JohnPaulEightyOne Member

Amazing work! Our stories are so similar. Here's to achieving your goal weight!

Lost 200+ lbs, got all new clothing, then a lockdown happened. By March of this year, I was back at 300 lbs. I had to fix a bad habit of not eating healthy just because I wasn't going to the gym (NSV 1) and now I'm close enough to where I was that I can fit into my newer clothing again (NSV 2).

No longer counting calories or weighing food. I eat what I need to when I'm hungry and I don't ignore small cravings that will just build up over time. The less I work out, the less hungry I am that day. If I want to cut down fat, I just pick a day or two out of the week and fast. It's the kind of freedom I never thought…

Not quite yet, but I'm getting closer

Vegetables have more nitrates than bacon, so if processed meat is raising the risk of colon cancer, something else is probably doing it. There are too many variables, especially lifestyle. People like to focus on the foods that "cause" cancer, but they forget there's a list of foods just as long (or longer) that help…

This is...I don't even know anymore. I just grab ingredients and smash them together. Breakfast is what I can eat, dinner is whatever is left over.

https://youtu.be/er416Ad3R1g

@PAPYRUS3 @Jelaan Thank you! I'm a nerd, so when I become interested in something, I go in pretty deep haha

Healthy monster

Trying a new toy. It's hard! But really fun

I think I've gotten better over the months. Sorry for such a huge post

This. Everything these days has become like some kind of religion. No need to turn nutrition into that. Do what works best for you.

The only MMO I ever REALLY played was FFXI. Played it with friends for yeeears. It was such a time sink. Just hours of looking for groups and then hours and hours of grinding EXP. I think the only reason I played so long was because it was a great way to chat with people. It was pretty much the only socializing I was able…

Hell yeah, another guitarist! I wear shirts while I play though, hahaha

That's wonderful! Give your dog a nice ear rub for me. As for me, it was this brownie I had about an hour and a half ago...

@BasedGawd412 I think I can agree with you as far as modern gaming. Tried to play the newer Assassin's Creeds and Horizon: Zero Dawn and Fallout 4... My GOD. It felt like work! There's this surge of popularity in resource gathering. Now everyone's forcing it into their games. I hate it. Give me more Castlevania and Mega…

"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made." The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe

The Atari was juuuuuust before my time. I have tried to get into it over the years, but it just doesn't stick. NES/Master System is pretty much as far back as I can go. Well, except for arcade machines.

Yeah, I was just trying something new, and it is a fun way to eat. But I don't think it's helped me much, if any. Lots of water weight that fluctuated. I lost all the weight with a balanced diet, and if I learned anything from Mr. Miyagi it's that balance is the key.

This is Kaya. She likes chairs.

Terrific smile

Just hanging out with my girl

Hella disciplined

Does the collapse of the wave function require an observer? If so, does this reality even exist without an observer to cause the wave function to collapse? Also, should I replace my current sneakers with Nike or stick with Skechers?

Set aside enough for a lifetime of healthy food for my dog and me. Then I let the SPCA and the VA know that they have some money coming

I'm not so sure I am using MFP correctly for that. I don't include the workouts into the calorie counter. And I meet with my trainer three times a week, but we never just work on a major muscle group. It's fully body, combing body groups to push or pull weight, super sets, things of that sort. The other three or four days…

Thank you so much. I was honestly dreading the idea of going into a surplus. I'll try what you've suggested here to get try and just get the fat loss out of the way.

The friends that supported me through the worst parts of my depression. I have very few of them left and they mean the world to me. I feel strange talking about the things I do, though. Not sure why. Suffice it to say that I'm a firm believer in "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Oh wow, that looks great! 😂