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[kumanoki]

I'm at 110.8kg (244.2lbs).

Down from my original 122kg (269lbs) at the beginning of February.

Still going strong. Clothes don't fit. Belts don't fit.

By the way, J-GAF, if you haven't tried the Haagen Das Green Tea & Kuromitsu ice cream sandwiches yet, they are sweet sweet death.

 

[goodcow]

How tall are you?

 

[ocelittle]

Awesome, dode.

Keep it up.

Are you excersizing?

 

[kumanoki]

How tall are you?

182cm (6'1")

To answer the other question, yes. I exercise. I practice kyudo three times a week. The kyudojo is 4km away, so I get a good cardio workout before practice.

 

[iapetus]

Still going strong. Clothes don't fit. Belts don't fit.

It's the hidden expense of dieting.

I've stalled at around 95kg (down 15kg from my start point) and have been there for a while, give or take. Need to get more exercise into the mix, I think.

 

[kumanoki]

It's the hidden expense of dieting.

I've stalled at around 95kg (down 15kg from my start point) and have been there for a while, give or take. Need to get more exercise into the mix, I think.

Me too. I had a point where I plateaued around 112kg. I wish I had access to free weights.

 

[ChryZ]

Congrats for the strong will and self-discipline ... but losing weight too fast isn't healthy. With a calories restricted diet one shouldn't lose more than 0.5-1kg per week, otherwise the body starts to cannibalizing itself by feeding of the available protein reserves (aka muscle-mass). I would suggest to switch to a low fat, low simple carb (refined sugar, etc), medium complex carb (oat meal, wholegrain, brown rice, etc), high protein (chicken, turkey, fish, etc) diet and some exercise. Take care.

 

[kumanoki]

Congrats for the strong will and self-discipline ... but losing weight too fast isn't healthy. With a calories restricted diet one shouldn't lose more than 0.5-1kg per week, otherwise the body starts to cannibalizing itself by feeding of the available protein reserves (aka muscle-mass). I would suggest to switch to a low fat, low simple carb (refined sugar, etc), medium complex carb (oat meal, wholegrain, brown rice, etc), high protein (chicken, turkey, fish, etc) diet and some exercise. Take care.

If you could see a chart of my weight loss over the past twelve weeks, you would see a lot of the weight coming off quickly in the first month. I guess you could call that my 'winter coat'. That alarmed me, but I reached a point where my body adjusted to the lowered calorie intake and higher metabolism. Since then the weight loss has been more gradual, actually right around .05-1lb a week.

As for the diet recommendations, that sounds good. Living in Japan restricts my choices when it comes to choosing healthy things to eat. I wish I had access to a lot of the foods you're describing, especially oatmeal and wholegrain brown rice. My diet is already high protein, with plenty of fish and chicken. Again, I wish I could get turkey, but I can't.

As I've said before, my goal is to lose weight in an effort to avoid potential health problems later on in life. There is heart disease, cancer, and a nasty history of dropping dead on the spot in my family. I'm doing my best to lower my chances of all three. I don't want to look like a Chippendale, I don't want to look like a marathon runner. I just want to achieve a healthy happy medium.

 

[Docpan]

Um... Hooray for you?

 

[kumanoki]

Um... Hooray for you?

Yes. Hooray for me.

 

[Seth C]

I'm down from 255 to 178. Good luck!

 

[ChryZ]

As for the diet recommendations, that sounds good. Living in Japan restricts my choices when it comes to choosing healthy things to eat. I wish I had access to a lot of the foods you're describing, especially oatmeal and wholegrain brown rice. My diet is already high protein, with plenty of fish and chicken. Again, I wish I could get turkey, but I can't.

Fetch ya some yakitori or oyako-donburi (chicken and egg over rice). Check out Wendies (or was it Lotte?), anyway one of them offer a nice chicken filet burger (grilled chicken breast, not fried) ... good stuff.

As I've said before, my goal is to lose weight in an effort to avoid potential health problems later on in life. There is heart disease, cancer, and a nasty history of dropping dead on the spot in my family. I'm doing my best to lower my chances of all three. I don't want to look like a Chippendale, I don't want to look like a marathon runner. I just want to achieve a healthy happy medium.

Same here. I've been in your shoes two years ago. 105kg/194cm, crash diet down to 85kg in 2 month, fucked up my metabolism big time. Then I bought a mountain bike and switched to more healthier diet and managed to maintain my weight for 2 years now. Last winter I signed up at a gym, they took my specs 86kg / 16%bodyfat, after 4 month: 84kg / 12%bodyfat ... never felt better

 

[Alex]

This is a bit old, but as I'm on a diet again as of recent (first time since high school as well, well, a real diet that is, if it's just a few pounds I just starve myself for a few days), I figured I'd say congrats. Gonna keep us updated? What is your goal weight?

I just wish I had the patience everyone else seems to have on a diet. I've used the same one for years; green beans, green tea/water, vitamin suppliments and an excess ammount of exercise. Long walks multiple times a day, lots of crunches, 15-30 minutes a day on this wacko exercise machine my parents bought me one year.

I'm not sure the horror it reaps on my metabolism as when I usually do diets and reach my goal weight I'm so active it preempts any backfiring anyway. It's probably a poor habit that I'll need to break while I'm still young though. I really can't stand excess weight though.

 

[kumanoki]

If anything, I wold say that routine is the most important thing about dieting. Getting yourself set into a daily regimen with everything planned out helps a lot.

You determine what your goal is and plan accordingly.

For example, I have a great deal of routine in my daily life. I work at a school five days a week, so it was easy for me to plot out exactly when I felt hungry during the day. Using that information, I decided to change my eating habits while increasing my metabolism by eating more frequently. In order to do that and not gain a shit ton of weight, I knew that the new regimen would have to restrict my calorie intake. So I set about finding foods I could eat during the day that are tasty and filling, but have very few calories. I decided to take it upon myself to make a salad for lunch because I can eat the hell out of green veggies and get full without sending my calorie intake into the thousands.

I still have trouble with portions, because I've always been a member of the clean-your-plate club, but I realize that I feel better when I slow down and eat less at dinner.


I burn anywhere between 2100 and 2800 calories a day. This is my intake:

yogurt- 160cal
granola wafer- 141cal
salad- 400cal
bananna- 30cal
granola wafer- 141cal
crackers- 90cal
dinner- 1000 to 1200 cal

So that adds up to about 2082cal a day.
So I burn anywhere from 100 to 800cal a day, and lose about a pound a week.

You guys can do this. You just have to really want your goal.

 

[Alex]

See, that's what I wish I could do, bah!

I think the only thing that confuses me when trying to pick out snacks to help the terrible binge dieting I do to go over a little better every few days is; how the hell do those huge dill pickles have no calories.