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Brent Loewen

Brent Loewen

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This should be interesting (at least to me).

I'm 46 and love food and wine. I've always been active but over the course of the last 4 years I've seen my weight yo-yo because I eat and drink way too much! I decided to do something about it starting January 1.

My main goal is to keep the weight off.

I instituted some definite do's and don'ts for the month of January which are designed to lose weight, and that has happened to the tune of 20 lbs. I'm almost to my "goal weight" so that is good news. I hope to get there by March 7th which means losing a further 7-12 lbs. That'll put me at 6'3 and 200-205 lbs.

Come February I intend to introduce an occasional glass of wine on the weekends and reduce my workouts to 3-5 x per week. I also plan to continue eating healthy foods (1,800 calories per day)! I see diet as the most important factor by far!

I appreciate some of you might roll your eyes when you read this. I realize I'm neither morbidly obese nor facing severe health risks. But this lifestyle change is important to me and if you want to share my journey, offer tips, insights, critiques ... then hop aboard!

I've already met some really helpful people through this website so thought I would give this a whirl.

I'll post today's meals and workout tomorrow.

Brent
 
For many, maintaining their new weight is harder than loosing it in the first place.

Welcome and good luck hitting your goals.
 
Nice avatar. 7 - 12 by March 7 is a very sensible target. I'd suggest that the first 20 lbs in 23 days should be taken with a grain of salt, or maybe Jimmy Buffet's lost shaker to get it palatable, but then the resulting water retention would see me gain everything back! I'm not suggesting you're attempting to mislead anyone but that there are reasons other than solely weight loss that account for a difference in measurements. You may want to be open to reevaluating the reasons for that loss if you are relying on the same process for attaining your goal.

I suspect that restricting to 1800 calories is a bit severe but that depends on your metabolism and activity level. I look forward to hearing about your progress and chosen method in this endeavour. Wishing you success.
 
Hi, Brent & welcome to the diary section of the forum.
Brent Loewen said:
Come February I intend to introduce an occasional glass of wine on the weekends and reduce my workouts to 3-5 x per week. I also plan to continue eating healthy foods (1,800 calories per day)! I see diet as the most important factor by far!
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Well done on kicking off 2018 with a new commitment to improving your health & making changes to get there. 20 lbs is an excellent achievement & certainly not all fluid. Ease into the changes, as I know from experience, it can go back on as fast as it went. Wine is my biggest downfall. I started the month trying not to have any & lasted 10 days. I lost 1.5 kg in that 10 days.
I can't imagine anyone rolling their eyes at you for the amount of weight you want to lose. I think it's excellent that you don't have such an uphill battle. The changes you have made should do the trick. As Tru said maintaining is the hard part. I can attest to that. Cheers, Cate.
 
Hi Brent! Don't sell yourself short. Losing a small amount of weight or maintaining can be as or more difficult than a larger weight loss. Really fat people don't actually have to try that hard to lose. It gets a lot trickier the less you have to lose.
 
Thanks for the wonderful support!!

Great day of eating (omelette, salad with leftover souvlaki and tacos for dinner). Finishing the night off with a tall mug of herbal tea. Wanted to go for a walk tonight but decided to chill with my boys.

I also incorporated 10 minutes of rowing After 25 minutes on the elliptical. Holy shit! Sore. Can hardly wait until tomorrow to beat my time for 2,000 metres ;)

Also can hardly wait for my Body Energy Club skinny mocha shake with an extra scoop of protein for my after workout breaky. Luv them!

Hope everyone sleeps well!
 
I like the sound of your food :drool5: Also: losing some weight now is definitely healthier than having to lose a lot of weight later. Best of luck!
 
You sound like a rower, Brent. Glad you enjoy that exercise. I have a ... complicated relationship with the erg. I don't have access to a machine now, but you've inspired me to look around.
 
Yeah, that was last summer in Banff! Kids are at an awesome age. I recently got on to Instagram so if you want to follow me, just send a request and I'll hook you up. Most of the pics are of my kids but I'm going to Mexico in mid march so might be some tropical pics coming your way...

Meh workout this a.m. Only one rowing machine and it was taken the entire time. Snuck in 20 minutes of cardio (elliptical and bike) and 20 minutes of weights (bench, curls, pec/dec and lat pull downs, 4 reps ea.) - happy with that as it'll save some energy for my team's soccer game tonight. I play goalkeeper so please do not get any skewed visions of me racing around the field scoring high-lite reel goals :) In fact, I doubt i'll see playing time tonight. Goalkeeper 20 years my younger recently took my no. 1 position. Oh well, I can still warm up with the team and stay active on the sidelines.

By the way, up to 214 lbs. Clearly there was a water deficiency with the 212 weigh-in on Monday. Not unexpected given I weighed 216 on Friday. I'm cool with that. The goal for January was 215 lbs so I'm still playing with the House's money. And I'm beginning to learn it's not about the weight, per se. I feel great, no hangover from glasses of wine the night before and my liver is literally jumping for joy - where is the emoji for that???!!!

Oh, forgot my dress shoes at home today so I look like a putz wearing sneakers and a suit in the office. Classic!

Have a great day everyone!!!
 
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And I'm beginning to learn it's not about the weight, per se. I feel great, no hangover from glasses of wine the night before and my liver is literally jumping for joy - where is the emoji for that???!!!
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I don´t know about you but I´d go with :party: Feeling great is pretty... great?
 
I HATE it when people park on machines for a while. There's this guy as my gym who does a circuit involving both the deadlift platform and the squat rack and it takes him like an hour to get through it. Like....dude, I'm literally there for those two things.
 
Cory: LOL! Sadly, a lot of men are too pig-headed to share machines, esp. with women. My wife asked to "work in" with a guy who was monopolizing the squat rack and he told her "no". WTF!

Cate: Some guy was repeatedly sending me links to adverts. I think the moderator removed his crap. "Dan" is my middle name. Ha!
 
Whoops! That's funny. Someone once called me Grace accidentally, not knowing that was my middle name. I'm more tired than I realised. My husband is asleep in his chair at 8.50 am. We both played golf in the heat yesterday & are feeling very tired today.......well, that's my excuse anyway :D
 
working in is not always an option, especially if the weights used are vastly different, it gets annoying unloading a lot of weight to allow a man to work in.
 
I don't think "annoying" should be the threshold. We're all there to get a workout in and, last time I checked, ownership doesn't go to the person who can lift the most. My two cents on the issue.
 
It is not about ownership, we are all in the gym to train, however unloading a lot of weight for a weak lifter to work in with a strong lifter and then to reload those weights often takes more than the rest time needed between sets, it seriously interrupts planned training sessions, in the same way that if a strong lifter wants to work in with a light weight already in the rack it will often throw the lightweight lifters training out. It is a case of learning to wait your turn. I will never try to bully a light weight out of the rack but I expect the same level manners from the light weight lifter if I am in the rack. only if both lifters are using similar weights does working in become viable.
 
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