My own little diet thread!

[Iolaus]

BEst of luck man....make sure you get the cardio in with the diet.....will help keep the metabolism going....just remember when you stop losing the weight it means you need to up your caloric intake to keep your metabolism fueled

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for when I plateau again; that was when I quit last time.

And when I get the extra bedroom/gym cleaned up and back in use, I'll post a picture, just to prove I'm doing it.

...& a picture of what i looked like at my heaviest posted on the refridgerator...

I would, but I have the rest of the family to think about.

[Panache]

Good Luck Iolaus!

I went from 182 to 168 since the 1st of the year. It takes a lot of will power to stick to a regime of eating and exercising right.

Keep us posted on your progress!

[Big Paul]

Best of luck to you!

My wife and I are both doing the South Beach Diet. My wife lost 60 pounds on it last year.. We have been at it for almost a month now.. In the first three weeks I lost 18 pounds.... I weigh in on tuesdays... so we'll see if I'm still on the right track...

[Riverkilt]

Good luck to you....I do that yo-yo diet....always wind up back on the high end...

Using my weight bench to dry my kilt hose on the barbell thingie...

Been picking up weights since I was in college...now light weights, high reps...when I take the kilt hose off the bar....

Don't forget the same support that X Marks is for kilts is also available for weight loss on line.

I belong to an online stag OA group and a coed Pagan OA group.

Ron

[Andrew Breecher]

Are you doing any excercising as well as just dieting? The biggest (no pun intended) reason for gaining weight is not exercising, not just eating wrong.

I'm actually up more weight than I've ever been before (since I was eighteen I've been about 135 lbs.; now I'm up to about 150), but I know I'm going for a five-month hike in six weeks, so I'm actually really happy about the extra weight since I know that will stave off the massive hunger a little longer, and keep my body from eating the muscle mass for a little longer.

On the other hand, I've had to let the kilt buckles out an extra notch, something I've never had to do before. Oh well, in October I'll be a little loose, so it's all good. I can diet when I've finished long-distance hiking.

Andrew.

[Iolaus]

Yes, I have an extra bedroom that I've turned into an indoor gym. I have a machine that does about thirty things, an olympic style bench and bar, and one of those angled crunch bench thingies that brace your bent legs for you. I'm hoping to find a used pull-up/dip/leg-lift station to add to the mix; that's about all that the room will fit.

[cormacmacguardhe]

I belong to an online stag OA group and a coed Pagan OA group.

Ron

Could you please pm me with these groups, my wife and I really need to get back into OA, and I just picked up my BigBook this AM.

[mkmound]

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Using my weight bench to dry my kilt hose on the barbell thingie...

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Ron

Now that's an idea!! Anyone up for a contest to see how many wet kilt hose we can press?? :rolleyes:

Mark

[Iolaus]

Gotta love a diet that starts you off in the morning with steak and eggs, but I'd really like some waffles covered with strawberrys and whipped cream right now ...or maybe some pancakes with maple syrup. Mmmmm :mrgreen:

[Iolaus]

Got a PM asking how it was going, so I figued I copy my answer to the thread.

Just wondering how Mr. Atkins is treating you. I had great success the first time I tried it a couple of years ago, losing over 40 lbs. (though I eased into Weight Watchers for the last few). However, I've tried to do Atkins a couple of times since and I've had little or no luck. I lose a lb., I gain a lb. I'm afraid to keep eating the meat/cheese/eggs diet for much longer. Seems like the food choices died out with Atkins and it's just hard to be around other people and try to maintain the low-carb thing; they get cheese pizza, you get a piece of cheese. Anyway, ********* has had the same experience and I was curious as to whether you were having success this time around. Good luck with it!

Well, I've only really been back at it for 10 days now, so I still consider myself to be in the induction phase - you know; triggering my body to start burning fat.

I dropped about 5 pounds in the first 5 or 6 days, but that'll happen with any diet. This morning, I stepped on the scale, and I was down to 233 - 234; that's the first time I've dropped below 235 (morning weight) since I started, and I'm hoping that it means my metabolism has shifted to burning the fat.

The food selection is pretty limited; what I've done is I go to the health-food store, and stock up on about 10 or 15 different flavors of lo-carb/high protien meal replacement bars - 2 each. That way I have a varied diet, both in flavor and texture, and in the balance of nutrients the different companies consider important. I try to start the day with a thin marinated breakfast steak (beef or pork, $5 for 4 - 5 steaks) and scrambled eggs if I have the time - takes about 5 to 10 minutes to cook up; the meal replacement bars keep me on the "every 3 hours" schedule during school in the daytime, and I just resign myself to meat and cheese in the evening for now. Later I'll be adding some vegies or doing salads with some diced meat for dinners.