Hi Everyone,
Right now I weigh 251.4 pounds, 27 years old and I am 6 foot 0 inches tall, and I'd like to give you a little back story to my weight history over the last 12 years or so. Hopefully I can make a long story short. I first really gained "too" much weight in high school and probably weighed as much as 245 I eventually went up to 255 while going to college. After college I worked some physical labor jobs (some outdoors most indoors) which was great because I dropped down to 230, it was probably unhealthy because I was so busy I didn't have time to eat much. Once I got a job in my career path which has little physical labor I went back up to 250. I tried the low carb diet and got down to 220 but just dieting proved too hard and slowly I have put the weight back on since. I changed jobs 2 years ago and was at 230 when I started and as recently as two weeks ago I was at 262.
Pop has always been my weakness, every time I gained weight the main cause was pop (1000 calories worth a day). Late last year I was also in a bad habit of eating cereal before bed and drinking a lot of chocolate milk (gallon a week). Probably from October last year until April this year I put on 15 pounds until I was at 260 or so.
Two weeks ago I talked to my brother who is a mortician and I asked him if he was busy because usually around this time of year he isn't. He said he was which was unusual. I asked if it was a lot of old people, middle aged people or what. He answered that it was all ages, pretty even so I asked if he noticed any trends and he said yeah, most are overweight, 250 plus. This was just a normal conversation; he wasn't trying to tell me something. I quickly thought about it and said to myself, I'm not sure if I can determine for sure when I'm going to die but I can for certain determine how much I weigh when I die. Besides if I'm healthy then that should go a long way in helping me live longer and happier.
So two weeks ago I was 262 and I was hovering there for a good two months which probably means I was eating about 3300-3500 calories a day. I don't want do a diet, it's too hard and it never stay's off. My plan so far has been to cut out liquid calories and late night snacks. In addition to that I am exercising just about every day. Here is my routine for the last two weeks.
Wake up early in the morning and do about 20 minutes of cardio while drinking water. I also do about 15 minutes of walking while on my way to work. For breakfast I usually have two eggs, raw broccoli and some strawberries. Occasionally I have a piece of toast as well. The last two days though I had a bagel with a little butter and jelly.
Around 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM I have some cut up fruit.
For Lunch around 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM I have half a sandwich or half a chicken salad and a couple pieces of cut up fruit.
Around 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM I'll have the other half of my sandwich or salad.
At 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM I have a few more pieces of cut up fruit (I love this stuff instead of pop).
Every day around 5:00 PM 5:30 after having some pieces of fruit I exercise between 30 minutes and an hour. Saturday I do exercise bike, Sunday I rest, Monday/Wednesday/Friday I jog on a machine for 20 minutes then lift weights alternating quickly between different muscles and Tuesday/Thursday I jog for 20 minutes and walk for 20 minutes.
For dinner I eat the usual, pasta's, vegetables, chicken, generally healthy type foods, nothing too bad but I have been eating less then what I used to eat. I'll have about 50 to 75 Percent of what I used to eat.
The key for me has been no pop and no late night eating as far as diet goes.
In two weeks I've lost 10.5 pounds. In the last 4 days I've been stuck at 251 though and it's kind of disappointing.
From my diet I'd guess I'm having about 1600 to 2000 calories a day which means I should still be losing weight. I've hit the "wall" before but never this early or am I being paranoid and I should give it more time.
I should mention that 4 of the last 5 days I didn't do my 20 minute early morning cardio so maybe that is the cause, I wouldn't think it would be because I'm still exercising in the afternoon. Also cutting about between 2000 and 1500 calories from your old diet alone should get you a pound or two loss a week.
Perhaps the other possibility is that I'm gaining muscle weight from working out. Should I keep doing that since it's burning fat and not worry about the weight?
Ultimately I'd like to get down to 200 or 210 by the end of the year (50 pounds in 6 or 7 months). I'm also going to Key West in July so I also want to see how much I can lose before then, I was hoping for 30 lbs loss in 45 days but that might be unrealistic (I hope not).
Anyway if you have any tips or advice for how I can get down from 251 I would appreciate it very much. Also any take on my routine and how many calories it sounds like I'm eating would be great info too.
Thank you very much,
Jeremy
Right now I weigh 251.4 pounds, 27 years old and I am 6 foot 0 inches tall, and I'd like to give you a little back story to my weight history over the last 12 years or so. Hopefully I can make a long story short. I first really gained "too" much weight in high school and probably weighed as much as 245 I eventually went up to 255 while going to college. After college I worked some physical labor jobs (some outdoors most indoors) which was great because I dropped down to 230, it was probably unhealthy because I was so busy I didn't have time to eat much. Once I got a job in my career path which has little physical labor I went back up to 250. I tried the low carb diet and got down to 220 but just dieting proved too hard and slowly I have put the weight back on since. I changed jobs 2 years ago and was at 230 when I started and as recently as two weeks ago I was at 262.
Pop has always been my weakness, every time I gained weight the main cause was pop (1000 calories worth a day). Late last year I was also in a bad habit of eating cereal before bed and drinking a lot of chocolate milk (gallon a week). Probably from October last year until April this year I put on 15 pounds until I was at 260 or so.
Two weeks ago I talked to my brother who is a mortician and I asked him if he was busy because usually around this time of year he isn't. He said he was which was unusual. I asked if it was a lot of old people, middle aged people or what. He answered that it was all ages, pretty even so I asked if he noticed any trends and he said yeah, most are overweight, 250 plus. This was just a normal conversation; he wasn't trying to tell me something. I quickly thought about it and said to myself, I'm not sure if I can determine for sure when I'm going to die but I can for certain determine how much I weigh when I die. Besides if I'm healthy then that should go a long way in helping me live longer and happier.
So two weeks ago I was 262 and I was hovering there for a good two months which probably means I was eating about 3300-3500 calories a day. I don't want do a diet, it's too hard and it never stay's off. My plan so far has been to cut out liquid calories and late night snacks. In addition to that I am exercising just about every day. Here is my routine for the last two weeks.
Wake up early in the morning and do about 20 minutes of cardio while drinking water. I also do about 15 minutes of walking while on my way to work. For breakfast I usually have two eggs, raw broccoli and some strawberries. Occasionally I have a piece of toast as well. The last two days though I had a bagel with a little butter and jelly.
Around 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM I have some cut up fruit.
For Lunch around 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM I have half a sandwich or half a chicken salad and a couple pieces of cut up fruit.
Around 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM I'll have the other half of my sandwich or salad.
At 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM I have a few more pieces of cut up fruit (I love this stuff instead of pop).
Every day around 5:00 PM 5:30 after having some pieces of fruit I exercise between 30 minutes and an hour. Saturday I do exercise bike, Sunday I rest, Monday/Wednesday/Friday I jog on a machine for 20 minutes then lift weights alternating quickly between different muscles and Tuesday/Thursday I jog for 20 minutes and walk for 20 minutes.
For dinner I eat the usual, pasta's, vegetables, chicken, generally healthy type foods, nothing too bad but I have been eating less then what I used to eat. I'll have about 50 to 75 Percent of what I used to eat.
The key for me has been no pop and no late night eating as far as diet goes.
In two weeks I've lost 10.5 pounds. In the last 4 days I've been stuck at 251 though and it's kind of disappointing.
From my diet I'd guess I'm having about 1600 to 2000 calories a day which means I should still be losing weight. I've hit the "wall" before but never this early or am I being paranoid and I should give it more time.
I should mention that 4 of the last 5 days I didn't do my 20 minute early morning cardio so maybe that is the cause, I wouldn't think it would be because I'm still exercising in the afternoon. Also cutting about between 2000 and 1500 calories from your old diet alone should get you a pound or two loss a week.
Perhaps the other possibility is that I'm gaining muscle weight from working out. Should I keep doing that since it's burning fat and not worry about the weight?
Ultimately I'd like to get down to 200 or 210 by the end of the year (50 pounds in 6 or 7 months). I'm also going to Key West in July so I also want to see how much I can lose before then, I was hoping for 30 lbs loss in 45 days but that might be unrealistic (I hope not).
Anyway if you have any tips or advice for how I can get down from 251 I would appreciate it very much. Also any take on my routine and how many calories it sounds like I'm eating would be great info too.
Thank you very much,
Jeremy
I'm wondering, since you said you don't have the energy for your morning cardio, if you're actually getting enough nutrition in.
. Only 8 Days away, hopefully I can lose another 2 pounds and get to 235. 
