Very happy and dropped two clothing sizes. Going to try to drop another size or two. I have decided to be a little too little than a little too big.
Using low to moderate calorie high protein, moderate fate low carb diet.
Your diet tips always welcome.
About what I lost, no diet, no exercise, no changes in lifestyle.
Fast periodically. Early man lived okay without daily food.
Lift weights and do one higher calorie day a week.
Green tea extract.
congrats. I quit smoking gained 33lbs. lost 10 of it, so far.
So, it wasn’t chicken soup??
Congratulations. I’m always going to eat so I need to exercise more. My job is sitting at a desk for 9 hours plus driving another 40 minutes both ways.
Kinda off subject but I am planning to retire overseas and I’m reading the pros and cons about one location deep in Central America and one woman sniffed that she couldn’t live there because she couldn’t find enough products that were ‘gluten free’. Look, lady, you live in a jungle and you can eat stuff natural and non-processed but....
I fast between meals, does that count?
Read the nutrition labels on all foods that have them, and then avoid sugar as much as you can. It’s shocking how much sugar has been loaded into so many “low fat” foods.
For example, compare the sugar amounts in various yogurts, low-fat and otherwise. The amount of sugar per serving in one variety may be 5 or 6 grams, while a variety right next to it on the grocery shelf may have 30 or more grams.
Works for me!
Something weird I'm doing now: Whenever possible, I have liquids with a spoon! It sounds crazy, but it seems to have taken off a few more pounds.
Keep up the good work. Let me know if you have any nutrition or exercise suggestions that have positive results.
Lost 43 pounds in a little less than 6 months. Walk intensely 4 or 5 miles a day for 4 or 5 days per week. Overall walking about 6 to 7 miles per day except on weekend.
No longer eat fast food. Other than that no huge change in diet (though I find I don’t need to eat as much as I used to like to eat...hmmmm).
All I have to do is not eat a whole pig in one day.
Losing weight is simple. You must burn off more than you consume. How you do that is the key and knowledge concerning that is also paramount. Lastly, discipline is the final parameter. Put them all together and you have lost weight. Sorry I was no help................
In early 2016 I went from 228 down to 152.
Now I cheated a little. This was after near terminal liver and kidney failure.
It took my 52 years but I proved that I could drink my liver into submission.
Still at 152 which was my deployment weight. Old jungle fatigues fir pretty well.
Shark meat diet. Six pounds per week.
MREs during Army deployments. Eight pounds per week.
Really don’t care about fat.
To real men fat is an extremely efficient energy reserve. Been there, done that, know this.
I have a condition which prevents me from dieting. I get hungry...
While working as gate guard at a beach resort my job included only sitting. I gained thirty pounds in two years. When I gain weight over 150 pounds it all goes out in front of me whether I am inert or active. One day I realized I had to do something. I got myself moved to the overnight shift and started walking up thirteen floors of stairs up to a dozen times a night. I lost the belly in 5 months. That was 9 years ago and I am still at 151.
I’m still having too many intimate dinners for two, with just me showing up. When I do diet, I go low carb, but not too low.
Congrats! I’m 62 and have lost about 90 lbs. over the past 3 years. I have almost reached my goal (another 5-10 lbs.). I limit carbs 6 days of the week (usually less than about 50 g/day), and no wheat (except on cheat day), no high fructose corn syrup or other added sugars, and I work out 3 times a week for about 20 minutes. (My diet is a little unusual because I have somewhat contradictory things to consider: IBS, arthritis, etc.)
I’ve gradually added intermittent fasting into the picture over the past 6 months, and my metabolism really seems to be responding to it. This translates into no food after dinner one evening and not eating again until midday after a workout, so maybe 16-18 hours of fast. I expect I will be able to add more carbs before much longer. (I try to get the majority of carbs from things like quinoa, sweet potatoes, brown rice, beans, barley—the more complex the better.)
Take some advice-get a handle on this while you are still young because it gets a LOT tougher when you get to be my age. I have a pretty stern guy for an MD, and he recently he told me he was extremely proud of me after my physical last week. My wife and I are on vacation for a week, so all bets are off as far as diet is concerned. Then it’s back to the grindstone!
1. Grow or buy high quality. Skip most grocery store middle aisles, and avoid bakery and dairy.
2. Stay active.
3. Laugh often.
I once lost 120 lbs of ugly fat but that’s enough about my ex wife.