The Biggest LOOSER -- running weight loss thread

Fuck. That. Shit.

See the "LiveStrong" thread for details.

Never again.

 

Eh, different foods affect people different ways. Raisins give me more gastrointestinal problems than a protein bar.

This particular protein bar has no high-fructose corn syrup and doesn't appear to be a chemical concoction. Lots of soy and whey protein. Didn't bother my stomach in the least.

I have a pretty strong stomach, though. Anything except bad milk is usually OK in there.

 

So, I'm eight weeks in to getting back serious and I'm down 14 pounds. Will get the measurements later today at the gym. Overall, I'm happy with that number, but the first four weeks (10 pounds) were so much better than the latest four (four pounds).... Got to get somewhere in between the two as I move forward.

About 50 more to go and I'll be very happy.

 

Nice work! Don't worry about the fits and starts. That'll happen. As long as something keeps coming off, you're good.

I'm personally a little frustrated right now. My waist has been just stuck at 34 for a looooong time now. I just want to measure one day and have it get down to 33, but my body has been hesitant to take that next step. May have to shock it into action with a few low-carb days or something like that. I NEED to get a flat stomach for once in my life. Have never had one. Have always had to dress around a gut.

 

If your waist is only 34 inches, I don't want to hear about it.

 

I know, but I'm obsessed at this point!

 

And just to make you feel worse, I mostly wear 32 pants - the 34 is what the tape measure says when I wrap it around my belly (I have learned that pants manufacturers lie to make people feel better)

 

+1

 

TONIGHT I ASK WTF IS THE POINT?!?

I started playing in a floor hockey league. I figured what the hell, it's on my night off from work and will give me a different workout than the gym with my trainer.

So tonight I have the ball behind our net, start to go left, see somebody charging that way, cut back to the right and POP ...
I felt something in my right calf pop and then it got all tingly. Then I couldn't walk on it without it throbbing in pain. Still can't. I got home and it took me 30 minutes to climb 12 stairs to my door - 16 if you count the four up to my porch and into the hallway.

Sitting or laying down doesn't matter. It throbs just as much as it does when I stand on it.

So maybe it's the pain talking right now, but WTF is the point of all of this? I bust my ass to get healthy just to get hurt. MotherFer!

Now I'm scared that if I get it checked out at the Dr. In the next day or two and it's too bad to walk on it much, I'll screw myself over by not going to the gym.

I am so frustrated right now!

 

Well, the odds of dying from a calf muscle pull (or even tear) are significantly smiller than those of dying of a heart attack, diabetes or any other of the myriad of obesity-related maladies you could suffer if you weren't active.

 

I suffered a pretty bad injury a couple of years ago that kept me out of the gym for 12-18 months. At some point, I could finally jog and ride the exercise bike again, but things like basketball and weight lifting took a long, long time for me to return to.

Injuries are one of the risks of an active lifestyle, but I wouldn't let it doom your outlook on getting fit. I hear this kind of crap from my two-packs-a-day dad all the time, rattling off so-and-so and so-and-so who exercised and ate well and still got this or that disease, for example, and about how exercise and health is all a bunch of hooey. But it's not. Reading too much into a setback is like watching one Joe Mauer at-bat, and he happens to strike out, so you decide that Joe Mauer sucks as a hitter.

 

Thanks Dick.

I understand all of what you said and I agree. I was just so frustrated and in pain last night. I let it get the best of me.