Lose Weight Like a Guy (Self Article)

TamTastic
TamTastic Posts: 19,224 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey guys! I'm not sure if this has been posted. If so..SORRY! lol....but I read it this weekend and it's basically what I did to lose the weight I did and what I continue to do to maintain. I didn't realize I was losing weight like a "guy"...but as I read it I just realized I did almost everything it states to do. Intervals/sweating at the gym, not worrying about dinner (learning to look at food as fuel), Not over thinking it (just taking it a day at a time and slowly getting used to one thing at a time without burning out, eating real food, etc.

I continue to do it. I sweat hard, eat plenty, don't stress about food. When you take the pressure off...and allow yourself something once in awhile (earning it via exercise or just being sensible the rest of the time) then you don't crave it.

Of course everyone has to get to that point. The point that they have confidence in themselves! :)

Anyway, here is the article. I highly recommend it. :)
http://www.self.com/fitness/workouts/2010/11/lose-weight-like-a-guy

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  • Fesse
    Fesse Posts: 611
    Congratulations on your success!
  • goldspaula
    goldspaula Posts: 161
    Wow, I am so impressed!!! I'm doing the same thing now too, and this is the first time I have seen success in years! I love the gym! Thanks for sharing this!
  • soze
    soze Posts: 604 Member
    I see so many women who don't want to sweat. I wonder if they know it's good for them.
  • ltlhmom
    ltlhmom Posts: 1,202 Member
    Congrats on you weight lose so far! Thanks for sharing the article!
  • keith0373
    keith0373 Posts: 2,154 Member
    It worked for me. I used the site to monitor, but never limited myself on what I ate. I just did the exercise to make up for it. My wife did the same thing. We have both been holding within plus or minus 2 lbs of our origonal goal weights for 4 months now. The only real change in our diet is less bread.
  • phitme
    phitme Posts: 124
    Thanks for sharing that! As women, we sure do tend to over think things that is for sure.
  • abyt42
    abyt42 Posts: 1,358 Member
    I'm doing better this time around: I'm learning to see shirt-drenching sweat as a goal rather than as a source of embarrassment...
  • Sweet13_Princess
    Sweet13_Princess Posts: 1,207 Member
    I just love Self magazine. They always have great articles. I also subscribe to Shape and Fitness, but Self is definately the best in my book.

    Shannon
  • rjlam
    rjlam Posts: 149
    This is an amazing article. Will try this way of thinking. Thanks for the tip
  • TamTastic
    TamTastic Posts: 19,224 Member
    You're welcome guys! It is interesting to think about and it does make a lot of sense. I met my goal weight in January of 2009. I kept myself on track through a pregnancy and after and continue to stay on track. Women definitely overthink things and the biggest thing that helped me was not putting so much pressure on myself to know how to do everything right away. I slowly learned and adjusted. If you try to do everything at once, you burn out. It's just too much!

    And I sweat hard!!! I know some go to the gym to socialize. Not me. I go, and sweat! hehe!

    Good luck!!! :)
  • Positively_Me
    Positively_Me Posts: 1,499 Member
    Thanks Tam-Tastic for this great article. Congrats on your weight loss and keep it off...job well done girl!!!!!
  • soze
    soze Posts: 604 Member
    You're welcome guys! It is interesting to think about and it does make a lot of sense. I met my goal weight in January of 2009. I kept myself on track through a pregnancy and after and continue to stay on track. Women definitely overthink things and the biggest thing that helped me was not putting so much pressure on myself to know how to do everything right away. I slowly learned and adjusted. If you try to do everything at once, you burn out. It's just too much!

    And I sweat hard!!! I know some go to the gym to socialize. Not me. I go, and sweat! hehe!

    Good luck!!! :)

    Well Duh! Guys always make sense. LOL. Only kidding. As a guy, I started wondering, are we really that simple. LOL

    My ex-wife would get up in the morning and recite the 20 steps she needed to complete to go to work. I thought to myself, what is up with that! I just grab my keys; where are they, my billfold; where did I sit that last night, and my cell; honey call my cell. Then I'm off to work. Just plain simple.
  • Mamakatspokane
    Mamakatspokane Posts: 3,098 Member
    Saving for later, THANKS
  • alantin
    alantin Posts: 621 Member
    lol
    Sound pretty much like what I've been doing all along! But then, I am a guy! :laugh:
    Sweat is for the gym, not the dinner table!

    Bump for later! :flowerforyou:
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