from 333 pounds working on getting thin. Middle aged mans journey.

I've used journals since 3rd grade. I like them, but if you look at over 3/4 of what I used to write about as a pre-teen it was about what people thought of me, what girl I liked and stuff like that. Once a teen it was how quickly I could loose the "weight". You could tell how well I was doing by how long the journal lasted. A few weeks of one or two meals daily, yada yada yada.      This last 2 1/2 years I started doing it better, safer and slower. In small controlled steps I've improved my health and built upon my knowledge and skills. Up to 6 months ago I thought cereal was as ok food choice and pretzles where ok to eat daily. A year before that diet pop was cool and a year before that Ben and Jerry where a staple of my life. (If you don't know who or what Ben and Jerry is, I WON'T TEMPT YOU.)      Ben and Jerry stopped sending me "We miss you" letters after several months. I was chowing down on 2-4 of them monthly. I was also very good at conse...

Every day I make a choice. To eat like i used to eat and end up eating like a 300+ pound man and end up back there or to eat like a thin guy and finally get there. I'm at 235 pounds with 27% fat.  I'm up 1.5 pounds but that's partially normal fluctuations since weekly and monthly count, but I'm also down a 1% in fat.      The most important thing is to eat right most days most meals. 90% perfect eating is my goal. Working out 4x most weeks is also part of it. I'm about to start my workout. I took a few days off because of the crazy Memorial day weekend. And that's ok. I'm 44 years old and my body needs more time to recover then a 22 year olds :).      Staying free from destructive eating is a day by day ordeal. I will always have to "watch" and reinforce my better habits. It's not just good and bad or as Fat2Fit radio hosts say "good better best" it's food choices and exersice of "poor, fair, good, better and best."  ...

www. fat2fitradio .com Go there and listen. Only thing I can say is they don't charge for anything. Yes, they have a book and you can listen to 121 of their 141 podcasts for free. Two real guys how have lost and are maintaining their weight loss. I'm not impressed when someone says "I've lost 101 pounds." It's when they have been able to keep it off over years and years and years.       Most current dieters think that you have to live on 1000 calorie. 1200, 1600. I'll tell you the truth. 1000 calories is the requirement for a 60 pound 4foot tall child! It doesn't work!!! I'm eating 2300 calories daily. Weight 232 pounds and am slowly melting fat down to my 199 goal. I'm 5'8 with a fat % of 20-40.  (real big difference between my two devices. One hand held the other a scale. I'm have it professionally done once I'm close to goal.)       It might take another 6 months to loose this last 23 pounds. That's OK. Cause 5 years fro...

God knows i'm not perfect. Went up a few pounds from week on vacation and water gain. I'm not worried, because I'm back on the wagon. Never fell off, just was walking and stumbling besides it, but I had a hand on the darn thing.      I'm sorta happy with where I am because of where I'm heading. In a nut shell, I'm happy to take this weight loss, scratch that, FAT loss slow. Less then 1% weekly of my body mass. i just don't want to lose muscle. I work to hard as a 44 year old guy to make the muscle.  just increased my workouts to 4 times weekly and split my workout between upper body and lower body with back. increased my sets to 5 from 3 and slowed down my movements and improved my squat form and decreased my rest period to 45 seconds per set. My traps and calfs and quads are screaming! Feels GOOD.       I'm working on my goals and here is my newest. I am going to set a weight goal of 199.9 by October 30th. My 45th birthday. That's just around 1.5 ...