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Hi everyone, My name is Travis and I'm a fat boy. (Ok, so the AA meeting like doesn't work so well in this context). This is an almost exact duplicate of my newbie post, but I wanted to start a journal and thought I covered everything pretty well in the other thread.

I'm a 25 year old, 6'4'' tall male, who has a pretty inactive lifestyle due to my job as a software developer. At the start of my journey (12/2/2007) I was 282.5lb. As of right now (12/9/2007) I am 274.5lb. Unfortunately most of that was lean mass (water or muscle) as I measured only a 3.5lb fat loss. I am measuring my weight and fat loss using a scale with built-in body fat %.

Some stats from my first day:
BF% Lower body (from scale): 31.5%
BF% Upper body (from hand-held meter): 26.5%
AVG BF%: 29%
Weight: 282.5lb

My Goal is to be:
215lb with 10% body fat (yes I know this is a BIG jump) by December of next year.

Previously I've been down to 235lbs (not sure on the BF% tho). At the same time I was doing this however, I was learning how to be more attractive (looks are a very very small part of this come to find out) to women (long story that involves getting completed screwed over by this one girl and deciding I didn't want that scenario to play out ever again). Unfortunately these two goals conflicted as when I got down to a lower weight I started running into extremely shallow women who were overly obsessive with physical appearance rather than other bonds. Regardless, I'm now in a very healthy relationship with a little ectomorph (she's 5'3 at 100lbs and eats like a dwarf training for a tossing match).

At this point I feel it is the time to change my appearance and life in a way I've always wanted. I do understand that other people really don't want me to succeed, I am the only one that will make it possible, etc. I'm posting here mainly as a motivation mechanism for myself, since if I make details of my journey to come public failure isn't really an option to me (I did the same thing with the above stuff involving becoming more attractive).

I plan on using a workout plan created by James Villefigue and Hugo Rivera that involves caloric cycling and adjusting workout so you don't over/under train.

Any thoughts, comments, motivational talk, etc would be appreciated.
Thanks,
 
welcome to your diary and to the site...

Comments - hmm- we like having boys here so glad to have you - especially geek boys... who are really tall...

Read around the forum, especially the stickied threads you'll get lots of information... and ask questions -- there's plenty of helpful people around who know lots...

Enjoy your stay and have fun and just take it day by day -this is a lifestyle change... and there are always bumps in the road -just keep going forward whe those bumps occur
 
Ok, well day 7 went something like this (I'm still not tracking my calorie intake since I'm basically following the diet laid out in the book I'm using, I did start up on SparkPeople earlier so that should make it easier to calorie count like I'm supposed to be doing). Unfortunately when trying to get into shape in the past I've always neglected my legs since I feel like passing out when doing leg workouts. This was bad enough that last time the doctor hooked me up to a portable EKG meter and told me to go try to pass out, oddly enough other than a few points where my heart rate reached 170 (I did cardio and went a bit over the top) there wasn't anything bad going on. At this point I'm ruling the pass out feeling as a "out of shape" feeling, so I'm going to tough through it for now and see how it works out.

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Workout:
Warm-up -- 10mins on treadmill at 3.5mph
Stretch for 5 minutes (did quad, hamstring and static rolled my back).
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The general idea for the first month of this workout plan is get your body used to working out, get all the little stabilizer muscles in shape, then start lifting heavier weights. The week I'm on states I should do alternating sets where I do Excerise #1, then #2, then back to #1 for set 2, then back to #2 for set 2. Same goes for 3/4, 5/6, and 7/8. In the week I'm in I take a 90-120 second rest between sets (later weeks get more intense with no rest between sets, then a giant set where you group 1-4 and 5-8 with no rest).
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Actual workout (All of these weights are per arm holding a weight not totaled with 90sec rest):
Dumb Squats: 2 sets, 15-20 reps (15x15lb and 15x15lb)
Dumb Lunges: 2 sets, 15-20 reps (15x10lb and 12x5lb)
(pass-out feeling happened here)
Ballet Squats: 2 sets, 15-20 reps (15x15lb and 15x15lb)
Stiff Leg Dead Lift: 2 sets, 15-20reps (15x10lb and 15x10lb)
Standing Calf Raises (1 Leg): 2 sets, 15-20 reps (15xBW, 15xBW)
Dumb Shoulder Press on Ball: 2 sets, 15-20 reps (15x15lb, 15x15lb)
Calf Raise Machine (2 legs): 2 sets, 15-20 reps (15x70lb, 15x70lb) (this burns like you wouldn't believe)
Bent over lateral raises: 2 sets, 15-20 reps (15x5lb, 15x5lb)
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And a finishing stretch.


I also downed a protein shake post workout with chromium picolinate, vitamin C, and creatine monohydrate (I'm attempting to lose weight while actually gaining (or staying at the same) muscle mass so I'm hoping that stuff should help. If anyone is reading this, do you have any experience using the suppliments I mentioned?

Btw, Amplify protein taste pretty darn good when you mix it with skim milk.
 
Stats update - 12/10/2007

Weight: 273.5lb
Upper BF% (handheld): 25.1%
Lower BF% (scale): 31.0%
Avg BF%: 28.1%
 
Monday's Stats:
Walking/Ellipitcal Machine Combo 33min 310cals

Did simple ab workout consisting of this ab solo machine that you do crunches with a medicine ball over your head, and use your abs to throw the ball at a target (it's actually quite fun but burns like crazy after like 15).

So:
Ab Solo Machine: 2 sets, 25x9lb ball and 20x9lb ball
Inclined Leg lifts (about a 15 degree incline): 2 sets, 15xleg weight, and 15xleg weight

As far as eating, I actually tracked everything I ate today, and let me tell you trying to squeeze 2300 calories into my stomach isn't as easy as I thought it would be (I feel like throwing up right now I'm so full, maybe I should eat more dense foods?). I'm also still pretty carb heavy, I think I need to cut about 40 grams of carbs, and add 10g to fat and the rest (18g) to protein.
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Totals for food are:
2,249calories
338g carbs
41g fat
135g protein
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Breakfast:
Clif Builder's Bar
Centrum with Lycopene
Vitamin C (1000mg)
Chromium Picolinate
Creatine Monohydrate

Snack #1:
Amplify Smoothie
1.5 cups skim milk

Lunch:
Subway 6'' turkey breast sub
Creatine Monohydrate

Snack #2:
Subway 6'' turkey breast sub

Dinner:
Fazoli's bread sticks (2 servings)
Fazoli's Spaghetti w/ Marinara Sauce (regular)
Creatine Monohydrate

After Workout Snack:
Amplify Smoothie
1.5 cups skim milk
Clif Builder's Bar
 
Glad to see ya here :) Theres a whole load of good info on this site, and lots of people to talk to, so its a great place to be! One thing with the creatine- make sure you are drinking LOTS of water, cuz its sucking water into your muscle tissue, and you can dehydrate yourself pretty easily... Other than that- your whole plan looks really good :) I need to make a better plan for myself I think, lol...
 
Ya, I heard it can give you kidney stones if you don't drink enough. I'm drinking .66 oz of water per lb of body weight. Aka, today I drank 16 8oz cups (might be why I feel extremely full).
 
I'm sick again (everytime I try to work out I end up getting flu like symptoms after a few weeks).

I've not been to the gym yesterday or today. Currently have a temp of 99.3. I've kept up with my diet plan and have determined that eatting 2300 calories per day is extremely tough. If I don't pre-plan what I'm going to eat I seem to fall into the 1800-2100 range.
 
I'm feeling a lot better this morning. Ive still got a sore throat but my fever broke and I'm down to my normal 97.7 degrees. I should be able to work out tonight if everything goes well.
 
Actually, I just got back.

I kinda slacked on my diet today, work was so busy I only ate twice :(

I did upper body tonight (chest, back and arms), I'm starting to think there might be a mental component to my sickness I get after a couple of weeks of working out?
 
272.5lbs......Score! I've offically lost exactly 10lbs since 12/2/2007. According to my fancy body fat meters (ok, probably not that accurate but still) and some magically math, I've calculated that I actually lost 6.5lbs of fat and 3.5lbs of lean mass (I'm assuming either muscle or water weight).

So that's a wonderfully unhealthy 5lbs per week (thankfully only 3.25lbs of fat per week).
 
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