I've lost 10 lbs.

[milefile]

Yep. And it's not as hard as I thought. It all started at the beginning of summer when I put on my swim suit and it was tight. It doesn't have any elastic and last year I had to sorta stick my gut out a bit to keep it from falling off. But I knew I'd been gaining weight before that. When I got weighed at the doctor I almost died. I had no idea I'd gained so much. I'd have to say I carry it well because I didn't look fat, which is probably why it could go on for so long.

So I made up my mind to lose 30 lbs. I've lost ten in less than three weeks. My strategy is a diet based on Atkins, but not the pure form, and 20 minutes of excercise at least six days a week. Sticking to the diet is easy during the week but weekends are different because we always go to people's houses and they serve up all this crap food and I'm not going to be like Hitler and bring my own.

But anyway my goal is to loose the 30 by the end of October and it seems totally do-able. Now that I've gotten into an excercise routine I want to expand on it and introduce some weights but 20 minutes a day is almost all the time I have. I could maybe spend another 10-15 minutes, and that's it. Too many other things to do.

It's cool when people say your face looks thinnner, when your pants are falling off (and those ones in the closet will fit again), and you grab your belly and it's disappearing. I've never purposely tried to lose weight before (never really needed to) so it's kind of a novelty.

So hooray for me.

 

[Gil]

yes hooray for you.
I've lost 30lb since June and picked up five while on vacation to my mom's. (Good souther Cookin' )
Now it's back to work.
Congrats.

 

[U.N.A.M]

Congrats.
I've gained 15 pounds (darn McDonalds!)

 

[Curveball]

Good job! I need o lose weight too. I weigh 105lbs.

 

[milefile]

Originally posted by Curveball
Good job! I need o lose weight too. I weigh 105lbs.

Are you three feet tall?

I'm up to 15 lbs now. Fifteen more to reach my goal. But I seem to have hit a wall. Those first 15 were dropping off at about a pound a day. Now everything seems to have stopped. My wife and my sister say it's normal and that those extra pounds get more stubborn as you go.

Anybody have any suggestions? I don't know if I could eat any less. Do I just have to be more patient?

 

[Curveball]

Originally posted by milefile
Are you three feet tall?

I'm up to 15 lbs now. Fifteen more to reach my goal. But I seem to have hit a wall. Those first 15 were dropping off at about a pound a day. Now everything seems to have stopped. My wife and my sister say it's normal and that those extra pounds get more stubborn as you go.

Anybody have any suggestions? I don't know if I could eat any less. Do I just have to be more patient?

No, I'm 5'0".

 

[risingson77]

You're also 14...wait a few years. You don't start really fleshing out until sometime in your twenties.

Congratulations, milefile! The first few will be the easiest, but stick with it and the results will become apparent before too long. It's just a matter of your metabolism adjusting, that's all. You may want to consider working out every other day, or at least varying the area of the body being worked. Working out too much will just wear you out with little to no gain.

 

[Klostrophobic]

I lost five pounds in about a week somehow. I weigh 156 pounds now. I didn't really do anything and I wasn't intending to lose it. Amazing.

I wish I had gained 5 pounds instead.

 

[Max Powers]

I lost 10 pounds in the first week of Cross Country practice this year, went down from 130 to 120. But just like Klos, I wasn't intending to lose the weight either.

 

[milefile]

I'm up to 23 lbs now. Six from my goal. But I think I'll make my original goal more of a benchmark, and loose another ten pounds. I started at 229 and I'm at 206 now. I think I'll go to 190. I'm used to the diet by now so it's no big deal.

It was great to look at some recent pictures and compare them to a few months ago. Makes it all worthwile. I also just feel so much better and more energetic. And my wardrobe has increased since I can wear stuff I couldn't wear at the beginning of August.

Woopie doo!

 

[vat_man]

Good news, milefile - keep at it.

My only suggestion is perhaps trying to lengthen your exercise sessions to around 40 minutes and try to limit your carb intake before exercising - this will further boost your fat burning.

 

[milefile]

Originally posted by vat_man
Good news, milefile - keep at it.

My only suggestion is perhaps trying to lengthen your exercise sessions to around 40 minutes and try to limit your carb intake before exercising - this will further boost your fat burning.

I do limit the carb intake. But forty minutes is hard to find. I want to start doing other kinds of excercises to tone my upper body but I can't be buying weights just now. I also need to tone my abs because even though most of the fat is gone the muscles aren't holding me in as tight as I'd like. So that's my next step. Any suggestions for upper body toning without weights?

I also wanted to mention that I had to walk about a quarter mile through sand with my 20 lb son in a backpack on my vacation earlier this month. It was a breeze. Two months ago that would've killed me.

 

[risingson77]

Originally posted by milefile
But forty minutes is hard to find.

Speaking of which, how is your son? ^^

Any suggestions for upper body toning without weights?

Push-ups. They work your upper body pretty evenly (chest, forearms, triceps, back) and provide good toning and muscular endurance.

I also wanted to mention that I had to walk about a quarter mile through sand with my 20 lb son in a backpack on my vacation earlier this month. It was a breeze. Two months ago that would've killed me.

Outstanding. 👍

 

[Vasco]

I'm about 35kg...I need to get a bit taller now...and put on a bit more weight.

 

[HRT_Maloo]

35 kg?
I dont think the smallest yr9 at my school would be that light

 

[Cobraboy]

Ha, I'm a lazy bastard.

I really should get some excercise, even since I gave up cricket and rugby I've just grown lazier and lazier, the aquisition of a PS2 didn't help either .

But I do notice now with my new job that my forearms are getting harder, I can see the tendons and stuff working in my hand and my biceps+triceps are showing more, so it's amazing how much a little bit of excercise that you havent done before shows up 👍

 

[risingson77]

Originally posted by DODGE the VIPER
I'm about 35kg...I need to get a bit taller now...and put on a bit more weight.

Isn't that like 77 lbs.? How tall are you?

 

[milefile]

Originally posted by risingson77
Speaking of which, how is your son? ^^

Very well. He's crawling and eating like a horse and sleeping through the night, most of the time.

Push-ups. They work your upper body pretty evenly (chest, forearms, triceps, back) and provide good toning and muscular endurance.

I did some of these last night. I've started breaking things up. I used to do 20 minutes of cardio straight through. Now I'm doing ten, then ab-work, then ten more minutes of cardio, then push-ups. It extends the workout maybe ten minutes.

 

[KosmikFool]

Originally posted by Curveball
Good job! I need o lose weight too. I weigh 105lbs.

If anything, you need to gain weight. I'm 5'5" and weigh 117 pounds. I'm probably gaining though due to my new 2 weekly visits to the weight room at school. And most of my weight is muscle, believe it or not. Its pretty funny actually, I don't look that cut until I flex. I'm weird.

 

[Vasco]

I'm about 1.55-1.6 metres... Yeah, I don't look that skinny either.

 

[milefile]

Since I started the pushups and situps I haven't lost any more weight, even though my diet has been at a level where I really should be, and I haven't cut out any of the cardio. It's kinda frustrating because I still want to lose about ten more pounds. I attribute it to either water weight or muscle mass because I knwo it can't be fat. I hope.

 

[risingson77]

I don't know how long you've been doing push-ups and sit-ups, but give it time. It took a month for me to notice a difference (and that was in Basic Training ).

Of course, I put on weight...

 

[milefile]

Okay. I'm confused. In the past week I haven't lost any more weight. But I think I should have. I'm eating right and excercizing faithfully. I've even increased my excercise level. But I get to work this morning and am told how thin I'm getting. I feel like I'm improving, but the scale says otherwise. Is there any reason why I'd continue to improve physically but not shed pounds.

 

[risingson77]

You're putting on muscle. Muscle is far more dense than fat, so your weight loss will plateau some - you may even put on weight. As long as you continue to lose excess fat, you're golden.

Have you considered finding out your BMI?

 

[milefile]

Originally posted by risingson77
You're putting on muscle. Muscle is far more dense than fat, so your weight loss will plateau some - you may even put on weight. As long as you continue to lose excess fat, you're golden.

Have you considered finding out your BMI?

Hmm. 27.4

Overweight But I read some of the site and see what it really means. I'd like to get a body fat measurement taken. I've always been heavier than I look. I must be very dense, physically, that is

 

[milefile]

I will just continue with what I'm doing because it seems to be working even thought that damned scale taunts me so. I only wish I had the cash for a nice olympic weight set and a bench.

 

[risingson77]

Well, like the BMI calculator says, BMI is but one facet of your physical fitness. There's no time like the present for a complete physical.