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vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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I've been saying for several months that I need to lose this extra weight. Well, the time has come for me to stop talking about it and, you know, actually do it. My simple plan of attack follows:

  1. low carb eating
  2. steel cut oatmeal for breakfast
  3. no alcohol
  4. no sugar
  5. no wheat
  6. go for a bike ride every day

That should be easy to follow and give me the results I'm looking for at this point. Ideally Monello would help keep me on track, but he likes to feed me and spoil me. Last night he brought home swordfish and grilled it for dinner, so that's a great start. We finally pulled the trigger on a portable gas grill (Weber Q 1200), so that should make his "need to feed" healthier.
 
Misfit

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I bought a body fat caliper last week. I’ve never done that and I was curious.

The results were I’m 6’2” and 190lbs at 7% body fat and my new goal is 200lbs with no more than 8%...and I want to be 6’6” but I haven’t figured out how to do that one yet.

:ohwell:
 
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MR47930

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Misfit said:
I bought a body fat caliper last week. I’ve never done that and I was curious.

The results were I’m 6’2” and 190lbs at 7% body fat and my new goal is 200lbs with no more than 8%...and I want to be 6’6” but I haven’t figured out how to do that one yet.

:ohwell:
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You may have misread those calipers...190lbs and 7% body fat is world class. FYI Arnold in his prime was 6'2" and around 230lbs with 5-7% body fat.
 
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MR47930

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vraiblonde said:
I've been saying for several months that I need to lose this extra weight. Well, the time has come for me to stop talking about it and, you know, actually do it. My simple plan of attack follows:

  1. low carb eating
  2. steel cut oatmeal for breakfast
  3. no alcohol
  4. no sugar
  5. no wheat
  6. go for a bike ride every day

That should be easy to follow and give me the results I'm looking for at this point. Ideally Monello would help keep me on track, but he likes to feed me and spoil me. Last night he brought home swordfish and grilled it for dinner, so that's a great start. We finally pulled the trigger on a portable gas grill (Weber Q 1200), so that should make his "need to feed" healthier.
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Its simply calories in vs. calories out. Eat less calories than your body needs and you will lose weight quickly and easily. You can eat less or move more or any combo of the two.

Myfitnesspal.com has every food imaginable. Keep track of your calories for 2 weeks and if you dont lose weight, eat less.
 
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MR47930

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Misfit said:
We used the Jackson/Pollock 4 method and we did it 4 times to make sure we were getting the same measurement each time.

:shrug:

http://www.linear-software.com/online.html
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Calipers are notorious for being incorrect. Way to many variables to get an accurate number. Go get a Dexa scan for a truly accurate measurement. If you're still 7% please lift with me, I could use the help.

Edit: even if you're not 7% and are 10-12% thats really F'ing good for someone who is 190lbs.
 
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vraiblonde said:
I've been saying for several months that I need to lose this extra weight. Well, the time has come for me to stop talking about it and, you know, actually do it. My simple plan of attack follows:

  1. low carb eating
  2. steel cut oatmeal for breakfast
  3. no alcohol
  4. no sugar
  5. no wheat
  6. go for a bike ride every day

That should be easy to follow and give me the results I'm looking for at this point. Ideally Monello would help keep me on track, but he likes to feed me and spoil me. Last night he brought home swordfish and grilled it for dinner, so that's a great start. We finally pulled the trigger on a portable gas grill (Weber Q 1200), so that should make his "need to feed" healthier.
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Starting to feel the lack of burn from that long road trip, eh? Follow the plan - it will work at least to a reasonable degree. Don't do it the way I did, though. It took a bad Saturday in July 2015, a series of heart attacks, the installing of a pacemaker/defib, and I lost 35 lbs in two months by not even trying. Keeping it off has been no problem the last 15 months or so - I eat what I want, as much as I want, a bit healthier, but keep the sweet tarts and chocolates coming. I seem to have become lactose intolerant, however, so ice cream and milk by itself are pretty much off my diet, and I really do not miss it at all.

Have your DR set up a colonoscopy - that is a guaranteed 5 lb loss in one day.:faint:

Keep at it.
 
Clem72

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MR47930 said:
Its simply calories in vs. calories out. Eat less calories than your body needs and you will lose weight quickly and easily. You can eat less or move more or any combo of the two.

Myfitnesspal.com has every food imaginable. Keep track of your calories for 2 weeks and if you dont lose weight, eat less.
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Not so simple for many. There are metabolic, hormonal, and physiological differences between people that have a drastic effect. Having had a hyperactive (not Hypo) thyroid most of my life I literally ate 5-6 thousand calories a day and was always skinny. Always.

When I got older my doctor decided it would be a good idea to kill my thyroid and use meds to keep me at the appropriate level. Now I have to stay on a strict diet, 1600 or less calories a day, or I gain weight. My level of activity has actually increased as I try to keep trim.

So sure, it boils down to calories in vs out, but if you are only using "how many calories you ate" vs "how much did you exercise" you are missing a lot of information. Or do you also measure average body temperature, glucose used by the brain, gas production (byproduct of gut bacteria eating your food), and of course are taking stool samples to see how much goes undigested?

People who say it is simple, are simply people who don't know what they are talking about.
 
Misfit

Misfit

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MR47930 said:
Calipers are notorious for being incorrect. Way to many variables to get an accurate number. Go get a Dexa scan for a truly accurate measurement. If you're still 7% please lift with me, I could use the help.

Edit: even if you're not 7% and are 10-12% thats really F'ing good for someone who is 190lbs.
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Dexa scan sounds like it could be expensive and I'm poor. :nomoney:

I’ve been a vegetarian for 12 years and started eating meat again. I do have a six pack, but I started three weeks ago trying to get 1 gram of protein per one pound of body weight.
 
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MR47930

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Clem72 said:
Not so simple for many. There are metabolic, hormonal, and physiological differences between people that have a drastic effect. Having had a hyperactive (not Hypo) thyroid most of my life I literally ate 5-6 thousand calories a day and was always skinny. Always.

When I got older my doctor decided it would be a good idea to kill my thyroid and use meds to keep me at the appropriate level. Now I have to stay on a strict diet, 1600 or less calories a day, or I gain weight. My level of activity has actually increased as I try to keep trim.

So sure, it boils down to calories in vs out, but if you are only using "how many calories you ate" vs "how much did you exercise" you are missing a lot of information. Or do you also measure average body temperature, glucose used by the brain, gas production (byproduct of gut bacteria eating your food), and of course are taking stool samples to see how much goes undigested?

People who say it is simple, are simply people who don't know what they are talking about.
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OP didn't mention anything about thyroid issues, so yes, it is as simple as calories in vs. calories out. If you eat less calories than your body needs and gain weight you are defying physics and should be in a medical journal.
 
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MR47930

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Misfit said:
Dexa scan sounds like it could be expensive and I'm poor. :nomoney:

I’ve been a vegetarian for 12 years and started eating meat again. I do have a six pack, but I started three weeks ago trying to get 1 gram of protein per one pound of body weight.
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Well I tip my hat to you. 7% is very impressive, especially at your height/weight.
 
Clem72

Clem72

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MR47930 said:
OP didn't mention anything about thyroid issues, so yes, it is as simple as calories in vs. calories out. If you eat less calories than your body needs and gain weight you are defying physics and should be in a medical journal.
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Yup, good to know you can't read for shet, I won't bother arguing with you in the future. I will ask how do you function on the internet if you can't glean even a smattering of actual content from a post you quoted, rather than make your own arguments up?

How about this:

"Op didn't mention fecking sheep. So yes, it is as simple as MR47930 being a sheep fecker" (don't worry guys, he didn't read this far or understand what I typed so I didn't hurt his feelings).
 
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MR47930

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Clem72 said:
Yup, good to know you can't read for shet, I won't bother arguing with you in the future. I will ask how do you function on the internet if you can't glean even a smattering of actual content from a post you quoted, rather than make your own arguments up?

How about this:

"Op didn't mention fecking sheep. So yes, it is as simple as MR47930 being a sheep fecker" (don't worry guys, he didn't read this far or understand what I typed so I didn't hurt his feelings).
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:huggy:
I'm sorry your parents didn't love you as a child...
 
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vraiblonde

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Tonight for dinner I grilled up some chicken breasts with zatar seasoning, shrimp skewers, and asparagus. And I grilled a few lemons for squeezing.

I'm madly in love with this grill.
 
vraiblonde

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lovinmaryland said:
All those sound fantastic...except no alcohol...that one is soooo hard for me to quit :bawl:
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Alcohol is the easy one for me. The hardest is digging up time for a bike ride every day, especially now that it gets dark early. Today I had to flake it off because I was busy with work, then had a bunch of errands to run, then it was getting too late and I needed to start dinner.
 
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I'm finishing up an 8-week weight loss challenge right now. I've lost 33 pounds to date, about 12 percent of my starting weight. What I've learned through some research mixed with what I've done in the past: Eat first thing when you get up in the morning, it gets your metabolism going. I eat first thing something sustainable -- oatmeal, bran flakes, scrambled egg wrap, a shake, then have a piece of fruit around 10/10:30. Lunch should be your biggest meal of the day, because it will get you through the afternoon and you also have time to work it off. Sometimes I need a yogurt, fruit or nut mix around 4/5 pm. Dinner is a big dose of chicken/shrimp/crab/fish with veggies, maybe a little quinoa. No bread, no deep fried stuff, very little dairy except yogurt and almond milk, no sweets except a few butterscotch disks, Werthers or lemon drops (hard candies will last and only cause you 20 calories a piece). I simply do a lot of a walking/jog workout on my own on the road mixed with some cardio stuff I do on Youtube at home. "The Body Project" has great beginning cardio that you can do and work up to the harder stuff, only 20/30 mins in length. I like them because they do warm up and cool down included in the 30 minutes. A lot of Youtube stuff goes right into the workout. Good luck. I am gonna destroy a pizza when I'm done this Wednesday, though.
 
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