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antonito

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I've always been pretty big, but in the last 2 years I got way out of control. I didn't even realise it since the scale I had didn't go any higher than 320 (my average weight since highschool). Then one day I was at a museum and they had a "what prehistoric mammal are you the size of?" scales. Turns out I was 420 lbs (a small prehistoric bear, in case you are wondering).

Ouch.

I hit the gym last October (so approx 9 months ago). So far I've lost about 20 lbs net, although how much was fat lost and how much was muscle gained I'll never know. Wish I'd gone and gotten a proper body fat test. I do know that strength wise I've made terrific gains, but my lack of proper diet and sheer lazyness when it comes to cardio is what brings me here. I've been winging it for the last 9 months, and although better than how I was before, I need to start organizing, setting goals, etc

I want to lose weight for all the usual reasons. I don't want to stand out in a crowd. I want to live past 40 without massive heart failure. If I make it past 40, I want to not have to be in a wheel chair because my body has fallen apart. I'm mad at myself that I've gained 140lbs since I first met my wife. That's just not fair to her.

I want to be happy
 
What would you say makes you lazy about doing cardio?

Does it wear you out too much after you are done or are you doing too much of it when you do cardio exercises?

How many minutes of cardio do you do once you get around to it and what kind of cardio is it biking, jogging or what?

I find when I do it on my stationary bike playing music constantly on my stereo or watching movies or playing videogames helps me forget how tedious it can be and I get the job done.

Tediousness was why I didn't like to do it but it became easier once I found something to do to mask its tediousness.
 
I have the problem that if I push myself hard enough to not become bored, I end up hurting myself, since at my weight my body does not want to support me running. If I just walk on the treadmill or slowly do the bike or elliptical, it is like you said, tedious. So I would just make excuses not to do cardio.

I've tried using an IPod or watching the TVs, but it's just annoying because all I can think about is "this is getting me no where, I'd be better off sitting in a sauna at this rate" I know fitness wise I can do more, so it's frustrating.

Luckily right now it's beautiful weather so I've been walking or biking outside with friends and my wife, and it's very easy to do cardio when there are other people around. I can go at a pace that avoids injury, yet because I have people around and it's the outdoors (as opposed to staring at a wall in the gym), I don't get bored, so I can go for long enough to get the benefit. My hope is that if I can keep this up till the cold hits in November (and it gets cold here, let me tell you), I'll have gotten my weight to a level where I can push myself enough to not be wasting my time, but without the injuries. It's only been in the last 50 pounds or so that I've been having the soreness in the knees and ankles after walking or running, so hopefully if I alleviate the stress it'll fix itself. It's not a chronic injury, I've had enough of those to know what those feel like, I can just feel that it's my joints going WARNING, OVERLOAD, OVERLOAD
 
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