Weight Loss Update
So there was a lot of talk last night in IRC about losing weight and such. I know that I’ve been losing weight but I haven’t weighed myself in a while because I was afraid that at some point I had gained a ton of weight and that I’m still a huge fatass. Anyway, my peak weight before I started exercising and such was about 300 pounds back in April. I weighed myself this morning, and I’m sitting at 240lb even with no signs that the weight loss is leveling out.
I’m not on any fancy program like JR (who’s story is inspirational, by the way), it’s more of a “get off your ass and eat less” thing. I find that now I get full on normal-sized portions instead of stuffing myself with anything that happens across my path. Sometimes I’ll fix myself the same portions that I used to eat and end up wasting a lot of food because I just can’t finish 2000 calories worth of meal anymore. I don’t drink as much soda and get more of my liquids from water or juices. I eat more fruits and (ugh) vegetables. My diet is, if not well-balanced, at least more balanced. I walk more and take the stairs at work instead of the elevator. The little things all add up to a less-fat me. Hopefully, in another six months, they’ll add up to a not-fat-at-all me or at least a comfortably-and-endearingly-chubby me.
October 13th, 2009 at 17:36
Good luck with the diet. I’ve battled with my weight pretty much my entire life – always been 20-40 pounds overweight. While to some extent I think everyone has a “natural” weight they settle into (natural for the abundant food and sedentary lifestyle of 21st century life), I’m doing much better now just by following three rules:
1. Soda is a dessert, not a drink. Actually, a lot of juices are really sugary, too. I mostly just drink water nowadays, with milk/tea/coffee thrown in every now and then.
2. You can eat almost anything that’s “unhealthy” as long as it’s less than once a week (Monday = BBQ rib day, for instance).
3. Exercise can actually *overstimulate* hunger. It’s no good to run a couple miles and then eat twice as much. Now I focus on light stuff like walking around and playing sports with my family instead of intense gym workouts. Helps to avoid that manic post-exercise hunger.
October 13th, 2009 at 17:57
I hate coffee, so I drink juices to have any variety in my fluids. Variety is the spice of life, after all, and if the spice kills me a little sooner then at least I will have died happy.