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

  Learn and think. Try and change. Read all you can and learn how your body works. It's the only one you've got. I'm constantly scanning podcasts, blogs and books. If I like something and it fits i try it, if it doesn't work I revert back. It's little things I change as you can't measure the success if you changed many things at once. But some of my golden rules are: 1. I'm hardly ever really hungary, I'm always eating, it's just healthy food. 6 meals daily. 2. I work out at least 4x weekly. 3. I keep my protein higher, because my body needs it from weight lifting and my body works well on it. 4. I weight in almost daily, but it's just to record it, the scale is not my god. I know I did well or when I mess up. 5. Most of my weight loss.  success comes from eating well 90% of the time and doing my workouts. The fat      goes on it's own. 6. I still count calories, but I'm working more on macro-nutrients. Good proteins and carbs and f...

exercise is movement of the body. If I only had 3 hours weekly to do something my first choice is weight lifting. The math is just undeniable. I'm 225 pounds right now (two bucks and a quarter, Russ and Jeff from Fat2Fit podcast gave me this one!).      I've gained OVER 25 pounds of muscle the last 2 years. (actually I regained about 8 pounds from my natural muscle loss over the last 14 years and some from my past crash diets.) But, the important thing is that now, everyday, all day long I'm burning FAT.  I'm guessing around 750 MORE calaries daily!! Thats over 270,000 calories yearly. That's, my friends, 78 pounds a year of possible weight loss.    So to loose fat my  weight lifting is my favorite and most used form of exercise. Then the secret exercise program I will describe next is the most important. It's called "cheating". I park as far as I can and walk into stores, I take stairs instead of elevators, when driving I dance in my seat (night tim...

For years I wanted to be thin, to look normal and feel normal and then I figured out it was fat I wanted to loose and that doing it quick would just bring the fat back and while loosing it I'd lost some muscle and water.     I figured out that this "diet" is for life and as such, a lifestyle change was needed. I decided to start weight lifting, in my own home, with my powerblocks and pandora radio. Music loud enough for some to think that it was a teenagers home :)  I got hooked. I started eating like a weight lifter and that means more protein then ever!    gaining muscle is slower for a middle aged man and loosing fat at the same time is just as slow, but I'm on a quest. I want to see what I look like at a "normal" weight that I was meant to be and NOTHING takes that away from me.      My chocolate fix is satiated with my chocolate protein bars and powders and I'm eating mostly foods made with only one ingredient. Chicken is made of chicken, ...

It takes a life changing event to get most of us on track. I just got this bug up my butt that I needed to loose weight when I thought I broke my bathroom scale and then again when my blood pressure was boarder line going to keep me from getting my medical card renewed to drive my tractor trailer.  Over the last 2 1/2 years my need has turned into a N E E D!!!  I like it, how I feel, how I'm begging to look. I want to explore this unknown frontier and see what God really meant me to look like.      I have so many family and friends, some I love very much, that WANT to lose fat, but they aren't to the NEED stage. My aunt wants to loose those last 15 pounds, but wants to have ice cream every day and not just a 1/2 cup. " That was not enough, so I got some more."  My work buddy when I explained what I eat in an average day "that doesn't sound like fun."    Honestly, at times, it's not. But "nothing tastes as good as being thin feels." I have...

I'm not on a diet. They have beginnings and ends. I used to know how to loose weight quick, but keeping it off was the problem. I've probably lost over 800 pounds in my life through yo-yo dieting. This is for life, a lifestyle change.    I don't want to loose weight, I want to loose fat. I brag about loosing over 100 pounds now, but I'm more proud of the 20-25 pounds of muscle I've gained. I will steal from the fat2fit radio show when Jeff mentioned that he wants to eat as much healthy food as he can. I heard that and got the full picture.     I want to eat as much food at my proper weight as I can. More muscle equals more good eating! I don't want to be a 199 pound guy how has to eat like a 170 pounder, I want to be a 199 pound guy that is above average in muscle and eat the amount that a 199 pound guy or 215 pound average guy would eat. Each pound of muscle needs 20-50 calories daily to maintain.

I choose to eat healthier. To like veggies and to work on eating the best foods for myself. I choose to workout and really love weight lifting. (cardio, not so much). I don't know when it started but it has been and active and progressive experience over the last 2.5 years. For over 40 years I've loved Mcdonalds, Wendy's and almost any processed and easy to make food. The microwave was my best friend, now it's my George Formen Grill.     It's not going to happen over night and it's (mostly) the little things. Believe me I was great at binge eating. give me a medium pizza from Giant Eagles and I would wolf the thing down. A pint of double chocolate chip ice cream was a weekly thing for me. I actually had a co-worker say " Yuck" when I mentioned that instead of a cheeseburger I'll have 4 slices of ham or turkey and a piece of cheese on a 90 calorie thin whole grain bun. For under 260 calories I'm getting the feel of a meat burger but it's lo...

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...

  I can't do it anymore. The pain of trying to diet the weight off and then when my diet is done I go back to eating like I did before brought me decades of y0-yo dieting. NO MORE!  I'm choosing every day to eat healthier and I'm liking it.  I even had cake and ice cream last Sunday. Not only was it Easter, but my moms Birthday :)  I allow my self cake and ice cream at those events. Small cake and one scoop, but it's still 14 or so times a year. Much better then my old habit of a quart of Ben and Jerrie's a few times a month.     instead of pretzles with my dinner, you know the "go with" item i'm eating celery and like it! Grilled turkey on whole bread with a touch of ranch and one slice of cheese beats a cheesburger. It's all the small things.

   So exciting to be at the thinnest weight I've ever seen in 16 years, since I met my wife, Karen.  I had gotten to "dating weight", nabbed a girl and the lion was no longer on the hunt, sooooo...... I got Fat Happy and Stupid.    Now i'm doing it slow and steady. Over the last 29 months I've had 3 stops and starts where I didn't loose but actually gained weight, but it was over months. I think that helped when I started weight lifting to get my muscle up. Now i'm working on maintaining my muscle mass while loosing the final 38+ pounds of FAT.      Just want to see what a thin me looks like. I've never been below 203 pounds as an adult. I hit 203 when I was 18 and tried to get into the Marines. So exciting. I"m happy I choose this as my midlife crisis. The life style change is responsible for the slow fat loss and for my ability to keep it off. It's kinda like driving my semi truck. You can drive it after a few weeks of training, but if you...

   Then I choose to NOT "diet". I'm not training for a marathon and then once i finish it, hit a weight on the scale, go back to the old "me". I'm practicing being 199 pounds. I'm eating like the thinner person. I'm sorry to say I just watched this show on bariatric surgery and I was sickened. The only "way out" is through a surgery? People die from this and they don't ever get to eat like a normal person. It's like being addicted to a drug and being forced to live in a bubble your whole life.     I learned some cute sayings this last week. I'm up to episode 60 of the Fat 2 Fit radio podcasts. "Hunger is fat  cells shrinking." And, " hunger is not an emergency."  What really sickened me is that after theses surgeries these people where so happy to be dropping weight so fast (including muscle). They're bodies where not able to shrink their skin because it was done so fast. I have spent around 25 years bei...

     For all us middle aged guys out there. I'd like to get down to a fat level and fitness level to ensure a longer and healthier life. Less possible medical problems, live a life of higher physical ability and look and feel normal.    I grew up the fat kid. My lowest adult weight was 203 pounds and that was for a few months. I'm currently 242 pounds and around 27% fat percentage. I've gained around 12-20 pounds of muscle over the last 15 months. I know i'm able to eat, at least,  500 calories more each day because of the muscle I've built (ok, rebuilt.)   We loose about 1/2 pound of muscle after our 30's and I've lost 7 pounds in muscle over that time and my crash diets over the last decades probably took another half to a full dozen.       I used to eat ice cream many times a month and eating whole half sized pizza's was a normal event. I worked hard to put the weight on with my binge eating habbits. Cool Whip sized bowls of cereal ...

     I was a over 300 pound guy. Happily married and 41 years old. Struggling with weight my whole life. Up and down. Up and down.  This was my highest weight ever. Over 330 pounds the scale read "E" so I call it 333 pounds. Nice round number.     Let's start with the past. As an adult I hit 203 pounds, at age 18 when I tried to get into the military. I was allergic to bee stings, as was shown in a medical report, so I didn't qualify. I had reached my goal after another "diet" and began to eat like my "normal" (fat) self and rained it all back in about 6 months.     Every time I crashed the weight down some of what is lost was muscle and that is why I feel it's easy to not only regain your lost weight but to add more weight. As I learned from listening to the Fat2fit podcast every pound of muscle uses 20-50 calaries every day. Doesn't sound like lots but thats 2-5 pounds you could gain every year if you ate the exact same amount every day...