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Anybody Up For a Weight Loss Challenge?
Wrangler
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I've been adding on the weight, so I'm at the point that I need to do something. I figure misery loves company, so why not a weight loss challenge. Just for bragging rights. Will be on the honor system. We can post periodic updates of what we are doing and how we are doing. Basically, an online support group for old fat guys that like guns.
Anyone up for it? I'm planning on starting tomorrow.
Anyone up for it? I'm planning on starting tomorrow.
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Best of Luck
I weighed 185 or so in HS, I weigh 190 currently.
Good luck, as being severely overweight is extremely bad for your health.
So lets set some parameters...
10 lbs would be a goal for me.
I need to lose 15 lbs. to get down to my fighting weight.
Started about 2 weeks ago. Had to. Way too fat.
I just left the gas station where I get my mourning coffee and cigars.
Used to get a bacon/egg/cheese biscuit every day, now it's 3 bananas with my coffee.
GOD! I miss that bacon, but have to lose this fat.
A man giving up bacon!!! Pray for me, For I know not what I do............
:oops:
Got up at 5am and went for a 3.61 mile walk. Using one of those walk tracker apps. I'm weighing 223 lbs and would like to be at 200 lbs. I'm in no big rush, but would like to see a nice steady decline over time.
You got this.
One piece of bacon fried crisp and blotted on a paper towel has <100 calories.
But make no mistake, bananas are a great diet food.
My wife said I should just tie one of my hands behind my back at dinner time and I'd lose twice as much. She's also a smart *!
I don't recommend the weight loss plan I followed.
Mike
What kind of challenge would it be if a 300 pound person lost 100 pounds (30 percent) and a 100 pound person lost 100 pounds, ie: dried up and blew away.
Whattup with THAT?
That's to sop up the grease after the bacon is gone, waste not want not.
Are you sure you guys want to do this?
You can look forward to this:
I Divorced a Tumor that weighed about that! She still calls me all of the time!
You can't get lower than a person that flaunts bacon in front of somebody that wants to lose weight , even if it is just a picture:(
Bacon is not on my no fly list. Cutting back on beer is.
I just finished my 3 bananas. :x
Okay now a joke to help get thru the pain......
One early am. 3 guys went out to play golf.
'They weren't very good at it too.
The first guy slices his ball into a flowerbed of buttercups.
He starts hacking away at the flowers to find his ball.
The next guy hooks his ball into the Tulips.
He's stampeding thru the flowers to get to his ball.
Now Mother Nature sees whats going on, and comes down to admonish the golfers.
"You killed my buttercup flowers, your punishment will be you won't have any butter for a whole year. And you in the tulips, you will never kiss a women's lips for one year."
Both guys start laffing out loud.
"why are you laffing? This is serious , you killed my flowers."
"Our buddy just hit his ball into the pussywillows".
Is this a challenge?
Bacon, bacon, bacon... chew chew!
Doesn't bother me, I don't need to lose weight... But I'm glad you know what type of person you are and are willing to show your * for the whole world to see
I was 225 when I left the Army. 25 Years ago. I had Gradually put it on after getting out and wife's good home food. I Was up to 445 lbs.
I've been working on my weight for the last 3 years 100 + lbs gone. I've been dropping 3-5 lbs a month.
I'm now cooking and trying to use healthy ingredients and still taste good.
I'm 60 and at 6' 4" and 340 Lbs. there are not may older big tall folks around, that are upwardly mobile.
Gym 2 times a week swim 2 times a week and daily time on a incline bike while listening to books.
Much easier to walk on my new knees, and not out of breath all the time like I was.
Would like to get down to at least 250, and get another 20+ years out of this body.
I'm not the guy who thinks these crusty old farts (fine gentlemen), don't have the willpower to get the job done.
Do tell how you did it,,,
will power, finally got tired enough of being a lard *....cut out all soda, all bread, started eating more salads, shrinking my portions, having my wife on board helps since she does the cooking...cut back on heavy sauces....I eat alot of hard boiled eggs, nuts, dried fruits, apples and bananas, and avacados...good fats...and i slog ( slow jog) about 2.2 miles or hike a steep route every other day, rain, snow, sleet or shine...no skipping....I've plateaued so it's time to do something drastic again to shock my system back into weight loss...but I've gone from nearly a 46 waist to 40 and my goal is 38 w at 230 lbs....last year March I weighed 279 at Dr's appt, this past march i was 243. Considering I lost most of it during winter, with holidays and winter weight gain normally an issue i figure once it starts really getting hot I'll shed another 10lbs fairly easily. But I can see this is a lifestyle issue and I'll have to be this way the rest of my life...no more double bacon cheese burgers etc...gonna have to be disciplined if I don't want to blow back up...eating clean has cleaned up my GI tract issues for the most part though and I imagine I'll be able to ditch HBP meds if i lose another 20.
As long as you burn a significantly higher amount of calories than you intake, you WILL lose weight.
Good luck.
If you cut out high fructose corn syrup and make a real effort to ingest natural cane or beet sugars you will see results...
Smaller portions yield results...
Taking your time while eating instead of just scarfing food down yields results...
Cutting back on candy will yield results...
Eating 5-7 times a day - more meals in smaller portions - chewing and tasting the food yields results...
Drinking bottled water will yield results...
Spending more money on smaller portions of better food - having to take more time to prepare that food (as opposed to immediately available fast food) yields results...
As an example I like hamburgers and fries - but instead of drive through fast food I bought high grade ground beef from a noted source and grilled it myself (or used a frying pan on the stove) - I bought baking potatoes and cut them up myself and fried them in sunflower oil - I went with fresh baked rolls instead of long shelf life cheap bread - I drank Mexican coke with no HFCS
It cost more to purchase and took time to obtain and took time to prepare and required time and effort to clean up but it's better for you and quite frankly tastes better and becomes more satisfying
Tropicana makes a lite lemonade were the entire two liter bottle contains 15 calories and no HFCS - way better than most sodas and drinks...
Heck even Cabot cheddar cheese on Ritz crackers makes a fantastic meal and requires no cooking and is healthier than fast food...
The healthy low sodium baked potato chips with no HFCS comes in a smaller bag and has less chips and costs more...
The store brand bag of chips is on sale for .99? and has way more chips and tastes better - spending more to eat less - taking time to eat better - the universal availability and convenience of fast food - the companies using science to make their product taste better and damn near be addictive - it can be counter intuitive and frustrating...
You have to change your lifestyle in many ways and you have to stick to it religiously - and eventually eating your new healthy way becomes a habit - it's your routine...
Nothing worse than a former fat person giving food advice - worse that a reformed alcoholic or drug addict in recovery with a 12 step program...
Mike
Back quite a few years ago a girl that worked where I worked had her jaw wired shut. It worked for a while and then she started putting Big Mac's and chocolate shakes in a blender and drinking them. She ended up gaining weight. Not very smart because she could have choked to death had she gotten strangled.
Invoking the honor system. You know like. "Get on her stay on her" . No seriously this is a great threat and credit to the starter.
So the deadline is for first of summer 6-21-19. Whoever has lost the most wins the flag lapel/hat pin.
May the best person win!
Good luck and God bless.
Have not lost a damn thing, the wife is a great chef.