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Great job Len. By eating less and better is definitely a great way to go. My piece of advice, which I think I mentioned here...Watch your condiments. Too much mayo, salad dressing, etc. can kill any good intentions without really knowing it.What you drink is just as important as what you eat. Up until about a year ago, I was drinking about three 20 oz bottles of Pepsi a day. That's 750 calories and a ton of sugar that went straight to my waistline and was starting to wreak havok on my insulin levels and resistance.People often overlook what they're drinking. Vitamin Water and Gatorade sound like healthy alternatives. Think of them as soda without carbonation and caffiene. People don't think of that until they compare the ingredients and see that the majority of them are the same!
Excellent point! Same goes for fruit and fruit drinks - tons of sugar and you don't need it! Things like Apples, Banana's, Mango's, and Watermelon are especially bad. If you "must" have fruit, try to eat blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, all of which have much lower impact on your insulin levels.
That said, the focus should not be on body weight, but body composition.
Good post John. I started working out with a professional trainer (35 years of experience) 1-1/2 years ago not to loose weight or look better but to work on my core, even with all my hiking my lumbar sprain was not getting any better. My body is now healing and getting stronger quite nicely but I have a ways to go, this is something I'll have to do for the rest of my life. I lost 15 lbs in the process and am now comfortably "stuck" at 180 lbs, right now the fat is still being replaced by muscle, and this is without dieting.My thinking so far is what is your life worth? Mine is worth $5000, which is what I pay for a year of training, so instead of new stereo equipment that keeps me on my ass I'm working on my health instead.Wayne
Oh yeah... Weighed myself this morning on a whim...198.8!!!!First time I've been under 200 since at least 2001. I'm setting my goal at 177. That was my wrestling weight my senior year in high school, which was 1994.
Great Job! If I set my senior year wrestling weight class as a goal, it'd be 138. Being the same height then as now, 6'1", I can't believe I ever wrestled in that weight class.
I'm in. Have a good chance to win this thing as "fat" as I am.A lot of good comments here. While exercise, diet, etc, all may play a part, losing weight really is very basic. It comes down to in-take vs. out-take.