The Weight Loss Thread

IdleMind said:
So I did some hiking-prep today. Did two full loops of Mt. Watatic trying to jog it the entire time... so fucking brutal. 8.4 miles. Gonna repeat daily as weather permits.

Ate veggies mostly today with grilled chicken for dinner for my protein requirement. My doc told me I should be ingesting about 66% of daily recommended sodium and cholesterol values, and take asprin as a blood thinner; but otherwise I was cleared to exercise. This nudges me even further into my already mostly vegetarian diet. Veggies help me save on calories without overdoing it on the sodium.

-Idle
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I wouldn't think your doctor would not recommend not working out to lower blood pressure seeing as sweating lowers BP. Keep at it, glad to see you stickin with it.

Arrogant if you're exercising then doing 2,000 calories isn't bad at all. The average human is suppose to take in at least 2,000 a day, so it shouldn't effect you too much. If you around that area with proper excercise you will get results.
 
Tha_Shogun said:
I wouldn't think your doctor would not recommend not working out to lower blood pressure seeing as sweating lowers BP. Keep at it, glad to see you stickin with it.

Arrogant if you're exercising then doing 2,000 calories isn't bad at all. The average human is suppose to take in at least 2,000 a day, so it shouldn't effect you too much. If you around that area with proper excercise you will get results.
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You're right but my goal is 2 pounds per week. Last week was only 1 and I was glad 'cause I had done really bad and still lost weight. I said, "I never wanna go a week without losing at least that," and that's true, but the goal is 2 pounds. I mean, I hate exercise... I do it, but boy do I hate it. I only like it afterward because I pushed myself and accomplished it, but starting's a pain. (LOL)

I mean, 2,000 cal isn't a lot, but check it out... I know that you, as one of the two the premier weight-loss guys on 8WR, know that there's gotta be a deficit to lose weight, so this isn't for you but I wanna explain this for others to see. My calculated avg. BMR is 1,794. I'm sedentary really. So I multiply my BMR by 20% (which equals 359). That's how much I burn by being alive and avg. calories burned in regular activity in a day. Next is digestion, which also consumes calories so I take 1794 + 359 = 2153 and multiply this number by 10% which is 215. Added all up, my Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) is 2,368. A deficit of 500 cals a day for a week is one pound (3,500 cals). So I could eat 1,868 cals a day and still lose a pound and that's with no exercise, but it's proven that people who exercise reach their goals because it provides a cushion, affects the mind giving an individual drive, and curbs hunger so you're more likely to stick to the diet. So, a good plan would be to eat 300 cals less than my TDEE and have a daily exercise that burns 200 cals all to burn a pound a week. To get 2 pounds, I need to double that.

This week if I lose a 1.5, I'll be fine. Next week I can't have that. There's 5 weeks in June. If I lose 6-8 pounds this month, I will finally have broken into 170s. Shogun, the last time I was 170 was in 2007 before my grandmother died. It was after she died that I let myself get to 200+ pounds probably due to depression. When I have dieted in the past I could never leave the 180s. I would stop the diet, but that was because they were crash/fad diets. Now I have a good plan with an exercise routine, support, and have been doing well tracking everything I eat... I can do this.

To me this is like redemption. I've always been a pretty confidant guy. After losing my grandmother who raised me, it was like losing my mother all over again. I was left with an insecurity. I didn't expect to be without my parents at 24. That sense of protection that parents provide, that I hadn't recognized before, was gone. Still, I knew I would be okay. Despite knowing that, the emotional pain still affected me and it wasn't until I stepped on the scale that I realized how. When I saw how heavy I had gotten and how it changed certain things in my life, I became even more insecure and started to lose confidence. I can't redeem a lost parent but I can regain my confidence. This is about me. I'm gonna do it.
 
Haha! You know, its like this... I have been exercising since April now (2 months) and, yeah, I hate the thought of it. Almost every time my alarm goes off on my phone at that time of the day and I read, "Exercise time, son!" I groan, but I do it. It's like I want to and I don't. Afterwards though, I'm glad I did; always. Maybe that's the start to the "love".

Not too long ago I was in the Navy. I remember in boot camp doing PT. Our division were fat-bodies, most of us were overweight. I wasn't, I was at 130 lbs then. I was 19. It was a struggle for me then too those 8 weeks of training. At the end, I was happy for the experience and I think about that now and that pushes me. At this point, I don't think I'll ever stop. It's a way of life and I remind myself of that. The compliments I get from friends also pushes me.

It ain't love yet, but at least I kind of like it. LOL
 
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