The Gamer's Diary

Cheetos is nothing, I had a massive fried chicken takeaway last night. Was my birthday so I treated myself to a PS3 and some junk food, was a good night :)
 
Frosteh said:
Cheetos is nothing, I had a massive fried chicken takeaway last night. Was my birthday so I treated myself to a PS3 and some junk food, was a good night :)
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I was nervous about weekends at first because I usually do A LOT of gaming over the weekend, well not the last 3 weeks because I have been face deep in all the seasons of Chuck that I am re-watching. I ate that 12 piece nugget from Chick-Fil-A and immediatly felt bad afterwards. I feel like, if I cheat than those are extra calories that could have been good food to bring me a step forward, instead of a step back. Plus I am EXTREMLY paranoid about not losing anything..so tomorrow will is making me a little nervous lol.
 
Just keep plugging away...I had pizza last night after a whole week of doing good so I exercised a little longer this morning. :) I've been playing COD black ops zombies.wiyh my hubby so my thumbs are getting quite the workout!
 
My brother LOVES CoD. I am persnoally more of a RPG computer type of gamer.

And I will keep pluggin away..all you can do really. On the up side, I just found out who will see me tomorrow and it's the same PA that I saw last time....needless to say she is rather breathtaking.
 
Did a weigh in today at the docs office when they checked out my knee....going back in about and hour to get an x-ray yay lol. Getting some anti-inflam meds and yea stuff.

Anyways..on to the weight loss! After coming of a massive 20 pound loss this was a little disappointing but to be honest, it's still a good loss. Dropped another 6 pounds in about 2 weeks! 26 pounds total loss in 6 weeks! 54 pounds to go to hit my goal of 80 pounds by Dec. 31st. Wish it was more...GLAD it's not less :p

Current weight is 355!!!!!
 
Hey man! Like some of the others your title drew me in here lol. Im a WoW player myself, have played for 5-6 years. Seems youre making proress and a half there! Those 6 lbs in 2 weeks is still good! You wanted to lose 12 lbs per month did u say?? keep up the good work and you'll get there. I know what you mean about cheating, sometimes i can be so strong and ill be thinking about getting something bad but then ill be like naahh dont wanna ruin my diet :) good job so far!
 
Today is not starting out well lol. Just got roped into this huge job at work that I am stressing my ass off over, I had my first real cheat meal last night and still feel wonderful today and I work up late for work lol.

I think I wanted that cheat meal because I was so amazingly stress about this new project. Hopefully it will tone down after a while. Knee is getting worse and it's becoming a pain in the ass to workout...which pisses me off.

Not a bad bad day..not a great day, just a really blah day.
 
Cheat meals can keep you from going insane. Just make sure they don't turn into cheat days or cheat weeks :p. Perhaps it's a good idea to schedule a cheat meal, so you can look forward to it. It might keep you more motivated to not cheat the rest of the days :p.

Anyways, good job on the weight loss so far. 26 pounds is great, took me a lot longer to lose that :p. Keep on eating healthy and continue the exercise!
 
Snezy said:
Cheat meals can keep you from going insane. Just make sure they don't turn into cheat days or cheat weeks :p. Perhaps it's a good idea to schedule a cheat meal, so you can look forward to it. It might keep you more motivated to not cheat the rest of the days :p.

Anyways, good job on the weight loss so far. 26 pounds is great, took me a lot longer to lose that :p. Keep on eating healthy and continue the exercise!
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Thanks buddy, getting down into the 340's will be a big deal for me. I was around 320 when I was like 20 so getting to that point will just make my day.

Things are going well so far. Still staying away from cokes and fast food....minus my cheat meal. Workin out alot, knee is getting a lot better and ya my 48's are damn near falling off of me! Just going to keep pluggin away.

Also...I REALLY REALLY REALLY want a steak right now. I might go order one from Texas Roadhouse and take it home haha :p
 
I try and not make excuses for wanting to eat bad food, things like getting stressed really shouldn't be determining how we eat because that gives us no control over our diets and I believe we need to be more in control than that.

I think that people dieting need to acknowledge that tasty food is good and that we deserve to eat tasty food from time to time, you can eat that sort of thing in moderation and still lose weight.

You shouldn't feel bad about eating something you enjoy from time to time, just make sure you keep it in check and it doesn't undermine your diet.

Also your first few weeks of weightloss usually result in a one off large initial drop so it's entirely normal that you're losing less in the following weeks, it's a downward trend the closer to your target weight you get, the harder each lb becomes to lose. I made the transition between losing 3lbs a week to about 2lbs per week, it sucks but at this stage I'm not in a massive rush to drop all of my weight, nothing to be gained by trying to rush it.
 
You are correct my friend, the trick is not to stop eating bad food completely, but to know how to control it so you don't only eat bad food.

I had some chicken wings on Saturday, that the sauce on them wasnt the most healthy one you could get. I don't really see them as cheat meals, but more of meals that I know I should only have once a week.

Also keep up the great work man, you will be running 5 miles a day in no time.
 
Thanks for the comments yall, I don't feel to awful bad about it. Tasted great and it was a nice treat. I finally started cooking chicken this week. I pair it with some AMAZING slap yo mama seasoning that I rub on it. Sometimes I like the breast with a slice of cheese and some whole grain bread but usually I will just eat it alone.

As far as I know chicken is very very low in fat and better for me than beef so hopefully that will help food wise in my weight loss goals.

Frosteh: As far as it getting slower, I of course knew that would happen and eventually it will plateau. My plan is to box for 2 weeks / run for 2 weeks so that my routine is always changing. As far as food goes...it never changes hardly and honestly that won't change, this is what I feel comfortable eating for the rest of my life and I don't want to change it. I am sure that might make the process a little more slow but this was never a race. Looking back on my last 6 pounds, it really was a big deal. Hopefully I can pull 10 pounds a month but we will see.

MLB: 5 miles is nuts! lol My knee is FINALLY getting better, no pain what so ever. I am going to give it another week just to be 100% sure everything is relaxed and then get back to jogging, hopefully longer than 2 miles a day but we will see.

I am at the point where I just can't make myself sick of wether or not I will lose. I eat less and exercise...I know I will lose it just might be slow. To be honest...it needs to be slow, the more time my skin has to shrink back rather than hang the better.

Thanks for all who read my diary, lets hope my next weigh in show 4 more pounds!! 30 pounds is so close!
 
Glad to hear the knee is feeling better, don't rush back into exercise or you'll risk doing more damage.


I know how you feel, at first weight loss is interesting there's a lot to learn and understand and initial loss is high and generally you're not so worried about losing because the first few lbs fly off, it's kind of fun and a bit light hearted. But then later on it starts getting more serious, you've invested in your new body with a lot of exercise and diet so you don't want to see bad numbers and you start to really worry that you won't get the payoff you deserve.


I'm past a lot of that now, routine is the key I feel, get into a good routine and stick to it, have confidence that a good routine will work eventually you've just got to persist at it.
 
Way to hit the nail on the head brother, that is extactly how I feel. All this work for what 2 pounds? Hardly seems worth it..but in reality it is. I am sure eventually i will start seeing 2 pounds every month maybe but I think that bridge is still a long way away. If I can keep hitting 6 pounds every 2 weeks I will be beyond HAPPY. If not....hey, it's a lose you know. Over the last, almost 8 weeks, it's turned from a diet, to how I actually live my life. Some days I don't work out and others I do...but I hardly ever ever compromise with my diet....like tonight for instance, I just straight killed me legs last night in my workout, so tonight I will be just relaxing. Seeing as how this is my new life.....why not have it come off as it will. Granted some day I feel bad I didn't workout but sometimes one does not have to go 100% every second of everyday.


Everything else is going pretty well...I am eating a TON of chicken haha. I got the slap yo mama seasoning and I just go to town. I could eat the chicken I make for the rest of my life I swear haha. Which is probably a good thing. I pan fry it in a little extra virgin olive oil, which I saw is high in monosat. fat. which is good fat so that's nice, fry it for 3-4 mins on each side and it's perfect. 10 times better than what I used to eat at chick-fil-a haha. So far so good, week 8 on Sunday, my plan is to make it to Dec. 31st. and post my six month pics 1 week at a time or maybe a slide show, I have no decided. Either way it should be pretty drastic haha. Thanks to those who read this..I love posting!


BTW...this new site is going to take a little time getting used too lol.
 
ANice to see the pieces fit together isn't it? I am on week 7 I think as of monday (I didn't really pick a day as an official day because I just want it to be my new life) and I feel the same way. My goal is to do workouts 5 days a week, currently was cardio on a tread with high incline for 1 hour each of the 5 days. Somedays I miss it, some days I don't do the full hour. For the most part its a large improvement then before and I have the results on the scale and my waist to prove it (I actually have to wear a belt now lol) and It's great. I am going to be starting weight lifting soon too. I also am addicted to chicken as of late. I don't mind salmon but fresh stuff is expensive and I try to stay away from the canned stuff although its not that bad other then the sodium count.

If chicken was considered a vegetable then I would be officially a vegetarian. Keep at it radio, my goal was from 6 weeks ago to be doing at least 50-60 pounds by december, 6-7 weeks in I think its safe to say I am down 15 pounds (been hovering 250 for the past few days so I know its not just fluctuating. We all have bad days and good days, the important thing is to never give up. I already feel a hell of a lot better, while there will be other issues I need to deal with when I get to my ideal weight/muscle mass just knowing that a year from now what I can look and feel like is the biggest motivation for me. Feeling like I can go outside without a shirt on and not be embarrassed of my fat man I can't tell you how long it has been. Just knowing a year from now it can and will be all different has me getting pumped up to keep on going.
 
Thing is though, that 2lbs every week adds up, that's over 100lbs per year if you stick at it.


I think I'm less bothered about my weight loss because I don't exercise it off, I do lift weights and do upper body training but that is only every few day and only takes a few minutes to complete, other than that I do no exercise except walk to work every day and walk in to town at lunch time. Just had my weigh in today, week 13 and I'm 213.2, which is a total loss of about 30lbs since I started measuring, appox 35lbs total.


I actually don't like chicken that much it always ends up tough or dry when I do it, I much prefer red meat, I can't get enough of red meat, I eat steak about once a week. I ended up with gout because I was eating loads of red meat and drinking lots of beer, that's not a fun thing to have, really painful.


I think all things considered I think i'd prefer to eat pretty well, cheat with takeaway once in a while, but lose weight slowly and steadily, I don't really want to spend the best part of a year of my life basically eating only rubbish I don't like.


Hey RadioActive, you catch the new BF3 trailer? Really pumped for that game, the alpha was really great!
 
I did see the BF3 trailer and yes I am kind excited about it haha!


No exercise huh? I have been slacking a bit in that dept. as of late but I usually stay on top of it. Took me week 8 pics this morning, I haven't compared them to day 1 yet either, I think I will not do that anyone and just put them my folder with the others and In December I will check it out hehe.


I was just thinking that not eating fast food has become habit now! I don't crave it...long for it...feel depressed for not eating it. Life is good.


As for Taras, my biggest motivation is not dying young. Truth be told I was hurt pretty badly when I was 19, I know of course it was 7 years ago but I have stayed clear of dating anyone because I believed it to not be worth me time. Now that I am older, I am beginning to see the value in having a romantic partner. And being the hopeless romantic I am, wanting to better my self physically and health wise should give me that kick in confidence I once had many years ago. That's what does it for me, everyday I think about that and I never screw up.


Ok enough of the warm and fuzzies, time to hit the sack. Thanks again to the people who come here and remain active in my new life, yall do keep me goin!


Ty
 
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