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, ...

Found an interesting web site from my podcast and internet searches. It's been said that if you want to learn how to win at something you need to find someone who has done it and learn from them. This research team has been tracking individuals who have lost and maintained weight loss over a long period of time. AS with most programs I've found, there is not a "one size fits all" for many things in life. I had a hard time doing math with one teacher, but with another I finally got it. Weight loss is the same thing, it's just finding what works for you and doing it. http://www.nwcr.ws/Research/default.htm National   Weight  Control   Registry. The National Weight Control Registry (NWCR), established in 1994 by Rena Wing, Ph.D. from Brown Medical School, and James O. Hill, Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, is the largest prospective investigation of long-term successful weight loss maintenance. Given the prevailing belief that few individuals succeed at l...

 My fat % crept up to 27.3 so I'll keep an eye on it. I weigh in daily, but only my Monday is the "official" weight for the week. The scale is not my god, but a measuring device. It helps me to see that I am doing what i intended to do. My daily goals are what count the most. I ate 93% on goal this week and my workouts where pretty intense. Work kinda put a crimp in my last two workouts for Thursday and Friday, but I made them up over the weekend.      This is so cool. I'm enjoying my slow drift down into this unknown area. My goal is to get to 199 pounds without loosing any muscle and to gain some by October 30, th. 127 days to loose 28 pounds smartly. 1.55 pounds weekly. I'm not racing there, I'm just doing what I've learned to do and just tweaking my lifestyle. I"m watching my carbs much closer and keeping them higher earlier in the day when I need them.       I tried on my newest suit jacket from last fall and it's very big on me. I'm lo...

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...

Charlie “Tremendous” Jones once said that “You are the same today as you’ll be in five years except for two things: the books you read and the people you meet.” I submit that the same applies to our walk with Christ. Over the next five years, our growth – our ability to live a life that truly reflects and honors God – will be exactly what it is today except for the books we read and the people we meet.     Read, listen to podcasts and when you have some new info pass it on. Write a blog and learn. I'm trying to become an "expert" on my weight loss. I will always be open to change and tweaking of what is working for me. I need lots of information and I am learning to listen to my body. When I weight lift  i fallow a chart and always try to get one more rep in until I hit 12 then up my weight a bit. But i then spend the next few days listening to my body. Did I hit the right muscle groups? Did I help myself grow? You get the idea. Eating Lentils is my newest food for prote...