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MannDude

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You're not big-boned.

Obese person vs a skinny person. Underneath your frames are similar.

With that said I've put 8 miles on my stationary since I put it together last night and am sticking with the diet program well. Anyone else making some positive changes? Was hoping there would be more updates to this thread since several mentioned an interest in shaping up in 2015.. :)
 

Darwin

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Now I need to build a laptop stand so I can pedal my ass off while doing my normal morning routine of checking emails / catching up on some random tasks before having to work.
Whenever you can, please, don't forget to post pics or schematic of it!

I need one too.
 

yomero

New Member
Was hoping there would be more updates to this thread since several mentioned an interest in shaping up in 2015.. :)

Well, I think everybody has interest. But the willpower needed to change habits (and then to mantain them) is really hard to put together. At that other forum where I started, we started like ten people maybe, and now only 3 or 4 people still post their updates, after more than one year.
 

Coastercraze

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Yeah, I need to start getting fit. Gonna have to come up with some healthier meals and snacks for when I'm at work. I took a stroll down to the fitness center during my 20 min break and hopped on a treadmill. Did a 15% grade and around 2.8 speed walking. It's a start, though I ruined it by smashing a son of baconator after work :p
 
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MannDude

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Yeah, I need to start getting fit. Gonna have to come up with some healthier meals and snacks for when I'm at work. I took a stroll down to the fitness center during my 20 min break and hopped on a treadmill. Did a 15% grade and around 2.8 speed walking. It's a start, though I ruined it by smashing a son of baconator after work :p
I can still eat baconators on my diet if I wanted... just gotta remove the bread, haha.

In fact, I'm going to bake some bacon in the oven (first time ever baking it) and fry some pork chops (unbreaded) on the stovetop and eat it with a sidesalad. No carbs, no sugars. That's all I'm focusing on now.

Say what you want, but it's working for me. I'm feeling a lot less hungry, am losing weight, and am in general feeling better/have more energy.

https://reddit.com/r/keto if you want to learn more about the diet or read what other people are doing/experiencing while on it.
 

MannDude

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Doing 5 miles a day on the stationary now. Weww. I used to ride a lot more than 5 miles a day in the pat on a real bike, but this is a workout. Maybe because there are no hills or coasting, it's all pedaling. Got two more miles to complete today's goal. Will do that on my last break at work or afterwards.

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TekStorm - Walter

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I have tried to watch my weight but it seems i cant get ahead, i am on my feet all day and i hardly eat and when i get i am starving. I am trying to change my day but its hard when you are go go go and never know where you are going. So me and my gf are trying to work together to change are life styles.
 

trewq

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I lost my god damn fitbit! I think it came off when I was putting on my backpack at the airport.

I'm going to go buy one of the new ones that monitors your heart rate too.
 

MannDude

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Update time!

I do believe at the beginning of the month I weighed in at 234. Just stepped on the scale... 216. I don't believe the results will be as dramatic in month 2, but we'll see. Goal weight is 180 ish. I used to be 'underweight' a few years ago back when I was still active at around 165. Then desk jobs and inactivty took over and sitting on my ass for the last few years has bloated me up.

What have I done to lose this? I've consumed less than 30 carbs daily, have cut out practically all sugar ( I don't even track it because it's so minimal ). I've only drank water and coffee. I've prepared all my food at home. I've also been cycling on a stationary bike since it's cold outside. It only takes 4 minutes to do a mile and I try to do 5 miles a day at minimum and I just do a mile here and a mile there throughout the day.

Get at it!
 
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HalfEatenPie

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Update time!

I do believe at the beginning of the month I weighed in at 234. Just stepped on the scale... 216. I don't believe the results will be as dramatic in month 2, but we'll see. Goal weight is 180 ish. I used to be 'underweight' a few years ago back when I was still active at around 165. Then desk jobs and inactivty took over and sitting on my ass for the last few years has bloated me up.

What have I done to lose this? I've consumed less than 30 carbs daily, have cut out practically all sugar ( I don't even track it because it's so minimal ). I've only drank water and coffee. I've prepared all my food at home. I've also been cycling on a stationary bike since it's cold outside. It only takes 4 minutes to do a mile and I try to do 5 miles a day at minimum and I just do a mile here and a mile there throughout the day.

Get at it!
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MannDude

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Progress has slowed a bit this month but sticking with it. Teetering on the edge of 210. Hoping that by March I'll be below it.
 

Coastercraze

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Coastercraze

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Thread needs a bump lol.

I lost my god damn fitbit! I think it came off when I was putting on my backpack at the airport.

I'm going to go buy one of the new ones that monitors your heart rate too.
Was looking at the Fitbit Charge HR, pretty much sold out everywhere. So I basically said screw it and bought a Garmin Vivosmart instead from Target with PM to Amazon.

Haven't played with it much yet since I just bought it, but it's got some notification features in it as well as the fitness stuff.
 

ChrisM

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I've been riding my bike 2-3 times a week (atleast attempting to) this month i've lost 6 lbs.. Would be more but the weather here sucks 82 degrees one day 15 and snowing the next...
 
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drmike

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You can follow the street view if you wanna be nosy :p

Probably walked about 8+ miles today which isn't too bad I suppose for a 14 hr day :)
GM Lordstown!  Glad to see that old plant still employing folks.  

Paint shop at auto co's use to be freaking horrendous.  I know lots of dead folks from the fumes, cancer, etc.   Use to not be so good in US plants in paint shops.

I've been riding my bike 2-3 times a week (atleast attempting to) this month i've lost 6 lbs.. Would be more but the weather here sucks 82 degrees one day 15 and snowing the next...
Bi-polar weather indeed.   Like I've long said, up north, it's not until mid May roughly that the weather becomes tolerable :)

I am anxious to get gardening (which is my major exercise) and back on the bicycle.
 

Kris

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3 miles daily here. Fitbit keeps me to it.

Low impact and usually on a treadmill at nothing more than 3.4mph due to a nasty foot injury that gave me permanent arthritis. 

The walk to work is only 1 mile each way, but the boss is pretty lax on coming into the office, and I glue myself to the helpdesk for instant responses. 

Living in an area where fitness is life and saying the people are vain is an understatement, you learn to quickly hate yourself and push harder. 
 

drmike

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Low impact and usually on a treadmill at nothing more than 3.4mph due to a nasty foot injury that gave me permanent arthritis. 
How is the foot with something like cycling?  Big advocate here due to knee and hip demolition and similar arthritis / perma swelling that comes and goes.

Glad to see this thread dug back up.  Lots of smart and hard working guys here who the work and habits and throw winter on top really ruins the health.

I need spring to move closer to New Years and all the quickly abandoned promises :)
 

MannDude

Just a dude
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Been doing five miles on the stationary bike, about 4 or 5 days a week now. Usually as soon as I get off work I'll hop on and pedal 5 miles while watching an episode of something.

I need to get back on the old diet again. Was doing very well on keto but broke the diet when attending Easter dinner with my family. There was too much good food that my Mom worked hard on, and had I kept with the diet I think all I would have been able to eat would have been the ham... Still been eating pretty decently since, but haven't been watching my carbs like I was. Will restart that soon. :)
 

Kris

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How is the foot with something like cycling?  Big advocate here due to knee and hip demolition and similar arthritis / perma swelling that comes and goes.

I need natural walking or the treadmill over any bike due to the way my injury panned out.

Basically, I had muscle and hamstring atrophy in my leg due to an improperly diagnosed broken foot in Maui. The doctor missed my tibia was literally in half. Had recommended an aircast after a few weeks for the small breaks he mentioned, but basic EMT skill said to stay off it, so I did. 

3 months later when I got back to the mainland I found out at a proper hospital I didn't just have 3 small breaks on my foot & a break in the calcaneus, but more importantly my tibia was broken straight down diagonal, and apparently should have had surgery performed on it ASAP for things to fuse back properly. Based on the gap after 3 months, it was apparently over 30mm when broken. 

Problem is that US healthcare isn't taken in Hawaii (at least Maui) - I was fully covered in any other state... maybe not Alaska.

So I had to go to the equivalent of a doctor you'd take your kid to for a fever, a GP per se. I maintained it myself for 3 months until I flew back to NJ as it still didn't feel weight bearing ready, while staying off the foot - which apparently stopped me from doing serious damage. 

Thing hurts constantly, but walking actually helped build back the muscle in the leg & of course helped stretch my hamstring back to usable levels over time. No PT when you don't have surgery on the foot. 

tl;dr - Get the vacation insurance plan you usually avoid if you're taking a trip to Hawaii, or other countries - if only for medical. A lot of plans are only $20-50, some include comprehensive coverage including full medical, dental, etc. 
 
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