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    Everybody who's seen me knows I'm a lard-ass, really fat. Most people don't know that I once weighed almost 600 pounds. I've lost nearly half my body weight and now I'm merely morbidly obese. So despite being fat, I know a lot about how to lose weight. Let me echo some of the advice already given and add a couple of points

    • Motivation is a big deal. For some, a partner does the trick. For some, playing a sport with friends (or as a way to meet new ones) is the way to go. Find something that gets you moving every day, no matter how small the movement. Make the (minor, if need be) exertion into a daily habit and worry about increasing your work output later.
    • On the flip side, overcoming the things that kill motivation is key. Don't let yourself get bored; change things up. If you need to, distract your mind while working out with music or TV. If that doesn't work and you find yourself bored to death riding a stationary bike at home, dreading each session and actually feeling (or imagining you feel) pain at the mere prospect of exercise, you can always introduce external stimuli that trick the brain into releasing pleasure-inducing chemicals during your workout. To be explicit (and only if you find such behavior personally, morally acceptable), watch porn during your workouts. You'd be surprised how much less painful and difficult exercise can be when the brain is concentrating on sexual arousal instead of the boredom and pain of physical exertion. And no, I am not kidding.
    • Eat well with enough calories from real food to support your workouts. Veggies are green water; pig out on 'em, constantly. It's usually very helpful, if at all possible, to nosh all day instead of having 3 squares a day. Your body can do a much better job of efficiently burning fuel if you have 6 or 7 mini-meals a day. As a general rule, err on the side of major calorie intakes earlier in the day, i.e. if you want a big meal each day, make it breakfast.
    • The flip side of eating right is eating wrong. One day a week, take a day off and stuff yourself till you are sick. IF you keep to a near-perfect weight loss diet 6 days a week then a weekly pig-out day will not cause much harm but will trick your body into not invoking a starvation response and slowing your metabolism to the point that even a calorie-restricted diet will cause you to gain weight.
    • Drink plenty of water.
    • Get plenty of sleep! Nothing sabotages any goals we set in our life quicker than simply being too poorly rested to execute our plans.
    One last thing - Don't let the plateaus get you down. I'm stalled right now. I've lost just 5 pounds in the last 9 months. Instead of beating myself up about it and eating a gallon of ice cream, I just accept that periods of re-adjustment are inevitable and keep the faith that this, too, shall pass. After all, at my age, most men are gaining weight and not losing at all; I choose to look on that sliver of a bright side.

    HTH
     
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    benenglish said:
    Everybody who's seen me knows I'm a lard-ass, really fat. Most people don't know that I once weighed almost 600 pounds. I've lost nearly half my body weight and now I'm merely morbidly obese. So despite being fat, I know a lot about how to lose weight. Let me echo some of the advice already given and add a couple of points

    • Motivation is a big deal. For some, a partner does the trick. For some, playing a sport with friends (or as a way to meet new ones) is the way to go. Find something that gets you moving every day, no matter how small the movement. Make the (minor, if need be) exertion into a daily habit and worry about increasing your work output later.
    • On the flip side, overcoming the things that kill motivation is key. Don't let yourself get bored; change things up. If you need to, distract your mind while working out with music or TV. If that doesn't work and you find yourself bored to death riding a stationary bike at home, dreading each session and actually feeling (or imagining you feel) pain at the mere prospect of exercise, you can always introduce external stimuli that trick the brain into releasing pleasure-inducing chemicals during your workout. To be explicit (and only if you find such behavior personally, morally acceptable), watch porn during your workouts. You'd be surprised how much less painful and difficult exercise can be when the brain is concentrating on sexual arousal instead of the boredom and pain of physical exertion. And no, I am not kidding.
    • Eat well with enough calories from real food to support your workouts. Veggies are green water; pig out on 'em, constantly. It's usually very helpful, if at all possible, to nosh all day instead of having 3 squares a day. Your body can do a much better job of efficiently burning fuel if you have 6 or 7 mini-meals a day. As a general rule, err on the side of major calorie intakes earlier in the day, i.e. if you want a big meal each day, make it breakfast.
    • The flip side of eating right is eating wrong. One day a week, take a day off and stuff yourself till you are sick. IF you keep to a near-perfect weight loss diet 6 days a week then a weekly pig-out day will not cause much harm but will trick your body into not invoking a starvation response and slowing your metabolism to the point that even a calorie-restricted diet will cause you to gain weight.
    • Drink plenty of water.
    • Get plenty of sleep! Nothing sabotages any goals we set in our life quicker than simply being too poorly rested to execute our plans.
    One last thing - Don't let the plateaus get you down. I'm stalled right now. I've lost just 5 pounds in the last 9 months. Instead of beating myself up about it and eating a gallon of ice cream, I just accept that periods of re-adjustment are inevitable and keep the faith that this, too, shall pass. After all, at my age, most men are gaining weight and not losing at all; I choose to look on that sliver of a bright side.

    HTH
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    My sleep is shit. Working in a sleep lab reading brainwaves at night for 3 years really screwed me up
     
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    AK, I live in Conroe and go to Gold's 2 or 3 night a week. Your welcome to join me if you want.

    There is a ck workout Tues and thurs at 19:30 I usually go to
     
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    AK, I live in Conroe and go to Gold's 2 or 3 night a week. Your welcome to join me if you want.

    There is a ck workout Tues and thurs at 19:30 I usually go to
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    I should be back in Willis pretty soon Im in Spring right now since my boats on a trailer.
     
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