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Benny Bent

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Hi folks, I'm Benny :p 22 years old, 107 kg ( 236 lbs I think but I never use LBS so sorry if I'm wrong ) I'm 176 cm tall ( approximately ).

So, I'm trying to lose some weight and since I'm having a lot of spare time recently I've thought about it a lot and a lot and started to eat healthy like 2 weeks ago and I also have some "self-training" such as :

I have a dog ( english setter ) it's the kind of dog who loves to run for hours in a row and that's a good thing because I also love to do that, I walk my dog every day no exception for around 1 hour and 30 minutes in the morning, and for 1 h 30 to 2 h in the evening ( it can get up to 4 hours if I take a very long path )
I'll give more infos about this, I live in a little village up there in the mountain & forest, so I usually take a lot of slopping path which make it harder but I wondered does it make it better if you look at it as an exercice? (after all walking is cardio )

I've also started to make some exercices in the morning after waking up such as :
50 sit-up & some squat in between to not make it too redundant, I've tried to make push-up but with my weight I can only do 5 in a row before having to stop ( still do it tho )

I'm walking my dog every day, every morning, every evening, no exception, I guess it helps? Also I'm planning to do the exercices every morning and maybe after noon.

I'm looking for informations on how I could make my day more efficient ( like more exercices, or better exercices ) to reach my goal ( losing weight obviously ), I'm also looking for opinion on the thing I already do daily. If you answer me consider the fact that I'm completly free of time for some time, I don't have anything almost to focus on except that.

Thanks a lot for reading me, I hope I made myself clear enough as english is not my native language.

If I forgot to say something, don't hesitate to ask.
 
hi Benny Bent! i thought your english was great by the way:) i am told my southern english is not to good either lol
so wow! sounds like you do a lot of walking! that is great! and i love animals...great exercise buddies:) i like cats lol and all they do is sleep while i exercise:)
so if i read correctly you have hills and straight places to walk which is great id like to ask if you dont mind do you increase your speed at all when you are walking? this is great for your cardio..anytime we do cardio for more than an hour straight your body will adjust and so will your muscles so if you havent already, try maybe every 3 minutes mixind up your speed..start slow..sometimes you can find a graph online or chart that will help you with the timeing and what to do with it..but 3 minutes of walking 30 seconds of hard jogging...3 minutes of walking...30 seconds of sprinting...5 minutes of walking 40 seconds of hard jogging...5 minutes of walking...40 seconds of sprinting...and so on...so the goal is to build up your intensity for 3/4ths of your exercise total time and spend the last part in a cool down steady pace...this is totally going to put your heart and muscles in a state of confusion and recovery so this is very good for you, just be careful and talk with your doc before and exercise change;) hope this helps! and dont forget nutrition is where you wanna start!!! bc without nutrition you cant keep exercising like you want to!! have a great day!!!!
 
My speed fluctuates a lot when I walk, when the ground is flat I walk like really fast and since my dog ( he's leashed only for the village, I unleash him in the nature ) pulls a lot it usually make me go even faster, when it goes up I tend to try to stay as fast as possible, sometimes I even sprint for a while.
Because of how it is where I live the roads are never ever really flat, I either always have to go up, or go down, and sometimes the slopes are really hardcore so I basically never keep the same speed. There's always a moment in my walk where I strip or jog for some minutes.
So, that's it for what I do, I'll try to take pictures of the place where I walk when the sun decides to hit in.

I doubt I'm gonna see a doctor about that by the way, just so you know, but I know that you need to eat more protein, eggs/special meats if you wanna keep exercising a lot, right?

Thanks for your reply, appreciate it.
 
Tomorrow it's sunny, so I'm gonna take my camera ( this time I won't forget it since I'm sure i'm gonna check this forum and read this post tomorrow morning, have a good night everyone.
 
[video=youtube;711Dk0PYX_Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=711Dk0PYX_Q[/video]

Here's a lot of pictures of one of my walkthrough, you can see numerous slope ( even tho on pictures they don't like as hardcore as they are in real )
You also can see my dog, a female english setter named Canha ( means Canine If I remember correctly. )
You can see a place in the middle of a forest where there's a lot of water.

This is a 2 hours path ( fast walking )
 
Day's not starting well, my family has hard time understand I wanna lose some weight apparently, mother making some very hyper-caloric lunch for noon, dunno how to avoid that.


So, out of curiosity I tried to calculate the amount of calories I'd eat today, and it's around : 932 to 1xxx ( Well, can't be sure at 100%, it's kinda approximative and it looks really low to me, I wish there was an easier way to know exactly how many calories you eat )

breakfast/lunch/dinner

I never eat in-between.

I wonder if my 4 hours walks/day ( without counting the extras I'm gardening a lot before the evening ) is enough to make up for these calories.

If someone could point me in the right direction to calculate my calories eaten each day, I'd appreciate it, I tried to use the application from fitday, but I've never in my life seen an application being so buggy, it's just unbelievable.

Cheers
 
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Ok, I've tried to use ' livestrong ' website, it tells me I'm eating/gonna eat today for 1290 calories, it's already a lot more accurate I guess.
 
Hello Benny!

Thanks for stopping by my diary. :)

Great posts. If I read everything correctly, you are 22, 5'9" and 236 lbs (for the metric challenged out here, like myself). You are trying to eat "healthy" but didn't elaborate what that means to you (as it means different things to different people). You said you never eat between the three meals per day. That tells me that IF you are eating healthy foods (well balanced between greens, fruits, fats, carbs and proteins) and IF you are monitoring your portions (watching the 2nds and giant plates of food) and IF you are taking in a lot of water (I shoot for 6-7 liters per day), THEN with the 2-3 hours of exercise you are getting daily, you should see some improvements fairly soon.

As far as Mom making you high calorie meals or at least non diet friendly meals, I think there are a couple of things to do: Cook for yourself, simply explain to her that you're serious about eating differently and not eat it, or do what I do when I am in a similar situation-- eat something filling and healthy RIGHT before their meal... I'll eat a salad, celery with albacore salad, a whole avocado w/ shrimp, something like that.

By the way, your written English is better than many native speakers, so don't worry. Where are you? The countryside photos are pretty-- remind me of Oregon a little.

Good luck on your journey to better health!
 
Don Keykong said:
Hello Benny!

Thanks for stopping by my diary. :)

Great posts. If I read everything correctly, you are 22, 5'9" and 236 lbs (for the metric challenged out here, like myself). You are trying to eat "healthy" but didn't elaborate what that means to you (as it means different things to different people). You said you never eat between the three meals per day. That tells me that IF you are eating healthy foods (well balanced between greens, fruits, fats, carbs and proteins) and IF you are monitoring your portions (watching the 2nds and giant plates of food) and IF you are taking in a lot of water (I shoot for 6-7 liters per day), THEN with the 2-3 hours of exercise you are getting daily, you should see some improvements fairly soon.

As far as Mom making you high calorie meals or at least non diet friendly meals, I think there are a couple of things to do: Cook for yourself, simply explain to her that you're serious about eating differently and not eat it, or do what I do when I am in a similar situation-- eat something filling and healthy RIGHT before their meal... I'll eat a salad, celery with albacore salad, a whole avocado w/ shrimp, something like that.

By the way, your written English is better than many native speakers, so don't worry. Where are you? The countryside photos are pretty-- remind me of Oregon a little.

Good luck on your journey to better health!
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Thanks for posting :p

First of all, I'm from France, southest.

I'm now 231 lbs ^^
My mom usually make very dietetic meals and for that I'm lucky, but today was an exception, I've still eaten like her, but my portion are a lot smaller now, I've walked 4 hours 30 or so today, the sun was really outstanding today and it was quite hot.

As for what I eat, I used to never eat in the morning, now every morning I eat an apple & I drink a glass of milk ( before going to walk my dog ), and for the dinner I usually eat the same thing as noon but in a lot smaller portion.

I drink up to 3 liters of water/day atm.
 
Today it was french fries & some tuna for noon, I've paid attention to what I was eating, I didn't abuse. I also kicked the mayo off my diet, and after reading some informations on the internet I decided to eat my french fries with some mustard ( apparently it's really low caloric and it's even not bad for the health ) Since it kinda hurts the tongue I didn't really eat a lot of mustard like almost nothing, not even a little spoon, french fries natural taste was enough I guess.

I've drank already 1 liter and half of water today.
 
Que belle paysage pour une promenade...

Lol c'etait trop longtemps quand je parle francais...
So pardon my french :)

Bienvenue au WLF.
 
I haven't talked about my goal so far, I just weighted myself ( it's not 100% accurate since I just ate my lunch and I drank already a lot today but I was curious ) I'm right now at : 232 lbs which is 105 kg ( approx )

My it look as a little goal, I would really like to get to 218 lbs ( which would be under the 100 kg bar ) it would be the first time for a good 6 to 10 years imo, it'd be really awesome.

So I have 13 lbs ( 6 kg approx ) to lose right now ! If I ever do it, I feel like it'll be a great thing for my moral.
 
Everybody is different, but I do think that 0.5% to 1.0% of your weekly starting weight is a very achievable loss goal. In your case, that could equate to one or two pounds per week. If your goal is drop below 200, that would take from 16 weeks to 32 weeks. Our body is a balance; if you can find that right combination of food, drink, exercise and rest, you can tip the scales so your weight drops. Good luck!
 
Thanks DonKeykong for the information.

So I weighted myself this morning ( after I ate my breakfast unfortuntaely ) and I'm at 103,9 kg ( around 229 lbs if I'm not wrong )

I'm soon gonna do my first walk of the day, have a good day everyone!

It's sunny here this morning.
 
My parents went to the grocery shop and even tho I told em to not buy what they used to buy me ( aka drinkable yoghurt also known as Yop aka 71 kcal for every 100 mg... ) they still bought me a bottle and I kinda drink half of it ( 250 calories in less than 10 minutes... ) and I've finally ended up throwing the rest of the bottle in the toilet and I flushed it.

I'm not proud for flushing foods into the toilet, you're not supposed to do that, but really this is frustrating, my parents are not helping at all when they do such things.

/rage off

I'm gonna walk my dog soon, it should be enough to burn that yoghurt down. And I'll try to eat less this evening.
 
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