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Well. I went and bought a new Trek bike today. Much lighter than my mountain bike. Rode it a bit but my sit bones are screaming bloody murder.

We'll see if I can keep up with her next weekend.

Excellent choice going with a lighter mountain bike.

Keep it going. Your muscles, tendons, and ligaments will need time to strengthen again.

She must be pretty happy with herself. Usually a happy wife and a happy life go hand-in-hand if you know what I mean. :devilwink:
 
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Excellent choice going with a lighter mountain bike.

Keep it going. Your muscles, tendons, and ligaments will need time to strengthen again.

She must be pretty happy with herself. Usually a happy wife and a happy life go hand-in-hand if you know what I mean. :devilwink:
Got this in red. Pretty. My house is on a mountain. Rode it up and down a bit. Feels like going from an F350 dually to my Focus.

https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bikes/hybrid-bikes/fitness-bikes/fx/fx-3-disc/p/21572/
 
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TL;DR history - Always fat/overweight, got a rude awakening in 2012 after I hit 300 pounds. Lost 90 pounds in the next 6 months. Been up and down between 200-230 ever since. Hit 230 NYE and decided that enough was enough.

I started the year doing a 4-day fast, never before fasting over 18 hours. My goal was to quickly get into ketosis and then stay in ketosis for the forseeable future. My goal was to decrease my body weight by at least 5% with a stretch goal of 10% in 22 days (I was leaving on vacation Jan 23rd). I didn't know what I would achieve but the math was there to support that at an extreme calorie deficit, I might be able to get there. This was also the first time doing keto, but I had been previously doing some IF, except now i wanted to take it to the extreme. Keto+OMAD (one meal a day)+a couple of water fasts at the beginning and the end.

I hit my target of 213 almost on the button before my vacation. Came back last day of January and had now weighed 217. The following goal was to get to 200 by my bday (yesterday March 11th). I quickly dropped some of the vacation weight and eventually did hit my target as now I am at 199. My next two goals are 190 by tax day, and finally, for the probably the first time in my life, be under 'overweight' on the BMI scale which would mean around 178 by Memorial Day.

Takeaways
  • Fasting was relatively easy if I supplemented with enough salt and later on with magnesium/potassium

  • Going OMAD was actually a pretty cool experience. I looked forward to dinner every night and combined with doing keto, I was planning EVERY meal with my wife. It helped that she was on board with trying keto

  • My results didn't always coincide with the CICO math. The fasting part, especially at the beginning, lost me way more weight than I thought. And if you tell me that was water weight, that's fine, but i didn't really gain much weight back. So if you take the 4 fasting days + lets say two days of recovery, it still was less than calculated
 
What is your plan?

I'm trying to do 30 min of cardio everyday in some form. I also have a 25lb Kettle Bell I'm going to start swinging when I'm watching TV and shit like that.

Probably start walking around the neighborhood when it gets a little nicer. I was at a memorial service for my neighbor for 20 years. He was only 46 and died of an aortic aneursym. He was in good shape too, scary shit.

Its the sugar and the carbs ... You can look like you're in good shape but on the inside be complete shit.
 
Its the sugar and the carbs ... You can look like you're in good shape but on the inside be complete shit.
Not always. My dad almost died a few years back, took care of himself exercise, diet all that, found out he had a deformed heart that went undiagnosed for the first 48 years of his life.
Guess my point is, I wouldn't just blame it on sugar or carbs, lots and lots of things in the human body that can go wrong.
 
Not always. My dad almost died a few years back, took care of himself exercise, diet all that, found out he had a deformed heart that went undiagnosed for the first 48 years of his life.
Guess my point is, I wouldn't just blame it on sugar or carbs, lots and lots of things in the human body that can go wrong.


Well I meant things that are under our control.
 
My heaviest was 315 and I worked my ass off to get all the way down to ~ 185. Then, slowly added weight back on. For a few months I had to live 750 miles away from my fiancée (now wife) and put on weight like a mother fucker at that point, all depressed. Shot all the way up to 240 which I held firm at for 6 months. Then, in August I went KETO. The first 15lbs came off quickly but it’s been rough and very slow since then. I’m down to 206 now and weather is finally better so yesterday I went on my first bike ride in months. Next goal 199. Then 190, then 180. I’ll be thrilled to hold steady at 180.
 
Ordered my last bit of junk food tonight. Used up that remaining free coupon for Pizza Hut, and got a cookie (ordered a cookie, got a brownie....which is fine, since I paid less for the cookie, but got the more expensive brownie instead). Also got a 2-liter for the next couple of games.

After that, that's it. No more soda (I plan to go a year without drinking one), and no more pizza (I might cut this out for a year as well). Also no more cookies either.....Safeway jumbo chocolate chunk cookies are my weakness.....gotta be strong here.

My weight is really taking a toll on me, so I don't really have a choice: I gotta do this.
 
Venezuelans are literally raving about the Democratic Socialist Diet. :hungry:

Everyone
is losing. :smiley-love:
 
Ordered my last bit of junk food tonight. Used up that remaining free coupon for Pizza Hut, and got a cookie (ordered a cookie, got a brownie....which is fine, since I paid less for the cookie, but got the more expensive brownie instead). Also got a 2-liter for the next couple of games.

After that, that's it. No more soda (I plan to go a year without drinking one), and no more pizza (I might cut this out for a year as well). Also no more cookies either.....Safeway jumbo chocolate chunk cookies are my weakness.....gotta be strong here.

My weight is really taking a toll on me, so I don't really have a choice: I gotta do this.
There are so many really good flavored soda waters nowadays, not just lime. I switched some time ago and I have easily a dozen different types of flavored soda waters in my garage. I'm drinking a blood orange one right now. My favorite is Black Cherry flavor by Waterloo.
 
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There are so many really good flavored soda waters nowadays, not just lime. I switched some time ago and I have easily a dozen different types of flavored sodas in my garage. I'm drinking a blood orange one right now. My favorite is Black Cherry flavor by Waterloo.
You ever tried the ICE brand?
 
There are so many really good flavored soda waters nowadays, not just lime. I switched some time ago and I have easily a dozen different types of flavored sodas in my garage. I'm drinking a blood orange one right now. My favorite is Black Cherry flavor by Waterloo.

Gonna look up Waterloo, thanks. I was a big fan for a long time of Cascade Ice, but I stopped drinking it a few years back. It just didn't do it for me anymore. Peach Mango and Orange Mango were my favorite flavors, though I did like others.
 
Venezuelans are literally raving about the Democratic Socialist Diet. :hungry:

Everyone
is losing. :smiley-love:
There are no Democrats who are socialist. The expression Democratic Socialist doesn't even make sense. I wonder who made this expression up.
 
There are no Democrats who are socialist. The expression Democratic Socialist doesn't even make sense. I wonder who made this expression up.

AOC, Bernie, Beto, and Maher, just to name a few. Take it up with them.
 
My heaviest was 315 and I worked my ass off to get all the way down to ~ 185. Then, slowly added weight back on. For a few months I had to live 750 miles away from my fiancée (now wife) and put on weight like a mother fucker at that point, all depressed. Shot all the way up to 240 which I held firm at for 6 months. Then, in August I went KETO. The first 15lbs came off quickly but it’s been rough and very slow since then. I’m down to 206 now and weather is finally better so yesterday I went on my first bike ride in months. Next goal 199. Then 190, then 180. I’ll be thrilled to hold steady at 180.

Once you become a gym bro, you're gonna go MAGA on us.

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/arti...ly-to-be-right-wing-assholes-science-confirms
 
AOC, Bernie, Beto, and Maher, just to name a few. Take it up with them.
No, I'm going to take it up with the person whom I saw use the expression, Maris. Sorry if you don't like it.
 
No, I'm going to take it up with the person whom I saw use the expression, Maris. Sorry if you don't like it.

Maybe Maris wouldn't call them what they call themselves. Just saying.
 
Maybe Maris wouldn't call them what they call themselves. Just saying.
I wouldn't conjecture about Maris if I were you. I'd let him speak for himself.
 
I wouldn't conjecture about Maris if I were you. I'd let him speak for himself.

And yet, here you are in a thread about weight loss, complaining about Maris and politics.

What's wrong? Not enough political threads in the OT for you to visit or something?
 
And yet, here you are in a thread about weight loss, complaining about Maris and politics.

What's wrong? Not enough political threads in the OT for you to visit or something?
LOL, you're not drinking are you? I was responding to this post from Maris:
Venezuelans are literally raving about the Democratic Socialist Diet.
Are things starting to come into focus?
 
LOL, you're not drinking are you? I was responding to this post from Maris:
Venezuelans are literally raving about the Democratic Socialist Diet.
Are things starting to come into focus?

I don't drink.

He made an off-hand, if not tacky, joke. You could have ignored it and stuck to the subject of the thread itself (which is what I did), or put him on your ignore list.

Instead, you chose to get triggered about it and blow it completely out of proportion. Whose fault is that?
 
I don't drink.

He made an off-hand, if not tacky, joke. You could have ignored it and stuck to the subject of the thread itself (which is what I did), or put him on your ignore list.

Instead, you chose to get triggered about it and blow it completely out of proportion. Whose fault is that?
You fantasize too much.
He made a post using an expression that I disagree with. I made a simple reply about how there was no such thing as a socialist Democrat and somehow I'll presume by the use of some sort of magical wand, you accuse me of getting 'triggered' and getting stuck on a subject that you perpetuate? Wow, just wow.

Take a deep breath and reexamine what you've been saying.

I'm done with this.
 
I'm done with this.

Good. I was beginning to think you'd never stop.

Getting back on the subject at hand.....I just got back from the store tonight (Safeway) with $122 in groceries, and not one soda or item of junk food. That was hard as hell, but not impossible. Instead, I bought probably $60-$80 worth of assorted drinks....everything from sparkling water to healthy teas and iced coffees. My goal is to substitute junk food and sodas for other alternatives. Especially with what I drink during Blazer games. I've GOT to have something to drink during a game.

It's not my end-all to healthier living, but I think it's a good start. Let's see what I like out of this assorted stuff, then work from there.

I've got two half-full 2-liter bottles of soda in the fridge, 2 safeway cookies, and then that's it. I'm going cold turkey when I finish those things up.

I'll write about each drink that I bought tomorrow.....right now, I'm exhausted, and my ankles are killing me. Night fams.
 
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