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| Ian:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on August 27, 2016, 03:21:13 am --- The most important part of the diet: You have to WANT TO do it. --- End quote --- Congrats on your weight loss.... I too years ago was over 200 lbs. I am 5'7" and it wasn't a muscular 200 lbs either so it showed. I got divorced and went through what I call "The Divorce Diet". Lost 50 lbs in 4 months and now went from short fat dude to sickly skinny dude. But I hit up the gym for 3 years straight with one rest day a week, watched what I ate and got my first 6-pack abs... looked in the mirror and thought to myself "Damn I am miserable I really miss beer" (especially since I live in Wisconsin and that is a way of life here). So now for the past 6 years since that day I no longer have a 6-pack I am 200 lbs but mostly muscle and I eat what I want drink what I want but make sure to go to the gym 3 days a week. I guess the moral of the story is this. Goals are good... they help. But you have to find a life balance. Diets are meant to fail. No one can eat like that (paleo, atkins, dance dance revolution). You have to just find a balance. |
| knave:
--- Quote from: Ian on October 17, 2016, 06:19:56 pm ---Congrats on your weight loss.... I too years ago was over 200 lbs. I am 5'7" and it wasn't a muscular 200 lbs either so it showed. I got divorced and went through what I call "The Divorce Diet". Lost 50 lbs in 4 months and now went from short fat dude to sickly skinny dude. But I hit up the gym for 3 years straight with one rest day a week, watched what I ate and got my first 6-pack abs... looked in the mirror and thought to myself "Damn I am miserable I really miss beer" (especially since I live in Wisconsin and that is a way of life here). So now for the past 6 years since that day I no longer have a 6-pack I am 200 lbs but mostly muscle and I eat what I want drink what I want but make sure to go to the gym 3 days a week. I guess the moral of the story is this. Goals are good... they help. But you have to find a life balance. Diets are meant to fail. No one can eat like that (paleo, atkins, dance dance revolution). You have to just find a balance. --- End quote --- I did the Divorce diet quite a few years ago Lost 60 pounds...Cut out alcohol, ate small portions and went to the GYM 3 days a week. I actually started eating fast food and the pounds still melted off... I remarried got happy and gained about half of it back. |
| ChadTower:
I have heard the Divorce Diet described as "first you lose 150lb of extra roommate and then 50lb of extra self". |
| Ian:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 18, 2016, 09:42:19 am --- I have heard the Divorce Diet described as "first you lose 150lb of extra roommate and then 50lb of extra self". --- End quote --- This :applaud: |
| dkersten:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 18, 2016, 09:42:19 am --- I have heard the Divorce Diet described as "first you lose 150lb of extra roommate and then 50lb of extra self". --- End quote --- I think she was pushing 175 when I kicked her out. But yeah, 50 lbs off was about right for me. My body likes to be at 230. I'm only 5'10" but most people would think I am around 190 at most, so I guess I carry it well. Thing is, I can exercise (walk a couple miles a day), cut the snacks (hard for me to do when I am writing code for some reason.. my mind is going strong but my body wants to do something to keep busy, like eat), and maintain my relatively sparse diet (only drink water, a light breakfast religiously in the morning, around 1k calories at lunch, and less than that at dinner) and I will still be 230ish (maybe 225). Healthy (or rather a healthy lifestyle) is a very different term in your 20's and 30's than in your 40's and 50's. I am still every bit as active as I was in my 30's (which is to say I don't exercise and sit at a desk all day, but I often am working on projects at home that will burn every muscle on my body down to nothing every weekend and leave me craving ibuprofen and a comfortable couch), yet I am seeing a huge difference in my health just in the past few years. Instead of being able to physically work hard all day doing projects on the weekend (landscaping, concrete work, demolition, construction, etc.), I am only able to work for a few hours each day before I have to call it quits. Pain is a daily part of life now, and since I hate drugs I have to just live with it and push through it to stay active. When you don't like walking, hiking, bike riding, or going to the gym (and it hurts even more to try to exercise), things fall apart really fast. Frankly I would be content to just be able to chill out each day and adjust my calorie intake to account for less activity. After all, isn't life supposed to get more laid back as you get older? I have more money and more luxury than I had when I was younger, but if I don't keep moving and pushing my body as hard as I can, it hurts even more, to the point where I can't sit and watch a movie or just chill at a bar drinking beer with friends. So despite being relatively healthy in most respects (cholesterol is good, bloodwork is good, no diseases that I know of, I can take care of myself and still get it up just fine), I don't feel anything like healthy. I agree with Howard, if I was the type who enjoyed hiking outdoors or running or going to the gym, I would probably do that a lot more and not be overweight. When it comes down to it, my only viable option for weight loss is to make a major change in my diet. Protein diets work, but I like bread, so eventually I drop it and start to gain again. I do want to try something though, and if losing a couple dozen pounds will ease the pain in my body, it is worth the trouble. It isn't easy to start when you know how much it will hurt. |
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