Damn, Buck. That really sucks, man. Heal up!

Also, WHY AM I NOT ON THE LIST AT THE TOP!?!?!

Dam Buck! Sorry this had to happen & ruin an other wise great day of BB for you.
That hurts to look at. I cant even imagine what it feels like.

Crap, sorry, hard to keep up. What is your starting weight?

Ehh, it's painful now, but it's not that bad. It was a real bitch when it first happened. I was just laying on the court waiting for the ****ing pain to go away but it wouldn't fade at all. When I was in the car on the way to the Urgent Care, I knew since the pain wasn't going away at all that it was probably broken.

I've sprained many ankles, and the pain subsides a little as time goes on...this one got worse.

Jesus Buck, that looks horrible. Heal up man and good luck.

Well, I don't know now! Let's go with 187.

Gotdamn, that looks horrible.

The Biggest Loser started tonight. It's really inspiring.

I used to weigh everyday, but I actually found it to be more frustrating. I weigh once per week.

Hey Buck, please add me to the OP.

I also always found it to be counter-productive. There's something more psychologically satisfying (for me) about losing a pound or two in a week than there is watching myself fluctuate up and down on a daily basis for seven days. It's easier to reach a weekly goal than a daily one, too. It just seemed to create more stress.

I just weigh if I remember in the morning. Its not really at the top of my mind so I usually end up weighing myself about 3 times a week.

Yep.

Despite the broken ankle, I will say that basketball is way more fun at 200 lbs compared to 300 plus. I'm going to invest in a good pair of ankle supporting basketball shoes and basketball it's going to be my go to exercise.

Buck, how did you break your ankle?

Coming down with a rebound in basketball.

Ouch

I have a stomach virus. ****. Should be good for a few pounds of weight loss though, hah

Lol. I'm thinking the same thing is gonna happen with me. No appetite on the drugs.

damn Buck, that sucks bro =(

I'm sorta freaking out because people are saying this is an 8 week injury. **** that's a long time.

Maybe you'll go "Rookie of the Year" and your ankle will develop super strength.

In at 258 this morning, going somewhere tropical this summer, need to go from "ladies and kids running away" to "big, but not scary"

Prognosis: Out 6-8 Weeks. This is going to be awful. I'm going to lose all my muscles :(

980

209.0. Not a bad first week. I'll be lucky to lose 5 pounds in a month from this point on.

Well, I sucked balls last year.....but what the hell, need to give losing weight another shot, so count me in.

281 lbs.

Thanks!

We are suppose to post our new weight weekly?

Forgot to come back to post my weight.

Started at 256.

Holy ****, that looks painful!

You bitch.

However often you'd like. We usually do it once a month on the first.

Well, the good news is I lost four pounds last week.

The bad news is it was because I had the flu for the last six days.

Bleh

Same routine with me. I kicked off my diet with pissing out my ass and puking my guts out for the first 2 days. Good way to get things back on track I guess.

Run six miles. If you can run six, you have a half marathon in you. A lot of people can never get to six. That seems to be the magic number.

I had the respiratory-type flu so only puked once and I think it more from the gunk draining in my throat. Mostly had a high fever and didn't feel like eating or drinking anything. I think the weight lost was primarily from being dehydrated so probably won't last as I feel better and rehydrate. :(

That makes me feel good. I got up to 8 before I decided to **** it off. I almost insulted myself there. The first step to becoming a better person is forgiving past mistakes and growing from them. Today, I exercise. Tomorrow, I exercise more. Soon enough, I will be running 8 miles again. Slowly, but I will run them all and not walk one step. Then, I will complete a half marathon. I will try to do it before the end of the year. In the process, I will need to lose 150-200lbs. If you've never been here, God bless you. You just can't understand it. The body's desire to wear food instead of process it...

how many minutes per mile should I average with 6 miles? Is 10 good?

And just think, once you reach your goal, you can change your name to Mr. Hardnuts!

Who cares? You can always build speed. Personally, I focused on the endurance first. Now, I'm much, much heavier than you, and was also at the time. I weighed 270 when I was running 8 miles. My first 5k I ran a 12:30 minute mile. By the time I was running 8 miles I cut it down to about 11 minutes. And that was at 270. Focus on the endurance, and challenge the **** out of yourself and the speed will come.

I don't normally advocate taking fitness advice from a 400lbs man, but I have some experience in this.

ROFL That's what Clay used to call me when I did it the first time. Rep.

right now I am doing intervals and I do a little less than 10 minutes per mile for 3 miles. At this point my routine is getting a little bit easy. I'm thinking of either increasing speed and sticking with 30 minutes of cardio or maybe adding 2-4 more intervals into my routine.

Crap, that means in some things, Clay and I have a similar thought process. I should just kill myself now.

Never let it get easy. That's the best advice anyone can give you when it comes to running, or really fitness of any kind. Constantly feel like death warmed over when you're done, and you will continue to improve at satisfactory rates.

Go walk 3 miles with a 30 lb kettlebell in each hand.

Whether it's faster, longer, or both, always be ready to die when you step off. That's what I did, and it worked wonders for my endurance and my speed. It also helped the **** out of my self image. May not be an issue for you, but you can never feel too good about yourself and your accomplishments.

Down two pounds since original weigh in.

I intend on weighing myself once a week.

ROFL Guaranteed you're not the first to say this...

Hootie, I'd say jump it up to 45 minutes of cardio. That's a good start. And then increase it 5 minutes every week or two. The kettleballs are a good idea as well. Strength building is a good thing.

Agreed.

I'll have to start pushing myself more. This last week felt like a breeze compared to when I started a month ago, and I've been gradually increasing speed. (From 7.0 to 7.7).

I think I'll start with 7.7 and get up to 8.0 and add an extra interval and see how I feel today.

I'll be working up to 6 miles, that is my goal simply due to time. I can get to a 8 minute mile, so 6 miles with warm up and cool down is about 1 hour. I like your idea of pushing yourself faster though, as last time I was fit I was going a little faster, but never pushed to get down to something like a 7 minute mile. Let's do this Mr. Floppynuts.

I'm far from an expert, but I can tell you what works for me.

When I run, I set a pace in my mind that I know I can keep. I don't try to run my absolute fastest, at least not very often. For me, trying to get my best time is like maxing out on the bench press. There is a place for it, but not every time.

I don't concern myself with my average time. I want to set myself on cruise control so that every mile is run at the same speed. (If I'm running six miles, my fastest and slowest WILL BE within fifteen seconds of each other.) If that means my fastest time for six miles averages ten minutes per mile, I may run at a 10:15 pace just to make sure that my last mile is the same speed as my first mile.

While I can't say what a good pace is for anyone else, I can pass along something that happened to me when I started running (just last spring). I was running with another beginner, and I am a better athlete than my running partner, so I had to adjust my pace a bit so I didn't get way ahead. After a while, I started having knee problems. This kept up until I ran with an experienced runner who watched me run for a few miles and then said "keep up" before taking off. I had to damned near sprint for about a half mile to keep up, but my knee pain went away.

Afterwards, he told me that I had been running too slow (about a 10:15 pace iirc), and that I was essentially running with the gas and brakes on at the same time. Running with a slower partner had caused me to slow myself down every step and was exerting pressure on my knees. Speeding up to a 9:00 pace was much easier on my body and wasn't much harder for my lungs.

My advice would be to find a pace that works for you and let yourself naturally get faster. If you run six miles at a ten minute pace and feel like you have energy left at the end, try 9:45. Just make sure that you know your marks ahead of time. By that, I mean that you should be at 2:26 after a quarter mile, 4:52 after a half mile, 39:00 after 4 miles, etc. Make a game of it.

I like to run outside, and I know every inch of the path I run most often. I know the fence post I need to hit at 2:30 if I want to run a pace of 8:45. I know the scratch in the pavement at 27:30. I always thought I was weird that way, but I've talked to several runners who are the exact same way.

In the end, it's really about what keeps you going. From a results standpoint the distance matters WAY more than the speed.

Never looked at or posted in this thread.

Bet the wife for a big screen and a piece of furniture in the BR that I'd lose 35 lbs in 3 weeks.

FAHK ME.

I'm not 16 and in wrestling shape.

This should be fun...

Eventually, you'll hit a point where that is virtually impossible. Generally, that's about the time you can run 6+ miles without walking. If you find your pace, you'll get to six...seven...eight...and feel like you can just keep going forever...and that's because you can. You don't have to feel like trash afterwards in order to have a great workout, IMO.

Hope you're 300+ if you're going to do that.

I'm down 3 lbs to 226. I've been spinning at the gym, I'm ready for Daylight Savings time and warm weather so I can start riding outside.

Very true on all counts. Pacing is the key with running. The first few months, when I had trouble doing 2 miles at a time, every run was death and I felt totally gassed after every run.

Now I can hit a 9 minute per mile pace and run pretty much forever. I ran my first 5k in September of last year and I'm signed up for a half marathon already this year. Being 50 pounds lighter than I was last year definitely helps this, but dogged persistence is the key to getting used to running distances.

The key for speed, once you're acclimated to running, is to integrate speed workouts into your running/workout regimen. I power walk once a week and also try to swim once a week to change up the same old, same old routine, along with some speed/interval routines.

Your times will get better, but it's like losing weight; just fight through the plateaus.

Went to the doctor yesterday. I weighed one pound less than I did on my original weigh in. And that was fully clothed including tennis shoes.

Now, you just need to wear less and less every time you visit the doctor.

This may seem counter-productive but it's worked for me: the best way to improve my speed has always been to stop worrying about it and focus on the distance instead. Once I get to a certain point (right now I'm just under 3.5 miles, it's that time for me...) I lose my watch, and work on running a little further every day. The watch is great when I'm doing interval work, but once I finally get into long distances, it can really **** me up. Sort of the same way that getting on the scale every day can. I focus too much on what kind of time I'm running, get discouraged if I feel like I'm going slower than I want, or push too hard early and gas out late, even just stare at the watch for a half hour. Which is like torture. So I take it out of the equation. It lets me just focus on the running itself, and I can lose myself in it. Every so often I'll time the run just so I have a general idea, but it seems to help me to focus on where I'm running, and not how long I'm running.

Now, I run outdoors. Can't do that so much on a treadmill, so people's mileage will vary (I can't run on a treadmill at all; I'd rather be waterboarded). But this approach got me from @13 down to @9 last year.

3 weeks?

You already lost.

I only wear my watch to track my distance. I could care less about the speed. My goal is still to be burning calories, and I'm better off running 10 minute miles for an hour than running 8 minute miles for 40 minutes or so.

Organized races are the only time that I really track my pace/speed during the actual run.

Holy ****.

Percoset is about 1000 times better than Vicodin.

Usually a comment I'd follow with "this is going to end well."

I'd eat some prunes.

It's going great for me so far. I'm on the moooooooooooooooooooooooooooon.
I eat a lot of almonds and asparagus. Pooping is not an issue with me.

I'll get in on this action. Starting weight at 206. Hope to be down to 185 by May. The trick for me will be keeping it off when I get back down there.

Long time lurker rarely post but I would like in. Started last Wednesday at 210 and want to get down to 190. Weighed in today and down to 209. On my second week of insanity and it is tough but I like it.

Well, I weighed nude on my original weigh in. I figured clothes and tennis shoes add a few pounds.

Percoset does nothing for me. Morphine on the other hand.....holy ****.

Weighed today I'm 285.

Out me on the list. Just got some phentermine from the doctor today. Tweaking like crazy.

Can't believe this went two days.

Pics or GTFO :evil:


BTW, down 4.2lbs this morning. Weighed in at 247.4

I've heard about that shit. It makes you stop eating.

I love how this is staying alive as an annual tradition.

Count me in. 228 Lbs. Goal weight 215.

I have been going to the gym 3 days a week and just started gaining weight a bit but toning up. It's really to get my shoulder strength back up to normal after my bike crash 10 months ago.

Yeah, it's pretty intense stuff. You'll drop weight if you know what you're doing. It's a huge help. Just don't stay on them too long, not that good for you. Speeds up your heart rate. Drop the weight you're wanting to lose then get off them. Keep it off without the pills

I'm in ....258.

I keep meaning to ask you how you are after that spill...

So...how are you?

11 days in. Down 6 pounds.

Alright I'm in. 208.

I'll update the OP when I get home.

I can't weigh myself for another 6 weeks.