Trying yet again.....

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FatPig

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Yet another newbie!

I guess some back story is appropriate: I'm a retired 62 year old male. I'm 6"2" and for years up until 2000 I weighed only 186 pounds of good health and lean muscle. I had been skinny all of my previous life. Later in 2000 I quit smoking after doing so for more than 30+ years (and my mother died of COPD from smoking). Within a month of not smoking I realized food actually had taste! I didn't really over eat but I did enjoy food much more. Even though my (now EX) wife didn't feed me any different I started gaining weight. Nothing massive at first but years later it really started adding up. My heaviest has been 306 pounds a few months ago!!! :ack2:

For the last week or so I've been skipping lunch and my total caloric intake each day has been less than 1000 calories per day. Missing lunch has been kind of rough but I'm now down to 298 pounds. Nothing earth shattering but heck, at least it's a little progress.

Exercise: NO CAN DO! In 2006 I suffered major disk herniations at L4 and L5. They wanted to fuse my spine but after seeing the metal mass they wanted to implant in me and after talking to MANY people that had that surgery I said NO! Now I live with excruciating pain on a daily basis. I've tried all manner of exercise equipment and they all cause even more pain. Last year I had a fall and damaged even more disks in my neck.

I've recently started using CBD oil tincture and CBD salve along with very high %THC vape pens. The CBD really helps with maybe 30% of the pain and the Marijuana THC helps with yet another 30% making my days almost bearable pain wise. Those uninformed of you that look down on marijuana for pain relief and think it should stay illegal in your state are absolute fools and are truly uniformed!!! CBD (while legal) and THC (still illegal in many states) are absolute Godsends for those of us that suffer with pain on a 24 hour basis. PLEASE don't vote to deny us that which so many can truly benefit from but is sadly still illegal in so many states.

OK. Off my soapbox now.

Exercise for me (at least maybe until I lose a LOT of weight) is 100% out of the question. Any further weight loss at this point will have to be food related. I tried the KETO diet with my daughter (that didn't need to lose weight) for about 7 months, The painful constipation even though I took daily stool softeners ended that idea! Now I'm back to watching calories, fat and sodium content. I don't buy anything until I read the nutrition label!

I haven't had ANY fast food since 2006. I have zero refined white sugar in my house and haven't had for years. I don't drink any soda, diet or otherwise. Still it's hard to shed any pounds. I'm getting a little crazy lately with portion control and the type of food I intend to eat at each meal. Maybe even close to starvation at 1000 calories?

This is my first post and I'm so sorry that it's such a long one. I've been recently trying my own diet that I think might help with my lack of exercise ability. It seems to be helping but I'm open to any diets OTHER THAN the so called miracle diets that pop up every week or so.

I'll stop now before I turn my first post into a book! :)

Pig
 
Hey Pig, you need to change your name!

I am a 66 year old guy, I started last week at 320 lbs, so we are kind of in the same place. I feel like I have done pretty well so far, I am on a kind of kick start diet eating about 1,200 calories a day. I mostly eat low cal food, and not a lot of it. But I snack often to ward off the hunger, its kind of working. Just for your consideration, might not be the best approach for you.

The best advice I got was to start a diary, I did that right away and have been logging my food ever since. It really helps.

Look around and you will find people who have lost as much or more weight than you need to, they will have more wisdom than I.

Good luck!
 
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alligatorob said:
Hey Pig, you need to change your name!
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No chance of a name change happening any time soon. When I see myself in the mirror the FatPig name is truly fitting. I'm disgusted with myself that I've gotten to this point. No one to blame but myself. I just need to figure out where I went so terribly wrong so I can try to get back on track and hopefully get healthy again.

As for food diaries I used NOOM app for over 2 years when the basic app was still free. It helped me to better understand food and dieting but I unfortunately lost very little weight. During that time on NOOM while I still had a job I averaged 13,000+ steps every day at work. Still not much weight loss. Again, I'm certain I was likely doing something wrong again...

Pig
 
It's right at 6:00 PM. My total caloric intake so far today is 509 calories. If I eat anything else tonight it will be steamed brussels sprouts or steamed broccoli. If I do eat one or the other and I add anything to them it will be nothing more than Johnny's seasoning salt. If I eat the entire bag of broccoli it brings my daily total to 609 calories. The entire bag of Brussels sprouts will bring my daily total to 689 calories for the day and I'm not really hungry at all without eating any of them. I still drink at very minimum one gallon of water per day so I make sure I stay hydrated. I know I'd be way ahead in weight loss if I could exercise at least a little but my back pain says that just isn't going to happen. It seems my only weight loss option for now is caloric deprivation. Dadgum, do I have to actually starve myself to make progress?

Pig
 
FatPig said:
No chance of a name change happening any time soon.
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Hey I am fatter than you are, I am only 5' 7", and out weigh you by a couple of pounds. After just a few days of eating right I feel better about myself, you can too.

People have been warning me that my 1,200 calorie a day target is too low, and I know it is for the long run, next week I plan to increase it a bit. I think your 6 hundred and something is probably way low to stay on for long. But you know yourself, do what makes sense for you.

Good luck!
 
I also like both brussel sprouts and broccoli, used to grow a lot of broccoli in the garden. Funny how when I am overeating no vegetable tastes good, I only want junk food, meat, fat, and sugar. But when I am on a good diet a lot of veggies taste pretty good.
 
FP,

Mental state has a huge impact on our physical wellbeing. I’m concerned that you seem so negative about your current self. Many many many people here (myself included) started off “worse” than you are so it’s definitely very achievable.

Eating only 600 calories a day won’t lead to weight loss. Your body will go into starvation mode and your metabolism will slow right down, storing the calories as fat so you might well GAIN weight eating such a low calorie diet as you are.

My advice to you is to see a qualified nutritionist and learn as much as you can about how nutrition works; knowledge is power after all. You may also like to consider seeing a GP if you think your mental health is diminishing. There is absolutely no shame in it. I have a lot of experience with severe depression and anxiety in my family. It’s a medical condition that needs to be treated like any other. If I’m way off here please forgive me. Obviously not knowing you I can only go on what you’ve written and interpret it as I see it.

Not being able to exercise is fine. Weight loss is 80% diet after all.

Please take care of yourself.
 
Welcome to the forum! I actually thought I had already replied here, but I guess not! How have the past few days been?
 
Hi FP & welcome to the forum. I agree with everything that TM said. Everything. It's very hard to lose weight when you feel negative about yourself. Pain, of course, wouldn't help one bit. If it is possible to see a nutritionist I would. Don't give up & please make sure that you are getting enough nutrition.
 
FatPig said:
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For the last week or so I've been skipping lunch and my total caloric intake each day has been less than 1000 calories per day. Missing lunch has been kind of rough but I'm now down to 298 pounds. Nothing earth shattering but heck, at least it's a little progress.

Exercise: NO CAN DO! In 2006 I suffered major disk herniations at L4 and L5. They wanted to fuse my spine but after seeing the metal mass they wanted to implant in me and after talking to MANY people that had that surgery I said NO! Now I live with excruciating pain on a daily basis. I've tried all manner of exercise equipment and they all cause even more pain. Last year I had a fall and damaged even more disks in my neck.

I've recently started using CBD oil tincture and CBD salve along with very high %THC vape pens. The CBD really helps with maybe 30% of the pain and the Marijuana THC helps with yet another 30% making my days almost bearable pain wise. Those uninformed of you that look down on marijuana for pain relief and think it should stay illegal in your state are absolute fools and are truly uniformed!!! CBD (while legal) and THC (still illegal in many states) are absolute Godsends for those of us that suffer with pain on a 24 hour basis. PLEASE don't vote to deny us that which so many can truly benefit from but is sadly still illegal in so many states.

OK. Off my soapbox now.
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if you have to skip a meal, lunch is the worst choice. the key to burning fat is getting insulin out of your blood. insulin enters your bloodstream to lower your blood sugar so you do not burn out. what does insulin do with that sugar... it turns it into fat for use when you need it. if you keep constantly eating, though, your body will never get to those fat stores. lengthen the longest time you go between meals to give your pancreas a break. the good news is that you can use the time you sleep and just work around that to lengthen the time. try to reach least hit 12 hours... 14-16 would be even better.

re: from California, my two crops from 2018 .... i called it my Ironman Garden ... peppers...

2018 peppers.jpg

and pot... :)

2018 harvest.jpg

is it sad that so much misinformation about marijuana is out there. being able to grow in CA now has been a real gift this past year. even being a rookie not knowing what i was doing, i have a sufficient amount (+ a bunch of seeds from the one hermie i let grow) that besides buying a bag of dirt occasionally, i should be self sustainable from now on.

it is beyond belief that many people around the country are in jail for a lot less than what i now occasionally drop on the floor. at least those misguided legislators are pretty much a dying breed... thank god.
 
Good advice^^^^^^^
And beautiful pics;)
I agree with you 100 percent so many positives to medical cannabis it’s a shame are federal prisons are still full of non violent marijuana growers
 
Thanks for all the replies everyone! I had some computer issues and just found this site login again.

No worries about my mental state. Just a little self deprecation to give myself that extra little push. WHEN I reach my desired weight I'll change my name to "slim, ripped and sexy!" LOL.

It's actually been pretty easy to eat less lately and I'm having a hard time even wanting to eat more. I have upped my intake to 1000-1200 calories a day of carefully chosen foods though.

I decided to look for another food diary app to keep better track of calories and nutritional values. NOOM got too expensive so I tried Lose It! from Google Play store and I like it. A huge plus for me is that I can even use it on the PC as well. Not an endorsement, it just seems to work for me. as I've lost 1.8 pounds in the first 5 days of using it.

My back has had me down for the count for the last 2 days and isn't much better this morning. Sure wish I could get out and ride a bike or walk for a while. Sadly those days are long in the past. Getting skinny again should help though.

Today is my birthday and the kids are coming to visit later and knowing my son he plans to cook up a bunch of carne asada, jalapeno poppers etc. Looks like today might be a "cheat" day..... ;)

Pig
 
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Happy birthday!

Losing weight will probably help your back, it helps with a lot of things.

Have you started a diary? That would help you stay on track and help us follow you.

Looking forward to the name change!
 
Thanks for the birthday wishes! Had a great time and it went extremely well calorie wise thanks to my daughter. I did pig out a bit but that was two veggie burgers (should have only had one) and my "birthday cake" which was one of those mini half dollar sized cupcakes with a candle on it. Total calories consumed yesterday 1340. My highest intake all week. This morning the scale still says I lost .8 lbs in 24 hours! Since the 5th I have been religiously using the diary app I mentioned above and I'm down 2.4 pounds! I'm pretty happy with that even though I know the loss rate likely won't stay that high for long. I'm OK with that though.

Pig
 
I'm late, but happy birthday anyway - and great news on weight loss, showing we can allow for the occasional treat, and still get to where we want to be! :)
 
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