TREKBBS Weight-Loss Central

[Garm Bel Iblis]

Welcome to the Trekbbs Weight Loss Central forum! I'm starting this to get in shape and others feel free to join me with your progress!





THat's it. I'm sick of the beer gut. I've dealt with it all of my life. It ends now. Starting now, I'm going to lose 50 pounds. I weighed myself the day after Thanksgiving and came in at 235lbs. I'm going to bring that down to 185. Hell or high water, it has to be done. I'm getting sore walking to my car, my kneew are creaking, my back hurts and I can't run. It's over today. I'll be logging my progress on here as much as time allows with visual and other data. I feel so bloatd and full today, ate because I thought I had to even though I wasn't hungry. For breakfast I had an entire Tombstone pizza and for lunch had a Sweet Onion Terayaki 6inch sub with the rest of my subway gift card from work.


This is going to be the hardest thing I've ever done. No more fried foods, no more fat, no more soda. I'm going on vacation in the middle of next summer to a place without air conditioning. There's no way I'd survive the heat at my current weight.


Day One (prior to starting diet): 235lbs, entire frozen pizza glass of soda, cup of cofee, terayaki sub, soda cheetos, soda.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Good luck.

 

[Kommander]

no more soda.

This, right here. Diets are hard to stick to, but if nothing else, stick to the part of your plan that I quoted. The best thing to do is to drink nothing but ice water. Here's a picture:

On the left, I weighed 325lbs (more or less), on the right, I weighed 195lbs. Note the dates.

For the most part, the only thing I did was stopped drinking four liters of Dr. Pepper a day and for the most part drank ice water. If I really wanted something other than water, I'd have a glass of orange juice. But, yeah, stay away from pop to the best of your abilities. Even diet pop is bad if you're trying to lose weight. If you absolutely HAVE to have it, limit yourself to one can a week. Even then, you should feel bad about it and resolve to have any more for at least a month.

 

[RAMA]

Shouldn't this be in the sports and fitness forum?

no more soda.

This, right here. Diets are hard to stick to, but if nothing else, stick to the part of your plan that I quoted. The best thing to do is to drink nothing but ice water. Here's a picture:

On the left, I weighed 325lbs (more or less), on the right, I weighed 195lbs. Note the dates.

For the most part, the only thing I did was stopped drinking four liters of Dr. Pepper a day and for the most part drank ice water. If I really wanted something other than water, I'd have a glass of orange juice. But, yeah, stay away from pop to the best of your abilities. Even diet pop is bad if you're trying to lose weight. If you absolutely HAVE to have it, limit yourself to one can a week. Even then, you should feel bad about it and resolve to have any more for at least a month.

4 LITERS A DAY?? How are your teeth?? That was insane!

RAMA

 

[Kommander]

4 LITERS A DAY?? How are your teeth?? That was insane!

Not too bad. I have sealant on all my molars except the wisdom teeth, and I'm pretty good about brushing, so I have very few cavities. However, I have acid reflux and, well, Coke is pretty acidic, so they're kind of sensitive. They hurt like hell if I eat sugary food. Which is kind of good because it keeps me from eating Twinkies and candy bars all the time.

Although, it's not my teeth I'm worried about. The whole "my dad did the same thing and now he's diabetic" thing worries me a lot more.

 

[Tribbles]

One can a week? I am trying my best to cut back to one can a day!

Soda has been the monkey on my back for... well, pretty much forever. I don't have a weight problem yet, but I fear one day everything will go downhill if I keep drinking that much Coca-Cola. I have had serious problems with my teeth, so I'm sure my dentist would be happy if I cut back on the soda.

It's amazing you lost that much just by cutting out soda, Kommander. The difference really shows in your pictures!

 

[RoJoHen]

It's amazing you lost that much just by cutting out soda, Kommander. The difference really shows in your pictures!

Not that amazing. Soda is one of the biggest culprits of obesity.

I probably drink soda maybe twice a month.

 

[Garm Bel Iblis]

DAY 2

24 hours without soda. May kill today....

 

[RoJoHen]

Just drink a lot of water instead.

 

[An Officer]

Amazing what changing one thing in your diet can do. I lost 7 kilos in 4 months, just by cutting out alcohol.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I'm currently reducing my portion sizes and doing a little more body work overall - firstly, using the stairs instead of the lifts. I feel more springy in my step, and objectively I've lost about 2 kg in the last 3 weeks so far.

 

[thestrangequark]

DAY 2

24 hours without soda. May kill today....

Try zevia. T'is all natural, sugar free, chemical free goodness.

 

[wew]

Well I'll start on January 1st, I know that starting right now would only be a disaster for me.

 

[RoJoHen]

DAY 2

24 hours without soda. May kill today....

Try zevia. T'is all natural, sugar free, chemical free goodness.

I'm beginning to think you work for them.

 

[thestrangequark]

DAY 2

24 hours without soda. May kill today....

Try zevia. T'is all natural, sugar free, chemical free goodness.

I'm beginning to think you work for them.

Haha, no. I'm just someone who is disgusted with the practices of the producers of artificial sweeteners, who have effectively kept stevia off the market in America for two decades. As a diabetic who could have benefited from stevia-sweetened products a long time ago, I feel obligated to spread the word about the wonderful plant!

 

[Jptrekker]

Okay, I'm in. I'll try to cut out sodas (and no sodas means no fast food!). I definitely need to lose some weight.

JP

 

[Goji]

I lost a lot of weight my last few years in high school, simply because I took up tennis and got rid of all the sugar in my diet. My sister has diabetes, and my mother developed it during my diet, so my family had a lot of low carbohydrate food around, and while I didn't restrict myself as much as my sister had to, it did play a significant role.

Unfortunately I went away to college, didn't have time for tennis (and met few people I liked playing with) and had junk to live on during my stay in the dorms, so I gained a lot of it back. But a little more than a year ago I started doing the things that worked for me before, and I'm almost back to the way I used to be. I'd like to get there again before I head off for Japan next March, so that's what I'm currently striving for.

We don't have regular soda around the house so I never drink it, but my sister does love diet soda, and consequently we have lots of it. I'm not drinking it now simply because after a while I got sick of it, but I still lost weight quite easily when I was drinking it. So I'm not sure what that's all about. But, yeah, obviously regular soda isn't going to help at all if you want to lose weight.

 

[Kommander]

One can a week? I am trying my best to cut back to one can a day!

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It's amazing you lost that much just by cutting out soda, Kommander. The difference really shows in your pictures!

Cutting down to one can a day is a start.

And no, it's not really that amazing. Four liters of Coke is 1600 calories (and over 400 grams of sugar... that's about 100 teaspoons). Drinking ice water actually burns a few calories, maybe 100 per day with the amounts I was drinking.

Also, unfortunately, I gained about half the weight back. Mostly because I started drinking pop again because it was free when I worked at Subway five years ago.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Joined Jenny Craig in September and am down 21.4 lbs. I still have a ways to go to get to my ideal weight, but it seems to be working.

 

[Kestra]

Joined Jenny Craig in September and am down 21.4 lbs. I still have a ways to go to get to my ideal weight, but it seems to be working.

Congratulations! Sounds like you're making good progress and have a good attitude.

I'm not at my ideal weight either but I think I'm starting to get some more energy back and I've been doing a lot of work around the house so that's help increase my activity level. I'm also planning to tough out the Chicago cold when I start classes back up in January, and walk from the train station to class, even if it means I completely freeze.

Pop isn't an issue for me, though the alcohol thing sounds like a good idea. I drink infrequently enough that I probably wouldn't miss it too much and those would be easy calories to cut out. I've also tried to be better about taking a lunch to work, one that I've made the night before. Otherwise I come home hungry and end up eating something unhealthy, and too much of it!

Good luck to all in this thread and remember that it's not about dieting, it's about making lifestyle changes, whatever those may be.