****Official Weight Loss and Exercise Thread****

[luv]

I know that TinyE has the CP Weight Loss Challenge thread, but this is a new beginning for me. No losing weight for prizes, as that motivation ended on July 1st. This time I'm doing it for me. My goal is 75 lbs. Slow and steady wins the race. This time, the prize will be a whole new me.

Anyone else still battling the bulge? Here, hopefully, you can find more encouragement and tips on diet and exercise. Feel free to talk about discouragements, setbacks, frustrations, etc as well. We're here to help...at least I am.

[luv]

Originally Posted by Silock

Drink more water. Avoid salt. Drinking water may sound counterintuitive, but it will help flush the sodium out of your body that's making you retain water.

Well, I'm already avoiding salt. Not sure why, but drinking enough water everyday is the hardest adjustment for me. I'm definitely trying though.

[Silock]

Take a look at what prepackaged foods you may be eating might have as far as sodium content goes. That might have a part to play.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by luv

Well, I'm already avoiding salt. Not sure why, but drinking enough water everyday is the hardest adjustment for me. I'm definitely trying though.

"Trying" is a word you need to remove from your vocabulary. You either do something or you don't. There's not really a middle ground there.

I'm saying this as somebody who's done a lot of "trying" in his time, and will probably be "trying" to do some things until the day he dies, and let me tell you, when people say they're "trying" to do something, it actually means that there's something they'd kinda, sorta, maybe like to do, but deep down it's really not important enough yet that it'll bother them if they don't. It's a cop-out, it's a pre-emptive excuse (I know I failed, but I tried!), and until they decide to move from "try" to "do" odds are they aren't going to get where they want to be.

When something is really, really important to you, you stop trying, and you find a way to get it done...

[kcxiv]

Salts a killer. Doc was giving me waterpills, but they started making me all ****ing light headed and shit. Told me to stopthem for a while.

Salt is the real killer, i completely avoid adding salt in my life. Cup o Noodles and Ramen have TONS of salt in it. Lean beef, Chicken, Fish with veggies and 1-2 peices of whole grain bread is going to be my life now.

Basically my whole ****ing food culture is being thrown out except for my hot sauce. I can have as much of it as i want .lol

[Silock]

Exercise helps flush out excess salt. Just sayin'.

[johnjoshuavillamor]

Really, well this is beautiful. I've been looking at this kind of tip weight loss in long time. Then I found this thread this is big help for those who are looking at some tips of weight loss and even me.

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[El Jefe]

Im jumping into this thread really late, but I have been up and down in weight my whole life. In high school they wanted me around 280-290 for football, I was our starting LT for our team. Then in basketball they wanted me around 230, so I have been up and down for sports. I broke and dislocated my ankle my sophmore year in football, and decided to focus on hoops only, and I went from 290 to 215. Well I got back up in weight after school, my metabolism is killer slow, and if I don't remain active I can gain weight very easily. Anyways I started 3months ago at 6'6 (shade under) and 299lbs, and today weigh 245. No strict limitations, I just literally cut everything I ate by 3/4

[SenselessChiefsFan]

Originally Posted by kcchiefsfanGoLJ

Im jumping into this thread really late, but I have been up and down in weight my whole life. In high school they wanted me around 280-290 for football, I was our starting LT for our team. Then in basketball they wanted me around 230, so I have been up and down for sports. I broke and dislocated my ankle my sophmore year in football, and decided to focus on hoops only, and I went from 290 to 215. Well I got back up in weight after school, my metabolism is killer slow, and if I don't remain active I can gain weight very easily. Anyways I started 3months ago at 6'6 (shade under) and 299lbs, and today weigh 245. No strict limitations, I just literally cut everything I ate by 3/4

If a person makes any effort at all, they can change. If they work really hard, they can make an incredible change.

[Hammock Parties]

Today's zany gym tunes: Weird Al - Lasagna, Monty Python - Novel Writing Live From Wessex, Raiders of the Lost Ark - Desert Chase, Rocky II, 101, Disney - We Are Siamese If You Please.

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by Silock

See, now you've got me curious. Obviously, everyone should be cardiovascularly fit, but that can be accomplished without specifically training for cardio. So I'm curious as to why you feel this way.

I wanted to get back to you on this but I had to leave right after I noticed it. I have always been an athlete as well as running health clubs and training people my entire adult life until 12 years ago. I have been in all kinds of different shape but what I noticed with myself was that I felt my best and most athletic when cardio was a big part of my program. To be specific when I lifted, did cardio and jiu-jitsu I felt awesome. I have never felt better than that. If I had to do it all over again I would have backed off of some of the really heavy lifting and went a little lighter. I would also maintained heavy cardio and put a litle more emphasis on stretching. Although I was limber I eas never as limber as I would have liked. This being said nobody could have told me to back off the really heavy lifting as a kid. I would have said **** getting older I want to be as big as possible now. I will say this though. I did myself right by staying off barbell benches and working with dumbbells.

I don't know if you know this but I had major shoulder surgery awhile back. I am going to try one last time to go back to jiu-jitsu after the first of the year. Jiu-jitsu, light lifting, yoga and cardio. If I had done light heavy to heavy instead of real heavy I would still be competing. Just saying.

Enough of my rant. BTW, great to see you really getting into your program, it's obvious that you are really doing your due diligence. If you ever want to try something really challenging try cross-fit sometime. Some of the athletes that is developing are amazing.

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by Ecto-I

This is a monster routine. If you haven't been lifting, this will immobilize you for a couple of weeks. Also, if the goal is to get bigger, with a routine like this, you'd better make sure you eat because these look like some brutal wkout sessions! I might suggest taking a couple of weeks to work up to this.

Eat good and you will put on muscle fast with this. Yes you should work up to the full program starting with less sets. Thanks for pointing that out I was in a hurry when I posted it.

[keg in kc]

I think I've learned my lesson about stretching finally. Now that all the back and knee problems have abated, I got the running going again yesterday and spent a good 10 minutes stretching before and after, which was a first for me. I hated every second of it and I was bored out of my mind, but I'm not the least bit sore today.

My problem is going to be what it's always been: trying to do too much too soon. So I've gone all the way back to week 1 of my jogging program, like I'm starting over.

Because reality is that I am...

Which ****ing sucks. But what can you do.

[Silock]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

I did myself right by staying off barbell benches and working with dumbbells.

I never use the barbell, except when I'm doing Crossfit stuff.

If you ever want to try something really challenging try cross-fit sometime. Some of the athletes that is developing are amazing.

I actually do some Crossfit stuff a couple of times per month in between lifting and soccer. It's a nice change of pace for sure.

I'd do it more often but 1) my gym isn't a Crossfit gym and doesn't always have the necessary equipment for the WODs and 2) most of it incorporates too much leg training for me right now. I can't play soccer 4 times a week AND train legs. It's just too much. It's nice every one in a while.

[Silock]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I think I've learned my lesson about stretching finally. Now that all the back and knee problems have abated, I got the running going again yesterday and spent a good 10 minutes stretching before and after, which was a first for me. I hated every second of it and I was bored out of my mind, but I'm not the least bit sore today.

My problem is going to be what it's always been: trying to do too much too soon. So I've gone all the way back to week 1 of my jogging program, like I'm starting over.

Because reality is that I am...

Which ****ing sucks. But what can you do.

http://fitnessblackbook.com/fitness-...ave-good-news/

BTW, soreness doesn't have much to do with stretching unless you injure yourself in some way.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Silock

http://fitnessblackbook.com/fitness-...ave-good-news/

BTW, soreness doesn't have much to do with stretching unless you injure yourself in some way.

I know. Soreness was never a problem. I'm stretching now because I injured myself twice this year in my effort to get myself back into shape after 20 years of chairmaster workouts and 12 ounce curls, once in late August and then again in early November. Both I believe the result of overdoing it. So I'm doing everything I can to try and prevent a repeat of that, both pacing myself in terms of getting the program going again and stretching for the first time. Mainly because I'm old and want to maintain my flexibility, but partly just to try it, because I never have before.

My new stretching regimen involves a single 30-second stretch for each or a dozen or so muscle groups, so that would actually match the findings outlined in your link.