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My goal: Lose 40lbs by November 1st (6months and a couple days) Consequence: To be determined, I liked the idea of donation I'd seen in other peoples posts, but I'm open to other suggestions if anyone has something more creative. I'll edit it in if I see one I like. Until then it will be donating $25 dollars to a charity Plan: Current diet is Atkins and I've had good results thus far (340 down to 307.6 this morning when i weighed myself). Current exercise is I walk a couple laps around and through my workplace, I also do 10-15 miles on a stationary cycle at the gym (trying to get this more constant and less variance) and as I'm new to weights I'll be using a plan Shine sent to me "Workout 6: All dumbbells! All the time!" Changes to be made starting today: Focus on smaller portions. Force myself to eat slower to help digestion. Aim for leaner meats, and lower fat content(atkins tends to sacrifice fat instead of carbs, aiming for more of a balance). Finally, I need to get into a routine with the working out.   Also I should note, I have noticed a tendency for Atkins dieters to Plateau after a while, if this should happen I will be jumping onto the calorie option (May end up doing this in the next few weeks anyway) Any thoughts or suggestions please toss them out there. Side note just in case i get recipe or dietary suggestions, I had a bout of gout a few years back and changed my diet, and since then have had no serious attacks, but I specifically avoid red meats and organs about 85% of the time.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 12:39 |
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| # ? May 22, 2013 23:01 |
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Good luck goon bro! I had great results with low-carb and lost 60+lbs it is totally doable and once you get into the swing of things it'll be easy and motivating. Be sure to lift those weights so you don't look like a deflated balloon. 
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 14:19 |
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Poppin in to say good luck. 30+ lbs already, so you are on the right track! Also: Mad Wack posted:Be sure to lift those weights so you don't look like a deflated balloon.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 14:44 |
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Hi e/n goon welcome to tflc! Lift all the weights, you will look and feel awesome. Good luck, you got this
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 14:47 |
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This is exactly what I was hoping you'd do when you posted that thread in E/N. Welcome to TFLC. You are making great progress already!Robo Olga posted:Lift all the weights, you will look and feel awesome. Good luck, you got this This. The more time you spend around here learning about how to take care of yourself, the better you will feel and the easier it will get. You've already done the hardest part (making the commitment).
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 14:57 |
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Good Luck NotZ! Stay away from the hotel cookies.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 22:55 |
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JackRabbitStorm posted:Good Luck NotZ! Haven't touched one in weeks, ....well at least a week and a half.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 23:15 |
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Good luck, dude.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 23:16 |
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foot posted:Good luck, dude. Thanks for the support so far. Still looking for some more creative suggestions for Consequences if I fail. Something more personalized I guess
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 00:28 |
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I am pretty sure the only possible consequence for failing now is a ban unless Shine said something different?
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 00:45 |
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Robo Olga posted:I am pretty sure the only possible consequence for failing now is a ban unless Shine said something different? Right, Ban is guaranteed, I was thinking something additional.
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Grammar NotZ posted:Right, Ban is guaranteed, I was thinking something additional. Worry less about your failing and more about eating right and exercising.
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Fluffdaddy posted:Worry less about your failing and more about eating right and exercising. Sound advice
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:02 |
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Grammar NotZ posted:Sound advice Please workout 
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 11:42 |
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Shine posted:Please workout Haven't gone to the gym specifically, but Friday and Saturday I took a couple laps around my parking lot at work, and 4 throughout the halls. Also did some "Idle lifting" as I'm calling it(15 lb , while waiting for the Audit to finish both nights. Saturday morning when I arrived home I decided it was cool enough out I'd just go for a walk. (Jogged a bit here and there, but really only enough to keep my heart rate up) Estimated about 7 miles in a little over 2 hours. Was more leisurely, enjoying the bike trails and a lapse in rain. As for the diet, Been keeping under my goal carbs usually going about 10-15 below my goal. Friday night had a social activity with a friend and she chose the restaurant (Steak and Shake) since I knew in advance almost nothing on the menu would be terribly healthy I planned my diet that day around it. By skipping the fries and going coleslaw i'm fairly confident i stayed below my 40g of carbs per day. Next week my schedule is more set, so my workout schedule can be set as well. Mon. and Wed. I'll be hitting the gym for cardio. Friday and Saturday I'm going to be Focusing a bit more on a set routine with the weights I can put down in text rather than the random lifting I've been doing.
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 09:21 |
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Grammar NotZ posted:By skipping the fries and going coleslaw i'm fairly confident i stayed below my 40g of carbs per day. Why don't you just log all your food so you can be completely confident? Like I'm not trying to lecture you because I'm still learning how to not be poo poo at training/eating but I know logging everything helped me so much.
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 10:42 |
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Grammar NotZ posted:Any thoughts or suggestions please toss them out there. Side note just in case i get recipe or dietary suggestions, I had a bout of gout a few years back and changed my diet, and since then have had no serious attacks, but I specifically avoid red meats and organs about 85% of the time. If you have an ipod/iphone you might want to give LoseIt a try to keep track of food and exercise. That helped me drop from about 350 to 300.
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 11:32 |
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, but it reflects poorly on the forums. 
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Sharks Below posted:Why don't you just log all your food so you can be completely confident? Like I'm not trying to lecture you because I'm still learning how to not be poo poo at training/eating but I know logging everything helped me so much. Jumping on this, logging everything I ate on LiveStrong helped me lose 35lbs so far and it makes you a lot more conscious about what you're about to eat. It even started making me feel bad for eating lovely food. I've never felt guilt on a Taco Bell run before and now I have anxiety attacks when I crave it. Also, can you PM that Dumbbell workout Shine sent to you? I have very limited resources at my current gym and free weights tend to be more effective for me than the machine I have to use sometimes.
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 11:43 |
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Only thing I use a machine for is chin-ups these days since I asked my trainer if we could do squats not using the smith machine. Machines are for sooks mate!
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 11:49 |
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protobyss posted:Jumping on this, logging everything I ate on LiveStrong helped me lose 35lbs so far and it makes you a lot more conscious about what you're about to eat. It's in the Quick Start Guide, which is linked in the goal setting tips sticky . Check the exercise section, in the list of popular programs.I am also a big fan of measuring and logging things. Posting your specific diet, at least for a while, would be a good idea.
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Shine posted:It's in the Quick Start Guide, which is linked in the goal setting tips sticky Also don't whinge or be a huge emo loser, or Shine will threaten to give your log a retarded name 
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Sharks Below posted:Also don't whinge or be a huge emo loser, or Shine will threaten to give your log a retarded name "A shrimp on the barbie ate my dingo's baby" is a wonderful name 
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 11:59 |
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Shine posted:"A shrimp on the barbie ate my dingo's baby" is a wonderful name Yes sir whatever you say sir
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 12:07 |
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Shine posted:It's in the Quick Start Guide, which is linked in the goal setting tips sticky UPDATE: 303.2 lbs this yesterday before work Ok then to be more specific about the diet, 5-6 small meals a day. Currently aiming to stay under 40 grams of Carbohydrates per day ( So yesterday Breakfast: 2 egg omelet with Sausage links and cheese 5 carbs Snack: Chicken wrap 7 carbs (Low carb tortilla) Lunch: 2 Hot dogs with ranch 10 carbs(Ranch is less carbs than Ketchup surprisingly) Snack: small bag of pork rinds 1 carb Dinner: Tuna Salad 12 carbs (Made with regular sweet pickle relish, rather than the sugar free I normally use Generally I use eggs and tuna salad as my staples, sandwich wraps when I'm in a hurry, and the hotdogs when I'm lazy. Today I'm starting the marinade process on a couple pounds of chicken to be grilled up and used on salads, sandwiches, omelets, and on mixed veggies. Also bought some Tilapia and Salmon but have yet to find a marinade/sauce recipe that both fit my diet, and sounded appealing, so I'm open to suggestions on that if anyone has any. Sharks Below posted:Also don't whinge or be a huge emo loser, or Shine will threaten to give your log a retarded name I'm pretty sure Shine can't do much to make my reputation any worse than my E/N thread did. (PLEASE don't take that as a challenge)
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 12:22 |
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Looks like a solid base. As long as you don't use low-carb as an excuse to eat a ton of low-carb food (which will result in too many calories eaten, and thus no weight loss) it should be fine. Sounds like you're not one of those bacon worshipping weirdos, so gg. Just remember that calories matter, even when doing ketosis; ketosis itself doesn't matter at all for fat loss. I'd swap the pork rinds for a low sugar pack of jerky. The protein in pork rinds is nutritionally worthless. It's the protein equivalent of empty carbs. Also, obligatory "if you like small, frequent meals then keep doing them, but a few large meals with the same total amount of food works equally well." Let us know how lifting goes on Monday. Note how many sets, reps and what weights were use for each exercise.
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 12:35 |
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Shine posted:Looks like a solid base. As long as you don't use low-carb as an excuse to eat a ton of low-carb food (which will result in too many calories eaten, and thus no weight loss) it should be fine. Sounds like you're not one of those bacon worshipping weirdos, so gg. Just remember that calories matter, even when doing ketosis; ketosis itself doesn't matter at all for fat loss. Jerky I tend to stay away from for 2 reasons. 1 Somewhat bad teeth (just recently recovering from a week of a wisdom tooth trying to replace a molar that still currently occupies the spot, and I have 2 months left until i can sign up for dental at work and get them taken care of) and 2 the protein is what I'm trying to avoid for the most part due to the tendency for gout, I've heard of turkey jerky, but I don't know any stores that carry it. The pork rinds are more or less to replace potato chips. Any suggestions for low carb crunchy snacks? I've tried microwaving cheese til it's crispy and this works. Wondering if anyone else has any suggestions?
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 12:49 |
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Check out the Swole Pantry thread in Watch & Weight. It's full of great little snacks and ingredients.
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 12:51 |
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Good luck! I had good results from following one of the couch 2 5k programs (the advantage being that you don't have to go anywhere to run, you can just open your front door). I have found MyFitnessPal to be really good for calorie tracking, it has a lot of foods that you can just scan the barcode on your iPhone if you have one to automatically add the calories on.
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 14:51 |
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langurmonkey posted:Good luck! I had good results from following one of the couch 2 5k programs (the advantage being that you don't have to go anywhere to run, you can just open your front door). I have found MyFitnessPal to be really good for calorie tracking, it has a lot of foods that you can just scan the barcode on your iPhone if you have one to automatically add the calories on. Oh cool, just found that one for smartphone. Any thoughts on something that tracks distance? maybe not an app, but any cheap accessory that keeps track of distance walked/ran? (Keep forgetting things to post in my diet specifics....) focusing on not using salt as a flavoring device as in eggs and the like, and limiting myself to Diet Coke at only one meal a day, water or knockoff crystal light at the rest.
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 15:02 |
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Grammar NotZ posted:Oh cool, just found that one for smartphone. Any thoughts on something that tracks distance? maybe not an app, but any cheap accessory that keeps track of distance walked/ran?
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 16:00 |
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Yesterday was an odd schedule so i only really ate twice. Tuna salad for breakfast (sugar free sweet relish) so about 4 carbs total for the mayo and dinner was a BLT Cobb salad from Wendys 14 carbs No exercise to speak of, though tonight is a gym night.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 23:01 |
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Put off working out on monday til last night, ended up doing 25 minutes of elliptical and 22 mins on the bike Been keeping on the diet very easily recently, last night after the gym I even had enough carbs left that i enjoyed 2 thin mints cause the box was on the counter staring at me....I'm weak what can I say? keep mind I still didn't go over my carb total. Next workout thursday night/friday morning after the Avengers at 12:01am woot.
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| # ? May 3, 2012 00:11 |
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Grammar NotZ posted:Put off working out on monday til last night, ended up doing 25 minutes of elliptical and 22 mins on the bike After you read this sentence, go lift weights.
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| # ? May 3, 2012 02:00 |
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Shine posted:After you read this sentence, go lift weights. The Weights I was planning on leaving until Friday and Saturday night shifts Also forgot to include weight as of this morning 301.8lbs
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| # ? May 3, 2012 02:06 |
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Yay for almost hitting 2XXlbs!Grammar NotZ posted:The Weights I was planning on leaving until Friday and Saturday night shifts Why wait? Any reason why you couldn't lift at least 3x this week?
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| # ? May 3, 2012 16:19 |
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Shine posted:Yay for almost hitting 2XXlbs! I don't really have an interest in lifting...I plan to exercise 3-4 times a week, only 2 of those will likely include lifting. Diet. Salad with grilled chicken and ranch Tuna Salad Grilled Chicken with mixed veggies 25 Minutes on treadmill walking - Varied incline, averaged 3 mph 1.25 miles Depending on the weather I may still walk part of the bike trails when I get home Weights: standing overhead dumbbell press: 3 sets of 10 4th set of 9 one-arm row: Both arms - 3 sets of 10-12 reps single-legged calf raise: 1 set of 10 each leg (May still weigh a little too much for these, I wasn't slowly lowering myself I lust let my heel slam back to the ground) 301.2 the last time I weighed myself (2 days ago) Will weigh myself when I get home
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| # ? May 5, 2012 09:25 |
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Lifting is very important for preserving muscle mass while dieting down (i.e. promoting fat loss), so if I were you I'd reconsider. Please note how much weight you used for each lift, so people can see how you are progressing. Also, that doesn't look like the program you said you'd do. What is your program now?
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| # ? May 5, 2012 12:27 |
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Shine posted:Lifting is very important for preserving muscle mass while dieting down (i.e. promoting fat loss), so if I were you I'd reconsider. This is super true. My interest in was solely in losing weight and looking aesthetically better (which is what most people mean when they want to "lose weight"). I had tried dieting and cardio and barely made a dent in my progress. When I started doing stripped 5x5's and eventually the new Captain America workout I'm doing now, it started melting off insanely fast. But now I have this weird addiction to going to the gym and lifting. I need more... all the time.
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| # ? May 5, 2012 13:05 |
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Lift a weight skinny fat is not where it's at. Also lifting weights will also give you sexy thangs like muscles...your clothes will fit better even if the scale ain't moving...it's worth it!
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| # ? May 5, 2012 13:09 |
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| # ? May 22, 2013 23:01 |
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The other reason I'm not focusing on weights is I've read that burning fat dumps purines into my blood (Just like eating red meat) So I'd rather at least start out relatively lightly focused on weights.
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