jimshine Member

Die Hard

I used to drink. A lot. An average night was 18-24 beers, 3-4 times a week! I put on a ton of weight. Over the past 2 months I stepped off the wagon. I drank 8-12 beers these nights, had moonshine one night. I counted the calories of the beer. It totally slowed down my progress. I wont touch it now because of that.

I walk 2.5-3 miles a night so I can have some extra calories to play with. I use an app that uses GPS to determine my distance and speed. It also tells me how many calories I burned. The problem with the calculator here is it determines a rough estimate of what you burned based on the average speed you were walking. No two…

It wouldn't work for someone like me. I carry very little extra weight from the waist down.

I have sleep issues. A few months ago I started walking a couple miles before bed and so far it has been helping me get great sleep.

Just run the beard trimmer through it once in a while. Neatens things up.

I also want to mention..if you ever feel like you are at a good place in your recovery and doctors are doing unnecessary surgeries, don't be afraid to walk away. My injuries were extensive and required numerous followup surgeries, each with a long recovery span that led to plans for more surgeries. I had to put a stop to…

I once completely broke both ankles at the same time! There is a ton of fixation hardware in there. Now that I am losing weight, I can see some of it as the fat used to hide it all.

I tip fair, and frequently overtip and frequent the same dozen places. 9 times out of 10 the server knows me, or another server gives them a heads up. I get great service everywhere I go. Another thing I do that saves me some money. I always figure a tip is 20% as a base, and usually add to that. Inform the server after…

I have met numerous "celebrities". One friend I will mention because he is kind of related to the subject of this forum. Subway Jared is a friend of mine. He is a super great guy and we have had some memorable moments in the past. He really thinks we look like brothers. I am kind of holding off on seeing him until I lose…

Just keep going. You will likely have a really awesome week down the road that makes up for it. I look at it by months. Even though I have stalled a few times, it all managed to work its way out in the long run. So just keep an eye on the long term and not week by week.

At first I was losing faster, lately I have been losing slower. But if you look at it overall, not broken down into weeks, it has been fairly accurate. I am in a slow loss mode right now (in my last 25 to goal), so it may be a month or so longer if I stay at this pace, but the loss may pick up and surprise me. It is hard…

The only thing I can add to this is that I found after getting rid of sweet drinks (real sugar or fake) my pallet changed drastically. There are foods I once could not stomach that I like now (mostly green vegetables). I also do not crave salty contrasts to go with food paired with it (like fries or chips) .

I am realizing that I have to go a little further than planned to achieve what I want. My initial goal was 200 pounds, and I am about 27 pounds away. I am going to go an extra 10 and see where that takes me. Right now things seem to be slowing down, but if I look at things by months, I am still losing about the same. It…

Great job!

Do we really have to watch the same 5 buildings blow up from a dozen different angles? The militants must be zombies because he kills the same dozen over and over again.

It depends if I have gone yet that day. If its golden, I am holdin'.

I allow them once a week. But I only allow myself to take from my deficit and not exceed what maintenance would be at this weight. This way I am only delaying loss of what I have, not adding fat.

Switching to non-sweet drinks changed my pallet. I found I liked my food saltier to enhance the sweetness as well.

I found the same problem with shirts at Casual Male XL.

RoboCop should have been left with the first. The second was just "ok", third was a turd. Ghostbusters 2 sucked. Exceptions to the rule: Lethal Weapon 2 was as good, if not better than the first. 3 was okay. Evil Dead 2 was good. It was almost like a sort of reboot. I liked aspects of it more than the first. Evil Dead 3:…

I discovered I had a very warped sense of calorie estimation. I was flat out ignorant of what most foods contained. Even then you don't realize how quickly they add up.

Take a look at my pics. There are 3 face pics, newest to oldest (last week to February). My face is becoming more round as it was kind of rectangular. Right away I developed a wrinkle on my chin. The extra skin has made me sort of jowly, but it is tightening up.

I have worn Levi's my whole life. In the 90's, they started changing things. Most notably is the larger diameter of the pant legs. I now only buy "vintage" Levi's, usually Orange tabs as they fit better. A nice aspect of this way of buying is most seller measure the waist rather than list what they were sold as. Usually…

I think sometimes we are basically swapping fat for muscle. I am in a phase right now after I started walking a few miles a day, my weight hasn't been dropping like it was. However, my clothes continue to get looser. I see better muscle definition in my legs too.

It sounds like your bathroom scale is off 5 pounds. You should probably just use the data given by one scale. Even if it is off 5 pounds, the loss would still be shown even though it is off. you just will have to factor it into things when getting toward your final goal.

I tend to eat chicken with my salad. So I have really grown to enjoy using balsamic vinegar.

I take my walks between 1-3 am. I don't have to worry about traffic and no sun to burn the hell out of me. It helps me sleep too.

Lasik

Others and myself have just really started to notice. The only real giveaway I had was my original belt became too big and I had to start making notches. I bought another belt where it fit me on the largest notch and I started moving down that one as well. Then I tried on a shirt that shrank and became tight, now it is…