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Yeah it's okay. I actually managed to get an hour and a half of basketball in yesterday and it didn't seem to give me any problems. It was only a cramp after all, though it did feel like a knife wound while I had it.


I have an interesting lack of information when it comes to the random aches and pains I get. I haven't been a reasonable weight since my late 20s and early 30s, and so I don't know if these are a result of my being fat (which can be fixed) or my getting old (which can't).


320.5 this morning. Probably gonna go visit the parents.
 
Originally Posted by katy29


Hi,

Got stuck in reading your journey :) I envy you. Because you know where you are heading and have a clear path in front of you. You seem very determined.

I mean.. I know that it is only mental and "we can change it all with the right attitude" but still.. I (sometimes) find it really hard to find the strength to continue.. And this "sometimes" is more often as weeks get by..

You might be "not there" yet and you might have a long way to go.. but you know that you are taking steps.. while I..



I need to be stronger, mentally :(
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Wanted to acknowledge this post. I hope my diary has at least helped you some. I'd hate for it to be a kind of discouragement.


We're all different and how we react to the curves life throws our way (sorry for the baseball reference non-Americans) is always going to differ from person to person. I'm only four and a half months into this after roughly a dozen years of complete weight gain insanity (I estimate I gained roughly 160 pounds in 12 years). I can tell you for certain that I don't consider them to be the twelve happiest years of my life.


I guess what I'm saying is that you're probably not going to achieve any contentment by eating and gaining a bunch of weight, as I certainly didn't. I'd much rather live the way I am now than the way I was living a year ago, so in my mind there's nothing worth going back to. If life became about eating wheat germ and grass, and exercising 12 hours a day I'd feel different, but right now I don't feel like I'm denying myself much of anything.


Of course my issues are not your issues, and we all come at this from a different angle. So I wouldn't presume to give you much in the way of advice, but if trying to lose weight is making you miserable, then you need to find a way to adjust so that you're not. Skinny and miserable is a crappy way to live.
 
Originally Posted by MrVee


Yeah it's okay. I actually managed to get an hour and a half of basketball in yesterday and it didn't seem to give me any problems. It was only a cramp after all, though it did feel like a knife wound while I had it.



I have an interesting lack of information when it comes to the random aches and pains I get. I haven't been a reasonable weight since my late 20s and early 30s, and so I don't know if these are a result of my being fat (which can be fixed) or my getting old (which can't).



320.5 this morning. Probably gonna go visit the parents.
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I also get random pains, not cramps just more shoots of pain. In all random places. They only usually last a few seconds but boy do they hurt. And I am only 25 and not too overweight.
 
Well-said, MrVee. The life of junk food and fast food is kind of un-fulfilling, the trick for me is to remember the end-goal. I forgot (OK, ignored) that goal all summer, so I hovered in the same spot for an embarrasingly long time, but I think I'm back on track, and I need to remind myself over and over that junk food is an occasional treat, not something to consume regularly.


Cramps are probably a result of your muscles doing what they haven't for a long time. And possibly a lack of stretching - stretching is the most important thing I never do! Glad to hear it decided to leave.
 
Interestingly, the cramp didn't come during the exercise but actually about an hour and a half afterward. It seems to have completely left now.


The soreness seems to be mostly in the joints where my legs connect to my hips. Don't know if that's the basketball or what. It's really mild right now, but I just want to make sure it doesn't get too much worse than this.
 
Hi there MrVee! Just perusing here this morning and figured I would toss in my $.02.


When I started (308.6 @ 24 years old) I would have all sorts of random aches and pains. Many of those has since subsided(mostly gone since about 240-250). I suspect as you travel along the scale in a downward fashion, you will probably notice less and less random pains.


Heck, the main reason I started on my journey was because my back was hurting me(had spinal surgery in 2005 and it had never bothered me in the past). I like to think I am part cyborg :p


Keep it up man.
 
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I like to think I am part cyborg :p



Keep it up man.
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Thanks. I'll warn Sarah Conner.


318.5! this morning as the 320 barrier is done busted.


Yesterday was a watershed day for me. Doing my usual, shoot the basketball, chase it down routine with three other guys when one of them suggested a game of two on two. The other two guys looked over at me (Mr. 320 pounds) and I said, "well I've lost 55 pounds doing cardio so I'll give it a shot."


For those not in the know, two on two half court basketball is probably the most physically demanding form of the game other than full court basketball (and in some ways maybe even more demanding than that). For a 23 year old kid at a healthy weight it's a bit tiring but nothing you can't handle. For a 41 year old guy who weighs 320 pounds, it's probably insanity. The game is all constant movement, more so than any other combination of players.


The matchup was me and a guy who looked like late 40s early 50s against a couple of guys in their 20s. My older teammate was in fantastic shape and could shoot and so we won both games. I was terrible in the first but kept trying, and in the second I was much better.


I was wearing my heart rate monitor and my heart rate was in the 160s most of the time. When the second game ended it read '171' which is probably the highest it's been since my 20s.


There are two things I took away from this:


1. I'm still probably a good 30 pounds away from being able to do this regularly. I was _seriously_ winded and at times I just couldn't cover my man. I made it through, but only just.


2. For the first time in this entire process, I am sincerely very proud of myself. A year ago today I was certain I would never ever play a game of basketball like that again, and while it was an ordeal, I did it, including hitting the game winning shot in the second game. It's an accomplishment I'm not taking lightly.


And of course, having completed a workout beyond what I thought I was capable of, the scale rewarded me this morning (probably part water lost, part weight loss). Today is a good day, at least so far.
 
Congrats V ! :hurray::party:318.5 ! yay ! - lots of hard work went into getting under 320...woo hoo... 3-teens" now....


.....Watershed moment with Basketball ...BIG YAY ! ( all worth it ! )
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Well done on the basketball, it's great when you can see how your weight loss and fitness levels actually affect you in different ways when put to work. Also, hurray for being out of 320s! 200s are just around the corner!
 
Congrats on the game winning shot and more importantly surviving the effort. Always nice to put those young guys in their place.


Basketball makes for such great interval training. I spent majority of my non-class time in high school playing or coaching basketball and spent many a homeroom period quite sweaty as a result... sadly, those sweat stains didn't do much to impress the ladies...
 
Originally Posted by feelinggooder
sadly, those sweat stains didn't do much to impress the ladies...
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They tend to be a fickle lot regardless. :D Sorry girls.


Tried a food experiment involving cube steak tonight and was partially successful. The recipe called for actual frying and that isn't one of the preferred preparation methods on a 2200 calorie diet. So I decided to try it with substantially less oil, and the result was that one side turned out very good and the other... Well not so much (there was no oil left for the other side). It also was not quite as flavorful as I had hoped. Will need to work on this one. I've had worse meals though.
 
Try frying things on a non non stick pan with only a bit of Pam. It sucks!! Everything sticks!! But, my bird will die if I get a non stick pan so I am stuck with messy food and pans with burnt food stuck to them!!
 
Every day I realize how ignorant I am. I had never heard the bird thing before (having never owned one) and having googled it now I am quite surprised. Thank you for expanding my knowledge base.


I actually bought a couple of decent non-stick Calphalon pans with a gift card, which while still probably not safe for birds if you leave it on the heat accidentally, are much better pans than the normal cheap non-sticks and probably are less toxic to me anyway.
 
On the frying front, I've had some mixed success cooking without oil and going overboard with water, spices and fried onions. When you catch the meat when it's about to burn onto the pan a splash of water mixes in nice and provides decent flavor. Guess technically it's more of a boil/burn method than frying....
 
Good job on the b-ball game, man! I don't think I have it in me (yet) to play a game!


If you're worried about burning food, try poaching it. Get a food thermometer and find an interwebs article about it, it's really easy and the chicken comes out great. I wouldn't recommend poaching steak (though I could be wrong!).
 
Originally Posted by Little John


Good job on the b-ball game, man! I don't think I have it in me (yet) to play a game!



If you're worried about burning food, try poaching it. Get a food thermometer and find an interwebs article about it, it's really easy and the chicken comes out great. I wouldn't recommend poaching steak (though I could be wrong!).
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:iagree: poached steak doesn't sound very yummy..... but how about broiled steak... under the broiler? "?London broil?

....that might work ( just like on the grill - but indoors...)

( or maybe consider a George Foreman grill?...never had one...but don't they advertise it's "no fat" cooking ?
 
Depending on the cut of steak I'll usually either pan-broil it (like frying but only with a small amount of oil) or broil it under the broiler. The better the cut, the more likely I am to broil it. So a ribeye or porterhouse I'd broil, strip steak or sirloin I'd pan-broil.


Cube steak is a little different in that it's a little more geared to cutlet dishes like chicken-fried steak and such because it's a thinner less tender piece of meat. Of course the meat is priced accordingly and so that's why it would be nice to be able to prepare it in an appetizing fashion; it was a very cheap dinner last night compared to a steak or eating out.


319 on the health-o-meter this morning, which I sort of expected as I was pretty sure yesterday's big loss had some to do with water weight. Still on the right side of 320 which is good.
 
Hi, I'm new here and I hope that you don't see the dumb post I just wrote. Haha! Thank God for EDIT! I really enjoy reading your posts. You have a clever way of looking at things. I'm Dory by the way.
 
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