Fitness: Weight loss group accountability

[KayBur]

I’ve gained 10lbs a year for the last 4 years. I started pretty skinny. Now I’m...not.

I really need to stop eating fried chicken at every single meal and get my shit under control. I’m not 20 anymore

You really just need to control your diet. Do not overeat, try to limit the use of harmful foods and then your weight will return to normal. But if you want to improve your form, then you need strength training.

[vandal5]

Still 178 today.



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[Diamondback]

Up to 194... which doesn't make sense with me being back to chicken filets and salads, and reduced calorie intake.

[vandal5]

Some progress. 175

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[Red*Lion]

Up to 194... which doesn't make sense with me being back to chicken filets and salads, and reduced calorie intake.

Maybe you have reached a plateau so to speak and need to change things up. What kind of exercise do you do?

[Diamondback]

Maybe you have reached a plateau so to speak and need to change things up. What kind of exercise do you do?

I grind out six 10-minute miles a week with a fairly heavy go-bag load, plus having to push 400# of wheelchair-bound parent and gear whenever my mother deigns to get out of bed and venture outside the apartment for things like doctor's appointments. I *was* down to 185 which was where I plateaued, then I backed off a little to build some winter insulation.

As long as I'm below 200 I'm "stable," even if it's not exactly the 170-180 I'm aiming for. Considering that I dropped fifty pounds in the year before my 40th birthday... all things considered I could certainly be in a better position but it would be very easy to be in a far worse one.

Edit: Last week was 195.2, next update tomorrow morning.

[Diamondback]

194.2, starting to turn back in the right direction.

[Red*Lion]

Good for you for sticking with it. I know that each of us is different, but I find walking briskly for an hour every other day, or the days that I do not jog, plus following a Keto diet helps me drop pounds quickly and keep them off. Of course I do not eat any sweets and do not drink as well.

[Diamondback]

Trust me, few things in my life have ever tasted so good as the Olive Garden lasagna I had on my 40th birthday as my reward for getting under 200 and staying there--a year in keto took almost 20 years off my waistline, and while I have more aches and pains now than then I'm also faster and more agile than I was at half my age.

[Red*Lion]

Trust me, few things in my life have ever tasted so good as the Olive Garden lasagna I had on my 40th birthday as my reward for getting under 200 and staying there--a year in keto took almost 20 years off my waistline, and while I have more aches and pains now than then I'm also faster and more agile than I was at half my age.

I turned 50 in January and I am almost in the same shape that I was in my early 30's. Just harder getting there and staying there with age. I have learned to be used to being hungry through out the day without giving into temptation to eat more than I should.