Looking to lose an extra human I apparently picked up along the way

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MrVee said:
Hey carrie__,

Greetings to all my fans in Bournemouth. Up the Cherries!!
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Pah! As if you know about AFC Bournemouth all the way over in Arizona. Amazing.

MrVee said:
Yeah when I get to 161, the idea will be to add muscle. The problem with dropping this much weight is that you wind up with the dreaded "loose skin" issue that often comes with it. Now fortunately mine's not nearly as bad as some cases I've seen, but it's there. Having read up on it, the two things that mitigate it somewhat are: surgery, and low body fat percentage. The first is expensive and painful and I view that as a last resort. The second depends a lot on how much lean muscle mass you've retained while losing the weight. As it stands now, even down at 161, I probably don't have enough to get my body fat percentage down where I'd like it to be. But it's also very difficult to add muscle mass and lose fat at the same time. So the idea is to lose fat first then add the muscle (and you can then hope maybe you can add a little muscle during the first part if you're very lucky). Then ultimately I may "rinse and repeat" as I don't want to go below 160 pounds as that's just too small for me. (at 5'11" a weight of 161 is a 22.5 BMI).
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Do you think that because you exercised a lot through out your transformation, your issues with loose skin are less than other people who had a similar start weight? So you'd only do surgery as a last resort? Don't blame you there.

22.5 is an excellent BMI goal. I might set that goal for myself too.

Great news about your new size 32 jeans!!! :cheers2::cheers2:

Hope your day is going well.
 
carrie__ said:
Pah! As if you know about AFC Bournemouth all the way over in Arizona. Amazing.
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Championship Manager was a weakness of mine back in the day. Not so much anymore. Used to try and take Forest Green Rovers to the Prem.

171 this morning which is a nice bounce back. 30 day weight trend has today at 170.2 which is as good a guess as any to my "true" weight if such a thing exists.

Workout done and watching the White Sox day game while I work. Lunch soon.
 
Gravity still sucks even when your skinny eh? Gald it's heading in the right direction and nice job getting in your set after the R.O.S.!
 
So I got the word back on my Sunday date and indeed she is not interested in a 2nd date. So this puts me at around 0 for 14 on the "1st date, no second date" scoreboard. Something like that. *counts up using phone contacts* Looks like 0 for 12 is the actual count, so not quite as bad as 0 for 14, but pretty close. Enough that there's only 10 unique names among the 12.

So I think the strategy now changes from being myself on these dates to going ahead and being someone else entirely. Maybe I'll go take an acting class or something for help with this...
 
Awe, I'm sorry MrVee. That is quite surprising to me because you seem so charismatic in your posts and your videos which is an attractive feature. Don't try to change, because then who you end up with is someone that doesn't like YOU, they only like who you pretend to be, and in my opinion people don't change. They can sometimes compromise, but actually changing who they are will never be permanent.
This sounds bad to say on a weight loss site, and I'm not trying to say people can't change their eating/exercise habits and keep them changed (though the large majority of people do gain weight back and fall out of the good habits) but ones ingrained personality and habits are very hard to change and will mean a life long struggle to keep them changed and most people don't have the perseverance to do it. And in the case of ones personality, they shouldn't change it because that is who they are. They can make some compromises, but out and out change would be near impossible to sustain for ones whole life, and a person would never be able to relax constantly having to fight who they are.
 
MysticRealm said:
Awe, I'm sorry MrVee. That is quite surprising to me because you seem so charismatic in your posts and your videos which is an attractive feature.
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I agree.
You seem like an excellent person. Funny, intelligent, attractive, active. I don't know what's wrong with these women(men? One should never assume either way... this is not meant to offend.). These dates must have been happening to teach you something so that you when you meet the right person, it'll all be smooth sailing. You can't change for someone else. There's no need to either.

I definitely went on a good... 30 failed online dates before I met my one. :beating::beating::beating: You'll find them... it will take a while longer than 12 dates. Maybe your person is out there in the real world. I met my partner at work, and now I look back and roll my eyes about all the time I wasted getting to know profiles online.

You're so busy doing you at the moment, you know... getting in the best shape ever. You're waiting for a very special person who isn't going to hold you back.

Great news about your current weight. :D :D
 
171.5 this morning.

Today's cardio: walk to gym, Then incline walking. 3 minute warm up at level ground, then 21 minutes at max incline (15%) and then one minute for the incline to go back down. Get drink, walk around for a minute. Get back on and do 5.5% incline for 24 minutes and then a minute for the incline to go back down. Walk home from gym.

Carrie__,

Yes it's women and no you did not nor would not offend me otherwise.
 
:) I don´t vote at all, sometimes things just happen. You look good, you´re fit, you seem like a nice guy - if you radiate a bit of self-love and confidence you will find your fit. I´ve been single for the past... four years (?) and that´s ok because I haven´t seen anyone I´d be compatible with. (In part because I didn´t go out to look for them and in part because real compatibility is relatively rare and I refuse to bend over backwards till my spine breaks just to please people like I did when I was younger.)
 
LaMaria said:
:) I don´t vote at all, sometimes things just happen. You look good, you´re fit, you seem like a nice guy - if you radiate a bit of self-love and confidence you will find your fit. I´ve been single for the past... four years (?) and that´s ok because I haven´t seen anyone I´d be compatible with. (In part because I didn´t go out to look for them and in part because real compatibility is relatively rare and I refuse to bend over backwards till my spine breaks just to please people like I did when I was younger.)
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Here, here! There is nothing wrong with you Vee. Don't change, don't pretend to be someone you're not. The self-love & self confidence will come & then if it happens it happens. I hope it does xoCate
 
170 even this morning. Good to see that number come back down.

Thanks for all the support guys. Not quite as optimistic as you guys, but we'll see.
 
Okay I've been kind of a pain in the ass lately, so let's have some fun now. Straight old school action right here, updated with modern info:

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For the newer folks, I used to post this a lot. I tracked my weight for a very long time and would make charts of it along with a simple mathematical curve that best fit the data so far. It was my staple.

As you can probably figure out, the red dots are my actual weigh-in weights for that day, the blue line is the model.

Now the model has understandably veered off course here and there as it no longer fits the data as well as it used to. But amusingly the model's predicted weight for today?

170. :)
 
You have not been a pain in the arse Vee. You may have felt you were, but you are not. It is very funny that your model predicted 170 for today, but not really surprising, considering your consistent determination! I will remain optimistic btw & look forward to the day when you find the one for you. Cheers, xo Cate
 
And finally a new video. In the plan to behave differently on dates, with a focus on less talking, I need to work on my sexy stares. Here's my first practice session:

[video]https://youtu.be/IcF9xCz6cu8[/video]
 
:D I think the new video just made my day (even though out of focus). Honestly though: you look hottest when you´re not really trying (and just smiling or laughing for a second). By far!
 
170.5 this morning. On this date in 2014: 189.5. On this date in 2013: 263.5.
 
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