5'8" and heck yeah it's worth giving up the food and drink. I never get heartburn like I used to and feel lighter when I walk. Basically I lost 15-17 pounds a month.
When I was about 20 years old I quit drinking sugar sodas and that helped me lose about 40 pounds. I still drank Diet sodas, but back then I was playing a lot of basketball and walking a lot. Now I'm 24 and I put all that weight back on now, going to drastic measures this time to take it off. Eating mostly fruits and veggies, fish as my only source of meat, and drinking about 3 liters - 1 full gallon of water per day.
I have to take a final credit hour to graduate this spring, so I'm taking a PE spinning class. It's actually really fun, and I work out at 80-90% of my max heart rate for much of the class. The leader said that she has had people drop 10% of their body weight quite regularly over the course of the class, so I feel really motivated right now. I've been staying away from processed foods and refined sugar. For me, if I have even one taste of a pastry, sugary muffin, snack cake or high-fat cookie, I'm doomed. It's almost like being an alcoholic - I just have to stay away from those foods. It's not hard to resist them, but if I decided to give in, I know I'd fall off the wagon. I've been eating a LOT of fruit. I bought jarred grapefruit (with no added sugar or preservatives) and it's been the greatest breakfast ever (cup of grapefruit sections with a couple pieces of toast with NSA grape jam). Lots of sauteed vegetables, beans, salads, tofu and tempeh. I also snack on almonds throughout the day (I try to eat plain, but I love the jalepeno smokehouse flavor). I snack on tomatoes too...it's surprising how satisfying a medium-sized tomato is. So far progress is looking good. Once I get in a healthy food-groove I usually stick to it pretty well. So this is just the beginning. I'm already feeling better. I've got ~30-35 pounds to go, and would like to reach my goal sometime this summer.
well i run do the spint/walks around the track for about 5 laps (meaning i walk the short parts and run the long ones). Then I lift weights (sometimes free weights, sometimes machines), then I do a little bit of abs stuff on the mat, and then I finish with 10 mins on the elliptical (maybe longer if something is on tv). Diet is what I need to improve. mainly when im at school, its basically subway- veggie subs only- i recently have started cutting out the cheese and mayo and stuff. When im at home, theres a lot of variety...
Do they have the Veggie Max subs at the UH Subway? Those are so damn good... I only have 5 meals/week at the residence halls, but man I love that so-called "fat-free" honey dijon they have at the salad bar. Skeptical that it's fat free, but I would still eat it every day. The other day I got their oil-soaked squash and zucchini sautee and put it on a baked potato. Surprisingly good. If the OB only had veggie burgers...
They got em at the UH subway, and the subway on scott street. Also, I used to be able to get the veggie burgers at the OB when I requested them from the cook. The quietly groaned and rolled their eyes, but most of the time, I got my wish.
i just found my records from 2 years ago, the last time i worked out for an extended period. i recorded 30 weeks and got down to 170 lbs and 9% bf. it's only been 3 weeks so far this time, but it looks like i'm right on track. it'll be interesting to see how close i am each week to where i was 2 years ago. hopefully, my 37 year old body responds just as well as my 35 year old body did.
Wow...I might have to try that. I'm sure they still cook it on the beef grease-soaked grill of course. *sigh*
so...I got sick this week, my diet was not very stellar, and I didn't make it to the gym once due to said sickness. I still lost 3 pounds, yay. hopefully this week I'll be able to increase that a little, anywho -- grand total is minus 7 pounds. did someone delete the spreadsheet?
just noticed that too....that kinda sucks. 1/5 - 200 lbs 1/12 - 198.5 1/19 - 197 1/26 - 195 5 lbs in 3 weeks
I had a bad week because of a lot of other commitments that kept me from the gym and off my diet, but I still managed to lose 1 Pound to 218.2. Someone screwed up the spreadsheet, so there's no place to log your weight. I have a saved copy at my house, so I'll put it back up this evening.
that's the problem I see with having a fully open spreadsheet like that...some idiot is bound to mess with it. either by accident or in this case; probably intentionally. I mean otherwise how do you accidently delete every single cell except 2? very mature.
