ragedracer1977 Member

Hahaha! AWESOME! I went swimming this afternoon. Took my shirt off and my wife (of ELEVEN years!) looks at me and says "What's that on your stomach?"!!!

It's possible you're adding muscle to replace fat.

Ok, not going to lie. I could only do 200. In reality, I did about 180 before my muscle control about went to crap, but I toughed out another 20. After calorie count: 3451. Net burn of 68 calories in about 5 minutes.

IN! Pre jump calorie burn (according to bodymedia fit) : 3383. Let's see what it says after the jumping jacks!

So what does your body burn for fuel if you're not burning fat and working out and building muscle? I'm asking because this is actually a concern for me. For today, I ate about 1500 cals, but will end up with about a 2000 calorie deficit. Should I be eating another 1000 calories? Honestly, I don't know that I want to. I…

How is it possible to eat 1200 calories and NOT lose weight if your BMR is over 1200 calories? I keep reading about plateaus, but are we talking a 3 day plateau? A year plateau? What? If counting calories and eating below your BMR equals weight loss, how is it possible to NOT lose weight if you're burning more than you…

Gotcha! Thanks!

I just thought of something. Is it possibly because of time? Maybe MFP runs 12:00am to 11:59 pm and I sync my Bodymedia device around 7pm? In other words, body media is telling me what I did from midnight to 7pm, while MFP is 'thinking' the whole day? I have no doubt I'll burn another 5-600 calories before midnight tonight.

Well, I made them smaller, but man, they're really small. =( If you want to see them full size, right click on the image, click open in new tab, when it opens, look at the URL at the top. See the "th_" before the image name? Delete that and hit enter. It will re-open full size.

Did one of you include exercise in your daily goals?

Hi! :drinker:

Just keep at it! You know you can do it, you've done it before. Watch what you eat, put the baby in the stroller and go walk the mall for an hour. Everything adds up!

I am what I am. =) Not ashamed that I'm fat, especially not here. Just not happy with it. No reason to be. :tongue:

My wife just smiles. She swears up and down she likes me big, but somehow I don't think she'll complain when I'm not. In response to the teasing, here's something one of my friends said to me about that... "Every influence in our society is geared toward encouraging you to be a fat slob. If you want to change, accept that…

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And it just dawned on me the board is cutting off half of the pictures. Any ideas how to fix that?

OK OK, here's one with my face. And lunch. All in one pic. =)

Got a ton of friend requests! Thanks! Guess I'm not the only guy. Going to be looking to all of you for motivation from time to time! Thanks!

Phew! This is what I posted on another forum I'm a member of a little while back and it holds true today... I'm in reasonable shape, stamina wise, but I've got about 70lbs I'd really like to get rid of. I walk 5-10 miles most weekends in the desert chasing small game. I don't have a problem hiking, etc. I can play a 30…