A US Marine trying to have the body I know I should have!

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We'll I'm about 2 and a half months into my weight loss/get in shape plan. I started out this whole thing at 195lbs and I'm currently at 178. I want to get down to around 170, but it's really hard.
Basically I'm 25 and I'm tired of looking in men's health and being like "man, i wish I had that body!" so, I'm doing something about it.
I'll post my diet and workouts and other stuff. Maybe someone will get motivated by reading it.

Matt
 

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Hey Matt

You really don't look all that bad as it is, it looks like you have a decent chest under all that hair ;) and it looks like you probably have a decent back. If this is gonna be your starting point then it's a great one

Am I to take it your goal is to look like one of the mens health models?

What kind of routine do you do at the moment?
 
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That's some great progress marine!

I was in the Danish army 10 years ago (knee injuries ended that career), and I had real problems keeping the weight on, I was used to 6 big meals a day before that, but it was bloody impossible to get that in there, we hardly got fed anything. I was carrying all sorts of food around in my BDU and webbing to munch on :)
 
As the others mentioned, you are doing great. You are not far from having a six pack - stay with it!
 
MattMarine said:
We'll I'm about 2 and a half months into my weight loss/get in shape plan. I started out this whole thing at 195lbs and I'm currently at 178. I want to get down to around 170, but it's really hard.
Basically I'm 25 and I'm tired of looking in men's health and being like "man, i wish I had that body!" so, I'm doing something about it.
I'll post my diet and workouts and other stuff. Maybe someone will get motivated by reading it.
Matt
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Im already Motivated by it........My cup is never FULL! ASK ANYONE........ROCK ON!!!!!!!! With ya brotha!.............

Congrats on starting your Journal! I couldnt wish you more luck with it!

What I underlined is the first step in the process of change, the second is acting upon it, and then listening to your body to make necessary changes if appropriate, and then letting your mind steer the ship to your goal.

I would lke you to read this article I think its applicable: (this will give one a taste of what to expect and what one may have to deal with)

http://training.fitness.com/weight-loss/weight-loss-intricate-27164.html

(oops, I probably gave this link to you before......LOL.........Oh, well...:) )

ROCK ON!!!!!!!

Chillen
 
Thanks all.
In terms of my weekly plan. 3 small portioned meals a day and I really have to fight to keep from snacking. I know everyone says eat 5-6 small meals a day, but I've lost the weight I lost by doing the 3 small meals, and I still have a lot of energy, so I plan to keep that up.
In terms of workouts I usually do a fairly full bodied workout in the gym 4 days a week. Every night I do 45 minutes on the elliptical machine and every Tuesday morning I do a sprint workout on the track. So thats that.
I'll start keeping up with what I eat and do tomorrow.
And yes, my ultimate goal is to get home from this deployment with that Men's Health body! or as I like to say the Leonidas body (the Spartan king).

matt
 
Friday 7 September 2007
Breakfast: Bowl of Total Cereal and a ham and cheese biscut. milk and an 8 oz glass of orange juice. one cup of coffee with creamer.
 
Imo you need to start weighing your food or otherwise figuring out how much proteins, total calories and so on you're getting.

But from the look of it, if you're eating and drinking that and getting so few calories you're losing weight, you're getting too few proteins.
 
Friday 8 September 2007
Dinner: Chicken breast and salad with fat free ranch.
Exercise: 45 minutes elliptical @ 135 bpm

Saturday 8 September 2007
Breakfast: Bowl of Special K Cereal, skim milk, ham and cheese breakfast sandwach, cup of grape juice. coffee with creamer.
 
Saturday 8 September 2007
Lunch: Roast beef rollup (on a wheat tortilla)
Afternoon Gym Workout: 30 minutes of moderate weight lifting
Dinner: Salmon Fillet, Collard Greens, Corn
Cardio: 45 minutes elliptical @ 130 bpm

Sunday 9 September 2007
Breakfast: Cereal and Fruit
 
Sunday 9 September 2007
Dinner: Chicken Curry and Collard Greens
Exercise: 45 minutes on Elliptical
After exercise snack: ummm...oops
 
Imo after training, any sort of sugar is fine. If you need to eat some sweat candy, do it after training along with a protein shake. Heck, a lot of eat dextrose post workout, it doesn't get any worse than that. You need both carbs and protein after workout. 30g protein and 50g carbs are exactly what you need!
 
Monday 10 September 2007
Breakfast: Cereal and Watermelon
Lunch: Cheeseburger

Yea, yea...I don't want to hear it about the burger! I'm doing a sprint workout tomorrow morning so unless you want to join me on the track...
 
Monday 10 September 2007
Dinner: Grilled Cheese Sandwich with BBQ chicken and beef and an egg roll
Exercise: 1 hour at the gym lifting (no I'm not going to write everything I did down)

Note: Someone needs to lock me in a wall locker between every meal or lock all the sweets, candy, and beef jerky up that is in my office!
 
Yeah, I doubt a person needs to jot everything down unless they're specifically looking for advice on what they're doing. I write everything down 'coz I'm far too forgetful otherwise and I won't know what went on! ;)

By the way, your pics make you look like you're already nice and fit, well, you'd have to be to be a marine. Do you do much in the way of training at work, as well? And the fitness stuff you mentioned - is that on top of what your job makes you do?
 
Just noting down what you eat don't say much anyway, you need to work out total kcals and proteins per meal to get meaningful info from it.
 
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