My Weight Fighting Journey! Will you Join?

[Endlight]

Damn. Where can I get a body like yours. My two lbs loss sounds so shitty.

Oh well, back to some crackers.

 

[assortment]

I'll take anything I can get. lol

 

[marcelloNYC]

You can do it!

Stay focused, start slow and when temptation hits.....find something to suppliment cravings like watching porn (masturbation burns calories).

Most importantly, stick to your original reason for doing this.....FOR YOURSELF!!!!!

Another thing, don't go about this in a hap-hazard way.

Write down your goals, progress and a plan to get there.

Body For life is a great Book by Bill Philips

If you need encouragement or help with writing a diet or training.

Drop me a email or IM.

Ciao,
M.

 

[190E]

So, today I went to the gym for the first time in a LONG time. It feels amazing, on bench I did three sets of seven at 195, and 4 sets of triceps at 110 lbs. I feel so refreshed. Hope you're doing well on your journey. Keep us updated, even though I dont normally post, I am still watching .

 

[Endlight]

Update after 21 days.

What the f....k! I have been a diet for 21 days. After one week, I lost three lbs, then I gained 4lbs. Now I am back at 180lbs and my goal of loosing 20lbs is still out there.

I walked at least three times a week (ten city blocks and back). And they are brisk walks. I went skiing twice the first week, four times the next, and twice last week. I hit the slopes around 10.a.m. and stop at 3.30 pm appx. I must do 20+ runs.

I stopped the three meals and started snacks four/five times a day. I made a huge soup pot consisting of mostly root vegetables and cabbage and tomatoes with nice fresh herbs. When I am hungry, I take a bowl of soup. Twice I ate a small salmon steak for protein. No bread or desert except fruits have passed these lips. Forget chocolate, ice cream or anything with sugar.

Last thursday evening, I came down with a head cold, was in bed most of the days, fridays, saturday and yesterday.( except for some JUBing). Hardly had anything to eat but two bowls of soup.

This am I check and I am still 180 LBS. Jiminy Cricket, do I have to cut off an arm or a leg to loose weight?

Hope the others above have more luck than I. I do not have a heavy boned structure, so it can't be bone weight. My little pot is the only fat I carry and its not 30 lbs, just a little rolly.

I am desperate!

 

[Invidious]

It does get easier...I started at 240-245lbs at the end of September. As of my weigh-in yesterday..I am down to 208lbs.

 

[KennyD]

I started to re watch my weight at the middle of December when I was 275 ..
By dieting and "Mostly" eating right; I am down to 255 lbs .. and still a way to go ...but I also go to the gym two -three times a week .
One thing I do is not to want to "LOSE" the weight because IF we "lose" something, we usually want to find it or get it back .. I like to say that I am shedding pounds, getting rid of the excess weight or pounds etc ...
Good Luck to You and everyone else on this weigh dropping journey ...

 

[herrmarkums]

hi everyone! ...my story of weight loss and taking it a little far.

i first started to lose weight when i was 16 and 2 months when i weighed 287 pounds, or 20 stone 7 pounds for those in the UK. it sounds awful i know but at that time i was already 6"3, yet i was very unfit.

i joined a UK weight loss meeting (or 'slimming world') at my local town community center and proceeded to lose 6 and a half stone (90 pounds) over the next 6 months.

however. i did venture into the route of simply not eating. not like skipping breakfast, or a meal a day - there were days when i would only eat an apple, other days when i would only eat a slice or 2 of chicken in front of my parents so they wouldnt ask too many questions. it got to a point where sudden movements or exerting myself made me dizzy.

i was effectively becoming an anorexic only 8 months or so after i had been hideously overweight. only my 2 closest friends started to notice which i am now hugely thankful for, as they helped me from going to a place i know i never wanted to go.

for those who might be interested my current weight is just under 15 stone, which is now slightly overweight i know, but its what i'm currently happy with.

my point of posting (a rarity i know) is to just warn those who are on diets and exercise regimes not to take it too far, like i did.

 

[Endlight]

Thanks Antidoll for your support as well as others who PM'd me.

I am not about to give up. In my family, no one is very overweight, some just a bit rolly like I. However, everyone has a hell of a time to get the decorating fat to melt.

I am hanging in there. Still 4-5 snacks instead of full meals. By the way, does anyone remember what bread looks like?


PS I have not forgotten the possiblity of removing one arm. lol

 

[rareboy]

Well done guys.

Remember, you've only been doing this for a month so far, so don't be discouraged if you haven't dropped 50 pounds yet.

Winter is also the worst time for getting more exercise, so even biking at the gym will be better than nothing.

Remmeber. No high fructose corn syrup. No msg.

 

[gabriel1]

UPDATE : I have stopped my diet temporarely... been eating just normal.. not too much but not too little...

and here is the first pictures ....

I think you look just great the way you are.

 

[kevbo]

srsly, what's so bad about how you look now?

 

[-Lance-]

I think antidoll is sexy!


I have been working out the last few months regularly. I can see results.

 

[walkabout]

UPDATE : I have stopped my diet temporarely... been eating just normal..

Its been only one month! come on..think about the way you want to look everyday when you wake up and tell yourself you are becoming thinner..its a good psychological boost!

here is something i got through a newsletter...I had been doing it subconsciously for few years and today realised what I was doing for years was actually a correct way


'For years, "positive thinking" and goal-setting were often criticized as "pollyanna" and "the law of attraction" was relegated into the category of "new age" fluff

On last week's show, panel experts Bob Proctor, John Assaraf and others who were featured in the movie 'The Secret' explained that recent breakthroughs in neuroscience along with understanding mental laws, reveals why goal setting, the "law of attraction" and "positive thinking" all work, regardless of whether you look at them from a metaphysical or a scientific perspective.

Scientists have even identified specific parts of the brain, such as the reticular activating system (RAS), which works with the visual parts of our brain to call our conscious attention to things that are important to reaching our goals and to filter out those things that are unimportant.

The RAS is activated by "programming" goals into our sub-conscious minds. Our sub concscious mind is the "power center" and THIS is the mechanism that explains why goal setting and positive thinking are now being accepted as scientific methods for change.

We are discovering that our brain is cybernetic in nature, which means that it is literally like a computer, waiting for a program to be installed.

Here's the kicker - the subconcsious is completely neutral and impartial - it will carry out any instructions you give it.

Unfortunately, many of us are still running negative programs we picked up from others as children when our non-conscious minds were totally open and impressionable, or which we developed over the years as a result of repetition of our own negative thinking.

As it turns out, our own thoughts, repeated daily, are one of the primary ways that our "mental computer" is programmed on a sub-conscious level, which is the level of beliefs, habits and automatic behavior.

To change your results, you must overwrite old negative programming and install positive new programming into your subconscious.

This can be achived through such techniques as written goal setting, positive self-talk (affirmations), and mental imagery (visualization).

In the 1970's, the Soviets and East Germans were the first to formally use structured mental rehearsal, and at that time, they dominated in several olympic sports. Today, virtually all elite athletes use visualization extensively, as we now know that the brain cannot differentiate between real practice and practice that is vividly imagined.

If you are getting more of the same negative results in your life - such as the same health problems, or the same body fat continues to return even after you lose it, then you have probably been un-consciously running old negative programs and re-inforcing them with negative thought patterns.

You can begin the positive mental reprogramming process by writing down your goals, changing your internal dialogue and taking a few minutes to relax, quiet your mind and perform a session of visualization or mental rehearsal every day (seeing yourself in your "mind's eye" not as you currently are, but as you ideally would like to be).

These methods, repeated often enough, will begin to program the non-conscious portion of the mind, which is the same part of the mind that controls your heart beat, digestion and new cell production, all on "automatic pilot."

In the last decade, neuroscientists discovered that you have the capacity to create an almost infinite number of new neural connections in your brain when you run new thought patterns.

The Old neural pathways are like grooves in a record, and if you are struggling with your health related behaviors or behaviors in any other area of your life, you have been playing the "old records" over and over again.

If you were to carve a new groove into that record, it would never play the same way again. the old pattern would weaken and the new one would take over. Brand new, positive thoughts, feelings and images begin to create new
neural patterns.

Psychologists estimate that it takes 21 to 30 days to establish a new pattern in your brain. During this time, the focus on sticking with your practice and repeating your new thought patterns is critical.

Is this easy? For most people, no it's not. In fact, controlling your thinking and keeping it constructive may be one of the most difficult challenges you have ever faced. Fortunately, writing goals and reading affirmations can help get you started.

You can take some of the pressure off yourself by simply accepting that negative thoughts and self criticisms will pop up from time to time. Just observe them, without mulling over them or adding to them, and change the polarity of the thought by quickly repeating one of your positive affirmations or by changing your mental pictures.

So is there something to this whole "positive thinking" thing?

The philosophers and theologians have been saying yes for the entire span of recorded history: "As you think, so shall you be." Variations on this proverb can be found in every spiritual and philosophical tradition.

But... if you are the left-brained, "prove-it-to-me" type, you dont have to go on faith anymore. Scientists are beginning to prove more and more convincingly that thoughts are powerful things. Even Larry King seemed impressed with what his panel of "mind mentors" had to say. In fact, I just found out that larry will be airing part two of this "Power of positive thinking" show next week.

So how soon are you going to begin your mental training right alongside your physical training? When are you going to learn how to harness this power locked up inside your mind?

Guess what? You're already using this force every day because you cannot turn it off. Whatever you are thinking and picturing in your mind repeatedly on a daily basis is on it's way to you already, so it's simply a matter of HOW you are using it, not IF you are using it.

What do you say to yourself every day? Do you say, "I am becoming leaner, healthier and more muscular every day?"... or do you say "I am a fat person - Ive tried everything, nothing ever works?"

The fact is - you can think yourself thin and healthy or you can think yourself obese and ill. Maybe not in the literal sense...but most certainly as the critical part in the chain of causation...

You see, there's a lot of talk these days in the personal improvement world about law of attraction, manifesting, intention, visualization and of course, positive thinking

Without understanding that there is an orderly, scientific basis underneath all of this, many people will simply remain skeptics, while on the opposite extreme, others may get the idea that you can sit around meditating and visualizing, then expect a mystical "law of attraction" to kick in and then "poof!" a great body materializes out of thin air... along with the perfect relationship, a nice bank account and career success.

What really happens is "Positive thinking" and related methods quite literally re-program your brain, which in turn creates new behaviors that move you physically toward whatever you have been thinking about and focusing on.

So success is achieved through positive thinking + positive doing... attraction + action. There are two sides to the coin. Without paying attention to both, you may continue to struggle... often against nothing but yourself.

If you want to transform your body or any other aspect of your life, then you have to change on the inside (the mind) first and then everything else will follow.'

 

[KennyD]

Antidoll ..You are a F'n Sexxy Hunk !! I wish I could get rid of my weight as good as you are doing .... Congrats !
Personally .. I don't think you need to get rid of any more weight ..maybe just tone up a little ...

 

[walkabout]

Who all have crashed in their journey so far and who all are near their destination? keep up guys ..it takes a lot of time and effort but its worth it ..go go

 

[quasar]

Andrew, there was no question about whether anyone of the posters should slim down.

Nor was there an issue with feeling more sexually available.

The query about anyone wanting to join, was asked in order to create an online supportive community for other members who were planning on changing their diet as part of a New Year fitness/health regime.

I fail to see why you - being the intelligent person that you are - would choose to answer a question that wasn't posed, raise an issue that is not part of the thread topic, and then be unable to see the need for some moral support.

This is the kind of post that leads other members to accuse you of being a troll and derailing threads.

Please, either stay on topic, or don't post!