Yes, because it sounds like you want to starve yourself, so you can eat nutrition-less food. Eating healthy will make you less hungry because you're actually getting nutrients your body needs from your food.....eventually you'll realize junk food, while tasting good makes you feel like crap after you eat it. (I had Chik-fila for the 1st time in forever today out of convenience... (kid at work going to get dinner) not only is that shit so overrated (people are nuts for that crap here) I felt like ass shortly after, so that's a pretty obvious tell..... Eat food that makes you feel good AFTER you eat it. * and to be totally transparent, I drink way more beers (real ones) than I should, so I try to offset that behavior with other good ones
That sounds great then. Intermittent fasting + whole foods + Mediterranean diet = delicious food, health, and weight loss. Avoid sweets, red meat, and too much bread/pasta and you'll be fine.
I’ve never understood the whole hull-a-bah-lu about Chic-Fila. It’s good and it’s nice that the people are friendly but their chicken sandwiches are no better than any other fast food place specifically Wendy’s. It’s the same shot. I feel like the northeast jerks their meat to it because it’s somewhat new but I’ve always been unimpressed by it.
Anyone have any experience with collagen peptides? I’ve taken a lot of supplements and vitamins over the years and settled on the fact that the only things that have ever worked are BCAA’s for workout stamina and vitamin C. But people rave about this crap.
Funny you mention that, I was going to look into some of that today. My uncle swears by it. Dude's in his 70's but you'd never know it. He still has more juice than alot of guys in their 50s....
I took the powdered stuff for about 6 months and didn't really notice any difference. Not enough to keep ingesting ground up fish cartilage anyway. I read something on the Mayo clinic site years ago that didn't totally support it but also surprisingly didn't dismiss it at all, just that there wasn't enough science yet. Edit: also I stay away from vitamin C because it creates deficiencies in other vitamins.
This thread inspired me to do Intermittent Fasting. Started back in January 1st. I was 238 LBS back then. As of today I am 191 LBS 47 lbs gone in 7.5 months. Journey continues until I am down to 180 lbs which is my target weight at 5’10” Have some beer belly I want to get rid of. Open to suggestions
Weigh yourself as many times a day as you can. Think of it more as research than losing weight. Like a graph, the more data samples you have over a short period of time, the better you will understand how your behavior and activity affect your weight. Many people weigh themselves once a week and find that they are a pound lighter than the last week. They don't see the 10-15 times a day fluctuations that show they lost 5 pounds one day, gained back 3 the next, lost 2 then gained 10, then whatever annoying math takes that to a one pound fluctuation from the previous week. They have no idea it was actually a week-long weight roller coaster. I weigh myself before and after dumps, before and after naps, before and after TV show episodes. I know exactly what happened from pound to pound and it really makes the poor choices less and less of a draw. I eat fast food maybe 3 times a year now, no bread at all normally and now I make my own gourmet energy bars instead of drinking coffee and pairing it with some butter-laden baked thing. I have a badass chamoy mango lemon zest energy bar recipe I'm working on now, of course it is mostly nuts and grains. It's better than spending 3-5 bucks on one in the grocery store and you have no idea how manufacture goes. Those energy bars also scrape out your insides and you lose a ton of dookie doo doo from your lower bowels that is helping you be a living potato. That's some of the stuff I do anyway. Also full-body massages under a pile of road lizards.
Damn, @Brook! is 18 lbs. lighter than me now, guess can't joke about your weight anymore. Good job Brook, keep it up
byz. What you say above is 100% accurate. I stopped weighing myself weekly and started weighing myself daily and sometimes more than once during a day. It helped me understand my body and how my body reacts to eating and drinking etc. To my surprise I realized that on my cheat days, if I consume desert I end up gaining weight instantaneously. Wine has the same effect on me. But beer is OK as long as there is no chips involved. Who knew I could finish a 6 pack on a Saturday and weigh the same or less on a Sunday.
Thanks my friend. I am 46 so I had no excuse to be 238 to be honest. Also right before I was declared Diabetic I was 276. So as of today I am 85 LBS lighter than my heaviest moment in life. Now issue is to keep this up and never go back to those overweight days.
Perfect spot for a thread cross over https://forums.theganggreen.com/threads/get-paid-to-drink-beer.100298/
Let's not get crazy.... grab some trailmix and call it a day. can't comment on roadlizard massages though.
