Down 36 pounds since May 6th, so I decided to treat myself to a new toy. The dealer still had some XL sizes and the huge discount close out prices. I rode it back to back with my old Trek with slicks and even on the Eco assist level, it’s such an improvement on hills that it takes away almost all of my excuses for not getting out and pedaling more! 
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You can probably already tell by the distribution of upvotes and downvotes that some people hate e-bikes. I say, "Ride!"
I’m not really vote-sensitive like a lot of folks so didn’t even register with me.
As for any e-bike hate, I suppose that I could understand it if you are actually competing against one on an analog bike, but other than that it would seem a little bit odd. It’s only pedal assist, no throttle, so it still has to be pedaled to go. At 60, it’s a great addition I think!
36 lbs. in 5 weeks? What's your secret?
Wellll…1 lb of fat = 3500 calories. To lose 36 lbs of fat in 5 weeks requires a caloric deficit of 3600 per day. Every day.
A healthy loss for a 200+ lb person is 1-2 lbs a week, or 5-10 lbs over 5 weeks. The rest is water weight. Or bad math.
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It’s a challenge to get 1,000 calories right now. I have 2 protein drinks a day to try to get at least that and a 100g of protein total in. I keep a running food log of everything, and from 6/6 through 6/14 I averaged just under 1,100 calories a day. During those 9 days I lost 5.5 pounds. If you figure a 2,400 pound calorie deficit per day, that’s 21,600 calories total deficit. Divide that by 3,500 and that would be a theoretical 6.1 pounds. That’s pretty close, and probably the 0.6 pounds over 9 days could be water, time of day, and when the last bathroom visit occurred.
I think that the first couple of weeks I was eating less than I am now. I started logging everything I eat because I wanted to keep a daily running total of protein to try to stay above 100g daily.
Here’s the daily totals for those 9 days:
I think it's cool. The older I get the harder I know it is to be fit. Any attempts at staying fit should be applauded.
Looks like fun cosmic crisp man. Be good.
It’s relatively easy for a guy to drop weight fast if been eating crappy, lazy and fat for a long time. That will slow down as you get dialed in..
36 lbs is a great haul. Now go pick something that weighs close to 36 lbs and try walking around with it. Feels heavy as f*ck- like how could you have ever walked around 36 lbs heavier.
The back and knees are happy I bet..
I don’t know if I completely notice the weight like that yet, but in a few months I’m sure I will. Finding and carrying around the extra weight item is kinda good, but it’s a lot more centralized than the weight loss is so it’s going to feel a lot more difficult than when the weight is spread out through the body.
The crazy thing is how ambivalent I am about food right now. Hopefully it stays that way for a long time. When we went to the movie Saturday I thought I’d have a difficult time with popcorn and snacks but I ended up not having any of either. Just didn’t want either, even though my wife and our daughter and son-in-law all had some. I’ve never had that lack of desire for movie theater popcorn that I can ever remember.
I dropped about 20 lb but it was over a longer period than APman. Not a temporary weight loss thing either. I just reduced my portions. That was it. If I want to lose faster just reduce them some more. I am pretty much a one big meal guy. No breakfast, maybe an apple and a V8 for lunch then a large dinner. A friend of mine lost quite a bit and all he said was I don't eat as much. It turns out that I sleep better with a lighter dinner too. It's gotta be something that you can stick with or the wright will come back. Here is an example; ten years ago my dinner would be a large tuna sandwich and a large can of Chunky soup. I liked beef barley. Now, I just cut out the soup. (Canned soup is shit anyway). After I lost the weight I might have some kind of chips with the sandwich. Just not very many. I'm still dropping but it's maybe a couple pounds a month at the most. It's working for me.
That is a great state of mind to be in- you made it this far and see the results. It’s like the brain has been reprogrammed.
What is your goal weight loss? I know for me when I’ve hit my goal weight it was hard moving out of a calorie deficit (like taking the foot off the gas) and finding the right balance to maintain weight..which often means eating more, but not too much. Harder to keep the focus your in right now..
I’m not entirely sure. I had originally thought that my goal was 50 pounds but now I’m just too close to that to consider it the finish line. I’m leaning towards 75 lbs and then taking a look at how things are.
The mindset really isn’t me. I talked about it in the Moto weight loss thread, but I was sort of joking with my brother-in-law about his massive weight loss and I figured it was more willpower than the GLP-1 he was taking. He challenged me to try it for a month just to experience the mental effects he was talking about. I was still skeptical but agreed to give it a month.
The day after my first injection I came home from work and realized that I hadn’t eaten all day. I hadn’t even given food a thought all day, and I wasn’t hungry for dinner either but my wife made me eat a peanut butter sandwich (I only ate half).
That part of food being more of a chore than a reward hasn’t reduced even .0000001% over the now close to 6 weeks. I have to supplement with the protein drinks just to keep my protein intake up and to get my calorie intake up to at least 1,000. I’ve basically become ambivalent about food, no big desire for it but use it to reach some basic nutrition levels. Even food that I absolutely love I’ve started to not be able to finish because you get satiated so quickly on this routine.
I don’t think that everyone will have the same effect, but I’d bet that a lot would.
It's true that what works for me may not for you. I remember my conversations with TFS back in the day. He had a weight problem. Motodrive was ruthless back then but he recognized my support for his position and I saw him at Glen Helen one year and he let me use his press pass to get some cool pics at the podium. RIP TFS. Fuck! That still doesn't seem real.
I actually went to the same Dr as TFS a couple of times, but I wasn’t comfortable with some of the potential side effects of the exclusive compounds that he was prescribing/selling. It was in Torrance back then but I think it’s moved. This was back in 2007-8ish I think?
Congratulations!
Not sure how you're doing it. I get 1,000 calories/meal, easy. I would pass out eating so little.
I come from a long line of relatively skinny people, so I'm lucky I guess.
Crazy thing: weight loss is a one sentence conversation: caloric expenditure > caloric intake. Proven by the First Law of Thermodynamics. Pretty simple.
It’s the math that makes diets ineffective. People tend to underestimate intake and overestimate expenditure. Then claim they’re abiding by the First Law and still gaining (fat) weight. Which is not only improbable, it’s impossible.
The mirror often tells a better tale than the scale. Focusing less on lbs lost and more on overall physical health. Plenty of folks out there who look great but are metabolic wrecks.
Again, I was skeptical before I tried it but the GLP-1 just makes food almost an afterthought. Saturday was a good example. I went with the wife running errands and at about 2:30 I commented to her that I felt like I had a lot more energy than I would have for only having a protein drink at 6AM. She told me that I didn’t actually have a protein drink, I started doing something else so she had put it back in the refrigerator, unopened. I checked my food log and she was right. The GLP-1 isn’t a miracle ‘fat burner’, it just activates your sense of satiety and reduces food noise and hunger.
The first couple of weeks I was having really tired days, that’s why I started logging everything I eat or drink (drinks with calories anyway). After the initial, fast loss the weight reduction is very close to the numbers LoudLove posted, definitely within a margin accounting for differences in metabolism.
I think that the most difficult part will be determining when to cut back the dosage of GLP-1 so that I want to eat enough food to maintain a certain weight. That will probably take a lot of trial and error.
I agree that a sustained calorie deficit is what causes long-term weight loss.
Where I might disagree is that it’s a ‘one-sentence conversation’. The physics are simple, but human biology isn’t. Hunger, hormones, medications, stress, medical conditions, and metabolism all affect how difficult it is to maintain that deficit.
GLP-1s don’t bypass thermodynamics, they simply make the calorie deficit much easier for many people to sustain.
From current research it sounds like it main function for weight loss might just be that it helps mimic the level of GLP-1 agonists that a lot of lean people have naturally occurring in their body. It may not end up being the primary reason as they conduct more research, but from my own anecdotal (which is both incredibly limited and also pretty subjective) that seems to be the effect that is helping me
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