Fat Loss: How I did it!

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icthys

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I thought I'd post my success and how I've done it, hopefully I can help those who struggle finding a good program that is right for them and one that works!

I was the typical "I want to lose weight but just can't do it". I finally decided enough was enough and that I'd do it right. I first started off with what I felt was the easiest to accomplish. I've always been a semi-active person, basketball here and there, hiking thoroughout the summer, water and snow sking. However, I wasn't exercising on a regular basis.

I started out simple. I started out working out to the Tae-bo tapes twice a week, in the morning. Soon enough it because easy to do so I moved up to 3 days a week. Before long I was working out 5 days a week 20 minutes a day.

Once I had the excersie part down my eating habits were next. This took awhile for me to include in my new life style. I wanted to find some type of eating program that was right for me, and one that I could follow the rest of my life. I think I first found the program here back in Oct, it was called Adam's diet. I did some research on it and I really liked the program. The very next day I started.

Up until the point that I changed my diet I hadn't lost any fat. The very week I started my new eating plan the fat started to come off. To this day I'm still following the eating plan, though not as good, but I am still losing the fat. I will continue to lose the fat until I reach my target weight.

When I started all this I weighed in at 242 lbs. I weighed in last Thursday at 218. My original target weight is 200 lbs, and I will reach it. Once I get there I will evalute where I am at and decide if I want to keep going.

I know, losing the 24 lbs doesn't seem like much but to someone who couldn't lose 1 lb I'm very happy and well on my way to losing 42 lbs.
 
24 lbs is a great loss! I've lost 31 so far, and have quite a bit more to go. Congratulations! 24 lbs is a great success, and just dropping that bit of weight already improved your health.
 
well i think i lost more weight also, not sure about my scale reliability right now its giving me random numbers but my running speed has almost doubled, which is nice and my chest has gotten WAY smaller.
 
My eating plan is quite simple if you ask me.

I've basically cut all sugars, I do get a treat once in awhile, but for the most part no more sugar.

I eat all complex carbs, you know multi grain type stuff. I started out eating 1-2 servings of carbs during one meal for the day, breakfast is my choice since I'm allergic to eggs. Now I've started to introduce some more carbs each meal but it's limited.

Here is a typical day to day plan:

Breakfast:

-Multi grain hot cereal with some natty PB for flavor and a pinch of splenda.
-Half an orange or grape fruit
-Glass of milk to wash it down.
-Low carb pancakes with sugar-free syrup (I get this once a week and they are the best cakes I've ever had).

In between meal:

-Veggies, cheese, or lunch meat.

Lunch:

-Leftovers from dinner, which is a low carb meal that my wife makes form a low carb cook book. or
-tuna or lunch meat sammy on a low carb wrap
-salad greens

Another tweener meal

Dinner:

-A low carb dinner prepared by my wife out of a low carb cook book. 90% of the meals are 10 grams of carbs and under. These meals are excellent and filled with flavor. My wife even loves 'em.
-1-2 servings of veggies/salad.

After dinner treat:

-to cure my sweet tooth that got me in trouble in the first place, my wife makes a PB cookie out of natty PB, splenda, and one egg. These cookies are great.
 
Where abouts did you find this adams diet as i cant really seem to bring anything up for it browsing the net?
 
I'm just wondering... why is it so important to cut out all sweets? I mean, I thought as long as I counted calories and keep it under what I spend per day, I could lose weight. Are calories from sweets worse than calories from say nonsweets?
 
Well if you're not getting adequate protein, then you're muscles won't groaw as well and may even deteriorate which will cause the slowing of metabolism.
 
kwanny said:
I'm just wondering... why is it so important to cut out all sweets? I mean, I thought as long as I counted calories and keep it under what I spend per day, I could lose weight. Are calories from sweets worse than calories from say nonsweets?
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yes calories from simple carbs like white sugar have been processed so much that there is nothing left in them worth eating. they are nothing but empty calories, which make you think your full but your body still thinks its hungry. if i were you i would stay totally away from all simple carbs and stick to complex, your just impedeing your results eating crappy refined foods.
 
dante said:
Is cheese ok, icthys, to eat between meals? juts normal cheese??
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I eat and eat and eat cheese. Well, not that much, but cheese is just fine to eat. I usually eat a stick of colby with several slice of lunch meat for one of my extra meals, hits the spot.
 
Grammaton said:
yes calories from simple carbs like white sugar have been processed so much that there is nothing left in them worth eating. they are nothing but empty calories, which make you think your full but your body still thinks its hungry. if i were you i would stay totally away from all simple carbs and stick to complex, your just impedeing your results eating crappy refined foods.
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Exactly. Those simple carbs are death. I do let myself have a real sugar treat every once in awhile but stay away from that stuff.

I found that when I ate the simple sugars, ie. sweets, white breads, bagels, donuts, pasta, rice, potatos, and cinnamon toast cruch my blood sugar level would go through the roof. My body would then produce a ton of insulin to take care of the sugars. As soon as those sugars were gone and my insulin levels were still high I'd get mad hungry. I'd specifically crave more simple carbs due to the spiked insulin levels. Not only would I get mad hungry, but once those simple carbs were gone my energy level fell through the floor and I'd feel all groggy. Then when I'd feel like that, I felt lazy thus, not wanting to exercise. It was a vicious cycle.

Once I started cutting the simples and replacing them with complex carbs things changed within a weeks time. I no long felt mad hungry, but my energy level rose and I started to feel much better. I also started to eat 5 times a day which would keep me feeling full, not to mention my metabolism picked up.

Damn those sugars! but I sure to love them!
 
This diet doesn't sound much different than atkins or south beach.

Here is a link to Atkins page.

I did a combo of the south beach and atkins for over two years. The weight was coming off very slowly, but of course I was not doing very much exercising. Tried to stop smoking about a year ago and gained back 30 of the 50 that I lost. I am hoping by next month I can start going to the gym and stop smoking. I have been trying to get back to atkins way of life. This is the only thing that has ever helped me to lose any weight.

I do have problems with my blood sugar unless I am following Atkins. One more thing I used to have bad heartburns, as soon as I started atkins the heartburn went away.

Otis_15 (female) misleading need a better user name.
 
This is what I eat during a day
Breakfast
2 eggs
1 piece sausage
1 whole wheat toast
butter
diet soda or green tea

Lunch
Whole Wheat bread
Mayo
Deli Meat
Cheese
Snack
Slim jims or cheese with deli meat

Dinner
Meat and a couple of Veggies or a large salad.

On the Weekends I eat a slice homemade cheese cake

I make my cheese cake out of
1 8 oz cream cheese
1 8 oz sour cream
1 8 oz coolwhip
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup splenda
graham craker pie shell

Otis_15
 
Down to 214 as of two weeks ago. I haven't been able to weigh in since then. I was averaging 2-3 lbs per week.

I love it.
 
hey man thats awsome. im not on the same low carb diet as you but when i started my whole getting fit routine i was just 12 stone now im down to 10'9 last time i checked which was tuesday and it feels great.
 
er pasta, potatoes and rice are complex. And you can get 100% whole wheat bagels.
Complex carbs rock the socks.
i only take simple carbs post workout.
 
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