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I have lost 30 pounds in the past 2 months. I am at 260 now with a personal goal to lose at least 30 more pounds.

pastorables wrote:I have lost 30 pounds in the past 2 months. I am at 260 now with a personal goal to lose at least 30 more pounds.

Way to go! Nice job, especially over the holidays.

Zowie,
We're not go to recognize you!

I have gained your 30 and my personal goal is to top out at 300. You have to top out a hog before you slaughter it.


Seriously, I have to gain 10 more before I can qualify for the "lap-band" proceedure.

pastorables wrote:I have lost 30 pounds in the past 2 months. I am at 260 now with a personal goal to lose at least 30 more pounds.

How's it going with this, pastorables?

The day after Christmas I was pushing my boundaries, so I decided to lose twenty pounds to get down to my high school wrestling weight class. I was afraid to say anything in case I failed, but I'm now five pounds away from my goal, so I thought I would start a countdown.

I've been eating about 700 calories per day for the last week or so--oranges, apples, salads with broccoli, raw spinach, beans, mushrooms, chicken breast, mainly, and a half a cup of brown rice, seasoned with olive oil and soy sauce. Totally awesome, healthy food.

I'm getting used to having a slightly hungry stomach while not starving my body for nutrients. Ever since moving to Alaska I had gotten used to having a full stomach, and it was starting to get away from me.

I hope your weight loss is going well. (And I hope you don't mind me bringing this thread back up.)

Tim Elston wrote:I've been eating about 700 calories per day for the last week or so--oranges, apples, salads with broccoli, raw spinach, beans, mushrooms,...

Wow. I was pretty careful yesterday, watched what I consumed, and I ate 1,000 more calories than you. 700 calories sounds like lunch...

Pastor Gary wrote:Wow. I was pretty careful yesterday, watched what I consumed, and I ate 1,000 more calories than you. 700 calories sounds like lunch...

Well, that last little bit of the belly is stubborn. I want it completey gone so that I look like those twenty-year-old guys who have only skin on their stomach muscles. Not that anyone is going to see it, but I see it, and I hate looking at my belly.

By the way, I also am doing three sets of ten pull-ups, three sets of ten pull-downs at 120 pounds, three sets of ten back pulls at 120 pounds, and three sets of ten back flies at 70 pounds, three times a week. For the first time in my life I feel back muscles when I scratch my back. "Ooo, a woman would like that," I think to myself. "Such a waste!" (And TMI!)

By the way, a really good site for tracking caloric intake and measuring a diet's nutritional value is nutritiondata.com. Very good personalizing features for everything diet and nutrition.

Tim Elston wrote:

pastorables wrote:I have lost 30 pounds in the past 2 months. I am at 260 now with a personal goal to lose at least 30 more pounds.

How's it going with this, pastorables?

I have lost another pound to 259, but surviving the holidays was a huge victory. I am noticing the weight loss is harder and slower now, nevertheless, we press on. I am not on a specific diet or calorie intake though. I am just making it up as we go. I often will eat a tablespoon of honey for energy and general health.

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Tim Elston wrote:

Pastor Gary wrote:By the way, I also am doing three sets of ten pull-ups, three sets of ten pull-downs at 120 pounds, three sets of ten back pulls at 120 pounds, and three sets of ten back flies at 70 pounds, three times a week.

Wow. And I have trouble motivating myself to do a few leg lifts

But wait...I do shovel manure and haul it to the garden. That has to count for something.

However I hurt myself--the manure was so wet and heavy and I did so much that I think I pulled a tendon in my right arm. Then I got sick. Haven't shoveled manure in about 3 weeks.

pastorables wrote:I have lost 30 pounds in the past 2 months. I am at 260 now with a personal goal to lose at least 30 more pounds.

what are you doing to lose the weight?

Way to go..Keep up the good work, I have lost over 40 pounds and still have about 50 more to go,,,but it is a long a hard road for me, happy to know that someone else is doing it too.

Haven't shoveled manure in about 3 weeks.

That's a hard habit to break, Tracy.

dolfan wrote:

Haven't shoveled manure in about 3 weeks.

That's a hard habit to break, Tracy.

Lol--there is PLENTY out there waiting for me; I'll be back at it very soon.

Actually, I don't mind it much at all. It is good excercise, helps the cow, and nourishes our garden.

Tracy wrote:But wait...I do shovel manure and haul it to the garden. That has to count for something.

It absolutely counts. You are active, and that's great. That's part of the romance of shoveling manure.

And part of the romance of being a programmer is sitting in a chair for fourteen hours a day. I go to the gym because if I didn't I'd be baking into a pretzel.

Yesterday I ate one apple, one orange, a yummy medium sized salad, and a half cup of oatmeal. Delicious! For that I lost one pound. Target weight: 168. Current weight: 172. Weight at panic: 188. I haven't weighed under 170 since high school. Last year I had made it down to 172. For most of my adult life I've been over 180. The belly is starting to look healthy again. Yippy!

Tim Elston wrote:

Tracy wrote:But wait...I do shovel manure and haul it to the garden. That has to count for something.

It absolutely counts. You are active, and that's great. That's part of the romance of shoveling manure.

And part of the romance of being a programmer is sitting in a chair for fourteen hours a day. I go to the gym because if I didn't I'd be baking into a pretzel.

Yesterday I ate one apple, one orange, a yummy medium sized salad, and a half cup of oatmeal.

I am impressed with your determination and will power.

I'm a nutrition fanatic (you have no idea how crazed I am about nutrition. For example, I grind my own wheat and then like to soak it in yogurt before using it so that the phytic acid is broken down, making the nutrients in the wheat more available to us.) So I have to say this--please make sure you are eating enough fat--your body desperately needs it. Your brain needs it. Your cells need it. Eating the right fats in proper amounts won't make you fat, but it will make you incredibly healthy and resiliant.

We drink whole milk (right from the cow), eat whole-milk, homemade yogurt, tons of butter, homemade-whole milk ice cream, coconut oil, chicken broth with the fat in it, etc. Our bodies *need* good fats. I just want to make sure you are healthy in your quest for strength.

Wanna read some great stuff? Mark this page and read at your leisure. It is fascinating.

http://www.westonaprice.org/

The idea and science behind it is essentially eating traditional, whole foods for robust health. Butter instead of margarine; farm raised foods rather than confinement house raised, etc.,

Even my kids read labels now.