Weight loss challenge, anybody else want to join me?

[rak1]

The wife and I have been on a diet for about a year and I know what you mean with the weight not wanting to come off anymore. Heck, when I was younger it was easy to lose weight but when I hit 45 a few years ago it's like an act of god. I'm not bad and I go to the gym and drag my wife with me three times a week. I'm a little over 6'3" and this morning my weight was 213.8; I should be around 200 so it could be worse. I won’t mention what my wife weight is because she would kill me if she ever found out I posted it on the web.

[grandsport]

I'll join in. I'll switch to Coors light.

[piette]

So has anybody made the attempt to start a weight reduction program of any sorts for their lives?

I myself since last monday have lost about 12 pounds. I will be very happy when I get under 200 pounds again. I work out every single day again now that the doctors have said to go ahead with weight training again and it feels so good to get back at it. I can tell in that 8 months or so of recupperation I lost a whole lot of my physical conditioning. The amount of weight I curl and press is far less than where I was at, but I will work my way back up again, not a big deal. I just need to make sure I stick with the correct diet and keep working out and I hope by March 1st area to be down around 190 pounds, which will be nearly 30 pounds (29) lost in about 5 weeks. I've done it before and I can do it again.

My overall goal is to get back under 10% body fat again, preferably around 8% would be great.

Jeff

[elcoman]

I'm in.

I have a few more pounds I am trying to lose.

[chevguy65]

I started last May and have lost 38 lbs.
I simply started walking and I cut back on my portions.
I still need to drop about another 40-50.
I will admit I have been hovering for about the past 3 months as I have not been walking as much (it's cold out) and I ate more during the holidays.
I figure once it warms back up I should drop fairly quickly again.

[rak1]

I've cut out snacks and deserts and the wife is trying.

[johnnys1977]

I lost some weight. But then I found it again!!!
Actually I have dropped two pant sizes in the last month and a half.
Now my wife wants me to see the doctor for fear I'm getting sick.

[Ms Grumpy]

Originally Posted by piette

So I have always been in pretty decent shape. Well that is until I quit smoking which I put about 40 pounds on after that, which wasnt all bad because I was probably too thin before that. While smoking I was 6 ft tall and weighed on average of 160 pounds. Over the years I put on a few more still.

So that brings me to last March. I weighed in at 218 pounds and I was a bit disappointed in that to say the least. So I started an intense diet and excercise program, and dropped my weight to 183 pounds and was well on my way to being in excellent physical shape. I had a 4 pack going in the abs and the 6 pack was just starting to come through. It took me 3 months to do this.

Then in May I had a head on car crash and could no longer workout and the disappointment led to me eating like crap again and here I sit again, on Monday I weighed 218 pounds again. So I am back to my intense diet, and working out. Today I am at 214 pounds.

Anybody else want to join me and we will keep everyone each other to get ourselves in shape? We have enough time to do this before summer gets here, and makes the winter go by much better.

Jeff

So how's it going Jeff?

[piette]

Originally Posted by Ms Grumpy

So how's it going Jeff?

Very well so far, thank you. I am currently down about 30 pounds from my starting weight, actually 29 to be accurate. I run and bike or both every single day, and lift weights every other day as well. My biggest challenge i had to overcome was forcing myself to eat enough calories. With the level of excercise I do, I need about 3400 calories a day to have a 750 calorie a day deficit roughly. I am not a big eater, so for me 3400 calories a day is a ton of food. Once I got my diet plan worked out, the weight pretty much just falls off. Its strange that I have to eat more to weigh less, but thats how it works.

I am hoping to hit about 180 pounds by the end of May or so, then I am going to go back on a gainer diet and pack on more muscle again. I have lost about 14% body fat or so according to my body calipers, and would like to drop another 4-5%. I do know I have lost some muscle size with it from eating too few calories at the begininng, but I can get that back after I am done cutting.

Is anyone else still doing this?

Jeff

[flash]

I am going to start walking during my lunch hour again but that means giving up my internet time . Guess I cant have everything but I need to get back in shape and I dont mean round.