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I am as gringazado as they come. But my wife and kids aren't. So when we lived in some latino country, I was always thought to be some rich white Don Fulano guy from Mexico, where I learned Spanish first, and apparently still talk like.

Close friends and family, who eat with me sometimes, know. Others, no. I've done this so often over so many years (I'm 67), lose and gain, lose and gain, that it is at the same time boring and embarrassing, to me and to them.

Height: 6'0" Age/Gender: 67/male Highest Weight: 375 Current Weight: 299 Body Fat %: 42% LW: 250, age 18, football and hockey teams (235 at 23 after serious illness). Goal Weight: I'm saying 215, about half way between 250 superfit age-18 weight and 190 that BMI charts call for.

It's kind of intimidating giving advice to someone with your weight loss record. And my track record dealing with emotional overeating is mediocre at best. Seems like your post is a big restart. We both know that emotions are dealt with better if you: 1) talk to others, and 2) don't do any secret (hidden, unlogged, etc.)…

So I hear y'all. And I am sure many know more than I. I hear that my advice was wrong. OK. So what is the advice to someone who wants to tone and not bulk? Anybody want to share?

The theme through all these is protein, and more protein, to feel full longer. I make oatmeal with soymilk for protein, and/or eat eggs, and/or eat nonfat greek yogurt with nuked-from-the-freezer berries. You can even drive through McD's and get the oatmeal (w/o brown sugar) and berry-yogurt "parfait" for about 350…

Maybe I should have mentioned, for others reading this, that to tone, you want to do more, longer sets with lighter weight. To build bulk, you want to do heavier weights that you can only lift fewer times to a set, or fewer sets. Three sets of 10 each is the traditional toning prescription.

The two traditional ones, might work for you with 10 lbs, are curls for biceps (front top of arm) and kickbacks for triceps (back lower side of arm). Curls: stand, arm hanging down at side with weight. Lock elbow in place and raise weight towards shoulder. Go slow and lower more slowly than you raised. If you have two…

Good luck. I've had two that were supposed to work from inside your pocket -- totally inaccurate. And one you clipped on your pocket. It fell and broke on second day,

Fermenting fruits and grains (making beer out of it) is one of our oldest means of preserving food. Last I knew, archeologists had found beer-making stuff in the middle east 1000's of years before the Egyptians, whose commoners drank beer as the largest calorie source in their diet (built the pyramids on the stuff).

Consumer-grade scales are manufactured to have a measurement accuracy of 1% or even 2% plus or minus the actual weight. At the lower and upper ends of the scale's range, they tend to be at their least accurate. Despite all the threads on MFP fretting about going up or down a few pounds different than what was expected, the…

My doctor had me take that for a while. Long time ago. If I remember right, the theory is that your body may convert it into serotonin. Most modern prescription drugs for depression increase the availability of serotonin and/or dopamine is some way or another.

I don't where he's coming from. I am also a man. I am also married (almost 50 years). When we were very young, I fell in love with the strongest woman I knew, physically, mentally, and emotionally. That was the whole attraction. Any man whose wife is strong enough to handle what needs to be handled, is a lucky man.

If anyone still wants to talk about this, I think I should mention my son. Twelve years ago at age 30, like every other male in his family, he started to grow a lower "waist" and a bigger, lower "chest." So he started eating only one meal a day, lunch out with his buddies at work, and he has been a thin person ever since.…

For me personally, reading about intermittent fasting, and then stopping worrying that I "should" eat breakfast and that I "should" eat small meals all day, before I might get hungry and binge -- all that has been very helpful. Now I eat when I want to, which is pretty much from noon until 8-9 pm. And I am losing weight,…

I was gonna say that, since I support GLBT rights, I must be a gay backer. But you said it better.

Whoa! You got me. This borders on statistical impossibility. I'm not saying that I don't believe you. I do. But I have no explanation for what you are experiencing, because, until now I never thought such a thing could happen. I'm sure there is an explanation, I just don't know what it is.

When I get psychologically hungry (not physiologically hungry) and start seeing, smelling, cooking the food, I can get fumble-fingered and even shaking. It doesn't have to be any health danger sign, you are just "trembling with anticipation."

I weigh so much that I have a very high calorie number in the first place. I do teensy weight stuff and mild cardio things for an hour or more, like walking at a slow pace or in water, and MFP gives me so many more calories, it seems ridiculous. I believe that in theory you should eat the extra calories, but so far I don't…

I had it, lasted months and kept coming back. Honestly, I mostly didn't exercise. But later I discovered deep water aerobic classes (you wear a flotation belt) and they are wonderful!

Thanks. I did free weight work for many years, and I think my pecs, delts, and lats are bigger than most people's. I have been worried that it is gynecomastia. We'll see after I've lost more weight.

I thought night eating was always a no-no. But now I save calories (often by not eating until lunch) and eat what's left at night. And I am losing weight so far. Few calories left and craving sweets? My wife and I find that those 50-80 calorie frozen "whole fruit" bars work pretty well.

A comment, not a suggestion. My personal experience, as someone who has more than once lost and gained like you have, is that each time it takes more effort and still you lose more slowly. Radical diets are not sustainable for most people, and lead to regains. So it's: gradually keep the same calories but eat more healthy…

I think you're the best candidate for Nautilus type machines, if their pivot point, etc. are set to fit to you right the first time by someone who knows what they are doing. This protects the joints as much as possible while still allowing you to build up the leg muscles.

The old scientific consensus was that you had to eat early to get your metabolism going. Lately, I have been reading about science saying that fasting for 12-16 hours every day (that is, for most people, from evening until lunch) is healthier. Early humans ate when they could, which was not necessarily three times a day,…

I agree with Nonbonjovi. Log, log, log! I am sure you are sick of it, want to feel like it's over. The more overweight you have been, the more this is like a lifetime AA thing. A "dry alcoholic" equals a "thin overeater."

Sounds a little stuck, or even depressed, which I have a lot of experience with. Get out! Get thee to an urban place, where no car is normal, and where there are more and different kinds of jobs. When I was 18 (almost 50 years ago, I can't believe it), I left CT by thumb, up Rt 8 to the MassPike, west to San Francisco.…

IMO, some younger adult members of my family don't. For those who do: Soy almost every day, fermented is healthiest, but I usually just make oatmeal-and-blueberries with soy milk, or put it on whole grain cereals, also with blueberries. Beans! Fortunately, where we long lived, beans and tortillas came with every meal, and…

BTW, lifting without enough cardio or calorie control (me) doesn't lose you any weight. Just watch the power-lifters next Olympics.

I'm old, late 60s, lifted a lot most of my life. (Plus, if you are 200 lbs overweight, you are lifting big time every step and move you make.) IMO, your skin loses its elasticity the older you are and the longer it has been stretched out from overweight. Plus genetics and gender, my mother and sister sagged/sag, and my…