[PJ-Comix]

Right now I am my lowest weight in at least 10 years...and still drooooooping!

I am hoping to reach my immediate goal of 100 pounds lost by middle of December.

[notaliberal]

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!

[navymom1]

You are terrific!!! Losing weight is the single hardest task that a person can undertake. Worse than giving up cigarettes in my opinion. I wish you all the best. God Speed!!

[NEMDF]

Congratulations! You are doing great! Are you feeling better, more energy, etc.?

[teletech]

You say in your video you avoid carbs. What carbs? Breads?
Congratulations on your weight loss.

[GnuThere]

Very inspiring!

[infool7]

Great work, huge willpower required to intentionally lose weight.

I’ve been using a system of my own design five days a week since last December:
I start the morning slow on my stomach with some light floor stretching back exercises my PT gave me in 1986 then:
30- Push ups
30- Sit-ups( I cheat a bit with two five lb barbells)
30- Knee Elbow Bicycle crunches still with the five lb barbells
30- Squats with two 15 lb barbells
(oh and no internet until I) Walk on the treadmill for 15 minutes 3mph (I was walking with the barbells maybe should go back to that)

I am shooting mainly for better fitness with zero injuries. I only weigh once a week on Wednesdays and since I started fasting most breakfasts in June I am only down 7 lbs but it’s going in the right direction. I haven’t increased the intensity so the workout is not so difficult that I will skip it if I catch a cold or otherwise.

My plan is to add an afternoon workout where I can start building intensity that I can skip more readily but keep plodding along with the morning maintenance no matter what.

It’s a marathon not a sprint.

May God grant you fortitude and endurance in your goal and may all those (myself included) endeavoring to return to a healthy weight and reasonable fitness be strengthened, encouraged by your courageous witness.

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[Celerity]

Congrats !

I’ve dropped 5 pounds in 2 months.

at 159 now. I lost 3 pounds in 3 months and now I’m really, really trying to get over that last hump.

I worry that your weight loss may be the same - most people are. They lose the first bits pretty well but that last hurdle takes something more. Plan accordingly.

I’m hypoglycemic too. I learned a lunch that works for me to keep protein levels up. For breakfast I do the same thing everyday: Carnation instant breakfast and 5 tsp of egg whites (From walmart, it’s actually cheaper than eggs!) then my coffee. Workout is 20 minutes of weights, then 20 minutes of running (Sometimes I mix it up if I need to get cardio before or after. I try to approach weight lifts with 100BPM or higher. I make my max BPM 160ish)

I also learned a neato way to get a little more out of my exercise (What brought me down 5 more pounds). My physical therapist recommends 2 minutes of stretch on EACH muscle That adds about 30 minutes everyday to my already hour-long workout. Lucky that I retired.

For lunch I make tortilla wraps with lettuce, tomato and maybe some peppers. I discovered this from a mistake. I heard about “Lettuce wraps” and I totally got it wrong !

Either way my sugar levels stay good after just that. So I take in about 500 calories before dinner now, down from 1500 cals. Dinner maxes out at 1000 calories.

Guys who are losing extreme amounts of weight, such as you are, are recommending 1200 calories PER DAY. My god, I would pass out.

[9YearLurker]

Wow—congrats!

(And I’ve enjoyed your posting here over the years.)

[M Kehoe]

Good work.

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[BeauBo]

They say that the best way to drop a bad habit, is to cultivate a related good habit alongside it, and let the good one draw away the attention.

A fitness program, like walking or riding a bike, is a perfect replacement hobby to distract from over-indulging in food.

It is beautiful in many ways - it helps you lose weight, and losing weight makes you better at it.

As long as it is pretty consistent, it will gradually attract more of your thought and attention over time, which supports the mental/emotional strength to keep losing weight. It has a long list of its own benefits as well, beyond helping to lose weight.

The heavier you are, the easier it is to lose a pound. As your weight loss proceeds though, you need something more to keep up the rate of fat loss. Improving fitness is an elegant offset. Gradually improving fitness allows you to gradually exercise more, which naturally helps offset the slowdown of weight loss from diet alone.

[Don_Ret_USAF]

Congratulations!!!!!!!!! Good for you. I to have lost some weight. Started at 271 lbs and down to 233 lbs since the 27 of July 2018. I do Cardiac Rehab 3 times a week after heart surgery. 30 minutes on the machines and 5 minute rest then fifteen minutes of exercise. On a no salt diet. Slowly getting use to no salt. But still crave the salt. Allowed 2 grams of salt from the food itself and no added salt. Eating a lot more fish and white meat, cut the red meat to once a week. No bread and once in a while white potatoes. Lots of veggis and sweet potatoes or yams. No salt bouillon packets. Goal right now is 200 lbs then maybe 185 lbs.

[PGalt]

WOOOOHOOOO!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

and thanks for being here. GREAT FReeper/poster BUMP!

[CAluvdubya]

Way to go, PJ!