that's recorded anywhere.
Then 241.7
Now 169.9
***Official total weight loss for AAA*** - 71.8 lbs
I have a few goals at this point:
- Maintain where I'm at but lose 10 pounds of fat and add 5 pounds of muscle (approximately) - do this for another year or so to hopefully lower my set point
- Get my blood work redone (last time was still borderline on A1C number
- Continue staying active and working out - want to do at least one more triathlon some day
We need some more activity in here - somebody do something crazy like only eat broccoli for a month.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
And damn, I was being generous saying I was 5'11" - I'm nowhere close to that now. More like 5'9" after years of shrinkage 
AAABatteries
Footballguy
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Tecumseh
Footballguy
No, it'll just be $10 less fun money in the end. I thought about resetting, but I'm trying to frame the challenge as consistency and forming healthy habits, with the money just being a bonus to look forward to. I feel like resetting is too punitive.
I've decided not to set a goal weight. I'm going to do this thing, be deliberate about only weighing in on days 30, 60, and 100, and let the chips fall where they may. I'm hoping to be sub-200 by the end, but that's just hoping, not goal-setting.
For you guys on the fence on going to the gym tonight, there's free pizza at Planet Fitness tonight. Just sayin.
https://www.planetfitness.com/community/articles/real-story-behind-planet-fitness-pizza-monday
https://www.planetfitness.com/community/articles/real-story-behind-planet-fitness-pizza-monday
culdeus
Footballguy
I've mostly transitioned to doing lighter high rep stuff as cardio. It gets the heart rate up just as well. So I'll do 3-4 heavier days a week and 2-3 lighter more conditioning type stuff as well with a rest day. I also consistent walk.
MAC_32
Footballguy
But while the streak is the driver, if your body is screaming for a day off at some point - take it. The most important day in an exercise regimen that too many don't take is the rest day. It's both how you make progress and minimize the likelihood of an injury.
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
Tough to say. I haven't been at my goal weight in a LONG time. Not sure I can do it any more at 46. I would like to get under 170, but this time around I am not thinking about a goal weight. I am just thinking about trying to eat better and move more. Short term goal is to have my pants not fit so tightly. And I would just like to see the scale number trend down over long periods of time. I just looked at the myfitnesspal long term chart and it is ugly.
MAC_32
Footballguy
Yes! Eat clean, rest more, stress less, and move dammit. Do those 4 things and the numbers take care of themselves.
Tecumseh
Footballguy
I’ve considered that. My plan for rest days is to still cover some miles, but I’ll just walk it.
But while the streak is the driver, if your body is screaming for a day off at some point - take it. The most important day in an exercise regimen that too many don't take is the rest day. It's both how you make progress and minimize the likelihood of an injury.
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