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[Pool_Shark]

Sorry if I'm cluttering I didn't know where to ask and didn't see anything on google.

When I wake up every morning do I start with zero calories? Does my daily calorie stuff reset after a certain amount of hours or is it after a long sleep?

 

[Pool_Shark]

Also how can I count the calories in foods that don't come with labels? Is there a tool that does it for me?

I'm losing weight if that helps with answers.

 

[Arianne Martell]

Sorry if I'm cluttering I didn't know where to ask and didn't see anything on google.

When I wake up every morning do I start with zero calories? Does my daily calorie stuff reset after a certain amount of hours or is it after a long sleep?

according to my fitnesspal yes...everyday I consume 1200; for instance, today as of Jan 30 at 12 am, I have only consumed 0-130 cal. so far

Also how can I count the calories in foods that don't come with labels? Is there a tool that does it for me?

I'm losing weight if that helps with answers.

by measuring the food on a measuring cup or a food scale you can determine the cals. there are a lot of apps for the...I use myfitness pal...by searching for the food you are consuming and entering the amount in grams...or ounces etc.

hope that helps.

 

[unit321]

Sorry if I'm cluttering I didn't know where to ask and didn't see anything on google.
When I wake up every morning do I start with zero calories? Does my daily calorie stuff reset after a certain amount of hours or is it after a long sleep?

Relatively speaking, you can set it to whenever you wake up for the day and make that the same time every day. If you have an evening or night job, you would start when you wake up from your main sleep time, count from there until you go to sleep. It may not necessarily be the morning.
If you go to bed at 8 AM because you work the night shift, then you might wake up at 3 PM. Start calorie counting at 3 PM if that's what you do.

 

[Pool_Shark]

Man this dieting thing is really testing my willpower. At first my biggest enemy was that late night meal. The past two nights I've beaten it. I just go home, shower, brush my teeth, and go straight to bed. Been drinking a lot of water which has made a world of difference. fukked up my morning run cause I went too hard last night. It's ok cause I'm going to work out again tonight. Something is better than nothing right? I'm will wake up tomorrow at 430 to be able to hit the gym early before work at 6:00. Diet is easy cause of all the water I'm drinking, I just drank one those low carb monsters, I know they're terrible, but it was cause I had these cheese tacos here and I'm not going to eat them. The caffeine is going to help me make it till the rest of the day.

Sometimes I got some issues going on that make losing weight so petty and stupid I wonder why I'm even doing it but I have to remind myself I'll have to do it anyway and set the example for my kids. Plus it will improve my chances of getting jobs and all that cause I know people hate fatties.

The next hurdle for me is the weekends and my days off when I always fail. I've had a lot of stops and starts cause of the weekend. At work I can keep myself on a schedule but once I'm home I get distracted and lose focus. Then the drinking, which I stopped for a while but now every weekend I give in to the urges and crave those good feelings. I always justify it by telling myself, at least you're not doing what you used to do. Fortunately, this weekend I don't have any money to spend on fast food or beer so I think I'll be good.

My goal is to get down to 190 by June right now I'm at 265, it's slow process but it took me years to get to this size, thank god I will be able to accomplish my goal in less time.

My motivation song for the week


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I keep that on repeat when I'm about to give up in my run.

 

[Arianne Martell]

Man this dieting thing is really testing my willpower. At first my biggest enemy was that late night meal. The past two nights I've beaten it. I just go home, shower, brush my teeth, and go straight to bed. Been drinking a lot of water which has made a world of difference. fukked up my morning run cause I went too hard last night. It's ok cause I'm going to work out again tonight. Something is better than nothing right? I'm will wake up tomorrow at 430 to be able to hit the gym early before work at 6:00. Diet is easy cause of all the water I'm drinking, I just drank one those low carb monsters, I know they're terrible, but it was cause I had these cheese tacos here and I'm no going to eat them. The caffeine is going to help me make it till the rest of the day.

Sometimes I got some issues going on that make losing weight so petty and stupid I wonder why I'm even doing it but I have to remind myself I'll have to do it anyway and set the example for my kids. Plus it will improve my chances of getting jobs and all that cause I know people hate fatties.

The next hurdle for me is the weekends and my days off when I always fail. I've had a lot of stops and starts cause of the weekend. At work I can keep myself on a schedule but once I'm home I get distracted and lose focus. Then the drinking, which I stopped for a while but now every weekend I give in to the urges and crave those good feelings. I always justify it by telling myself, at least you're not doing what you used to do. Fortunately, this weekend I don't have any money to spend on fast food or beer so I think I'll be good.

My goal is to get down to 190 by June right now I'm at 265, it's slow process but it took me years to get to this size, thank god I will be able to accomplish my goal in less time.

My motivation song for the week


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I keep that on repeat when I'm about to give up in my run.

The most important thing is that you get back up when you fall off.

 

[iBrowse]

This is all broscience below:

Honestly I base that off of when your body has metabolized the all of the food you have consumed in a certain period of time. If you ate 2200 in 16 hours and haven't eaten in about 12 or so, (after shytting, pissing and whatnot) then I'd assume that you're back at zero...especially if you're depleted

Look at IF/Lean Gains...that's a really unorthodox method of eating that still enables people to make serious cuts.

 

[Pool_Shark]

I'm a month into this and I've been seeing crazy results, I can't believe it's this easy. I did fukk up on Sunday when the Seahawks lost. I'm noticing that when things go bad like fighting with my lady, or money problems, or car troubles I get hungry. Luckily I have a really strong will now and can overcome all that stuff. It took me all of January though but now my shyt is teflon. I just keep drinking water and I don't even care about junk.

On Tuesday I took it too far, I ate a small breakfast, blended and drank what I would normally eat, and tried to go the rest of the day without food. I know it's stupid and counter-productive but I kept lying to myself. My diet is so strict now if I miss any meal I will pay for it later and on Tuesday I did. I started feeling light headed and dizzy, then I felt like I was almost going to throwing up but I kept drinking water to hold the throw-up back. I felt like I was high or something, I tried to eat some broccoli but my body wasn't having it. My stomach feel like a pretzel and I had to eat some of the crap that I used to. I ended up bingeing for the rest of the night and completely lost focus. Instead of throwing in the towel and returning to morbid obesity, I sat down and wrote out what went wrong and what led to that point. I now make sure I eat a proper breakfast, I stay away from blending my vegetables, and I make sure, even if I don't think I need it, to have my last meal for the day. Haven't missed a step since. Also once I'm at work this is a cakewalk cause there's no abundance of temptations here. Now it's just a waiting game till July cause the weight is melting like off like plastic.

I get kinda restless sometimes and end up doing too much running which ends up making me lose time doing my other workout or I get too tired. It's hard to hold back cause it took a long time to where my body can do 4 miles in a run and I'm good. I want to do it all the time but my time exercising is limited and I have to restrict myself. I can also feel the strength I've gained in everyday life, I'm more active. I can feel my wife resenting me and we've even fought about it, but she's stupid and thinks I'm going to get in shape and leave her. I'm like bytch I'm trying to get in shape for you. Also I kinda worry that once she starts working and going to school she's going to meet some guy and because she's villainized me this guy will be her captain save a....and what I'm going to be the fat fukk at home stuck with the kids and no options fuuuuuuuck that. Workouts been going great,I love that rush after lifting, diets been going great. Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing it for. What am I going to do once I get in shape? I'll figure it out when I get there.

Oh and I haven't had a drink in two weeks now

Motivation Song of the Week
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[Pool_Shark]

This shyt is coming off super slow. I'm seeing results exercise wise but man. I have to keep going though.

Sidenote: I don't know how this thread is coming off, but one of the many motivators for me to start was going on Huffington Post and reading all the success stories of people way worse than me dropping weight and changing their lives. That's why maybe someday someone will read this and it will be one more click in getting off the couch or bed.

Exercise it's good for your brain


It's ok to fail


Stop sitting, get sunlight, experience life

 

[Pool_Shark]

Week 3

Things are going great.

At the beginning of January I was at 278, right now I'm at 246. Every thing in my life is improving. I just keeping working out and sticking as close to my diet. It's mostly good raw vegetables with either fish, chicken, or a turkey patty. Drinking water non stop. I've calmed down a little cause I'm not trying to drink too much. I've switched my weight lifting to trying to do as much compound exercises as possible. I'm going to do this for 3 months, then get into more isolation stuff.

Monday- Jogged for 60 minutes-Light Weight Curls, Light Weight Tricep Extensions, and Light Weight Shoulder Press.
Push-Ups 4 sets of 10, Lunges, could only do 20 burpees but I've never tried those and I did them at the end of the workout.

Tuesday-Jogged 40 minutes in the day. Jogged 40 minutes at night.

Wednesday-Nothing I tried working out but my knees were too fukked up and I couldn't do anything. Let my body rest

Thursday-Jogged 50 minutes in the day (this was hell was I didn't think the hot weather would make it so difficult to run)
Deadlift 4 sets 15 reps light weight, Push-Ups 4 sets of 10 (last set had to do weak pushups),
Military Press 4 sets of 15 light weight, One Arm Dumbbell Bench thing 4 sets of 15 on each side
Bench Press 4 sets of 15 light weight, Dumbbell Shoulder Press 4 sets of 15

Today (Friday)-Jogged 50 minutes (had to switch to the morning cause it's too hot in the afternoon, this was hard to because my body didn't like it)
Squats 4 sets of 15 reps light weight, Bent Over Rows 4 sets of 15 lightweight
High Pulls 4 sets of 15 reps light weight, One Arm Row 4 sets of 15 lightweight
I'm working my way to doing chin ups. So that's what I spend the end of my workout doing.
Saturday-Thursdays Routine (No Running)
Sunday-Fridays Routine (No Running)


I'd appreciate any tips in regards to lifting. I haven't lifted like this since high school. I don't have access to a dip station yet. I only have a barbell and weights, with dumbbells.

 

[brother walt]

whats your body weight and height and whats your fitness goals

 

[Pool_Shark]

Everything was going great. I got extremely busy the last two days and it fukked up my running and my diet. Still lifted but now I'm binging. I skipped a meal and it really tripped me up. Had jack in the box for breakfast 2 tacos, chicken sandwich, jr jack. Felt extremely lazy and sleepy all day Anyway I'm down to 245 but I might jump up to 250. I'm just going to let my body do it's thing. I'm just going to start chugging water hopefully it stops me. I'm going to get back on track. fukk man, I feel drained. Whatever no excuses, gotta fight this resistance. I'm going to be 230 by March 5th.

 

[Fellatio]

Just the thought of my cheat meal once a week stops me from cheating. Maybe try getting one GREAT meal once a week

 

[Pool_Shark]

I cheat a lot. Way more than I should but that's cause I work out so hard and I'm losing weight so fast it doesn't really matter. I think the biggest change is that now I control myself. Like yesterday, I just said ok go ahead eat. Afterwards I sat down, wrote what went wrong, and how I can avoid the circumstances that lead to my bad decision in the future, refocused and hit the gym.

What went wrong:
Didn't have my breakfast ready, did not make it a priority
Skipped a meal
Ate fast food (this shyt is absolutely garbage I can not believe two months before I let my body live off this crap. Even if I'm going to mess up my diet don't do it with that junk)

Why it won't happen again:
Breakfast is a priority. Last night I made sure I had it ready to go in the morning. I will make sure to have it ready. Really might be the most important meal of my day because it sets the tone.
Will not skip a meal. It's like I'm taking directions and if I don't stop and get my fuel my body will break down and it will go into starvation mode and eat whatever shyt it wants. Same way it makes my body weak it also makes my will weak.
No more fast food. Man the groggyness I felt. It was a disgusting feeling.

Took a preworkout last night a co-worker gave to me Oh my god my lifting was so much better. Really pushed myself past anything I've done in a long ass time. Didn't like how I felt after but I can't deny the results. Also I've gotten a lot stronger, in a year I can't imagine what I'll be doing. Anyway if anyone out there is struggling or messing up on their goals just let the good outweigh the bad. Don't give up. It's ok if you fukk up, don't waste time beating yourself up about it just do the best you can to get your mind back to the direction you want to go.

This song gets me so pumped up when I'm lifting

 

[Pool_Shark]

Interesting 4 min clip I heard about pain
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaP...&islist=false&id=387211563&m=387302776&live=1

More motivation videos that got my head right






and of course the classic