I am hungryFollow

I'm caramelizing onions and roasting a giant pork tenderloin with apples.

I ate some perogies.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just order food?

When I say "fat *******", I'm exaggerating a bit. I started out at 250lbs, which is definitely overweight, but I'm 6'1" and broad-framed, so it's not as bad as it sounds. I was in good physical shape all through my childhood, high school, and college, from a combination of sports and swing/ballroom dance so anything less than toned muscle and lack of love handles is "too fat" for me. Unfortunately, working a desk job + MMO for entertainment for years doesn't do my physique any favors.

I'm down to 228.5lbs, so I'm making progress. Once I get down to 210 or so, I'll start bulking up my muscles (as opposed to aerobic exercise for cardio + weight loss), but I have little enough self-control that attempting to build muscle and lose fat at the same time would send me to the buffet table every day I worked out.

I'm down to 214 lbs, was at ~250 when I first moved into this apartment last year.
I've lost most of the weight in the past 3 months, just by cutting down on pop and eating out less often.

I need to start exercising if I want to lose any more though, so far it's just been a healthier diet.

Edited, Nov 14th 2011 5:05pm by Kirby

inb4 Dai tells me how wrong I'm doinit

Edit: and saves me from dying of eyeball cancer in the process, naturally

Edited, Nov 14th 2011 5:21pm by Aliekber

I will take from the lack of a Daimakaicho response that everything I'm doing is the best thing ever, and I will live to be 150.

Yay!

Fat at 250? pfft.

A caveat first: I'm not a dietician nor have I had extensive training on dietary habits; my knowledge is pretty basic and definitely focuses more on the medical aspect than the physical (I'm not sure if that distinction makes sense or not). So I'll tell you what I think, but my advice does not outweigh that of someone with special training in the field.

So an occasional soda is fine, but Peimei was pretty spot on about the artificial sugars. They're not great for you even if the soda has 0 calories. So don't use that as an excuse to drink lots of them, but one every so often is no big deal. As for the meal bars, I'd say those are fine for breakfast, but I find it unlikely that you're getting an appropriate daily nutritional requirement by losing two meals to those. (This is without knowing what all is in those bars; I could be wrong I suppose.) See if you can pick one meal to use those for (breakfast or lunch) while focusing on eating a real, but healthy of course, meal for the other one at least most of the time. It really does take a combination of proper eating and exercise in order to get to ideal physical condition. You have made good progress though, and have a solid approach to the weight loss vs muscle building aspect. There's a lot of science involved in proper body building that I know very little about and wish I knew more.

There's a lot of research out there suggesting that weight lifting is better for burning fat than aerobic exercise.

Drinking lots of water is definitely the best way to go. A filter is an excellent idea, I've heard from many people about Utah water.

Pushups are free, and are considered some of the best strength training exercises in existence. There are a number of other cheap or free strength training exercises you could consider.

Do lunges and crunches as well!