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Post by Jersey on Mar 6, 2012 9:55:09 GMT -5
As an update I've lost 50 pounds. 51 to be precise at the time of this posting. My weight now is 254, down from the starting point of 305. My belly fat has reduced considerably but isn't quite close to gone yet so I won't be slowing this down anytime soon.
I figure I'll stay on this new habit of eating permanently with the exercise in the gym remaining a constant. Whatever weight I lose from here will simply be more of my body correcting the years of abuse it took from eating all the wrong things and not exercising enough. It'll still be interesting to see where I wind up.
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Post by Nitro God on Mar 6, 2012 10:45:38 GMT -5
i wish more FAT people had your determination Jersey. then again someone like me wouldn't allow myself to get FAT.
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Post by Jersey on Mar 6, 2012 11:29:29 GMT -5
i wish more FAT people had your determination Jersey. then again someone like me wouldn't allow myself to get FAT. Interesting implications. That I allowed myself to get to that point is true, but I did make the decision to correct it. Many people who are overweight do make more excuses than effort. Not evryone, but many I've seen. Why all the caps for the word "fat", just out of curiosity? It's a departure from your typical writing style. |
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Post by Phil on Mar 6, 2012 14:30:16 GMT -5
i wish more FAT people had your determination Jersey. then again someone like me wouldn't allow myself to get FAT. Weed and other substance can be a good diet supplement but it can also fry much needed brain cells. Just messing with you. I think lately you've decided to cast yourself as the WWF heel here. Just that I'm a fat guy so I had to toss my 2 cents in here. I could use to lose a lot of weight too. The older you get the harder it is too it seems that starting about age 34 its not that I tend to eat more than I used to but my ability to burn it has faded. |
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Post by Beangirl on Mar 6, 2012 19:58:41 GMT -5
i wish more FAT people had your determination Jersey. then again someone like me wouldn't allow myself to get FAT. Weed and other substance can be a good diet supplement but it can also fry much needed brain cells. Just messing with you. I think lately you've decided to cast yourself as the WWF heel here. Just that I'm a fat guy so I had to toss my 2 cents in here. I could use to lose a lot of weight too. The older you get the harder it is too it seems that starting about age 34 its not that I tend to eat more than I used to but my ability to burn it has faded. You are still quite studly Phil. ;D |
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Post by angel607 on Mar 7, 2012 1:02:54 GMT -5
that's great you lost 51 pounds and you are doing it in a healthy way. many will take diet pills and starve themselves. keep up the great work.
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Post by Classicblast on Mar 7, 2012 1:36:15 GMT -5
I have done workouts regularly from about fifteen years old until the end of my baseball career. I put on some weight right after. Since I did not play in 2010 or 2011 I broke my routine.
I used to start running and going to the gym daily right after Christmas but I cut back on that since my career ended. I do go to the gym and go running regularly but not as hard as I used to. I also had a more forceful diet when you eat what you want anyway you maintain your endurance but weight creeps in anyway.
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Post by Jersey on Mar 7, 2012 10:52:13 GMT -5
Classic you and I are in a similar situation. What happened with me is that I always had plenty of workouts when I was playing football. Most of these were more than enough to make someone drop some pounds (believe me, some of the runs we used to have...) but everyone was conditioned in different ways. Linemen like me typically lifted weights for strength, and our conditioning was short burst runs that were explosive but not sustained for more than a few seconds. The strength was so that we could hold the defensive line back, and the short burst conditioning was so that we could fire off the ball and gain an advantage.
The thing was, none of it was for weight loss. The most it did was keep me and the other guys on an even keel, where we didn't lose weight but didn't gain anything fat-wise either. Just muscle.
That's the reason why I had to re-learn how to work out, and how to do it for weight loss. The weight really crept on after I finished playing, and once I fully noticed it I knew it was time to get it off. So far so good.
And if some of it does eventually come back on, it will be immediately noticeable because the current goal is lose all fat. Then I can knock it back off.
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Post by Classicblast on Mar 8, 2012 0:52:45 GMT -5
Exactly right Jersey. And when it got to be a month before spring training If I don't want to lose my job to an 18 year old I'd really better bring out the best of myself. And I manged to do that through the 2009 season. And I finished the season I never got cut or sent home at training camp. I was traded a couple times during off seasons but that still means employment.
At the end of 09 I was not renewed.
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