Fitness: Weight loss group accountability

[Diamondback]

Started the week at 194.4. A little more breathing room for Turkey Day...

[Diamondback]

Coming off Thanksgiving weekend at 195.0. Was down to 193.8, so less gain than expected, probably from not having the usual binge on sugar-loaded cranberry sauce.

Still on two "double" and two "single" ten-minute-mile-with-bagdrag mornings a week, trying to ramp up more pushups and situps on the mornings I don't have those as a few more "bites out of the elephant."

[JediGuy]

How is everyone?

I have not focused on weight loss for quite a while now. But, I haven’t hit some of the performance goals I have. Thinking about either coming back to that here once I get my gym set up, or starting a new thread.

[Diamondback]

Steady in a range from a little over 185 to a little over 190 here. As long as this one's gone and lain fallow, it might be good to start "Volume Two" and post a link to it as the period at the end of this one.

[chuckman]

I lost about 20# with my cancer bullshit, but now working out pretty regularly and holding in the mid-170s. I have put on a bit of size/mass from workouts and gained no fat, so I am pleased.

Will Brink has helped me out with some nutrition advice, and a couple others here have helped me out with some workout planning.

My diet is 'meh', need to tighten it up re: beer and ice cream.

[Gregory234]

Eat clean and weight will go

I agree that a healthy diet is important, but it is not enough for weight loss, especially if you need to lose a lot of weight. When I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, I needed to lose about 60 lbs. Of course, I was on meds that helped me (I'm happy that I read about Victoza online and talked to my doctor), but still, I had to change my diet completely and do exercises every day. But what worked the best for me was intermittent fasting.

[Diamondback]

Looks like a steady "new normal" for me over the past few years since this thread was active is around 180-185. Still a bit chunky, but a darn sight better than when I started into this game at 240 where you could have torn me down into raw biomass and made TWO Civil War-era horse cavalrymen at the same height out of it. (History lesson: pony soldiers could be no taller than 5'6"--my height--and weigh no more than 120lb.) I'd LIKE to get to 165-170, but I figure I need to adjust to where I am and get acclimated so the improvement sticks before the next phase.