Packer Rats Lose the Pudge Challenge

[Partial]

I am about 30 pounds overweight. I need to lose this weight for the sake of my health and own desire to do so. I am going to keep a blog in here with what I eat every day, and the exercises that I do. I challenge everyone out there with a little pudge to lose to make themselves feel better and do what it takes to improve their health and to keep a record of what they do themselves. I want to lose 20 pounds by my August 27th.

In order to accomplish this, I am going to do the following things:
1. Bike to and from work each day (7 miles each way)
2. Cut out red meats temporarily and focus on Whey powder, veggies, fruits and fish oil.
3. Take a nice relaxing walk everyday at lunch instead of eating immense amount of fast food for lunch daily.
4. Plan out everything I am going to eat in advance.
5. Play tennis for an hour each night
6. Weight lift each night for 30 minutes

Tomorrow, my day is looking like this:
Bike to work
8-12 work
12-1 walk around outside on grass
1-4 work
4-4:45 bike home
5:15-end of match best of 3 set tennis match
7-8 Lift

What's your plan?

[Partial]

for my first day of eating super healthy and kicking the addition to eating I have, I am going to all out. I know that if I let myself a. break from my eating pattern or b. have anything remotely fatty/sweet/delicious I will completely induldge and not be able to control myself.

I am going to go hardcore for atleast a week until I can get consistent blood sugar and lose the cravings.

I am going to bike to work fasted so I tap directly into my fat deposits.

Then, I am going to have a breakfast of mixed vegetables and mint chocolate whey protein with water.

I am then going to have more mixed vegetables for lunch, with an orange and banana as well.

For my dinner, I am going to have steamed peas and carrots and probably another scoop of whey protein, and cap it off with a fuel fish oil capsules to lower my chloelestrol.

That's all. No soda, no cookies, no ice cream, no entire pizzas, no double cheese burgers and malts, none of that garbage.

[BlueBrewer]

I commend you Partial. It will take will power, but you can do it.

[Partial]

I just took pictures of myself. It is now my wallpaper so I will be forced to look at it quite a bit. All I can say is yuck, and give my girlfriend a mighty big salute for putting up with that. She's hot and I am so not. Hopefully, that will change. I mean even after 20 pounds I won't be muscular or anything, i'll just be able to swear my size 33 pants again instead of the 36's I wear now.

[CyclonePackFan]

Partial,

I commend you on your goal. This is, as it so happens, one area where I can give sound advice. From June 1st to date, I've lost about 25 lbs, through pretty much the same method you are suggesting, DDE (discipline, desire, and exercise).

Here's my daily diet:

Breakfast: 2 c. OJ, 2 c. skim milk w/ sugar-free Carnation Instant Breakfast
Lunch: FF yogurt, sandwich. (2-3 oz deli meat of choice, which excludes bastardized processed meats such as bologna and salami, cheese, lettuce, light Miracle Whip, turkey bacon, on 100% whole wheat bread)
Dinner: 2/3 slices toast
This is supplemented with a multivitamin and 2 fish oil capsules with each meal.

I would like to offer some constructive criticism on your diet. I'm no dietician, and if your method is working well for you, don't mind me:

I'm seeing little in the way of grains in your diet. I'd recommend adding some 100% whole wheat bread in there somewhere. Same with dairy products. That one's easily remedied, I'd just make the protein shakes with skim milk over water (which, in my opinion, improves the taste by an order of magnitude)

On the "garbage" note, just remember, garbage isn't just limited to foods that are simply bad for you. Read the labels of what you buy. If you see the words "High Fructose Corn Syrup" on it, don't eat it. It's also the chief ingredient in most sodas, which is why the removal of pop from your diet is an almost instant weight loss. It's also found in places you wouldn't expect, jams and peanut butter (if you get "100% fruit jam" or "natural" peanut butter you can avoid it), along with most store-bought breads (make sure you look for it if you follow my wheat bread suggestion)

While the "go hardcore I can take it" method is a noble venture, it's also the reason most diets fail. I beleive myself to be a person of extraordinary discipline, and this weekend, having not had ANY sugar or eaten anything bad/going out to eat for a month and a half, was practically convulsing on my bed with cravings for chocolate, deep fried food, etc. Almost every diet I have ever read suggests one "indulgence day" a week, and it's a damn good idea. However, if you're worried about going off the deep end, make your "indulgence" something simple. After not having any sugar, one of those cups of fat-free chocolate pudding kicks an almost indescribable amount of ass. Something like raisins or applesauce also are a good way to quell sugar cravings.

The part I like about my diet is that it follows USDA recommendations. Check out http://www.mypyramid.gov for good guidelines/suggestions.

Happy dieting, I'm off to run and lift,

CPF

[Fosco33]

I just took pictures of myself. It is now my wallpaper so I will be forced to look at it quite a bit. All I can say is yuck, and give my girlfriend a mighty big salute for putting up with that. She's hot and I am so not. Hopefully, that will change. I mean even after 20 pounds I won't be muscular or anything, i'll just be able to swear my size 33 pants again instead of the 36's I wear now.

Very comendable, Partial. I also wear 36s - with some pride after the amount of cheap beer and pizza I went through during college.

I quit smoking about a month ago - and simultaneously started working out more. A hard part about smoking is that it acts as appetite supressant - now I have to be more diligent in choosing what to eat.

I'm certainly not as focused as your plan - but my motto is most things w/i moderation. I wouldn't cut out all natural protein as it helps w/ metabolism rates. But your plan of aerobic and strength training is spot on (as muscles continue to burn calories even after working out!).

I wish I could just go for a run like some people - to me its 1. too boring and 2. very bad on my already surgically repaired knees. I have to do more activities (golf, tennis, basketball, ultimate frisbee, swimming - in that order of my enjoyment/skill level and time) and then some light weight lifting in the evenings.

It's going pretty well so far - I've only lost like 5 pounds (but this is fairly significant as most people who quit gain 5-15 pounds).

Good luck!

[MadtownPacker]

You are gonna really need to speed up your metabolism to lose it that fast so.....


START USING METH!

It worked for Nichol Richie.

[Bretsky]

I too am dieting cause I'm overweight. Am on weight watchers. Have a hard time getting in much exercise due to kid dom, but so far I've lost 36lbs by eating a lot better than I use to and drinking lots and lots of H20.

[MJZiggy]

B, you need to read more women's magazines. You're supposed to exercise with the kids. Hubby has been doing curls with children for years. It's not bedtime without them. You can do presses with them too, just be gentle and teach them not to squirm. Yes you can teach them that if you tell them you won't lift with them anymore if they squirm. We've also been known to run races down long hallways.

[Partial]

As of note, I saw a lot of criticism of my diet. With due cause, it is not balanced at all. That's just what i'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a whole lot of healthy food and need to go shopping. I am going to post it every day.

[Deputy Nutz]

As a former athlete, well someone who still thinks he is an athlete, I have a hard time putting down the fork. My body needed large quantities of food to maintain size, strength, and to build more muscle mass.

Now that my playing days are long behind me, injuries that still linger, and like Bretsky the kids have taken over my free time to workout.

I have decided to change my eating habbits. I have cut out fast food almost entilrely. Only 3 or 4 times a month.

I start every morning with a smoothy mixture of fresh berries and bannanas, plain yogurt, organic juices, pure flax seed oil, Aloh Juice, liquid multi-V, and ice. I also add organic fruit and vegetable concentrate.

For lunch, I either have a bowl of Total cereal, with skim milk(note: I can't believe how many people still drink whole milk, or even 2% milk) anyways, or I make a sandwich with ham or turkey, tomato, and lettuce.

For a snack, It seems that I will always choose a grain, like cereal mostly.

For dinner, it is always a salad with lots of different veggies, like red cabbage, dark leafy lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, and a bunch of different shit. I like some won't cut out red meat entirely. Lean red meat is just as healthy for you as most chicken. But still, I will usually eat chicken, or fish. Once a week I will make an Italian Suasage dish, that is something that I won't give up.

My main thing is that I get my daily servings of veggies and fruit. The smoothy is nice because I usually get that out of the way. I concentrate on consuming lots of antioxidents.

My goal is to start getting into shape, so at the beginning of the Wrestling season, I could wrestle a whole 6 minute match(I coach high school wrestling). After the wrestling season, or hopefully before, I want to start training in Mix Martial Arts. I don't want to compete, but I see it as a great workout, and later in life, I might want to train fighters.

[Partial]

yep, I've put on 50 pounds in the two years since I left competitive tennis. I practiced year round and worked out for it all the time. That, paired with the fact I my metabolism has slowed down as I am now at full height and done growing, has really killed me. I've got to change the way I eat.

It's bad, I still exercise a lot, but I eat qdoba/chipotle twice a day, everyday for the most part. That shit is just killer.

[Deputy Nutz]

Another tip, Drink a shit load of Green tea. That stuff is great for the metabolism.

Qdoba isn't to bad if you get your fixens in a bowl, lose the good stuff like the sour cream and cheese, stick to chicken, or just the mixed veggies like the peppers and the tomatoes.


I just gotta get my ass to the gym

[KYPack]

Re: Packer Rats Lose the Pudge Challenge

I am about 30 pounds overweight. I need to lose this weight for the sake of my health and own desire to do so. I am going to keep a blog in here with what I eat every day, and the exercises that I do. I challenge everyone out there with a little pudge to lose to make themselves feel better and do what it takes to improve their health and to keep a record of what they do themselves. I want to lose 20 pounds by my August 27th.

In order to accomplish this, I am going to do the following things:
1. Bike to and from work each day (7 miles each way)
2. Cut out red meats temporarily and focus on Whey powder, veggies, fruits and fish oil.
3. Take a nice relaxing walk everyday at lunch instead of eating immense amount of fast food for lunch daily.
4. Plan out everything I am going to eat in advance.
5. Play tennis for an hour each night
6. Weight lift each night for 30 minutes

Tomorrow, my day is looking like this:
Bike to work
8-12 work
12-1 walk around outside on grass
1-4 work
4-4:45 bike home
5:15-end of match best of 3 set tennis match
7-8 Lift

What's your plan?

Damn, Partial, that is one tough plan yer on.

Make sure you eat a little something during the day. Keep food in the stomach. One good trick is to carry around a baggie with carrots and celery to snack on. Celery is actually negative calories, the body burns more to digest it than it's caloric value.

That's a LOT of workin' out if you are gonna cut your caloric intake.
The big trick is to stay on a diet and excercise plan and this one would kick my ass. Lift 3 times a week max. the body actually builds the muscle on your rest days. Develop a plan you can handle, the one you are describing is pretty spartan

Some other tricks:

Walk everywhere
Abandon elevators go up the stairs.
Like Nutz alluded to... give yourself a binge day once a week or ten days or so.
Stop drinkin'. Those happy hour beers kill ya diet-wise
Don't eat dinner after 6 pm ( I cheat on this one so bad, it's sick)

Stick to it. It takes ahwile, then the pounds fall off.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Losing weight via extensive exercise is a young man's game.