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    Challenging times

    I weigh 225 pounds.


    I want to return to 185 pounds, my weight when I retired from the Army.

    Now that the work on my house is finished I can work out on my cross-trainer 30 minutes a day. I can walk five miles every other day.

    I know I will need to return to weight-lifting.

    Oh, I suppose I should drink way less wine. Darn.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    In 2018 I weighed 220 lbs. As of this morning I weighed 166 lbs. How did I lose that weight. I had a heart attack! I don't always recommend it but it worked for me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    I weigh 225 pounds.


    I want to return to 185 pounds, my weight when I retired from the Army.

    Now that the work on my house is finished I can work out on my cross-trainer 30 minutes a day. I can walk five miles every other day.

    I know I will need to return to weight-lifting.

    Oh, I suppose I should drink way less wine. Darn.
    6'3" and 240 and would like to be at least 200. Ideal weight was at 25 and fit was 195. Got back to 195 about 15 years ago and my gf said, "don't lose any more weight". LOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    I weigh 225 pounds.


    I want to return to 185 pounds, my weight when I retired from the Army.

    Now that the work on my house is finished I can work out on my cross-trainer 30 minutes a day. I can walk five miles every other day.

    I know I will need to return to weight-lifting.

    Oh, I suppose I should drink way less wine. Darn.
    Mixing weight training in is the key.

    Otherwise, diet alone can actually raise your bodyfat percentage.
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    I hope you have great success Mister V. My loved one fixed my treadmill for me, so I'm back to an hour a day. God's be praised, lol. I also use a desk cycle, I just use it when I'm scrolling sometimes I do up to 1.5 hrs a day on that. I still haven't lost the weight that I want. But I mostly do it for health reasons so it's all good. Hopefully you will swiftly reach your goals. Cheers!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by LWW View Post
    Mixing weight training in is the key.
    Otherwise, diet alone can actually raise your bodyfat percentage.
    Agree.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    I weigh 225 pounds.


    I want to return to 185 pounds, my weight when I retired from the Army.

    Now that the work on my house is finished I can work out on my cross-trainer 30 minutes a day. I can walk five miles every other day.

    I know I will need to return to weight-lifting.

    Oh, I suppose I should drink way less wine. Darn.
    same here.I weigh about 222 and cannot lose it now. Drink very little.......ride my strbasterd about 20 miles a week. Do the weights. Probably was 212 when I retired. At about 45 I lost all the way to 190 and I felt like 25. If you discover the secret IM all in........
    In 2018 I weighed 220 lbs. As of this morning I weighed 166 lbs. How did I lose that weight. I had a heart attack! I don't always recommend it but it worked for me.
    DAMMMNNN. That is even worse than the divorce diet. I would see people going through break up and divorce drop lots of weight.

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    I lift weights to gain (really maintain) lean muscle mass. If fat loss happens that is a side effect.

    I do treadmill cardio for heart health. If fat loss happens that is a side effect.

    The above applies to non-athletes who don't train hours and hours a day.

    75% of your calories burned are from keeping you alive. So you are really manipulating the other 25%. There are ways to do that. First, muscle burns more than fat, so if you only have time for weights or cardio, do weights.

    Second, don't be sedentary outside of your workouts- you don't burn enough in the gym to overcome an otherwise sedentary lifestyle. I do that by walking just 7-8 minutes an hour (except when sleeping). Also, spreading this "non-exercise" activity through the day has health benefits over doing it all at once.

    Before I started this (i.e. guessing), I weighed 208. Now I am 175.

    5'10". 53 years old.

    It also helps to track your calories in/out. Which isn't hard, and only needs to be done long enough to be able to eyeball food to know portion size. There are untold numbers of ways to do this. I use a FitBit because it is cheap, its app is easy to use, and you can see calories in/out and just get the numbers to look close to the same each day.

    Also, if your goal is to lose weight, go slow- 2 lbs a week is heathy and sustainable. Make sure you are eating enough protein. That way the weight you lose is fat and not muscle. That keeps your metabolism in check. If you lose muscle, the weight will likely come back.

    Did anyone in The Biggest Loser show keep the weight off. (No)
    Last edited by Peter1469; 03-11-2023 at 05:07 AM.
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    You are doing it the right way, Peter. Impressive. Really like the idea of walking 7-8 minutes an hour. I was married to a clinical dietician for 25 yrs and taught PE for 40. I know what to do but at 68 it got harder. I think this is an excellent thread. I weighed 221 this morning after 223 yesterday, I ate less yesterday. Im gonna use this thread as inspiration and motivation. Maybe it will help keep me from being so bombastic in the other or at least calmer

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    I hit 179 pounds yesterday for the first time in a long, long time.

    Hard cardio can also be complemented by easy things such as parking farther from the door at stores.

    I also make it a point when shopping to at least lap the store … 1,000 to 2,500 steps, depending … and grocery shopping I try to walk down most if not all the aisles.

    A good pedometer has helped me a lot as it gives me a metric of what I still need to do.

    My weight training is still in play, but at 66 years 4 months and 18 days it’s less than when I was 40.

    Something else I enjoy, and helps, is at least once a week taking a camera with a fixed focal length zoom to a museum or in the wild with a short zoom … usually a 28-105 macro NIKKOR … which requires that I use ‘sneaker zoom’ for macro and long shots. Beyond exercise, it clears and focuses my mind in ways that are difficult to explain.

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