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I'm down 11 since Jan 1. Not doing anything special, just keeping an eye on what I eat and doing cardio a few times a week. Not trying to win a competition like 2012 so I'm not sweating it if I go to the movies and eat buttered popcorn and drink a big coke. I'd like to be under 200 again, like I was for about a day back in 2012, but not gonna worry about how long it takes to get there.

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Bought a Fitbit Charge HR this weekend and I'm really enjoying it to far.  You don't realize how out of shape you are until you have something on your wrist telling you your heart rate is at 115 just from tying your shoes.

 

I also apparently flutter my arms like a fucking butterfly when I sleep, because my restless minutes are practically an hour for the three nights I've tracked so far.

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  • 2 months later...

I'm 41, I've dropped nearly 60 pounds in the last 18 months (I'm six feet tall and down to 203) and my blood pressure yesterday was 100/75. I traded cigarettes and pizza for the treadmill and the weight room. It's been a good thing.

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Between elbow pain, dating a heavy girl who negatively affected my eating habits even a month after breaking up, and general bullshit I've been slacking off and losing ground. I finally was able to see an orthopedic specialist today, he got me x-ray'd and said yes, it's just tendinitis and not nerve damage/arthritis/anything else I was having nightmares about, but given I had been out of the gym (minus cardio) for 3 weeks with no improvement, it was time to get the giant needle of cortisone out. I'm supposed to give it til Sunday before I try to lift, and if the pain isn't gone in another "couple weeks" they may prescribe PT and/or outpatient surgery, which frightens me.

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In the last week I've set four personal records in lifting:

Back Squat: 335 lbs (151 kg)

Front Squat: 265 lbs (120 kg)

Power Clean: 175 lbs (79 kg)

Dead Lift: 365 lbs (165 kg).

Pretty proud of myself.

What were your starting lifts like and how long did it take you to get to the numbers you're at now? Also, are those your one rep maxes or is are you doing those for X number of sets and reps?

 

Either way, great numbers brah

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Gym pet peeve: do not fucking ask me how many sets I have left.  You can ask if you can work in, but essentially saying "when are you going to be done with that so I can use it?" is some bullshit.

 

The best part is that when this happened, I was fucking around and doing something different on chest day...doing as many reps as I could, taking 10 pounds off the bar, doing as many reps as I could with that, then just going like that until I felt like not doing any more.  So when I guy asked, I just shrugged and said, "I don't know." 

 

Fuck em.

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So, anyone switched to almond or soy milk. I used to put so much sugar and milk in my coffee it was damn near a milk shake. Now, it gets a splash of vanilla almond milk and I'm on my way. I cut THOUSANDS of monthly calories by getting what I drink in order. When you start counting you quickly discover how many empty calories you drink a day, never mind eating.

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I use unsweetened vanilla almond milk (store brand because I'm cheap and seriously fuck name brand almond milk, that shit is like a dollar more fuck yooouuu Blue Diamond) in protein shakes and when I very occasionally eat cereal and it tastes fine.  Not sure how it is in coffee because I drink my coffee black like a fucking man.  ;)

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I use unsweetened vanilla almond milk (store brand because I'm cheap and seriously fuck name brand almond milk, that shit is like a dollar more fuck yooouuu Blue Diamond) in protein shakes and when I very occasionally eat cereal and it tastes fine.  Not sure how it is in coffee because I drink my coffee black like a fucking man.  ;)

The only reason I don't drink mine black is because it messes with my stomach...

 

...and I'm a tremendous pussy.

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I use almond milk because I'm lactose intolerant and I really don't mind it. I've never tried the vanilla almond milk although I would like to give it a whirl. I've also seen that they have cashew milk but have no idea how that'd taste.

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ALMOST back to where I was before the tendinitis started kicking my ass and my lifts started dropping. I've been adding 5lb to basically every lift I do every workout for the nearly-a-month since my visit with the ortho specialist.  The bad part is that my one-year improvement (I went to the gym for the first time 5/31/14) kind of sucks, the good news is that I'm past the things that caused me to lose half the ground I gained and finally gaining in earnest again.

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Cashew milk has a very neutral taste, but it's got a creamier/thicker mouth feel closer to whole milk. I prefer almond milk for drinking, but cashew would probably work well in food applications like a mac and cheese or something like that that usually calls for milk/cream. 

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So I've been doing a lot of walking and hiking the last 6 months or so.  I've dropped about 50 pounds and am generally in the best shape of my adult life (even if that shape in still undoubtedly pudgy).

 

I figured for a new challenge I would start training to do a 5K on the days that I didn't have a couple hours to carve out for a hike, which is a big deal for me because I don't ever remember a time where running even a mile wasn't difficult.  I planned on trying that Couch to 5k where you alternate running and walking but felt so good once I got started that I just kept running and before I even knew it I'd had run 3.1 miles in a very slow 35 minutes but at least I made it without stopping.

 

That was a couple weeks ago and in the last two weeks I've been able to shave a couple minutes off my time as I've figured out what I'm doing.  I'm even going to a running seminar this weekend to try to learn proper form before I inevitably hurt myself.  Running has never been something I've liked doing, so I'm kind of shocked at the enjoyment I'm getting out of it. 

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So I've been doing a lot of walking and hiking the last 6 months or so.  I've dropped about 50 pounds and am generally in the best shape of my adult life (even if that shape in still undoubtedly pudgy).

 

I figured for a new challenge I would start training to do a 5K on the days that I didn't have a couple hours to carve out for a hike, which is a big deal for me because I don't ever remember a time where running even a mile wasn't difficult.  I planned on trying that Couch to 5k where you alternate running and walking but felt so good once I got started that I just kept running and before I even knew it I'd had run 3.1 miles in a very slow 35 minutes but at least I made it without stopping.

 

That was a couple weeks ago and in the last two weeks I've been able to shave a couple minutes off my time as I've figured out what I'm doing.  I'm even going to a running seminar this weekend to try to learn proper form before I inevitably hurt myself.  Running has never been something I've liked doing, so I'm kind of shocked at the enjoyment I'm getting out of it. 

 

Congrats! Running is very therapeutic for me. It lets me work through all of the daily stresses, fears, or insecurities racing in my head. 

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Barnwells awesome weight loss article seems like a good way to re-kick off this thread for the new year.

 

https://medium.com/@billbarnwell/the-easiest-way-to-lose-125-pounds-is-to-gain-175-pounds-b4fca27ffcc5#.q6uhhfva1

 

I enjoy that he's writing long form articles about the "eat less, exercise more" strategy that he used to preach to me forever ago.

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Barnwells awesome weight loss article seems like a good way to re-kick off this thread for the new year.

 

https://medium.com/@billbarnwell/the-easiest-way-to-lose-125-pounds-is-to-gain-175-pounds-b4fca27ffcc5#.q6uhhfva1

 

I enjoy that he's writing long form articles about the "eat less, exercise more" strategy that he used to preach to me forever ago.

Meant to post this. Read it last night. Terrific read and as someone who lost a lot of weight at one point (115lbs) and gained a good amount back (gained back about half of it) and is now again trying to shed it, I identified with a lot of his triggers and rationals for why to keep eating.

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Probably posted about this in the son of a thread, but anyway. That shit I saw my ortho about last spring in my elbow? Not tendinitis. Partially torn tendon, inside right. So a month of waiting to schedule surgery, six weeks of rehab where I couldn't lift, pull, or support more than 2.5 lbs, followed by a very slow build up. I'm back up to 15 so far. In the meantime, I ballooned back up to 205 because I didn't have the willpower to cut my food intake when I stopped exercising in any meaningful way (I was told no eliptical or stair climber due to the grip factor, can't do a treadmill because of my knee, and got fed up with the utter futility of recumbent exercise bikes.)

I never, ever felt so weak or self conscious when I was starting out as I do now, benching a 30 lb fixed weight barbell just to get ready for when I can actually use a universal bar again and start building my strength again.

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I back on the healthy living bandwagon. I haven't started working out yet since I'm waiting to get over sugar and carb withdrawal. Also, for the first time ever, I'm using the TDEE calculator. Using that, I should be taking in just under 2000 calories a day, while My Fitness Pal says it should be 1300 or 1400. I dropped 5 lbs. over the course of a week. I do feel like crap from depriving myself of candy, Cheez Its, etc. every night. It'll be nice once my dopamine adjusts itself so I stop feeling crummy.

 

When I start working out, I'm doing P90 that came out in 2014, which is the newer version of Power 90. On top of that, I'm going to mix in DDP Yoga and start doing C25K when I can actually start running outside.

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Really been binging on junk food in recent years, to the point where I sink a ton of money in my job's vending machines (curse you, debit card scanners).  It's a tough habit to break but I need to give it a shot...I don't own a scale so I have no idea where my weight is at nowadays.  What's a good first step in breaking this cycle?

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The thing I've found that works the best for me is to just eliminate the temptation as best you can.

 

Like, for you, if you know you're going to be passing by the vending machines, don't have your debit card on you. Leave it in a briefcase at your desk, or something.

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