Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

Wanna make a bet over weight loss? We can include clauses for maintaining the loss. Has to be an amount of money that is significant, like a few thousand, to motivate us. Also the losses have to appropriate/healthy for each of us. Partial payouts or no payouts depending on competing levels of success or failure. I lost a lot then gained quite a bit back. I need some extra oomph to motivate me.

I just didn't want it badly enough. The thought of committing like that is pretty damn tempting. And frightening!

[Leonardo]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

Wanna make a bet over weight loss? We can include clauses for maintaining the loss. Has to be an amount of money that is significant, like a few thousand, to motivate us. Also the losses have to appropriate/healthy for each of us. Partial payouts or no payouts depending on competing levels of success or failure. I lost a lot then gained quite a bit back. I need some extra oomph to motivate me.

Weight loss is tricky. Motivation is even trickier!

I could not maintain the weight (and BF%) I wanted till I quit drinking.

[echo419]

commitment is everything. if you are dedicated to proper diet and exercise you will lose weight.

I cut 34lbs for a show a few years ago. hardest 16 weeks of my life. completely different diet that anyone here should do of course. but as soon as it was over I put on 10lbs in the first week and was back a full 30lbs within a month. granted it was a completely different 30lbs than I was before. but the point is that's how fast it all can come back even for someone like me. if you're not in the shape I'm in and training like I did and do now it will be worse. we've all seen or know people that have been on that roller coaster before.

time your food right. make all your own meals and do interval cardio after weight training would be my cheap internet advice.

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[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Leonardo

Weight loss is tricky. Motivation is even trickier!

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by echo419

commitment is everything. if you are dedicated to proper diet and exercise you will lose weight.

I cut 34lbs for a show a few years ago...………….

Ahhhhhh………...what kind of "show"? -


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

The new ones won't shock you unless you need it........or deserve it

Don't forget, we are talking about @Sapphireho - up in Idaho -

or, - sometimes they just use a cattle prod -





humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

Wanna make a bet over weight loss? We can include clauses for maintaining the loss. Has to be an amount of money that is significant, like a few thousand, to motivate us. Also the losses have to appropriate/healthy for each of us. Partial payouts or no payouts depending on competing levels of success or failure. I lost a lot then gained quite a bit back. I need some extra oomph to motivate me.

I found that losing weight is easy. I lost about 40 pounds in a few weeks a few years back. No special diet, no extra exercise, no surgery and no diet supplements.

It was called chemotherapy. -


humfrz

[Nevermore]

Man, I've been going back to the gym lately and I'm already stronger than I was when I fell out of the habit over a year ago. I guess I kept some of it after all.


A big goal of mine is to be able to pull-ups. I've never been able to do a pull-up in my entire life. I use the assisted machine and if I was 160lbs I could do a pull-up, but I weigh 202lbs. Grip strength has always been a weakness, but it seems I've gotten to the point where my hands can now support my full weight. The annoying thing is my shoulders want nothing to do with it. So now I have to get my shoulders used to the weight without pulling them apart.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by echo419

commitment is everything.

+1 I dropped 40 pounds last year just counting calories. 1500/day.


But fuck, food tastes good! Gained 30 back.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Don't forget, we are talking about @Sapphireho - up in Idaho -

or, - sometimes they just use a cattle prod -





humfrz

We are more advanced than that, I think.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

+1 I dropped 40 pounds last year just counting calories. 1500/day.


But fuck, food tastes good! Gained 30 back.

My goal for the next 12 months is 12 lbs. Nice and slow. I'm at 195 and would like to be at 175 eventually.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

+1 I dropped 40 pounds last year just counting calories. 1500/day.


But fuck, food tastes good! Gained 30 back.

I go to the gym 4-5 times a week and still am not loosing weight for the same reason I eat healthy 90% of the time, but I eat a lot. At least I am reasonably fit even though my BMI list me as borderline obese.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I go to the gym 4-5 times a week and still am not loosing weight for the same reason I eat healthy 90% of the time, but I eat a lot. At least I am reasonably fit even though my BMI list me as borderline obese.

Right? I've sworn up and down that I was NEVER going to diet. Dammit, that shit caught up with me. I started gaining weight when my knees gave out 20 years ago. Tried other forms of cardio to keep it off but...


I'd be thrilled to see 290 again but I LOVE GOOD FOOD!

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Right? I've sworn up and down that I was NEVER going to diet. Dammit, that shit caught up with me. I started gaining weight when my knees gave out 20 years ago. Tried other forms of cardio to keep it off but...

Cardio is hard when it hurts to move.