Weight Loss

[30WCF]

I was up over 213 and then I stopped the snacking at night, this morning I'm 208.8.

Seems like the last few months you’re shooting steady for staying below 210? Is that a good place for you?

 

[thewoodlands]

Seems like the last few months you’re shooting steady for staying below 210? Is that a good place for you?

Pretty much, once I hit 210 or the highest this summer was just over 213, I hit the brakes and drop some weight.

You're doing great, good job.

 

[thewoodlands]

Seems like the last few months you’re shooting steady for staying below 210? Is that a good place for you?

I found some M & M's in the inventory, some milk at night with those have me back at 211 this morning..........oops!

When I was coming back from watering & weeding the flowers at a cemetery, I saw a bake sale at a church not far from here, the only thing they had left was a dozen donuts, I gave the lady the money and when I finally got home, lunch was 3 donuts with a nice cold glass of milk. I'm not a donut guy but it was for a could cause.

Tonight we'll have chicken breasts (bone-in) on the grill (indirect medium) with pasta. Tomorrow I'll start working the new found weigh off.

 

[thewoodlands]

Seems like the last few months you’re shooting steady for staying below 210? Is that a good place for you?

I was 210.8 this morning after doing most of the lawn yesterday, since Sunday is ice cream night, 210.8 is good. Today I finished up the lawn with the push mower, just around 3 hours but that included a few breaks.

I might have to get on the treadmill, when I came in from mowing, the wife was just finishing up baking some chocolate chip cookies, up next are some blueberry muffins.

 

[30WCF]

I went to the mountains over the weekend (Friday and Saturday) and stuffed myself. We ate all day and night. In the way home we stopped at Cookout and got burgers and shakes. When I got home Saturday night, I was 207.
Working my way back down now. 202 today.

 

[TheJeff]

Down to 209.8

 

[thewoodlands]

I was 210 on Wednesday morning but since I had promised the wife we would go out for dinner last night, I'm not sure what my weight we'll be.

 

[stoveliker]

Well, after one month on the other side of the big pond, where parents and siblings go out of their way to cook and have cake etc. I went up from 176 to 181 lbs (but that is before getting rid of some solid waste which takes a bit of time after a jet lag for me).

Back to the new normal eating mode (no seconds, no cookies etc with coffee/tea, and no evening snacks), to see where I'm at in two weeks

 

[30WCF]

Made dark chocolate chip cookies two days ago and just now put some vanilla ice cream base in the refrigerator to cool after cooking it into a custard.
Ten miles this morning.
I used to struggle to get 20 pushups and 20 crunches at each of the 6 benches. When 20 was easy at the fourth bench, I moved up to 25. When 25 started to get easy I now do 30 at each bench. Some days I hit some of the benches twice, and if the playground isn’t too crowded, I can grab a couple pull-ups on the monkey-bars.

https://www.alltrails.com/explore/recording/morning-ride-at-chatfield-trail-18cdf49?p=-1&sh=pg38u0

I came home and weighed in at 194.4 in my undies. After lunch (2 hotdogs, and several glasses of water, and dressed I just weighed in at 198.6 (shorts, undies and a tee).

 

[thewoodlands]

I was at 213.8 this morning, all the chocolate chip cookies are gone, 1 blueberry muffin is left with one nice size slab of berried delight left. Usually we wouldn't have that much baked goods or dessert at once but we had a birthday in the house this week.

 

[30WCF]

Got a little carried away tonight. Wings for an appetizer, black and bleu steak with potatoes and sprouts and we split a pound cake 4-ways. Feeling mighty stretched out right now.

 

[thewoodlands]

Got a little carried away tonight. Wings for an appetizer, black and bleu steak with potatoes and sprouts and we split a pound cake 4-ways. Feeling mighty stretched out right now.

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Nothing wrong with a meal like that after all the weight you've lost, looks great.

 

[stoveliker]

I have read this thread for a while now.
And I know each person is different, their methods are different, and their priorities and goals are different.

With that said, and from my perspective -which may not be yours-, I am a bit puzzled.

I see folks loose weight, which is great. But it appears to me that the goal of that is sometimes*to be able to eat too much and too unhealthy things*.
From my perspective (which again you may all strongly disagree with) that defeats the purpose. My perspective is that loosing weight is mostly (always?) about being healthier.
Loosing weight in order to do unhealthy things - doesn't compute for me

This is not meant as criticism, nor judgement. It is an expression of being puzzled.

But that (me being puzzled) is common given some diagnosis I have regarding social skills and the ability to read people. (And typing on Internet forums surely is not helping me there...)

 

[thewoodlands]

I have read this thread for a while now.
And I know each person is different, their methods are different, and their priorities and goals are different.

With that said, and from my perspective -which may not be yours-, I am a bit puzzled.

I see folks loose weight, which is great. But it appears to me that the goal of that is sometimes*to be able to eat too much and too unhealthy things*.
From my perspective (which again you may all strongly disagree with) that defeats the purpose. My perspective is that loosing weight is mostly (always?) about being healthier.
Loosing weight in order to do unhealthy things - doesn't compute for me

This is not meant as criticism, nor judgement. It is an expression of being puzzled.

But that (me being puzzled) is common given some diagnosis I have regarding social skills and the ability to read people. (And typing on Internet forums surely is not helping me there...)

No criticism taken from that, nothing wrong with a good steak every so often in my opinion. I still eat plenty of lettuce during the week but will always throw in what we consider to be a better meal on the weekend.

 

[30WCF]

I have read this thread for a while now.
And I know each person is different, their methods are different, and their priorities and goals are different.

With that said, and from my perspective -which may not be yours-, I am a bit puzzled.

I see folks loose weight, which is great. But it appears to me that the goal of that is sometimes*to be able to eat too much and too unhealthy things*.
From my perspective (which again you may all strongly disagree with) that defeats the purpose. My perspective is that loosing weight is mostly (always?) about being healthier.
Loosing weight in order to do unhealthy things - doesn't compute for me

This is not meant as criticism, nor judgement. It is an expression of being puzzled.

But that (me being puzzled) is common given some diagnosis I have regarding social skills and the ability to read people. (And typing on Internet forums surely is not helping me there...)

No offense here either. I have a long winded answer that I hope doesn’t come across as defensive or anything. It’s just my method and goals explained.

It is interesting to me that that was the perspective that landed though, that, the intent was to diet so we can eat too much and poorly. I never intended it to look that way. But, I can see it appearing that way if I look at it from that side too. It could appear that without context. Without knowing the demise of the cookies and ice cream, it would seem so. But, a family of 4, split one piece of pound cake after a meal. Between two kids, mom and dad got a couple tastes. I even think I got stabbed in the hand once.

The cookies and ice cream are mainly for something to do with the kids and in hopes of creating some summer memories while they are still small. I remember churning ice cream on summer evenings, and so will they. Who doesn’t like making a batch of fresh chocolate chip cookies? Well, the cookies are still, all but about 5-6 of them, sitting on the plate in the cabinet. I tried one last night, still chewy and delicious, but we just don’t eat sweets like that. They will probably get tossed out in a few more days. There is still probably over a dozen on the plate. We made chocolate ice cream and tossed it out so we could make the peach. Weeks later, there is still peach, but my 8 year old wanted to make vanilla. So, I cooked up some vanilla base to churn. But, we will have to toss the remaining peach to make room for the vanilla.

I did cleanup my diet, cutting out alcohol and caffeine, managing portion control. I eat a LOT of salads and fiber/proteins rich foods. I used to be a trash can for fatty greasy fried everything, bacon cheese burgers, wet brisket…name it. I mean, if you build a brick smoker in your back yard, you end up making tons of ribs and BBQ and briskets, and drinking bourbon while you wait.

I can’t be a glutton and accomplish any weight loss goals. I had to make big changes. I changed what, when, and how I eat. I started moving more. A lot more. I ride every day. 10 miles yesterday, 12 miles today, push ups, sit ups, squats and whatever calisthenics I can work in throughout the day. I move better feel better I can bend over and get off the floor with ease now. I did a thing the other day that I thought I may have just gotten too old, beat up and out of shape to do. But I got it back. I can sit on the floor, pull my feet up to near my butt, rock forward and stand straight up, without my hands touching anything. Last winter I thought I was always going to have to roll to all fours, grunt a few times, brace myself and slowly stand up awkwardly. Some of the struggle is from some knee injuries, but the low impact, yet strength building of biking has restored a lot of range of motion and strength in my knees.

I suppose the thing I was trying to demonstrate in my posts was, that you can drop 40 lbs, and it doesn’t have to be miserable at all. It can actually be easy and fun. It does take some determination though.

I know I watch the scale more than most people, but I find it interesting to see what different things do to temporary weights. What I eat, how quickly water actually dissipates into the system, it’s just interesting to me. I easily swing 8-10 lbs in a days time, but the trend is still moving down.

Yesterday I weighed in at 194, before any meals, but after my workout. I’ve been using that weigh in for my “base weight” because, I can weight 194 in the morning, 204 after a big dinner at the end of a day. Had I not eaten a whole steak and some of the potatoes and brussels, I would have probably not broken 200. This morning I rode 12 miles and weighed in at 197. I didn’t gain 3 pound of fat or muscle since yesterday’s ride, but there is a steak and cookie in my colon somewhere. Again, useless or too much info, but it helps me understand that I can eat anything I want, not feel like I’m severely restricted or have to live off of rice cakes and protein shakes.

I’ve lost 40 in 3 months. Maybe another 10 or 20 to go and I’ll need to be finding out how to transition from calorie deficit to calorie neutral so I can maintain. Maybe I’ll have a beer again. My intentions were not to never have a beer again. I’ve not drank since April, but I still hit the liquor store and grab a nice bottle of something different every week and stick it on the shelf.

The intent wasn’t to get healthy so I could do unhealthy things. I was already swimming in unhealthy things. I made some huge positive changes, try to balance my social life.

Overall, I am way better off now than I was in the spring. I’ll be better prepared for our elk hunt this fall than I was last fall. My stated goal when I joined in on this thread was to not have to buy new hunting pants this year, because the last two years, my FirstLite pants got real tight. Funny though, I now need smaller pants. I shot right through 36 from 38 to 34, and may end up in a 32 if I keep screwing around. And, I’ve never been miserable with this lifestyle change. It’s tough sometimes. I usually get the salmon or grilled chicken salad when we are out and others are eating burgers. I don’t always want to go ride my bike in the NC 100*F humidity. But it’s not been discouragingly hard. It’s not been unmanageable. I have never felt like there no light at the end of the tunnel or hopeless. I just made positive changes while still enjoying foods and social outings, baking and cooking with the kids with the hopes that they will one day use Dad’s old ice cream maker with their kids and wonder why it isn’t quite as romantic as they remember it having been.

So, I’m gonna dump out the peach today, and churn up some fresh vanilla. We will all enjoy a sundae and still make some progress on my goals.

Again, I hope that came across without sounding defensive. I enjoy exploring the differences in how we all perceive our surroundings and how they influence our choices. We all do things differently. It’s good to understand why.

 

[stoveliker]

Thanks for providing your perspective. It's not defensive, nor does it need to be.

 

[thewoodlands]

No offense here either. I have a long winded answer that I hope doesn’t come across as defensive or anything. It’s just my method and goals explained.

It is interesting to me that that was the perspective that landed though, that, the intent was to diet so we can eat too much and poorly. I never intended it to look that way. But, I can see it appearing that way if I look at it from that side too. It could appear that without context. Without knowing the demise of the cookies and ice cream, it would seem so. But, a family of 4, split one piece of pound cake after a meal. Between two kids, mom and dad got a couple tastes. I even think I got stabbed in the hand once.

The cookies and ice cream are mainly for something to do with the kids and in hopes of creating some summer memories while they are still small. I remember churning ice cream on summer evenings, and so will they. Who doesn’t like making a batch of fresh chocolate chip cookies? Well, the cookies are still, all but about 5-6 of them, sitting on the plate in the cabinet. I tried one last night, still chewy and delicious, but we just don’t eat sweets like that. They will probably get tossed out in a few more days. There is still probably over a dozen on the plate. We made chocolate ice cream and tossed it out so we could make the peach. Weeks later, there is still peach, but my 8 year old wanted to make vanilla. So, I cooked up some vanilla base to churn. But, we will have to toss the remaining peach to make room for the vanilla.

I did cleanup my diet, cutting out alcohol and caffeine, managing portion control. I eat a LOT of salads and fiber/proteins rich foods. I used to be a trash can for fatty greasy fried everything, bacon cheese burgers, wet brisket…name it. I mean, if you build a brick smoker in your back yard, you end up making tons of ribs and BBQ and briskets, and drinking bourbon while you wait.

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I can’t be a glutton and accomplish any weight loss goals. I had to make big changes. I changed what, when, and how I eat. I started moving more. A lot more. I ride every day. 10 miles yesterday, 12 miles today, push ups, sit ups, squats and whatever calisthenics I can work in throughout the day. I move better feel better I can bend over and get off the floor with ease now. I did a thing the other day that I thought I may have just gotten too old, beat up and out of shape to do. But I got it back. I can sit on the floor, pull my feet up to near my butt, rock forward and stand straight up, without my hands touching anything. Last winter I thought I was always going to have to roll to all fours, grunt a few times, brace myself and slowly stand up awkwardly. Some of the struggle is from some knee injuries, but the low impact, yet strength building of biking has restored a lot of range of motion and strength in my knees.

I suppose the thing I was trying to demonstrate in my posts was, that you can drop 40 lbs, and it doesn’t have to be miserable at all. It can actually be easy and fun. It does take some determination though.

I know I watch the scale more than most people, but I find it interesting to see what different things do to temporary weights. What I eat, how quickly water actually dissipates into the system, it’s just interesting to me. I easily swing 8-10 lbs in a days time, but the trend is still moving down.

Yesterday I weighed in at 194, before any meals, but after my workout. I’ve been using that weigh in for my “base weight” because, I can weight 194 in the morning, 204 after a big dinner at the end of a day. Had I not eaten a whole steak and some of the potatoes and brussels, I would have probably not broken 200. This morning I rode 12 miles and weighed in at 197. I didn’t gain 3 pound of fat or muscle since yesterday’s ride, but there is a steak and cookie in my colon somewhere. Again, useless or too much info, but it helps me understand that I can eat anything I want, not feel like I’m severely restricted or have to live off of rice cakes and protein shakes.

I’ve lost 40 in 3 months. Maybe another 10 or 20 to go and I’ll need to be finding out how to transition from calorie deficit to calorie neutral so I can maintain. Maybe I’ll have a beer again. My intentions were not to never have a beer again. I’ve not drank since April, but I still hit the liquor store and grab a nice bottle of something different every week and stick it on the shelf.

The intent wasn’t to get healthy so I could do unhealthy things. I was already swimming in unhealthy things. I made some huge positive changes, try to balance my social life.

Overall, I am way better off now than I was in the spring. I’ll be better prepared for our elk hunt this fall than I was last fall. My stated goal when I joined in on this thread was to not have to buy new hunting pants this year, because the last two years, my FirstLite pants got real tight. Funny though, I now need smaller pants. I shot right through 36 from 38 to 34, and may end up in a 32 if I keep screwing around. And, I’ve never been miserable with this lifestyle change. It’s tough sometimes. I usually get the salmon or grilled chicken salad when we are out and others are eating burgers. I don’t always want to go ride my bike in the NC 100*F humidity. But it’s not been discouragingly hard. It’s not been unmanageable. I have never felt like there no light at the end of the tunnel or hopeless. I just made positive changes while still enjoying foods and social outings, baking and cooking with the kids with the hopes that they will one day use Dad’s old ice cream maker with their kids and wonder why it isn’t quite as romantic as they remember it having been.

So, I’m gonna dump out the peach today, and churn up some fresh vanilla. We will all enjoy a sundae and still make some progress on my goals.

Again, I hope that came across without sounding defensive. I enjoy exploring the differences in how we all perceive our surroundings and how they influence our choices. We all do things differently. It’s good to understand why.

I have those memories about eating homemade ice cream in the summer. When we were young we lived out in the country, out of 5 houses in that area, 4 were owned by relatives and the 5th was rented out by my grandfather. My aunt would get all the kids together and she would make us ice cream, that put a smile on our faces pretty darn quick. I'm glad she made those memories for us, she died young at 45.

 

[30WCF]

I have those memories about eating homemade ice cream in the summer. When we were young we lived out in the country, out of 5 houses in that area, 4 were owned by relatives and the 5th was rented out by my grandfather. My aunt would get all the kids together and she would make us ice cream, that put a smile on our faces pretty darn quick. I'm glad she made those memories for us, she died young at 45.

Sorry to hear de died so young. It’s memories like that one, that you can remember the good times when things felt more simple.

 

[30WCF]

Thanks for providing your perspective. It's not defensive, nor does it need to be.

I actually like hearing other peoples perspectives. Often dictated by things near them, subconsciously altered, guiding them to draw conclusions and make assumptions that make sense in their own minds based off what’s familiar or rational to them using only the information before them and the gaps are filled in with the aforementioned assumptions. If we can understand each others viewpoint, there would be less strife. We don’t need to agree on everything, just understand. War will still be justified at times. But sometimes I think someone is just being a dick, and sometimes folks think I’m just being a dick.
But what I know, that they don’t, is I, I am always right.😉

 

[thewoodlands]

Sorry to hear de died so young. It’s memories like that one, that you can remember the good times when things felt more simple.

Thanks @30WCF , on that side of my family they had a history of dying young, my aunt at 45, my mother at 59 and a uncle at 61.

 

[30WCF]

Ice cream turned out great on some left over cookies.

 

[thewoodlands]

Ice cream turned out great on some left over cookies.

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It looks great, my wife said it looks great too! I had a small bowl of ice cream tonight while watching the Yankees vs. Boston game.

 

[thewoodlands]

This morning the truth teller said 208.6, tonight will be some steaks cooked on the grill, mashed potatoes with a veggie.

 

[thewoodlands]

Got a little carried away tonight. Wings for an appetizer, black and bleu steak with potatoes and sprouts and we split a pound cake 4-ways. Feeling mighty stretched out right now.

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I didn't take a picture but the steaks were very good even though they were smaller but thick enough.

 

[30WCF]

No bike ride today. Pretty good rain this morning.
Time to clean it back up and make another push to trim a bit more belly fat.
Had salad for lunch with tuna on top. After lunch I was a cool 197.

Had 10 Hooters medium wings (flats), and another small salad for supper tonight which has me around 200. I bet I wake up around 197 again after I loose a little water weight overnight.