I will lose 30 pounds and prove it!

Peter....you are doing a diet; it won't work....deprivation eventually & inevitably fails. Lifestyle changes, changing your diet, incorporating exercise. I would suggest getting yourself a nutritionist and committing to also hiring a personal trainer. The effects of proper diet AND exercise are dramatic.

All the fast weight-loss you achieve on these crash diets will come right back the instant you get off them. A healthy & ideal (far more permanent) loss of weight is a mere 1-2 pounds per week. And again: exercise is critical...it will naturally lower your hunger both physically and mentally.

 

It's been said already, but exercise, exercise, exercise... Do something sustainable, ie that allows you to do enough of it to burn sufficient calories. I can't run more than maybe 30 min every other day b/c my knees start to hurt too much. So, I bike instead. That type of idea.

There are 3500 calories in a pound of fat. Google the topic and there are tons of charts on how much a given exercise burns. Cycling I use 700cal/hr for example for my body size and pace. Pretty simple, burn off the fat by exercising. It gets more complicated when you get more fit (you start burning muscle when pushing too hard, etc.), but starting out, it's pretty simple.

If you exercise enough, you can eat pretty much anything if you're not trying to become a world class athlete. So, if you had 7 beers on Saturday night, that's fine, but keep in mind, that's a full hours cycling or it's going straight to your ass. (obviously, things aren't 100% efficient, but keep it simple in the beginning)

 

Update...

Thanks for putting this thread up PeterS...I have been eating a lot healthier within the last month, no fast food, been taking an all natural fruit and berry juice....

Been taking Hydroxycuts (without Ephedran) for the last 3 weeks as well as working out 4 days a week, crunches everyday and 45min-1hr on the bike everyday keeping my heartrate paced around 120....

All I can say is wow! I haven't weighed myself since I have started but nearly all my stomach fat is gone...I can actually see traces of a six pack which I havent seen in 6 years...My back pain is gone and 2 years ago I slipped a disc and thought that my back would never recover and strengthen...

I still have a long way to go but the results have been astonishing...I will post pics if anyone is interested (of course with the token "Fchat Rocks pic )

Anyway, thanks for the advice guys and the little extra push that I needed to get going.

 

I've done it but I'm not about to post my before pics haha...

 

It's the poster on the door of your workout room

 

Here's what a friend said about the program I put him through:


It's been over 4 weeks since I started your program. I bet you thought I already fell off the wagon by now. Actually, I'm still on the program and going strong.

Here's a status report:

1) I'm still on the 6 meals a day schedule as you suggested and sticking to the food types, supplements and quantities as layout by you. Most of the time, I'm able to keep to the eating time table within one or two hours of each eating period.

2) I've been drinking at least 1/2 gallon of water per day, some days more: 3/4 - 1 gallon.

3) I'm walking at least 25 minutes per day, with few exceptions. I've only missed about 5 scattered days over the last 3 weeks.

5) Although I've done a few tension-rope exercise sessions, I find it difficult to work it into my daily routine. However, I will make this a priority to make it a daily event.

6) I'm now down to 242 LBS from the original weight of 262 LBS -- 20 LBS in 4 weeks.

7) Beside having lots more energy, my mental state has improved. In other words, I seem to have a much more positive and consistent out look on live - at home and at work. This was something I didn't expect to happen.

Again, I want to thank you for your time and generosity and providing me the motivation get started.

I want to wish you and your family the very best for the Christmas and New Year holidays.

 

Here's the diet plan:

Here is my diet plan when I was training people.

Meal one: 8am

½ cup of oatmeal with 1 cup blueberries
3 egg whites scrambles or hard boiled
multivitamin (centrum performance) or anything better...

Variations:
High fiber cereal with raisins
Half a grape fruit
You can replace the egg whites with nonfat cottage cheese or 3 low fat Turkey sausage links

Meal two: 10 am

Whole grain wheat bread with lean roast beef / chicken / turkey your pick. Or you can replace with a meal replacement supplement.

Meal Three: 1 pm

Chicken / Tuna / Turkey sandwich (take your pick)
A small salad with extra virgin olive oil dressing

Meal Four:3pm

Protein Shake and an apple

Meal five:5-6pm

Chicken breast / Lean Pork / Salmon
Salad (can replace with broccoli steamed or blanche (barely boiled just to soften it up) asparagus cooked same way.


Meal Six: 8pm

Cup of nonfat cottage cheese. cottage cheese is a good source of slow burning casein protein which well help regulate your protein during sleep.

Good food Ingredients:

Proteins Carbohydrates
chicken breast potatoes
turkey breast sweet potatoes
ground turkey yams
swordfish squash
salmon pumpkin
tuna Brown rice
crab wheat pasta
lobster oatmeal (yummy)
shrimp barley
any lean steak beans
lean ham corn
egg whites or egg white substitutes strawberries
non fat cottage cheese melons
whey protein oranges
soy protein (tofu) apples
basically any protein powder bananas
skim or nonfat milk bread( preferably made from whole wheat)
any vegetable

Foods to avoid:

Bagels
Muffins
any soda except diet but drink sparingly
White Rice
Eat Pasta very sparingly
Pizza
Alcohol (one glass of beer or one glass of wine a day; no more) and no hard liquor
Chips
Fast food of any sort unless you do deli sandwiches
No mayonnaise
Anything with High Fructose Corn Syrup.
When cooking use safflower oil or light olive oil
When eating salad. Use extra virgin olive oil mixed with white wine vinegar, pepper, and oregano.


Supplements to buy:

Optimum Whey Protein or any protein supplement you like.
Flax seed oil (can mix in with your oatmeal 1 tsp)

 

so did this ever happen? couldn't be bothered searching through a gazillion posts...

as of today i'm on a 10-or-so day blitz. last time i went up the river for kneeboarding i found myself way too weak and heavy to enjoy it for more than 5 minutes, it absolutely killed me!

so, i'm going up again on 11th of march, so i have just under two weeks to shed some flab and get some stamina.

weighed myself this morning, 91kg (201lbs). my ideal maintainable weight would be in the mid-low 80's (~185lbs) if i were reasonably fit. will be running every morning and night, plus lots of curls, pushups and will have to finally do some situps, ugh.

 

losing weight is a such pain in the ass... Ive lost about 65 so far... I still wanna lose another 30-40. Its worth the struggle to take it off and maintain it, so worth it.

 

Sounds exactly like the program I am on....I have to find a scale somewhere to weigh myself as well....Out of curiosity, you said your ideal weight is 185, how tall are you?

 

Right now I'm not working on cutting weight but trying to keep it about the same. I just want to gain more muscle in my abs, chest, shoulders and arms. My legs are fine right now, and I can't do any muscle building with them anyways. I want to gain muscle and lose a bit of the fat in my stomach. For some reason, I have no fat in my face/neck, arms, or legs, but I've got moobs... those are the first to go!

 

As of today, I'm 37lbs lighter than back in January 1st! Just 13 more to go, and its such a big hurdle right now

 

haha, that was 4 months ago.... i got down and stayed around 87-88kg (192lbs) for a couple months, then the last month or so i've been busy at werk and lazy at play, so am back at 94-95kg (208lbs). should be back under 90kg (198lbs) by late july.

 

Way to go Many Congrats it hard to do.I have a friend that lost 100 lbs it was just amazing the change. I need to lose 10 lbs still working at it.

 

I'm down 30 in 6 weeks with the Scarsdale Diet.

 

You could do 1/2 that taking the cigars out of your pocket

 

Awesome Peter! Unlike some, I'm ok NOT seeing the pictures

reading through this thread brought back a lot of memories. Since December 2005 when this thread started, I've dropped just over 35lbs. (198 -> 162lbs, @ 6', or 5'12" as you'd have to say). Better yet, even dropped some much younger racers on the training ride with the cycling coach this morning. I'm 43, they were less than 1/2 that.

 

Congrats Peter! Continued success!

 

Keep it up fellas. The problem with 99% of the people out there is they attatch weight loss to vanity instead of health. Most peoples psyche is not strong enough to resist food entirely for vanity. It is strong enough if you sincerely want to get healthy again though. Most of you have some serious food addictions that are very hard to break. The last hurdle is being toxic. Toxicity in the cells from all the crap in food holds the weight on even when exercising and dieting sometimes. We use a detox program in our clinic by Standard Process that will not only make you lose tons of weight but it will get your health back on track very rapidly. One of our patients dropped her blood pressure by 50 points in the first 10 days. Another lowered her units of insulin taken(she's insulin dependant diabetic) from 250units to 80 in two weeks.
I think the best thing about it is it actually retrains your body on what to crave. You start liking and craving healthy things that you never did before. Weight loss is easy after that because your diet is on track. It's a 21 day program. Check it out online. I think some of you guys would really benifit from it. Best of luck.

 

Sounds interesting, do you have a link to a specific program?

 

It's http://www.standardprocess.com/display/router.aspx. It truly is a life changing program. And I know that sounds hoaky and over the top but I have put literally 100s if not a 1000 people on this program and they all come back telling me this. We've seen tons of phenominal results. I just got done with one after Christmas to get myself back on track after the holidays.