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Ender; unless you're 4 ft tall then that weight is positively light.

I went down from 200 lbs to just under 190 lbs, mostly by eating only a little (on my own) at lunchtime instead of a full lunch. This worked until mid-October,when I got transferred to a new project and office in town by all the shops. My new colleagues keep inviting me to lunch with them, sometimes even at no cost to me, and I suck at turning down freebies. Then all the Christmas meals and boozing came in. Between those I've returned straight back to 200 by mid December. :wtf:

However, I have started to get some good results in managing intake just this week by eating slower at my meals. Right now I have a half-full plate in front of me to put in the bin as a result. If you haven't tried this, it definitely seems a good way to reduce calorie intake without having to give up tasty foods. Going to try and go into the new year using this as a strategy for my main evening meal, while also trying to remember what the concept of willpower is when getting invites to go eat...
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Was 184 pounds this morning, lightest I've been in a long time.
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As of tomorrow I'm starting on a Venutto-type diet and some intense training (5-6 days a week of BJJ and Vale Tudo/MMA, as well as running, weights and body-weight excercises), this should be ongoing for the whole year with any luck (as in if I don't injure myself). I'll keep you all posted on here and on my blog as progress goes on.
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With Christmas behind us, are any of you planning on using Wii Fit to try to lose weight? A lot of my family and friends got Wii Fit for Christmas and are planning on using that as their exercise program.
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I've put a few back on over the last few months, probably about ten or so.

In other words, come Monday I'm getting back into the swing of lifting 3 - 4 times a week and doing cardio, even if only walking my dog, 5 - 6 times a week.
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Well, I just thought I'd share this-

I'm not setting a specific weight loss goal with this, just trying to get more nutrients. I've never been a vegetable guy, but I figured out the solution: liquefy them.

So I've been buying frozen vegetables, including spinach, broccoli, peppers, green beans, asparagus stir fry, and corn, and grinding them to a paste in a blender, and then adding enough low sodium V8 to give it a liquid consistency, and I have at least one 16 oz glass of that a day.

Does anyone see any flaw in this plan? How much of my daily recommended servings am I getting from this? (BTW, the mix is predominantly broccoli, spinach and green beans; those three are 2/3 of it all).

The pine green/red-tinged goop is actually pretty tasty thanks the V8; I only add enough to make it liquid. I can see myself continuing this for a long time without stopping.
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That's probably about two servings worth of veggies since I'm normally told that a serving is 1/2 cup (8 oz).
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As I posted here, I got depressed at the end of 2007 when my dog Fuzzy died and my weight began to increase, until I hit 198 lbs at the beginning of December. The idea of hitting 200 lbs was a sobering one, so I started buckling down with a weight-loss plan starting December 7 (no late-night snacks, only take one plate of food at a meal) designed with an eye toward simplicity and long-term sustainability.

It's been almost exactly one month now. This morning I weighed in at 181 lbs, so I'm doing pretty well. My goal is to get into the 160s.
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I am 5'5 and a bit over 200. My goal is to slim down to 160 wish me luck folks.

Currently I am eating less, drinking more water and walking more.
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Weight this morning was 81.7kg. Score. I'm going to try and make it down to 80kg by the end of January.
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When I saw my physician during my annual psychical on Christmas Eve, I found out I was 137lbs (down from 142 from November 2007). Thanks to the Holidays and my own indulgence, I gained a bit back in the belly. Not too bad, as I still eat healthily and exercise every morning. A few weeks and all should be back to normal.
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Dangermouse wrote:
AMT wrote: She's about 5'4" and 230, and has recently been diagnosed with diabetes (apparently its a genetic thing for her, as her mother has it as well and barely weighs 120 lbs soaking wet)
I have always thought this site is an interesting place for diabetes information and diet, and a good place to start. The general idea - eating to the meter, and figuring out which foods your body can handle without dangerous increases in blood sugar levels-- makes sense to me; some of the specifics with regard to carbs/fat/ and protein, I would do a little more reading.
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And after a weigh-in I'm down 4kg in the past week to 168.8kg. Woo. Diet + exercise = results. Whodathunkit.
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I was almost at my weight goal of 80kg, but then overnight I went back up to 82kg. Shit.
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Well, not weight related, but....Kinda?

Went to the doctor a couple weeks ago and had cholesterol numbers run (I went in because when I donated blood a few weeks ago, they said my cholesterol was stupid high) the Doc theorized that I must not have been fasting and that the number they gave could therefore NOT be an accurate baseline. So I go back the next day after fasting for 16 hours and they do the blood draw. I get the results back a few days later and my Good cholesterol was silly low (33) my bad cholesterol was....


IMPOSSIBLE TO MEASURE BECAUSE MY TRIGLYCERIDES WERE SO HIGH (PS - that's worse than having high bad cholesterol, I understand) so, normal triglyceride level is 0-149 mg/dL mine was 598 mg/dL. Needless to say, DEATH has been a powerful motivator for me to change my eating habits. I've been eating nothing but fruit, nuts, and vegetables, and a little fish. I've cut out all processed sugar (Fakey sugar is okay; like Equal or Splenda), High fructose corn syrup, high-density fat containing food, basically I've gotten rid of all the crap I used to eat. I've been doing it for about a week now, and surprisingly not missing the garbage I've eliminated from my diet. A surprising bonus is that in that week, I've lost 10 pounds. (The 10 pounds was pretty worrisome at first so I called Ye Olde Doktor and he advised that because of the shocking shift in my eating habits, my body was getting rid of all of the nonsense fat that I don't need which, especially when you eliminate sugar intake takes the form of mild Hyperketosis [Starvation]) .Yay for me. Step 2 will be to incorporate actual exercise in addition to the change in eating habits - Read: I'm getting Wii Fit. I know it sounds silly but as far as working out, I get burned out pretty quickly on it. The way I see it - the one thing I've been sotr of passionate about my whole life is video gaming - so add exercise to that and it seems like it SHOULD be a match made in heaven - we'll see.

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Well I've been eating more, but my weightlifting class at school has given me plenty of time to exercise. So I went from "healthy" eating and no exercise to "shitty" eating and plenty of exercise. The result, I still weigh 188.
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I've started working out more to lose weight, but mostly to improve my overall fitness. I'm currently 5'9" (unlikely to change), 175 lbs/22% body fat (high end of normal weight range/BMI), run about a 7:00 mile (1 mile above sea level... but way way slower than I used to be) and can squeeze out ~25 consecutive push-ups.

My long term life plans are in a bit of disarray right now; I'd say there's a 33% chance I'll sign up with the US Military in some capacity in the next few years, and the Army Physical Fitness Test seems like a pretty useful metric to mesure myself against anyway; I'm aiming for a 250 by June 1st.
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I've been eating too much and that cold from hell waylaid my exercising for a week and a half' I can already feel the gut expanding. I really need to go easy on food and get back into my regimen for the next few weeks.
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I suck and due to work being so goddamn busy and innumerable excuses (valid or otherwise) I've been off the wagon for about a fortnight, but am about to head back to BJJ tonight. Looking forward to it, but very apprehensive - how much have I forgotten in 2 weeks?
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Anyone has any links on lightweight exercises one can do in the comfort of one own home?

I need more variety, so that I can motivate myself to keep up on the aerobic aspects of things.
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PainRack wrote:Anyone has any links on lightweight exercises one can do in the comfort of one own home?

I need more variety, so that I can motivate myself to keep up on the aerobic aspects of things.

got kids? I run around with Ricky or use him as a dumbell (I curl or benchpress him) It's awesome. As he grows, I get stronger. :D

Also - I know I pimp the site a lot, but Livestrong.com has loads of easy aerobic and strength trainingn exercises you can do with only very minimal equipment.
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PainRack wrote:Anyone has any links on lightweight exercises one can do in the comfort of one own home?

I need more variety, so that I can motivate myself to keep up on the aerobic aspects of things.
Squats, push-ups (and variants thereof), situps (and variants thereof), leg raises (and variants thereof), lots of positional work (like yoga/pilates stuff, but also a lot of martial arts have relatively stationary drills for flexibility/core strength). Those are all low impact and easy done in the home. Even in front of the TV.

If you want to get into some different stuff - kettlebells. I can't recommend them enough and they are starting to take off in Australia now. I play with a 20kg one, but you can get them as low as 4kgs. There's a lot of exercises you can do with them as well.
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PainRack wrote:Anyone has any links on lightweight exercises one can do in the comfort of one own home?

I need more variety, so that I can motivate myself to keep up on the aerobic aspects of things.
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