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It's the year of our Lord, 2025 or just 2025 C.E. for you heathens, I am a heathen so God bless.

How is everybody's new year workout been going?

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I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life right now - my weights and reps at the gym keep going up every week and my weight has maintained in the same window of +/- 3 pounds since April. 

No slacking

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Down 5lbs since 1.1.  I've settled into a routine so eating comes easier now.  I haven't been out to walk or run since the cold weather blew through so I haven't gotten my steps in. 

Im in a challenge that is 100 days long.  100 winners. 1st place gets 50k, 2-100 gets $500.  

I'd be happy with the $500 but would also be happy just to drop about another 20lbs by mid April.

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1 hour ago, Storm the Field said:

We already have a 2025 thread.

That's the fitness thread. This is for those with shrinking dicks due to weight gain.

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1 hour ago, Post Oak said:

I haven't been out to walk or run since the cold weather blew through so I haven't gotten my steps in. 

I just acclimated to the cold but damn it was painful in the beginning. Now that I am acclimated it's probably going to be warm weather for the rest of the year.

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22 hours ago, F250 said:

That's the fitness thread. This is for those with shrinking dicks due to weight gain.

Is it possible to have two innie bellybuttons? Asking for a friend.

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Lost about 13 lb this year so far. Haven’t really started exercising yet. Just been eating a lot less, a lot better and not eating after 7:30 or 8.

These will be the easiest pounds I lose during this. I got up to my heaviest just before Christmas. I knew I was about to start this so I said screw it.

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Getting serious about my diet as I'm tired of having a beer belly and being ~30# overweight.  Looking for recipes and app suggestions for tracking calories/nutrition.

Going off of @troph's post in the Ozempic thread (trying to avoid going the Ozempic route, mostly because it's a massive pain in the ass and expensive) and using this diet:

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anti-inflammatory diet - lean protein, whole grain, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, some dairy, eggs, salt, pepper and healthy oils

I know she said she ate as much as she wanted and didn't count calories, but I need to as I eat way too fucking much.

I have purchased a scale to weigh my food, but I need to find an app to track it.  Would prefer free, but as I google, I see that many apps that started out free have monetized the better features such as recipe saving and barcode scanning.  What are y'all using?  Likes/Dislikes?

Feel like a blender is in my future as smoothies seem like a mainstay.  Any suggestions?  Would love to keep it under $100.

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You can cook with more spices, I was on a low histamine diet too for long covid, it’s even more strict. In fact many spices are anti-inflammatory too. 

you can’t go wrong counting calories but honestly I would focus on eating the right food first. Then work on calorie reduction if you are having a problem after 2-3 weeks. 

the thing is, getting off processed food, added sugar, animal based saturated fat takes tremendous effort for a couple of weeks. And your appetite will be sky high for a while as you come off that dependency. 

about 3 weeks in you’ll start craving natural foods and loving how they taste. I would crave scrambled eggs and potatoes like you could not imagine. Some nights I had to have broccoli. I’d even make a special trip to the store to get it.  I would devour okra in the afternoons. I would eat an entire personal watermelon multiple times a week. 

the key is to be real and not fudge. 5g or less of added sugar per day, preferably 1-2g. Zero processed carbs. No butter, no steak, chicken skin, or bacon, avoid cheese and dairy at first. Just get your system off the crap as soon as possible. 

Lean heavy on fruits and vegetables. It’s impossible to over eat broccoli and sweet potatoes (as an example). You can’t do it. They are not calorie dense. What you can’t do is eat few veggies and fruit and lean on protein and cheeses. The foundation of anti-inflammatory is lots and lots of vegetables and fruit. 

eating out even the healthy stuff is a trap imo. Cook at home that’s the only way you know it’s good food.

once you’re on the diet then if you aren’t losing weight count calories. 

once you are losing weight you can add milk and cheese, yogurt and some tiny minuscule added sugar cheats but you still want to be 5g or less. 

the final piece has nothing to do with weight loss but round it out with a good supplement game especially stuff that’s good for your brain and nervous system, exercise, sleep, invest in your relationships and then at that point you are firing on all cylinders for a maximum health span and a longer life. 

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2 hours ago, troph said:

You can cook with more spices, I was on a low histamine diet too for long covid, it’s even more strict. In fact many spices are anti-inflammatory too. 

you can’t go wrong counting calories but honestly I would focus on eating the right food first. Then work on calorie reduction if you are having a problem after 2-3 weeks. 

the thing is, getting off processed food, added sugar, animal based saturated fat takes tremendous effort for a couple of weeks. And your appetite will be sky high for a while as you come off that dependency. 

about 3 weeks in you’ll start craving natural foods and loving how they taste. I would crave scrambled eggs and potatoes like you could not imagine. Some nights I had to have broccoli. I’d even make a special trip to the store to get it.  I would devour okra in the afternoons. I would eat an entire personal watermelon multiple times a week. 

the key is to be real and not fudge. 5g or less of added sugar per day, preferably 1-2g. Zero processed carbs. No butter, no steak, chicken skin, or bacon, avoid cheese and dairy at first. Just get your system off the crap as soon as possible. 

Lean heavy on fruits and vegetables. It’s impossible to over eat broccoli and sweet potatoes (as an example). You can’t do it. They are not calorie dense. What you can’t do is eat few veggies and fruit and lean on protein and cheeses. The foundation of anti-inflammatory is lots and lots of vegetables and fruit. 

eating out even the healthy stuff is a trap imo. Cook at home that’s the only way you know it’s good food.

once you’re on the diet then if you aren’t losing weight count calories. 

once you are losing weight you can add milk and cheese, yogurt and some tiny minuscule added sugar cheats but you still want to be 5g or less. 

the final piece has nothing to do with weight loss but round it out with a good supplement game especially stuff that’s good for your brain and nervous system, exercise, sleep, invest in your relationships and then at that point you are firing on all cylinders for a maximum health span and a longer life. 

All of this, although dairy has never been a big issue for me. I would also add that it’s pretty hard to change your diet to something like this AND calorie count. So sharpen up what you eat and then focus on how much you eat. 

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10 hours ago, Mittens said:

Getting serious about my diet as I'm tired of having a beer belly and being ~30# overweight.  Looking for recipes and app suggestions for tracking calories/nutrition.

Going off of @troph's post in the Ozempic thread (trying to avoid going the Ozempic route, mostly because it's a massive pain in the ass and expensive) and using this diet:

I know she said she ate as much as she wanted and didn't count calories, but I need to as I eat way too fucking much.

I have purchased a scale to weigh my food, but I need to find an app to track it.  Would prefer free, but as I google, I see that many apps that started out free have monetized the better features such as recipe saving and barcode scanning.  What are y'all using?  Likes/Dislikes?

Feel like a blender is in my future as smoothies seem like a mainstay.  Any suggestions?  Would love to keep it under $100.

MyFitnessPal.  If I'm paying for it, it ain't much.

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...eating out even the healthy stuff is a trap imo. Cook at home that’s the only way you know it’s good food.

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They put too much fat, salt and butter in everything, even the cooked vegetables.

And when you cook at home, try to use the "direct" ingredients.  Made chili today with dry beans soaked and simmered.  Canned beans have added sugar(!) and calcium chloride for some reason.  Yeah it takes extra time, but if you plan ahead, get your kids involved, it's entirely doable.

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My fitness pal is good. I know people like Lose It, which does some of the same thing. I’ve started tracking weight in Happy Scale just because I like the smoothed line it adds.

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I benefit by having a healthy dinner every night (because my wife cooks and is on her own fitness shit). So it’s easy enough for me to have coffee with a bit of cream for breakfast, a bigass smoothie for lunch, dinner, and then some lightly flavored popcorn as a late light snack. We just got a vitamix,  which kicked this whole thing off for me, but I’ve made smoothies with a bullet previously and that’s in the price range.

 

obviously people are different- I’m trying to make sure I have a decent mix of macros or whatever but counting calories and tracking my weight every morning changes things for me. Metrics.

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I’ll add you have to find joy and temporal happiness in eating well. I’ll admit right now I’m struggling because I was so strict for 6 months and now I’m healthy and so I’m enjoying the occasional glass of wine and a more relaxed diet. I’ve gained a few pounds of water and actual weight I’m sure, 5-6 lbs total. I still eat well most of the day it’s the dinner that can be tough. But the joy of crispy tacos is so fleeting and the feeling of being healthy is so much more sustained. It’s way easier said than done but I reached for a banana, celery juice and a Lara cashew date bar for breakfast. Feels so much better than eggs butter and bacon. I now need to string together 10-12 days of this diet to keep my weight and health where I want it. I think we also have to see this kind of diet as the baseline and the taco plate at the Tex Mex joint as the rare exception.  Way easier said than done but eating how we were designed to eat in a world with cheap, unnatural and frankly addictive foods is really really hard.

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2 hours ago, troph said:

I’ll add you have to find joy and temporal happiness in eating well.

heh...I'm a week in and still all jazzed up about getting into a new "thing", but I'm also smart enough, and experienced enough, to know that's going to fade and I'll need to hold strong.  Trying to keep a good headspace and help myself stay stoked about another day of clean eating, every day.

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4 hours ago, Mittens said:

heh...I'm a week in and still all jazzed up about getting into a new "thing", but I'm also smart enough, and experienced enough, to know that's going to fade and I'll need to hold strong.  Trying to keep a good headspace and help myself stay stoked about another day of clean eating, every day.

I’m 50 this year, the idea of being active until I’m late 80s and then cognitively okay until 92-93 is what I try to focus on right now and that future depends on my decisions across (1) nutrition, (2) activity including cardio, strength, balance, core and flexibility, (3) sleep, (4) relationships, and (5) brain health. 

every year I do more on each of these. In the end I hope I live a long life and die of old age when seems to be a gentler way out. 

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2 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:

I’m not trying to die at a young age, but fuck a bunch of living to 90.

We are in a tennis community there are several women in their 80s that are cognitively sharp and physically able. My mom is 76 and still can walk all over a cobble stone village in Italy. 

you need to redefine what you think your 80s have to be, they don’t have to be disabled and hanging on to life by a thread.

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Everyone needs to keep in mind that we are all built different, burn energy differently and require different nutritional intakes. Some of us need to eat more or less than others.

Learn your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) vs. Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE). Find out your needed threshold for caloric and macro nutrient intake for losing weight, if that is your goal.

 

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We are in a tennis community there are several women in their 80s that are cognitively sharp and physically able. My mom is 76 and still can walk all over a cobble stone village in Italy. 
you need to redefine what you think your 80s have to be, they don’t have to be disabled and hanging on to life by a thread.

Yeah I had a great aunt that lived on her own into her 80s. She got around, had a small garden, flower beds, drove to the local store. She had a wreck and broke her collarbone and that was the end of all that.
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Finally hit 230 pounds. It's honestly been amazing to realize how much using a CPAP machine was holding me back from my weight loss goals. Since last year I focused a lot of weight lifting time on my lower body and core to get ready for skiing and it paid off big time. I was able to zoom up and down the mountain without feeling like I'm dying and have enough energy to enjoy dinner and a hot tub session. I don't have an exact weight goal for the end of the year, I'm just riding the high and we'll see how far down the scale it takes me. 

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I don't really know the exact mechanism of action but for the time I was on the machine it was almost impossible for me to lose weight. Well, I say almost. For the two times* I used the CPAP machine, I never lost weight. Despite going low carb low calorie and high intensity weight training it was 225, 227, 229, etc. Just kept creeping up and up with more usage. Straight up told my sleep doc if I hit a certain weight, I'm going off the machine. I hit the weight so I went off the machine. Now, am I still tired? Yes. I am pretty much tired all the time but I felt tired while using the machine too.

*I should probably clarify I was on the machine, went off for a few months, then went back on it, and now off it. I don't mean two times as in I only used the machine a total of 2 nights 

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8 hours ago, HRSchenker said:

Despite going low carb low calorie and high intensity weight training it was 225, 227, 229, etc.

Is it possible that you were gaining muscle mass which lead to weight gain?

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I don't really know the exact mechanism of action but for the time I was on the machine it was almost impossible for me to lose weight. Well, I say almost. For the two times* I used the CPAP machine, I never lost weight. Despite going low carb low calorie and high intensity weight training it was 225, 227, 229, etc. Just kept creeping up and up with more usage. Straight up told my sleep doc if I hit a certain weight, I'm going off the machine. I hit the weight so I went off the machine. Now, am I still tired? Yes. I am pretty much tired all the time but I felt tired while using the machine too.
*I should probably clarify I was on the machine, went off for a few months, then went back on it, and now off it. I don't mean two times as in I only used the machine a total of 2 nights 

Have you had any bloodwork done? Not just the basic CBC, but an actual CMP as well as a full hormone test where they check things like Estradiol, Cortisol, DHEA, etc.
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5 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:


Have you had any bloodwork done? Not just the basic CBC, but an actual CMP as well as a full hormone test where they check things like Estradiol, Cortisol, DHEA, etc.

Yep I had my yearly physical in December and also had male hormone panel checked. All clear! 

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I gave up beer last May and play tennis several times a week so I lost 30 lbs last year. This year I'm trying to lose another 15 and get to my goal weight. I also want to run a half marathon and make that a yearly endeavor if I'm up to it. By summer hopefully I can run 3-5 miles at a time and go from there. I've also mostly given up sugar and trying to limited processed foods. I do eat out too much still but not nearly as much as I used to. I've been usually making stuff to bring to work for lunch and making dinner when I get home and avoiding prepackaged foods as much as possible.

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wrote on the other health thread I need to drop 8-10 lbs after 3 weeks of eating well except a few too many cheat nights celebrating my recovery and good health. back on that diet I described full time not just 70% of the time. crazy how harmful alcohol and added sugar/processed carbs and foods are. sucks. hoping it's a two week plan, then calibrate back to 85-90%. pretty sure a wellness journey requires this balance all the time.

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Back to pre college football season weight. Damn you ipa’s. Down to 178.5 today(yes I’m crediting 1/2 pounds!). 190 on New Year’s Day.

No alcohol , 8-10k steps a day. Cardio and weights 5x a week, almost no sugar, more protein than carbs, tons of veggies, no processed stuff. Sleep 7-8 hours. Goal is 168 so plugging away.

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I plateaued for about a week and was getting frustrated. Went to eat breakfast tacos and was down 1.5lbs the next morning.  Praise be to tacos.  

HEB Sparkling Water has been a lifesaver for me in the evenings when I have a craving. 

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