Yeah, me too. But I think you know what you’ve got to do.
Mostly meals. With a fair amount of fruit as snacks.
Main meal is harder to control as I need to have food that mrs rugby enjoys. Lunches are normally very good. Some meat plus salad or veg plus a piece of fruit.
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Found out I got accepted to Brooklyn Half Marathon via lottery today. It will be in late May, so I’ll need to start training for it soon.
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Fun! Half marathons are much more pleasant than full marathons, it should be a good time.
Week 5 of 14.
Weighed in just over 124kg. So may be starting to shuffle in the right direction.
Just 3 workouts but was considerable more active otherwise. Went to the office for work and did some active stuff with my dad.
Going to try and walk somewhere every day. There are days when I dont leave the house. And if I’m not working out on those days, my activity level must be tiny.
Also going to try and eat a few more salads with main meals. Subbing out rice for salad a little.
I think if I can tweak the diet and increase the activity, I should be able to get this weight loss show on the road.
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Ran the Washington Heights 5K this morning. I was somewhat conservative because this is a hilly course that I’ve never run before. Ended up with 25:06, which is not too much slower than my PR and still pretty respectable.
Based on that, I’m comfortable shooting for 1:55 for my upcoming half marathon. That seems doable starting from my current level of fitness with 11 weeks to train.
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Week 6 of 14.
Weight 123 kg ish. Lowest weigh in for a while.
Have been walking every day and being more active. Together with eating more salads and veg.
I hope I’ve cracked it. I think I can keep this up for a while. Another few more weeks and I’ll be able to fit into my dress shirts again.
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grunch:
my metabolism / genetics are absolute dogshit and even with doing workouts 3x per week with heavy resistance training + 2-3x per week for cardio in addition to 1-2 hours of walking 5x per week (my doggos) my maintenance calories are 1700ish at 5’7" and im hard stuck losing weight at 172-175 (went from 195-175 over first 6th months and havent budged over the last 6 months). previously had the same issue and wasnt able to drop weight until i got down to basically 4-5 hour eating window of 2 meals 6-700 calories each (got to 165 before i got injured/stopped working out). i read about people with maintenance calories of like 3k+ and it makes me sad because i love food.
no real point to this post i just wanted to vent somewhere about not being able to lose weight unless i literally starve myself.
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After four months since injuring my knee with no progress in healing despite various meds and treatment, going to get an MRI next week.
Seriously folks, if you want to live a healthy, happy life do NOT injure your knee.
Apparently I have to lower my bad cholesterol. I already cut out eggs mostly. The internet says no pork, chicken or beef. Oh is that all?
I eat light string cheese and low sodium salami sometimes as a snack. Do I have to cut that out?
Eat some fruit Suzzer. Lol
This is donk advice. Not much of your serum cholesterol is coming from eggs and meat. If all you ate was lean beef, chicken, eggs, and some veggies, then your cholesterol would likely be fine.
I can nearly guarantee that if you cut 30lbs (on nearly any diet), your cholesterol will drop.
If it doesn’t go low enough or you can’t pull that off, then maybe talk to your doc about getting on some statins.
I do. I eat grapefruit, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, apples.
I’ve lost 30 lbs, working hard on another 30. Overall cholesterol is down, bad cholesterol is up slightly.
My blood pressure is down from something like 170/105 to 135/85. So the exercise is definitely paying off (and going off testosterone)
Then you gotta lose more. Keep working at it.
Out of curiosity, what were LDLs before and after?
There are some people out there who can’t get the cholesterol down low enough despite very good diet and exercise. I think that they’re not as common as others might believe, but they do exist (and I’m not talking about people with well known genetic syndromes associated with high cholesterol). So, you may end up on a statin anyway, which is not really that bad in the grand scheme of things.
I don’t know what they were. But only the last two checkups they’ve been high enough for the doctor to mention.
You might want to get that info if you can. It’s probably useful to be able to quantify how much of a problem you’re dealing with.
I think that getting rid of processed food should generally help with bad cholesterol. They tend to be higher in trans fats and lower in fiber.
If you don’t have a habit of eating a lot of fiber that’s generally a good place to start. Instead of trying to be “disciplined” and never eat “bad” meats, try switching up some meat meals for less meat + beans/lentils kind of meals. Really good meat and bean/legume stews are actually delicious so it doesn’t present as making a Big Sacrifice to but out the meat.
This year’s Barkley Marathons have begun:
https://twitter.com/ameliaboone/status/1501176211480866816
No one has finished the race since 2017.
Excellent movie here:
Some days I’ll grab a slice of pizza while I’m walking around. And maybe once every 3 weeks I have some kind of social encounter where I eat restaurant or party food.
Otherwise, here’s most days when I’m dieting, as I am now:
Breakfast:
- Whole oats uncooked (yeah I like old-fashioned oats uncooked)
- Soy milk
- Protein powder
- Almonds
- Shredded coconut
- Some kind of dried fruit on the cereal
- Half grapefruit with a packet of Splenda
- 12 oz diet Dr. Pepper
Lunch:
- Pre-made salad
- Sometimes I make a desert out of oats, nuts, coconut, fruit and a packet of splenda - I call it instant cobbler
Snacks:
- Lite string cheese
- Low-sodium salami
- Almonds
- Sometimes a premade meat/cheese/crackers thing like the ones Triscuit makes
- Apple or other fruit
On the 2 mile walk to the gym I grab:
- 20 oz diet Dr. Pepper
- Big protein bar
After workout and 2 mile walk home:
- Meal replacement shake (about 20g), add shredded coconut, flaxseed, peanut powder
I go to the gym M-Thu, then do a 4-hour hike on average 2 other days, and maybe a 2 hour walk on the other day.
I don’t eat again until morning. The meal replacement is this stuff:
The diet is working, which is an absolute miracle for me w/o being on testosterone. So I’m just looking for cholesterol problems. I’m thinking it might be the salami and processed meat in the snack package things. I wonder if I’m eating too much protein?