badmojo108

35, will be 36 in sept.

<== Austin

Re-examine your goals. Unless you are a boxer or wrestler, I'll bet your real goal isn't to be a certain weight, I'll bet what you really want is to be healthier and look better. Just being a certain weight doesn't determine that. I am also sure that you look and feel better now than when you started, so really on all…

I agree with kindasortache. Find new ways to deal with the triggers that cause you to want to eat. Bored: Find a hobby you enjoy, my goal in life is to never be bored so instead of eating when I am bored, I find do something. My house and car are much cleaner lately. Reward: Reward yourself with something other than food,…

Every morning after a trip the restroom, and every night before I go to bed, sometimes once or twice during the day. I record my weight on Mondays since it tends to be my heaviest day of the week. I've never been obsessive about the number on the scale and I like seeing how different types of food I eat can effect my…

My Kindle, Tablet, or DVDs no longer fit in the back pocket of my jeans. It never occured to me before that the rear pocket on jeans would get smaller as I went down in jeans size. I remember buying my tablet specifically because it would fit in my back pocket. I can hang all my sweaters/polo shirts now, where I used to…

My brother is vegan so I made these today with vegan substitutions, and he really liked them. For me my first thought was "It's good, not a buffalo wing, but good." However the more I ate the more "wing-like" they seemed and it really satisfied my wing craving. After eating the entire portion I allotted myself, I can…

That is what I always believed. http://walking.about.com/od/calorie1/a/calorieswalkrun.htm That it's roughly the same as far as calorie burn. Running is better cardio, but everyone can walk further than they can run so if you can make up the difference by walking further. Recently found a few other articles that suggest…

I am 5'10" and started trying to lose weight when I 245. It wasn't until I got down to around 200 that I started to see a difference in my body shape. Prior to that, even though weight dropped and I fit in smaller pants/shirts I was still a pear shaped guy, a smaller pear perhaps, but still a pear. Between 200 and the 175…

bump

Was 245 and 38 jeans were snug. Now 180 and fit comfortably in 32 jeans.

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Two thoughts I internalized helped me get out of my "dark place". I wasn't there solely because of my weight, but the weight was what I felt I could control and it really became the focus of my self-loathing. 1. As stupid and silly as it felt, and I felt really stupid and silly for a pretty long time. Every morning after I…

Find something to do that you enjoy that isn't eating. All to often we equate having fun to eating and over indulging, and they two shouldn't be related. Find some stuff you want to do during the week but can't because of time restraints and do those on the weekend. See a movie, go to the park, go to the zoo, play a sport,…

It is an eating protocol where you eat all of you daily calories within a 8 hour window.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/49-intermittent-fasting I use a 16:8 protocol and this is a group for intermittent fasters :) plenty of other IFers on the site.

I moved in the middle of my weight loss, so it wasn't enough for people to notice before I left (245 -> 220), but enough that anyone I have known post-move doesn't know the fat me. Overall I've lost 65lbs and have yet to hear any comments about my weight loss lol. It's a really good thing I am pretty self motivated. I will…

Blackberries are my go to when my fiber is low for the day.

I misread the original post, my apologies.

<-- Just moved to Austin

I keep two pairs of tailored jeans in my closet at all times. I found a tailor that shortens the legs while keeping the original seam, you would never be able to tell they here hemmed.

I am only concerned with protein and staying under my daily goal. I try to eat nutritionally dense food, it's not all big macs and protein shakes but I don't worry too much about my carb or fat intake.

Discipline is how I get through those days when I have no motivation. I have plan and I stick to it. Days I feel motivated it's easier and I enjoy it, days I don't have any motivation I still do it anyway, I just whine and complain more while doing it. I made myself a promise to stick with it, so I do. I don't want to let…

You can't spot reduce. The only way to get a 6 pack is to lose body fat, you can do ab exercises til you are blue in the face, only thing it will get you is bigger/stronger abs. The belly is just where most men are predisposed to storing the last bit of fat. It is usually the first place we put weigh on and the last place…

I remember reading a summary of that study, if I remember correctly: 1. Similar calories isn't identical calories. I think the difference in groups was about 5 lbs over 5 months. That's about a 116 calories a day, and it was "self-reporting". +/- 116 calories could easily be considered "similar" and still account for a 5…

Unless eating late gives you heartburn, or makes sleep difficult it doesn't matter at all when you eat.

BMI of 35 at my worst, 26 now.

I think 2 weeks isn't enough time. I have averaged a loss of 1.5 lbs a week for the last 15 weeks, that's pretty good right? I am happy with that pace. During that time frame, 3 weeks I had no change and two weeks actually I gained weight. That means a third of the time I had no loss or gained weight and that's not…

You worked out, your muscles are retaining water to make repairs.