212 pounds. Most of this is a mind game.
The best diet is not always the diet which is the best diet physically, but it's the diet that you can turn into a lifestyle, that allows you to lose fat and keep it off because you learn how to incorporate all foods in healthy moderation. Dr. Layne Norton.
I currently do OMAD 5-6 days a week with 16/8, 2mad (2 meals daily). I eat anything I want but mostly what the wife cooks, healthier foods.
Overload! Rice is good, it's bad. Fat is good, it's bad....you see the 15 second tv news stories all the time. I've figured out, being a middle aged man, that I'm gonna do what i want to do, not what anyone says is the "best" thing for me. I'm down from 296 to 212. I took a few months break where I stayed between 216-221 pounds. Holidays happened, wife had a surgery and I went on vacation to Florida. Now I'm back in weight loss mode. I am currently using the OMAD approach. This isn't magical it's a way to limit my calorie intake to 1 meal 6 days a week. On Sunday I now allow myself a cheat day. Its close to a 16/8 day.
The wife still cooks most of my 1 meal daily and I still weight in daily but I pay attention only to weekly numbers and only measure my monthly numbers. I'm paying much more attention to my fat%, now. I know I look ok, right now in my clothes. I'm going down in weight to see where I look best, for myself. Im just about in a size 38 waist and I think I'll end up around a 36 waist when I'm done.
No foods are off my list, I don't diet and I don't practice anything I can't do for life. Only exercise I do now is walking 5 miles most days at work. I know I should really add resistance training and some cardio, but all this weight loss is from mild calorie restriction. I'm not impressed when someone tells me they crashed 50 pounds in 3 months. I've been doing this for 17 months, folks. Within a few months MOST of these people are done with their sprinting weight loss and have gained it back.
I, on the other hand, am CRAWLING, but it doesn't feel like a diet. I don't want to have to work hard. I want to keep it as simple as I can. I can't out think my body. I've even had cake and icecream 5 times this year, so far. Birthday parties I enjoy cake and icecream and while in Florida I had ice cream!
I belong to a few forums and facebook has a few good intermittent fasting groups and it is so sad when you hear the basic mindset of so many of the new members and their double talk. It basically goes like this " yes, I want to loose the weight slowly and keep it off, but I want it yesterday. I've been doing this for a while month and I haven't seen dramatic weight loss, so it's not going to work for me. I want to lose weight slowly so I want to really restrict my calories so I can get into by bikini in 3 months." I take a break and remind myself that this is their struggle.
I even had a really nice young guy I work with talk about dieting and within 5 minutes he was asking someone else how they did it. Intermittent fasting was something he couldn't get his head around. He loves to eat and didn't want to learn how to eat less but how to exercise enough for him to eat the same amount he eats to stay over 380 pounds.
You have got to learn to tell yourself something. It's called: NO! Your not going to exercise your way out of a drinking binder every weekend. You could run 25 miles weekly and eventually you will out eat the 2500 calories you burned running. That is a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
As usual thanks for letting me rant. Keep fighting the fight, but I pray you find that your diet becomes a habit that is so easy and such a pattern that most days you don't feel your even on a "diet".
I currently do OMAD 5-6 days a week with 16/8, 2mad (2 meals daily). I eat anything I want but mostly what the wife cooks, healthier foods.
Overload! Rice is good, it's bad. Fat is good, it's bad....you see the 15 second tv news stories all the time. I've figured out, being a middle aged man, that I'm gonna do what i want to do, not what anyone says is the "best" thing for me. I'm down from 296 to 212. I took a few months break where I stayed between 216-221 pounds. Holidays happened, wife had a surgery and I went on vacation to Florida. Now I'm back in weight loss mode. I am currently using the OMAD approach. This isn't magical it's a way to limit my calorie intake to 1 meal 6 days a week. On Sunday I now allow myself a cheat day. Its close to a 16/8 day.
The wife still cooks most of my 1 meal daily and I still weight in daily but I pay attention only to weekly numbers and only measure my monthly numbers. I'm paying much more attention to my fat%, now. I know I look ok, right now in my clothes. I'm going down in weight to see where I look best, for myself. Im just about in a size 38 waist and I think I'll end up around a 36 waist when I'm done.
No foods are off my list, I don't diet and I don't practice anything I can't do for life. Only exercise I do now is walking 5 miles most days at work. I know I should really add resistance training and some cardio, but all this weight loss is from mild calorie restriction. I'm not impressed when someone tells me they crashed 50 pounds in 3 months. I've been doing this for 17 months, folks. Within a few months MOST of these people are done with their sprinting weight loss and have gained it back.
I, on the other hand, am CRAWLING, but it doesn't feel like a diet. I don't want to have to work hard. I want to keep it as simple as I can. I can't out think my body. I've even had cake and icecream 5 times this year, so far. Birthday parties I enjoy cake and icecream and while in Florida I had ice cream!
I belong to a few forums and facebook has a few good intermittent fasting groups and it is so sad when you hear the basic mindset of so many of the new members and their double talk. It basically goes like this " yes, I want to loose the weight slowly and keep it off, but I want it yesterday. I've been doing this for a while month and I haven't seen dramatic weight loss, so it's not going to work for me. I want to lose weight slowly so I want to really restrict my calories so I can get into by bikini in 3 months." I take a break and remind myself that this is their struggle.
I even had a really nice young guy I work with talk about dieting and within 5 minutes he was asking someone else how they did it. Intermittent fasting was something he couldn't get his head around. He loves to eat and didn't want to learn how to eat less but how to exercise enough for him to eat the same amount he eats to stay over 380 pounds.
You have got to learn to tell yourself something. It's called: NO! Your not going to exercise your way out of a drinking binder every weekend. You could run 25 miles weekly and eventually you will out eat the 2500 calories you burned running. That is a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
As usual thanks for letting me rant. Keep fighting the fight, but I pray you find that your diet becomes a habit that is so easy and such a pattern that most days you don't feel your even on a "diet".
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