ForRealThisTime Diary of a mad man

When I get down about myself too...that's exactly what I tell myself. The positive habits will outweigh the negative ones throughout time. No need to stress. Debauchery is needed sometimes. ;)!

Have a wonderful walk today!! :D!
 
thanks, looking forward to my walk later :)

I like feeding my body some protein in the form of whey as it is an easy method to take onboard protein that I need. The problem with whey protein is that I hate how it tastes, even thinking about it now makes me feel ewww

So I tried a new method for taking it and it seems to be working well. I freeze bananas in ziplock bags. When I want to make my drink I take a banana some fat free natural yogurt a scoop of protein powder and a little water and blend it all together. Once blended it is sooooo smooth and creamy from the frozen banana and you cant really taste the whey at all. It keeps me full for hours too :) give it a try!

Frozen Bananas!!!!!
 
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thanks, looking forward to my walk later :)

I like feeding my body some protein in the form of whey as it is an easy method to take onboard protein that I need. The problem with whey protein is that I hate how it tastes, even thinking about it now makes me feel ewww

So I tried a new method for taking it and it seems to be working well. I freeze bananas in ziplock bags. When I want to make my drink I take a banana some fat free natural yogurt a scoop of protein powder and a little water and blend it all together. Once blended it is sooooo smooth and creamy from the frozen banana and you cant really taste the whey at all. It keeps me full for hours too :) give it a try!

Frozen Bananas!!!!!
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NICE!! I do the same thing! My bananas aren't frozen, but I put ICE to make them almost frozen. THe only extra things that I add that you don't is :

Psyllium Husks (aka Fiber= keeps you full and makes you go bathroom)
1 tablespoon Vanilla flavoring
1 tsp of Cinnamon...

NOW BLEND!!! TRY THAT!! ;)! :drool5:!!!
 
Wow another great weekend behind me. Great in the sense that I ate and drank whatever I wanted... I drank a lot...

As I have done for the past 2 weeks now I will be only consuming liquids today and tomorrow. And putting in as many 5 miles per night as I can.

If this continues to work and I continue to see results I think I will stick to it. Fun at the weekend, liquids on Mon and Tues and walking every night. It all sounds simple enough.

Need to get rid of a few lbs for the July challenge weigh in on Thursday, participating in that is really forcing me not to slip in to my old ways.

I did my shopping on Saturday and the fridge is stocked up with all fresh ingredients to keep me on track for this week. Lets get this show on the road!
 
Cleansing is a great approach!! I was reading in my yoga book, that as a YOGI lifestyle it is recommended to have a cleansing approach and a day or two of rest for the organs and intestines weekly. :) You align cleansing for the intestines and give it a refreshement! Sounds like you are living a YOGI lifestyle (at least 2 days of the week!) LOL!

Sooooo...how are things other than your pound smashing?! :)
 
I agree cleansing is very important. Some people believe your body should naturally eliminate the toxins and I think that is true for the most part but I seriously believe that with our diet the way it is in the 20th/21st century our bodies need a little help or even a bit of a break every once in a while.

The magnesium oxide that I use every now and then is really great. I have to admit that since I changed from eating processed foods to only eating fresh whole foods I have not really had the need to cleanse nearly as much. A couple of times a year I used to do a two week cleanse where you take the magnesium oxide once a day for a week then every second day for the second week. After this you are totally cleared out. Weird things exit your body so it is not for the faint of heart but it really works wonders.

Everyone should aim for a digestive transit time of 24 hours or less. If you achieve this it means that what enters your mouth leaves your body within a 24 hour period. If this is not happening and you have a build up of digested food in your body it is basically rotting away inside you and the rotting material excretes toxins through your colon in to your body. It causes skin issues etc. This probably sounds a bit ewww but I try to pay attention to whats coming out the other end so to speak and keep a lookout for things I have eaten in the past 24 hours so I know its all making its way out without a problem.

The pound smashing was halted last weekend when I went on an alcohol fueled rampage. I drank anything I could get my hands on and it finally ended on Monday morning at around 4am. So needless to say I gained a considerable amount... but I started my 5 miles last night and got them done. Another 5 await me tonight and so on for the rest of the week. I should be back down to last weeks weight after today I think. I am not feeling too bad about it though, I needed some mental therapy over the weekend.

I am really starting to notice what other people eat now. I was in subway yesterday getting some lunch and this lady was in front of me. She got a footlong cold cut and the guy said "what cheese would you like" and she got him to put on all of them... and when he asked "any vegetables" she said "all of them" and he asked "any sauce" she said... "all of them"... I was pretty astounded to be honest.

My pull up bar is getting lots of use, I would highly recommend one to anyone! They are excellent. I was always a free weights person but I can feel the pull up bar working every upper body muscle. I could barely do one pull up when I got it and had to do the majority with my foot on a chair but am now up to 4 unassisted which feels great. All the internet videos on how to do pull ups constantly say "dont worry if you cant do them unassisted... give it some time and you will suddenly be able to do them..." I was skeptical but it worked :)

I am getting that feeling of strength back which I havent had for a long time. The feeling of bursty power. When I got home from my 5 miles last night it is three flights of stairs to my apartment... I ran up the stairs and felt great. No more slow lethargic me...

Oh one more update... I love watches... love em love em love em... my most prized watch which only comes once in a while was worn a few days ago. The strap usually closes on hole number three and I noticed that it was moving around a lot and I have had to close it on hole number four! :) all these small indicators of weight loss are interesting and unexpected.
 
That's great about using the 4th notch on your watch!! Woohoo!! :cheers2:! The small indicators of weight loss are unexpected!! I can always start to tell on my hands when my rings get loose! Can't wait until they fall off!! :D!!

As for that lady at Subway! Fuck. LOL!! "All of everything please!" I mean, I guess she should be commended on the fact that she was even IN THERE!! It sounds like she has a problem with "choice" and having a limited selection of it on her sandwich. ( I can only wonder how the rest of her life surrounds her choices), and throughout time, she might notice that others don't choose all of the cheeses. It is interesting though, that our awareness does heighten as we focus on ourselves we focus on others too!

As for your pull up bar!!! DAMN!!! You can do 4 unassisted now!! WOW!! :eek: That is great!!! I always see those bars on the p90x commercials and think to myself, there is no way in hell I'm ever going to be able to do one of those in my LIFE!!! LOL!! I used to do them at the gym though with this little knee stool under you and it worked! Still not like the home ones though. Sometimes I wonder if the little bar in the house would even be able to hold me, or if it'll break the wall, or break myself as I fall on the floor!! :smilielol5:!!

....and about the COLON...ahhh...yes, I :beating: LOVE "Poo Babies!!!" That's what I use the psyllium husks for!! To get the CRIDDERS out of there!! ;)!!

Oh well on the weight gain. Drinking is necessary and yes, therapuetic sometimes. :) Overall, you are doing great!!! :D! keep it up!!
 
lol at the CRIDDERS!! Poo is not a topic most people can openly discuss but I think its very natural and is certainly something you need to take notice of. Both number ones and numbers twos are a very early indicator of how your body is functioning and should not be ignored.

Anyway... enough of that shit (teeeheeehee)

I did my walk/run tonight and oh wow I had to wring out my tshirt afterwards it was just so hot out. The upside is I am back down to 205 so am only .6 of a lb over what I was last week. With the right amount of workout tomorrow I should be able to weigh in for the July challenge tomorrow night and beat my weight from last week. I will still hit the 10lbs loss for July, I believe it so I know it can be done.

Today I consumed

Breakfast - frozen banana and protein powder shake

Lunch - Lobster salad with lemon dressing (mmmmMMmmm need to eat at this restaurant more often)

Dinner - Foot long turkey breast subway

Evening - frozen banana blended with some skimmed milk and water
 
So this is me, well most of me as I stand this very moment.. I feel like my tighter clothes fit better than they did and am starting to feel happy about my appearance again.

I know I can make it to 190. Currently I am around 205 I think.
 
thanks Alta!

Well I thought I would have gained this week but I am down 1.1lbs which is a bit pathetic but still after the weekend I had last weekend I am so surprised.

Today I didnt really have much time to eat a huge amount.

Breakfast - frozen banana a little milk and some instant coffee smoothie

Dinner - subway footlong turkey breast

Snack - half cup of natural low fat yogurt and 7 strawberries blended with some ice water... mmmmMMMmmm it was good.

I really cant do the whole calorie counting thing. I am sure it works for some people but it seems like a lot of work. I can feel when I have over eaten and I would rather just eat when I am hungry which is what I am doing. I have deliberately made a decision not to go down certain aisles in the supermarket and so my house has pretty much only fresh food. I am finding that it is very difficult, for me, to over eat fresh food. If it were a bag of crisps or a packet of cookies I could easily just sit there and eat them all but if its a bag of apples I just eat one.

My tip of the day is BUY A MAGIC BULLET BLENDER :) It makes smoothie making so easy. Dump stuff in screw the lid on blend it and drink straight out of the cup. It is my best friend at the moment.

EDIT: check out my ticker!! .5lbs away from 20lbs!! I am nearly 2/3's the way to my target. If the weather is good over the weekend I am going to try get a long hike in and see if I can get below 200 by this time next week.
 
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keep up the great progress ForReal! 20lbs down and 2/3 of the way there is awesome, can you see the finish line yet?

I used to be the same way as you regarding counting calories. TBH, I tried in the past making spreadsheets or just writing everything down on paper and looking up the calories and it really was a right pain in my ass. I'd never count, if it weren't for my droid phone and app and being able to just enter in foods and amounts and it does all the work for me. I can even scan the food barcode, and it finds it online and adds it to my daily intake. That being said, I still get frustrated when I eat anything other than something packaged or cooked plainly. Caseroles, for example, are a PITA. And my phone app doesn't let me save a prepared dish and then add it to my meals by serving, so I don't get any help there. One caserole we make I figured out roughly the calories in the whole dish so I estimate how much I'm eating by what % of the pan I eat, but thats about as far as it goes. And thats the only meal I bothered. We make a home made salsa, and I figure, its a bunch of veggies and some lime juice and seasoning, its really not going to make me fatter or keep me from losing weight unless I'm way off somewhere else. The way I figure it, if I come across a meal I eat frequently that continually seems to stall or slow my progress, I'll count it then and figure out why.

I've also relaxed a bit on my counting, because I pretty much eat the same stuff every day. I know my breakfast is always 350 calories, and the rest of my lunch usually gets me up to anywhere from 750-1500 calories, leaving me 1000-1500 for dinner and snacks the rest of the day. I know the dinners I usually eat add up to around 800-1000 calories, and as long as my evening snacks don't go over 500 I'm fine. If I stall or start losing weight faster than I want, I'll be more diligent counting again.

The point is, if you're seeing appropriate progress, no need to count. I count because I don't know my body's hungry and full signals, and to make sure i'm not eating too little.

Smoothies are great, as is hiking! have a great week!
 
Hey Mar :)

I hear you on the calorie counting. I think your approach is very sensible and I could cope with that. I have a good app on my phone which sounds similar to the one you have. In the early stages I used it to check up foods I was not sure about and to get a snapshot of my daily intake.

If you class what you are doing as calorie counting then I guess I am calorie counting hehe :) I think along the same lines as you do about the general amount of calories I can have. So if I have something small in the morning and at lunch I know I can have a 1000 calorie dinner and something small in the evening. In that respect I suppose I am calorie counting but not to the point of weighing a piece of meat etc... I cant ever imagine doing that.

Also its funny you should mention about eating certain things and then noticing you are not losing weight. I am doing that too. I know people say bread can be bad if you are trying to lose weight. I used to love bread but I really noticed that when I ate it I did not drop any weight at all. I will still have it with my subway but I never buy bread anymore. Similar thing with pizza.. I steer clear of it.

Some things have really been an eye opener for me and while I was out walking last night I had some revelations... uh ohhh watch out here they come...

- I feel like I could give advice to my father who has always been heavier than he should be. I want to tell him how easy it is if he just changed how he looks at things. I want him to understand that the small amount of extra weight he is carrying around could be gone so easily if he put some effort in to it.

- I realised that exercise is not a hassle or even very difficult and I realise that I have been missing out for years by not taking the time to participate. I now look forward to walking/running/hiking. I love how it makes me feel so energized. I had heard people talk about this in the past but I never got it. I always worked out in the gym and found threamills etc very boring and unnatural. There is a whole world outside your door to go and explore :)

- I realised how amazing our bodies are. Imagine that I have been working in office based jobs for the past 10 years getting very little exercise. Within a few months of doing light exercise I can go for miles and miles, walk up mountains, run up the stairs and not be out of breath and can see my body changing before my eyes. Given the right food and care your body can turn itself around so quickly.

- A watched kettle never boils... I was keeping a weight loss journal, writing my weight down every day. Then I stopped doing it. I opened the journal last night and the last entry was 213lbs. I stepped on the scales and realised I had lost 10lbs since the last time I opened that little book. It felt great.

- Everything is relative. I set a goal of losing 33lbs. That is a huge number in my head. I know some people on here have a lot more to lose and when I see people who are talking about losing 100+lbs I go WOW!! but it is all relative. You have to be in it for the long haul and you have to start off somewhere. My father told me before that $5 may as well by $5 million if you do not have it. I think its an interesting way of looking at things. 33lbs or 133lbs its all the same. If you dont make a choice to start losing it you never will. If you make a choice to then you have begun a journey that may take longer if you have 133lbs to lose but ultimately the aim is the same.

- One day I woke up and I was 1 quarter the way to my goal. One day I woke up and I was half way to my goal. One day I will wake up and I will be at my goal. Its very exciting.


2/3rds of the way feels to me like when you are doing a long walk and your legs get tired. And you say well it is a 15 mile hike and I have already done 10... if I can do 10 then I can do 15... to turn back would take me longer than to go on and complete it. So yes the finish line is very much in sight.

I have to say though that I really am not in the slightest bit worried about regaining the weight. I enjoy my exercise so much now that I cant imagine not doing it. And I enjoy the way I eat now so much more than I ever did before. My whole outlook on food has changed. I dont think I ever had a problem with eating but I think I placed too much emphasis on food. It was like a hobby.. sounds weird. I used to like the full feeling after downing an entire pizza. Now if I eat anything heavy I feel stuffed up and tired and it makes it difficult for me to do my walking.

I think when people tell you it is a lifestyle change it is difficult to understand what they mean. Now that I have realised what it means it makes much more sense to me. It does not feel temporary.

The best thing I have done above all else is join this forum. I use forums all the time with the various different hobbies I have but I never thought about joining a forum about weight loss... weird. Since joining here I am much more open about my weight. I have discussed it with various family members and friends, before now it has always been a subject that was not open to discussion. Now I am telling them things like "I am down 15lbs" or "I did 30 miles last week" and they are all very enthusiastic, its very liberating and comes from how open some people are on here. I love reading the diaries and seeing the before and afters etc they really inspire.

Wow I am rambling, as usual...

TIP OF THE DAY = PODCASTS
find podcasts that interest you, "stuff you should know" is great. Download them and listen while you walk/run/cycle etc. The time flies and you learn something at the same time :) Education and exercise... who said men cant multi-task.
 
I like the revelations! I've come to them quite a few times in my life as well! It's always great to "listen" to your stomach, and stop when not hungry anymore so that you can walk as you say!

The truth be spoken! Lately, when I take steps daily, I do not fear re gaining. When I don't....then I do. Simple as that. Do it daily and you have nothing to fear.

Lifestyle. :) If you can walk, you can smash pounds. If you can eat, you can smash pounds. If you can imagine, then you can smash pounds. If you can make a decision, you can smash pounds! Just start. That's all it takes.

You really should help your father. Take him for a long bonding walk with you one day when you are near him again. :) You might open up a whole other world for him that he thought was completely unattainable before.
Lead by example! Glad that you are open about your weight now, and your fitness. It does make a difference on your perspective. When you are open about it, it makes you realize that you are open to changing it as well. When you are not, then you are not open to changing it as well, and not revealing the facts to others allows for complacency with how we are to settle in. I mean, if no one knows you want this, then no one will expect it, and when you don't do, you won't feel like a failure to anyone other than yourself. So all in all, GOOD FOR YOU for talking about it with fam bam! :D! Spread the word, that a NEW man is coming along!

...you make me wish I had an Ipod. I do everything without music. Just my thoughts. :beating:!
 
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Great post ForReal! I liked the part about it being all relative - reminds me of a certain way I poke fun at my wife. She'll come to me complaining about gaining 5lbs, and I tell her honey, I can go take a crap right now and lost 5lbs :p

Yeah, with counting, really all you have to do is what is necessary. Some people just don't know how much they eat, don't know how to estimate accurately, don't have accurate hunger and fullness signals, etc. My beef with counting is basically the people who complain about not losing weight, and don't want to count, or count inaccurately by estimating wrong. If you're seeing the results you want to see, no reason to be any more thorough with it than you are right now.
 
I purposely did not shopping this weekend because I didnt want beer in the house as that has messed me up both last weekend and the weekend before. Yesterday I did nothing at all.. really nothing.. like nothing nothing!

This morning I got up at 8:30am and went hiking. It was a great morning and I feel fantastic. I am back on the couch now though haha :) I like relaxing at weekends. I will do some housework in a bit and have some lean ground beef in the fridge which I will make something with for dinner.

My muscles in my arms, both forearms and top of arms, are much more visible now and my lats are popping out. I think this pull up bar I got is the best thing in the world :) I have a rule now... every time I go to the toilet I have to do at least 3 pull ups. I now look forward to it :)

Tip of the day: get a pull up bar and leave it in place where you will use it. They are amazing pieces of equipment.
 
Went to see Inception last night... didnt like it. I love movies and particularly those which involve less explosions and more thinking. This had all the potential to be a great movie but I think the script and editing let it down. Suppose some people will love it but it wasnt for me.

I had popcorn so it was okay :) I have had a craving for ice-cream for days now and it is unusual because I never usually eat ice-cream. When I came out of the cinema I went and got a wendys strawberry frosty shake... damn those things are fantastic lol. I am still sticking to my dont deny myself anything regime so if I want ice-cream then I get ice-cream so long as its not often.

I feel so incredible and have done for the past few days. I cant describe it. I feel powerful like someone has injected me with something. I feel like I could run for miles or lift weights all day. I woke up this morning at 6am... usually I wake up at 8. When I woke up I didnt feel all weak. You know when you wake up if you try to make a fist you cant well this morning I woke up and I could make a very strong fist. I jumped out of bed and did some pull ups.

This is a very unusual feeling for me, it is like someone has flicked the turbo switch. Maybe its the way I have been eating lately?? maybe its the 5 miles a night or maybe its the push ups and pull ups but it just seems to have come out of nowhere.

To prove if this is all in my head or not I am going to try break my 5 mile record tonight or tomorrow and see if I can beat my best time.

Feeling great :)
 
Another 5 miles down tonight, phew its hot out there!

Weight loss is weird! I had been losing it all off my waist and now it seems to all be dropping off my chest..

I have been on my pull up bar a few times per day, every time I walk past it. I know I should be working to a program with sets and reps but at this moment in time I just cant stick to that so I am doing the best I can. I estimate I did maybe 20 unassisted pull ups throughout the day today.

I got my average time per mile down to 15.3 minutes which is my fastest yet.

When I went out to do some shopping last week I wore a nice tight sweater that I bought a few months ago but it was too tight around the middle. It looked good :) I felt good :)

For the past few weeks I have been taking only liquids on Mondays and Tuesdays but today I felt hungry so I ate. I had some brown rice for lunch. Some salad with a roasted yellow bell pepper cut in to big chunks and two eggs...hmmm that sounds a bit rotten but its what I wanted at the time. I had a couple of apples too.

By no means a high calorie day but I just had what I felt like having. The weigh in for the July challenge is on Thursday and I would really like to be at 200 for it... its probably a big ask but Ill give it a try. I am going to try get 5 miles in every night this week.

Im gonna funk this week up!

Tip of the day: have you forgotten how good apples taste?? mmmMMmmm eat apples.
 
Tip of the day: have you forgotten how good apples taste?? mmmMMmmm eat apples.
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Yay apples! I eat them with peanut butter. very tasty. Good work on the pull ups. 20 is a lot, even if spread throughout the day.
 
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