The RacerX weight loss thread

[ozzuk1]

Keep at it ron try walking too. I walk my dog everyday and that helps a lot...

I've dropped something like 8 jean sizes over the last two years, used to wear 48's now I can go into a 40 with me able to lift it off my stomach....

All I need to do is more upper body workout sto rid my Moob's...

Also weighing yourself is a bit deceptive if you are doing lots of weight work outs as muscle will actually make you weigh more or make you think your as fat...

[GodOfRhythm]

Quick update: I went to a health fair that my company sponsored last month. I got my body fat tested and also listened to some gal at a booth tell me that exercise only counts for 3% of a weight loss plan, what you eat is 97%. Well all this, combined with the realization that I hadn't lost much weight at all, depressed me and I stopped my regular workouts.

BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She should be fucking fired!!!! I would have absolutely ripped into her if I was with you and heard her say that.

Exercise and a healthy lifestyle (I refuse to call it a 'diet', since that has the 'temporary' connotation to it) are EQUALLY important to either weightloss or maintaining your weight. I'd say in the event of trying to ADD weight (weightlifting), it's more like food: 60% / exercise: 40%.

The so called 'jojo' effect, which about 90% of the people who try to lose weight have major problems with, has only TWO causes.

And guess what!! BOTH are the person's own fault-->

1) The most logical one: people diet for a short time. (This is the "temporary" connotation to diet) and then resort back to their old eating habits, expecting to maintain the lower weight they've reached through dieting.

2) The biggest cause and BY FAR the most overlooked: "dieting" WITHOUT exercising. People just cut everything from their mealplan and start eating some bowls of soup and some lettuce a day and they lose weight quickly. Once they reach their target weight, what has effectively happened? Your body has metabolized a lot, to MOST of your muscle. You thought you were losing weight because you were losing fat, but it was your precious muscle that was being cannibalized by your own body, fat is a much more potent energy storage vessel, so your body tends to preserve it the longest for the real "dire" situations up ahead, since you body thinks you're in barren lands and are suffering from starvation (thank evolution for that) as well as your insane deficiency in protein and other nutrients.

So they end up on their target weight usually with an EVEN HIGHER body fat percentage, since a lot of muscle has disappeared, but no so much fat. This results in a FUCKED UP metabolism, due to several factors (which I can explain in another post if you want). Thus they start gaining weight again. And once you're in this trap it's VERY hard to get out.

A good weightloss plan would include putting together a healthy mealplan (which means ALL foodgroups, especially proteins, except SATurated fats) of about 6 dinners a day, total calorie count being somewhere around -300 of what you should normally have. When supplemented with plenty of cardio AND weightlifting, this will provide a healthy way to slim down and tone up, WITHOUT sacrificing the muscle.

In conclusion: she should be shot.

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Wilkinsi: for a naturally over-skinny person like yourself: lift big, eat BIGGER. Just STUFF yourself with (healthy) foods all through the day and lift (very) heavy.

[wilkinsi]

Well, if it's any consolation RacerX, I've just weighed myself, and I'm 45kg What a joke. Perhaps you have an idea as to how I can put weight ON?

[RacerX]

OK! Today, Tuesday September 18: Right after work, I went to the (company) gym (for the first time in weeks)...did 30 minutes on stairstepper, then 10 minutes on the treadmill...got a good sweat on. Then about 10 minutes in the sauna.



I still weigh the same


I looked at myself nekkid in the full length mirror - DAMN! My gut is H U G E !

[shobet]

If she said to you "You are what you eat" you could have replied to her, "Dear, you are what you shit".

Get back exercising you lazy git, the only person stopping you is you. (Says Mr. Shob, who looks to the mirror and admires his perky man boobs...)

[RacerX]

Quick update: I went to a health fair that my company sponsored last month. I got my body fat tested and also listened to some gal at a booth tell me that exercise only counts for 3% of a weight loss plan, what you eat is 97%. Well all this, combined with the realization that I hadn't lost much weight at all, depressed me and I stopped my regular workouts.

[GodOfRhythm]

Uh, thanks, Randy! :ROTF:

Freudian slip of the tongue....

[RacerX]

you are an inspiration to me ron, im 5'6" and weighted 170, a little chubby, so i started running and playing tennis. i'm skinnier from my face, but for some god forsaken reason, i weight 190.

Is this your "Before" pic?



:ROTF:

J/K dude

[NextInLine]

OK, I just got back from a 2.67 mile walk (I actually jogged during the first part so I could get to my bank before it closed. I got there at 2:00:40 and the gal was just locking up when I ran up all panting & sweating. She let me in cuz she knows me )

Also went to the same Target where I get my blood pressure checked. Today it averaged 120/66 !!! Much lower than it used to be, for those of you following this thread.

My mom is having blood pressure problems recently and getting your blood pressure checked regularly is something really good Ron and 120/66 sounds great

One more thingy, next time you're going to a bank try to leave the house 10 minutes early

[RacerX]

Great news Bill!

Uh, thanks, Randy! :ROTF:

[kelly user]

you are an inspiration to me ron, im 5'6" and weighted 170, a little chubby, so i started running and playing tennis. i'm skinnier from my face, but for some god forsaken reason, i weight 190. i can move and run faster. WTF. i'm gonna start a lower calorie, no sugary drinks diet. ALL WATER FOR ME BABY. But i have a high addiction to kool-aid, i just can't stop!!!!

[GodOfRhythm]

Great news Bill!

Remember to have one 'cheat' day every 5 days to a week. This'll keep your body's metabolism up, avoiding 'starvation mode'.

Keep high on the protein uptake and keep doing cardio (walking/cycling/...) + weightlifting to keep your muscles from degrading. LAST thing you want is for your muscles to go (which is usually the first thing to happen when people diet without knowing ANYTHING about how the body works).

After reaching your goal weight, you'll have to keep training to sculpt your upperbody a little, but you'll have MIGHTY & LARGE calves. That's the great bonus heavy guys get after losing weight.

[RacerX]

OK, I just got back from a 2.67 mile walk (I actually jogged during the first part so I could get to my bank before it closed. I got there at 2:00:40 and the gal was just locking up when I ran up all panting & sweating. She let me in cuz she knows me )

Also went to the same Target where I get my blood pressure checked. Today it averaged 120/66 !!! Much lower than it used to be, for those of you following this thread.

[RacerX]

Hey guys, last month I wasn't seeing much loss results...probably was working with the weights too much (muscle weighs more than fat)...and lately my car has been in & out of the shop so I've been walking to work every day, but not getting to the gym. Haven't weighed myself lately, but unfortunately my stomach is still very large

[Horse Called War]

Ron,
How has the weight Loss been going ? Are you a lean, mean fighting machine or what ? Isn't the class reunion coming up ?
Horse