Is being obese a hindrance to getting back in shape?

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Originally Posted by hakkai619

ROFL but i bet since you have conditioning and or diets you wont go "Kobayashi" on em hahaha :lickish:


P.S. I still cant resist a good meal :(

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These, as mentioned by Adam, are good things to realize regarding your own nature. But if it helps you at all, you are far from a special flower in this area. Most anyone who goes through some form of major change of diet, exercise, living..is going to have to wrestle with these demons. And it is rarely done clean cut. I used to eat the worst kinda crap. Every night woofing down 4-5 ice cream drum sticks, eating all take out, or processed foods that were in our cupboards. 4-5 pop a day.

Went from that to an all natural food, all food groups and no pop diet. And it was HARD. Worst sorta cravings for a while. But they eventually went away. And to this day while I still slamm fast food joints and call them evil people killing money making empires etc...if you followed me secretly with a camera for a while, youd catch me sneaking into one for a greasy dbl cheese burg and a couple orders of those terrible for you fries, large soft drink too plz! ha

But overall I keep telling myself that stuff is shit and youre better off without it, and got myself believing it for the most part. You catch my drift as to what Im on about? Often when we talk such a game of avoidance, clean eating, living, aware of it or not, it isnt everyone else we are trying to convince, but often ourselves. This is helpful to know. Convince yourself you want it, if you want it. Talk the game until you find yourself playing it.

Anyway, like the others, I wish you luck.

Some very very easy tips that makes the hell of a difference and which many peoples do not realize evilness:

1) Soda are pure evilness, just drinking a can a day can seriously mash your body within 1 or two months if you don't exercise, no matter how, avoid these at all costs, very easy, makes a major difference in the middle run.

2) Sugar in your coffee in the morning: A friend of mine had a very very bad habit of putting 3 to 4 little sugars once per day in his coffee... it's a LOT, he lost 15 pounds in one month just by stopping pouring coffee with sugar.

3) fried food is the brother of the mother of all evilness, try to avoid that at all cost as well, burgers, fries etc.

4) Reduce your consumption of red meat. Normally, 2-3 times a week should be ok, if you eat a full t-bone or some huge pieces more than 2-3 times a week, it'll show up on your body for sure.

5) candies, chocolates etc: Limit yourself, do not reward yourself after every meal with those, these little bastards are worst than cannibals.

I absolutely do not reinvent the wheel here, these are no secrets to nobody but I name these things for a reason: It is little habits like that who will make a huge negative difference in the middle run, you have no ideas. Kick these small habits, if you can do it for more than 2 consecutive months, you will see some significant improvement, the rest will be done by conducting proper physical activities :)

God damn it :( The third one i cant EVER EVER do. Cause the filipino diet consists mainly on frying. Adobo, Fried fish, buwad, etc. I would like to eat balut if only they were still alot of sellers but seems they are dwindling :(

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Originally Posted by hakkai619

God damn it :( The third one i cant EVER EVER do. Cause the filipino diet consists mainly on frying. Adobo, Fried fish, buwad, etc. I would like to eat balut if only they were still alot of sellers but seems they are dwindling :(

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I say eat what you want and be merry. That's the fat man's way. Ok a little cheesy but I was up around 255 and I now stay around 230 and I am still there and I haven't been to the gym in like six weeks. Although I am starting today when I leave work. (New Year's resolution) My simple way of doing it was cutting meal proportions down. Instead of getting that extra scoop of mash potato's just eat what you've got. Another biggie I cut down on was meals after dinner which was usually 6:00. Instead I would eat shitloads of peanuts elephant size. Not that planter's shit but just the regular shell kind. If you cut the intake of food you will lose weight simple as that.

As for working out just take it slow. If you use a treadmill walk on an incline. Do this for a week slowly getting the speed up every day until you are able to jog on a non-incline.

If you run on a track shoot for 1 mile doesn't matter how you get there just try jogging a little bit if you get tired STOP. Walk the rest or until you think you can get moving again then try again. Soon in a week or two's time you will be running this track at a decent pace. Hope this helps.Good luck.

Thanks for the advice fight fan. Im around 160lbs last time i checked and im 5'5 not that fat but still overweight. I think ill find a food thats low on calories but will fill me up. Maybe what you said about peanuts will do eh? ;)

I'd say be patient and be realistic. Think more in terms of a year at a time.
Depending on your age I'd say that it takes about a month of 3 times a week to get over the you are going to throw up feeling. After that just be regular and begin to expand.
I was a bit overweight when I started training last year and I'm 42. I lost the first 20 lbs in a few months. Now I'm 6'2". I was about 208 and now I'm down to 188. The last lbs are the hardest. I didn't really think about what I was eating I just trained really hard. Now I'm doing core training and keeping a record of what I eat and starting to really track my diet. I stopped all sweets, and all late night snacking. But it takes time. As the other poster pointed out. You don't put it on in a week and it doesn't come of in a week.
It's more important to not miss or skip training. So you can get all commando and train for 4 hours but then you are done for the next couple of days because you are too sore.

A pal of mine wanted to lose weight and went to the Doctors. He told the Doctor He wanted to lose weight, and could He help. The doctor replied yes, and signed Him off so He could work ;D.

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Originally Posted by danieladamsmith

I'd say be patient and be realistic. Think more in terms of a year at a time.
Depending on your age I'd say that it takes about a month of 3 times a week to get over the you are going to throw up feeling. After that just be regular and begin to expand.
I was a bit overweight when I started training last year and I'm 42. I lost the first 20 lbs in a few months. Now I'm 6'2". I was about 208 and now I'm down to 188. The last lbs are the hardest. I didn't really think about what I was eating I just trained really hard. Now I'm doing core training and keeping a record of what I eat and starting to really track my diet. I stopped all sweets, and all late night snacking. But it takes time. As the other poster pointed out. You don't put it on in a week and it doesn't come of in a week.
It's more important to not miss or skip training. So you can get all commando and train for 4 hours but then you are done for the next couple of days because you are too sore.

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I think thats what he's trying to avoid! ;D