I’m sort of new here, 1 week old, 24 year old male. I’ve always been trying to lose weight throughout my life and failed, but recently decided that this was it. I’m going to stick on this new diet plan and make it apart of my life. I’m using motivation from school and other personal life to fuel my drive to keep me with the diet.
When I first started to lurk on these boards on 4/5/06, I was weighing in at a whopping 331 pounds. To set a short-term goal, I want to get to 299. When I get there, I will work on the long-term goal of getting at a comfortable weight of 220-230, and to build a good deal of muscle. There is no specific time-set for these goals. But I want to hit 299 in 1-2 months or less.
I have a simple diet plan currently that I’m working on. It’s a low carb-high protein diet. For breakfast and dinner, I drink a protein shake made with skim milk. During lunch time, I eat protein, either chicken or tuna with light dressing and low on sodium on whole wheat bread. After a week of experimenting with this, I like it. I’m not too hungry throughout the day, but if I do get hungry, I snack on fruit or low fat yogurt and do count the calories. I’m trying to maintain caloric intake of 1300-1500. Of course, I drink PLENTY of water, and this is not hard to do because I love ice cold water.
For exercise, I have a Bowflex and in process of mapping out a work-out routine. And with that, I play tennis 3-5 times a week depending on schedule and my tennis partner.
Started - 4/5/06 – 331lbs.
Today – 4/15/06 – 323 (weight was fluxuating between 321 AND 323maybe due to fluid loss, so I just took the highest).
So far an 8 pound loss! Now, being a pessimistic person as I am, I do realize depending on the time of day I weight myself, it might be differ, so I have decided to weight and report official loss or gain to the diary on Saturday mornings on an empty stomach, right after I wake up.
When I first started to lurk on these boards on 4/5/06, I was weighing in at a whopping 331 pounds. To set a short-term goal, I want to get to 299. When I get there, I will work on the long-term goal of getting at a comfortable weight of 220-230, and to build a good deal of muscle. There is no specific time-set for these goals. But I want to hit 299 in 1-2 months or less.
I have a simple diet plan currently that I’m working on. It’s a low carb-high protein diet. For breakfast and dinner, I drink a protein shake made with skim milk. During lunch time, I eat protein, either chicken or tuna with light dressing and low on sodium on whole wheat bread. After a week of experimenting with this, I like it. I’m not too hungry throughout the day, but if I do get hungry, I snack on fruit or low fat yogurt and do count the calories. I’m trying to maintain caloric intake of 1300-1500. Of course, I drink PLENTY of water, and this is not hard to do because I love ice cold water.
For exercise, I have a Bowflex and in process of mapping out a work-out routine. And with that, I play tennis 3-5 times a week depending on schedule and my tennis partner.
Started - 4/5/06 – 331lbs.
Today – 4/15/06 – 323 (weight was fluxuating between 321 AND 323maybe due to fluid loss, so I just took the highest).
So far an 8 pound loss! Now, being a pessimistic person as I am, I do realize depending on the time of day I weight myself, it might be differ, so I have decided to weight and report official loss or gain to the diary on Saturday mornings on an empty stomach, right after I wake up.
I've heard that those who are more overweight are able to lose weight easier to start, because its hard to maintain that kind of size! So 30 or so pounds in a couple of months would be very reasonable - just don't expect it to last forever 
