The Weight Loss Thread

That's what's up! That's what I would recommend actually. Just don't barely do the resistance workouts though, really get in there and go after it, and take breaks when you need too. What used to get me pumpin to lift weights before p90x was listen to some for of intense music or music I enjoyed, but even then I was just kinda sorta doin what was needed. Just be sure to mix up the resistance days and try to have the 3 resistance days target every part of your body.
 
Yo, alcohol messes everything up. Saturday I drank 4 jägerbombs and yesterday 5 shots of Rum. Mad empty calories... Now I feel sluggish and I gotta strength train today? Blarrgh...
 
Yep that's what happens. Alcohol will fuck u any workout routine you got goin on when tryin' to get rid of a gut, especially beer!

Lol, all that and you gonna be sweating alcohol. I didn't start drinkin anything alcoholic until I was about 8 months into my routine, and only 3 times since. It can really mess you up if it becomes consistent...
 
Man I'm pretty sure that just a 1oz shot of anything 80% proof is 100 calories... Just one! An average meal is like 600 calories, 6 shot and you had a crappy lunch. Never again... Well, not for a long time, I mean.
 
Yo ever since the weekend, it's been something of a challenge to get back on track. I gotta tighten up... I ain't stopping though.
 
Can't stop, won't stop, nuh uhh!

Plyometrics kicked my ass today, I had such a painful headache but I stuck with it and got the whole thing done. I burned a good 600 calories today I believe. That sauna in the back I call a kitchen really got the sweat goin.
 
So I started climbing this local mountain trail, Mt. Watatic lately. It's 1.9 miles up the mountain, then about a mile of even terrain and about 1.3 miles gentle downhill. Getting up without having to pause for a breather is hard, but that's my goal. It's a pretty rough climb. I jog down the last 2 mile leg and it keeps me engaged, unlike treadmill running, because I'm dodging rocks, tree branches/roots. I can feel the difference already in my breathing from doing it 3 times a week. Adding in weight training and some HIIT cardio to balance it out. I'll let you guys know how I'm doing.

(update, down 44lbs total, goal is 100lbs)

-Idle
 
How tall are you Idle? You really have to go that far below 200?
Arrogant said:
No lie... stuff like that makes me sad as heck, man. I feel so sorry for him... make me almost tear. I just wanna motivate him. Dang it, man. You made me sad, Ring. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu...
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At the beginning I also thought it was sad but in the last part of the vid it became pretty obvious that he was not very eager to change his habits. He just got too comfortable after years of other people doing everything for him and feeding him with junk food. A lot of that is his mother's fault, though. It's easy to find people who lost that much weight (like 500-600lbs) with gastric bypass surgery... but when they do it w/o any surgery = that's true dedication and true will power.

I always used stuff like this as a source of motivation. There's also "Half ton Mom" and "Half ton Dad" on youtube.
 
Ring said:
How tall are you Idle? You really have to go that far below 200?
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I'm 5'11. I was REALLY overweight. Pregnant cow overweight.

Also, I should've clarified, I would like to get below 200 in general, but I really ought to weigh more like 160 for my size and body frame.

My routine is pretty varied, I have to combat exercise boredom alot. I can't even go on the treadmill anymore without getting bored out of my mind; so HIIT cardio began to appeal to me, 1 minute full exertion, 1 minute cool down, ect. Lifting weights is easier though; because so much more focus is required to keep going.

-Idle
 
IdleMind said:
So I started climbing this local mountain trail, Mt. Watatic lately. It's 1.9 miles up the mountain, then about a mile of even terrain and about 1.3 miles gentle downhill. Getting up without having to pause for a breather is hard, but that's my goal. It's a pretty rough climb. I jog down the last 2 mile leg and it keeps me engaged, unlike treadmill running, because I'm dodging rocks, tree branches/roots. I can feel the difference already in my breathing from doing it 3 times a week. Adding in weight training and some HIIT cardio to balance it out. I'll let you guys know how I'm doing.

(update, down 44lbs total, goal is 100lbs)

-Idle
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That does sound pretty intense. Rock climbing in a natural environment besides a machine in your own home will always be more rewarding, just for the fact there is more intensity of different levels to climb, things to look out for, and extra twists and turns that you have to make. It's the same way with free weights vs set weights, set weights take away from other parts of your body that benefit from the workout (a set bench takes away from your lower/mid back and your upper core).

I'm curious to see how it goes too idle...
 
IdleMind said:
I'm 5'11. I was REALLY overweight. Pregnant cow overweight.

Also, I should've clarified, I would like to get below 200 in general, but I really ought to weigh more like 160 for my size and body frame.

My routine is pretty varied, I have to combat exercise boredom alot. I can't even go on the treadmill anymore without getting bored out of my mind; so HIIT cardio began to appeal to me, 1 minute full exertion, 1 minute cool down, ect. Lifting weights is easier though; because so much more focus is required to keep going.

-Idle
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Well, if you really want to lose that much weight I wish you good luck and no skin problems. Plastic surgeries are not covered and ridiculously expensive ._.
 
The last info on Billy Robbins (taken from another site):
280 pounds​


You may have heard or read about ‘Billy Robbins’, the teenager who has unfortunately been nick-named ‘half ton teen’ by the mass media, who at just 19 years of age topped the scales at an incredible 800 pounds, making him the worlds heaviest teenager.

His plight has been well documented in a TLC special called, imaginably, ‘half ton teen’. Billy had been told he had literally months to live if his weight wasn’t drastically reduced and the only option for such drastic weight loss was to undergo weight loss surgery.

The most effective and commonly used surgical procedure for the clinically obese is called gastric banding which is when a laparoscopic adjustable gastric band is placed around the top portion of the stomach, this procedure is not usually invasive and can be performed via Laparoscopic surgery or, keyhole surgery as it is more commonly known.

In Billy Robbins case, he was too large initially to receive the life saving operation and had to go onto a strict 1200 calorie diet, which may not seem too extreme to people of normal size and weight but when you have been consuming 8000 calories a day it is a massive reduction.

Eventually, after losing two and a half stone, he had the first of a three step surgical plan, devised by surgeons in Texas, who specialized in this type of procedure. This operation entailed removing a large amount of excess fat from Billy’s stomach, a five stone slab to be exact, that’s 70 pounds!

Then after 3 months of hospital care and continued dieting, during which time his weight had come down a remarkable 280 pounds, he underwent the second phase of his surgery. This second phase was to implant the gastric band that would limit the amount of food that could be eaten, a month after this he was allowed to go home having lost a further 70 pounds. The third and final part of this surgery will be to tighten the gastric band to limit further Billy’s food intake and help him lose even more weight. At the airing of this documentary in January 2009, Billy had lost a total of 30 stones, just over half his original starting weight.

Weight loss surgery has saved Billy Robbins from certain early death as it has many, many others but the real issue here is that of a nations diet and eating habits, sure Billy Robbins was something of a victim of circumstance, being pampered by a mother who gave him no direction regarding the correct diet and for whatever reasons she may have had, she was slowly killing the son she loves. Children need educating about diet and exercise from an early age or they too will become victims of the lazy eating culture and we will see more cases such as Billy’s.

Advertisers need to be governed much better as our children are under a constant barrage of one advertisement after another for fat filled, sugar drenched snack foods and drinks that have the health of our children as their lowest priority instead of their highest. Many of these corporations that prey on our young people have the audacity to blame the victims for lack of self control yet the message they subliminally promote is more is good!
Sources: http://www.nurido.at/news/how-half-ton-teen-billy-robbins-was-saved-by-weight-loss-surgery-124030.html
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That's good I guess. Hopefully he won't regain that weight.

The "half ton mom" had a tragic end, unfortunately. It was sad to watch.
 
I had a bad week. I overate and, thanks to the alcohol, was too tired to finish the exercises I was supposed to do. I would do maybe 15-25 minutes of exercise rather than the hour. I would get a tad light-headed and I was hotter than usual. I started drinking a lot more water and it seemed to have done the trick. Not looking forward to weighing in Sunday. I hope to at least to have lost a pound. If not, just gotta do better next week.
 
Weighed maybe 5 minutes ago. Weighed in at 185lbs. So I did lose a pound. (I never want to go a week without losing at least that.) Like, I said Friday, this past week was a "bad" one. Starting over today. Hopefully by first week of July I'll be at 180lbs.
 
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