huntergreene71 Member

I have the same problem and have been diagnosed with low blood pressure. Way more hydration than I'm getting has been recommended as I work out for 2 hours, sweat like a fountain and its the middle of Summer, all a recipe for dehydration. I've found increasing my sodium intake helps as well. I go through 2.5 water bottles…

Don't worry too much about it. Remember how fast the first few pounds come off and you disregard it as water weight? Well, remember you can add water weight too and it'll come off just as fast again. Plus, if you've gotten into the mindset that this is a permanent change in your eating habits as opposed to a diet, I'm sure…

don't hurt me!

I know for me it was a flight and I didn't want to need a second seat, but now I just really enjoy shopping for clothes where all the normies do. And a lovely lady friend doesn't hurt either.

I got started at 400 lbs by walking 1.5 miles in 1/2 hour on my lunch break and walking my dog every evening. It began as a 30 minute dog walk but eventually I pushed the pace and distance to 1.25 hours and 3.5 miles. It wasn't until I dropped to 290 and plateaued that I joined a gym, that kickstarted things again by…

Based on how my strength training brings up my heart rate and buckets of sweat, I'd say the cardio strength selection is pretty close. about 200 cal in 35 min for a 257 lb man.

My treadmill will give me numbers in the 800's but it takes 65 minutes with 10 of it jogging. For a 257 lb man that is.

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I usually look at the total calories and divide it by "that's about how much of that I'd want to eat" without going over, say 400 calories.

I've used it when I was 300+ lbs and walking the dog as my main exercise. 1 hour and 15 minutes at 3 mph was giving me numbers around 500 to 600 calories. I also however, did see diminishing returns when I amped up the speed. Not less calories but keeping the distance the same, running for part of the circuit, thus making…

Good job, your pic makes me believe I can actually get rid of these "moobs" that my weight loss has left me with.

My routine consists of .5 to .75 hours strength training - only at weights high enough to cause discomfort on the last couple reps. Then .5 hours on the recumbent bike, then 1 hour on the treadmill at 3.3 mph with varying inclines throughout. I do skip a day of weights (legs/core, upper, skip, legs/core, upper, skip, etc),…

The entire weekend is my cheat day...kind of. The weekend is where I give myself the freedom to not monitor and calculate what I am eating, but I'm usually staying within 1000 calories of my max without counting. The healthy eating habit is pretty much ingrained now, snacking on nuts and fruit instead of chips and junk.

Super job, your plan is very much identical to mine except I started about 100 lbs higher and I'm currently where you started. It's nice that you have "before" photos, I avoided cameras like the plague. Your post gave me an extra little kick today, thanks.

Over my loss, I find that you can kickstart plateaus by doing things like drastically increasing water intake as you probably aren't getting 8 cups a day anyway. Also, oddly enough, reducing the amount of cardio in a week by a couple hours. I stalled walking 4.5 to 5 miles a day and started again by reducing that to 1.5…

I had to book a flight and didn't want to get kicked off like Kevin Smith.

Not sure about the hair loss, but mine stopped coming in grey. Also, I shoved myself off that plateau by doing the "drink 1/2 your weight in ounces of water". I always ignored the water thing but the pounds just fell off once I started that regimen.

Great pics of the progress, way to go!

OK, my first post. I find it hard to relate to an elephant heart but I can now use this list as a short term goal motivator. Next stop, elephant penis.