5’11”.
Even when I was in good shape I had to buy shorts/pants with 40/42 waist because my legs have always had more meat on them relative to the rest of me (which is one of the reasons I think I actually like leg day at the gym). I’ve slowly grown into those clothes over the years where now they’re snug all over.
Even when I get down to 220ish I think that’s still considered too much but it will feel good again. It’s a marathon not a sprint I suppose.
Ha, same here, I have really large muscular thighs (I assume from carrying around 280-300 pounds for the past two decades)
As pic shows, if I lose 45 lbs, 44 will be from torso and midsection and maybe 1 lb from legs. We had an asst coach in football who was working out as a lineman with the Dallas Cowboys and had a similar body type to me. His legs and topheaviness were basically not right for an NFL lineman. I know a few guys who played in the NFL, and they were more bottom heavy or proportional. My dad played tennis and I got his tennis legs and arms, minus his speed. I was a decent wrestler thanks to hard work and good partners but always marveled at the people who were more naturally suited. Then again, I had academic competitions to fall back on.
Weighed yesterday at 242.7. Went for a ride last night. Didn’t have a lot of time so it wasn’t a long one. I usually like to ride 15-25 miles.
Also, if you’re cycling or are thinking about it, and you have a monster dong like me and @suzzer99, these short-nosed saddles are amazing for not hurting your sensitive bits:
I used to be in a bit of pain riding any longer than 10 miles on the saddle that came with my bike, but I can go for as long as I have time to spare with this saddle.
ETA: I’m sure the saddle works if you don’t have a monster dong like @suzzer99 and me, but I wouldn’t have any experience with that because I have a monster dong.
You have to be careful though. Once I had a fat cat. On the bag of food it said how much to give an 8 lb cat. I fed her only that much so eventually I’d have an 8 lb cat, I figured. The cat died. She ate the little plastic cap on the end of a doorstop and ate my plants. Her intestines blocked, the plant poisoned her and the vet couldn’t save her.
Totally forgot to weigh myself yesterday morning. I’m 205.6 as of this afternoon.
Don’t know who Robb Wolf is and it’s possible he is a quack but I think this is a good video on why junk food is so tough to quit.
Also I’ve decided to go with Tim Ferriss’s Slow Carb Diet just because it has worked for me in the past and following it is relatively easy compared to other diets I have tried.
An imperfect plan you can follow is better than a perfect plan you cannot follow.
This is pretty legit. There’s a great/scary book called Salt Sugar Fat that was written by an investigative reporter a few years ago, it goes into the ins and outs of the food industry in detail and backs up a lot of what they say here.
Have a buddy who has been doing this for a few months and it sounds pretty awful. No fruit and no dairy would be big turnoffs for me.
I didn’t think it restricted dairy although I don’t eat a lot of dairy save butter and a little cheese.
Fruit sucks but most low carb diets are going to exclude fruit.
The cheat day helps me with compliance
Weekly weigh-in:
| Date | Weight | 5-week avg |
|---|---|---|
| 7/2/2020 | 157.6 | 158.4 |
| 7/9/2020 | 156.0 | 158.1 |
I started tracking calories a few days ago. I entered 1 lb./week weight loss and lightly active into MFP.
Target calories/day: 1680 
Actual: 1525
Still haven’t started running again, going on 4 weeks now. Maybe this weekend, if my back feels good.
The problem with cycling is that its a repetitive movement of your muscles. Your body will adapt, get more efficient and after some time you will burn less and less calories for riding the same distance. Same goes for jogging at a consistent pace. I still go running because I read it actually helps your cell reproduction. Older cells get exchanged quicker.
If you have a job where you sit all the time then cycling can do even more harm than good since it squishes the same regions of your lower body. Maybe try swimming from time to time. The water helps with not overloading your joints.
When I decided to get my weight down I did intermittent fasting for few weeks, sport and no sweets. Unfortunately at my workplace there are always sweets laying around. Somebody always replenishes. But I am able to keep my weight steady. People already told me I shouldnt lose any more weight because it wouldnt look good and I haven’t even reached a BMI of 25 yet. Now I try to build muscle and eat as clean as possible. Any diet that isnt food you actually like and would eat every day will be a failure longterm.
I like where you are trying to go. For me food has always been my main addiction. I never use tobacco and my drinking is limited to socially maybe 1-2 times per month.
But food, that is how I find comfort. I’m pretty sure I have some sort of eating disorder. Like I would go to walgreens, go in the candy isle, and buy 10 dollars worth of candy and eat it in a couple nights. It’s really sick.
I’ve tried approaching candy like I approach cigarettes. I’m not a smoker. I’m not a sugar eater.
It hasn’t worked. I’m on day 5 of my new healthy lifestyle and I’m feeling really focused and good, hopefully I can continue it.
Pick and choose from this:
I’ll chime in here. In December I was hospitalized with a bowel obstruction. I was in tons of pain. When admitted they were like “are you having a heart atttack”? and had to give me medicine to calm me down since my heart rate and pulse were through the roof. I recovered without surgury and they put me on some blood pressure meds. The hospital is a hell of a way to diet. I dropped from like 270 to 260. Work travel had me put on some weight up to 270 when everything shut down.
Since then I have only loosely “tried to lose weight”. Through a combo of sexercise, some hiking, and eating ketoish with smaller portions I have dropped down to 244 on the scale. I haven’t counted a calorie or a carb yet.
So here I am for some more accountability. I signed up for Crossfit last month, but don’t currently have the time to attend regularly. I purchased some hiking shoes and have been out to Red Rock and Mt Charleston once.
My goal is to keep doing what I have been doing. Exercise regularly, eat less, and reach a goal weight of 200 at 5’9". Theoretically this should get me off the Blood Pressure meds. Once I plateau I will have to start counting my calories and carbs. I once lost weight in college down to 160 by being really strict with carbs/calories, but I have no desire to be that skinny. I do have some strength, with recent squat/deadlift of 275/375 before the pandemic started.
After a week, I’m +1.6 lbs. Diet discipline failed. What can I say? Mistakes were made.
Don’t give up, weight fluctuates and weight loss is not a linear process. There will be ups and downs. Don’t beat yourself up.
I lost like 4 lbs, then gained like 6, then lost 4 from there again as of today. But tomorrow’s what goes on the log for the first week, so we’ll see. Basically the -4 lbs was after playing a round of golf out in the heat, and despite drinking 48oz of water during the round I was probably dehydrated. Then the day it was high I had eaten a lot of salt the day before, at least relative to my usual zero added salt, so I’m guessing I retained a lot of water. But it was still pretty depressing to see the number.
Pretty curious to see what the number is tomorrow. The calorie log says I should have lost 2.6 pounds, so the expectation would be 246.6.
Today: 254.6 (+0.7)
10-day rolling average: 254.6 (-0.1)
Not much movement this week, either scalewise or bodywise. I managed to hit my calorie targets 6/7 days, but I haven’t been able to get outside a whole lot thanks to the record setting heat wave we had this week — for example, on Friday the heat index got up to 111F. I suspect my metabolism slowed down a touch thanks to that. Other explanation is I had an extra-salty day yesterday and I’m retaining a bit of water as a result. Either way, no real worries.
