Jumbo Rider’s BodyBlog

Yesterday was a fair day.  I ate clean and got my exercises complete.

Walk 2.5 mph for 30 min as 0 incline

50 squats

I am amazingly tired and sore after such a simple workout.

I have been sitting here looking at all the great people on Bodyspace and have come to a conclusion.  This is my last attempt to get in shape, drop the pounds, live the life.  I am sick of the yo-yo weight loss and weight gain. 

If I can’t get it done this time then I am nothing but a poser, a wanna-be.  Look, I have been on this site for a long time and am still within 20 pounds of my starting point.  Well enough of this ****.  I will not quit and I will not stay fat.   I am not a poser and am not a wanna-be.  But the challenge is to me to actually do this thing and stop giving it lip service.

You will see me post fairly often and I will continue to post through my goal weight and onto my fit body.  If I revert to my old self I will stop wasting this site’s bandwith.  It is really simple after all.  Decrease calories and increase activity.   There, for all of you wanting to know how to lose weight and lose it fast, is the key.  I know what to do and now I just need to do it.  Or I need to accept the fact that I am a fat, lazy bastard.  I will know which is true at the end of the year.

The good news is that I have maintained my weight since my last weigh in, even though I had been eating poorly.  The bad news is that I am at the same weight.

At least my mind has been right for more than a week and my eating has been clean during this time.  My goal is to walk twice a day and do 50 squats throughout the day.  Unfortunately I failed to get up for this morning’s walk.

How do you find the energy to do a great workout?  Currently, I have no energy.  I could sleep 20 hours out of 24.  It is a struggle just to get to work and stay working for 8 hours. 

So I have been pushing through the lethargy.  Cardio and bodyweight workouts are the core of what I have been accomplishing.  But if you guys know of a true, healthy supplement that will energize me please let me know.    Oh, caffeine does not do the trick.

Well, I seem to be losing the same 30 pounds over and over again.  I don’t know why my will….dedication….thoughtfull purpose breaks down at this point.  One of the problems is that I have been too cheap to buy new cloths at this time, so the cloths fit sloppy.  I think I am gaining the weight back so that the cloths fit better….maybe.  It could be that I simply don’t have the mental endurance to get past that point, or maybe I see 30 pounds as a place to reward myself.  No matter what the deal is I will get past it this time.   I am sick of being a 350 pound slob!

Having had talk with gbone74 after seeing his success has made me look a little closer at the calories that I am consuming.  I have had slow and steady success by simply eating every three hours without carbs, other than vegetables.  But I would like to lose more than 2 pounds a week, and at 373 pounds that should be attainable.

Gbone74 is not watching the types of foods he is eating, but only eats 1800 calories a day.  My plan is to watch what I eat and eat on average 1800 calories a day.  Why on average?  Days that I cardio but don’t lift will be at 1800.  Days that I lift will be at 2200, and days that I do nothing will be at 1400 calories a day.

The change in my diet was not that drastic.  I eat less meat and have cut way down on the nuts that I eat.  Other than that it is simply a measuring exercise.

Speaking of exercise, I am currently walking 30 minutes everyday on the treadmill at 2.6 mph.  That is weak, but it taxes me at the fittness level I am at today.  My goal is to work up to 1 hour 5 days a week at 3.5 - 4.0 mph while adding incline.  That is a month or so in my future.

I plan on lifting 3 days a week using my powerlifting bands and bodyweight exercises.

So, I will give this a try for my 12 weeks and see how it turns out.  If I don’t lose much faster I will go back to eating the way I did prior to the calorie counting change.  If I do lose much faster then I know that I am doing the right thing.

I am still fighting just to get my act together, but I think I have turned the mental corner now.  The biggest problem I have is pure laziness.  Laziness in the act of not planning my food more than anything else.  Nothing to eat, grab a fat mac.   Did I miss breakfast, might as well pig out in the evening.  

Diet is 70% of losing weight.  The exercise is used to keep tone and to control stress more than anything else.  Again, I know what to do.  I just need to do it.

377.5 today.

Well, my cravings are down and I am back into the routine of eating clean.  I am still not eating as frequently as I did in the past and my veggie intake is down.  To recap my journey, I lost 40+ pounds during a contest and just as quickly gained it all back.  That won’t happen again.

Any of the big to small folks out there?  If you have lost 100 pounds or more would you give me a shout?  Sometimes I wonder if the effort is even worth it.